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Caloroga Shark Media. I have solved the mystery of the sixth sauce. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today’s a real episode. It’s not filler.

There’s actually news today. The following is not a commercial. This is just a topic I’ve been interested in. Hey world, Jimmy, oh yank here and I’m on Popeye’s channel today because I need to clear the air. I once wrote in a famous food magazine that bonus wings are just little white meat lies.

But then I had these and I was wrong. Popeyes bonus wings made me a bonus believer, and I know I wasn’t the only one out there who has some strong feelings on bonus wings. So I want to hear what you guys think. Are you a bone in bro or a bonus believer? Drop common below and I have discovered what the sixth sauce is?

Are you ready? The sixth sauces are classic. I think that’s the one we were missing. Honey, lemon, pepper, signature, hot honey, barbecue, sweet and spicy, and roasted garlic parmesan. Now I have even better news for you, and this really is not a commercial.

This is just somebody putting together a comedy podcast. Tomorrow, July sixth is National Fried Chicken Day and press release. Popeye says they’re confident that one bite of their new Boneless Wings, endorsed by Jimmy O Yang, is all it takes to win over skeptics. Popeyes has set out to connect with thousands of users on Twitter who had publicly proclaimed their anti boneless wing beliefs to offer codes redeemable on the Popeye’s website and app for free six piece boneless wings with any purchase made on the Popeye’s website or app. Now, if you’re a true boneless Wings believer, you can get some free wings too.

That offer a free six piece boneless wings with a ten dollars purchase. That’s a lot of money there, Popeyes. How much food do you think I’m eating? Jeff Klein is president of Popeye’s North America. Jeff says, when planning our Boneless Wings launch, we noticed a lot of people have pretty strong opinions about them, and many claim their minds can’t be changed.

We’re here to challenge that prove it. We’re giving everyone a chance to try them on a National Fried Chicken Day again. Tomorrow, July sixth is a National Fried Chicken Day. In other Jimmy O Yang news, he banned his father from attending his film premieres after dad embarrassed him too much. Jimmy’s father was at a premiere and, as Jimmy tells the story, he brought these ray banned glasses.

They’re like the old snapchat glasses that you press a button on the record, but then a bright light will shine. So in my scene came on in the movie theater, it was just a bright flashlight on his face. I’m like, Dad, what are you doing? And I ripped the glasses off him. I’m like, you’re committing a federal crime right now recording at a movie theater and like embarrassing me.

He’s banned. He’s done. Jimmy’s dad wants to do stand up. He wants to do stand up now. I told him, if you want to do stand up, go and do some open mics.

That’s how everyone starts. And he’s like, no, I do theaters only from sports Kidia, we have a little nicky Glazer controversy. This is fun. On June thirtieth, Julia Roberts attend to at Taylor Swift’s Dublin concert. There, Julia Roberts meets Travis Kelcey.

The next day, Nikki Glaser shares a video on her Instagram story where Nicky and her parents discussed the interaction between Julia Roberts and Travis Kelsey. In the clip, Nicky’s mom can be heard saying of Julia Roberts, she’s so groose. Nicky’s father chimes in and says Travis was trying to get away from Julia Roberts, observing that the scratching is weird. You see. Nicky’s mom, Julie, pointed out that Julia Roberts resting her hands on Travis Kelsey’s chest was weird and equipped that it appeared as if the actress was itching the NFL star.

Julia and Edward Glazer issued an apology via Nicky Glazer’s Instagram post, mentioning they wanted to say the interaction was weird and the word grosse was mistakingly used. Dave Chappelle will headline a show next week to benefit the campaign of US Senate candidate Hill Harper July eleventh at Saint Andrew’s Holland downtown Detroit, a fundraiser tickets go from two hundred and fifth fifty bucks for the balcony to thirty three hundred dollars for those who want to attend a VP reception. Under federal rules, thirty three hundred dollars is the maximum donation that one individual can make to a federal candidate per election cycle. I’m seeing mixed reviews on Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills cop For the proper title of that Beverly Hills cop axel f Eddie was out doing some press. He told bet even in show business, it wasn’t like becoming a singer or an actor.

When I started, it was like being a magician or a juggler. It was like a fringe vocation.

And now it’s mainstream.

Comedy is big, a giant, multi billion dollar business. Since it was an interview about comedy, he got asked about cancel culture. Eddie said, I don’t think the woe cancel culture has anything to do with whether or not something is funny, And ultimately, comedy is either funny where it’s not. And I don’t think anyone’s going to get canceled because they said something that was funny. Usually the things that people say that ruffle somebody’s feathers and start controversial.

Things are really really not funny. It’s like they said something that was edgy, and a couple of people might laugh at them, But something that is really funny, it is what it is. No one’s canceling funny. You want more, you don’t cancel it. You turned it up.

Bert Kreischer is taping his next special for Netflix this weekend. He taped one on Wednesday evening. He’s taping some more shows this weekend at the Mahaffe Theater in Saint Petersburg, Florida. I guess they’re capturing it looks like four shows total. Watch for the edits when that one comes out.

Brad Williams spoke to Forbes about whiskey, and he’s just cooler about it than say Jim Gaffigan is. Brad Williams said, I love whiskey. I love scotch. That was what I call a frat house drinker. Let’s do shots of tequila until I met my wife and she likes her scotch smoky and beaty.

I thought I hated scotch. Turns out I just hated bad scotch and shocker, I’m actually part owner of a brewery in San Diego called Thorn Street Brewery. It takes a genius to figure out where it’s located. Forbes was curious what his first drink was. Brad said, the first drink that got me sick was called ninety nine bananas.

That messed me up because it’s like you’re drinking candy. That was in college. I woke up at a bathtub, thankfully no water.

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Also, as a dwarf, I could spread out in the bathtub.

Random question, ever share a drink with one of your idols? Fortunately he had an answer. I’m a lifelong and die hard Denver Broncos fan. The John Elway car dealerships were having a Christmas party and asked if I wanted to perform. I go, I’m there, and at the end of the show, John Elway starts the standing ovation.

He was nice to me before, but after he saw me perform and now he really wanted to hang out with me, and we hung out. Then he goes, what are you doing tomorrow? You want to come to the game. My wife was eight and a half months pregnant, but thankfully my wife is an amazing woman who just said that’s your hero. So I went to the game and I watched the Broncos with John Elway.

How about comedy idols, Brad Williams says, one of the coolest nights of my life. I didn’t have a drink with him because he was sober, but this is how I got maybe the nicest compliment I’ve ever gotten my life. I did a set at a small club in northern California. I go backstage and Robin Williams burst through the green room door and goes right for me and says, oh my god, mister Williams. Both Williams a little confusing.

I get it. You’re like Prozac with a head that’s going on my gravestone. The next night, he’s doing a show at the same theater because he lives up there and that’s where he’d go work stuff out. And after the show, I go back to the green room and there’s Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, me, Mort Sahl All talking comedy. Was the greatest night ever.

So I have been under selling this Alex Bennett interview that I have scheduled for tomorrow. On Tuesday night, I cleaned up the edit and I was like, oh, this is really good. So I hope you enjoy my conversation with Alex Bennett. That’s the Saturday interview. Sunday is a normal episode.

Glenn Howard and you know him from It’s Alway Sunny in Philadelphia. He’s got a new role in Netflix’s show Sirens. He will play Ethan Corbin the Second.

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Also on this Sirens show is Kevin Bacon.

Sirens takes place over a single weekends set at a fancified beach estate. Ethan Corbin the Second is described as a dear friend and next door neighbor of the lead family who has spent his life as a roaming bachelor, steadily burning through his trust fund as a yacht club regular. Yeah, I can see Glenn in that role for sure. The Hollywood Reporter did their comedy roundtable. Jenny Slat said, I could never audition for the comedy festivals or whatever because they’re like, bring five minutes, and it would just be like, I don’t have that for you.

It’s just not what I’m like. I’m a long distance runner on this one. Jacqueline Novak said, maybe that’s why I didn’t internalize my comedy seller opportunity, because when you guys talk about giving fifteen minutes that you know it works. I’m like, tell me about that fifteen minutes. I’m like forty six to lower them men, forty seven minute, you got them boom, Jenny said.

The people have done comedy with for years will be like, no, Jenny, you can do fifteen minutes. You just don’t. And it’s like yeah, But it feels like if I do this one bit, then I’m not going to be able to go to sleep for three days unless I do that one bit. But if I do that one, then I have to do the other one. So I don’t know.

Maybe I have OCD and that issued comedy news for today. Go have some wings. Will you see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Maybe fourth of July. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Eddie Murphy was on the New York Times conversation. I saw the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, talking about this one.

I held on to it so i’d have something in the late off position on July fourth. Pretty interesting interview. I did share it in the Facebook group again, Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Now I didn’t share it. That’s a lie, that’s a conflation.

I didn’t share it. I was going to share it, but Dylan shared it. Thank you Dylan, And they remind us that at one point, Saturday Night Live was cud on the thin ropes, and Eddie Murphy helped bring it back through sheer force of charisma rights the Times, as well as instantly iconic, hilariously unpredictable recurring characters like Gumby and mister Robinson. Eddie brought the show back to life. A highly plausible argument can be made that without him, SNL may not have made it to a tenth anniversary, let alone the fiftieth.

I agree it would have been really easy to put on Saturday Night Videos. I was watching Friday Night Videos on. It was a YouTube, a full episode with bumpers and everything. The first song was the Police Synchronicity two, and then it went into Paul McCartney No More Lonely Nights. There was Lionel Richie, and I’m like, this is wonderfully terrible, but I love that show.

I lived in Queen’s We didn’t get cable till nineteen eighty seven, and not because my parents were cheap queens in New York City was not wired for cable television until nineteen eighty seven. You couldn’t get it, So Friday Night Videos and a channel Nick called You sixty eight was all we had if here from the New York City metro area. You know what I’m talking about anyway, Eddie, back when the first Beverly Hills Cop came out, did you feel you understood what it was about you that met the moment so perfectly? Eddie Murphy said no, not even in retrospect. I was twenty two when I got to do cop and twenty years old when I started doing forty eight hours.

Now I look back at those times and I trip about how young I was back then. I kind of took it for granted one thing that led to another, and I wound up on a movie set. Then when stuff worked and became hit movies, I was like, Okay, that’s what it’s supposed to be. Will Eddie Murphy go back to stand up? Eddie says, I used to have little periods where I’d be like, I’m going to do it again.

The closest I got to do it again was right before the pandemic, because I had done Saturday Night Live, and I was like, let me go to do one stand up special and bring it all full circle. Then the pandemic hit, and when you’re stuck in the house for two years, I wasn’t going. When I got out of here, I want to do stand up again. Here’s a good analogy. It’s like somebody was in the military.

They were on the front line in Vietnam, and they got all these metals because they did all this amazing stuff. Then they moved up and became in general. So it’s like going to the general and saying, hey, you ever think about going back to the front line. You want to bullets whizz past your ear again. No, Eddie was Elvis the influence behind some of the on stage stuff.

You wore when doing stand up. I’ll jump in there. I think Richard Pryor was definitely an influence there. Watch Sunset strip and then watch Eddie stuff a similar outfit. Eddie said, Elvis had a huge influence on me, though other suits and raw I come out, I have a scarf.

I was rolling like Elvis too. I didn’t have the Memphis Mafia, but I had my little crew of dudes in the same way you see me dressed in Delirious and in RAW. I used to dress like that in the streets. Totally in my Elvis trip. When I got older, I was like, oh my god, Elvis wasn’t cool at all.

