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Caloroga Shark Media. I don’t know how to do this. My mom passed away on Thursday, and at some point the podcast test to go on. I come from show business, and the show must go on. I also find it a therapeutic to try and keep my life normal as possible during troubling times with these, So that’s why you got the generic episode yesterday that had been sitting in the can for at least six months.

But that’s what that was for. Heading forward here, it’s Friday, around one eastern. I’m going to try and record a bunch of these for the next few days, so I’m sure you’ll understand if my rhythm is a little off, if the stories aren’t as timely as usual. I just spent the morning writing a few episodes, and I can tell my writing isn’t a short as usual, and I’m moving things around. I’m okay.

I feel like Rocky mid Round, not the twelve round Rocky. I feel like I took a punch to the face and got knocked down and got up and did the motion with the gloves of hey, come get me again. So I’m going to be all right here. I know you all downloaded a comedy podcast, and you’re getting this at the first two minutes. But again, I’m sure you can understand.

So what I’m going to try and do here is barrel through and see if I can summon up my normal, vaguely bimuse delivery. And a lot of times I find doing something like that will help me actually feel better. Just by pretending everything’s okay, then I’ll start to feel okay. So let me switch my delivery and just jump in the pool. Now you didn’t hear there was me staring at the screen for forty five seconds trying to find my fastball.

All right, let’s do this. Did you see TikTok might get banned of the United States? Seth Meyer said, Hey, if you guys are worried about the Chinese gathering information about Americans, wait to hear who makes the phone. It’s a good joke. Fallin.

Then Alexa was like, yeah, TikTok, that’s the one that’s spying on you. Bannett Desi Leideg hosted the Daily Show for most of the week. She was reacting to new teenagers calling their congressperson and said that’s how you know this issue is important, and forced gen Z to make their very first phone call, and you know, congressmen must have been ticked with teenagers blowing up their phones all day. I mean, well, Matt Gates didn’t mind ouch. Jimmy Carr will have a new special.

I’m excited. He is one of my favorites. Natural Born Killer premieres on Netflix April sixteenth. There is a clip in which Jimmy Carr offers his take on how to apologize for jokes. I didn’t pull that.

Let me see if I can find it. Well, here it is. You can’t go round apologizing for jokes. They’re jokes. So I’ve got a plan.

The next time I get canceled over a joke, the next time upset people with a joke, I’m gonna come out on the day of the cancelation. I’m gonna make a statement, a public statement. I’m gonna say I’ve rehearsed this, I’m gonna say I’m sorry, and the people that I’ve offended will say, you don’t really mean that apology, and I’ll say, so, you’re saying I could say something and not mean it. Now you gain it. Not bad.

But that’s Jimmy at about fifteen percent of what he can do. I am a big fan of his. I’m looking forward to that one Natural Born Killer Jimmy Corus fourth special for Netflix. The others are called his Dark Material, the best of Ultimate Gold, Greatest Hits, and Funny Business. Greg Gutfeld is going on tour.

I know, aren’t you excited me too? It’s the Gutfeld Live twenty twenty four tour, five dates including Las Vegas, The Other City’s, Durham of Fort Lauderdale, and Red Bank, New Jersey. Maybe I’ll have to pop on by. Special packages in some of the shows include premium seating and access to a pre show sound check. Really, I mean, if it were I don’t know, Pearl GM and you could go to the sound check.

That’s cool, Greg Gutfeld sound check going testing one two check check? Can you hear me? Has it sound good? Hey? You see President Biden did something dumb?

Yuck? Yuck? I mean, what is a comedy soundcheck? I’ll tell you I’ve been at a comedy soundcheck. I just did it for you.

Don’t spend money on that Fox News personality. Tom Shalou is built as a special guest at each of Guttfeld’s Summer twenty twenty four tour dates can’t Wait. ABC’s executive vice Presidents of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, Rob Mills. Here’s a title. He was singing Jimmy Kimmel’s praises.

He spoke to Variety and said he planned to beg Jimmy Kimmel to host the Oscars again next year and said if he wants to sign a lifetime contract, I would love that. Jimmy’s got this down, He’s got the playbook perfected. I think Jimmy is the right choice for that show. Now, did Mulaney crush Yes, But Blaney could host the Emmys. I want to see Joe Cooy get another shot at the Golden Globes.

You know, Joe Cooy. He said this really horrible, terrible joke about Taylor Swift. Dare I play it? I don’t want to offend Taylor, but here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer cameras shots of Taylor Swift.

So that’s my vote.

All right, Let’s have Mulaney do the Emmys, Kimmel does the Oscars.

Joe Cooyd as the Golden globes. Leave it alone. It’s all working missus. Jimmy Kimmel. Molly mckenary, who produced this year’s said I’d obviously be honored to do it, but I don’t know.

I feel like we’ve done a great job. We had four good ones, and maybe let someone else try it now. Hmm. He’ll do it also, he’ll extend his late night show. What else are you going to do all day?

Stephen Colbert is setting up a political fundraiser, described by some as being the most lucrative political fundraiser ever. Your guests at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall later this month will be Stephen Colbert, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton. The security will be around the block and then some for that one. Tickets range from two hundred and fifty dollars, which is less than Sting is charging. I want to Sting.

I love the police, Stings going out with a trio. I was a little late hitting ticketmaster for reasons, I explained at the top of the show, and by the time I got it, tickets were two hundred and eighty nine dollars and I’m like Sting lovey but not paying that anyway, Biden, Obama, Kober or Clinton two hundred and fifty to five hundred thousand dollars apiece.

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Now for five hundred thousand dollars, I want access to the sound check.

Those contributing one hundred grand or more will have the opportunity to have their photo taken together with the three presidents. This is March twenty eighth at Radio City Music Hall. See if there are tickets on sale and stub Hub at being get in for fifteen dollars. You never know. Bill Maher will be on for at least two more seasons.

Here’s another one of those titles. HBO Programming, Late Night and Special chief Nina Rosenstein said for twenty two seasons. Accounting Bill Maher remains a uniquely powerful voice in politics and culture. Real time is the rare place where people can both disagree and find common ground, which is more vital than ever. We’re thrilled to continue working with Bill and his incredibly talented team for two more seasons.

Bill Maher said, two more years in the dream job of a lifetime on the network so many dream of being on. I think that’s what we call a no brainer. John Oliver has also been extended three seasons. He’ll be on through at least twenty twenty six. Saturday Night Live has announced two more guest hosts April sixth, Kristin Wig, April thirteenth, Ryan Gosling.

There’s a great new website called Late Nighter that covers late night and they say, as of Wednesday morning, Scarlett Johansson’s impression of Alabama Senator what’s her name? That woman, Hey, I’m running at half speed here today. Got me some slack, you know the senator she made fun of that that had been viewed five point four million times on YouTube. That makes it one of only four clips to break the five million views mark. The other is Protective Mom two.

I don’t remember that Washington’s dream that was Naperghatzy and I’m just Pete to Pete being Pete Davidson. Jimmy Fallon has confirmed that he’ll be one of the hosts of NBC’s coverage of the Paris Olympics closing ceremony on August eleventh. And a little Inside Baseball. This from Bloomberg, a podcast production company that was accused by THEO Vaughn and others of owing content creator millions of dollars has filed bankruptcy in California. Through the filing, we learned that Cast Media owed THEO Vonn’s company four hundred and fifty six three hundred and ninety eight dollars.

OU see, this is making me feel better already. Kyle Kenneine is on Neil Brennan’s podcast this week. Didn’t get to it for reasons previously explained. Good wishes to Olivia Munn, the girlfriend of John Mulaney. She announced on Instagram she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.

She said, I’m thankful to my friends and family for loving me through this. I’m so thankful to John m’lany for the nights he spent researching what every operation and medication meant and what side effects and recovery I could expect, for being there before I went into each surgery, and being there when I woke up, always placing frame photos of our little boy, Malcolm so it would be the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes. M’lani tagged the comment and said, thank you for fighting so hard to be here for us, malcol and I adore you heart emoji now. Originally this was in Friday Script but there was no Friday episode for reasons already explained. But Joe Coy played Kansas City Thursday night, so this would have made more sense then.

But let’s have some fun with it. The headline from The Kansas City Star Taylor Swift fans were so mad at Joe Koy for Golden Globes joke. Now he’s coming to KC. Now you might be thinking, why would anyone be mad at Joe Cooy? What could he possibly have said that would infuriate people?

Well? Wait, do you hear this? Uh? The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.

Casey Star reminds us Taylor Swift didn’t smile, She just shipped her champagne. The Star tried to interview Joe Coy to ask him about his vicious joke, but his representative said he didn’t have time to talk because of his busy schedule. Okay, jan the Rock says, Kevin Hart’s got a small butt? What? Yes, he was onn Drew Barrymore’s show.

She brought up how Kevin Hart convinced Dueene the Rock Johnson to show off his beer butt in the twenty sixteen comedy Central movie Intelligence Now. The Rock was asked to describe Kevin Hart’s butt, The Rock says, wildly small and muscular. Maybe net your comedy needs for today see Tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Thom Segura spoke with a Rolling Stone and they were like, hey, one of your first jobs was logging transcripts for reality shows. How bad was that? So Goura said, horrible. It’s such a mind numbing thing to do, and you would see would break people.

The logging of reality show is such an important part of the show because those moments and conversations are a lot of times very manufactured. No way you have to log everything that is said, so they could do Franken bites where they cut lines together and make them appear to be one sentence. Wow. I worked on My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss and Trading Spouses, and there was this thing that when Viral called God Warrior, and I remember hearing that from one of the edit bays, it exploded. It was very hard to stomach logging reality shows.

I really hated doing it. Golf dot Com spoke to George Lopez and asked him to complete the sentence and a headshead match between George Lopez and his good friend Lee Trevino. George Lopez would Lopez’s answer was remove the clubs from Lee’s golf bag and appropriate them as my own. To the loser, go the spoils, right. I take Louis Trevino’s stuff all the time.

He has a wood that says super mechs on it, and he saw me looking at it like it was a new car, and he said, I’ll get you one, baby, all right. George Lopez, what’s your go to golf joke? And he said, an old guy’s on the thirteen tea And on a nearby street, a funeral procession is going by, black limousine line of cars flowers the old thing, and the golfer takes off his hat and puts it over his heart, and the guys in his group are like, wow, that’s really respectful, and he goes, hey. We were married for fifty five years. Jay Farrell was asked to name his top comics.

He said Easy number one, Eddie Murphy number two, Robin Harris, number three, Bernie Meck four, Chris Rock, five, Dave Chappelle, A bad Ball of Them, Richard Pryor, The Rob Report. And spoke to Gabriel Iglesias about his Volkswagon collection. Gabe said, my first bus was a nineteen sixty eight Bay Window. I was seventeen years old and was my first car. You’re always attached to the memories of your first car, whatever it is.

That’s where it started. My brother was the one that got me into it. The engine was so simple. I remember my brother always saying, it’s just four bolts. It’s just four bolts.

I could take that out with a skateboard and a pair of plyers. His first time behind the wheel was terrifying. It was a nineteen sixty eight Volkswagon. The amount of play in the wheel, I tell people, was like sailing a boat. As for the buses, I started this collection ten years ago when I got the building and had the space for it.

I’d gotten my girlfriend at the time, her first car through Jay Leno’s guys. He’s got an incredible team over there. I then asked them if they could help me. Now, granted, I wish I could actually track down the car I had when I was seventeen, but they got me something to look just like it. They said, if you want anything else, let us know, and I said, if you guys come across anything else, cool, let me know.

We played that game for many years until this building was filled up. The collection grew so fast I did the bulk of the damage in the first five years. What’s his Holy Grail bus. I’d like to get my hands on a nineteen fifty Volkswagon bus, which is the first year they came out. There are a few people that have some, but I’m not willing to pay what they want.

I do have some cars and the works that aren’t necessarily buses. I have a Carmengia being worked on right now, a thing, a fastback, and a bug. There are about ten cars that are currently being restored. As for the collection, I don’t get to dry them all as much as i’d like to. I’m always working.

I’m on the road forty six weeks of the year. So what I do? You get to take them out? It’s pretty cool. Some fun facts from sports Kidia the headline she and Gillis’s high school and college football career.

All right, fun facts, You’re ready. Gillis played offensive tackle for Trinity High School in camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He got scholarship offers from institutions that wanted him to join their football programs. As the sports Kidia. Initially, he enrolled in the US Military Academy, but didn’t complete his first year before quitting.

His next stop was at Elon University, where he played college football, but not for long. Then he went to Westchester University, where he eventually graduated. Then he moved to Spain, where he taught English started performing comedy in twenty twelve. Nimesh Pateel told High Times, my first writing job was with the Oscars and Chris Rock, being in that writer’s room with about twenty people, and I was relatively new in comedy. He was intimidating, but I learned from that experience that there was no need to be timid.

