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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gerviz has become the co owner of a distillery. He will now be helping to sell the products of Eller’s Form Distillery, starting with its Dutch Born Orchard vodka. Hi.

I’m Ricky Gerbets and I am thrilled to announce that I am now the proud co owner of Ella’s Farm Distillery and we make Dutch Barn vodka. It tastes great, It’s made from British apples. We’re committed to sustainability and the protection of the ecosystem. And the best bit is this could literally make me hundreds of millions, so please buy it. Yeah.

Sure, like all strong liquor, it may damage your liver and your well being, but think how happy it’ll make me if so. And the saving the planet thing Dutch Bomb, Ricky said, I’d been looking to invest in eco friendly businesses for a while and as soon as I found Dutch Born, I want it in. I love the planet and I love a drink, so it was the perfect combination. On a serious note, Dutchborn is a really quality product. I love the fact that it’s done differently and I can’t wait to let everyone know about it.

Chris Freezer, who founded the distillery, gave some wonderful pr quote. He said, we’re so excited to have Ricky joined the team. With so many hollow celebrity cash for face brand endorsement deals out there, we’re really pleased to forge an authentic partnership with Ricky, involving both investment and creative leadership. Ricky will be an integral part of the business going forward and will help shape how Dutchborn is seen around the world. Last year, Ricky spoke to the website Joe and said, I have a glass of wine at six o’clock.

I mean, I’m looking at the clock at five to six. I just think I enjoyed doing it. I think if it started ruining your life or affecting your life, or you can’t get up the next day, then it’s probably not a good idea. In fact, it’s probably not a good idea to drink full stop and pick one SNL’s back tonight. Emma Stone joins the Five Timers Club, which I find absolutely fascinating because I was like, where do I even know Emma Stone from?

And I googled her. I’m sure she’s wonderful, and I’m like, I still don’t know who emastone is. But she’s up there with Tom Anklin, Steve Martin there, congratulations and Noah Kahan is your musical guest next week. Adam Driver, I know who that is. And Olivia Rodrigo, Oh, my daughter’s going to be very excited about that.

She doesn’t know about that yet. I will tell her. And Lorne Michael’s whipping it out for December sixteenth, the Christmas episode before the Break. Kate McKinnon and Billie Eilish. Nice, you know not that Adam Driver and Olivia Rodrigo is slacking?

Good bookings there, Lorne Michaels, He’s apparently good at the whole Saturday Night Live thing. Deadline caught up with Bert Krascher, who says he has a scripted series and multiple films in the works, including Fat Astronauts with Tom Sigore. I’ve talked about this before. He’s into acting, he said. When I got home from Serbia, I assume from filming The Machine he wasn’t just randomly in Serbia.

When I got home from Serbia, I will say that very candidly, I was like, I’m not an actor, but I think I want to be a movie star. I don’t think I have a passion for acting. I think I have a passion for being the center of attention. But you’ve got to know your strengths and weaknesses. He hopes to get more ambitious with his production company, Bertie Boyd Productions.

He names Kevin Hard as a role model. If anything, I’m an idea guy, and Tom sigor is an execution guy, and I’m a little bit of a sponge. I bring everything our way. Last week I told him we need to start a bedding app. One of the ideas is the Two Bears racing team that will see Tom Sagora followed passion he’s been recently entertaining.

Bert says, Tom is racing. We do have a race car. We’re definitely going to be running the Gumball three thousand this year from Cairo to Singapore. That sounds like it would be a fun TV program. Bert says, comedy’s hot.

There’s tons of theaters out there, tons of fans. None of us are slowing down. We’re all going to continue with our podcast. We’re all working on a new special. We’ve all got five projects in the Fireweight and it happened.

We’re all really happy to be here. John Mulaney shared that although he didn’t know Matthew Perry, he finds himself affected by Matthew Perry’s death. Aline He says, addiction is just a disaster. Life is a wobbly table at a restaurant and you pile all the stuff on it and it gets wobblier and wobblier and more unstable. The drug just kicked the legs out from under the table, and I really identified with his story, thinking about him a lot.

The Motion Picture Sound Editors announced award winning actor, comedian, and author Patton Oswalt will host the seventy first Annual Golden Reel Awards seventy one Yeah apparently. The seventy first Annual Golden Reel Awards takes place Sunday, March third, in LA Patton said, as a film buff, getting to highlight the hidden artisans to create movie memories as important as any moving image is a joy for me. I can’t wait for this year’s Mpsee Golden Reel Awards sounds like a crafted quote. It’s not how people speak inside. Spoke to Cheech Marin, he talked about how Chi Chi Chan came about.

I went to Canada in my early twenties as part of the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War. I started doing comedy because they paid me more for doing comedy than delivering carpets, just what I was doing in Vancouver before I met Tommy Chong. We were really just trying to get paid so we can make rent. We moved to la in Our early goal was how are we going to find a dollar fifty every day? That was the amount of money we needed every day to buy a bag of rice or some beef and greens to make a Chinese meal.

We went from club to club trying to look for a gig while carrying this little red wagon with us. Whatever we found, pop bottles or soda cans would throw them in the wagon to get the five cent deposit per can. By the time we finished our journey, sometimes we wait a dollar fifty and we could go buy something to eat. That was our quest. If you want to see our motivation, that’s motivation.

I think what audience has loved about Cheechenshong is that we represented what was going on in the times in a kind of benevolent way. We learned how to create this inoffensive, pointed humor. When creating our shows. We used what we called the omniburger approach, where the show has just the right amount of meat, the right amount of tomatoes, a little bit of mustard, because you could serve it in an appetizing way. In Atlanta one day, in New York City the next Subashton Maniscalco making the rounds.

The New York Times asked him some of the things he likes. Some of the things like to buy, Sebastian Maniscalco include Italy. They have lobsters in an aquarium where the kids can look, and they have big hole fish with the eyeballs. They have a little pasta station. I asked them, okay, pick out the pasta that you want Daddy to make you tonight.

I feel like they have more of an appreciation of the food because they’re invested in it. I also want to open up their palates to different sauces on the pasta other than butter and cheese. Some guys go golfing. I like cooking for people. It’s a little nerve wracking because something could go wrong and you’ve got thirteen people over The problem with me is I like to do it too much.

I like people to be full before they even start eating the entree. Sebastian always likes surprise date nights. Sometimes you become ships passing of the night and you need that time together as a couple. So she picks a night and surprises me where we’re going to go, and then the next week I’ll pick a night and surprise her. I think it’s very important to have those date nights in a marriage that let you reconnect.

He’s also a fan of Succession, saying it’s more of a comedy for me because I find myself laughing and a lot of things they say, particularly Brian Cox who is hysterical in this thing, and Kieran Colkin the zingers that they throw out. I think I’ve got about four episodes left. Amy Pohlar is going to be doing a masterclass. Let’s listen. Hi, I’m Amy Pohlar, and I’m standing in front of a bunch of books, which means I’m smart and you have something to learn from me.

Let’s get started. Amy tells The Hollywood Reporter the principles of improv’d be more creative, more resilient, and more collaborative. My class is an attempt to show how preparing to be unprepared can add value on how we approach life and relate to other people. In Prepared to be Unprepared, Amy Poehler shares nine principles of improv, including don’t bail on your partners, don’t worry about being cool. In my class, we’re going to discuss how these improv principles affect your real life.

It’s for people working in relationship, parents, you know, how do you deal with the kind of everyday humanness of life. Yahoo asked some comedians if stand up still has a place in the age of YouTube and streaming. Angela Johnson Raya said, heck yeah, I think it’s growing. I mean, there’s always been random rooms you can go in and do stand up comedy at this cafe, car wash whatever. Car wash awesome.

But I think even more so and even more towns. But I think in even more towns comedy is growing. It used to be La or New York, like, those are the spots if you want to do stand up. Now Nashville has become a little hub for stand up comedy. There’s a thriving scene of stand up comedians out there.

She left out Austin Fortune. Fiemester said, I think stand up is bigger than it’s ever been. It’s so difficult to find availabilities at theaters every night. I just put out a ton of new dates on this tour. I’ve been touring this material for the last year.

We did the next leg of the tour and I think things like TikTok and YouTube we’re getting people a lot of exposure. They’re getting very popular from those mediums, and then they take that and they take it out on the road. The Express spoke with the creator of Father Ted and The id Krowd, Graham Lenihan. He said there’s been a chilling effect on comedy due to quote a sudden atmosphere of censoriousness. I like that word.

Graham was recently canceled due to his views on transgender people. He was banned from Twitter and had his Edinburgh Fringe show scrapped by the venue. He talked about the successes of the shows he created and said I think everybody’s beginning to realize was kind of the golden years for British comedy. I’m getting a bit nervous now that this kind of wealth of comedy that we might not see again for a while because of the sudden atmosphere of sense in what you might call a psychonic politeness that means you’re not allowed to make fun of anyone. I think there’s definitely a chilling effect.

And you know, by the lack of good comedies in the last five years, there’s very few strong ones. He said, it would be impossible to make something like the Young Ones now, he said, these people take themselves so seriously. You simply wouldn’t be allowed to be entering in a lot of these third rail issues that you’re not allowed to talk about, the trans issue, race issues. You’d have to speak about those things. But I think now if someone came up with an idea with the same kind of anarchic quality, the same kind of desire to grapple with the reality of what it’s like to be young in the UK, the moment, you wouldn’t be allowed to do it.

I mean not allowed to do it. Wouldn’t occur to you to do it, because you just wouldn’t be able to imagine getting it off. The Telegraph highlighted Father Ted’s success as being down to its gentle nature humor. Have you ever seen Father Ted. Let me see if it’s streaming anywhere.

Father Ted follows three Irish priests, the old drunk priest, the young priest who really isn’t sure he wants to be a priest, and then the main guy who’s just trying to get things going. Let’s see. There are three seasons on Roku Crackle Free V. I highly recommend Father Ted. You would enjoy it.

Graham said. We always felt if someone’s doing one kind of thing, do the opposite and we’ll stand out. And that’s what we always did. We just thought if every other character in sitcoms at the time were cynical and rude, we had characters who would say feck instead of the bad word because they’re so polite and they’re so innocent, and there’s something about that and it just allowed us to stand out from everybody. Is that where feck comes from?

My Irish friends use that word, So I don’t know if that’s a thing that then drift into Father Ted. Maybe it went the other way. Anybody from Ireland out there, let me know. Hit me up. My contact is in the show notes.

Renowned German comedian Henning When best known for his appearances on shows like eight out of ten cats. When on Twitter to vent frustrations at the exorbitant cost of renting a simple two bed flat for the duration of Fringe in twenty twenty four, Wenn said yesterday I was flat hunting for the Edinburgh Fringe. Going rate for bog standard two bedroom flat for the month seems to be nine thousand pounds. Nick Coppin has spotted a camper van on someone’s drive for seven thousand for the month. I think that’s me done with the Fringe.

Others took to the thread to say they too felt priced out of the festival. We heard a lot about this the last two years. One user said, as a punter, I’ve booked a room at student Halls in Holyrood nine nights at around nine hundred quid. The whole comedy side of things could move to Manchester Liverpool be a lot cheaper all around, Probably cheaper to get a flat in Inverness and rent a helicopter for the month. Susan Russell’s the head of marketing for the Fringe Society, and said we spent hours, days, weeks and months dedicated to this issue across our team.

Continue to do all we can in a challenging market of privately owned accommodation at a city struggling with a housing crisis. Plans proposed for the twenty twenty four Fringe including an Olympic style village by performers, as well as campsites set up around the city. Hum that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get shows. See Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello on Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was driving in the car with my daughter and she obviously knows what I do for a living. She’s like, did you see the Matt Rife plastic surgery thing? And I was like, no, do tell.

Life and Style magazine has recapped the controversy of sorts people of speculating did Matt Rife have plastic surgery. Some social media users have accused Matt of getting implants and his jaw and cheeks to give him more chiseled appearance. Matt says his face is all natural. In a July twenty twenty three interview with Access Hollywood’s Mario Lopez, Matt said the biggest lie he’s read about himself was quote that I’ve had plastic surgery. That’s the funniest thing in the world to me because I hit puberty too late.

I didn’t look like this until I was twenty three. Sorry, if you need surgery to look like that. So what does did this up? TikTok famous plastic surgeon, I guess. Doctor Benjamin Coughlin posted a video of himself quote skipping along to the song Hurricane by Bridget Mendler.

I have no idea. I just read some words. I’m so old, I have no idea what we’re talking about. Uh. The TikTok famous plastic surgeron with this song captioned it me after creating the greatest jawline ever seen, just for my patient to get canceled right after dot dot dot, He added, the comedian will not be named.

Many users in the comments inferred that it was Matt Rife. Well, Matt Rife apparently saw this, and he responded posted lying about medical history as illegal just fyi. Social media users responded to that and said, revealing yourself into your surgeon’s big post isn’t seen. He just outed himself with the comments. There are so many awards shows.

I can’t actually remember if we’ve talked about this before, but Variety was talking about the new commentwards, the Golden Globes. I don’t remember if this is new news or not, but let me tell you who they are. The numbinees are Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, John Mulaney, Baby, j Amy Schumer, emergency contact, Mark Maron from Bleak to Dark, Sarah Silverman, somebody loved Marlond Wayne’s God loves Me, Nate Bergatzy Hello World. Out of those, I would give it to Nate. The categories open to programs of thirty minutes or more released on a broad array of platforms, including broadcast, basic in premium, cable streaming, and pay per view of note.

Shows host on your social media accounts, including YouTube are not eligible. So that’s interesting. So there’s plenty of specials on YouTube, say Todd Barry, which I think is the best special deer not eligible. Sebastian manascalco out doing press for Bookie. He told USA Today, I don’t know anything other than working hard every day since I was young.

Actually, I think it’s a disease. Sebastian, Now that you’re a big time actor, would you ever stop doing stand up comedy? Interesting answer here, he said. I’ll always do stand up, but you need breaks. You can’t do stand up twenty four hours a day, three sixty five days.