Elvis was going through some stuff now Michael Jackson, that whole red jacket thing and thriller thrillers after Delirious. When I own the red suit. I’m not saying he was influenced, but I had on the red jacket before, Eddie. Do you understand what you mean? The comedians like Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Chris Tucker.

Eddie said, well, I didn’t lay down a path. They took their own path. The comic used to be the sidekick, the comic was the opening act, and I changed it to where the comic can be the main attraction. That’s fair. They thought of comics one way, and I was like, no, a comic could sell out the arena and a comic could be inn one hundred million dollar movie.

All that changed with black actors was like, the black guy could be the star of the movie, and it doesn’t have to be a black exploitation movie. It could be a movie that’s accessible to everyone all around the world. The Hollirod Reporter did a comedy round table. Taylor Thomlinson was on it. The questioned, Taylor, you said that audiences weren’t as interested in hearing you tackle darker subject material like your mother dying when you were younger.

I did you gauge that and when did a shift? Taylor said, I just started really young, So watching a nineteen year old do stand up at all is uncomfortable. People are already scared for you and nervous about the show. So I don’t think I had the maturity as a performer to pull those jokes off. It took a few years of performing anywhere and everywhere you could.

How do you know when something’s not working Taylor Tumlinson. She says, people aren’t laughing and it’s devastating. It’s what you would call a bad show for other people. It’s when people are laughing too much and you’re like, none of this is new. No, It’s when people are sad and uncomfortable and looking at you like are you almost done?

What’s so great about stand up is that you know pretty quickly if something does or doesn’t work. Jackie Novak was on the round table and she feels that the question one of their subjects that the rest of you have felt audiences wouldn’t go with you, and Jackie said yeah, but for Biglia said something to me like, there’s your agenda, and there’s the audience’s agenda or the booker’s agenda. Work your agenda for me. That meant I’m gonna put my show up in New York, but I need to work it out first, and so I’m doing it at the jukebox in Peoria, so I know it’s gonna land. Well.

I mean, some people might find it interesting, but I’m planning my feet and saying the words, and maybe I’m burning my chance in the room where I did it. The punchline in Philly and my boyfriend we talk about it now and he’s like, yeah, the way you want up in Philly just bombed was great. You had to do the thing you did. And I was like, I bombed. I was always like, what do you mean?

I stood up there doing my art. It was almost delusion, required delusion. But this phrase my agenda, really helped me almost not listen to the crowd, and it was huge for me. My agenda doesn’t matter tonight. Everyone in this room might hate me, this club will never hire me again.

And I had a lot of bad nights before the run at the Cherry Lane Theater, nights where I just had to stand there and say my words and get them in my head. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla put together a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty four so far next weekend, Like on the thirteenth, I talked to to the executives at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website. So that’ll be the Saturday Interview in about ten days. This Saturday, Alex Bennett, longtime radio personality with ties to the comedy scene, is the Saturday Summer Interview. Anyway, The Gorilla has the ten best comedy specials of twenty twenty four.

And I like this list because it doesn’t match mine at all, and it reminded me of a bunch of specials I need to catch up on and this will be a good weekend for that, right and plus itagely fourth, I have to watch Jaws tonight on Thest Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen Don l Rawlings a New Day. I can’t remember if I clicked on that one or not. Dusty Slate Working Man, I love that one. I didn’t drop the G there. That’s not a queen’s accent.

The title is called working with No g Man Keith Robinson’s Different Strokes on Netflix. Haven’t gotten to that one yet. I was shotgunning the Bear. I wanted to watch the entire Bear before I got spoiled. I have completed it now I won’t spoil it for you.

And I’m also trying to keep up on the boys, and I can only watch about ninety minutes of TV in one sitting and then I fall asleep. Rommy Us have some more Feelings. I didn’t like the direction on that one, even though I really like Rommy. Alex Edelman’s Just for Us I keep forgetting to watch that one. That one is on Proper HBO.

Dan Locatta’s for the Boys. I’m hearing great stuff about that that’s on YouTube. Neil Brennan’s Crazy Good. Like Neil, I feel like perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow someone added some accidental crowd noise. I’m sure nobody meant to do it, but the mix just sounded suspicious to Johnny Mack and I punched out on it.

Sal Volcano’s terrified. Hearing good things about that one that was on YouTube, but Taylor Tomlinson’s Have It All. That’s on my list. And I know I do this frequently, but let me just skim my list really quickly for you in case you’re looking for something to watch this weekend. My list rost of Tom Brady, David Tel Hot Cross Buns on Netflix, Triumph You Lucky Bastards YouTube, David Cross, Worst Daddy in the World YouTube, Dusty Slay, Kyle Kinane YouTube, Dirt nap As an all time fifteen minute chunk about Fast and the Furious.

Dmet You Martin on Netflix, Jimmy Carr Netflix, Kat Williams, Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agendas on Netflix. Brian Simpson tig Nataro Taylor, Tomlinson, Rachel Feinstein also unfrosted the Jerry Seinfeld movie and John Marcos Siresi’s recent fifteen minutes that he dropped on YouTube. But last week or this week all highly recommended. And this is reminding me too. Vulture had a list.

There’s a couple of things I want to catch up on this weekend. So let me just remind myself. Oh, I need to add Nathan McIntosh down with Tech to my list. That’s on YouTube as well. I’ll do that now.

One of the ones I want to check out that Vulture recommends Christina Catherine Martinez is how to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age. That’s on YouTube. I just want to check out. And Natasha Vain Blonde World Dads here on YouTube. And let’s keep the podcast tight today so we can all hit the beach or do whatever it is you do on July fourth.

That’s your comedy news for today. Back tomorrow with a normal episode. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media by me Ho, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John MARCOSRESSI tweeted, based on my experience of seeing stand up comedians who are big on TikTok perform live, I would never trust a doctor with a large social media following. Jimmy Carr has joined YouTube’s exclusive one million subscribers club. He has a new content strand on the channel. It is called heckle Amnesties.

It features fresh, social first videos where Jimmy Carr’s trademark reciprocal talents are showcased as he interacts with audience members whilst on his current tour A suit says, a household name in the UK and one of the biggest selling comedians in the world, Jimmy consistently performs to capacity crowds at his shows, where his interactions with Heckler’s have become legendary. Filming on the road during his current sellout live tour, Jimmy Carr laughs funny. The short videos show a fresh new take on Car’s responses to audience members, with the comedian inviting them to give him his best shot with their ultimate heckles. Hannah Berner has a new dating show on TikTok. I am not the target audience here.

My daughter, on the other hand, very excited about anything. Hannah Burner. She has teamed up with Caribou Coffee. They’re celebrating their new iced drink menu. Hey, maybe we can meet here.

A daughter likes Hannah, I like iced coffee. I’m in anyway. They’re celebrating their new iced drink menu created with its gin Z guess in mind. Caribou has announced the comedian and reality TV star Hannah Burner will serve as the host of the six episode series dream Date, a sip at Love. One episode already out, Hannah said, I don’t know what I love more a good energy drink.

We’re forcing two strangers to answer personal questions. So when Cariboo approached me with their idea for dream Date and the promise of unlimited blue Raspberry energy drinks, I knew it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. We had so much fun with this matchmaking experiment, and I can’t wait for everyone to tune in and get inspired to search for their own sipsation chip at Cariboo this summer. I’m curious this is working on me. You know me.

I like to click on a menu and babbld you guys for cup minutes. Cariboo Coffee Google, see where the locations are. I don’t think there’s one anyone near me. Maybe I’m wrong. Let me look.

Nope, not even showing up on the map. Rats menu at ten dollars. Cariboo Combo. I’ll look what is this? Cariboo Combos are only available for registered users.

Please sign in with an existing account. Guys, I’m just trying to do a bit on a holiday weekend comedy podcast. What do you think of doing here? Trending include the strawberry fruit Shaker, the peach fruit Shaker, the Very punch fruit Shaker, the blue Raspberry energy drink, Peach mango, strawberry pineapple, pomegranate, blue raspberry, peach, mango, lemonade, strawberry pineapple. Ooh, a glazed donut.

I won’t read you the entire menu, believe me, I’m skimming it. We have some coffees. Here’s an oat milk crafted press with oat milk cold foam. This place looks cool, but it’s nowhere near me. See if there’s one in Chicago.

Maybe I’ll send Becky on a coffee run. Nope, nothing near Chicago. All right, los Angeles? Where does this chain actually exist? Guy?

Nothing near Los Angeles either. Okay, they’re apparently in Minneapolis. If you’re in Minneapolis, hend on over to Fifth in Washington. They’re open until six. Where was I?

Comedy? Podcast? Each episode will feature two contestants at a speed date style setting, with Hannah Burner at the helm to help determine if it’s a dreamy match or a real pass. Aaron is a suit. She’s the chief marketing officer and said, we really wanted to shake it up this summer, and after lots of conversations with our gen Z guests, we concluded that they love four things.

All right, here’s the list of the four things gen Z’s love. You ready write this down? One energy drinks, two fruit shakers, three afternoon treats, and four dating shows. What better way to connect with this important audience through a TikTok dating show than with the beloved Hannah Burner. Beverly Hills Cop four is on Netflix today.

For US oldies, I covered you gen Z. This is for jen X. You know Eddie Murphy doing Beverly Hills Cop Remember that from the eighties. It’s back. That’s on Netflix today.

That might be a good one to watch tonight next week. Jimmy Kimmel, He’s got the summer off. Catherine Hahn will host a Monday through Wednesday. Camel Nanjiani, We’ll host on Thursday. Chad Daniels has announced his new Netflix special that will be out July sixteenth.

It’s his tenth comedy special. Chad Daniels explains he’s an empty nester as his kids are now twenty and twenty four. Listen to this humble brag of flex with twenty two plus tracks that have reached over a million listeners on Pandora. Daniels is one of the most listened to comedians of all time. Yes, but again, this is one of the most listened to podcasts of all time.

It just depends how far down the list you want to get. I’d listen to this Flex. One of only thirteen comics to be featured on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Chad Dude God it had The Tonight Show for six minutes. Chad has lived in Minnesota’s Whole Life while also touring the country for over twenty years. He did share a trailer and boy, there’s some naughty jokes there I just can’t share in this podcast.

One about what happens when your girlfriend comes over and the kids. Aren’t you know what I’m saying? Yes, The Airmail News talk to Nikki Glaser and asked, Nikki, when do you start getting ready for bed? Nikki said, I’m on the road in hotels. I’m getting ready for bed as soon as I walk into my room at the end of the night, between eleven pm and one am.

It’s easier when I don’t have a stand up because I just don’t really know what to do with my time at night. All right, Nikki, take us through your nighttime skincare routine. John, is it a holiday weekend? Are you filling? Are you stretching?

No? No, no? What do you ask? And Nikki said, it’s rather short, and I wish it were longer because I feel like John, you already read a coffee menu and now you’re telling us Nikki Glaser’s skincare routine. Are you sure it’s not a holiday weeken?

Are you sure you’re not stretching out? Now? This is the news. I don’t know what you guys are talking about take us through your nighttime skincare routine. Nicki said it’s rather short, and I wish it were longer because I feel like I’m failing as a woman when my skincare routine is as short as most men’s.

I tucked my hair in the back of my shirt. Usually can’t find a clip because I’m really disorganized, and I washed my face with her as clear water as hydrating cleanser. Then I use the ordinaries one hundred percent plant drived squalene. That’s litterally all I use. Well Nikki Deanna any extra steps After a show, Nicky says, I usually take out my hair extensions way before I get to bed.

