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The shark deck hidly home. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Patton Oswalt talk to the graduating seniors at William and Mary and said, to the graduating class of twenty twenty three, I say three words, you poor bastards, He said, don’t think of me as your commencement speaker. Think of me as your shift manager at the Walmart. Patton said, if he was giving the same speech back in twenty thirteen, it would be the Walmart manager equivalent of a pep talk.
Clean up the spill near the sporting goods, set up the Halloween display, easy manageable task expected of any employee. But in twenty twenty three, a go get him pep talk won’t work anymore. The environment in twenty three is like if a tornado had ripped the roof off the store, while an eighteen wheeler has overturned and set looser truck rolled of rabid white Nashalist possums in the gun department. This is some speech, Patton said. Your concerns as you stumble out into the reality tomorrow.
Massive democracy is crumbling, truth is up for grabs, the planet’s trying to kill us, and loneliness is driving everyone insane. Took a pause and said, let’s hear it for the nihilists out there. Huh. Patton said, when he graduated, he basically breezed into a world full of trivia and silliness and fun. The new grads are about to enter a hellscape where you have to fight for every scrap of your humanity and dignity.
At that point, he stopped to check his notes and he said, in the margins, say something positive here, He says, I’m a comedian. I’ll get out of this. I’ll watch this. This will be amazing. He looks the grass in the eye and says, you do not have a choice but to be anything but extraordinary.
It’s been truly amazing to see how your generation has rebelled against every bad habit of mine and every generation that came before me. Everything we let calcifa, you’ve kicked against and demolished. You’ve rejected that whole twenty four seven no days off grind. You’ve rejected apathy. You’ve rejected ignoring your mental health because you’ve got a muscle through it.
No matter what. You’ve rejected alienation and cruelty. You’ve rejected not trying to include everyone you’ve rejected, not looking out for each other. And those are hard things to reject because accepting them sometimes makes life way easier. Great speech, Huh.
Patton had some advice for people with lesser GPAs his was at two eight, and he said, obviously you should work hard and bully hard, but you should also wander easier. Right and by the way, in the spirit of my two point eight GPA, the last two pages of my speech I finished an hour before I gave this his final thoughts. Be human in all of its bedlambon, beauty and madness and mercy for as long as you can, and in any way you can. It’s time to live. Jay Leno looked back on his famous nineteen ninety five Hugh Grant interview.
Wow it doesn’t feel that long ago, does it, Jay told the Hollyer reporter. I called him up and I said, you’re still in for tomorrow, and he goes, yeah, Hugh greenk goes, you know, I affed up, but you know it’s my fault. Leno asked the famous question, what the hell were you thinking? Chris Wallace interviewed Jane was curious how he came up with that question, Jay said, just off the top of my head, you know he was great. Nowadays you’d have one hundred handlers more.
Jay Leno news the total press release clickbait, and I clicked, and I took the bait, but all right. Carnival Cruise Line has announced that Jay Leno will serve as the godfather to its new ship, Carnival Venezia. Yeah, okay, I’ll play. Press release. The ship is the first to incorporate the Carnival Fun Italian style.
Jay will perform a special comedy show exclusively for Carnival’s event guests. Jay said, I’m truly ownored to be named the godfather of Carnival Venizia. I was an offer I couldn’t refuse. Carnival’s focus on fun, combined with the Italian theming of the ship is something that’s truly unique. I’m also excited to at my very own cruise ship, although I think I’ll need a bigger garage.
They also used like a picture of j that’s I don’t know, forty years old. He’s got a little gray hair in the picture, but not that much, and he’s a couple of pounds lighter. John Oliver will not be picking up an eighth straight Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series at the Emmy’s if we have the Emmys. Wow, that’s shocking. But there’s a reason the Academy changed the categories around a little bit last week.
Tonight, we’ll be battling it out with SNL and A Black Lady Sketch Show in the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series. Deadline says, now the race for late night show is more open than it’s been for years. You could consider Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, or Seth or the Daily Show. Seth Meyers said, I liked the answer to how does somebody beat John Oliver is you just move them to another category. Deadline spoke to a number of late Nights sources over last few months.
The general consensus is that the Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel, Alive Late Night in the Daily Show will get nominations. Multiple people suggested that Jimmy Kimmel will now be the front runner to win. He’s well liked, and some highlight the fact that he’s an LA guy, which could play well with voters, as well as Jimmy’s kept his profile high with jobs like hosting the Oscars or Voters have been known to give a nod to an exiting favorite that appened with Conan and Trevor. Noah’s final year is eligible here, so we’ll see same note on James Gordon HBO lobby to keep Last Week Tonight in the talk category, but because it’s more scripted and Oliver doesn’t regularly have guessed, so they were kicked out. The Academy rules state a scripted variety series is defined as a variety program that is primarily scripted or loosely scripted improv Scripted variety may occasionally feature unscripted elements, but the main intent of the series a scripted or performed entertainment.