You have to live your life to get your material. Chris Rock told me this. If you never make an exit, it’s hard to make an entrance. You don’t want people thinking, ah, I can always see that, guys. So maybe I do a comedy tour, go away for a couple of years to do other projects, then come back and tour interesting Kiss playing their final shows tonight and tomorrow at Madison Square Guard in New York City.

Comedian Craig Gas is celebrating this. He’ll play comic strip live on Sunday, and Gas said, I’m making fun of Kiss for an hour, but it’s with love. I’ve gotten to perform with Kiss over the years. I’ve had a strange relationship with Kiss. Apparently this started when Gas did his Gene Simmons impression on the Howard Stern Show.

Gas said that bothered Gene so much he got on a plane and flew to New York City to confront me live on the air. Shortly afterward, I was contacted by Kisses management company, who wanted to tell me that their singer Paul Stanley was my biggest fan. Then Paul Stanley started offering me gigs to perform with Kiss on this event called the Kiss Cruise. Cruise with a K. He asked Paul Stanley, you know what’s the deal here?

And Paul goes, well, let me ask you a question. How many jokes do you have about Geens Simmons? I said literally hours? And he said you got the gig, the entire show beginning, and will be my stories about my run ins with Kiss and how many times I’ve been scared to death. I was going to get murdered by Jane.

That’s awesome. Well, you know, it’s not awesome if Geene Simmons murders Craig Gas. Although in terms of content for this podcast, that’ll get me at least two three days of great articles. I worked with Craig a few times. He used to be a frequent guest on The Jim Brewer Show.

He does a really good Eddie van Halen. He lived with Eddie for a little while. I’ve mentioned this before. One of my favorite things we did was we had Billy Mira on doing David Lee Roth and Gas doing Eddie, and we announced a Van Halen reunion before Van Halen reunions actually happened. We got a little pickup on that we were just messing around.

Was fun. Robert Smigel told Salon that he never set out to be dangerous. I did set out to be satirical, and I didn’t put limits on myself. If Lauren Michaels didn’t. At SNL, Michael said, it’s a bit of meritocracy there, and when I first got there, I thought Lauren hated me for a year and I barely got rehired after the first year, which was a disastrous year.

In eighty five eighty six with Michael Hall and all these really great people. Joan Cusack was one of the funniest people I’ve ever known, a Randy Quaid. The show struggled and we were getting beaten up for the writing. Then they ended up keeping most of the writers, including me, and I survived it. Then we brought in Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks and Dana Carvey, and Norah Dunn was there, and Kevin Neal and Victoria Jackson.

It were just sketch veterans, people who were really born to do sketch comedy changed overnight. They asked Michael if there were sketches he really had to fight for some that didn’t make it, So Michael said one of those was pulled permanently. We did Michael Jackson three times. That was one of my first ideas when I went to Lorne and said, I want to go back to the show. Here’s three things I can do.

I can do the ambiguously gay, do a thing this ex President’s Cartoon and this fun with real audio thing where we take real audio and turn it into a cartoon. The fourth one was actually doing Hannah Barbara kind of cartoon characters about celebrities. The first one I pitched was Michael Jackson as kind of Yogi Bear. The way Yogi Bear kept snatching picnic baskets, Michael Jackson did the same with underage boys. Basically, that was the premise.

That’s what was going on in the nineties. The nineties were in incan time comedically, because the dam burst in the nineties. Basic Cable had joined the fray in the eighties and HBO had broken out. There was all this pressure suddenly on network television to compete with Basic Cable and pay cable to be more outrageous and reflect the real world more. Suddenly in the early nineties, the standards department was dissolved in NBC.

It came back in a much softer capacity. That happened everywhere Fox within Loving Color the kind of stuff they would do, and everybody applauded it at the time because it was considered taboo breaking and outrageous. Isn’t that great networks are loosening up? But retrospect some of the most politically incorrect things that would be perceive now, like sketches that made fun of handicapped people or gay people. Relentless kind of sketches that way.

The nineties and early zeros, I would say would be the most reflective of that time. He said, I’m still proud of the ambiguously gay due at least the concept because it was supposed to make fun of homophobia and our obsession with it. These guys gay, they seem gay, and the absurdity of carrying so much to the point where superheroes, the most heroic people in the world. All they’re trying to do is save the world, and the audience is obsessed with whether they’re gay or not. I know what’s weird.

I’ve been telling you about Evil Billing Vall. He’s disappeared. He has stopped go into the National Donut Chain. Maybe he’s a listener. I don’t know what’s going on.

It’s very strange. The Daily Show has announced their upcoming guest host Calpen and Charlamage the God will get another shot each. It’s their second time in this round of auditions Charla Maine. This week December fourth, Cal Penn December eleventh, Variety says executives at the Paramount Global Network they’re said to be eager to study audience research and get another look at how various personalities handle the job. I’ll get into that a little bit more tomorrow.

John Appatsow has a new documentary about the friendship of Don Rickles and Bob Newhart. In the twenty minute piece, Newhart and his wife reflect on their well known close friendship with Rickles and his wife, Bob and Don a love story. Where can I see this, Johnny mack, Well, you’ll have to go to the New Yorker website. Seems like that might have been a bigger thing that was supposed to air somewhere else. Hopefully we get a longer cut of that from Newsweek.

During a recent performance in a comedy club, an audience member asked Ashley Gavin, how do you feel about Israel? Gavin said, what do you mean? How do I feel about it? How the f am I supposed to feel about it? The crowdburst in a laughter, and Gavin asked, how am I supposed to make this funny?

The ghost of George Cardon could make this effing funny? What do you want me to say a rabbi and a Palestinian walked into a bar. That joke landed. Sheells your rabbi so fat in the style of a classic Yo Mama joke. Gavin is stunned by the laughter and tells the audience member, I just effing did it.

She then asked the woman if she’s also Jewish. The woman confirmed she is. Gavin tells her, you have to be. That’d be super weird if you weren’t Jewish. A Palestinian because no one just plain white is like, hey, yeah, talk about it.

We want to hear it. Most people seem to like what she said, although TikTok User five nine eight zero five three five one six nine zero seven three apparently called her ignorant. Newsweek is keeping a tally of where various people are on this issue. Celebrities who have been slammed for their support of Israel include Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp, comedians Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, actress Galgadott, and Will and Grace starre Deborah Messing. That was coming under fire for supporting Palestinians include Susan Sarandon, former adult film star at Media, Khalifa and the Incredible Hulk Mark Ruffalo from the San Francisco Gate.

Just days after comedian Daude naim Jar received the contract for a two night’s stint at a Dallas comedy club, his manager received an unexpected email from the clubs bookers. The show was off. There was no explanation, so the manager gave the venue a call. According to the report, the cancelation had something to do with Nimiyar’s recent social media posts. He told the Gate, all of my most recent posts have to do what’s going on over there, meaning Gaza.

In one sketch, he dresses up in a suit and plays a real estate agent for the fictional Israeli reality group formerly known as the Palestinian Reality Group, which advertises free recently sees land to Israeli settlers. His character says, this whole area used to be schools and hospitals, but we bombed it. He said he sat on the sketch for two weeks after shooting it because he were to be insensitive. I like to make people genuinely laugh at terrible situations. But he got enough positive feedback from Jewish and Palestinian freends he decided to release it.

He tells the Gate. If they’re stopping me from my political beliefs or my jokes, they might be doing to other Muslim comedians or other people who are in a similar stance. And Hey, you want to see somebody naked? M m. You know what I’m saying.

Once you had the Naked Comedy show in Brooklyn tonight, who are gonna see naked Johnny Mack, Nat Towsond, Madelin Murphy, Geneva rust Order, Tony Sakowski, Herbie Gill Beecher, Wanda Colon, Sarah Barnet, and Hannah Gerlander. New York City’s Naked Comedy organizer Billy Prosida says, if they were wearing the clothes, he’d still be like, this is a great lineup. Do you like creepy voice? I don’t. Billy says, you forget you’re naked.

Like a minute into it. A lot of the comics are surprised by how not weird it feels. Once they’re up there. You get like thirty seconds with the audience of them being like, hah, look, and after that first thirty they’re like, do you have jokes?

Also, anybody in the audience who is brave enough to get naked and tell a jok…

Is welcome to that’s you, dear listener, Believe it or not, a handful of attendees usually do, and the winner gets a ordered a prize. Is what are the prizes? It could be some weed? Are you allowed to just get away weed? I don’t know what the New York City laws are these days?

Or a vibrator. Billy says, the more naked the audience gets, the more fun the whole audience ends up being. Before the show, comedians are known to do pushups to tone their arms, or use a resistance band for buns of steel, and he admits sometimes the male comedians are worried about how they’ll present. Is the word that was used. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deadline caught up with Bert Kracher, who’s talking about his twenty twenty three and he says, for lack of better analogies, it’s felt like a runaway train that I’ve just been holding on to. He compares it to a skier who gets going too fast and just praise he won’t fall. Been there, done that.

I’ll tell you a story some other time about me crashing through not one, two, three, four five, and says maybe Bert has a certain level of fear. I remember Ali Wong telling me it doesn’t go away, and I looked at her and I was like, it one hundred percent does goes away for everyone. And I’m hyper aware of just how fortunate I am. So I wasn’t gonna let go. I held onto this bowl and was like, I’m gonna ride this as long as it lets me ride, and I’m gonna go as hard as if and ken I’m never gonna say no, I’m gonna push it.

He profile points out Bert is aware of the place he occupies in the world of comedy. He says, I’m no John Mulaney and I’m no Chris Rock. He knows that his signature style of performing shirtless makes it challenging for some people to take him seriously. Before a special The Machine premiered on Showtime in twenty six, he was warned that doing the show shirtless would lose him viewers, and that special, which is now kind of famous, wound up being the lowest rated Showtime had ever put out. He credits Joe Rogan for encouraging him to get into podcasting.

Bert says, back when he was doing things like trip Flip for the Travel Channel, it required him travel all over the world doing stuff he didn’t want to do, like swimming with great white sharks, and he made maybe thirty five hundred dollars an episode. But when he began podcasting, he realized after his first one hour episode he’d made seventy five hundred dollars while just sitting around telling stories with friends. He had no overhead, and he began putting episodes together himself and didn’t need to travel, and best of all, there’d be no cut of his feet going to agents, managers and lawyers. Bert said, at that moment, I went, I will never do television again. This is what I want to do.

The Guardian went to see Trevor Noah’s show and they say most of the show reports back on countries and cultures Trevor Noah has encountered while touring, leaving you wondering what did he talk about on the opening shows of the tour. It’s quite the feat to turn these experiences into so much material so soon, but a lot of it rehash hystereotypes. The rude Parisian, the angry Glasswegian, the Londoner resisting eye contact on the tube. That we don’t have real crime in the UK is an observation US based comic has been making since at least Bill hicks hooligan routine. It’s as if Noah, whose technical brilliance isn’t in question, has challenged himself to see if he’s good enough to reanimate some of comedy’s horiust conceits.

He is. The Guardian ads he usually finds an angle on the familiar that jolts it back into the funny. But after two hours, I wanted something fresher and insights, say into the Trevornoah behind the smooth stand up operator, this detached observer of global wars. Noah’s so slick at all, this so supremely at ease on stage. That can feel like coasting, like a holiday for a man who spent seven hard years at Satsire’s Coal Face.

You can’t deny he’s earned it more that it’s fun to come along for the ride. Up Rocks asked Ronnie Ching when he called his tour love to hate it. Ronnie said, I just wanted something cool. It was a little bit funny. I’m sure you know.

It’s hard to think of titles for things, so I was brainstorming for a few weeks. It’s almost like part of me is like, why am I caring so much about something? It doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t need to describe anything. It actually ended up being a good title because it actually does describe where I’m at.

Sometimes you complain professionally as a stand up comedian, in other words, you love to hate it. As a comic, we complain about stuff, but we do it because we love doing comedy. Ronnie said, I love traveling around America and seeing towns and cities that people crap on. I go there and I’m like, oh, this is great. Everyone’s always been really nice to me on the tour.

The fans have been nice to me for the most part. That’s funny. About the most part. I wonder what the other part is. So I get to be a lot of people.

I mean, obviously different ethnicities, but different political backgrounds as well. They’ve always been cool. I like to think I’ve shown mutual respect back. It’s why I say in the show, I talk a little bit about how face to face everyone in America seems fine. Just when you go on the internet, it seems like we’re always on the borderline of civil war.

But face to face, there’s a lot of decency in America. There are more good people than bad people here. Just for last Vancouver announced their performers for the twenty twenty four edition of the annual festival February fifteenth through the twenty fourth in Vancouver. If you’ve never been, Vancouver is an awesome city. There’s an episode of my Travel Is backpodcast where I talk about Vancouver.

There’s a bike shop at least there was ten years ago across from Stanley Park that I loved. I wanted to buy it and just make that my life, or I just rented bikes and hung out in that park. Vancouver’s awesome. So if you want to go to JFL Vancouver February fifteen through the twenty fourth. The performers include Bill Burr, all right, we’re off to great starter ready, Ronny Chieng, want to Pykes, Ben Schwartz, Marlon Wayans, Bossom Yusef, Kathy Griffin, Nicole Byer, Bob the Drag Queen, Christina Poziski, Tom Papa, Jessica Curs, and Patty Harrison.

Some names you might not know, and I don’t want to read fifteen names here. Some you might know, Big Jay Okerson, Chris red Zorna gorg A partner on Trala, Joel Kim Booster, Caroline Ray Mo Gilligan is a fantastic comic, probably off your radar, Chris Gethard, Emma Willman, Jesus Trey ho Mark, Little Josh Johnson, and a bunch of others. Tickets are on sale Friday, ten am Pacific. JFL Vancouver website for more information. David Cross has announced a podcast since his working overtime with David Cross.

It’ll debut December seventh. David chared eight trailer. He’s a clip. You don’t need that one? Oh you don’t, Yeah, you can have them if you’re cold?