They’ll come out in public. I don’t care if people seeing me take them out. I almost want people to see me take them out because I want people to understand that having thick hair is an illusion for most women on TV, and that you shouldn’t compare yourself to us. I take off my eyelashes and put those next to the sink so that my boyfriend gets scared and thinks their house centipedes. Andrews santino Is announced a tour twenty four dates starting on September fourteenth in California at the Table Mountain Casino Resort.

Other stops include Indianapolis, Charlotte, Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago, Philly, New York, San Diego, and Boston. Don Al Rawlings spoke to WTOP. I didn’t know this. Rawlings joined the US Air Force at one point was stationed at Bawling Air Force Base in DC. Donnelle said, I had just gotten out of my four year enlistment and I started stand up in a place called Comedy Connection in green Belt, Maryland.

They gave so many opportunities for a lot of local comics to get stage time when you couldn’t get it. I was a military police officer wanting to be a DC police officer. In the interim of that, I went to a comedy club with some co workers. I fell in love with that. I was a heckler turned professional stand up.

Along the way, he met someone named Dave Chappelle, famous comedian. We met New York, but we knew of each other being DC comics. He moved to New York a lot sooner than I did. We really connected once I moved to New York and became part of a Chappelle’s Show. To be honest, me and Dave became closer after the show than we were actually doing the show.

I looked at it more like we were co workers. All I wanted was for him to say action. Let the camera speak for itself. If you would like this program ad free, there’s a link in the show notes. I recommend you choose the option that says Calibergod dot Com slash plus five bucks a month.

You’ll get this one and the others on the network ad free. Now. The reason I suggested that option is because that one I can guarantee a delivery at three five am Eastern. You pick the Apple Podcast option. You get the commercial free version when I wake up in the morning and load it.

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That’s who you want good job, Deacon Mike. Thanks for supporting the show. Normal episodes Thursday and Friday. Saturday, I’ll have an interview with Alex Bennett, longtime radio personality with some ties to comedy. Sunday will be a normal episode as well.

Back in the morning for July fourth, See then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack if your Daily Comedy News. I’m thinking ahead to the weekend and the interview I have with Alex Bennett. Alex is a friend of mine, longtime a radio personality, and he’s up there in years, and we got into a friendly disagreement about old jokes, and as you’ll hear Alex say, he doesn’t appreciate them.

And then when we got into this, this was pre debate that we recorded.

This is I was saying, I like a nice, harmless Joe Biden is so old joke. I just had the late bot running some and like, to me, these are harmless jokes. I like stuff like this. Joe Biden so old his birth certificate is written in Roman numerals. Joe Biden is so old his Social Security number is one.

See that’s funny. Joe Biden is so old he remembers when rainbows were in black and white. Like. So those jokes aren’t really about Joe Biden. They’re just silly jokes using age as a premise.

But Alex really had a problem with it. You’ll hear about that in Saturday’s show. And it’s just top of mind on this side of the debate here on July second. We’re seeing the news slow down already. Don’t worry.

I’ve squirrelled some stuff away. But as you’ll hear today, it’s just a bunch of oh yeah, we announced a couple things right before the holidays, So let’s dive in. Bowen Yang, he’ll have an Olympics podcast. I suspect this will do really well. I personally have bow and fatigue right now.

I really enjoy him on SNL, but I don’t know. It’s starting to be a little much Bowen, But I have no doubt this podcast will do really well. Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers from Los Culturistas say this show will offer a different take on the Olympics, with each episode featuring a dose of the host before diving into the games. Bowen says, we’re going to get around to the Olympics. It’s called two Guys, five Rings, so you’re going to have to get through us before you get to the Olympics part.

It will be fifteen episodes. Yang and Rogers break down the top storylines, discuss the athletes to watch and the results, Obsessed over Paris culture, and find out what really goes on in the op village. They have put out one episode that you do that to seed your feed and you can climb the charts a little bit, but the main thing will run July twenty sixth through August eleventh.

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Meanwhile, Colin Jost will serve as an NBC Sports reporter for the Olympics s…

He won’t be in Paris, though surfing is being held in Tahiti. NBC calls Colin Jost an avid surfer. Jost will report live from Tahiti. Olympic Surfing kicks off Saturday, July twenty seventh at twelve fifteen am Eastern. Jost will be on site to interview athletes and report on the conditions.

Pro surfers Joe Turple and Mike Parsons will handle the play by play and analysis. Joe said, I’m honored to get to watch the best surface in the world compete on one of the heaviest waves imaginable and help showcase the rich history of surfing in Tahiti, and my Writer’s Guild Health Insurance is excited to see what the coral reef does to my back. Now, if you’re wondering why Tahiti apparently the Sian River is not the best for surfing there in downtown Paris. But you’ve heard the phrase French Polynesia. It all makes sense.

Yeah, so it’s France, but you know France over there, I guess Joe said, as you could tell from this in no way doctored photo. I can’t wait to get to t he to cover the twenty twenty four Olympics surfing competition and maybe even seriously get injured trying to surf. Jimmy Fallon will co host the closing ceremony. Love this spin after NBC Sports Mike Turico invited him while guesting on the Tonight Show. As if Tarico ad lib this, as if Mike just went on the Tonight Show and was like, you know what, I’m just gonna ask Jimmy Fallon to do this.

What if he says no on live to tape television, Mike Turico, I’m not buying your story. Is Jimmy Fallon gonna be like no, no, no, Mike Urico, I don’t want to do that. Are the bosses at both NBC and the Olympics going, wait, they asked Jimmy Fallon, Oh shoot, don’t try and hogwash this guys How Fake Stop with Your Spin. Keenan Thompson will also co host a highlight show with Kevin Hart on Peacock. Kevin Hart Never Afraid to take a gig Leslie Jones will also be doing some work for NBC slash Peacock.

While would you like some Boneless Wings? One of my favorite comedians, Jimmy O Yang, is working with Popeyes. Jimmy O Yang, apparently known for his skepticism about boneless wings, has teamed up with Popeye, promoting six mouthwatering varieties like Classic Honeylemon Pepper, and Signature Hot Well what are the other three? Now? I have to go to popeyes dot com.

You got your click, but come on, I mean it’s only six. Tell me what they are? All right? It took a lot of clicks. According to popeyes dot com slash menu slash section E four, there are five sauces, not the six mentioned in the press release.

The five on the actual Popeye’s website are Sweet and Spicy Sauce, Honey Barbecue Wing sauce, Roasted Garlic Parmesan wing sauce, Signature Hot Wing Sauce, and Honey Lemon Pepper Sauce. Well what’s the six sauce? Hmm. Mel Brooks still out at about and you can join him at the Peacock Theater Saturday, July twenty seventh for a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Blazing Saddles, we got a trailer for the best Christmin Pageant ever and inspirational comedy starring Judy Greer and Pete Holmes. The Best Christmins Pageant Ever centers on the Herdman kids, who are the absolute worst.

They lie, they steal a bully, and they’ve hijacked the town Christmas pageant. As the rowdy and Rocus siblings force themselves into all of the lead roles, they drive the pageant’s director, Grace played by Judy Greer, and other members of her family, including husband Bob Pete Holmes up the wall. How Adam Sandler’s not in this? I don’t know. I know what an Adam Sandler plot sounds like, and this is one.

But through their misfit mischief I like that writing there, these unlikely messengers might turn out to be the ones to deliver the town sensational and moving portrayal of the true meaning of Christmas. Ronin Hirshberg has yet another special out today, Comedy Dynamics releasing it Could Have Been Better. It’ll be out on album form on July fifth. It Could Have Been Better is Hirshberg’s fourth special overall, his second in the last two months. He released one on June twentieth that I watched over the weekend and told you it’s okay.

I don’t hate it. I don’t love it. It just is. That one’s called Brave. You’ll find that on YouTube.

Comedy Dynamics also announced the acquisition of Tony Rock Rock the World, the debut special from a comedian, Tony Rock. You may have heard of Tony’s brother, Chris, also a comedian. Among Tony Rock’s credits, he has been seen on the series Everybody Hates Chris. Jason Zenneman from The New York Times. We all like him right now, we all know who he is.

He cut up with Keith Robinson and wrote with the changes to his movement and speech, Robinson’s stand up has new gravity and pace. After considerable speech therapy, Robinson can tell jokes but must work harder to be understood. Keith says everything has to be more precise. Now everything counts I can’t depend on movement. After his second stroke, which was far more debilitating than the first, Robinson briefly thought he’d have to quit performing and become a writer.

Chris Rock hired him to help with Rock’s recent special, but Robinson missed being on stage, hang out with comics, and most of all, busting chops. Drew Carrey wants to keep posting the prices right. He says, I do have a goal. I want to keep going until I die. This is my eighteenth season.

I’ve got to get to the thirty five and forty one year mark so I can catch Bob Barker and Pat Sayjack. Drew says, once I hit ten years here, I was like, wow, that’s the longest I’ve ever had a job in my life. It’s just such a great part of my day, my year, my life. I can’t imagine giving it up. I don’t like CBS to know that.

But it’s going to be a few years till my next contract negotiations, so maybe forget I said this. I can quit any time I want. Amber Ruffin came out on social media. She wrote, and what will come as a shock to exactly zero people, I’m using the last day of pride to come out be proud of who you are. Little babies.

I know I am, and I can’t wait to be discriminated against for a new reason. And that is your comedy news for today. See if you can figure out what the sixth the sauce is and let me know. See you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Sebastian Manuscalco shared his go to high protein breakfast with the folks at Men’s Health. He showed off his black and white striped fridge. Men’s Health says the fridge itself is meticulously organized, filled with every imaginable fruit, vegetable, meat, cheese, pasta, et cetera.

Not only is it visually appealing, but it showcases the variety of foods and flavors he incorporates into his meals. You mean he doesn’t go to the National donut chain every morning and eats something that’s totally unhealthy and a large iced coffee of caramel and milk. Maniscalco jokes that the container of Bell peppers is strictly for color and equips. We bought it for the look. He claims.

His staple ingredient is eggs, and a typical breakfast for Sebastian Maniscalco consists of three or four eggs, smoked salmon, and some avocado. When he’s on tour. He likes to eat healthier and prioritize protein as a way to sustain the energy and physicality required. For sets. One thing you’ll never find in his fridge.

Every Friday growing up, my mother would make liver with onions and it was awful. Manuscalco then took Ment Health to the gym, where he showed off his latest edition pickleball courts. He jokes, because he’s now fifty, it felt necessary. Yeah, I’m fifty something and that seems to be the rage. I’m still out there playing beach volleyball with people literally half my age.

Last week a teammate was talking to someone on the other team and she realized, Oh, it’s not just I could be your mom, I could be your grandmother. Ha ha. Sebagin said, when I was in my twenties, thirties and early forties, it was primarily esthetics. Used to be a lot about weight training. There’s no more plates.

Now it’s more about nutrition and being flexible. I don’t really care if I have the biggest chest, biceps, legs. That’s not the intention here. The intention now is about mobility. Entertainment Weekley did a big profile of Stephen Colbert.

He pulled out a frame photo of an early career Walter cronkite where he used to discuss the day’s headlines with a puppet named Charlemagne. Colbert said, this is my that Walter Cronkite started off as a morning anchor who had a puppet lion, so let’s not hear about the dignity of CBS News. Back at Northwestern University, he paid his fifty dollars rent by building cheap futon frames out of two by fours and dry wall screws and sell them to the broke college students. He recalls dead fall apart. In the middle of the night.