You’re in the room for a reason, so to throw a bunch of stuff out and see what happens. I had a similar approach when I was at SNL as for how it impacted my writing on stage, that it’s a numbers game. Just keep throwing stuff out there, and even if I bombed in front of Chris Rock and other funny people, bombing in front of non comedians shouldn’t bother me as much. It’s about being comfortable with throwing things out there and experimenting. Working with Chris Rock, I remember we were working on a joke about acting being brave, and that was during the Oscars when there were no black nominees.

I pitched a joke about acting not being brave and instead said, drinking a glass of water in Flint, Michigan is brave. Considering the water crisis. Chris tweaked it to say drinking a glass of kool aid in Flint, Michigan, and it hit even harder. Came up to me afterward and emphasized the importance of speciicivity. The lesson stuck with me, and I tried to apply it to my writing whenever possible.

The more specific you can be with a reference that people still get, the better it’s going to be. That’s a great note. I don’t know if you know this. Chris Rock pretty good at comedy, Jeff fox Worthy said for my whole career because I’m not mean spirited. I just wrote with the idea of making people laugh because I always do Why do women do this and men do that?

When I started getting email from people, well I’m a woman and I don’t do that, and I’m man, I don’t do that, I was like, all right, I’ll change it to I do this and my wife does that. And it just got kind of the point where I was like, what are you doing when a comic has to edit yourself all the time. A comic supposed to be a truth tailer. We’re supposed to look at things we do in society and kind of hold it up to people and go, why do we say this or why do we do that? Just kind of reach a point where I’m not out to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I don’t care.

I’m just gonna try and be funny and not worry about it. Comedian John Ozele dresses his characters for his driver’s license. Recently, when he went to update his license, he decided that instead of combing his hair and wearing a nice shirt, he’d show up at the DMV dressed as an eighties punk rocker, something he is not. He said, my family has a tradition of being officially documented by the government as characters because the government doesn’t know we’re not those people. My dad started this tradition of the seventies.

He showed his brother his most recent ID picture, which shows a man with a bushy beard, long unkempt hair, and wild eyes that is not his normal look. JOHNA is unrecognizable and nearly every photo have been taking on a new looking persona in each one. In one, he has a chin strap in cornrows and has ranged his face in a menacing glare, and another he has spiked hair and a fum man chew mustache, and third he wears a mullet and a tank top. Nature comedy He’s for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube where you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Rommy, you seff, I see what you’re doing. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight at the Oscars the other night, Ron who was asked about Taylor Swift attending one of his stand up shows and what it was like if he got to meet her, and he said, I did. I got to hang out with Taylor a few times.

She’s incredibly kind, really funny. Easily could hang in comedy, you think, because I don’t agree? Do you need proof? Rommy here, listen to this joke. Big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL.

On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Taylor made a stoneface to that Taylor could not easily hang in comedy at all. The interviewers were surprised that Rommy thought that Taylor could hang in comedy, and he answered why timing. Music’s timing, and she’s just got that kind of timing. She’s got time to seemingly murder Joe Coyn’s career.

Tell you that much. Conan O’Brien’s TV show is actually going a premiere I know we’ve been talking about this for I think it’s eleven years. Conan’s been working on a show for Max Max HBO Max Max Thursday, April eighteenth, Conan O’Brien Must Go Well finally premiere last spring. Conan said, my friends around the globe never asked me to visit them, so I did. In Conan O’Brien Must Go, Conan O’Brien travels far and wide, setting himself down in Norway, Thailand, Argentina in Ireland to meet some of the people he had previously interviewed for his podcast.

He shared some footage showing him skiwering stale food in the kitchen of a Norwegian rapper, kissing a python at a market in Thailand, and presenting to a young woman in Argentina a Larry David lookalike. She has a crush on the actual Larry David. Will there be more episodes, he says, we have a backlog of fans we want to get to. We made these four, then we’ll see. I’ll translate.

HBO Max has no money, You’re not getting any more episodes of this. Conin Codin said, there are some hilarious people around the world that I’ve talked to I have a sense our country may sometimes be seen as not caring about the rest of the world. Sometimes we could be like, we just want to take care of America. Sometimes I like going where my status is low. People are free to make fun of me.

I can feel silly. I like to go other countries and be a little bit aware, a little bit uncomfortable with my surrounding, seeing what I can do and if I can make people laugh. He calls this comic diplomacy. Do you attend Duke University, Well, then you’re going to like the commencement speaker at the class of twenty twenty four. It will be Jerry Seinfeld.

Jerry and his wife currently serve as national chairs of Duke’s Parents Committee. Oh, Johnny mac knows how this works. Let me guess yep. They are parents to a current Duke student and a Duke alumna. Jerry’s children.

Always funny how that works out. Jerry will receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree during the ceremony. Congratulations doctor Seinfeld. Start there on that title around. It worked out really well for Bill Cosby.

Mark Marion placed second at the nineteen eighty eight WBCN Comedy Riot in Boston. He recently told WGBH. When I came in second issue McGuinness and the Riot, that’s when I started working. So I spent a lot of four bit of traumatic time there, doing one nighters all over the New England area. You remember doing a nine hour drive to a gig in Maine where he opened for an X rated hypnotist.

What would that even be? Maren said, it was so developmental for me performing for every type of New England audience. Coming back to this part of the world always seems familiar, a little bit like returning to where the trauma happened. But I still love it. Alex Edelman will have a special on HBO Max Max HBO Max.

It is called just for Us and described as brisk, smart and belly laugh funny. No date yet other than April. Alex Edelman gave a quotage which was, you know, when I was in high school, I saw John Updike give a talk and he said, if you’re lucky, the work that you write might at some point find itself in conversation with the times in which you live, and well, call me mister lucky. There is a trailer I will share it with you. I have made several edits here for pacing.

My name is Alex Edlan. I’m a comedian and I’m gonna tell you a story. It’s a Tuesday night and I see this tweet and I sent it to my best friend in the world, and I wrote, David, do you want to come with me to this meeting of Nazis and queens? People are just pulling up chairs here. It’s like a semi circle, or like an anti semicircle.

So yes, as you heard in Just for Us, Edelman decides to go to a meeting of white nationalists and comes face to face with the people behind the keyboards. The Guardian wrote, Grod Carmichael is a superb stand up if only did stop checking his phone on stage show Jeremy chromp the g There the Queen’s came out checking his phone on stage. When Sarah Silverman took the stage at Hammersmith Apollo one night in two thousand and eight, she could have been more hip or more hyped. America’s most cutting edge comic came among us forty five measly minutes later, her reputation at least among short changed London comedy goers was in tatters. I will circle back to that.

Just put that in the back of your brain for a second. The Guardian says they were reminded of this at SOHO this week when Drod Carmichael made a rare UK appearance and went down like a dead shark. At least Carmichael’s gig didn’t end like Silverman’s with a crowd and open Revie. The Moon was more of amusement that one of the world’s most revered comics should self sabotage. The trick would stand up has always been to feign spontaneity, to appear to be coming up with stuff out of the blue.

He does not pull it off here. Yes, there are flashes of comic power the riff on Kanye is the only black man white people freely criticize, but mainly it’s just Carmichael scrolling on his phone, more interested in his reputation than his audience. He doesn’t stand for much of the gig, despite the fact that sitting on the stage renders him barely visible to most of the audience. The audience’s phones were impounded before the gig. Ironic, and given how little here is worth recording one woman heckled and said they made us put our phones in little bags, they should have made you do the same with yours.

So I was curious about the Sarah Silverman thing. I found an article in The Guardian from October two thousand and eight. The headline Sarah Silverman’s UK debut was no laughing matter. Back then, they wrote, Sarah Silverman ticks a lot of boxes for me. She’s subversive, consistently inventive, politically right on and sexy.

Not normally a big fan of the taboo busting comedy that’s her stock in trade. But since her turn on The Aristocrats, where she spun a crafty tail mixing up something horrible, I don’t eve want a voice here and the American light entertainment industry. I’ve been one of Silverman’s increasingly numerous British fans. That is until she, or perhaps for promoters, did everything possible to shake as many of us off as they could. Thirty five hundred tickets add a cool fifty pounds in two thousand and eight currency.

I’ll let somebody else do the math there. That’s what kind of evening’s entertainment does that get? You began with a weight of over an hour due to a technical fault. We got into the venue at eight o’clock. Half an hour later.

The show started kind of Matt Berry and rich Fulcher came on and engaged in three minutes of forced banter with the audience. Then they introduced the proper support act, Steve Ag, who wasn’t there. It’s not AG’s faulty was sick, but who decided not to bother booking a replacement. We got a blank and you’ll miss it video message from Ag, a trailer for Silverman’s new TV series, and then the headline act herself, all forty minutes of her factor in an encore consisting of five minutes of Q and A bastially improvised after it became clear that the slow handclapping crowd weren’t gonna leave otherwise. The evening ended with Silverman telling the audience to go home at nine to twenty five pm on your TV Tonight, Girls five EVA returns for season three, this time on Netflix that had previously been on Peacock.

I watched the first episode and I liked it a lot and was going to watch more, but it wasn’t available to me on whatever cheap tier of Peacock I pay for anyway. This will be on Netflix now. I suspect this will pop now that it’s on Netflix, as shows sometimes do when it goes to that platform. Some new albums to tell you about. Kaitlyn Pulufo’s new album, Dirty Bird, is available wherever comedy is streamed and sold.

On Dirty Bird, Kaitlyn Plufo addresses the struggles of growing up softball skinny, the benefits of dating are young and short, fiance, and the complexities of creepy feminism. Track six is called We Demand Kirth. Track thirteen has two words of the title, the second word raccoon. The first word rhymes with fizz. Wow.

I don’t want to make it look like a were a prude here. I’m not at all. I just try to keep the company clean. Heer and fizz raccoon but not quite makes me laugh. Richard Servante has a new album coming out, also on Blonde Medicines label, April twelfth.

This one’s called They’re Gonna Know, an exploration of this modern world we live in where trolls no longer live in caves but abound in in cell forms in the cloud. The Internet is out of hand, and Richard is not afraid to say it. In fact, Richard isn’t sure if he’s had a real life interaction in years, and it shows in this weirdly detached but somehow relatable style. The album also tells the story of I hope this isn’t true, Richard buying three hundred bitcoins when they were a dollar and spending them on magic mushrooms that would turn out to be a about seven million dollar trip. I hope that’s a joke.

There’s also a story about a girl on a dating app who refused to go three miles to see him at a bar, despite her profile saying that she loves to travel. That sounds very funny. The bio Richard Savarte is like John Wick if his dog never died, So pretty chill. Let’s see if he has any funny attract titles Drack seven, Jetgy Robots, Track eleven, Shut Up Linel Richie. You want to own Richard Pryor’s old house.

This is the one where he set himself on fire in nineteen eighty. It’s on the market. It’s known as Hacienda de la Suenos. It’s a gated wallt property currently owned by a former NFL player Richard Mendenhall. He has set the price at four point two three six million dollars, and that’s not a random number.

It’s an homage to his total rushing yards he had his career of forty two to thirty six. Bought the house in twenty seventeen for two and a half million. Men in Hall told Mansion Global your own for comedy, and he was I’m a fan of Richard Pryor. He’s iconic and I feel a special connection him because we’re both from Illinois. I’m from Skochie and he’s from Peoria.

He’s a man of such magnitude that when I saw the property, I thought what was good enough for him is good enough for me. Prior bought the house in the mid seventies. He sold it in eighty nine for nine hundred and forty thousand dollars. And The Toronto Guardian caught up with comedian Angelica Skanora. How would she describe her comedy style?

Said brashing in your face, lots of wild act outs and unique observations about mostly reliable things. Influence is Adrian apple Lucci because of her razor sharp joke writing and risk taking Kat Williams for his stage presence, and Ali Wong for being fierce, doing it all and making her own rules. That’s a great list for favorite comedian growing up. I started listening to Dane Cook in high school when he pull up on MySpace. I was drawn to him because he did such act outs, and that piqued my interest because I love physical comedy.

I remember lip syncing his albums in my bedroom and pretending I was on tour, which looking back, was very foreshadowing behavior. Favorite comedian right now Jessica Curson favorite pre show ritual. She says, I do bizarre at theater school warm up exercises, barking like a dog on all fours, tongue twisters, and jumping jacks to physically release the nerves, just to name a few. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like what I do here, buy me a coffee.

You can go to mind me coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I will take your money. I will go to the National Donuts chain and I will grab myself a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. You’ll find me there every morning in around seven fifty teen, give or take see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello. I’m Kate Middleton with today’s Daily Comedy News Weird One Today the stories that are all over the place, Let’s start with this one. Amy Schumer kept her uterus. Did I wake you up yet?