Are you going that I can hear you if I don’t have mine. Hi, David Cross and I have a new podcast on Headgum called Senses Working Overtime. Initially, the premise was getting a bunch of friends and family members. You know, Bob oden Kirk, Jason Bateman, Ni Gine Farsa, Steve O, Mark Maren, Jennine Garoppolo, Amber Tamblin, lots and lots of lots of really cool, funny, interesting people. I’m not trying to be funny or anything.

I don’t understand you don’t talking to them about questions relating to the five senses. So the idea for the podcast was David Cross would ask his guests to explore their best, worst, funniest, satus, most beautiful, etcetera. Things they’d ever seen, touch, tasted, smelled and heard. Somewhere along the way, it became a loose premise, a jumping off point to learn more about a variety of fascinating people. Some of those fascinating people include Bob oden Kirk, who you heard on the trailer, Mark Maron, Janine Garoffalo, John Hodgman, Joe Firestone, Eugene Merman, Steve oh amber Tamblin, and Jason Bateman.

A Cross in a statement said, I kind of went into this a bit reluctantly, thinking who’s going to want to listen to or watch another podcast? But I’m really enjoying it. It’s been a lot of fun, with a lot of laughs, with some RAYTL friends and some good new ones. I hope I can make your car, bus, subway, plane, train ride more tolerable. Russell Peters will have a new special at some point.

A production company put out a pressure lease saying they have acquired the special that Russell taped in Abu Dhabi on November twenty third. In the special covers issues such as cancel, culture, aging, and the current geopolitical state of the world, and includes Russell peters signature crowd work. Sebastian Maniscalco’s new show Bookie, is out today on Max. Roger Ebert dot Com gave it a very unenthusiastic review. They wrote, Maniscalco pushes his way through some awful writing in the premiere of Bookie, a half hour of television that can be downright archaic in its sense of humor when it’s not just lazy.

For example, one of Danny’s clients cross dresses as a way to hide from him, leading to some trashy trans jabs, because of course it does. As we’re making jokes about something as addictive as gambling. That’s fine if they’re clever, but everything here is cheap and uninspired. It’s a laugh track, a reduction in profanity, and a studio audience away from being your standard network sitcom. Roder Reaper dot Com continues and says, I don’t think most of the failures of the premiere fall at the feet of Maniscalco, an entertaining stand up who hasn’t quite figured out how to carry himself on screen as a fictional character.

He always looks uncomfortable when he’s not playing himself, But most people would with the writing in this series premiere, a show that I might have once suggested was beneath the HBO brand. But well we all know what happened to that part of the max agenda. Ouch ouch ouch. The New York Times profiled Sebastian this one a little better. They asked him about things he likes.

All right, Sebastian, what are the things you like? One of them Farmer’s markets. Sebastian says, it’s not necessarily shopping for fresh ingredients, but for me now with kids, to watch them walk around the farmer’s market and get excited about seeing that they’re making caramel corn, or get his feed the goat or the rabbits, or there’s a whole pistachial stand as a family tradition that we do on Sundays when I’m in town. Sebastian also likes his wife’s art. My wife is unbelievably positive and cheerful, and her art reflects her personality.

It’s abstract, it’s colorful of tampy. I wasn’t a big art guy prior to being my wife, but I have a different appreciation now about what goes into creating of art. We have this huge peace in the living room that you just put up, and it’s different shades of green. It reminds me of her every time I see it. They also enjoy their willy pop movie nights.

We love making pop corner. My wife churned me onto this machine which has this crank on the side that stirs the colonels. Just canola oil and salt, that’s all you need. We sit and we watch movies, and now the kids are getting older, they’re starting to get into movies I grew up with like The Wizard of Oz and Willie Walka. My daughter is into doing all the songs from Greece.

My San Antonio dot com took us to Gossip Corner, apparently fresh off his sold out shows in San Antonio, Ralph Barbosa was spotted at Midnight Swim, which is a Saint Mary’s Strip bar. So you gotta be careful here because you might assume that it’s a strip bar in Saint Mary’s. No, the location is called the Saint Mary’s Strip, but the sentence says the Saint mary Strip Bar posted snaps and the first time I was like, ooh much Gossip Corner. But no, no, no, it’s just an area called the Saint Mary’s Strip in which there’s a bar named the Midnight Swim. Got it, I’m sure you do.

The bar posted snaps from their celebrity guest on Instagram. In the photos, we see rah Off Barbosa happily posing for the camera solo, as well as a shot of him taking photos with fans under Midnight Swims. Wish you were here, Archway, My San Antonio went full gossip corner. They said, it’s not known if he grabbed a Midnight Swim specialty cocktail, but he was seen clutching a Medello. Modello right now is the number one beer in America.

I’ve been a fan four years. It’s really caught on. Ralph shared some photos on his own insta. He reshared one fan story of him up on stage at the Laugh Out Loud comedy club. But my San Antonio dot com tells us Barbosa’s Instagram post from November twenty sixth is a bit more mysterious.

You’re curious. It’s clear that the photo was taken during the comics venture to the Saint Mary’s Strip. Barbosa seen wearing the same white shirt, gold necklace, and white Louis Vuitton monogram bucket hat that he was wearing at Midnight Swim. The question is did he make any other stops on the strip before heading up to Austin for the next top on his tour. After all, they point out, there’s great food stops near Midnight Swim like worst behavior that’s with a U.

So I assume that’s some sort of so sausage purveyor you know him about to google it right, Yes, Tycoon, Flats, Burger Boy, and more. I haven’t got on a food diversion in a while, have I know? Let’s say, what is it? Worst Behavior Sausages, classic burgers, and delectable snacks, all expertly crafted and responsibly sourced. Their website says Worst Behavior is San Antonio’s first Asian inspired beer garden concept based upon great beer, great food, and great energy.

With its Neotokio esthetic and its Zen Garden sensibilities, You’re gonna want to stay on your Worst Behavior looks pretty cool. Rob Reiner talked to Variety about the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap. In the new version, Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Garth Brooks will appear The Spinal Taps Christopher Guest, Michael McKinnon, Harry Sheer return, so does Rob Reiner as the documentarian Marty. The sequel is said to mimic the style of Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Reiner said the key to making a movie with a loose script is that you get people who are good at improvising.

You have to get people feel comfortable doing that. Then you’re off to the Races. Writer added, you don’t want to overstate you’re welcome. It’s like Stanap. You leave them wanting you get off on a big laugh and go out.

The worst thing you could do is just load it up with Even if they’re funny things, they may be tangents and things that take away from the drive of the film. Kim Kardashian will start in a comedy for Netflix that’s weird. It’s called The Fifth Wheel. We don’t know too much about it other than Kardashian will play the Fifth Wheel alongside a female ensemble cast. No cast announced, no name announced, no date announced.

By the way, if you like the Kardashians, there’s a podcast called card Talk kard Talk. They’ll keep you posted on the Kardashians. His Moto caught up with Dan Harman about the Rick and Morty recasting of the voices. You know, I’ve gotten used to it. I don’t worry about it.

I still don’t think Rick starter’s enough and the Morty’s a little off. But as Dan Harmon said, I think the silent majority and the healthy majority are like, Okay, this is as good as you can manage. The characters are still live. That was a gol from the outset. Fans of the show consider them fans of the characters, and they just want to continue to watch the show and feel that these characters are still live.

And it seems we were successful in that mission. I think there’s an air of religious zelotry to the people who are insisting that the voices are somehow unignorably catastrophically different. I think most people are saying, all right, it sounds like Rick, and it sounds like Morty. Let’s proceed and let me catch you up on this thing. Joe Lycett did.

He had announced a podcast and it’d gotten a lot of pickup from the press release on podnews dot net. Joe Lycett has a brand new podcast and it’s a load of s word turd to cast. The description Joe has always been fascinated by the great leveler that is going to the toilet. From King Charles to Gary Barlow, we all need to jump to do a dump, flee to do a WII, or grit to do an s word. Literally, no one is too hot to squat.

You get the idea. Gary Lineker joins Joe for the very first episode of turd Cast, where he discusses the now legendary moment where he relieved himself on the pitch in England’s opening game with the nineteen ninety World Cup in front of hundreds of millions of people. So you got the idea. I didn’t cover it because I don’t like to play on that side of the street. Oh bo wait, there’s a twist.

Joe has revealed that the launch event for his new podcast, which ended with sewage leaking into Liverpool’s Albert Dock, was a stunt to highlight the issue of watercummpanies dumping waste into Britain’s waterways. Well played, Lisaid had set up a pop up toilet aka the Turtis, inviting fans to come down and share their most embarrassing lou based stories for his new turred Cast podcast. Joe said, what I like to do is do big stunts that get people talking about the big issues. And sometimes those stunts go to plan and sometimes they don’t. Well, on this occasion, everything went exactly to plan.

Of course, I didn’t spill ross sewage into the Royal Albert Dock. What do you think? I am GB News? No was fake sewage from a fake toilet to promote the fake podcast. Turd Cast was never real, although we did record one with the real Gary Lineker, and it would have been better to use a fake Gary as we would have saved a lot of money.

So why did I spill fake sewage other than because I’m desperate for tension and Instagram likes. Well, I spilled fake sewage to get people talking about the real sewage which is being spilled every year and the billions of leaders by our water companies. Last year, according to one analysis, one point four billion pounds and dividends was paid out to shareholders of the water companies. It’s a lot of money that could be used to improve the sewage network and reduce spills. If you agree, you can go on a website and send an email to your water company asking them to sign up for what we’re calling Joe’s Who Promise.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, buckle up. I’m going to tell you about the porn star that’s mad at Eliza Slessinger and how in the same story you get Matt Rife and Osama bin Laden. Yeah. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

But let’s ease into it with Late Night. Stephen Colbert had to cancel his episodes for the week. He has a ruptured appendix. Colbert was on social media and said, sorry to say after cancel our shows this week, I’m sure you’re thinking turkey overdose, Steve Gravy boat capsize. Actually, I’m recovering from surgery for a ruptured appendix.

Canceled guests include Barbara Streisan, Jennifer Garner, Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer. I assume they’ll be rescheduled at some point. Colbert said, I’m grateful to my doctors for their care into Eve and the kids for putting up with me. Going forward, all emails to my appendix will be handled by my pancreas.

Meanwhile, Newsweek tells us Jimmy Kimmel didn’t hold back when he brutally d…

Green has a new book she’s looking to promote it. She tweeted, Hey, Jimmy Kimmel, since most of your show content is your NonStop lies about me, why don’t you have me on your show. I’ll bring you a copy of my book and we can chat about what needs to happen to All caps save America. Kimmel on his show said, I guess I’m a Hollywood libtard that’s part of the celebrity pedophile Satan club. Until she has a book to promote, then I’d love to swing by.

This woman called the police on me for a joke and now she wants to be a guest on the show. Though I have to admit part of me wants to invite her here so I can let her wait for an hour down to the green room doing power squats and then bump her, even just to screw with Matt Damon. It would be fun, but I also don’t want Rabi’s. Kimmel then looked at how Green’s book was doing on the charts and said on Amazon it’s ranked number nine and forty six. It’s ranked number sixty five in the Women’s Buyer fhy category, which puts it fifty places behind a book written by Kanye’s ex girlfriend, fifty one places behind Michelle Obama’s book from twenty eighteen, fifty four places behind Michelle Obama’s other book in sixty places behind Paris Hilton’s Paris the Memoir.

Marjorie Taylor Green’s book is such a bomb, I might have to report it to the Capitol Police. On November sixteenth, Jimmy revealed he’d received a letter from Trump Media and Technology Group. That’s the organization that runs Trump’s social media site. It requested that Jimmy Kimmel retracted a statement he had made. Apparently, Jimmy had suggested that truth Social had lost seventy three million dollars since its launch.

However, Jimmy and his team went back and checked their filing with the SEC, and it turned out truth Social had lost thirty one point six million dollars. Kimmel told viewers several credible sources were reporting truth Social had lost that other amount, which eventually turned out to be incorrect. Jimmy said, in other words, and in fairness, truth Social is in a colossal failure. It’s only an abysmal failure. And I’d like to do the right thing and congratulate our balloon animal former president and his company on only losing thirty one point six million dollars for you.

That’s pretty good. That’s one of your best performances yet. Listeners to this podcast can send their letters to Jimmy Kimmel. Tiffany Hannish said about her dy, this will never happen again, She told Entertainment tonight, I’m going to get some help so I can learn balance and boundaries. Pornstar Miya Khalifa has left sashed out at Eliza Slessinger.

On Monday on Instagram, Eliza criticized people who had been targeting her with messages over speaking out against anti Semitism. In a lengthy post, Eliza Slessinger wrote, this neo liberal wet dream that’s supporting Hamaster. Using the word genocide when it comes to Israel from thousands of mile away with no context, makes you look informed or ahead of some social curve. Is an actual nightmare for those of us who can’t just set this down when the high of being a social media crusader wears off. In another section of Liza said, what living in a free country is only good when you want to safely spout code a Jewish hatred.

But your agency’s freedom to not support you back is where you feel you’ve been violated. Tell that to the innocent Jews being assaulted across the globe. What about their freedom? Guess it doesn’t count. Freedom works both ways.

You’re free to have an opinion and people are free not to support you. F around and find out that post caught the attention of Mia Khalifa, the former adult film star. Last month, Khalifa lost some business contracts after a Twitter post about Palestinian quote freedom fighters unquote On Twitter, Khalifa took a screenshot of Slessinger’s Instagram post and tagged it with I do not support all women some of you be words are very dumb. Then there’s Matt Rife. Matt was on the canceled with Ton of Mango podcast and I think it’s best if I just let Matt speak for himself.

Here are the words of Matt Rife now before I play them. I don’t think this clip was edited. I pulled the audio from a video clip and I don’t think the audio has been manipulated. I saw several sources and they all had the same audio, but I do want to allow for the possibility that the audio has been manipulated. I’m not accusing anybody of anything, but just when you hear the clip, I don’t want to just like throw a water balloon in Matt Rife’s direction and run away.

So I want to be fair, but I don’t think the audio is manipulated. That said, I’m going to do a couple edits here I once alter the context of what Matt is saying. I’m just trimming it down for flow so that I don’t play a minute and a half clip here here are the words of Matt Rife. Who do you hate? Come on?