People would call me furious, and I’d put a handful of screws in my pocket and grab a cordless drill. I’d ride my bike across Evanston, I’d fix their bed, and I’d go home. Eventually he got a job answering phones and selling souvenirs at Second City, a perk of the job free classes. Perhaps his improv background makes him such a good listener, He says, I’m not setting the tone. My interests are eclectic and my tone is malleable.

There’s almost nothing that we could talk about that I’m not going to find some interest in. I’m willing to ride your pony wherever. The only exception is when he has politicians on the show. With politicians, I feel a different obligation to ask the questions that I want to ask, not the questions that they want to be asked. It’s not like I want to be adversarial, but when you interview a politician, you can’t edit anything they want you to edit.

He plans to host the late show as long as they I’ll let him. Vulture caught up with tignatsorrow and asked Tick about the joke she’s most excited to show her kids one day. Tick said, I’m very curious what they’re going to think about when I take my shirt off, and boyish girl interrupted. It was only from watching Drawn did they find out even had cancer. They had no clue that’d see my body, and they had no questions about my scars.

But I remember lying on the bed the morning after they watched Drawn, they had a lot of questions about what cancer was. They were pointing out my scars and they were like, and this is from cancer. So I guess I’m curious what they’ll think about that moment. When I took my shirt off, the first time I did it at Largo, I felt a little insecure because I like my son Max am modest. I was definitely uncomfortable, but I remember Bo Burnham was there and after the show he was like, whoa, my mind is blown.

This is not just about women or cancer. This is about body image. This is about being comfortable with the human body. That really gave me more strength and power behind what I was doing. It doesn’t matter who you are or what’s going on.

This is about bodies. The Old Reporter had a round table of comedians and they talked about not wanting to see someone you know in the audience. Taylor Thomlinson said, I’ve had people, people from high school come to sit in the front row and You’re like, no, please, not like there. They think they’re being supportive, and they are. We appreciate it, but I’m like, sit halfway back, right where the darkness starts.

And she also doesn’t like any folded pair of arms in the front row, no matter what they’re attached to. You’re kind of like, let’s unfold those over the course of the night. Mike bur Bigley has said people you know are not who you want in a stand up comedy audience. Jackie Novak and I swore together and we always compared it to being an exog dancer a stripper. It’s like you don’t really want your friends to be there when you’re stripping.

Vulture wrote five new comedy specials you should definitely watch when you have a moment. Got a holiday week coming up, we probably have some time. They point out upward of one hundred and fifty stamp specials were released in twenty twenty three. Here are some recommendations. Alex Edelman’s Just for Us.

This is the one about Edemun’s story at the time he went to a white supremacist meeting in Queen’s and tried to hide that he was Jewish. I’ve not seen that one yet. Kyle Kanane’s Dirt Nap on YouTube. I love that one. That has a nice fifteen minute chunk about fast and furious that I think is an all timer.

I don’t know how deep the ald timer list is, but I would put this up there with things like Eddie Murphy The Barbecue. Nathan McIntosh is Down with Tech on YouTube. I had finally gotten around to that one. That’s pretty good, A focused assault on a single topic, tech companies and the tech nerds, he argues who run the world. Macintosh’s strength is his frenzied performance and specifically is constantly cracking sky is falling voice.

I will recommend that one to you. You should watch that one. Christina Catherine Martinez her debut special Martinez a shot alone in an empty gallery space, surrounded by a fridge, oven and baking materials, wearing an unfinished pink dress will tighten the back with large steel clamps. It’s not the first Specials shot without an audience, but with how to Bake a Cake, it underlines the loneliness of the material and the emptiness of modern life that Martinez is commenting on this one sounds pretty cool. I haven’t seen this one.

When she mentions her day job at a startup, an ominous off camera voice asked her what she did there. She says, I honestly have no idea. As far as I could tell, my job was every day going on office and then I’d like touch base all day. That’s what they don’t tell you in college. You can work in any creative industry if you know how to touch base, if you check in and circle back, then you have upper management written all over you.

Boy, Now I really want to watch that Another one I haven’t seen. They recommend Natasha vain Blands We’re All Dads Here. This one, also on YouTube. We’re All Dads Here, they say, feels like a little Oasis time machine, because, unlike many recent specials, she’s just really, really silly. She tells a joke about how her old roommate used to know she was going to the bathroom because she’d hear vain Blant say oh boy to herself, which only gets sillier when vain Bland explains that she spilled water on her laptop after writing that joke, so that when the computer repair person brought it back to life, all they saw on the screen was the phrase, oh boy when I poop.

What makes the kookiness work is vain Blad is a deliberate, self aware joke writer and precise performer, able to gracefully slip an out of characters and voices. And while most YouTube specials are shot without much direction beyond just documenting the live show, We’re All Dads Here has some nice flourishes. That sounds like a really good special. I would like to check that one out, and perhaps this week, when I have a little more time, I will that your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it hopefully they’ll like it too, and you can all hit follow on your Apple podcast app.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. My guest today is Emily Catalano. Her debut album is out That is called Hey, and we’ll find out why it’s called that. That outum out on Blonde Medicine.

You can also get it in limited edition vinyl with a gorgeous mets finish. Here’s my conversation with Emily. Is it weird to put everything down as a recording by letting that material behind it? Is it’s a strange feeling because you’re saying goodbye to it, but it also feels really good to get rid of it at the same time, interesting phrasing and getting rid of it or you just you’ve been doing it for a long time, so it’s like sometimes it’s nice to go back to it, but like at the same time, like you don’t like the part of what’s fun about comedy is like the brand new stuff and like growing out of the comedian, So going back to the old stuff like a little bit of a crutch. So it does feel good to be like, okay, and now I’m onto the new chapter.

Did you approach it from the standpoint of okay? That hour is done, I’m putting it to bed. Or have you been trying out five ten minute chunks along the way so you have a new set. Yeah, I’m figuring it out along the way. I’m not really sure because a lot of this stuff from the album I’ve already posted as clips on Instagram or TikTok or whatever, So a lot of it was like I stopped doing anyways.

But then there was like a new chunk that like I saved for the album that then I recorded as like a video after that, and now I’m feel like I’m done with that and now I’m like starting fresh. I’ve been talking to a lot of comics who the topic of crowd work keeps coming up, and because of the need to feed the beast, do you find yourself doing I don’t mean this is a dig, but CrowdWork for crowdwork’s sake, just so you have something to feed TikTok or whatnot a little bit. I’ve always really enjoyed crowd work before even that was a thing I found TikTok just I think it makes a live experience a little bit better for the people there. But I try not to rely on it, like I’ll do my material, and then I’ll do a little chunk of crowd work just to make the people who like came to the show feel special, And sometimes that turns into something really funny. But I’m like, yeah, why wouldn’t I post this?

This is really funny? Yeah, good, crowd work is great. It’s I think I struggle with the set up crowd work. I’m gonna just be like, your hat is stupid, just so you can slam me, because you know how you have. There’s so many fake clips now and maybe I’m too close to it that I can just tell yeah, no, I get it.

Like it’s really tough when it when people post something that’s it doesn’t go anywhere. But I’m like really particular about what I post, Like I have to be really happy with it if I’m posting it. So I hope that people who follow me understand this is gonna be worth your time, This is gonna be worth your thirty seconds. It’s gonna go somewhere. Are you post everything yourself?

Is there a secret media team of eighty five people? No, just I have a background in editing, so I’m like, yeah, I don’t really trust that many people that do it for me. No, I hear you on that talk to me about editing. Oh, it’s just I was just always interested in like filmmaking, and so, like I think in high school, I just started like making little like sketches or whatever. And I actually taught myself how to edit before I had a computer or anything.

So I just had like my dad’s camcorder and a VCR player, and I would like edit that way like I would record onto VHS tape, So just bringing it down a generation basically, that’s the hard way. I’m antioned. I learned how a razor blade back me. Wow, yeah, I would have loved that, but I didn’t have It was fun. You have razor blade a grease pencil, and then you got quick enough that you didn’t need the grease pencil anymore.

You kind of had muscle memory with your thumb on where you grab the tape. You make a slice, let’s go for it. But you had to keep track of all the little pieces of tape. You’d take out a chunk and put the tape around your neck so in case the edit was poor and you could put the tape back in and if you lost the piece you had taken out. Once these computers came in.

These kids today, You guys have no idea what it was like back in the day. I know it was fun, though I would have loved to try the film stuff, but yeah, I had was a VHS on the crowd work. Are you finding people coming trying to be annoying participants in your show, like I’m gonna go and I’ll say something funny, so Emily could be even more funny. I haven’t gotten a lot of that. I’ve gotten more like people are scared, like they don’t want to be the butt of the joke, so they if I’m just trying to be nice or just trying to have a conversation, people will be like, I’m not talking to you, and that’s really annoying.

That’s more annoying than someone like trying to get a good clip. I’ve heard audiences are increasingly filling up from the back and not taking the thrush. Oh yeah, yeah, it’s tough. Are you in LA today? I am?

How’s the scene out there? I’m a little rough. I don’t think I’ve I know, I haven’t done a comedy show in LA since the pandemic. How’s the scene? What are the good rooms?

The good rooms? It took a while to come back from the pandemic. Everything just came back really slowly. So independent shows got wiped out and they’re like slowly starting to come back, but all the clubs seem to be back. Like anytime you do a club show, that’s good.

I’ve been lucky enough to be able to do shows at Largo, which I don’t know if you’ve ever been there, but yeah, definitely, every show I’ve done there has been great, So it’s yeah, it’s good. I don’t know. Did you find for yourself doing some research, you had a conan appearance and then the pesky pandemic came along. Did you feel like kind of put things on pause or we’re all in this together, so everybody was on pause. What’s the difference or did you feel like that hit your momentum a little bit?

Oh yeah, I think it definitely took a hit. But I think it came at a time where maybe I was like a little burnt out where I needed a break anyways, so it was like a good reminder that, oh I should rest, I shouldn’t be out every night. I don’t know, just I should take some time just to be by myself and write. So I think that’s what it did for me, and now I just I love being home and I love writing. It like really got me into that groove.

I think the entire world liked, you know, in a weird way. The six months off of we just all got sick a stake from watched Netflix. Right, it was just as much as it was horrible, it was cool. Everyone admits four years later it was great. I was really excited about it, actually, like it was scary, but I was also like, oh, I’m so glad that everybody is just stopping.

I don’t have to keep up with anybody. Did you resort to zoom shows? I did. Yeah. I lived with a couple of other comics, so we did a monthly or weekly zoom show together, which was fun because we were all in the same room, or the three of us were.

And then we got pretty good following every week, and it was just something to keep our minds occupied and still writing jokes and interacting with people. Some weeks were like really rough and really, why are we doing this? That was terrible, But then some weeks it was really fun, and we’d do this thing where people could bend mels and we’d take a shot if we were like during our set, someone ben mode and then they said this is for Emily or whatever. Then someone would hand me a shot and we just started doing water by the end because they were like, we can’t do this anymore. This was a give makes, but we need some great money doing that.

As a civilian, I enjoyed the zoomshells. They were product their time, and I understand why people don’t want to do them, but they were pretty cool. Out here. There was a guy he had a restaurant and he started doing cooking classes. So I remember every Thursday at four o’clock, you would throw him a hundred bucks, go to shop where I’d pick up a box, come home, and he would do a live cooking class.

