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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Hope you had a good Christmas. This is an extra episode. There’s enough going on that I just wanted to check in.
I’ve got a lot of special episodes this week with end of the year list that I already have in the can, but I wanted to just check in with you and talk about a couple things that are happening. This episode to be a little shorter than usual. Pete Davidson has canceled a bunch of shows. Hope Pete is doing okay. He was supposed to play the Beacon Theater on Friday night, and the Beacon announced in an Instagram story post that the show had been canceled.
They did not give any reason. According to Deadline, ticket holders were made aware of the show cancelation in an email two hours before the show. You know somebody who lives a good two hours away from the city. I could see where that might be a little late and frustrating, but again, I hope Pete is okay. Here.
Ticket goers were automatically refunded. All of Peach’s shows have been canceled up until January third. According to Ticketmaster. His next scheduled event is January fourth in Milwaukee. Messages shared on websites for Chattanooga’s Walker Theater, Pittsburgh’s Bay In Theater, and Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater say the cancelations were due to quote unforeseen circumstances.
Netflix released the trailer for Dave Chappelle’s New Year’s Eve special. It’s quirky. Let’s listen. What do you dream about? Not the dreams you have in your sleep, the one to hold in your heart.
Don’t be intimidated by the audacity of your dream, be inspired by it. What happens to a dream deferred? Look at the Dave. He doesn’t know the dreamer. I’m looking forward to that.
Another reason I wanted to check in is I did, indeed watch both Ricky and Gary Goleman. I’ll speak more about these at length later in the week when I do my top special. So the year Jervais’s Top ten. I liked it a lot. Maybe it got a little long in the middle there, but he basically went to DGAF mode and did some probably the best material I’ve heard about the anti woke crowd.
Really solid special. If you haven’t had a chance again. I’ll talk about that later in the week. Gary Goleman special is the best special of the year. I won’t pull my punch there.
I watched that on Friday night and thought it was absolutely fantastic. Gary. Gary’s now really moving up the list. I feel like, maybe one more special and people are going to be like, oh wow, he’s just a wonderful wordsmith and the schedule is just well crafted. So right now I have that at number one, and since I won’t be watching any more specials before I record my top of the Year, because I’m about to do that next Gary Goleman is going to be number one.
Spoilers, I’ll leave you with a sad note. Stand up comedian Neil Nanda has died at age thirty two. Nanda known for appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party. Matt Rich tweeted, rip Neil Nanda. You were one of the nicest, hardest working comedians I’ve ever called a friend, and I hope you can be at peace.
Brother Dane Cook shared a tribute along with the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Dane wrote, I didn’t know Neil Nanda personally, but reading several tributes is both heartbreaking and eye opening. I echo so many expressing that there is help out there. Please remember you were never alone. People want to help you.
There’s a path through your pain. Peror to Neil’s family, friends and fans, dial nine to eight eight for help and love. Nanda told VC Reporter in twenty eighteen that he used to copy down his favorite jokes from Comedy Central into a notebook to retaill his middle school friends, and then he joked, I didn’t realize I was stealing jokes until I was in high school. When I was in high school, I started writing my own jokes, using the structure of some of the jokes I had previously stolen. A friend read the notebook and told me, you know, you could just go perform these right.
I didn’t know, but after a quick Google search, I was off to the laughing skull open Mic told VC reporter, I would say my proudest accomplishment thus Foreign Comedy was performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live. I’ve always wanted to do a set on late night, and Jimmy Kimmel was my first choice. I performed when my parents were a fan of the host. If you’re just catching up, today is December twenty sixth. There was a normal episode in the feed, and I did episodes all over the weekend.
I’ll be back in the morning with the eleven most powerful people in comedy. See you tomorrow.