Yeah? Ammy Schumer kept her uterus as a souvenir after having it surgically removed. She was on the SmartLess podcast and sold the Gang. Jason asked me one time, like very rudely, because I actually had my uterus removed, and he was like, did you save it? And I was like, actually did save it?

I had it bronze, you know, because of how difficult my pregnancy was. I didn’t even think of this, but I get the chance to show this to you. Thank you Amy for sharing. The iHeart Podcast awards came out. I won’t give you the whole list, but for best Comedy the winners this is important and I was like, which one is that?

Again? That’s the one with Adam Devine and andrews Holme, Blake Anderson and Kyle Kniuachek. You know those guys from brain Ford work. Ah, that’s where you know them from. So that is the best comedy podcast.

Also have note the best sports podcast, Club Shay Sheha. You know that’s the one. Kat Williams went on, We’ll be talking about that in a second, because all the stories kind of come together today. Let’s start with John Cena and has pointed out by ITR Wrestling dot Com, you’re home for comedy news. Some people think, perhaps, possibly maybe John Cena appearing naked on the oscars was some sort of hazing ritual.

You may recall Kat Williams in recent interviews kind of hinted that people wearing dresses is a hazing ritual in Hollywood, and some people think John Cena being naked is part of the all right, you want to be in the Hollywood club, We’re gonna humiliate you. I think it was the fiftieth anniversary of the original Streaker, and John Cena’s got a really cut body and he likes doing outrageous humor, and he went, sure, I’ll do it. I didn’t like the bit at all, but I don’t think this is a conspiracy here, and I like conspiracies. Shannon Sharp, host of Club Shay Sheha, was speaking with Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson, the former NFL player, and he revealed he made more money on the Cat Williams interview than he made in any year he played in the NFL. Think about that, Shannon said.

Everybody was talking about how much money I made doing the Cat Williams interview. I just got the check. So if you think I made five hundred thousand three exit, if you think I made a million three exit, if you think I made two million, three exit, I made more money on Cat Williams alone than I made in any year that I played in the NFL. So I was curious, and I’m on sport track dot com. In two thousand, Shannon made five million dollars according to this website.

Hey Kat, you want to come on my podcast? You coward? I bet you’re afraid to come on here. You don’t dare come on my podcast, Kat Williams. You wis Also, Joe Rogan has yet to accept my challenge to fight in the octagon.

Joe or you a woosey as well? I will fight Joe Rogan and Kat Williams two on one. Are you guys cowards? Bring it? I had missed this.

On Monday night, Justin Timberlake opened up Jimmy Kimmel’s show, saying he was guest host Kim Will then emerged and started listing off his favorite moments from the Academy Awards. Kim Will started talking about the John Cena bit and said, getting this on the air, of all the times I’ve hosted the Oscars, of the Emmys or anything, no comedy bit has ever received more scrutiny than this. There were meetings and site meetings, emails and texts and phone calls and people sweating. Somebody was crying. Then once they realized we weren’t going to take no for an answer, there was an intense discussion about the envelope.

Then Kimmell showed the envelope that the suits wanted Seena to use, which was the size of a shoebox. Ultimately they went with a smaller envelope. Kimill said, I’d say congratulations John, scene of the commotion you caused. Very rarely does an idea literally push the envelope, and this one did. He also discussed the Donald Trump moment towards the end of the show, played that the other day for you.

Kim Will said, it kind of tells you all you need to know about Donald Trump. He wrote this because he was upset. I didn’t mention him on the show. No one mentioned him on the show. He wasn’t getting any attention.

He couldn’t stand it, and so then the adderall mcflurry kicked in and he went right on. I wasn’t planning to mention him at all. We were backstage, the show was almost over, and one of the other I just was like, hey, look at this, and a quote Alpacino. Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. I had to read it.

Jerry Seinfeld spoke with Empire magazine about the upcoming movie Pop Tarts. Jerry said, do you remember the scene and the right stuff where Jeff Goldbloom and Harry Shearer are running down the hall and they burst into the dark and boardroom and they go it’s called Sputnick. That’s what this movie is. We steal from everyone we could think of because we love movies. The other big influence mad Men, Jerry said, I’m obsessed with that show.

That mixed with the dumbness of the serial world, you know, stuffy executives discussing tarts and flakes and frosting, just struck me as a fun world to be in. I always wanted to be an adult. When I was a kid, I wanted to look like adults looked in the sixties. But by the time I got to be an adult and they didn’t look like that anymore. So this was a chance to go back and do that look.

Bow and Yang was on with Seth Myers. They discussed the Great Sketch where Bowen made out with Sidney Sweeney. Yang told Seth, I got to tell you guys something, you know, like when you have a head injury and you can’t see colors quite right. I feel like I got hit in the head by these two women, and I’m still straight. The other woman is Gina Gersha, who appears in the sketch.

Bowen said, I think I understand why Austin Butler talked like Elvis for a while after the movie, so I think for a couple more weeks, I’m still straight. Ladies, get in there. Cheech and Chong surprise appearance at Sea Boys, Heart and Soul. This happened during South By Variety tells us Sea Boys Art and Soul is an off the Beaten Path Austin nightclub, and they hosted a brief reunion by Cheech and Chong. An audience member yelled out, holy s.

Chong picked up an acoustic guitar. Cheech cringed as it became clear the instrument was out of tune. Chong, who’s now eighty five, wore a varsity sports jacket bedicked with marijuana leaf motifs and a Team four twenty on the back. He swapped out the bad guitar for an electric that was ready. Cheach joke, Oh he’s going electric.

Chong hit some more notes. Cheech introduced what he described as a song of my people. The lyrics as recapped by Variety. I won’t attempt to sing them. I barely want to even do them with some sort of pattern.

But Mexican Americans. Every time I pause, here is where there’s a new line. So the lyrics are. Mexican Americans don’t like to just get in the gang fights. They like flowers and music and white girls named Debbie.

Two. Mexican Americans love education, and so they go to night school and take Spanish and get a b Mexican Americans don’t like to get up early, but they have to, so they do it real slow. Chong then picked up the song, says Variety, using a derogatory term for Mexicans that underscored the hollowness of racial and ethnic bigotry. Last night, they were going to have the world premiere of Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie, which traces the pair’s career in partnership that began in the nineteen seventies. Mosha Kasher has a new book.

This the follow up to Casher in the Rye Love It. This one called Subculture Vulture, a memoir in six scenes. He spoke to W P R And said he once thought his stand up career was the peak of a narcissist art form. Then he joked, then I found memoir that’s even more delvin to what I’ve been thinking about. Over the course of three hundred pages, the new book is focused on six subcultures that he says forged him.

The six are alcoholics, anonymous, Hasidic, Judaism, deafness and sign language is the child of deaf parents, stand up comedy, raves and burning Man was almost like a drug chase of trying to find outsiders that were like me that would make me feel a little bit less different on the world. So I think that’s some of the connective tissues. Something happened when I joined these worlds. They made me fall in love so hard I wanted to own them. I didn’t want to be a member of the rebellion.

I wanted to be a Jedi Knight. From baller alert dot com, which normally would be a home for comedy news, but I’ve used that jokerlready. Mike Apps has made a shocking revelation about his long awaited Richard Pryor biopic Buckle your Pants for this one. He was on the All the Smoke podcast. According to Abs, it was Richard Pryor’s widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor, who put a stop to the biopick back in twenty fourteen.

When all right, I’ll quote him here, I was gonna play Richard Pryor man and then his wife. I didn’t screw his wife, his ex wife. She got mad, I’ve said when he refused her advances. Jennifer allegedly told the actor, you are not gonna play Richard. You didn’t spank this cleaning it up, booty.

I’m not sure that’s a true anecdote. Lawyers will have to ask Mike Apps. The Detroit News got up with Bill Burr, who’s playing a big arenas Burr said, they’re pretty nerve wracking because you’ve got to sell a bunch of tickets. But the shows are always great, and I’m always amazed how they figured out the sound at these bigger venues where you can take the audience on the same sort of ride you can at a comedy club, where you can bring them down and you can get them going up. I’ve been doing these arenas for a couple of years and I’m used to it, but I’m not gonna lie to you.

You definitely have imposter syndrome when you first get in there, like why these people come to see me? So the fact that people are showing up, you know, is amazing and I don’t take the responsibility of that lightly. You can’t be doing shows and just be on cruise control. You got to make sure everybody gets their money’s worth. So that’s my big thing every night, which is funny because people say, make sure you’re taking it in.

This is stand up comedy. You can’t take it in. And if I start sitting back looking at the joke, my timing is off and I immediately start bombing. I can reflect on it afterwards. Does that count.

Kyle Mooney has got a new movie Why two K. This premiered at South By. Y two K follows two high schoolers who crash in New Year’s Eve party on the last night of nineteen ninety nine when they realize the projected computer apocalypse is actually happening. Mooney had the idea for Y two K a few years back. He said on New Year’s Day twenty nineteen, after night of celebrating with Evan and her friends, I texted Evan there should be a movie about two kids going to a party in Hysuk and it goes bad.

Evan Winter said, I woke up very hung over to this text. Mooney said, congratulations. One of the scenes takes place in a porta potty. We are told the stuff that you might think of stuff is not stuff. It’s hot chocolate mixed with glycerd and it smelled amazing.

It’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, you can buy me a coffee. You go to buy me a coffee dot com I’ll slash Daily Comedy News. You can become a member and have a recurring payment. You can join the two dollars club.

Some people do that, so it’s just two dollars a month. Winds up being twenty four bucks a year. You won’t even miss it. If a million people do that, I’ll get twenty four million dollars a year. Not too bad.

It’s not Shanna Sharp money, but you know it’s not bad anyway. With your five bucks, I’ll go to the National Donut chain. I’ll take out my app and I’ll be like uring large nice coffee caramel milk. I’ll order it. I’ll check to make sure it’s actually at the donuts chain in my town and not the one across town that’s happened a couple of mornings, and then I’ll walk in.

I won’t talk to anybody at all, and I’ll just walk in and grab the cup and get back in the car and come home. It’s an exciting life. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media, hindly. Oh, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The oscar still kind of dominating. Jimmy Kimmel brought snacks, says The Hollywood Reporter. He brought snack boxes that include Shabby Pretzel and Mustard, Mike and Ikes water and a note from Kimmel that said to keep the karma flowing, they’d be providing a donation to Saint Joseph’s Center.

This is the second time that Kimmel has brought that brand of pretzels. He’s currently a big fan. Daniel Feinberg, my favorite entertainment critic and The Hollywood Reporter, wrote, Kimmel is a guy you can trust to do a monologue, and then he’ll hold together the disparate components and fill dead air and generally keep the mood light. He’s a juggler and no matter what Razzie Winner Trump might say, a good award show host. I agree again.

I didn’t think Jimmy had his best fastball on Sunday Night, but I do think he’s a good host. Feinberg seems to agree and wrote that doesn’t mean that Jimmy was always in top form. If I had it title the opening monologue, it would be embracing the hackiness. You had jokes about de Niro’s age and the length of Killers of the Flower Moon. Sorry Jimmy, but if it was bad enough for Joe Coy, you probably needed to go a different way.

Again, I think Jimmy’s monologue was the redemption tour for Joe Coy. Suddenly this isn’t so easy, everybody. I wish Taylor Swift had been there to ice Jimmy Kimmel. Imagine if he said something mean like this, A big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer caliber shots of Taylor Swift.

Who Taylor would have murdered Jimmy Kimmel Finberg growth there was a riff on Robert Downey Junior’s troubled pass that seemed to go on forever, as if Kimmell were trying to say, look, after tonight, he’s going to be Oscar winner, Robert Downey Junior, So we need to get this out of our system, except most people already had. Sometimes Kimmel had a sharper blade, like when he referred to the summer of solidarity among the industry unions, before adding, well, not the directors. You guys folded immediately. That was a solid joke if you didn’t watch. Al Pacino presented the best picture and apparently he doesn’t know how to do it.

As never seen an oscar show. Pacino failed to read the nominees out loud. Pacino just opened the envelope and told the audience quote, and my eyes see Oppenheimer. Backstage, Kelly rip and Mark kN Swellos were doing their thing, and Rippa said, how about al Pacino? Cutting like twelve minutes, twenty minutes, twenty five minutes.

Kinswello said we were back here going like no. Kimble joked, I guess Al’s never watched an award show before. It seems like everyone in America knows the rhythm of how it’s supposed to go down to the and the oscar goes to But no. And that came after Kim Will had already killed Time played that clip yesterday where Kim Will got in a cut punch to Trump. Kim Will told the story saying, they go, you got a little bit of time, and I go, I’m reading that Trump tweet and they were like, no, no, No, don’t read that.