But the food was credible.

And then it all of a sudden stopped when the world came back and I was like, …

Yeah, stuff was fun. I know. Yeah, there’s definitely some good moments, and I think people really appreciated it, which that helped a lot. When people were like, this is I look forward to this every week, I’m like, Okay, at least somebody is enjoying it and we’re not doing it for nobody. But yeah, it was tough.

When you do comedy in front of a live audience, there’s no other feeling in the world, and so to go from that to you don’t hear anybody laughing, and you sometimes can’t even see their faces, like if they’re smiling, so you have no feedback whatsoever. So it’s really tough to do Zoom shows and so I’m glad I don’t have to do them anymore. I hadn’t really thought of that, right, because you can’t keep the crowd mics on because then you’ll have vidiots talking in your ears. Oh wow, we would keep it on. But the way I guess Zoom works is like, if you’re talking, it’s gonna mute.

Everybody else have to like pause and hope that someone laughs so there’s not an awkward pause. But yeah, live comedy is just a million times better. More with Emily after the break. I love your style, I love your writing, A lot of misdirection in it. Who are your influences?

I started doing some research and I came across an article that I’m convinced was written by AI. It just had a lot of that AI phrasing. Are your influences? Amy? Schumer and Louis C.

K Oh Interesting, I’ve never seen that before. Yeah, never, Probably when I started comedy, they were probably the most famous comedians at the time, So definitely I definitely am influenced by other comedians. But yeah, I would say more Sarah Silverman and like Nay Bargatzi is tak Nataro, like people like that. I could see that in the style and the approach to writing all great comics there. Your album is called Hey, which I love.

Is there a secret meaning behind Hey? Or is just Hey? That’s how I start every set. I just go up and say Hey. Then, so it became like just a fun way to start my set, and for some reason people laugh when I say Hey.

I know, if people laugh when I say Hey, it’s going to be a good show. But if nobody laughs, and I know, I got to put in a little bit more work. Do you have a chunk that you know works when you pull something up from later in the set, or go back to some greatest hits type material just to win the room. Yeah, I have a catalog of greatest hits, and sometimes those don’t even work. So you’re just kind of like, all right, I just got to power through this.

But yeah, I definitely I’ll just go back to stuff that I know works more than other stuff. As somebody who programs comedy radio stations. I appreciate that you named your tracks. Nate drives me nuts. He doesn’t name his tracks.

They’re all eight is twelve tracks tell a story like the guy went to the bathroom. I wonder if he is mad, And it drives me nuts because I’ll be like, oh, I’m looking for a bit about I don’t know airports, and I have no idea what his material is unless I play it. So thank you for labeling your cuts. How much did you work at that or are they just things that were in your mind? Like this segment is called this or did you sit there and go I’m going to name track for this.

No, I’ll always bring like a list up with me because I have a really bad memory, so i’ll forget the order of my jokes. So I kind of name sections of my material anyways. So it was just oh yeah, divorced, married, baseball, like just the one word things that just drogged my memory to let me know where I’m at. So it’s pretty easy to just be like, oh, this section is that, But I do. I wanted every joke to be its own track, but you can’t really do that with I think for like radio or whatever, they have to be like at least two minutes or something.

I had to like group a bunch of jokes together sometimes and then I just called it like whatever the first joke was or something. Yeah, I’ll tell you the secret behind that. As a programmer, you had like a five minute clip, you can play twelve of them in an hour. So if you start handing in forty nine second clips, because they mess up my scheduling, So that four or five minute thing from the radio person’s perspective is the sweet spot, and then you, as the artist wants the radio station to play it so you get some of those sweet royalties. So it’s my advice to all comedians if your goal is to get streaming royalties, don’t have a twenty five second play yeah clip, go for five five minutes, just perfect.

Yeah, that’s that’s what the label told me. I was like, yeah, this is the only plant I’m donas was to get the radio spins. When we started back in two thousand and four, the artists or the comedians were like, you’re stealing our material, I hate you, and then the Royalty checks showed up and I’ll name names. I ran into Ron White and Nashville and boy did he shake my funny how it flipped it.

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And then all of a sudden every comedian was like, why are you not playing my …

Was like, all right, six months ago you hated us. Yeah, but yeah, Sirius has been like a game changer. I actually have hope that we can make money as comedians. Yeah. Sure, it’s great for awareness.

I know a lot of people who bought into it and would come up and do guest spots and it definitely moved tickets for them. It’s anything else, it’s awareness. Yeah. So your album is also out on vinyl. Talk to me about that.

I didn’t know that was a thing, And I don’t mean that as a Weisenheimer. I know Chappelle would sometimes put things out on vinyl that I cynically think was to make sure it qualified as an album for the Grammys, that it was an actual album, not a Netflix special. But you put this one out on vinyl, which is neat. Yeah. I just like the idea of vinyl.

I have a record player, and it really like whenever I put an album on the player. I really just sit there and listen to it. Where if I’m like just listening on my phone or something, I’m like doing other things and not really paying attention. But I like the idea of someone just sitting down and listening to comedy because that’s it feels maybe more like you’re at the show in that way.

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Also, I just love the vinyl artwork, and it’s having a physical piece of art …

Yeah, everything old is new again. Vinyl is super cool. It’s like you said, Hey, here’s my digital release. It’s we talk about this with the kids at the holidays. There’s nothing to give anyone anymore.

Hey, in the day, even if it was just a gift for gifts sake, I could give you a video game or a DVD or an album. Now it’s here’s ten dollars, go on in Apple and buy something. It’s there’s no there there anymore exactly. Yeah, just to hold something is unique these days. So yeah, and then I can just bring them and give them to people or sell them at shows.

Just something to have or sign even it’s always good. Oh I didn’t think that. Yeah that’s neat. Yeah i’d like posters I was doing, but I don’t know. Posters are cool, but not everybody wants a poster.

But everybody can stash away YL even if they don’t have a fit record player. They’re cool to free. Yeah, they are cool. Are you touring right now? Is on your website?

I saw one date from memory. I think it’s in Seattle, and I just thought it was quirky that there’s one date on there and it’s only in Seattle and why Seattle? And I just had a million questions. Well, yeah, I’m planning a new tour starting in September, but Seattle is the only one who’s put up their tickets yet, so that’s why I just love it there. But yeah, I’ll be going out, but I’m just waiting for everybody to post the tickets before I start promoting it.

But this will be more like I’m gonna just try a bunch new material tour and try to work on a new hour and I’ll probably yeah, do crowd work too, just just to have some fun. But I won’t be it won’t be forced I think new material tours are cool. Kevin Hart just did a little one a similar thing. A few years ago. Weird Awl went out and it was like Deep Cuts, only if you want to hear eat it, do not come.

You’re just going to be disappointed the diehards. I love that kind of show that just is all right, we’re just having fun here tonight. Yeah. I like it too. It makes me feel like I’m actually, like, yeah, working on my craft.

But I understand if a tourists is like coming to a comedy club or a show and they don’t really know who I am, they probably wouldn’t care about it, or maybe they wouldn’t have a good time. But I think for people who know me and know me from my clips and stuff, I think that would be really cool for them to see the process, see behind the scenes of like how I come up with my stuff. And different shows, different venues, different days of the week, different timeslots, different expectations. Tuesday night, you show up at ten forty five unannounced, a lot different than your name being on the marque at a theater, right, yeah, yeah, But I don’t know. I think that if people are coming to see me, it’s my headlining show.

They probably have listened to my album or seen my reels and stuff. I don’t know if they want to see those again. So to me, I’m like to just like try new things and work it out with them. But I don’t know if other people like that, or if I just liked how timely or topical do you like to get You like to dive into particular current events, which I’m not going to get into. You stay away from all that.

I like to stay away from it. I think we get enough of that and people, Yeah, that’s all the late night talk shows are, so it’s going to be done, all the topical stuff, so I focus on other things. I do like to al write jokes. If I’m in a a new city, I’ll write jokes about that city or observations or whatever. But that’s the only really topical thing I’ll do.

So is that just walking around and taking it in by osmosis or is that asking a local for a topical joke or yeah, just walking around or even reading about the city before I go, because I’m going into cities that I’ve never been in and I don’t know anything about, so it is I think interesting just to see my observations from one who’s never been there before, in the vibe of the city or the vibe of the people that I’ve met. And that’s why I do crowd work too, because everybody is different in every city, so I got to get to know what they’re all about. What do you do when you’re not doing comedy? What do your other things? I love movies, like I’ll just go watch movies below.

Just being outside, like I love camping and rock climbing and just hanging out with family. I don’t know, I’m pretty boring, just boring, that’s awesome. I tried doing indoor and I discovered I have this terrible fear of heights. I was like, I did it exactly once. I’m hitting the rope and I’m like, did you, And all of a sudden, I had that innate response, Oh my god, I’m forty feet up, bah get me out of here.

I never knew I had this fear. It is. It’s scary, even like when you’re used to it, the heights are still scary because it’s a if something goes wrong, it’s over. But I think that’s why it’s exciting too. It’s like that adrenaline rush I guess it’s similar to comedy that makes your heart beat a little bit faster.

So how does one do it? Do you need an organized crew? I assume you need at least a buddy, right, you’re not going out there yourself and climbing or Yeah, you have buddies. Climbing buddies, they’re pretty easy to find. It got like really popular, so now the gyms are like way too crowded in LA especially.

Do you have any other projects coming up that we should know about other than the album? After the album, I filmed a special which has some of the chunks from the album, but a lot of new stuff too. I’m editing that now with the director and I’m not sure when it’ll be out, but that’s something that’s coming up. And I’m filming another I don’t tell taping next week, so that’ll be coming out too at some point. So I have, yeah, a lot of content coming out which hopefully people like.

I’m scrolling through my notes here and one thing that cracked me up when I was doing the prep. I don’t know how often you google yourself or not. Are you familiar with this other Emily in Pittsburgh that reviews food? Yeah, actually, I’m working on a joke about that. See, I was going to commentate with you could wreck her life if you wanted to, just by posting videos.

But oh that’s hilarious, right, I won’t. I don’t want to ruin your joke. I feel like she probably has heard of me, but I don’t know because I get a lot of messages from There are a lot of Emily Catalanos out there, so I’ll get message of the dms like hey, nice name or something like that. But yeah, she’s the one who I’m the most familiar with it because I set up like a Google alert for my name. Sure, and it’s only her.

I don’t get any press. It’s always her. So that’s what I’m start doing a killer ten minutes about it’s her. I’m sure even ben to pitt alert. But I would like to get a great city and then I’ll invite her.

She can fantastic me two her favorite food spots. Thank you for your time today, best of luck with the album, and looking forward to the upcoming special. Oh yeah, thanks. If you would like this program commercial free. In the show notes, it says Klaroga dot supportingcast dot FM.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Find me. Oh, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Gqsked Jerry had the Seinfeld finale bothered him all these years. Jerry said a little bit.

Yeah, I don’t believe in regret. I think it’s arrogant to think you could have done something different. You couldn’t. That’s why you did what you did. But me and Jeff Schaffer and Larry were standing around talking about TV finales which we thought were great.

I feel Madman was the greatest. A lot of people like the Bob Newhart won, Mary Tyler Moore was okay. I think mad Man was the greatest final moment of a series I’ve ever seen, so satisfying, so funny. And they said that they had sat and watched the Seinfeld finale trying to figure out what went wrong, and it was obvious about that final scene leaving them all in the jail cell. I think we were affected by some things.