That’s the thing. I don’t really to hate anybody. I don’t. Here’s here’s a very humbling experience that I’ve I guess epiffan that I’ve had recently because so many people hate me for really no reason. And it really made me realize that like people only hate somebody they’re jealous of.

And I’ve been I’ve been guilty of hating people. And when I really sat back and thought about it, it was because I was jealous of where that person was in their life. I felt like maybe they got an opportunity that I should have gotten. So now that I’m doing so much better for myself, I don’t have that energy towards anybody. I really don’t like.

I’m happy and very lucky to be where I’m at right now. So I don’t have like a beef with anybody. And I was gonna fight somebody, it might be like, I don’t know, it might be like Will Smith or something. He seemed to have a good right hook, right. No.

I love Will Smith, but I’m like, hey, if a he’s in great shape, it’s a great competition. And be he hit Chris Rock, So I was like, as part of the comedy community, I feel like that was a really really good, well rounded answer. I’m trying to wrap my head around. Do you think people who hate Osama bin Laden are jealous of him? Yeah?

Of course, of course they’re mad that he wasn’t the one calling the shots. Of course, everyone wants to be the one with the remote. Yeah, that’s tough. The Messenger caught up with Gabriel Iglesias. He’s forty seven and says, at this point in his life, I’m just trying to live long enough to spend the money.

That’s my motivation. It’s going very well. He jokes. He used to have hair, hope and happiness, and you know now we’re here. Gabe used to weigh four hundred and thirty seven pounds, and twenty thirteen he was told he only had two years to live.

He’s dropped over one hundred pounds in the years since. So I met Gabe when we launched Comedy Central Radio and the press release for that I just looked it up, went out on May fifteenth, twenty thirteen. So I met Gabe in twenty thirteen. You know, not these guineas fellow I’ve ever met, But I wouldn’t have guessed four hundred and thirty seven pounds around then. Cool guy, exactly who you think he is.

On his health, Gabe says, I’m very good about seeing doctors regularly, and I think that’s the biggest thing because before that wasn’t the case.

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And now I’m scheduling things, I’m keeping my appointments and taking my medi…

Some very very involved. Before I was just letting this train run crazy. Heather McMahon responded to some criticism. She said, this guy was like, man, you really go in on married life and your husband Heather said, guys have been doing this forever. Just because I’m a woman, it seems a little jaring.

Alli Wong talked about her family. Amy Schumer talks about her family, all these other families people talk about their families. When the girls do it, people have to say something about it. How long have men been talking about how crazy their wives are and how their kids are driving them nuts? Desi Leidach talked about the Daily Show being off during the strike, and you know, did she miss doing specific news stories?

An example she thought of were the Trump indictments, and she said, you think now would be a good time to be on the air and unpacked this and talk about the ridiculousness of all this. You have good news days and bad news days, and that was a damn good news day. But for me, the story that I most desperately wanted to be on the air for was when all flight passenger had a horrible number two incident all over the airplane. I believe they described it as quotes all throughout the airplane. I just went like, come on, of all days, that would be such a great day, What an easy story.

We know our audience. Okay, so no indictments, not women’s reproductive rights. No, it was the day the gentlemen had an epic accident on a delta flight that I thought that people need to know this. As for guest hosting the Daily Show, she got a shot last week after Trevor left and there was an opportunity for some of us to get to sit in and try it on for size. I of course raised my hand, went put me and coach.

Those opportunities don’t always come along, sometimes never, and certainly rarely, so of course I wanted to jump in and give it a try. See. It was like if they ever let me the scary thing. Because I’d never done it before, I didn’t know could I do it, how would it go? Would I enjoy it?

I knew that walking into it. Out of all the sport in the world. From the team, we have the most incredible team of writers and producers and colleagues that I have worked with for eight years. It’s a machine. They’re very, very good at what they do.

I loved every step of the process. I loved the morning meeting and sitting in a room with some of the funniest people in the business and the smartest people in the industry, and cracking jokes, and then the rehearsal process and the rewrite. It all moves so quickly. They’re a well oiled machine there. But every step of the process was so much fun.

So quote Evil Bill Angvall was at the National Donuts chain again at his corner, drinking his coffee, but real Bill Angvall caught up with Fox News and discussed why he moved out of California moved to Utah. Bill said, we were in California for thirty years. We had a good time. We had a great time. I always said, if you can’t find something to do in California, you’re not you know, there was nothing in California that we ever went, Oh my god, we got to get out of here.

I still have a funness for California, and like I said, if work comes, it’s probably gonna come out of LA I still go back and do TV shows, you know, talk shows, stuff like that. I’d accomplished everything I want to do in the business.

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And then also economically, I mean, the taxes were just becoming insane, and …

But I don’t hate California. I felt more at home. If that makes sense. I mean, I’m from Texas and I love Texas, but I don’t know if I could ever move back there. It’s got its pluses and minuses, just like every state does.

But I never saw Utah on our radar at all, you know. But again it was probably my narrow mindedness of judging what it was like.

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And then I got to realize, oh, this is nothing like what I thought.

In his upcoming special, here is your sign, It’s finally time my last show, Billing Vall does make some sort of joke at California and says I probably could have left that one out. Wasn’t really necessary, but you know, it was a joke. Not sure what the joke is, but billiing Ball specials out December fifth. The founder of Students for Trump is Ryan, and Ryan asked Roseann a question, who do you think President Trump should choose as his VP pick. Roseanne said me.

That started a little social media flurry. One Twitter user wrote love Roseanne, but no, Another said no, I like her as a comedian, but not a VP pick. A lot of what she says is distasteful. Trump already has a hard time getting the berb women a vote for him, with Barr they would double down and vote for anyone. But back in twenty eleven, Roseanne announced she’d be running for president in the third party.

She went to the Green Party but lost that nomination to Jill Stein. She still ran and got sixty seven thousand writing votes. Wow. Julia Luis Dreyfus told Fox she used AI to write an acceptance speech, but the AI thought Julia Luis Dreyfus was Julia Roberts j LD. Was the honoree at the Wall Street Journal magazine twenty twenty three Innovator Awards.

Her speech wet like this. As an entertainment innovator, I am very very busy innovating, So I did what any other innovator where her assault would do. I turned to chat GPT four ladies and gentlemen, is Steam guests and fellow investors. Today is a movement of profound gratitude and reflection for me as I accept the great honor of being recognized as the Investor of the Year by the Wall Street Journal. That got some laughs.

Reflecting on this milestone, I’m reminded of the unwavering support of my family and the unyielding dedication of my team that has been the driving force behind my investment strategies. And my performance is in Aaron Brockovich, Pretty Women and Mystic Pizza. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it theym I like it too, and I’ll see you here tomorrow. You can listen on Apple podcasts, Spotify, overcast podcasts, YouTube, wherever you get shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deadline did a lengthy interview with John Mulaney. John started talking about how his friends and family confronting him with addiction evolved into being in his stand up after coming out of detox. Mullaney reached out to friend slash comedian Joe Mandy to kind of get a handle on what had happened there.

Mandy said, it was extremely funny that I was giving notes on each person’s letter after they read it, and I told him after the intervention how I ranked the speeches. He helped me see how the dynamic was funny right away. John said, I’ve always been very personal, and I understand that the subject matter is, for lack of a better term, darker or more intimate, But my approach to it felt similar to the rest of my specials, honestly, so I haven’t found it more difficult to talk about. Good question by Deadline, who said you called it a wide ranging conversation. Was that meant to be code for this might not be what everyone expects.

Mullaney said that was a callback to the GQ article that I ended the special with which says, we spoke with the comedian in a wide ranging conversation. I found it really funny that my drug added self had been so sweeping in that interview, and I also just thought it was a funny turn of phrase. I thought it’d be a good subtitle for the special, and then I thought, it’s not that wide ranging of a conversation. It’s pretty much about one topic. Deadline asked when you were sitting through the intervention, did you have an aha moment about how it could be a great stand up someday?

John said, no, I wish I had a more wily mind, but no, it’s just a bad moment. And I’m someone who, through every single thing that’s ever happened in my life, I’ve known it to be funny. Somehow, it was more the chemical hell that took that away. I was quite under the influence when I arrived. I was both high and unable to keep using because they wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom, so I was in a very agitated state.

Did you ask your friends about mentioning them in the special before you did it? Melady said, I cleared it by performing it and then asking, hey, was that okay? A friend of mine said, how come when you tell the story, you’re cool and we’re all lame? And they were right, and I said, I’m telling it from that little bastard’s perspective when I was the coolest guy in New York City that night and you guys were completely bringing me down. A lot of people watched Mike Ribiglia over the weekend, getting good reviews for that one.

His specialist on Natflix, The Daily Beast asked him about Hasan Minhaj Ver. Big said, my feeling is I love Hassan. I love his comedy, He’s a friend. I thought his video response was tremendously well done. That’s sort of just my feeling about it.

I think he explained it really well. Good follow up. Did it make you think about your own work in terms of how you deal with those issues, like do I bend the truth here or do I exaggerate? For Big said, with my own shows, I always think of relation to when I’m telling a story, would I feel comfortable telling the same story the people who were there? So every now and then I’ll have something where I’m like, I have to get this right.

For example, I’d talk on my show about having type two diabetes and reversing my type two diabetes, and for me, I was like, oh, I gotta make sure that’s true, because what if someone saw the show and they were like, I’m gonna reverse my type two diabetes like Mike, and then they can’t. It’s impossible. So every now and then I have something like that where I’ll think about it. And of course I have these outlandish things that have hurt in my life, like jumping through a second story windows, sleepwalking, and that’s another thing where I’m like, I don’t want to mislead people with my medical issues. But then there’s this other side of me, which is I’m in some ways like an Irish storyteller, where every time you tell a story gets a little longer, and I think memory works like that too.

I think the more you tell a story, the more you remember things. And sometimes I look back and go, maybe it wasn’t like that. When I do a joke on stage, if it gets big laugh, that then tells me something about what people experienced. If the gasp, that tells me something about what people experience. If someone complains to me after a show, if they come up and they’re like, hey, that hurt my feelings that affects the way I feel about it.

Or remember years ago I used to workshop a ton of my material at Union Hall and someone came up to me after the show and said, hey, I don’t like how you said this, and I thought about it. And the other one was an email. Someone wrote to me and said, you tell this one joke and I don’t think I’ll ever come to one of your shows again. And I wrote back, here’s the reasoning for the joke, and here’s the thought process, and I might do the joke again. I might not, but I totally hear what your point is.

And the person wrote back like, Okay, I’ll return to your shows. It’s a lot of comedians aren’t interested in what the audience has to say. I’m actually very interested because ultimately the show’s about the audience. It’s my stories, it’s things I’ve observed, but really it’s about what do we all have in common. Steve Trevino was in San Antonio over the weekend taping his new special My San Antonio caught up with him.

They described Travino as the South Texas version of Henny Youngman and point out that Travino’s wife, Renee has become a major part of his last four specs titled Relatable Till Death, My Life in Quarantine, and I Speak Wife. In the latter, he jokes about how much work he puts into translating his wife’s complicated words into achievable goals. Steve said, I believe me and my wife of true love. Do we get on each other’s nerves, absolutely, But when we argue, divorces never part of the discussion. We have this attitude that we’re gonna make a work.

We’re going to do this together. They do a podcast together where they discuss life, marriage, and parenting their eight year old son and three year old daughter. It is called Steve Travino and Captain Evil. The podcast, Renee’s nickname Captain Evil, started as an inside joke because she’s so above average and so beautiful that she can’t just be evil. She has to be a Captain of Evil.

It turned into a whole thing now with merchandise and other women are referring to themselves as Captain Evil. Men will show me that they have their wife saved in their phone as Captain Evil. You never know what’s going to go viral. He picked San Antonio to record he said, you’re either a san Antonio guy or an Austin guy. And I’m a san Antonio guy for sure.

I love Austin, but please don’t tell me their tacos are better than san Antonio. If the name Steve Travino is ringing a bell, my san Antonio reminds he was on the George Lopez podcast when the whole Ralph Barbosa thing happened. As my san Antonio says, George got a little quote grouchy when Barbosa’s name came up, Steve said, if I’m being completely honest with you, it was heartbreaking on all sides. I didn’t expect it to end up the way it ended up. I want everybody to succeed.

I want no more crabs in a bucket. I wish nothing but the best for Ralph Barbosa, and I wish nothing but the best for George Lopez. I was thinking of you guys this morning. I was at the National Donut Shane get in my coffee as I tend to do, and Evil bill Ingvall was there. And Evil bill Ingvall has shaved off his goatee, so now he’s just the Bill Engvall guy.

I will keep you posted. Tiffany Hattish was arrested for dui Friday morning. A watch commander for the Beverly Hills PD said, we responded to a call of a vehicle on the roadway at five forty five this morning. The driver was asleep behind the wheel. According to reports, Hattish’s car was stopped in lanes of traffic and had not pulled over to the side.

The watch commander notes there were no traffic collisions. A spokesperson said the investigation led us to arrest her for a dui. TMZ somehow came out with a video. Hattish appears cooperative when the police put her in handcuffs and walked her to the back of their vehicle. Friday night, Tiffany got on stage at the Laugh Factory.

An audience member asked what happened last night, and hatt As joked, you tell me, I had prayed to God to send me a man with a job, a career, preferably in a uniform, and he answered my prayers. There’s nothing funny about a duy, but in terms of just a joke and having something armed to come back with, that was pretty good. Netflix has released a clip from Ricky Gervaise’s Armageddon that’ll be out on Christmas Day. I went to pull the clip, and the clip they shared it’s funny, but it takes Ricky about a minute fifteen to set up the joke. So I didn’t want to bog down this podcast in that The gist of the joke is Ricky talking about evolution and said, I’ve noticed one thing about the slug and the snail.

Let’s not split hairs. Let’s be honest. The snail is basically a slug with a shell on it, isn’t it right? But if you pull the shell off the snail, it starts going, oh, dying, I’m dying, and the slug is like, welcome to the real world. Ricky tells it much better, but I told it in about eight seconds was supposed a minute and a half.