I’m like, yes, I am. Apparently am a Stone didn’t appreciate Kimmel’s joke that poor Things is only about sex. She was seeing mouthing hmm, naughty word that starts with p R and rhymes with lick. He didn’t really clean that up, John, I know. Thank you hather sending that over.

Good joke by tweeter Rob Dan Bleiker, who wrote is Oppenheimer’s Lash Godzilla minus one the first time a movie and it’s sequel Both one oscars in the same year. Good observation there.

In other news, Spinal Tap coming back.

This is sequel Tap That’s a Bad Name is now in production. They’re filming in New Orleans. Rob Render directs, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer all back. Reiner will also return as the documentarian. Marty de Berge, Questlove and Tricia Yearwood have now joined the cast already announced Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Garth Brooks.

In a statement, Reiner said, I recently spoke to Marty de Bergey, who said he was more than happy to take a sabbatical from his position as a visiting Professor’s assistant at the Edwoods School of Cinematic Arts to once again document Spinal Tap to ensure their plays in the pantheon of rock and roll. The plotz He’s our favorite band, reuniting following a fifteen year hiatus for one final concert. I hope this is good. My spidey sense is saying that this is going to be a mess, but I really really hope I’m wrong. Christina, He shared a video on social media telling us where my Mom’s at.

Her podcast will be going on a short hiatus so the main mommy can focus on being a mommy. We’ve got lots of exciting new content to share with you here at Studio Jeans. There’ll be a few WMMA episodes released, so keep an eye out. Hmm. That to me sounds like candidly and speculating this podcast isn’t making money, it’s not worth my time.

So I went to look at the charts as a website called Chartable, and that podcast Where my Mom’s At right now out of the comedy charts. So I suspect and I might get in a lot of trouble for this. It might come out tomorrow that Christina is taking care of a personal issue or who knows, maybe she’s getting a Brazilian butt lift like Kate Middleton. I don’t know why she stopped doing the podcast, but I speculate this is why are we doing this. We’re not really making money on this, just to guess.

By the way, the Kate Middleton stuff is amazing. Listen to the bonus episode of Palace Intrigue we dropped on Monday. That’ll catch you up on if you missed it. They put out a f pho over the weekend of Kate and then people realize it was photoshop. So now the hole where is Kate Middleton conspiracy is full blown, lots of fun Palace Intrigue rere figure shows.

Rami Yusef is everywhere. Suddenly he’s got that special coming out on HBO Max Max, HBO Max. He will host Saturday Night Live March thirtieth with musical guest Travis Scott’s nice line up there, but he’s really you know, sometimes these comedians going to overdrive and start saying some stuff. I’ve got a story for later in the week where he’s name dropping Taylor Swift. I’m like, I get what you’re doing, romy so expect me to have lots of feisty romy quotes in the upcoming weeks.

The eight hundred Pound Gorilla has announced the first annual Worldwide Comedy Month. All Right, what’s this? It’s a month of daily curated comedy releases, events and fan engagement opportunities. At a time when we need a chance to laugh together. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla Media Co.

Has announced that April twenty twenty four will be the first annual Worldwide Comedy Month. New releases from Kyle Kanaan, Angela Johnson, Mo Welch, Mody, Evil Graham, and Monty Franklin and more. Some of the things coming out April second. Kyle Knane Dirt napp for four, Angela Johnson raises say I won’t Evil Graham on the fifth, Live from Bloomsbury Theater, Monty Franklin on the ninth, Dan Rath I’m not doing well folks on the twelfth, Mark Ford Presents on the sixteenth, Mody on the eighteenth, Mike Britt on the twenty first, Mo Welch, Dad Jokes on the twenty third, Nick Offerman’s American Ham on the twenty sixth, then Tom Allen’s Absolutely Live on the thirtieth. That is awesome done.

Rawlings told The Daily Beast how we found out that Dave Chappelle walked away from that Comedy Central fifty million dollar deal. I found out, like everybody else, through the news, the behind the scenes stuff. David Neil kept it away from us. Neil is Neil Brennan. We weren’t focused on that.

We were just so happy Charlie Murphy went from being Eddie Murphy’s brother to Charlie Murphy. I went from being Ashley Larry I’m rich biatch. We were going back into production for the show. Me and Charlie were a little upset because that meant we had to come off the road for three months and we weren’t going to make that much money. I didn’t really make too much money on the show, and I’m not saying that’s a bitch or anything.

I never bitched about the money I was making on the show because I knew the money I was making on the show was nothing compared to the money was gonna make from doing the show. I would have done that show for free. A regret when we did Chappelle’s show the Lost Episodes, we hadn’t talked to Dave or anything, and Comedy Central had an archive a video they wanted to do something with. I didn’t know Dave’s frame of mind or anything, and when me and Charlie were looking at it, we were like, this might be our last opportunity to do this, and not knowing the politics involved it, and not knowing Dave’s feelings about it, we decided to do it as closure, not trying to get a career, not saying we were trying to be the New Chappelle Show. It was almost like a funeral for that show.

But as time passed, Dave told me he felt uncomfortable about that. So I do regret it. And I said, Dave, if you would have picked up the phone and let us know where you were, all you had to do was say is I’m not infing with Comedy Central, so don’t f with them. But he didn’t say anything. It’s the last night of comedy at south By Southwest at five o’clock local time.

It’s the Street Meet, a comedic celebration of food trucks, grease bits and sandwich shops. Joe DeRosa joined by some others to talk hogies to halal burritos to burgers, sounds like a fun show. Now I’m hungry. Six o’clock Girl cop a clown drama. Christina Catherine Martinez, She’s been on a ton of shows this week, and Courtney Prusso set aside their lighthearted and antics to plumb the existential apprehensions of the sapphic flat foots in the Search for Meaning, No Art, only Justice.

Seven o’clock Famous with a Baby and other stuff that didn’t work out. Solusa Omi Lahan brings her greatest hits to the US. When life gives you lemons, become the Beyonce of your own damn story, and there’s a dance party at the end. Eight o’clock Gotham Comedy Club presents a stand up comedy. They said Esther’s Follies, Nathan McIntosh, Lynn Copplets, Aaron Jackson, Jordine Fisher, Ashley Bornehill is your lineup and the final one is called Closing Up the Creek at the Creek in the Cave, once again using the AI generated image of what a comedy audience might look like.

Nine o’clock Chris Cathard, Pete Lee, Orlando Laba and Dulce Slope Bunch of stuff. If you need Something to Do Tonight. Dan Saint Germain Good Comic. His new special dance Fanny is on the eight hundred Pound Really YouTube channel seven o’clock Central Time. Steve Travinho A Simple Man on Netflix.

Patton Oswalt is on Stephen Colbert tonight. Do you want to see comedy in a storage bin? Sure? Why not? Manhattan Mini Storage has partnered with brand Up New York related to the Stand Up New York Comedy Club to bring stand up comedians into facility units.

The events are dubbed Mini Sets Comedy Club. It pairs different comics with rotating audiences of up to fifteen people, depending on the unit size. For example, five by five units hold an audience of just three to four people. What are we doing? Jimmy Fallon showed up in Syracuse Friday night.

He opened for Nate BERGHATSI. That’s a good opener, Nate. How did you get Jimmy Fallon? We were told Fallon war sneakers with orange laces. Little Syracuse orangement thing there, and Fallon joked about his family is upbringing near upstate New York.

He grew up in Ulster County and is Almer Mater the College of Saint Rose, which has announced that it’s closing. Nate said Fallon is only joining the tour in a handful of cities. Felon chose Syracuse and Albany, New York. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy what I do here, you can buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

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Caloroga Shark Media a lots of cover. Jimmy kimmelaid, it’s John Mlaney crushed it. We’ll talk about the oscars in a second, but there are other news stories as well. Miami Dolphin star Tyreek Hill ended up in a heated exchange with a woman at a Kevin Hart comedy show. Hill had been accused of sitting in the woman’s seat.

TMZ reported that Hill was at Kevin Hart’s show at the Roxy in Atlanta. The woman grabbed him after Hill sat down. The report says it seems the woman was the more aggressive party. TMZ also reported that she pushed a member of Tyreek Hill’s team before security intervened. Com County PD told TMZ after reviewing the video, they determined the woman was the primary aggressor.

He decided to leave rather than let things go too far. Always a good decision.

Speaking of Kevin Hart, on Wednesday Nights, the masked singer Kevin Hart stu…

The p could not contain themselves as Kevin Hart, whose voice was unmistakable underneath the boxy costume, bumbled his way through the song through a voice changer. Kevin Hart said, I’ve done a lot, but what am I doing right now? This might be my most novel experience yet. When the reveal came a Robin Thick had guessed it was Kevin Hart. Thick hugged Kevin Nick.

Cannon complained that Kevin Hart was breaking the rules. Kennon said, this is stupid. That was the worst performance ever in the history of the show. How about that, Kevin Hart said, on purpose? Nick, I performed bad on purpose.

Cannon shot back, you embarrass yourself. That was stupid. No, I don’t look stupid. I look put together, Nick. There’s nothing stupid about me.

You know who looks stupid? You in that stupid jacket. Good buzz On Saturday Night Live, did you see Scarlett Johansson portray Senator Katie Britt doing the rebuttal to the State of the Union. Very very good. Jimmy Carr in trouble.

The New York Post went with the headline comedian Jimmy Carr’s vile joke at deaf audience member causes outrage. This isn’t comedy, all right, So Jimmy Carr is there performing in Kent. Carly is at the show. Carly says Jimmy Carr picked her out of the front row because she was wearing a beret. Asking why she was wearing it, Carly says, I used my right hand to lift my beret, exposing my hearing aid.

I hope he was at least a decent guy and would move on knowing I was deaf. It didn’t work. It had the opposite effect, as I was like a sitting deaf duck. Now I don’t think she understands what happens at a Jimmy Carr show. She said she was using a transcribing app on her phone read what Carr was saying during the set.

Carr then addressed her again and asked if she was going to call for backup from the French Resistance. That’s a good joke. Then he was talking about how you can say anything about deaf people because they can’t hear you. I was shocked. This isn’t comedy.

How did you wind up in the front row of a Jimmy Carr show. This is exactly what he does. I like Jimmy car a lot. Don’t read anything in the day. I’m on team Jimmy Carr.

Here that punchline about it because they can’t hear you. That’s Jimmy’s act. Carly said, comedy is an amazing tool for progressive change. Yet Jimmy decided to use this platform to put down those who have a tough life. There’s a joke and then there’s absolutely insulting.

It’s vile to the deaf community. It’s just not acceptable. He doesn’t need to do that. He’s rich enough. Okay.

Meanwhile, another story before we get to the Oscars, comedian at Nima Yumini has apparently backtracked about that whole Matt Rife thing. Remember the lawyers got involved, told you about that yesterday. In a new video clip you Meani said, while back, I did a parody video on my page and then threw Twitter under the bus, saying Twitter posted his parody video without context and passed off his jokes truth. Emani said, I don’t know Matt Rife, I’ve never met him, but my silly joke should not discredit him. I really do wish him success, and my content is entirely satire.

Sounds like the lawyers told you what to say. My content is exclusively for entertainment, no hitting agendas, so please everyone, stop hating based on rumors, lies, gossip, jokes. Matt Rife didn’t have me do this, But I want to give an explanation that was wrong. The Matt Rife conspiracy is just not true. I think we all knew that Cant Williams ran the forty yard dash.

Yeah, a lot of news, right, I want to get to the oscars. But all these stories came, and Cant Williams ran the forty yard dash at the Sports Academy in Texas. He ran it in four point nine seven seconds at fifty two years old. By comparison, Dak Prescott, who’s the quarterback of the Cowboys at age twenty two, ran the forty and four point seven nine. Again, four point ninety seven and four point seventy nine, not all that different.

All right, on to the OSCARS. I was driving back from Boston and we were playing YouTube TV through my car speakers, so I wasn’t at all watching Jimmy Kimmel, but I was listening, and my daughter was with me. She was watching, and our takeaway was sounded to us like Jimmy was struggling that the crowd wasn’t with him. Suddenly, Joe Coy’s not so bad at this, know what I’m saying. Yeah, Jimmy never found a rhythm.

The Daily Mail recapped. They said Kimmell, returning for the fourth time, left the eight listers grinning and cringing in equal measure as he took to the stage. They talked about the awkward thing when Kimmel said, Robert Downey Junior one of the highest points of his career, but Robert has been Then Downy pointed to his face, leading Kimmel to add, was that two on the note was a drug motion that you made? But look at him? Me so handsome sotalities when every war there is to win?

Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket? Or you just have a very rectangular body part? That joke fell flat. Later in the show, Kimmel appeared to catch the ire of Emma Stone as he made fun of Poor Things, joking about the explicit sex scenes in that film, saying that they showed the only parts of Poor Things that they were allowed to show on TV. Yeah, so, like I said, suddenly, Joe Coy’s not so bad at this.