People had said that they were selfish or whatever, and looking back in it, I think they were great. I love them. First of all, you’re not doing comedy without self directed individuals. There’s an essential element of comedies in Shakespeare in Forever. You can’t do comedy without selfish people.

That’s what people relate to. Jerry talked about revealing very little about himself. Jerry said, I do this one bit about I don’t have arguments to my wife. Now. When I say those things, the audience knows that they can’t be true, but they don’t care because they want to hear the joke.

The great joy to me is I’m making this up, but let me see if I can make it sound like it makes sense to me. That’s what comedy is to me. They know I’m lying from the first line, and they don’t care. I always say, I don’t want to hear amusing anecdotes from your journal talk about something that couldn’t possibly have happened. That’s what I want to hear.

I just think, if you’re a comedian and you want to survive, your only flotation device in the oceanic words of show business is real laughs. When you’re young and cute and interesting at twenty three or thirty three, a lot of things work when you’re fifty three. If you want people to get in their car and pay cash and schlep into those seats, it’s harder. I would just caution the next generation. If you want to do this your whole life, which every comedian does, make sure you’re getting real laughs.

GQ asked, Jerry, are you saying the more confessional style of comedy is anti laugh Jerry said, no, no, no, I’m saying I know a million comedians who’s work dried up at fifty three. You gotta be ready for that. Make sure you’re working to be ready for that. Forbes asked Brad Williams’s surprised you about doing stand up that you didn’t know beforehand? Brad said, one of the surprising parts about comedy is also one of the most beautiful.

You can be Jerry Seinfeld, And the process is still the same, and the stages are still the same. Jerry still has to walk through the kitchen. He’s a billionaire and he hangs out in the same tiny green room that all the other comics do. Comedy humbles you, it keeps you humble. Forbes also caught up with Billy Gardell.

He’s back out doing stand up after being a TV star for a few years. Here he says, at the beginning it was terrifying because I hadn’t done it in like three years. Obviously, I took some time to change my health, and I took some time off to rearrange the puzzle pieces. You know, I lost one hundred and seventy three pounds and I had to get used to this frame and what this body wanted to tell me. So it’s been fun to explore that.

Yeah, if you haven’t seen a picture of Billy Gardell, google him. You won’t recognize him. He looks great. The first show back was terrifying, But then I don’t know, man, something happens when you get that connection with the audience. You start to want more and more and more.

And now I’m really having fun again. I can’t believe I’ve gotten to do two hit TV shows. I don’t know who gets to do that. My wife says, I’ve got a horseshoe in my butt. But the common thread in both those shows is that love wins the day.

Where the world is right now. I’m so proud of that show. Bob Hart’s Abashola all right, how as I keep the weight off, I’m religious about it. I pack healthy stuff in my suitcase. When I get to a destination, my first trip is to get some healthy snacks of the room.

So I don’t tempt myself. I find a way to work out. I got a trainer who says there’s always time in the day. It just means you gotta get up an hour earlier or go to bed an hour later. I’ve adapted that mantra man and finally learned it’s not torture to do this stuff.

It took me until fifty two to figure it out. I’ll be fifty five in August, but I’m a big believer that enlightenment doesn’t care when you get there, as long as you arrive. I’m learning to take care of myself and I’m finding joy in that. Maybe he’ll get me remotivated for someone who Humblebragg did the New York City Marathon. I guess it’s seven months ago now.

I can’t run two and a half miles right now. It’s just it’s unbelievable. Don’t turn fifty something, guys. Billy Guardell talks about localization. I try to find something cool in each city I go to.

I tell my son this all the time. You gotta go look for inspiration and it’s not gonna knock on the door. You gotta read. When I was in Kansas City, I went to jazz legend Charlie Parkers gravesite in Saint Louis. They’ve got toasted Ravioli.

In Philadelphia, it’s the Liberty bell Or Museums. And usually some kind of inspiration will come from that. Other things he does. I’m a big vinyl guy. I’m always adding to my record collection.

I also like to mess with my car a little bit. I’m a simple guy that way. When I got my downtime, I’d try to cherish it at home. Eddie Murphy didn’t think Beverly Hills Cop was going to go well. He was twenty three years old in nineteen eighty four.

He went to the industry screening and said it didn’t go well. A lot of times at industry screenings, they don’t laugh. I thought the movie was going to be horrible. I was with director John Landis and he was like, no, it’s great. I thought they hated it.

Then I went and I saw it with a real audience, and I saw the real reaction to it. But the very first time, it was scary. Beverly Hills Cop axl F on Netflix July third. They might even make a fifth movie, Murphy said, they’re developing it. If it comes together, we’ll be doing another one.

However, the latest film took a toll on his body. I messed my knee up before the movie started. I didn’t mess my knee up doing a stunt. I mess my knee up sleeping. When you’re getting your sixties, you get miss your body up just sleeping.

I hear you the only times really likes Jim Norton’s podcast sword Fight. Jim says, we have the typical married stuff and people can respond the way they want to. But the podcast is accurate, it’s truthful, and we’re not trying to put masks on to pretend. The best way to get people to change how trans people are viewed is to interact with trans people so they can realize, oh, hey, they’re just like everyone else. She laughs at weird things and wants to do stuff at eleven at night when she knows I have to work in the morning, so it’s like having a child.

Nikki said, I also think Jim’s friends know this is for real, and I think they can tell that Jim is very serious about this relationship. In my eyes, what a man Jim Norton is to take me to comedy clubs around all these men. When I’m from another world and foreign, you do get looked at a little differently. But what a man he is. I mean people might look at him as a little feminine or a little sub in a way, but you’re such a man, Jim says, you see what marriage life is like.

She makes me feel really good. Do you see what a man is? He’s a trans icon. Sure, the whole world thinks he’s a fruit and a sub and a bottom, but I’m telling you what a man. My guest on tomorrow’s podcast is Emily Catalano.

She’s got a new album out today. It’s called Hey Hey.

Also comes available pressed on limited edition vinyl with a gorgeous matt fi…

Emily Catalano’s Hey out today on the Blonde Medicine label, and I’ll speak with her tomorrow. It’s more of a twenty minute John interviews the comedians. If you’re looking for one of these one hour epics that I’ve handed in the last few weekends, it’s not that. John Christ will tape his next special tonights at Gas South Theater in Atlanta. Law Smith spoke to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.

Law is making a comedy special quote unquote, Finally, law Smith says, I squandered previous album deals, made excuses like my divorced drama taking up all my ram space for years, been fourteen years in comedy without any asset to show for it. I turned forty on June twenty fifth, and it gives me something on the calendar to either net up or shut up. He’ll be at the Gimmick tonight and Sunday, where he’ll be taping his first special over two nights. It might wind up being called Sunny State for Shady People, or maybe not. He hasn’t finalized the title yet, but the main topic is all set Florida and tim Bah.

Smith said, My argument is that Florida is the most American state. It’s the f ups that important here to start a second life that make the Florida Man news. Smith also hosts a podcast called Sweat Equity that contains comedic elements, but is also focused on small business and entrepreneurial advice and strategies. As for the tapings, law says, I wanted to keep it local because Tampa Bay has amazing underrated talent. Go see him tonight at Vick gimmick.

British comedian Ted Robbins is related to Paul McCartney. Yes that Paul McCartney. Robin’s late mother was Paul McCartney’s first cousin. He told the Chattabis podcast that having such a huge star in the family has not been easy for everyone. He says, Paul and my mom are first cousins.

You know when people do the who’s the most famous person on your phone? Well that’s mister McCartney. In some ways, it’s a great thing, and for some members of our family I won’t name names, it’s kind of screwed their lives up a little bit because you’re compared, you know what I mean, Paul McCartney and all that you’ve become a dentist great. Robbins thinks that’s particularly true for Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Mike, who as a musician and goes by the name Mike McGear. I think Mike is brother who’s the loveiest lot of men and talented, but his fears on his gravestone here lies Paul McCartney’s brother.

Robbins also claims Paul McCartney’s nineteen seventy song Teddy Boy was written about him. You know, he wrote a song called Teddy Boy, which was on his first solo album called McCartney and you know it goes this is the story of a boy named ted and it was sort of inspired by me. Hm. The Washington Post has been looking at the DC comedy scene. They spoke with Shelley Kim, who has been performing since high school in southern California.

She describes herself as proud husband and father. No, I didn’t mess up. How do you describe your comedic style, Shelley Kim? Shelley says, when I’m starting out, I was described as deadpan, but I learned I was deadpan because I was mumbling a lot. I’ve really worked on my inflection since then.

My comedy is much more accessible and most importantly audible. But who knows what my style will be in the future. Maybe I’ll be using puppets. Tell us about a time you bombed, She says, Oh gosh, one time someone played cricket sounds from their phone. I still shudder when I hear crickets at night.

Do you have a day job. Let me know if you’re hiring. What’s your appreciate routine? I mount the first few words of my set, over and over. It’s more of a nervous tick than a routine.

I’m doing my best and not to be a mumbler again. What else should we know about you? Let me know if you’re hiring hilarious. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, Emily Catillano.

Tomorrow, a normal episode on Sunday. See you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media and Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The New Yorker said to Jerry Seinfeld, it’s possible that you’ve made a dollar or two from Seinfeld, yet you still work hard. Why, Jerry said, because the only thing in life that’s really worth having is good skill. Good skill is the greatest possession. The things that money buys are fine, they’re good.

I like them, but having a skill. I learned this from reading Esquire magazine in the sixties. They did an issue on mastery. Do you remember that, The interviewer says, I don’t. I’m surprised you definitely read Esquire.

Oh yeah, of course I loved Esquire in the sixties and magazine for men. Remember, yes, I do. Yeah, And they did one issue. In fact, I gotta get this issue. I’ll get it on eBay.

I’m sure it’s there. It’s a very zen Buddhist concept. Pursue mastery that will fulfill your life. You will feel good. I know a lot of rich people, so to you, they don’t feel good as you think they should and would.

They’re miserable because if they don’t master a skill, life isn’t fulfilling. So I work because if you don’t stand up comedy, if you don’t do it a lot, you stink. They asked Jerry, who did he start listening to that made him say that was the skull I want to learn. Terry said, Robert Klin and Jay Leno were the two guys that and George Carlin, Bill Cosby I love, but I thought I can never be that good. Switching gears.

Jerry talked about naming the series. I thought, well, they’ll just call it Seinfeld no matter what we call it, so we might as well just call it Seinfeld because Carson wasn’t the Tonight show. You’re on Carson. It becomes the name of the guy, and that’s why we called it that. I never thought, well that’s a Jewish name.

What about Middle America never ever crossed my mind. The New Yorker pointed out that NBC executive Brandon Tartakoff said the show originally was to New York and too Jewish. Terry said, maybe we mentioned a bar Mitzvah one time. Maybe I don’t know. We would have done anything, and comedy do anything that you think might work.

Anything. The reason my show succeeded was the brilliance of Jason, Michael and Julia. They took this really esoteric material and the brilliant performers and actors that they were, they made this material accessible to a wide audience. That’s why the show worked. Those three people, Larry and I could never have done it.

Our humor is. I think maybe it’s a little more accessible now, but at that time no. Brandon Tartakoff was right, but he didn’t realize how great Jason, might and Julia were. That’s what he missed. A tip from Jerry, don’t try to be funny if you’re not funny, if people aren’t always telling you you’re funny, don’t be funny unless you’re drunk and you’re with your very very close friends.