You can watch Army again on Christmas Day. T I remember he was getting into comedy. Baller Alert your home for Comedy News says T. I lost some money in his comedy endeavor. T I said, chase the money, not the women.

I learned something else after that. I learned to chase the dream, not the money. He was asked if he declines financial opportunities that don’t match his goals. He says, I do it every time I choose to do comedy instead of go and do music. And I was on LinkedIn I’m always looking for some extra cash and saw that Heartbeat, Kevin Hart’s company has posted a job from the LinkedIn posting Welcome to Heartbeat.

We are Comedy, we are Culture. Founded by Kevin Hart Heartbeat is the global multi platform media company creating entertainment at the intersection of comedy and culture, with a mission to keep the world laughing together. Goes on to describe Heartbeat, all right, what are they looking for? Head of Live and Experiential A visionary leader who will play a crucial role in shaping and executing our live event strategies by producing world class, industry and consumer facing events. The position will be involved with all aspects of event production from ideation through execution, including sponsorship, content strategy, logistics, talent relations, public relations, p and L management, business development, and client servicing.

Some of the responsibilities negotiate hotel and venue deals. Proactively meet with the top comedic and music live entertainment providers including agents, managers, promoters, event producers, agencies, and more to source leads and further cultivate industry relationships. Cultivate relationships with touring comedians, music acts and entertainers. To have a staple of talent to feature in heartbeat festivals, tours and live events. Although events is spelled eve n E st experience and skills high EQ your intuitive and can easily work with and for diverse people with different capabilities and needs, whether they’re colleagues, talent, or audience members.

Love for live performance, comedy, music and art. Ability to work nights and weekends when needed, and the job posting room says, look, it’s called work for a reason. We show up for our teammates or partners and our audience. We are a high energy culture where everyone is a headliner that’s in caps expected to give their best performance. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun, meaningful, and inspiring.

Because if you’re not having fun at work, you’re missing a good time. So if you hate fun, never like to laugh, and hardly ever smile, we have the job for you somewhere else. Zing compensation range two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars not bad, huh, And that is your comedy news for today. You can Follow this show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocket casts. Brains a little slow pulling up that list today, huh, all right, see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Quick note, if you didn’t listen over the weekend, you know Thanksgiving stuff, totally get it. Just want to point out the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday episodes were robust with like a lot of actual news. It wasn’t a filler weekend, so you might want to go back and check those out.

SETH Myers was on the Last Culturesa’s podcast with Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers. He revealed they almost did a Stepan movie. Almost might be an exaggeration, but he said there was a moment time where the idea of a Stephan script was being discussed. There wasn’t a scene that was written, but I did have a pitch for myself and Stephan because I knew it was going to be Stephan and James Franco or whoever it was going to be me and Stephan. I said, here’s how I think it should started to start with Stephan at weekend update and when it’s over.

I’m once again disappointed that as the city correspondent, he didn’t bring up whatever Saint Patrick’s day tips that he says to make it up to you just come out of a night with me and you together Stefan’s New York, and I’m like, all right, one night. Then you would do all these super fast cuts off he and I and at the cret clubs. That’d be the opening montage, and then it would end with me in a body bag and Stefan would say he’s dead, and then the splash Stephan the movie. Myers reflected on his perception of his role opposite Bill Hayter. I thought my job was just to be Stefan’s foyle, and then Milleniy wrote this.

It was my romantic comedy. It was Hater’s final SNL sketch in which Stefan goes off to Mary Anderson Cooper, stricken with love. Seth Myers runs after him and interrupts the wedding, punches Anderson Cooper and brings Stefan back to the SNL studio. It was Bill’s last show, and I knew I was leaving next year to host Late Night. Bill and I are holding hands, We’re both starting to cry.

It was so funny because I was getting married a few months later. I was like, if I don’t cry up my wedding, Hater said, I don’t want to do a Stefan movie. It didn’t work as a sketch. That’s why I was on Weekend Update. Kelsey Grammer wants to do one hundred episodes of this new Freezer Variety spoke to Kelsey Grammer and one of the topics was Freezer’s choice to wear sneakers in jeans.

Now, Kelsey said, I think it was a natural progression for him, but also natural for me. People didn’t talk about it much during the old iteration of the show, but my feet were always at issue, and I had a couple of Podiadras years ago notice on the show asking what’s going on with your feet? I have a gate issue just because I have really, really bad ankles. It’s okay, but it’s a little easier to wear those shoes than it is to wear a bunch of custom made brogues and all that. I think we should go on for another one hundred episodes.

At least there’s enough groundwork laid between these human beings. They’re wonderful characters. I want to see where they go, and I want to see what happens to Fraser. I name check Kelsey Grammer all the time. I’ll see somebody.

They’ll get a hit show, and they’ll leave the hit show. And I always talk about a couple of people. One, Dennis Franz wrote nypd Blue never had to work again. Kelsey Grammer, Hey, you want me to be Fraser again for eleven more years. Sure?

You want me to be Fraser again again for one hundred more episodes. Sure? The other guy, Patrick Stewart, who once explained that he wasn’t really excited playing Captain mc card, but they paid him enough money to do Star Trek movies after the show wrapped up, that he could do Shakespeare in the Park for free all summer and the Star Trek paid the bills. That makes sense to me. Don’t leave a hit show.

Kelsey talked a bit about bringing the character back and said, once Cheers ended the first time, I thought, well Fraser done. Now it’s good. We’ll move on to do something else. I had a deal with Paramount to go do a different show. We worked on that for a while and then everybody suggests that maybe the best to continue Frazer in a different world, and it turned out pretty well.

Once the show Fraser ended, there was some talk to continued for a while maybe it’d add another year or two. I talked to then NBC had Jeff Zucker at the time. He told me that Joey was what they’d put their eggs in that basket, and they said that was the next Fraser, and I said, well, all right, good for you, off you go. It turned out fine. I like the idea of ending something, and then it came up a decade or so later when somebody was saying, what would Fraser be up to?

And I thought, yeah, that’s an interesting idea, and started percolating, maybe a decade ago, honestly, about what it could look like.

And then Roseanne came back with her show, and I thought the response to that…

Those two shows were contemporaries, and Tim Allen was still on TV. We’re all sort of the same wavelength back then, and I thought this might actually bear some fruit if we do it the right way. It had to be right though, it had to have contemporary value, and so we started hatching the plan. I really wanted David Hyde Pierce to join us, and I did my best a him come along for the ride, and at one point he finally said, I don’t really want to play the character anymore. That was fine.

Then it came to me in a dream, Let’s go back to Boston. There’s unfinished business there, son lives there. Suddenly I went into this new world, which of course is what Fraser did the first time. Good follow up question, had David agree to come back, would it have been a continuation of the original Fraser? Kelsey said, No, never a continuation.

A couple of other shows have basically sort of picked up where they left off, and I didn’t want to do that because the guy had been away for twenty years. It had to be a maturation. He had to be a wiser guy. It’d take a few things less seriously and take some of the serious things more seriously. And that should be his family.

Will we ever see Niles, he said, I mean, we have Niall’s son on the show. Be nice to have that happen, but we won’t force it. We’ll see what happens. We can certainly write to it. There’s arguably a lot of people in the world that have seen Frasier would really sort of celebrate seeing him again.

Whitney Cummings was on the Last Laugh podcast. She talked about how her politics have changed as quote the left tries to silence comedians, Whitney said, The Left, to me, in a lot of ways when it comes to speech, has become unrecognizable because it used to be the party of free speech, It used to be the party of tolerance, It used to be the party of weak, criticize, or at least suspicious of big pharma. Roseanne said this year ago when I was working with her. The left is just gone so far that a lot of people used to be on the left and now feel like they’re kind of in the middle. When it comes to speech.

The left wants to silence people in a lot of ways. So I think comedians do find themselves criticizing that part of the left. I do think that in their minds they’re doing it to protect people and they make the world safer. But I don’t believe that’s how the world is made safer. I just want to make people laugh.

But I do find that people that probably would consider themselves more conservative these days have a better sense of humor. For sure. People always talk about censorship, but there’s a lot of self censorship that just happens because we’re scared. And I take the stance of if comedians are scared, we’re in trouble. It’s our job to be fearless.

It’s our job to push back and sometimes say things that we don’t mean, or say things that we know are wrong and offensive, just to make sure that we’re not turning into some totalitarian country. This whole thing where I only believe in you having free speech if you agree with me. I think that’s a really scary place to be. And I think sometimes I go too far in the direction of like it’s on us to make sure everybody still has free speech. Sometimes you can just go on stage.

Should be funny. You don’t have to be a free speech warrior all the time. I think sometimes I martyr myself a little too much where I go. Everyone should be able to make fun of everyone. This is America, Gosh durn it.

Gabriel Well Aglacias is in the Santa Clauses. He enjoyed connecting with Eric stone Street behind the scenes from New York Verified. Gabe said, Eric and I would sit there in Christmas gear and just sit and talk about wrestling. We’re both big wrestling fans. We both started playing though who knows more wrestling game.

It’s funny because We’re supposed to be in this Christmas environment and here we are talking about who got slammed. It was crazy. They started talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin. Gabe said, I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with him, and my biggest bragging moment is that I got to use his toilet. That’s right.

I did the podcast at his house and I think he since changed that since having those issues. But yeah, we were hanging out afterwards and I’m like, hey, dude, can I use your you know? And He’s like, yeah, go ahead. Gabe started talking about Christmas movies and said, if people are saying that Diehard was a Christmas movie, then I think you have to say Gremlins was also a Christmas movie because there’s Christmas trees or snow, and you know, the Gremlins destroying Santa Claus statues. This is amazing.

This is the second straight Monday. I remember to cross plug the weekly comedy thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. So what’s this, Johnny Mack. It’s kind of like this podcast, except the stories are shorter and I can play a bit.

So say I tell you a story about Master Brownie. I could play a clip by Master Brownie. All right, intrigued, how do you get this? Grab the app. It’s called Live one.

Grab a free account, look for the Weekly Comedy Thing. There you’ll find me telling you stories about people like this week, Eliza Selessenger, Sebastian Maniscalco, Master Brownie, Lewis Black, Whitney Cummings, Rodnie Dangerfield, Nate Pergatzy. Some comedians who might be off your radar are Andy Hendrickson, John Taylor and DJ Dimmers, Bill Burr. You know that is, Jim Gaffigan and Brian Reagan. The Weekly Comedy Thing.

On the Live one app, Vulture profiled Kathy Griffin. She talked about her new tour and said, this show is going to be more personal because I’ve been going through so much crazy stuff, really in front of anybody who’s paying attention. I actually do have PTSD, and I’m laughing because I thought that was only for combat veterans. But apparently if you’re put under investigation by the Department of Justice and the President wants you to be charged, and you put on the no fly list and your tour is canceled because of bomb threats, and then your phone doesn’t ring for six years, and then you get cancer and lose part of your voice because half your lung is gone. You gotta laugh about it.

I do something called cat cow. Were curious. What’s cat cow? She says, Well, it’s when I get on all fours like a kitty cat, and then I arch my back and I’m instructed by my teacher to say the word meow. I feel like a fool, but I do it.

Then I unarch my back and wait for it, I move like a cow. PTSD is a bitch, and when I get PTSD attacks, I can’t stop vomiting. So if I have to meow like a cat and move like a cow, I’m gonna do it. I’m laughing at her joke, not her situation. When I talked about it in Vegas, I could hear a recognition type of buzz in the audience, and I went, wait a minute, I’m not the only one who does effing cat cow.

Like half the audience collapsed. I had no idea that in times of trouble, other people were walking around their homes meowing like a kitty cat. Her tour is called My Life on the d List, which apparently she bought back the rights to Kathy said, all right, you’re gonna laugh. I’m watching TV one night and I see remember those Carol Burnett ads where she was like by the Carol Burnette Show on DVD like an idiot. Took years in tons of money, but I bought back my life on the d list, the Kathy Talk Show and all of my nineteen specials from Bravo, NBC Universal.

It cost me a fortune and lots of lawyers. Then I own my library right, very proud of myself, and I feel like a kick ass businesswoman. No one wants to buy it, not even Peacocks. I’m just gonna start putting it on YouTube, and I think on YouTube you get like a dollar per million views. God help me.

People profiled some of the best voice actors in the industry. They are, of course, Sadie Sandler and Sonny Sandler, who happened to be related to Adam Sandler and happened to be in his new movie Leo. At the premiere, Adam Sandler spoke to people about the advice he has shared with them about their career so far. Adam Sandler said, I tell them to make sure you feel good about what you do and how hard you worked, and you judge yourself. Don’t let too many people try to get in your head.

If you feel like you gave it, you’re all. That’s all you can ask. It’s always fun to be with my family. Adam Willee Sandler’s work together on any other projects. He said, you never know.

We had a great time at that bot mits of a movie and this one. We started doing this four years ago, and they grew up a little bit while doing this movie, so it’s been really nice and cracked. Asked, can Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills cop axl Fully be the top gun Maverick of comedy? My initial reaction was no, and then I thought about it and went, hmm, maybe. Empire Magazine released a photo of Eddie as axel Fully.

He’s giving off serious eighties vibes in a Detroit Lions lettermange jacket, swaggering around when it appears to be an overturned car. Everyone’s back Eddie Murphy. Judge Reinhold, Paul Reiser, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said, any time Eddie Murphy walks on set, and you never know what you’re gonna get, and it’s always pretty brilliant that’s your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too, And you can follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Laugh Factory hosted its forty third annual free Thanksgiving fees for the community. I was hoping to tell you about this one before Thanksgiving, and I’d googled it several times because I know they do this every year, but I hadn’t seen anything. Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada said, the key thing for us is everybody getting together and helping.

We give them an opportunity to forget about their life and just laugh. Some of the people dishing out dinner, Tiffany Hattish Ding cook Tom Dressen Dane has done this a few times and said, I came down here with my wife and I said, this is an experience like no other, and we have to come by. Tiffany said she’d experienced the event from the other side. She came to the Laugh Factory for Thanksgiving in nineteen ninety one. In those early years, she was the one who needed the meal.