She get a bad room. I think Kimmel’s a great host. I started the night thinking, Jimmy Kimmel should host the Oscars for the rest of time. But he didn’t nail it last night, and you know who did, John Mulaney. John Mulaney got up, I’m sourcing this next piece of audio from two different things because I don’t want to miss the first joke.

So the yadaile was a little shaky for five to ten seconds, and then I’ll go to the better audio. But here’s mullany crushing would that sound? We wouldn’t have been able to hear such classic lines as You’re gonna need a bigger boat. I’ll have what she’s having. And he was in the Amazon with my mother when she was researching spiders just before she died.

Or what about that moment in Field of Dreams when we hear if you build it, he will come.

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And then Costner does it.

He builds a baseball field. Well, I guess he doesn’t build it. He mows down corn, and then there is a field, and then he’s like, I’m gonna watch Ghost play baseball. And the bank is like, you want to pay your mortgage and he’s like, nah, I’m gonna watch Ghost play baseball. And Danny finds James Earl Jones, who wrote The Boat Rocker, which I thought was a real book deep into my twenties, and he’s like, people will come ray.

He’s the only one with a financial plan. But what’s weird is Timothy Bussfield pushes little Gabby Hoffman off the bleachers and she falls down and she’s unconscious. Den Bert Lancaster’s Moonlight Graham and he comes up and he pats around the back a couple times, and he’s like hot dogs stuck in the throat, and then he can’t go back in the game because I guess there’s a rule in ghost baseball that if you leave the field at any point to become an elderly ghost and do the Heimlich maneuver, you can’t return to the field. I love the Dreams That should win Best Picture. Should John Mulaney, who’s the Oscars next year.

I’ll bet a dollar that he does. He hosted some sort of secondary of tertiary awards. I don’t know if the SAG Awards or what he did, but he did something recently. I wouldn’t be shocked after two years of Kimmel and Kimmel being a little off his game last night if they tried out Mullaney next year. I think Millenie would be a good choice.

And I do really like Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy saved his best for last the show. Early on, as my daughter and I drove home, they had given away one award in the first half hour. We were like, this thing’s gonna sail long. And by the end they were a couple of minutes short and Jimmy had to kill time, and boy, this was his best two minutes. Let’s listen.

I was just you know, this doing this show is not about me, and I appreciate you having me is really about you and Emma and all these great actors and actresses and filmmakers. But I was totally have like an extra minute, and I’m really proud of something. I was wondering if I could share it with you. I just got a review. And has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars?

His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not. Never can be get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up but cheap ABC talent, George slop Monopolis. He would make everybody on stage, look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous. Blah blah blah, make America great again. Okay, now see if you can guess which former president just close said that on Shusan anyone?

No, Well, thank you, President Trump, Thank you for watching. I’m surprised you’re still isn’t it past your jail time?

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Speaking of movies, you know, I was having just a great day prepping the show…

Guess who it is? Can you? Can? You guess already? You can hear it in my voice.

Now you might be thinking, I don’t know. It might be somebody like Robert Downey Junior. He’s Iron Man, He’s an Oppenheimer. You know somebody like that. Nope, Nope, nope.

The highest paid actor according to Forbes, Adam Sandler, Forbes tells us. Since signing his first two hundred and fifty million dollar four picture deal with Netflix in twenty fourteen, Sandler has started eight movies for Netflix. I have to produced several more through his Happy Madison production company. In the first six months of twenty twenty three alone, Netflix subscribers spent more than five hundred million hours watching Sandler movies five hundred million hours. According late, Netflix has rewarded the prolific funny man with not only one of the most luca of contracts in the entertainment industry, but one with enormous creative freedom.

Sandler’s three movies in twenty twenty three included Murder Mystery two, Okay You’re So Not Invited to My Bot, mitzvahs s Daring his Wife and Daughters, and the animated movie Leo, I Forgot That Happened. Combined with his forty four stand up comedy shows, Sandler earned an estimated seventy three million dollars last year. The rest of the Listen Kasher, Curious, Margo Robbie second at fifty nine million, Tom Cruz I’ve Heard of Him forty five millions for Ryan Gosling, tied with Matt Damon. They made forty three million. Jennifer Andison Now she’s in the Morning show on Apple TV and Adam Sandler movies.

Maybe I should just start sucking up to Adam Sandler instead of sitting here in the basement trash of the Guy seven. Leo DiCaprio forty one million. Jason Statham also forty one, Ben Affleck thirty eight and Denzel Washington twenty four million dollars. South By Southwest Today four o’clock Doug Benson tapes his podcast seven o’clock. The Super Good Show is stand up comedy.

Napoleon Emili has been on a lot of shows. South By Nathan McIntosh, Luisa Omi Lan, Brian Simpson at seven thirty Sunset stand Up Let’s See Jordaane Fisher, Stuart Goldsmith, Ear and Jackson Beth Stelling. Eight o’clock Only Murderers in the Building, Great Title Chris Fleming, Lynnkpletz, Pete Lee Dulce, Sloan Jubuki Young White the Show I Would Drag You To. At nine o’clock AI, Johnny Cash and his AI friends hooton Nanny while a great picture of Matt Besser, a dressed up best Johnny Cash looks pretty good. The programming description, which I’ll remind you is generated by participants and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest reads.

Johnny Cash and his celebrity friends are brought back to life in this unique musical performance of artificial intelligences. Johnny Cash once had a hit covering Trent Resner, So who will he cover now that he’s back from the dead. AI, Johnny Cash and many other AI celebrities living or dead will perform as you never thought possible. James Adomie and Matt Besser are your credited performers. I would absolutely be all over that.

A lot of times comedy festivals don’t have anything on a Monday ten o’clock Comedy Crossroads. The showcases all about raw humor and diverse voices. Orlando Laba, Christina Catherine Martinez, Iita Rodriguez, Jesus Trejo, Dustin Ebarra. That’s a good lineup and Stamptown once again at eleven o’clock. What’s throwing me here is it says the Creek in the Cave, which I know moved from Queens to Austin.

That’s just weird to me that a comy club moves, you know, baseball franchise. Tim Allen is getting another sitcom on ABC, at least a pilot. This one is called Shifting Gears. Tim Allen plays Matt, the stubborn widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When mattis strange daughter and her teenage kids, move into the house, the real restoration begins.

Boy, what an original premise. Somebody’s going to be the old dad and the daughter moves back in with the kids. Never seen a sitcom like that. I can’t wait. And a little crossover with Pallace Intrigue, which is the podcast about the British royal family.

Where is Kate Middleton? Huh huh huh. Well, Comedian Fern Brady is up against Prince Harry for a major book award. Fern Brady’s book is Strong female Character. Harry’s is called Spare.

You may have heard of that one. Spare was the best selling book of twenty twenty three. The winners of the British Book Awards known as the Nibbies. I like that because of the Golden Nibshad Trophy. We’ll be announced on May thirteenth.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Oscars are tonight, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. I previewed that yesterday in case you missed that. Looking ahead, and I know I say this every award show.

Monday’s episode might go out a little later. I might actually be serious this time because I have to drive to Boston and back today. Long story, so I’m not going to get home till like ten thirty eleven o’clock, so I might not be able to knock this out. I’ll see how tired I am. So if the episode’s late tomorrow, that’s why.

Okay. From Late Night, a couple of good jokes. Following the State of the Union, Steven Colbert said, it was a kind of a tense night because it feels like it might be the last time we get a State of the Union, depending on what happens in November. Next year might just be a kid rock concert and an immigrant catapult. Wow, Colbert again.

On the Democratic side, they wore white. On the Republican side, they were white. One more from Colbert, thanks to rules giving former members of Congress floor axis, George Santos attended the State of the Union. Come on, you can’t go back to your old job like you never left unless you’re John Stewart. Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmler are going to hook up again on password.

Have you seen the new password? I don’t know if I have. Apparently it’s hosted by Keiki Palmer, but Jimmy Fallon is a recurring player passwords back on Tuesday. I mentioned this on Friday after the break. On Friday, I mentioned there was an item that I saw that I didn’t want to talk about yet.

Well, I’m ready to talk about it now because TMZ has gone with it. Quoting from TMZ, Matt Rife seems ready to take a quote unquote comedian to court who accused him of performing a sex act to gain success. As Matt feels his rep has been harmed, TMZ has learned sources would direct knowledge tell us. Matt and his team have been reaching out to various litigators see what his best option might be to deal with the sillacious claim made by entrepreneur Nima Yumini this week, including potentially filing a lawsuit against him. TMZ writs, in case you missed it, Nima, a self described comedian, alleged that he and Matt were once both brought into a room with two Hollywood execs and promise fame and fortune if you know stuff, which Nima said he refused, but alleged Matt stayed behind and did the deed.

Matt’s name started to trend as part of this allegation. That’s where I saw it. TMZ Rights were told Matt’s sick of people using his name to game clout, which is obviously how he feels about Nenimi here, who appears to have no serious track record in comedy, and our sources say Matt wants to stand up for himself, especially against something as outlandish as this. I will keep an eye on that. One variety did a wax job for Netflix.

I’m sure this is all from the industry giving each other pats on the back. As part of South By Southwest. They quote independent artist media partner Dave Wrath, who manages comedians, who said Netflix was certainly an inflection point when the specials started becoming a thing. By Netflix paying some literally millions of dollars for their specials. They basically created it in ballanced in the marketplace because before that Comedy Central, HBO and a few other places were doing the long form specials, but they weren’t paying that kind of money.

Yeah, so I’ll chime in. That kind of from what I see from here in the basement, made the others, not HBO, but like Comedy Central cutback, and from what I understand from prepping the show every day, Netflix isn’t paying what they used to. So it’s like when a chain store comes to town. Prices are great at first, the mom and pop shuts down, and then the prices go up. Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Carolines, said covid also proved to be a paradigm shifter.

The virus forts comedy clubs all over the country to shut down, which led to an explosion of comedians. Comedians were able to build their brand on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and on podcasts. These platforms really put comedians on everybody’s phone. That’s what helped make these younger comedians in their own brands variety rates. Comedians such as Sarah Cooper, Oh, I don’t even have to do my bit, they did it for me.

Sarah Cooper and Matt riche Roaster prominence thanks to YouTube and TikTok. Cooper gained fame for her TikTok videos lip syncing then President Donald Trump early in the pandemic get mad at Them, they said It not Me, and has branched out in a film and theater work. Charlie Sotello is the senior manager of south By Southwest Comedy Festival, and Charlie says comedy festivals are so important the landscape of stand up comedy. They not only introduce comedians to new fans, but most importantly, they lead to new relationships that so often affect the course of a career. Robbie Prau, who oversees Netflix comedy needs to work for Just Laugh, says, I think this is one of the best times for comedy.

We’re working with more than foreigner comedians and selling out shows all over Los Angeles. We also see a wide range of comedians with different styles and from different backgrounds getting love on Netflix. John Leguizamo chimed in and said, I’m glad there’s plenty of comedy out there and it’s become more diverse. But unfortunately Latin comedians are having to live on just TikTok and the gram where they reach millions and millions of views. Unfortunately, Latin comedians, despite their success on social media, are not being chased by Hollywood or streamers, and that’s just systemic racism that happens in Hollywood.

Interesting take by John Rath says the best comics always surface and have success because they’re funny and talented. The problem is the audience’s attention span has shifted. That’s the biggest issue for comedy. Interesting huh. The New York Post talk to Kyle Kinneen.

They’re curious about him putting out so much much. Kyle said, I have an hour that I present. When I think it said it’s best, I record it and put it out. It’s similar to the UK model, where you’re like, all right, here’s this year’s offering, but wow, that’s being perfected. The new stuff is in the oven every weekend.

I’m in a club that’s four or five hours on stage. It’s a lot of time to take an idea and run with it. He adds, I’m trying to move away from party stories some middle aged men, and those aren’t glamorous. Bowen Yang talked about last week’s hilarious sketch where he was hooking up with Sidney Sweeney. Bowen said, obviously we were doing a lot of intimate and tense stuff, so I did one last check in with her.

I was like, whatever you’re not comfortable with, you can change your mind at any time. And she touched my shoulder and she was like, Bowen, I’m on Euphoria. It’s fine. I’m used to this, Bowen said, She’s such a professional. If you’re in Philly today eight pm, it’s One Liner Madness, a comedy competition putting sixty four local comedians in a bracket.

The rules are simple. Two comedians go on stage. Each will deliver a one liner joke based on audience responses. Only one comedian will advance, and then they have to have a new one liner in the next round. The competition goes on on to one comedian remains.