I set out to find out if I was funny. I didn’t think I was any funnier than any friend I had growing up. I thought we’re all exactly the same. I drove to this club, the Golden Lion Pub one forty three West forty fourth Street, no longer there. I’m still a Queen’s college.

They have an audition. I think there were just a few people there, and I did this joke about being left handed and They got a laugh, and then they booked me. The interviewer says, I want to hear the joke, and Jerry goes, all right. The joke is I’m laught handed. Why are so many left things negatively associated?

Two left feet? Left handed? Cop of it? You go to a party, there’s nobody there. Where’d everybody go?

They left huge? It got a huge laugh. Jerry tells an anecdote. I saw comedian do a couple of Tonight shows and get bounced. I don’t want to mention the name.

He went on, He did well. The second time he went on, he did less well. The third time he struggled. They never had him back, and I went, oh, now I get how this racket works. This is a writer’s game.

If you can write, you succeed. If you can’t, you will not make it. The performing being funny on stage, that’s great. A comedy can be funny on stage, But the bullets are the writing, Jerry. Do you watch tapes of yourself?

For films of yourself? Jerry said, sometimes every artist is only showing you his best. When you watch a movie, every scene, they only show you the one take that worked. Seventeen times they missed it, you’re only seeing the peak of it, and stand up. You gotta make it happen every night.

That’s the difference. That’s why actors I think they like to do theater. They want to be honest, They want to be held to account, and only a live audience holds you to account. Jerry, do you feel constant pressure to make it new all the time? Jerry says that conversation would take another hour.

The short version is, there’s no answer. If I love a bit that somebody doesn’t, I go and they do the bit. I love it the comedian you’ve seen them after the show. You go, you did the Beana bit? I love the bean A bit and they go, I know I’m trying to get out of my act.

Do something new? You go, No, I love that bit. Who’s right, there’s no answer, Jerry? Will you do another special for Netflix? He says, no, why not again?

We don’t have time for that. Jerry. Do you ever go to clubs? Yeah? I go all the time.

I don’t sit there and pay for two drinks and watch the guys go. That guy’s fantastic. I gotta work out my own stuff, Jay Leno told uh New Jersey one on one point five radio to me, there’s nothing funnier than comedy in New Jersey. I was at Rascals once years ago. So next to Rascals is an arcade, literally right next door.

So I’m in the arcade. I’m playing one of the games. To see this guy looking at me and he goes, hey, you look like Jay Leno. Jay says, I am Jay Leno. The guy goes, no, you’re not.

Jay wouldn’t be here. Jay says, I’m playing Rascals right next door. I’m on in forty five minutes. Right now, I’m playing a video game. The guy asked leto for his ID.

Jay Leno declined to provide his ID. So I go on stage. I see the guy sitting like two seats right in front of me. I go, do you believe me? Now?

Wartschatter dot Com spoke to Mike Burri Bigley about what started him in comedy. Mike says, I want to say I was maybe fifteen or sixteen years old. My brother Joe took me to see Stephen Wright, and that sent me into a rabbit hole of writing in my notebook like random thoughts, you know, because it perform what Stephen Wright does. So well as he performs this match a trick of here’s some things I was thinking about, and I’m just reeling them off the top of my head. And you know it’s an illusion because he’s written them and workshopped them, and he knows they’ll get laughs in these different places.

So I started writing a ton of jokes. Was acting ever going to be your focus? Mike? Mike said, When I got into comedy in the late nineties, the path success was you became a comedian, then you got a sitcom, and that was Ray Romano, that was Roseanne Seinfeld, et cetera. I was on that trajectory until about two thousand and eight, when I shot a sitcom pilot for CBS based on my life.

It was like an untitled Mike Birbiglia project. Then it didn’t get picked up. Then I kind of doubled down and tripled down on making these specials. I made Sleepwalk with Me my girlfriend’s Boyfriend. Thank God for the jokes, the new one and the most recent one, which is called the Old Man in the Pool, And weirdly those become what I do.

Forbes talk to Brad Williams about his new special Starfish. Brad, who is a little person, says, Look, there will always be dwarf jokes. I’m a little person. I don’t know how to write jokes from the perspective of a six foot guy. But on this special I dive into a lot of different topics and I’m really happy to leave my comfort zone.

I’m at the stage of life where I’m a father and I’ve been married a few years now. I want to give something new as a comic. I love the laughs, I live off those, but the moments that really get me excited to the silences, Because if the audience is quiet and that’s what I planned, I’ve got them. There’s a moment where I reveal something about my daughter and the audience goes quiet. I can tug it your heartstrings a little knowing that I have a joke to bring you back.

I want you to feel everything when you come to my show. I want you to feel joy and laughter, but I also want you to think a little bit this is great, and I also want you to be sad that I want to bring it back up and have you always leave happy. There was a famous speech by Jim Valvano at the sb Awards where he said something like if you can laugh, cry, and think on the same day. That was a hell of a day, and I want to make people do that, but just in an hour. So pretty profound answer there, right, What do they follow up with?

Do you find it hard to work out material for your specialist while people are taping with their phones? Wait to listen to the answer and follow up on it anyway, Brad said, I call people out. Hey, dude, I’m working on stuff. Let’s put the phone down. There’s a joke in my special and I’m most proud of about the bud Light transgender spokesperson controversy.

When I first told the joke was horrible and I got to a point where it was getting last, but it wasn’t kind of last I wanted. They were aggressive, so I kept tooling with it and I finally got the joke to point where it’s about the right laughter, The message reflects my personal beliefs. Nailed it, and you need to be allowed that process. Here’s some well written copy that I’ll read verbatim. Step right up, Comedy lovers, get ready to witness a night of hilarity and heart as the incomparable Gina Brillan takes a stage tonight at the legendary Gotham Comedy Club to film their fifth stan up special Mind Your Business.

The Washington Post has been covering the DC comedy scene. Matthew Deakins describes his comedy style as I wouldn’t describe my comedic style. Describing one’s comedic style is pretentious streetely like that answer? All right, what do you like to tell jokes about? Matthew Deacon says, Applebee’s Loreina Bobbitt Disney Adults, German adults seven to eleven.

What’s the best thing about the DC comedy scene? Matthew Deacon says, On any given night, you might be performing for the architects of the Iraq War. Tomorrow you might be performing for the architects of the next war. Someone in the audience works for Raytheon and Grumming. Somebody else works for a nonprofit that helps orphans in far away places that I’ll never visit.

They’re all here, and they’re all doing the same thing. They make spreadsheets and powerpoints, and most of them want to go home to somebody who loves them, and most of them will go home to an empty apartment for ninety minutes. They forget their apartment is empty, and they forget the mission statement of the organization they wish they didn’t work for. They don’t check email, they can’t look at LinkedIn for ninety minutes. They think about their dad, and their yard and their dawn.

They wonder if anything will ever be as good as their memories. Wow, all right, Matthew Deakons, What else should we know about you? I’ve told you everything. Democracy might die in darkness, but privacy thrives in it. If you want anything else, listen to my podcast.

It’s called half a Nice Day. Sounds like an interesting dude. That is your comedy news for today. If you would like this program, add free listen to the promo that you’ve heard five million times by now, or link in the show notes. Four ninety nine a month you get this one ad free, a bunch of others add free.

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Caloroga Shark Media finally know Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jerry Seinfeld still thinks about a heckler from thirty years ago. Jerry was on the In Depth with Graham Benzeger show. Jerry said, I had this amazing bit about weddings. It was fantastic.

It was so long, covered everything, and I worked on it and worked on it and worked on it. It takes me forever starting to the bit and somebody else heard it. That was a tough one. I still think about it. I mean it was true.

Jerry explained it was a bit they had been working out until he thought he finally made it perfect. I guess the fellow had heard an unfinished version of it. Terry said, I think now audience is a little more sophisticated. There are pieces that we work on for months and months and months. You don’t do it once and works.

Every scene you see in a movie. They did that eighteen times. One time it was good. Same with comedy. I’ve done it one hundred times and now I finally got it.

Corey Holcombe called Donell Rawling’s recent special a new day mild. Rawling said people try to use the word mild as an, but I’m over fifty years old. I don’t even like hot sauce. I get heartburn. There’s nothing wrong with walking in the line, but not pushing it.

That’s where my comedy is. Donnelle Hall’s life been feel lately. It’s good and it’s gonna continue. The only thing we can do is try to evolve, especially as a stand up and artist. We have to be the best we can and give the people what they want.

I don’t think I’ll ever hit the max. I’m always gonna try to go next level. He talked about working with people like it Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. The notes I’ve taken from Rock and Chappelle are that anything is possible, and if you work hard enough, you give me in a situation where you could say I’m rich bitch and Philerinas as for his catchphrase, there’s been some good and some bad. The good is people recognize my voice from that phrase.

But the bad is when I go with my friends to dinner, they don’t even open their walls. They look at me and like, I thought you were rich, bitch. Ha Donelle filmed the special three times. What was missing? The first two Donnelle said, I don’t think anything was missing.

The first time I did it, I knew was funny, but Chappelle told me, Donnelle, you’re one of the funniest guys. I know you’d rip any room, but it doesn’t make it a great special. The second time we did it, I took his notes, but then we an issue with the production of it, but it was never a high level or frustration. A lot of times people don’t get multiple opportunities to do it, but Chappelle believed me enough and the product I could produce, and we got it together. I have no regrets, all right.

How’s that feud with Corey Holcombe going? The last time was an l I went to this club and Hulcomb was there. The first thing I asked him was could I be on his podcast? He said, yo, d why do you have something against me? I said, bro, you can’t say that.

I’ve always shown you love. My only issue was why he felt they need to put down some of the people who are moving the culture of comedy. He agreed with me, so I’m going to do a show. For some reason, the black comedy community thinks only one comic can make it at a time, and a lot of times they don’t support each other. This room for everybody.

There are different styles and genres of comedy. One of the hottest things now is social media influencers transitioning the stand up. They have the platform because people want to see them. Then you have their crowd work, which I’m not a huge fan of. It’s a muscle in itself, but it was shunned back when I was coming up because it usually meant a comic didn’t have an act.

But I don’t knock it. A lot of people my age think these young guns coming up don’t respect the art. But when I started, if you wanted to be rich or famous off this, you had to be good. That was the only way you can get noticed. But nowadays these kids are making hundreds of thousand dollars a month and of no incentive to be good.

You can’t tell them to work on that joke. They’re like, I heard what you said, but I just made one click and made ten thousand dollars. But if you’re a real comic, you can protect the craft by being good and evolving. One of the comedians I came up with hated shows when a YouTube guy would come on behind them. He wouldn’t go to those shows, but I told him, get your money, go to the show and teach them a lesson.

WPR asked Dmitri Martin about his creative process. Dmitri said, what I usually do is daydream a lot. A lot of my jokes come from that. I’ve teld some stories over the years, but once I’ve told a story five, ten, fifteen or whatever number of times, I get pretty tired of the story and myself because I’m usually in the story. But with jokes, especially shorter ones, I don’t get sick of them so fast, and if I do, I could drop one out of the set and it can reappear months later or years later.

Most of the jokes aren’t about me. They’re more about ideas or perspective. So in terms of the process, there’s a much more enjoyable pursuit because I’m daydreaming and brainstorming. Sometimes jokes just don’t float into my head. But I’m getting ready for a stand up special or tour I’m going to record now or something.