So that puts Last Week Tonight in the same category as Saturday Night Live, which did not have a good year. So we’ll see a Black Lady Sketch Show also expected to be nominated in that category. We’ll see what happens come September if there’s even an Emmy’s telecast. There is a writer strike. You know, hey, Dave Chappelle back in the news.
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Shannon hit me up on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Shannon wrote, John, you’ve noted that you don’t think some shows are really stand up, like John Melaney’s Baby Ja and maybe you mentioned Burgatsis Show. What’s your criteria for including something as stand up as opposed to one man show? Would you say Milaney’s older stuff was stand up? To me?
It just seems like different flavors of stand up. So I thought about that, and I gave Shannon an answer on the Facebook page, and I said I’ll elaborate a little more on the podcast. So as I think about out it. So first of all, look, everybody I’m going to talk about here is great. It’s all comedy, it’s all funny.
Also, I want to point out I’ve never performed. I’m not a stand up I’m not a comedian. I’m not a performer. So definitely don’t want to take away from anybody that we’re going to talk about here. But to get to the question, I think as I think of stand up comedy as I sit here in the basement in twenty twenty three, I tend to think of something that has a punchline at a pretty rapid pace.
It’s a bit of dated reference, but the person who keeps coming to mind is Sam Kinnison. Sam getting up there telling jokes about being married and just slamming home a punchline every few seconds. A more modern version might be a Bill Burr. But you know, there are different forms of stand up comedy. I think of Bob Newhart doing those one sided phone gags Bob’s Hall of Fame.
I guess that’s stand up. So the term I coined on the Facebook group was stand up stand up. Kinnison’s doing stand up stand up. Burr is doing stand up stand ups, Louis C.K. Is doing stand up stand up.
Then you get things that are a little more storytelling, like a lot of what Mike Berbigley it does, And I think Mulaney did that on his most recent special. That wasn’t like set up punch, set up punch, It was more humorous storytelling. Seinfeld is a stand up Jerry just gets up there and chucks jokes. Jackie the Jokeman nothing but jokes. Gilbert Godfried was nothing but jokes.
Hannah Gatsby storyteller.
And then we can get into the gray of all this.
Dave Chappelle kind of weave stories and then drops in a punchline to keep you engaged. So, yeah, Shannon, you bring up a good point. It’s one of those I don’t know, I know it when I see it. That’s probably not helpful at all. Mulaney just felt more one man show, more like what Hannah Gatsby is doing than say a Bill Birthing.
Hope that made some sense. Happy to discuss this with everybody. You can submit your comments on the Daily Comedy News podcast group.
Speaking of Hannah her a little up Picasso exhibit, it’s getting savaged in t…
Jason Farrago wrote in The New York Science, if you studied art history or another with humanities in the nineties or two thousands, or to say, if you’re around the age of forty five a Anna gats you may remember the word problematic from your long ago seminar days. Back then, it was a voguish noun borrowed from French that described the unconscious structure of an ideology or at sext Soon. Though, like so many other efforts had think critically, the problematic got left behind in the centuries great shift from reading the scrolling. These days we encounter problematic exclusively as an adjective, an offend judgment of moral disapproval from a speaker who can’t be bothered by precision. At the Brooklyn Museum you will find a few parentheses, very few paintings by Picasso, plus two little sculptures in a selection of works on paper suffixed with team quips by Gatsby on adjacent labels around and nearby, or works of art made by women, almost all made after Picasso’s death in seventy three.
Finally, in a vegetable clips from Nanette play on a loop there’s little to see, there’s no catalog to read. The ambitions here are at gift level. The actual number of paintings by Picasso here is just eight seven or borrowed from the Picasso Museum in Paris, which has been supporting shows worldwide for the anniversary. There’s a fixation though, on genitals and bodily functions. Each sphincter, each phallas is called out with adolescent excitement, with adolescent vocabulary too.
What jokes there are, example, Meta hardly know her museum really could have rained in this immaturity, though to their credit they’ve at least fleshed out the show with some context on the cult of male genius or the rise of feminist art history in the nineteen seventies. And I’ll leave you on a downer from the Washington Post. A former Playboy centerfold model who says she was drugged in rape more than five decades ago by Bill Cosby, has fought lawsuit against Cosby under a new California law that temporarily lifts the statue of limitations on civil sexual assault cases. The suit was filed on Thursday. It’s the first known use of the lawn California against Bill Cosby, opening a new front and a year’s long and multi pronged legal battle against the eighty five year old Victoria Valentino eighty years old, so old, The Washington Post.
It’s not about money, It’s about accountability. Rape, steal something from you that cannot be repaired or restored. You can file the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, but then it is your come. Many News for today, See you tomorrow.