Apparently, the competition is fast and brutal. One of the organizers says, sometimes heavy hitters get knocked out early. It’s part of the fun. One Liner Madness doors open at seven shows at eight fifteen Bucks at Johnny Brenda’s twelve oh one Frankfurt Avenue, Philly. Today at south By Southwest at four o’clock, it’s Permission to laugh using comedy as a force for good.

Parentheses Live Comedy event. Join Comic Relief US, a nonprofit that harnesses the power of entertainment, etc. Etc. Comedian and host Tone Bell in a candid discussion with the comedian author Paul Sheer and Daily Show correspondent comedian D’ll Say Sloan. Six o’clock Improv for Humans, Parentheses Live Comedy Matt Besser, John Gabriis, Chris Gethard, Vick Mchelis seven o’clock Vanessa five thousand Parentheses Live comedy event after sold out runs in Edinburgh, London and La Courtney, Prusso the Ultimate sexy Clown comes to South Bya’s sex Robot Vanessa five thousand, who, over the course of her product demonstration, grows increasingly conflict about technology in her own existence.

That sounds like a great show. Seven thirty Stand Up at the Strip Parenthesis Say with Me Stand up Comedy. Oh yeah, this is the one with the AI audience image. Jod Rosa Napoleon, Emil Luisa O mi Lan eight o’clock Tonight at the Improv Prett the Seas Stand Up Comedy, Rickclassman and Laterman, Pete Lee Beth Stelling. Nine o’clock Stand Up Downtown Predeces stand Up Comedy, another AI generated crowd image.

Okay, James Domian, Aaron Jackson in Copplet’s Rich Voss. See that’s tough for me because I’d be like, ooh, James Domian, But I’m like uh, Rich Voss. Ten o’clock Riffs and riffraff with Nick fun and Friends. The friends are Chris Fleming, Andre Hyland, Christina Catherine Martinez, Paul Shecher, and Nick Fune. See that’s a winner for me.

That’s a great lineup. Eleven o’clock, Stamptown Predeces Live Comedy, A raunchy, chaotic, full on fever dream Stamptown is ninety minutes, a pure spectacle. Christina, Catherine Martinez, Natalie Palamedes, Courtney Perusso and some other That’s a pretty solid night. And Drew Carrey was in this week’s People magazine and talked about being offered the price is right. Back in two thousand and seven, he told People, I said, f No, I just want to be able to do things that were fun and interesting instead of having a job, job or something i’d do every day, because I just had after being on The Drew Carry Show and everything.

I was done with the idea of being on a show forever. But he was eager to buy a major league soccer team, or at least become part owner of one. Drew said, I knew how much money was going to take for that to happen. Then one of the show’s producers asked me if everything to do was I love leaving big tips when I go to restaurants. The guy said, well, if you work on the prices right, you’ll be able to do that all the time for a living.

Just give out things. Drew said, that was the light bulb that off of my head. I could just make a living giving prizes to people and being around happy people all day. Met my age at a steakhouse and I go, I think I want to be the host of the Price is Right? And he shook my hand and he goes, well, there’s soccer money, and there’s your comedy needs for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Oscars are tomorrow. I thought i’d put this out today so the episode would have a day and a half to live before it got incredibly dated. Jimmy Kimmel is your host.

He said, what sets the Oscar apart from other live events? Well, it’s not as sweaty as the super Bowl. It’s classier than any other wards shows. You know, the Oscars are the original. This is the big one.

It’s the granddaddy of the mall, and everyone’s aware of that. His wife, Mollie, is an executive producer on the show. She says the goal is to keep it a happy, joyfull celebration for the people in the room. Keep it moving. Jimmy’s also really good on his feet.

He thrives in spontaneous moments, so live TV is perfect for him. Jimmy said, to be honest, sometimes I hope things go wrong because it mixes things up a bit. You don’t want everything to be too deeply wrapped up at a bow. You want a little bit of a mess. Maybe somebody could slap someone.

You want a little bit of risk. And it’s a live show, and you want to remind people that so something happens, which things seem to be happening a lot, I feel like I’ll be ready for it. Kimmel’s asked about Joe Coy. You may recall Joe said this horrible, horrible, mean, no, just terrible joke about Taylor Swift, who reacted by basically murdering Joe Cooy’s career. I hate to do this to you, but let’s share the just vicious joke that Joe Coy told about Taylor Swift.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear. Oh, it’s just it’s so mean.

And Joe, what are you doing that’s vicious? Kimill said. Part of the struggle there for Joe was that he’s not part of Hollywood in the way that Kimmel is. Kim Will said, it’s a lot easier for me than it is for Joe Koy. It’s like if a stranger walks up to you and goes nice shirt, Tom selek if it’s one of your friends.

You don’t take offense to it, but if it’s somebody you don’t know, you might smack him one. He thinks Joe Coy should get another chance. Not that I have any business programming the Golden Globes, but I think they should let Joe Coy host the show next year and give him a shot at doing it over. It would be very smart. I think he learned all the lessons, and he’s a funny guy.

I think it’d be nice for everyone. Coy has said he’d love to return his host of the Golden Globes, but with five months to prepare, not nine days. Jimmy kim Ole will now have hosted the fourth and most Oscars behind Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and Billy Crystal. That’s some serious company there, he says. It just shows you how far we fall, and as a Culture Deadline asked he actually enjoy hosting the show.

It seems like a lot of pressure, Jimmy said, I don’t love the lead up to it, but I do actually enjoy hosting the show. When I’m on stage and everything’s ready to go, it’s fun to show everyone we’ve been working on. I think it’s like secretly fixing up a car in a garage and then you bring the family to see it. How much time does he prepare? He says, we really start in earnest when it gets announced, because we can’t tell anyone we’re doing it until then.

So I started thinking about things that make little notes about award shows all the time. You know, if I think of something, I put it a little folder in my computer, and I fer back to that stuff when I need it. But as far as writing specific jokes and coming up with ideas for the show, I think we started like the day we announced it to the press in mid November. Does he see the movies? Yes, I think I see more movies than almost anyone, not even when I’m hosting the Oscars.

But I figured out I think I see about one hundred movies a year. I make a point to see all of the features, even the short films, the short and animated, you know everything. Does he test his monologue. I don’t trust a group of strangers.

And also I’m not sure that it really helps, because if you go to a comedy clu…

Right. Imagine you made a vicious, horrible joke about Taylor Swift and she basically murdered your career by making an icy face. That would be terrible. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

That’s what I try to do is test the jokes on the people I know who get it, who’ve been to the Oscars, who understand the dynamic there, and who’ve also been honest with me and will say like, yeah, I like that one more than this one. Will there be political jokes? I mean, I don’t rule it out completely, but it’s not necessarily what the show’s about, and it’s not like I don’t have an outlet to do that five nights a week. So it definitely has to be a joke that I can’t resist for me to use it at the Oscars deadline. If a joke doesn’t go well, do you plan on blaming your writers?

Kim Will said absolutely, I’ll do it privately when I go to their homes. And fire them in front of their families. They too asked about Joe Cooy You may recall Joe Cooy told it’s just horrible, horrible joke about Terry Swift. Here, let’s listen to it again. We have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

Ah so mean. I can’t believe Joe did that, Kimble said, I felt bad for him. I don’t think he was put in a great position. I think it’d be the first person to tell you that publicly blaming his writers was not the right move. But you know, it’s overwhelming.

I think he’s a funny guy, and I think it’s a shame that for a lot of people saw him for the first time, that was the impression they got. And I hope they look at his other work. You know, the guy rifted a joke in the moment. What are you gonna do? Tough enough writers?

Kimmell says, this is the crown jewel of awards shows. You know, it’s an analogy people use. It’s like when people say this guy’s the Michael Jordan of this These are the oscars of the chemical engineering world. You know, they don’t say this is the Golden Globes of the chemical engineering world. Do you want to do more oscars?

Jimmy said, I think I’ve retired from ruling things out, so I’d never be so presumptuous as to assume they’d want me back a year after year after year. But this year they wanted me, and they asked me, and so I’m definitely gonna do this. One funny anecdote here, they brought up that Jimmy Kimmel is the longest running late night host now and the ratings seem good. Jimmy said, I know, it’s crazy to think about it. I mean, it’s funny because even like my offices in our building, ABC didn’t want to pay fifty thousand dollars to remodel a room that had windows in it because they weren’t so sure that we were going to be on and it’d be worth it.

So the first two years I was in a windowless basement. Really had to beg them to move me upstairs i could get some sunshine on my body. People ask Jimmy Kimmel about a post show tradition. Jimmy says, the award show tradition is in and out after the show, and I think part of why is because when people are in LA, one of things on their list is to go to In and Out Burger, And there are a lot of people in La just for the Oscars, and they wind up going like, all right, Also, you get very hungry, So in and out is definitely the Award show tradition. Nothing as McDonald’s, but on Award Show night, it’s in and out.

Jason Zenniman writes for The New York Times headline Wanted writers for Award Show jokes must be skilled at diplomacy, hosts who have to entertain inside at the ceremony, and outsiders watching at home. Presenters who changed their minds. No wonder the bits are awkward. Jason brings up Joe Cooy, throwing the writers under the bus. Jason says two of the three veterans who wrote jokes for the Golden Globes Monologue declined to comment for this article, and a third didn’t respond to the request.

Megan Ameron wrote for the twenty eleven Oscars and said, you want it to be a little edgy, but not so much that it turns off the grandparents. Bruce Falance expressed sympathy for that meanie. Joe Coy pointing to the shots of the stars not laughing in his vicious mean joke about Taylor Swift, Bruce said, did he really need the reaction of Taylor Swift to swiftly bring condemnation upon his soul? At south By Southwest today four pm Local time, Samantha Bee presents Wits End, a live game show. Doug Benson and James at Doomian face off in a game of custom made trivia created and hosted by Adam Kessner.

Whether it’s a grab bag from the bag of misery when you lose, or an inflatable trophy when you win. This isn’t your ordinary trivia game. So Adam’s hosting it, but Sam b is presenting it. Okay, I guess she is the bigger name. Seven pm The Stand Up Spotlight Parentheses stand up Comedy.

Some of our favorite stand ups take the stage for an unmissible lineup. The unmissible lineup includes Rick Glassman, Luisa o’mellan, and Djubuki Young White. That is the unmissible lineup At the Stand Up Spotlight seven o’clock. At seven point thirty, Yamanika Saunders presents Maestra Live Comedy solo show. There eight o’clock, The Upright Citizens Brigades as Cats for Us is An scant Parentheses live comedy.

Matt Besser, John Gabris and Vic Mchaalis on the lineup programming. Descriptions are generated by participants that do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest Okay lawyers appreciate that one nine o’clock The Creek in the Kve presents stand up comedy. James Adomian, Tone Napoleon Emiald’ll say Sloan Rich vass my son played golf with Rich last summer and apparently which was little full of himself. So when you hear me, I roll Rich every time his name gomees up. But that’s why tena clock The Origins of whatever You Call We did with Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel live comedy event.

Conan and Robert talk about meeting up at SNL in the late eighties and reminiscent about the ittoc they created together. It led to the birth of a talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien that would change the way people call Late Night with David Letterman. We’ll see rare clips, including the Adam West pilot. Look, well, that’s a fun thing if you can find that, and some highlights from the beginning of Late Night. Again.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants that do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest. Credits Conan O’Brien is credited to Warner Brothers Discovery, Robert Smigel not available and at eleven pm. Stamptown Live Comedy A Raunchy Chaoto, full on Fever Dream. Stamptown is ninety minutes of pure spectacle featuring the most anarchic and widely entertaining performances from around the world. Again, I’ll remind you the programmed descriptions are generated by participants that do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest some of the opinions.

Dick Bath of the Scottish Fields publication says one star as funny as Anthrax. Natalie Palomidius, Who’s fantastic, is on this one.

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I’m sure I get that wrong and I am sorry. Christina Catherine Martinez and Zachary Zucker good pedigree on Stamptown. Past acts include David Crossrogi Watts, Hannah Einbender, Natalie Palominiez, Cat Cohen, Sarah Squirm you know know her, Sarah Sherman on SNL, Daniel Slass and others. Oh, Randy Filtface, Neil Hamburger. Yeah, that’s a good show, all right.

So if we were at south By tonight, let’s do stand up Spotlight, then we’ll do the Creak and the Cave Presents stand Up, Let’s make the Conan Thing, and let’s do Stamptown. We’re gonna have to leave each one of these shows early to make the next show. The schedule does not allow you to double up there. But that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Ay. Quick joke from Jimmy Fown, who said, the good news for Nicky Haley She’s only fifty two, which means she can run for president at least eight more times. I am Johnny Meck with your Daily Comedy News. Ted Sarando’s he’s the Netflix CEO.

He was on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s Fly on the Wall podcast and he talked a little bit about Dave Chappelle. David Spade told Ted, when you come out and say I do back a comedian saying what they want, it doesn’t mean you agree with it, just means let people talk. I think that’s commendable, Especially we’re comics. We like that. Ted compared Netflix to a bookstore, saying you can open any book you want or not.