Then I’m trying to force them out. I’m really pushing it. That’s when I spend more time, especially on flights, when i’m touring, I bring a spiral notebook, write jokes, underline them, and then write as many as I can until the plane lands and see what I can come up with. Ali Sidiq spoke to Cracked. He said, I did Domino Effect my first special, and then people started asking me about the rest of the story.

The simplest way was to do it in chronological order. If they’re going to listen to the whole story, just do it off all the way until I got incarcerated, because people knew that I was incarcerated, but they didn’t know how I got there. I got out of prison October twenty first at nineteen ninety seven. I went to Just Joking Comedy Cafe December of ninety seven, and I learned observation, being able to look at an audience and determine what I’m going to do. Was Apollo Knight, and that’s where you had to start.

You get everybody on Apollow Knight. They were singing, doing poetry, magic, rapping. I didn’t understand that this was a younger crowd. I have on a suit because I worked at the men’s apparel store, and because I have on a suit, they brewed me. They didn’t even say anything other than hey, y’all doing and they started booing.

So I waited two weeks for them to forget me, and I went back up there with a regular shirt, jean sneakers, looking just like them. I did good, and I kept coming back every week. I remember what DL Hugley told me, The funniest you’re going to be is based on how honest you want to be. I asked Bruce, Bruce, you think you can become a great comic if you have a job, and he said, man, do not quit your day job until your stand up comedy is making more money for you consistently than your job. I wish I could have run into Don Rickles.

I would have asked him, how are you so brave? On stage. Seth Meyers is sad about losing his band. He told Deadline, I think they know how sad I am that they’re not going to be part of the show moving forward. Lord Michael saw the New York Times.

I think everybody had to go through belt tightening. Seth said, I feel incredibly grateful to have had the eight G band for ten years. Somebody like me never thinks they’re going to have the luxury of people playing music before they walk out on stage. I feel grateful for the time we had together. The band will be with the show through the end of the summer, Meyers said, I’m happy we get them through August, so we’ll value this time together until that comes.

But mostly I just reflect on it as a gift that I had for a great many years. Good article from Auto Straddle of Bennie Jones under the headline as a trans woman getting into stand up comedy? Can I avoid jokes about my identity? Benny writes, Throughout my teens, Dave Chappelle was my favorite comedian. That’s easier to admit that it might seem.

As a child, my favorite comedian was Bill Cosby. My father had a warn VHS copy of Bill Cosby himself and would sit my brother and I in front of it. That’s because Cosby was clean. I didn’t decide to take a stand up comedy class as an act of contrition, but I’m aware that this is an inauspicious origin story. If I ever decide to pursue comedy as a career, I’m gonna have to invent one with less problematic early influences.

This essay isn’t about them, though I didn’t give stand up a try in response to Dave Chappelle Ricky Gervais at controversial recent specials. I did so because I’m both a lifelong stand up comedy fan and a trans woman of color. And yet my current favorite working stand up comedians are James Acaster, Bo Burnham, and Dimitri Martin. All cis straight white men. I realized what I appreciate most about each of them and some older favorites like Bitch Edburg and Stephen Wright.

Is there a comedy typically focuses on one liner’s wordplay, absurdity, and playing with the form of comedy. They tend to tell jokes rather than stories. It seems as though their assis straight white maleness means they aren’t forced to comment on their identities and their work. They’re free to be funny in a way that others aren’t. There are three things in stand up that I’m tired of.

The first I share with most everyone hackneyed reliance on derogatory tropes i e. Punching down. The other two, however, seem to be the bread and butter of modern stand up comedy, amusing storytelling from one’s life that leans heavily on having lived through an interesting experience rather than having written a clever punchline, and observations and or explanations about one’s gender sexuality erase, I’m a trans woman of color, and being trans is frequently hilarious. But why should straight white men get to have all the fun writing one liners on wordplay jokes. Why should they get to be absurd and silly and observational rather than relatable.

I didn’t want to tell stories about my own life. I’ve done enough of that in my writing. The saying says, if you can’t find the art you want to see, you have to create it yourself. Good stuff, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny mack with your daily comedy and who’s some fun jokes from Jimmy Fallon. First, Chipotle is selling a new Chipotle Boy Bowl aimed at finance bros. It’s a normal bull, but instead of building it yourself, your dad just hands it to you. Love it.

Another one, a woman in Maryland brought a vase at a thrift store for four dollars that turned out to be a two thousand year old Mayan artifact. Experts were like, you’re either rich or cursed. Listener Richard actually sent that over as an item for five Good News Stories that’ll be showing up on that podcast, which I also host Five Good News Stories where you get your pods? Did Jerry Seinfeld listen to last week’s podcast and take advice from Johnny macko? And Hey, my Heckel game is pretty weak.

I better step it up because Jerry this time came prepared. Another group of pro Palestine Heckler showed up at a show in Australia, and this time Jerry had material. Let’s listen. Oh you’re bye, they’re by, the contesters are by, Why miss you? Oh you’re not doing well, it’s so hard for you.

You gotta guest. Listen, dude, listen, listen. Let me explain something. You and I are in the same business. We’re in the same business.

Our business is to get people to see things the way we see it. The problem is you’re in the wrong place. Do you hear how well I’m doing. This is what you want? You want to do well like I am.

Look at the people here to hear me. Look at what happened to you. I look because context is very important for your message. For example, if I was going to do my little comedy show that I do. If I went to a Australian rules rugby game and I told this guy I love this guy.

If I said to this guy, you check out, I’m gonna do my comedy act here, I would get that same reaction. I would get kicked out on my ass because that’s not where I blow. Here’s the other thing I think you need to go back and tell who’s ever running your organization. We just gave more money to a jew. That cannot be a good plan for you.

That’s not what you want. That’s the whole problem. That you gotta come up with a better plan. Now that was clearly rehearsed. Jerry was ready for that one, so he stepped up his game.

Hey is Michael Jay leaving Saturday Night Live? Let me answer No, he does this every year. Last week he posted a rather cryptic Instagram story that had some fans wondering if he was leaving SNL. On an otherwise blank post, he wrote, I’m a full time stand up comedian again. Some think he’s hinting that SNL is no longer his full time job.

Others are like, it’s summer, He’s a full time stand up comedian. We’ll see. I mean the Jost shape hearing has been so strong. To leave it as we walk up to the fiftieth anniversary would be probably insane. Do one more year with Jost, take the victory lap, then get out to get out now is crazy?

That would just be crazy. Mark Norman has a new short documentary for Punch Up Live. We get to see Mark Norman working on a joke from the first time he tried it to all the way to doing it at Carnegie Hall. The eight hundred pound Gerilla Websites spoke with Mark and said, do you get the impression that audiences are generally unaware of just how painstaking the process is. For one joke, Norman said, oh, one hundred percent.

It’s so much to do about word choice and trial and error, and hey, I thought this would work. Let me say this line. Maybe that’ll trigger something. It’s not pretty. Was there pressure or fear with showing yourself bombing and having to live through that again?

Norman said, well a little bit. We’re shooting another one right now. It’s so much bombing and people are like, what the hell. I thought this guy had a Netflix special. This isn’t great.

I thought the bombing part was what people needed to say, so let’s show them the nitty gritty. I say, bombing is work, But then watching yourself back just brings up all those feelings. Killing’s bad too, by the way, just watching yourself suck. So watching yourself bomb is really heartbreaking. The Gorilla said, I can’t imagine what it’s like having to edit a special.

Norman said, oh, yeah, it’s a nightmare. I have a friend he did an hour special. It was so painful for him to watch you till the editor just edited. I can’t even look at it.

And then he looked at it later and it was like, oh, shoot.

I should have watched it, so you have to do it, but it’s painful. Conan O’Brien is set to make a cameo in If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You. The New York Times describes the upcoming part as a dramatic cameo. If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You was a comedy drama set to star Rose Byrne. The film follows a therapist and mother on Long Island who must navigate her child’s mysterious illness and absent husband, a demolished home, a missing person, and an increase complicated relationship with her own therapist, all while treating her own crisis laden patients.

So a dramatic cameo. Does he play Conan O’Brien’s talk show host Conan’s physicality he’s rather tall and has a shock of red orange hair, it might be difficult for him to disappear into a role we’ll see. I have told Jeff Foxworthy many times I’d like to see him go off type and play something like mean or nasty like Jeff Foxworthy serial killer would be amazing. But Jeff has not taken me up on my advice yet. Told you John Stewart’s in a band well Church and State.

They’re working on an album. Singer Rick Barry, guitarist Andy Bova, bassist Jim Bova, drummer John Stewart. Singer Rick Barry tells Late Night Or we’d been working on the songs for some time now and preparing to do a pop up show eventually. Since that’s kind of the whole vibe of Asbury Underground anyway, I thought it’d be the perfect event for us to show up and play somewhere unannounced in a non traditional venue. The folks at Asbury Park Brewery were extremely accommodating.

Now it’s back to the studio at Simple Sound Studios where we’re writing and tracking our debut record, so hopefully everyone keeps an eye out for that. John Mulaney will narrate the audiobook for former SNL writer Simon Rich’s short story collection Glory Days. Glory Days is a collection of stories the chronicles the plight of aging millennials. The story’s encapsulate a variety of perspectives, such as a forty year old super Mario who must take a stock of his life, as well as the trials of participation trophy reminiscing about how they were won by a jubilant Athmatic. In a statement, Rich tells people, I’ve been a John Malaney superfan since the day we met at SNL in two thousand and eight.

He’s the funniest person on the planet. I think he should read the audio version of every book, even the super intense religious ones run on. Hirschberg will have a special next week Comedy Dynamics will released It Could Have Been Better, theo D July second album version July fifth. It Could Have Been Better is his fourth special overall, and the second in two months. On June twentieth, the comic took to YouTube to debut his third hour Brave, taped to the Comedy Seller in New York City.

Also from Late Nighter, Sarah Sherman described her Weekend Update appearance as RFK Junior’s Rainworm. Sarah said, this season, I tried at different things that were new to me. I wanted to push myself to be like, what if I saw something in the news that week and try to write for it and do something timely that’s new for me, and that’s like the challenge of the show. I saw the new story and I immediately texted every single member of Weekend Update. I was like, I got this one.

Come on, y’all, let me do it. It’s so scared to do something like that because you only have two days in limited time, but you just feel so supportive because all the writers are so funny, everyone’s excited for the challenge. Sarah said, they had me try out a costume with no arms, and she said, I think it’s funnier if I have arms so I can slurp out of a brain smoothie, and that’s when the costume department goes we got this, and then they made the really gorgeous worm gloves. Ian Carmel was said to be the opening act on Ellen’s upcoming Farewell tour. Those plans have been scrapped.

Let’s see if you can read between the lines here. Carmel spent the last three months working closely with Ellen and says, I listened to her tell me about her life, and tell me about the last four or five years of her life specifically, and try to synthesize that into something funny and relatable. Okay, it was one of the great challenges of my career, but also super fun. Let’s really read between the lines. She’s very funny, she’s very creative.

She’s very direct in her feedback, which I appreciate. When the offer came through, I couldn’t believe it because you almost don’t think of her as human because it’s Ellen. She’s one of those one namers. I don’t know what do you think happened? I think I know what happened, but I’ll keep it to myself.

And that’s your comedy news for today. Enjoy the show, Tell a friend about it. They might like it too. And you know in the commercial Free and All that you’ve heard me read that fifty times and it’s a premo and stuff. You know what to do four ninety nine.

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