Tiffany said, when I first started here, I was sitting at the tables eating. I was receiving a meal full circle, and I’m glad to keep doing that. The club is inviting the public to attend or volunteer at the next evening of dinners and shows that will be on Christmas Day. The Wall Street Journal magazine profiled Travis Kelsey. You know him, football player guy that’s dating Taylor Swift.

If you live in America, you’ve probably seen his face in the last two months. Why are you talking about this, John? Because Travis Kelsey talked about his love for comedy. J R. Moringer wrote the article.

He’s also the person who co wrote Prince Harry’s Spare cross plug for Pallace Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer on. We talk about the Royal Family. We’ve definitely talked about Spare anyway, Jr. Says Kelsey hauns clubs for open mic nights, and he’s gotten friendly with several rising stand ups.

I wonder who they are. Kelsey cited Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell is some of his comedy inspirations. He loves to rewatch movies with Chris Farley, Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler and intends to share those with his girlfriend, who I’ll remind you is Taylor Swift. Poor Taylor Swift is going to have to sit through Jack and Jill isn’t she. I’m sorry, Taylor, you might want to just break up with Travis and write the song now.

Actually, don’t sit through Jack and Jill, then write the song, Moranger wrote. Kelsey has warned to Taylor Swift she’s gonna have to reckon with that part of his personality. Kelsey’s quoted as saying, I told Taylor that I have the world, and I’ve got to introduce it to her. I let her know this is my jam right here. I’m so sorry.

Taylor. Up Rocks spoke to Ronnie ching the question do you want to host the Daily Show because then you don’t have flexibility to do other things. Ronnie said, I think John Stewart set the standard for how much dedication you need for the job to do it properly. The machine of the show is so strong, meaning the sports staff and the producers, the writers, the editors, the institution of the Daily shows. Probably it’s great a strength because they know how to do that show so well.

So you can make a show of news with jokes and ain’t get by on that pretty well. You can have a good life whatever, But if you really want to make that show great, you need a point of view, and you need to be very dedicated to the show, anticipating where the culture is right now and commenting on it. I’m happy with whatever they choose. I still think working at the show’s the best job in comedy. I don’t want to speak for the other people working there, but correspondent is I think, for sure the best job in comedy.

You come on, you learn a lot. Always said it’s like the Harvard Business School of comedy. Forget the fame, even if you don’t become one follower more famous. You learn how to write comedy, you learn how to perform, you learn how to edit, how to produce, how to direct, how to do improv TV production. Every field piece is like an indie film, and you have a lot of support.

All right, But you know, if we gave you the show, you might not be able to tour so much. Ronnie said, it would have to be a choice. If they came to me and they asked me, it would be giving up that tour work. Yeah, I’m not sure. I’m lucky to be in a position where I’m not just on the show, but outside the show, I’m doing the stuff that I like.

It would have to be something i’d consider I don’t know. It’s hard to answer. The follow up there as well, you’re clearly not campaigning for the job, and Ronnie said, I’m not Americans. I don’t know how to campaign for stuff. I look up to all the other correspondents, all the correspondents I ever worked with, I think are much better than me.

It’s very un American. But if you asked me from a purest skill set point of view, all the other correspondents were way better than me. When I first joined the show, it was like, Man, if I could be ten percent of any of the correspondents who’ve ever been on the show, if I could be ten percent as good as them, I’ll be extremely happy with myself. So that was my goal. So the other correspondents in AWE.

I look at everyone in AWE, everybody currently on the show. I like to think I’m pretty hard on myself. I think all comics are all the good comics I know. I can’t remember who told me this. I think Sam Maurel said this.

He said, all the good comics think they’re a hack. All the good comics hate their own routines, are just like I made them laugh. It’s the same old stuff I’ve been doing for months. Now, where’s the new bit. It’s almost like only the bad comics will walk on and be like, I’m the freaking greatest of all time.

Obviously that’s public persona, and then how you feel internally, So publicly, if your stand up persona is the grace of all time, then that’s different. How you feel inside. Do you believe your own actor? You’re just saying it for comedic effect. So I think all comics are just trying to write better jokes.

They feel like their own material isn’t the best. I think that’s a fairly common denominator among all the good comics I know. Good interview there, David Spade opened up the Fly on the Wall podcast, that’s the one he co hosts with Dana Carvey. Spade made it clear that the interviews are recorded in advance. Dana’s sun Dex passed away recently, and therefore there will not be any new episodes on the immediate horizon.

Spade said, Dana is obviously going through something semi unimaginable right now, and I can’t even put into words. Dana is one of my best buds, and it’s hard to watch this and of course, Dana really really appreciates the outpouring from every possible angle. Everyone I think understands how difficult it’s hard even talk about. They have a few episodes in the can, including one with Dana Ackroyd, then some best ofs comedic troop. The State playing the Riviera Theater in Chicago tonight.

The Chicago Sun Times caught up with them. They’re right At New York University. In the late eighties and early nineties, Michael ian Black was on an eleven member campus comedy group that he said scheduled rehearses for every single day, always for at least a few hours. That group is now called The State and largely still intact. Thomas Lennon, another member of the group, said, I don’t know what’s wrong with us.

We obviously have some weird codependency. We’re terrified to be without the other ones. If you go see the show tonight, they’ll be handing out stickers as a callback to the nineteen ninety five EHS compilation release of The States skits and stickers that included the note stickers not included. That’s hilarious, Michael ian Black said, so much of this tour has been about just being with my friends and doing it a way that’s supportive. Because the State in its early days wasn’t always the most supportive group.

We’re very cutthroat. It’s nice to revisit this group in a kinder, gentler way. Thomas Lennon said, I don’t think anyone ever thought would get rich and famous, And if you look at the numbers from the recent State tour, there’s still a lot of us in the group, so we kind of didn’t. Man, it is a million degrees here in the basement studio today. I just took my hoodie off.

Now understand that I’m one of those old people who has thermostats said to like eighty seven. My family hates me because I’m always cold, But boy, it’s warm in here today. I’ve been meaning to tell you, as many of you know, I hit the National Donuts Chain every morning. There’s a guy there that I have nicknamed Evil bill Engvall. He’s been there every morning for like the last month or so.

Why is he Evil bill Ingvall? And this is why I’m sharing the story this morning, because I made myself laugh. I nicknamed him Evil billying Vall because he looks like bill ing Vall. But he has a goateee, which is like the evil Spock joke from Star Trek and Community did that with Evil Abed, So he’s evil bill Ingvall. But then I remembered for a while there actual bill aning Vall had a go tea, So I’m not sure if this guy’s actually evil.

Anyway, if you like Sport the show, one way you can do it. You can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw a couple bucks in the tip jar. I will take your money and I will go to the National dont chain. I’ll get you one of these.

Well, I won’t get you one. No, I’m not getting you anything. I’m getting me one. Why did I say I was getting you one? That’s a complete lie.

No, it doesn’t work the way if you send me money. I’m not like buying you a coffee and going to your house and delivering you a coffee. That’s not how it works. Was that funny or do I sound like a jerky face? Anyway?

Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Phil Wang fantastic comedian. Where’s his special? I want to say it’s Netflix. He’s really good.

He apparently is in the new Wonka film. Is that thing going to bomb hard or what? Yes, it’s gonna bomb hard. No one wants this thing. Phil was on Graham Norton Show and said, I can’t tell you much about it, but I get to sing and dance.

It’s very exciting. I can tell you that I was dancing on a table and a cracked in half and I broke my arm. Apparently Wang was in a sketch group called Daphne, and they once had a skit featuring Wonka as an evil slave driver. Hm. I have a story here that I had pushed to the Weekend.

It’s about a comedian whose name rhymes with Bat’s life. I think I get a skip it today. I’m a little bat lifed out, aren’t you. Let’s skip that story. John Variety profiled Sarah Sherman, who said, I just like outrageous things.

I come from a loud, Jewish, outrageous family. I grew up liking, you know, crazy cartoons, and I love Joan Rivers and the Nanny and Garbage, Pale Kids and red and Stimpy and stuff like that. I grew up liking crazy stuff and then I came up doing comedy in Chicago more of a performance art community. I learned from all these crazy performance artists around me. Had to blend visual art and performance style.

They asked her about her talking meatballs a sketch. Sarah said, Dan Bulla who I write with on the show regularly, I seeing my stuff outside of sn Allan said, I have an idea for you. What if you’re a girl covered in singing meatballs. Sarah’s reaction, no problem. Absolutely.

Some people were like, that’s sketches, so you and I’m like, here’s the magic of the show. It’s actually not my idea. It was a blend of special effects in physical puppetry. The meatball heads were cast members putting their heads inside of a meatball puppet made by Monkey Boys Productions, who do all the puppets for the show and had real puppet arms and legs, And then the VFX team worked around the clock blending physical puppets with special effects and putting little shadows underneath the meatball arms and legs. Sounds like a lot of work.

They talked about the Colin Jo just chopbusting segments on Weekend Update. They haven’t done that in a while I like that a lot, Sarah said, Oh my goodness. The only reason I’m able to do that is because we’re friends and he can take it. He’s so supportive. The show’s amazing, of course, but it’s hard finding something that works.

Your first season gonna be a challenge, and I was like, hey, mind, if I come on, we can update and emotionally terrorize you. He’s like, yeah, no problem. Variety also had some fun facts about Sarah sherman favorite SNL sketch, Massive Head Wound Harry in nineteen ninety one, sketch that features Dana Carvey as a partygoer with a horrific injury. Comics who make Sarah Sherman laugh are Tim Robinson, Eric Andre and Tim Heidecker. She says, those guys are masters of being freaks, and she’s happy that Fran Drescher enjoyed her impression of Fran.

Sarah said, I saw her post about it on Instagram, which felt like a chef’s kiss, Fran’s stamp of approval. Do you hear my voice getting frogg a good thing? I have this iced coffee here because I’m about to record Monday as well. I’ll be back tomorrow, assuming I actually record tomorrow’s episode, and that’s the plan for thirty seconds from now, so hopefully nothing horrific happens in the next minute. Come back tomorrow we’ll find out.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Congratulations. Bo Burnham making history on the Billboard Charts. The soundtrack album to his Netflix comedy special Bo Burnham Inside has spent a record breaking one hundred and twenty second non consecutive week at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album charts.

Those charts don’t move around a lot. It’s not like the music charts. You’ll see things stay a really long time. The comedy charts started in two thousand and four. The most weeks at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album’s chart Bo bernerm at one twenty two, passes Little Dicky’s Professional Rapper at one twenty one, then a gap to Dean Cook’s retaliation with forty nine, Weird Al’s Mandatory Fun at thirty four, Lonely Islands, Turtleneck and Chain at thirty four.

That was a huge album that year. Flight of the Concords at twenty three weeks, Lonely Islands and Credit Bad twenty two. Actually, I thought in Credit Bad was the more popular when the Turtleneck and Chain, hm, my memory is getting fuzzy. Dan Cook’s rough around the Edges was up there for twenty two weeks, weird Al straight out of Lynnwood for twenty two and wait, what is this? The Bob’s Burgers music album soundtrack was number one for twenty weeks.

Now, let me ask you a couple of questions here. If you’re a new listener. Right, regular listeners know the two questions can ask, But if you’re new, let me ask you a couple questions here. First question, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t.

I know you haven’t. Nobody has. This thing has supposedly been around for fifteen years, and apparently there was a soundtrack of the show. I believe the soundtrack exists. I believe merch exists.

I’ve definitely seen the merch. I’ve definitely seen the promos for the show. But have you ever actually seen this show? Like, have you been home and you’re sitting in front of a screen of some sort and Bob’s Burgers actually comes on? I don’t think you have.

Second question, and this one is the really weird one. Have you ever met anyone, anyone at all who has seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t. Now, isn’t that weird for a show that’s been on for fifteen years. The Bob’s Burgers Music out twenty weeks on the charts.

Bo Burnham has been at the top every now and then he gets kicked off. Four of those weeks he got kicked off by And this will totally show you how the comedy charts work. The Monster Mash Yeah, the one from nineteen sixty two annually that charts in October. Another thing that kicked it out of the number one spot Mouse Rats, the awesome album, the band led by Chris Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer from Parks and Reck that kicked it in November of twenty one, and Steel Panthers on the Prow kicked it in March of twenty three. The album became Bo Burnham’s fourth number one album on the Comedy Album’s chart.

The only other artists with four or more number ones. I’ll remind you this only started in what I say two thousand and four, so you’re not gonna hear George Carlin, Richard Pryor, but Larry the Cable Guy has seven. Steel Panther If you don’t know what it is, parody metal band picture Van Hallen, but comedy that seven Jim Gaffigan with six, Weird Out with five, Nephew Tommy with five, The Lonely Island with five, Dean Cook with four, Doug Stanhup with four, Flight of the con Chords with ford, and Patton Oswalt with four. I’m unfamiliar with Nephew Tommy. Apparently he co hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show where he makes prank phone calls.

Some of you were screaming your podcast right now. I don’t know. I do this every day. Never saw his name before. You’d be mad at me.

It’s okay. Naperghatsy is still talking about his October nineteenth appearance at the Hertman Arena why he shared a video. The video starts with Naperghatsy walking through Hartman Arena and mentioning he’s going to do a sound check and go for run. Then it cuts to him flopped in a chair with a hoodie on his head, not looking nearly as perky as he previously did. Nate says, well, I think the lesson we’ve learned here running is bad for Gassie describes how his hands and feet started itching and he felt his lip swelling.

Kansas allergies, most likely due to Ragweed it hit him hard. Next he starts talking to some dude who supposedly was a doctor. Nate says, we don’t know who this guy is. He talks a great game though. Well it turns out it was Sean Wadsworth, who’s a physician with Atlas MD.