People like to think about all kinds of diversity except for diversity of thought, and comedy is one of those places where you should have a pretty open playground to figure out ideas. Ideas have to live through conversation. I think comedy is a great place to start the conversation. Spade said. Some people don’t agree, some people do, and it’s under the guys of a joke.

Ted said, keep in mind we try to do a lot of variety because Netflix itself people like some shows and not others. That’s why we have so much to watch on Netflix, because tastes are really diverse, and certainly within comedy. The point I was trying to make when people got angry was the idea, if you don’t like that idea, switch it and find another one. True. I’m gonna just point out my Netflix algorithm did not surface the Hannah Gatsby special, and in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, Aaron posted, I had to actively search for this too, and I’m trans and a freaking comedian, so I don’t know what the algorithm’s doing.

Sarando says his position on Chappelle Gate comes from being a fan of comedy. I came to this completely as a fan. I love creative people. I love what you do for the world, and for me, it’s what makes me bounce out of bed in the morning because I feel like I’m doing something that matters to people. Really.

Alarm goes off at seven fifteen, You’re like, oh man, I got it. Brings people some comedy specially you just hop out of bed uh huh spades. He doesn’t always agree with comics to go too far, but he admires them for coloring outside the line, saying there trying stuff. It’s not the same six jokes that everyone’s allowed to use. Sirando says comedy is an art form.

There’s a lot of different shapes, and if you do shock comedy, the hard thing is getting the audience back. So it’s a different kind of art because it’s not just a cheap laugh. You actually have to ring the audience back in too. You have to be a master of a lot of things. Sarando’s revealed that he got Chappelle to sign the Netflix deal on the same night Dave hosted SNL a few days after Trump won the presidency.

He said, we’d been talking to him for well over a year, and he said at that show, my contract is signed and sitting on the seat. So he just signed it, said it on the seat, and went out and hosted the show. The Wall Street Journal has a really good profile of Kevin Hart. Two parts here. The second part about his entrepreneurship, but the first part he commented on Kat Williams.

You may recall Kat Williams had some comments about basically everybody in comedy. The journal throughout the word at feud, and Kevin said, it’s just entertainment. If that’s what he feels himself off, God bless him. Good for him hard edit. I hope he gets all that he needs and he wants, and I’m cheering him from afar.

The profile is what a former coworker of mine used to say. Is the Wall Street Journal waxed Kevin Hart’s car if you know what I mean? And they’re say thirty am Kevin’s home in la He had gotten up at five for workout, three hours after his plane landed from a performance in Connecticut the night before. He hugs his three year old Next up a ten thirty meeting with Heartbeat employees about the company’s twenty twenty four agenda. Jerry Seinfeld is quoted saying Kevin’s ability to maneuver in other fields as an anomaly.

Quoting Jerry, most comedians cannot function outside of comedy. If someone said the word ideation of me, I would just walk out of the room. Kevin said, I do know what I’ve done for the craft of comedy. By that, I mean I’ve changed the business of stand up comedy. Whether you’re a fan or not, you have to respect what I’ve done point blank, because you don’t do it by accident, and you don’t stay here by accident.

That is true. The article is pretty much thing from a comedy standpoint. Talking about the genesis of the latest special last October, the president of Live Nation got a text from Kevin. Kevin said, I got a new thirty minutes. That chunk of material started with drop in performances at small clubs, including the Comedy Seller in New York.

Then in Providence, Kevin performed for an audience of about three thousand people. A staffer who’s a videographer filmed the set, and, as The Wall Street Journal tells us, as the comedian breedes through seemingly polished jokes and Providence, he was also stress testing them. When big laughs erupted, he sometimes gazed to his left and grinned. Hidden off stage, watching from the wings were two members of his team who were in Heart’s creative brain trust. Kevin said, that little piece of eye contact from the stage is how they know.

Let’s jot that bullet point down. Very interesting there. John Mlaney’s ex wife, Anna Marie Tendler, has a book coming out. It’s called Men have called her crazy. On her Instagram, she said, I’ve been writing this book for two years.

More accurately, though, I’ve been writing it for close to four decades. I’ve never been more proud of any work. It’s a story about mental health, about being a woman, about family, and finally about the endless source of my heart break and rage. Men. One of those men, one assumes this is John Mulaney, so this could get pretty interesting.

The book will be out in August. Drod Carmichael is going to star in a comedy docu series for HBO. It’s called Drod Carmichael Reality Show. And the trailer he’s talking to a man in a black ski mask, which I thought was weird. I honestly didn’t make it all the way through the trailer.

I just got bored and didn’t care. But people on the interwebs say, given the body language of the person in the black ski mask, they believe the person is Carmichael’s frequent collaborator Bo burnham Bert Kreischer announced a whole bunch of dates for the twenty twenty four Fully Loaded Tour. Not all these comedians. I’m about to name her on every show, but featured on the website. Bert Kreischer, of course, David Spade, Mark Norman, Tony Hinchcliff, Whennie Cummings, Stavros Halkias, David Tel, Ralph Barbosa, Big, Jay Ogreson, Dan Soder, Matt McCusker.

That’s a really good list of comedians, you know, if you’re not going to get them all, but any combination of those, that’s a really good show. Sef and Maz GREBROWNI have been added to the inaugural Abu Dhabi Comedy Week in May. Other people performing at that comedy Week the not so canceled Disease, I’m sorry, Tom Si, Goora, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, and boy this is shocking, super controversial comedian Joe coy You may recall Joe coy Or recently made this horrible, terrible joke about Taylor Swift. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

I swear all right. A couple of notes from putting together the show today, I am seeing a story involving a comedian who I frequently mentioned on this podcast. It involves the comedian, Hollywood executives and favors, you know, the Harvey Weinstein kind of favors. I don’t want to go there. I haven’t seen it from anything reputable, and people are saying the maybe perhaps the person telling the story made it up.

Just want to let you know I see it, and if it’s real, I will actually talk about it. As I was prepping as well, I saw a slug with a comedian. I don’t want to throw this comedian out under the bus because I like the person, but comedian name the story was. It had the person’s name, so it said, you know, Joe Smith, famous comedian coming to wherever. And I was like, you’re a good guy whatever, but famous comedian.

I don’t know about that. If I told you the name, you wouldn’t know the name. But at one point, at serious exam, we gave this person a pilot and it was pretty good. But then the next day my coworkers and I got like so many incoming inbound, like oh my god, that was the most amazing thing. You got to sign this up.

Like I don’t mean like three or four, I mean like hundreds. It was just like a completely unnatural reaction of just everybody in the world going, oh my god, this is the greatest thing ever. You got to give this person a show and we just walked away from it. Was like, come on, there’s no way that’s real. Stop doing this a long time, folks, I know how to recognize normal patterns.

At south By Southwest tonight at seven o’clock, it is the stand up Comedy Kickoff, which the south By Southwest website list has stand up Comedy Kickoff parentheses stand up comedy. Thank you for clarifying that the description comedians take the stage for the first stand up show of the twenty twenty four Comedy Fest. And I love this disclaimer that the lawyers most have said to put. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest. Yeah, you don’t want to controversial take like comedians take the stage to be You don’t want to say that that’s gospel.

What if that doesn’t happen, What if it’s not a stage, what if they’re not comedians. We could get in a lot of legal trouble here. Anyway, I better protect myself. According to the Internet. Some of the performers who could theoretically show up include Doug Benson, napoleonny Emil, John Riddinsky.

Remember he was on SNL for like five seconds. He was a Montreal new face that I really liked a lot. But yeah, he was in like three sketches on SNL, Yamanika Sauners and Rich Voss at seven point fifteen. It’s the variety power of comedy. You know, this is another wax job, another car being wax job.

This year’s Honoreezer samb Robbie pra that’s the guy from Netflix Comedy. He’s getting the Comedy Champion Award, Nick Kroll and Andrew Reynolds getting the Comedy Duo Award. Sambi, I forgot to mention is the comedy innovator, Yeah, John, like Wuizamo’s the comedy actor. Yeah. Hannah Einbender Comedy Actress Award, Okay Fine Pamela Adlon Comedy Director Award, Lily Singh Comedy Crossover Award, Chibuki Young White Is Comedy, Kanna Swer Award, and Kazzie David is your Breakthrough artist again.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants, don’t necessarily reflect the opinions of south buying stop. I’m excited about this one. Eight o’clock the unfinished Orson Wells roast of Hollywood type comedy event. Thank you website. This website’s a lot of fun.

The programming description, again generated by participants and does not necessarily affect the opinions of south By cinema legend. Norson Wells disinvites the celebrity friends, past, and enemy’s future for a survey of the state of film screen in motion pictures as he looks at this year’s Oscar luminaries and considers the general pantheon celebrity of south By. Whatever it is you mean by that parentheses with James Adomian and friends. Your cast includes James Adomian and Matt Besster. That sounds like tons of fun.

Nine o’clock good sets parentheses stand up comedy if you’re a nice picture of a crowd that looks like it was generated by Ai laughing at the comedians. The description, which it doesn’t necessarily represent the opinions of south By is who doesn’t like good sets? See what they did there. Some of the strongest emerging and established comics at the fest take the stage for an unmissible line up Chris Fleming, Stuart Goldsmith, Luisa o’mealan, Zulce, Sloane and Nick. And that’s an interesting mix.

Ten o’clock Real funny Creating comedy from the director’s Chair. Barentthesees Comedy event. Frank Oz, Judd Appatow, Robert Smigel, and Lucia Aniello come together to swap stories and insides about the craft of directing comedy. Okay, that’s a fun night out at South by Joe mchil says that he dislocated Chevy Chase’s shoulder while filming Community. He was on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast.

By the way, Michael Rosenbaum my former intern. I’m going back to like nineteen ninety three, and Mike the Intern kept telling us he was gonna go to Hollywood and be a star, and we were like, shut up and make copies. We weren’t like Shadow. He was a good guy, like Mike a lot. Anyway, you know, a couple of years later, I’m watching Smallville and there he is.

He’s Lex Luthor. So Mike the Intern, he was right, Thank you for getting me coffee. Anyway, Michael has a podcast called Inside of You. The guest Joel McHale, and he says that he and Chevy Fist fought multiple times filming community. It was pushing and shoving.

Yeah, it was advanced horseplay. It was fun. It would get a little contentious. I got in trouble one time because I injured him. I dislocated his shoulder, according to Joel, while they were filming a boxing scene, when Chevy encouraged him to hit harder.

As Joel tells the story, he wanted me to punch him as hard as I could. It punched him in the hand with the left and then he went down.

Speaking of fighting of sorts, Jamine Feller is going to co write, executive …

He’s got a script com inment for Fox. The description of untitled single camera comedy is after a self inflicted fall from Grace, a former jiu jitsu champion played by Jamine Feller, his only shot at redemption is to check his ego at the door and start from scratch at a low rent strip mall dojo. Feller started training in jiu jitsu during COVID. He said, when the pandemic hit, I had nothing to do. I was bored.

I always wanted to try martial arts. It’s a beautiful sport. It’s gruesome, but it’s so beautiful. He was a white belt. He won one fight out of four.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you liked the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. Tomorrow I’m going to do an Oscar preview, a lot of talk about Jimmy Kimmel, some funny Joe Coy material. At least I made myself laugh, and then Sunday will be a normal episode.

I just want to do the Oscar preview on Saturday to give it a half a chance with two days of sea as opposed to like ten hours. See tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with today’s Daily Comedy News. Josh Pick shot back at Amy Schumer’s recent criticism of Joe Coy’s Golden Globes monologue. Right, you got this, Joe Coy was so mean to Taylor Swift, and then Amy didn’t like that, and then Josh Peck commented. Josh was on the Good Guys podcast and said, I took issue with Amy Schumer, who recently was on the Deer Media podcast.

She was asked about Joe Cooy. I feel defensive of comedians. It’s a brotherhood, it’s a sisterhood. And she was basically critical of Joe Cooy. She was throwing him under the bus, which was crappy because she’s a comedian.

It’s like, we all know he had a tough night. Why continue to go after him. A month later, Peck noted he isn’t a comedian himself, but his comedian friend Jannis Pappus shared his thoughts. Yanna said, the jokes are fine. He just wasn’t confident because it was such an intimidating room and they weren’t giving him love.

He was undeserving of all the backlash. You may call that Taylor Swift basically murdered Joe Cooy’s career after Joe told this horribly mean joke. I’m afraid to even share with you. It’s so vicious. But let’s listen.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear, Oh man, that is just so mean. I don’t know how Joe Koy could have possibly said such a mean thing about Taylor Swift.