Wadsworth was home getting ready to go to the show for fun and he got a call that somebody needed help. Bergatsy said he resisted taking Benajoe because would make him sleepy, but that’s what Watsworth suggested over the phone. Wadsworth said he didn’t know who was helping un till he showed up and was shocked to find out of his neate he had put some other medicine in his pockets as he walked out the door, and he had made fun of him, saying he brings all his medicine in his pocket. Doctor Sean, guess he’s legit. A lot of people watching Mike Birbigley as Old Man and the Pool on Netflix this weekend.

For Biggs was on The Last Laugh podcast. Mike said, it’s weird sometimes with these shows they get so personal. I’ll be on stage thinking am I saying this to strangers? What am I doing. It’s almost like I sometimes become the people who are criticizing me in my personal life who were like, what are you doing?

And I’m on stage and I’m thinking, Yeah, what am I doing? He talked about anxiety and journaling. Burb Big said, when I was in high school and a lot of college in my twenties, had a lot of anxiety, would have this shortness of breath. I’d talk about a little bit in the show where I feel like I can’t catch my breath. Through the years, starting my twenties, I started to see a therapist, and then at a certain point I started to write it in a journal.

And that was when I made that observation. When I started writing in a journal, I felt like, oh wow, I actually I do feel better afterwards.

And now I always recommend it to people because I’m like, it’s the least expe…

Writing in a journal. Write down what you’re the stadtest about angry, it’s about feel most strongly about, because more often than not, you start to go, oh, actually it’s not so bad. I’m furious about this. I’m angry, but this and the grand scheme of things not too bad. Mike also talked about aging, and he said, one of my favorite comics, Taylor Thomason, came on a podcast and she says, my sister and I used to watch you when we were in middle school, and she’s a fully realized, fantastic comedian.

The idea of middle school that’s a long ago, right, But in some ways I feel like I have a foot in both universes. I’m at the comedy seller quite a bit working out jokes, and I cross paths with a lot of people in their twenties I feel a kinship with, and then I cross paths with people like Chris Rock and Colin Quinn, who I feel like I have a certain kinship with. Two. I don’t feel like I’m in one camp or the other. I just feel like I’m somewhere in the middle of those two things.

Amen, ver Biggs. My breed is young, and you know, I recently did the Reese and then my body reminded me that I’m fifty four. I feel you. Adam Sandler spoke to Indye Wire some details about his reunion with the Safty Brothers. The Safty Brothers are the creative forces behind the best actually good, Adam Sadlor movie Uncut Gems.

Uncut Gems is a fantastic film. If you listen every day, you know, I’m not the biggest Adam, Saidlor fan, but Uncut Gems is solid and clearly the best of the Adam Sandler films. The Safty Brothers are working with Adam Sandler on untitled Netflix film. It has something to do with baseball, Sailor said, we’re not sure right now. We kind of missed the opportunity of baseball season because of the strike.

A lot of it was gonna be shot during live baseball, So it’s gonna take a minute. We’re figuring out right now. I’m not sure when it’s gonna happen. Saandlor has previously teased that the script was inscene and originally three hundred forty pages. They’ve been writing this movie we’re supposed to do together for a couple of years.

They just write hundreds and hundreds of pages. I’ll read them and say I like the part when this and they’ll be like, oh, that’s not in it anymore. We did a whole other thing. We’re gonna send you a new draft. They just don’t stop writing and thinking, coming at every angle they can in this movie We’re Gonna Do is pretty amazing.

John Lovettz doesn’t like all this political comedy on your late night shows. Lovetzi was talking to Fox and said, I don’t like it. They were comedy shows and now, except for Jimmy Fallon, they’ve all become very political, and for me it’s too much. I mean, Johnny Carson, would you know he would do two or three jokes about whoever was president and what was going on. That was it.

But they were entertainment shows. I know all these guys, and they’re very nice guys, very talented. I know Seth, I know Stephen Colbert, I know Jimmy Kimmel. I think they’re funny. You know.

Then they started doing political stuff like so one sided, and it’s like it’s this whole thing. It’s just like, it’s not the shows I used to go on. You know, it is The Tonight Show and David Letterman, it’s their show. They could do whatever they want. But if you’re asking me do I like it, I’m like no.

If I want the news, I’ll watch the news. I’m not watching those shows. They’re late night entertainment, but it’s all political, except for Jimmy fallon. They keep getting mad at Jimmy, why are you going to politics? Because he’s doing a silly like escapism entertainment show.

They just hammer it to death and they become here’s my political agenda. They’re very open about it, and I’m like, well, all right, I have no saying that it’s their show, you know, but I don’t particularly like that they’ve become that that’s where the comedians and the stand up of the bits, you know, like Letterman, who’s comedy. The Guardian asked Eliza Slessinger with her current show, Hard Feelings is about, and she said, up top, I use my experience going through a bizarre strip club as a lens to examine how little women actually have to do in reality to turn men on. It’s a fast paced, super energetic, poignant, at a times whimsical, social commentary on BS standards, cancel culture, freedom of speech, plastic surgery, pumpkin spice lattes, and my red hot take on gen Z versus millennials. Eliza touring while pregnant, she said, I don’t think about it much.

A body in motion stays in motions, so I get out into the city and never miss my one alloud, cup of coffee, try to target one or two cultural things, eat as many local snacks as I can before the heartburn catches up. But do workouts when available, and I always allow myself time to rest. What else would she like to try in the future, Eliza said, what people don’t see or all the projects that fail or forever in limbo. Basically takes an act of God to get a movie or a TV show made. Like any hard working artist in entertainment, I’m always writing a screenplay, a pilot, shooting something, pitching something, or meeting with someone.

I’d like to have a movie or TV show come to fruition at twenty four. It’d be great to get a series on the air, be able to create a universe and have more than a season with it. All I ever want is from my idea is to see the light of day in a meaningful way. Leanne Morgan spoke to Forbes about when she was starting out, and she said, well, Brian at Zani’s in Nashville told me, Leanne, you’ve got three babies. This is gonna be very hard for you to do.

Because I wanted to do comedy clubs. I did a few clubs every year, but I just tried to get anywhere on stage that I could but raise my children number one. So if you needed someone for a fundraiser, I was your fundraiser girl, or the Rotary Club. Then I got a tour early on with Karen Mills called the Southern Fried Chicks. I was really the opener, and that was two thousand and four.

That was really kind of like my comedy club. I really developed my first forty five minutes on that tour. We did about fifty dates a year. It was on the weekend, so I didn’t have to have a babysitter. I was always working.

It just wasn’t always the traditional path. Westward spoke to Jay Farrow, who said, it’s a blessing I have the SNL name on my resume. After you’re in an institution like that, all the other jobs are in as hard. That one is so mentally and physically demanding that everything else is a cake walk. I got to be there at what time?

Eleven am, and I’m done at five. Oh yeah, I’ll be there at SNL. The writing happens late at night. For example, on Tuesdays, I’d be there from two pm till about eleven am the next one. It’s a grind man, but grind makes diamonds.

If you can get there and make something for yourself, then your set. I mean, look at Pete. David said, He’s in like twenty commercials right now. And that is your comedy news for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ope, you had a good Thanksgiving. I want to thank Matt Rife because this should be a slow newsweek. It’s not at all.

We’re going to talk about Matt Rife again, Johnny Mack. You never mentioned him but before that’s some leftovers from late Night. President Biden turned to eighty one recently. Seth Meyers said President Biden celebrated his eighty first birthday, but not as much as Republicans did. Jimmy Kimmel pointed out Joe Biden’s sixtieth birthday is now old enough to drink.

The Mary Sue asks a good question, why has Matt Rife turned against his female fan base? The Mary Sue writes, so you want to shout out to testosterone or something. To be fair, Matt Riife said he’s incredibly grateful for women for basically making him famous, but he wants men to be his fans too, and thinks comedy is quotes more for guys than Mary Sue says. It’s a weird energy I don’t really understand, made even weirder by his comedy special where he kicks things off with a domestic violence joke and more. It’s one thing to know that your work found a phantom online that it might not have found otherwise.

On one hand, I guess I could see oh Rife would have to pivot, But then to decide let me use women and then turn on them when I found fame really does feel like the worst possible move. Rife again only really posted his crowd work online, and women defended him in comments and online when people would criticize him for focusing on CrowdWork over jokes.

Now for you page is filled with people turning on him for his actual jokes, a…

The Mary su continues and says in a special he also goes on to try and uplift women, I guess by mocking our obsessions with the zodiac and crystals. I’m so tired of you lady’s blaming your poor decision making skills on planets that don’t even know you. Get this through your head. Astrology is in this magical life guideline that predetermines your future in the stars. No, none of that.

Your future future is dependent on your own thoughts, opinions, and actions. You’re in complete control of how your future turns out, it’s not up here, It’s in here the whole time. It’s up to you the mary who writes, is that meant to make me happy? Why do men constantly feel the need to trash those who look to astrology. There’s not a joke in there.

I don’t care what his end goal was, even if his intentions were purity, just meant to simply show his comedy was not just crowd work. That’s not what he said. He said he wasn’t just for a female base. Women helped to make him. I hope he likes his male fan base.

I hope they love his gross jokes and support his little tiktoks, because whatever the intention is behind this, it’s an absolute betrayal of the people who helped to sport his work as a comedian. In Glamour, Kathleen Walsh writes under the headline Matt Riife tried to impress the guys with his misogyny. It bankfired. Kathleen writes the idea that Riife is trying to change his brand isn’t a leap by the way, Riife has literally said he doesn’t want to make comedy for women. The week before special began streaming.

Rife told Variety one thing I wanted to tackle in the special was showing that despite we think about me online, I don’t pander my career to women. I would argue this special is way more for guys. Rife was also on the Chicks in the Office podcast. He says he attracts audiences of ninety percent women who aren’t fans for the right reasons, who quickly realize his shtick isn’t for them, so they bring their boyfriends or husbands, who are always reluctant because they probably bought the tickets they didn’t wan to be there, and then like twenty minutes into the show, they realize, my comedy is so much more for guys than it is for girls. A fellow comedian on TikTok and a video said, imagine throwing away millions of dollars and fans who like you to cater to unfunny white dudes.

Collett’s Fountain wrote for The Daily Beast under the headline Matt Riife wants men to like him, so he punches down at women. Collette wrote about a recent interview with Matt Rife where he weighs in on the age old question of where to draw the line in comedy, how dark is too dark, and what can modern audiences withstand. Matt’s take was you could say whatever you want. Now you have to prepare for the repercussions. But at the end of the day, it all comes down new how do you sleep at night?

Collett writes, and for Rife, the repercussions have been swift and harsh. Notorious nice guy Hank Green. I’m not familiar with who Hank Green is, and then I looked him up. But I still can’t tell you who Hank Green is. But he’s a notorious nice guy.

Seems cool. This Hank Green person, wrote, a comedian ruining his relationship with a large portion of his fan base because he wanted to be like all the other boring as Netflix special you can’t tell jokes any more. Crowd is actually just depressing, but Collett writes, it doesn’t have to be this way, and James Casters coldlasign he hate myself nineteen ninety nine. A Caster opens by saying, edgy comedians, no one tells them what they can and can’t say. They walk straight on stage, do ten minutes, sometimes just slagging off transgender people, people on the internet.

Get that upset about it. The comedians always like bad luck. That’s my job. I’m a stand up comedian attempting to join the lights of Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervation, Jimmy Carr. Matt Riife seems to care more about a status among other men they did us about his own career.

For him to be taking seriously as a comic is to punch down passable crowd work does not make you a great comedian. On Short All, Sam Serrano writes under the headline Matt Rife in the Trouble with being a TikTok Comedian. Serrano writes, it’s not hyperbolic to say matt Riife is the most successful comedian working today, with six point four million Instagram followers, eighteen point two million TikTok followers, and a world tour that sold six hundred thousand tickets in forty eight hours. He’s undeniably successful, but his latest special isn’t doing him many favors. Serrano says, as a comedian, I’ve recently started putting out stand up clips online to try to build a following, and there’s certainly pressure all comedians do the same.

We’ve seen circuit veterans such as Jeff Innison be able to tour for the first time relatively new acts build fan bases. They can perform too and sell out arenas. It’s been great to see comedians now have the ability to create their own audiences, even when TV in the industry isn’t backing them. However, social media does create a culture of if you’re not constantly on people’s phones, you’ll be forgotten, and I think this could become a problem creating content. How many good pieces of an art can somebody make it a year.

If a musician puts out four full albums in a year, or an author puts out four full novels, it’s going to be hard for them to keep up their quality. As creative people, we’re supposed to take time and be perfectionist about what we make. But as content creators for social media, it’s recommended to put something out every day, so the two can clash. I don’t think it’s completely out of the question to say that. Matt Ryfus also felt the spression to put content out, but on a much larger scale.

So when people say the material in the latest special is under cooked or weak, it’s because he hasn’t given himself the amount of time necessary to make it as good as it can be. I can quite safely say if he had given himself another six months to get this special ready, then he would have taken the joke out and replaced it with a better one. From how I I see it, the pressure to put content out and continue growing your audience as left Matt with a comedy special getting slated when it could have been decent if given the time to be fully formed. Ricky Gervaise has a controversy of his own, although this one pretty harmless. You see, Ricky in a recent tweet, referred to himself as middle aged.

Ricky is sixty two. People are debating whether or not sixty two is middle aged. A fan asked, Ricky, is it suitable to watch his new special with his nan and gramp on Christmas Day? Ricky joke depends. Do they enjoy watching a middle aged man swearing, joking about the Holocaust and pretending to do something nasty with a nasty person.

You don’t need to know what the rest of that joke was, trust me. And that was the controversy. Somebody said, calling yourself middle aged at sixty two is a bit of a stretch. You consider yourself middle aged? That’s funny.

But somebody else said I thought he was forty five. Sixty two is crazy. Another added he could pass for forty five. Somebody settled this with a screenshot of the Google definition of middle aged, with states it refers to a person aged between forty five and sixty five. The Guardian spoke to Eliza’s lessenger and said, I’m thinking what many women are thinking, but saying it out loud.

They asked her if she could recall a gig so bad that it’s now funny. Listen to this, She said, I was probably around twenty four. A country club outside La requested all female comics. When we got there was a room full of fifty to sixty year old men having a party where they had also hired strippers who were dancing and sitting on laps. While we told jokes awful, we were told who ever did the best one two hundred dollars.

At that time, all of my material was about La traffic and pizza. I didn’t win the money. I’m still sorry about it. All right, Eliza, where do you find your material? She said?

The most relatable juiciest stuff is what’s in all our minds. The craft of comedy comes from realizing that what I’m thinking is probably what many people, many women are thinking, and it just takes saying it out loud. I get a lot of matereer if from being honest about my own feelings, my fears, and embarrassment. I’m also constantly fascinated by the science, biology, and sociology behind why men and women act the way they do. Everything we say when we date, are in relationships, relating to each other is based on a need to feel scene, to survive, to feel heard, and I love talking about it best.

Heckle all eyes a messenger, she said, I have a joke about how ubiquitous the term bitch has become boss, bitch, bad bitch, et cetera. And I posit that women become bitches because of systematic mistreatment and discomfort. But no woman wants to be a bitch. No woman wakes up and sets her morning attention to bitch mode. So some guy once yelled out, you never woke up next to my sister, And I was like, why are you waking up next to your sister?

Any pre show rituals Eliza said, I go to the green room and any sugar around I will inhale. I start to get excited for the show and it makes me hungry, so I’ll eat a bunch of snacks and then check on merch to make sure it’s set up the way I like. We’ve been doing one of a kind signed polaroids of me, and fans love them, so I do those. Then I try to remember to drink water. I pee five or six times, and I always walk my feature act to side stage for the start of the show.

I call it walk into the school, but I like to be there when the show starts to see them take the stage. I think it sets a good energy. Salon recapped Mary Trump’s appearance with Kathy Griffin. Mary Trump is the niece and frequent critic of Uncle Donald. This took place on a video conversation available only for paid subscribers to a newsletter.

They started mocking Joe Rogan listeners for believing Joe Rogan is the news. Kathy Griffin said, I have to wonder because when I first met him back in the day, he was a freaking road comic. He had a good act. He was the best of the best. I don’t think he would even say that, but he wasn’t horrible.

And then something happened where he decided to get all like writ it up. And I haven’t seen him in many years, but the last time I saw him, I didn’t even recognize him. And he became a UFC announcer, which is just Mary Trump said. The idea that somebody like Joe Rogan, who you know, has like the IQ of a turn up, is so influential it’s kind of terrifying. I was catching up on Trevor Noah’s podcast.

A couple comments here. First of all, Trevor Noah Podcast Company, why don’t you put more commercials in? I know people sometimes tell me I have a lot of commercials. Why don’t you listen to Trevor Noah’s podcast and then come back here and tell me I have too many commercials? Okay?

I also noticed the show starts with ten minutes of Trevor’s talking to people. It’s not clear to me who the people are. He may have set the table and explained who they are. Maybe they didn’t, but it’s the host job to get that into your brain, and not only do this podcast. I’ve worked in the industry for thirty years.

I’m a professor. I’ll point out to people to this day. Howard Stern will say things like Gary, you’re the producer, and everybody who listens to Howard knows Gary’s the producer. But that’s for the one person who might not get it, or you’ll qualify like former President Barack Obama as opposed to just saying Obama that kind of stuff. So I don’t really know who Trevor’s talking to, but he talks them for like ten twelve minutes.

Skip skip skip skip skip skip skip skip skip the interviews. I know what Trivor’s going for, and he’s not looking to do a comedy show. But I’m already finding the show not fun. Might hit unfollow, We’ll see. Chelsea Handler was touring New England and told the Western Mass News, I live, eat, and breathe comedy.

That’s me. I’m an East Coasters. Every time I come to the East Coast, it feels like coming home East Coast, all the way, food, culture, all of it. She was looking forward to eating fried clams. I like fried clams.

Lots I’ll probably get after that. Her new set is based on stories from her childhood. She said, I started my own babysitting company when I was ten, and I lied and said it was fifteen. So I ended up babysitting for a fourteen year old boy for two summers who was about seventeen when I got done with him, and I was twelve. Yeah, it was an interview with a comedian, so they had to talk about cancel culture, and she said, there’s so much ugliness going on around the world.

So it kind of feels more purposeful and more important than ever to be a comedian and be able to bring people together in a sense of togetherness and joyfulness. I’m a powerful woman that’s demonstrated throughout my stand up, and this is the takeaway. I think the most effective way to impact other women is to also feel the same way about themselves. I don’t think anybody’s ever too young to watch me. But if you’re watching me when your parents were telling you not to, you were doing the right thing.

It’s important for me to get near brains and psychees early. A federal judge has dismissed most of Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against Meta This about the unauthorized use of author’s copyrighted books to train AI models US District Judge Vince Chabria offered a full throated denial of one of the author’s core theories that metas ai system is itself an infringing derivative work made possible only by information extracted from copyrighted material. In July, Sarah had also joined a class action against open Ai, accusing the company of copyright infringement. We’ll keep an eye on that one. That is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. Although I am recording this on Wednesday afternoon, I will admit I have my foot off the gas today.

Thanksgiving might be slightly fewer listeners than usual Tomorrow all about Matt Rife. I just recorded Friday before I did this one. There’s a ton of Matt Rife controversy. We’ll cover that tomorrow. If you’re a new listener, don’t judge me by today.

I’m about to do some awful Thanksgiving jokes. Normally the show is not this hacky, but I’ve been doing this the last few Thanksgivings and it’s just fun and makes me smile. All Right, you already hacky Thanksgiving jokes? Why did the turkey bring a microphone? He was ready to roast?

Which side of a turkey has more feathers the outside? What did the turkey say when he met the president? Pardon me? How does a turkey travel by grievy train? And what do you call it?

Turkey? The day after Thanksgiving? Lucky Jim Gaffick wrote about Thanksgiving back in twenty fourteen. Jim wrote, back then, everyone seems to gain weight during the holidays. Unfortunately, the way I eat, I often find myself gaining weight for the holidays.

This positive spin on my approach is that it makes the holiday weight gain seem less dramatic. Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Sure, the Canadians have a Thanksgiving, but I think they have theirs in October. Something weirdos I don’t think they even celebrate Fourth of July. Thanksgiving is intended to be about gratitude, a day of gratitude.

Thank God, there’s a day for us to focus on being grateful, because I’d hate the idea of having to be grateful year round. We express this gratitude by over consuming turkey and assortment of side dishes and of course pies. Jim wrote some dialogue here. Again, this was a print article, but I can imagine him voice painting this. He talked about what little effort went into the planning?

How about it? Thanksgiving we just eat a lot, but Americans do that every day. Well, what if we eat with a lot of people that are only the hell out of us? Thanksgiving is all about overeating. Even one of the main dishes is actually called stuffing.

What names did they turn down cram it in. I hope the turkeys never find out about this practice of stuffing turkey. You guys are gonna kill me human. Oh, it’s gonna get a lot worse. Back in twenty eighteen, Jerry Seinfeld was on with Jimmy Fallon and Jerry said, everyone loves Thanksgiving, but let’s remember it’s an absolute horror.

The warmth in the horror of this day like itself warm and wonderful underneath horror and tragedy. From twenty twenty two, Kamil Nanjianni doesn’t understand why Americans eat turkey. His parents recent immigrants and wanted to participate in the tradition. They came up with a solution. Kamel tells a story.

They’re like, we have to put a lot of macella on the turkey because we don’t like how it tastes. I’m like, you don’t have to eat turkey, and they’re like, it’s Thanksgiving. Kmeil said, turkey tastes like chicken having a bad day. Tweenty years ago. Let’s face it, Turkey’s not that good, and people were like, go back to your country.

Heather McMahon spoke to the Messenger and said, I’m over turkey. I want a filet. I want surf and turfer Thanksgiving, a blooming onion from out back Steakhass would be perfect. She’s hoping to turn off football and force her family to watch her special for the ten thousand times. Don’t worry, my mom will criticized me in a funny way and tell me I shouldn’t have worn that shit, that makeup wasn’t flattering or whatever.

That’s what it will be watching for the holidays. I’ll be honest with you. I think Black Friday is for sociopaths. However, I’ll probably be an old Navy down by my host because I’m an old Navy gown. I love it.

If they put those Rockstar jeans on sale, I’ll be there. I’ll try and be lazy and laight in bed all day and relax a drink while I’m cooking all day, and then my mom, who’s seventy five and sassy, You’ll be like, get in the car. It’s an extra seventy percent off. And I’ve done this a few years in a row. Rolling Stone broke down Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving song back in twenty nineteen.

It is an amazing breakdown. The Thanksgiving song debuted on November twenty first, nineteen ninety two, on Saturday Night Live, then appeared on his nineteen ninety three album They’re All Gonna Laugh At You. Rolling Stone wrote, to truly appreciate the song’s inherent brilliance, we must examine Sandler’s free associate of lyrics, one rhyme at a time. Right, you’re ready. First one love to eat turkey because it’s good.

Love to eat turkey like a good boy should. Rolling Stone wrote, one of the most important rules of songwriting is to open with the line that your listeners can immediately relate to. And who doesn’t love to eat turkey? Lesus? Of course you’re vegan, in which case you can easily substitute tofurkey without messing up the rhyme scheme.

Genius. All right, next couplet turkey for me, eat turkey for you. Let’s eat the turkey in my big brown shoe. God. I love Adam Sandler’s comedy.

I mean, right there, that is just brilliant, rolling Stone wrote, after finding common ground with his listeners. In the first verse, Saanidlor throws a curve with a non sequitor clearly influenced by the surrealism movement of the twenties and thirties. Andre Brayton sure would be proud, all right. Next couplet, love to eat the turkey at the table. I once saw a movie with Betty Graebil.

God, I love Adam Sandler’s comedy so much. Rolling Stone brilliantly wrote. One of the most popular actresses and pinups in the nineteen forties, Betty Graebel famously had a million dollar insurance policy taken out on her legs. By twentieth century Fox Sailor may be here, subtly comparing the flavor of a roast turkey leg to the deliciousness of Grabel’s gambs. Next couplet, eat that turkey all night long.

Fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong, Rolling Stone rites, it’s no coincidence that Adam Sandler’s Salutes perhaps the greatest of the King’s Greatest its compilations. Ninety fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong. Elvis’ Gold Records Volume two. Thanksgiving was a big holiday for Elvis. Not only could the man put away some serious grub, but six of his films were initially released on Thanksgiving Day, m Well played, sir, oh, there’s more turkey lurky dew and turkey lurky dap.

Eat that turkey, then I take a nap, rolling Stone says saidlor again, finding common ground with his listeners, Sandler invokes the time honored Thanksgiving tradition of sacking out after dinner and a trip to fan and carbohydrate Hayes love this next couple. Thanksgiving is a special night. Jimmy Walker used to say, Dino might Now this song is from nineteen ninety two. Here thirty years later, do you kids even know what we’re talking about? Rolling Stone reminds us Sandler humbly acknowledges the fleeting nature of fame with his touching shout out to Jimmy JJ Walker, a popular actor and comedian of the nineteen seventies.

Another dated reference turkey with gravy and cranberry. Can’t believe the Mets traded Darryl Strawberry. Well, first of all, the Mets didn’t trade Daryl Strawberry. He left as a free agent. Rolling Stone analyzed that fun fact and said, this cup but may be meant as a fly on the wall.

Snippet of a conversation evolving a father or uncle whose opinions on sports are really grounded in reality. Turkey for you and Turkey for me. Can’t believe Tyson gave that girl VD speculation that this is another fly on the wall conversation. Next up, white meat, dark meat. You just can’t lose.

I fell off my moped and I got a bruise. Rolling Stone says an important public safety message from sailor who knows firsthand the dangers of operating a vehicle. Turkey in the oven and the buns and the toaster. I’ll never take down my Cheryl Tigg’s poster. Not much analyzed there, other than Cheryl Tiggs being the first model to appear multiple times on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

Next up, Warning, couplets a little naughty. I’ll clean it up. Wrap the turkey up in aluminum foil. My brother likes to do stuff with baby oil. Rolling Stone then analyzed the baby oil reference.

You either know you don’t happy Thanksgiving Turkey and sweet potato pie. Sammy Davis Junior only had one eye straightforward reference to Sammy Davis June Yes. Next up, Turkey for the Girls. Turkey for the boys. My favorite kind of pants are corduroys.

God. I love Adam Saylor’s comedy It’s brilliant. Gobble gobblego and Gobble Gobble Giggle. I wish turkey only cost a nickel, Rolling Stone says, of course, as turkey dinner costs much more than nickel these days, there are many people living below the poverty line who can’t afford to put the Thanksgiving meal on their table. With this concluding couplet, Sailor asks us to remember the less fortunate during this and every holiday season.

From the ASU website. Comedia Christina Wong is drawing laps as a food bank influencer. She’s got a humorous show called Sex Lies and food Banks, reimagining the future of emergency food. She does parody songs one two Welcome to the Jungle, which is welcome to the food bank. We got groceries if you got no money, honey, we take ebt.

Using humor to make her point, Wang asks the audience reveal the things they’ve done to get a free meal when they were food insecure, and they answered, including attending on campus events, going on boarding dates, volunteering to pack boxes at a food bank, and exchange for a hot meal, and going to a church you don’t believe in. She says, I’m not curing food insecurity. I’m curing food going into a landfill. Will you be eating spam today? Probably not.

But The Guardian has reviewed the revival of the Spamalot Musical one of my favorite musicals. I’ve seen it. I saw the original run twice on Broadway, I’ve seen a regional presentation of it, and I’m looking forward to seeing the new one. Four stars out of five from the Guardian, and they wrote, if you saw the Broadway production the first time, of course you’re going to go back. Who would pass up a chance to relive Eric idols hilariously dark spoof of the Middle Ages.

They particularly enjoy the song that goes like this, which includes the promise I’ll sing it in your face while we both embrace. Spam Alot open November sixteenth at the Saint James Theater. You should go. And that’s your comedy news for this Thanksgiving. Hope you have a good one meets you back here tomorrow.

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