Schumer at one point had been on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast. I hadn’t seen any pick up about this interview, but apparently she said if the audience doesn’t laugh, then it’s a problem. The thing with Joe he threw his writers under the bus, and that was not a good look. Now pay attention to this next part is this sop? Do people do this?

I’ve been around enough comedians and I don’t know that this is done. Amy apparently said, if I’m gonna say a joke about anyone, I’m going to clear it, like I cleared my jokes to Leah Ardo DiCaprio. I cleared it with these people because I don’t want to make that mistake. Really, hey, Leo, are you okay with these Really? That’s really interesting to me.

Now. Amy runs in a particular circle of the elite, and I guess she likes staying in that circle. Amy added that it does not feel good when the whole internet is mad at you and clarified that she does not wish that on anyone. Peck’s co host Ben said, if you’re bombing, you don’t need to tell us that you’re bombing. Because your writers suck.

He threw them under the bus. You know what, it was a live show. The guy riffed a joke. I really, it’s not that bad. Kid over yourselves writers.

Meanwhile, Amy Schumer hilariously crashes two wedding photoshoots in New York. You know, when you’re out there and you’re doing your wedding shoot and you’re paying this photographer, and you know you want to make sure everything is perfect for your big day. You definitely want Amy Schumer coming in and crashing her photos so she gets to do Instagram posts. That’s what you’re looking for. I know I was when I got married.

Amy sheared these on her Instagram story. She’s dressed in workout gear as she posed next to two different couples in wedding attire. Kind of curious that she ran into two different people. The first couple were posing in front of the Manhattan Skyline and holding flowers, and they smiled for the camera as Amy Schumer stood next to them in a pair of sunglasses. She captured the pick no days off.

The second couple, sitting in front of some greenery in a park, were also joined by Amy as she took a seat at the end of the bench. Amy has done this before. Back in twenty seventeen, that couple told E News at the time that Amy got out of her car and asked for a pick with us. She congratulate us, she can let us take some photos by her car. After we had finished taking photos, she offered us a lift to our reception as we were hailing a cab.

Last April, Schumer interrupted another wedding photo shoot. They wrote, it’s got to be great luck when Amy Schumer crashes her wedding. She just walked right up to us and asked to be in some photos. Now, let me ask you how often do you run into photo shoots? I’m from New York City.

I grew up in Queen’s I worked in Manhattan for decades. I’ve spent the last ten years more or less in the suburbs. So, you know, maybe wedding photography has exploded since COVID. I don’t know. But what is going on here?

Amy? Are you just randomly constantly running into wedding shoots? Are you going to the places where people often do wedding shoots on purpose? Is this some sort of stunt? Johnny Max suspicious radar is going Eh?

What is going on here? Kyle Kenane was on Late Night with Seth Myers. Kyle explains where he got the name for his new special, Dirt Nap with Seth, and the whole vibe was weird. The whole clip is on the internet if you want to watch it. It’s eight minutes long.

But it just seems like, I don’t know, we’re ten years into this does Late Night with Seth Meyers matter. The vibe is just weird, low energy here, let’s listen to Kyle. Dirt Napp is a unique title for a stand up special. Yeah, and it’s also the name of your Yeah Yeah all right, pee, little dirty, she’s up there in heaven now. It was.

It was a straight cat that was living in the yard of this house we moved into. And you know, you can’t really name a stray cat, so it went through some miiterations. At first we were calling it Helen. We thought it was blind and deaf, so my girlfriend named it dat so you’re not mad at me, you’re mad at her.

And then I was calling a dirt napp on account of you know, was just sleeping …

And how many is so it seemed like you maybe didn’t get a lot of good years with dirt app. We got three great years up time, three great years. We found it was a sixteen year old cat. From it, it was a sixteen year old straight cat that we’re like, all right, we’re gonna give this thing the best sunset we can give it. Well, that’s fantastic.

You did that. Yeah, yeah, you want to see the special now you can pay ten dollars to see it on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website. It’ll be on YouTube on April second to at eight pm Eastern. Paste Magazine spent the ten Bucks or got a review copy, and they say Dirt Nap draws offbeat parallels between vegan caesadillas and religion, calls bs on Vin Diesel’s post mission sex drive in the Fast and Furious movies, and applies improv rules to phone calls with his mother. They liked it a lot.

Rommi Yusef will have a special called More Feelings. This will be on HBO Max Max Max, HBO HBO Max. I think this is on proper HBO whatever that means these days. There is a trailer. Let’s listen.

I’m done apologizing. I’m done saying that we’re peaceful. For twenty years, we’ve had to prove to people that we’re safe. Right, every time you turn on CNN, there’s like some Arab dude talking about how Islam means peace. You know that guy, but he’s always shouting it.

He’s always like, we come in peace. They’re like, bro, that’s the slogan for aliens. The official description tells us Siami rucep will offer his unique reflections on our divided world, expected perils of charitable giving, and more and hit on top of it, including the twenty twenty four presidential election, the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life. I sat down and I watched Hannah Gatsby’s Gender Agenda. I had to actively look for it.

I thought Netflix would put it in front of me, and apparently Netflix has profiled Johnny Mack and thought Johnny Mack would have no interest in this. No, no, no, I really like Douglas. Nennette I think is overrated. Something could both be good and overrated. Nenette is good, but people treated that like it was the second coming of comedy.

It’s fine, but tap the brakes people. I actually think Douglas is funnier than Nnette. Okay, so it’s good, but it’s overrated, you know what I mean. So, as I started this thing, I was loving it. The first twenty minutes or so Hannah as host, I thought they crushed it.

Then just Tom came out and absolutely crushed that first fifteen minutes of Gender Agenda is amazing, and then it started to be diminishing. Return by no means bad, but maybe it was just the high of the first fifteen that it just couldn’t sustain. I actually paused it, so I didn’t bail on it. I intend to go back, but it’s getting a little tired. I’m like, I want to give this more of a shot, but the front half of that really good.

I’m not sure if it makes the list or not. I need to actually finish it, but I recommend you seek out on Netflix. Hannah Gatsby, Gender Agenda, Hanna, it’s old people. I asked myself, what’s something positive that I could do to leverage my platform, the little bit of power I have to try and humanize the presence of gender queer and trans comedians on the Netflix platform. It felt really important to help gender queer performers find their feet, and me being a slightly divisive figure means they’ll be a little bit of fuss made and hopefully it’ll draw attention.

Joel McHale commented on the community movie Ashtag six Seasons in a movie. He shared something details. He said, we go to the center of the Earth. It’s like the movie The Core. That’s different than what Donald Glover said, who said it’s a college reunion.

Joel was obviously joking, but he does believe the community movie will shoot this year. He’ll be shocked if it doesn’t, but I really do think it’s happening this year and probably next week. It’s basically working around Donald’s schedule. He called his Animal Control cast one of the funniest groups of people I’ve been around, in contrast to the Community team, who he joked with just a bunch of hacks. Ken Jung will be on Animal Control this season as a dog whisperer.

Joel said he too, is a hacked and can’t act or tell jokes. He’s not funny, not successful, and I’ve carried him for years. Everyone thinks I’m joking, but it’s true. Joel then got serious again and said Ken’s episodes were coming in too long because he did so much funny stuff. He was really too effing funny and it ticked me off.

Indy Wire has the trailer for that Steve Martin documentary that’s coming out. I’ve mentioned this before. It’s in two parts. The first part is about Steve’s stand up, which is the part that me The second part is about his acting career and the banjo stuff, and like, I don’t care about that stuff, but the first part I’m really interested in. Here, let’s listen to a piece of the trailer, and if you bought my album and you came down here expecting me to do a lot of her teams from the record, and I didn’t.

Well, this guy was getting people so happy. I always thought, this just does not happen, and it did. He’s the most idolized comedian ever. He reinvented stand up. It was a cultural phenomenon.

My name is Steve Martin. Steve Martin. What he was doing was unique. It was chancey. I always thought of him as the door out of the sixties.

You could be silly again. All comedy was political, and I felt that it was time to change that. Steve Martin has just taken the big leap onto the big screen. I was launched into the stratosphere titled Steve, It’s a documentary in two pieces. The then portion chronicles Steve Martin’s early struggles and meteoric rise to revolutionized stand up before walking away at thirty five.

The now section focuses on the present day with Steve Martin and the golden years of his career, et cetera, et cetera. Martin had previously told Indy Wire when I finished stand up comedy in nineteen eighty, I never wanted to see a live audience again. I did movies for ten or twenty years and only occasionally would be found in front of a live audience for you know, award shows or chatty events or something like that.

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And now it’s the only place I want to be, meaning touring with Martin Short.

I like having the audience there. They’re predisposed to like you because they bought a ticket and predisposed to listen and not judge you every two seconds. He sounds like John Clees there. Steve premiere’s March twenty ninth on Apple TV plus people stunned about, just for laughs, Montreal being canceled. I was getting texts from former co workers and industry friends and we all had the same reaction of like, wow, I can’t believe that happened.

This. CBC spoke to comedian Mike Critch. They were curious that is something like this happened because it looks like a big success. Mike said that show business, though everything is fake and show business, but I don’t think people realize how big that organization is. You know, it’s the festival, it’s all the spin offs, it’s a TV show based on that.

It’s a million different things and festivals all around the world. So maybe it’s a case of getting bigger than they can handle, but also coming out of a pandemic, show business has had a hard time as anyone, if not harder. There’s one thing you need for comedy show, and that’s audiences. I’m wondering, as are some of the Toronto media, what’s going to happen with the Toronto Festival. I assume that too will be canceled this year, which thinks.

Got some album news for you today. About a year ago, Andrew Santino put out a Netflix special called Cheeseburger that is now out in audio form. Minneapolis based comedian Eliehino is releasing her debut comedy album on April fifth. It’s called Soft Bones, a compilation of stories about being an ADHD mom, a weird wife, and a regular human woman. They were kind enough to send over a clip.

Let’s listen. So I’m a massage therapist, but I’m also a gemini, so yeah, I don’t like to do stuff just normal. So I’m a massage therapist for a hospice. Yeah, thank you, Yes, i am I’m an angel. Thank you.

And for those of you who don’t know what hospice is, it’s pretty funny stuff. It’s comfort care for the terminally ill. And I’m actually an independent contractor, so I don’t have like a four oh one K or anything. But I am going to heaven. Just kidding, that’s not real.

We’re just going back to space. That’s Elie Heinos Soft Bones. April fifth. Liz Meely will have a new stand up special called Murder Sheets Tuesday, April second, free on YouTube nine Eastern Film Live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, and Liz hit the stage with a rapid fire storytelling style to tell tales of dating, murder, rules, about edibles, international touring, dead cats, and more. It’s Lizmeili Murder Sheets.

April second. Kevin Casey White has released her on eight hundred Pound Gorilla That’s out now harang as a masterful exercise and audience interaction. Kevin’s crowd work is the centerpiece and he uses it positively, trying to draw the audience together rather than picking on the crowd. Camail nan Jianni, part of a press release, a snack food company has a new campaign called It’s Basically Cheating. The campaign features Academy Award an Emmy nominated writer, actor, and comedian Kamail non Jianni in an unexpected and satirical series of spots where he cheats at weightlifting, kayaking, and ice skating.

He even goes as far as to hire a construction crew to build himself an epic forty foot tall sand castle. His sharp wit and playful delivery punctuate the core campaign theme that eating Quest products are so good that it feels like cheating. Stuart Heflin is a suit at Quest, and he said a Quest we aim to revolutionize snacking by flipping the macros of all the foods you love upside down so they’re big on protein, low on sugar, and huge on in flavor. No, this is not a commercial. I’m just reading the press release to you, Stuart, the suit says.

The campaign leans into the idea that we all need a good cheat or life hack to make our personal quests a little easier and a lot more fun. Partnering with great comedic talent like Camal does that just to injict cheeky entertainment and cultural relevance into our brand vision. The Connecticut Post asked Joe Parra, this is a weird exchange. Joe, can we ask you about your tomato obsession for a second. It’s all over your Instagram.

Joe said, sure. The post said I saw one theory on line saying you’re a big Buffalo Bill’s fan, and Bill’s fans allegedly hate Tom Brady. Tom Brady doesn’t like tomatoes. Is there something along those lines of football and superstitions and stuff like that? Joe said, couple of things.

I will say that Bill’s fans don’t allegedly hate Tom Brady. They do hate Tom Brady, and rightfully so. You see your man spinning out right now. He’s doing cryptocurrency commercials getting the fat sucked out of his face. We knew it all along.

Secondly, that has nothing to do with the tomatoes. One of the interesting things about doing comedy and seeing some of the stuff, the theories that people have online is it just makes you realize how much people like to mix up on the internet with no basis. And that’s your comedy news for today. All right, that was fun. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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No, buy me a coffee. I’ll just stop siphoning the funds off to smoothie Land. See you tomorrow.