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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and this is not holiday weekend filler at all. What a robust show. News broke on Thursday, five seconds after I recorded the entire weekend. Pete Davidson has entered rehab.
Oh no, hope you’re okay. A source close to Pete told People that Pete, who’s twenty nine years old, had checked himself in a treatment but should be getting out pretty soon. Maybe by the time you’re hearing this, he is already out. According to page six, Pete entered the treatment center seeking inpatient therapy to address ongoing issues related to post traumatic stress disorder and his previous diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. Another source told People Pete will often check himself in a rehab to work on these issues.
His friends and family have been supportive during the time. In twenty seventeen, Pete revealed his borderline personality diagnosis while appearing on Mark Marin’s podcast. Pete described his extreme mood swings, which he initially attributed to his regular marijuana use, but he was eventually diagnosed with borderline personality disorder of all. Months later, Pete said, I found out. I have BBT beat, said one of my psychiatrists diagnosed me.
He was always saying, before this big meltdown, you’re probably bipolar or borderline. We’re just gonna have to figure it out. Pete also said he was depressed all the time, but praise therapy for helping him improve. It’s working slowly, but surely. I’ve been having a lot of problems.
This whole year has been a nightmare. This year has been the worst year of my life. Again, this is back on Marin. This isn’t last week getting diagnosed with this and trying to figure out how to learn with this and live with this. Earlier that year, he had joked about a sobriety and a stint in rehab on SNL’s Weekend Update.
Head got serious during that segment and said depression affects more than sixteen million people in this country and there’s no cure. But for anybody dealing with it, there are treatments that can help. First of all, if you figure depressed, see a doctor and talk to them about medication, and also be healthy. Eating right and exercise can make a huge difference. Finally, if you’re in the cast of a late night comedy show.
It might help if you know they do more of your comedy sketches. Mornings popped up before the holiday weekend. Kevin Hart has a special on Thursday, What Yeah, reality Check hitting peak on July sixth. I want to play the trailer for you, but Kevin didn’t go more than four or five words without an F bomb, and I try and keep it clean here, so I’ll just have to tell you. In the new special called reality Check, Kevin Hart is as funny as ever as he processes his growing family, fame, mentions on black Twitter, and more.
In the trailer, we see Kevin holding a baseball bat challenging people to rush the stage, and also in the special, we see Kevin say Lebron James real good friend of mine? Well he was. He hasn’t heard this joke yet. We’ll see what happens. Kevin Hart Reality Check Thursday.
Who Knew? Hassan Minaj made a surprise appearance at Stanford’s New York Comedy Club. Ronny Chieng was your headliner, Hassan showed up and opened for him. Chang said the reason that he was there is that he’s work shopping jokes ahead of an upcoming Netflix special. Deana Carvey on his podcast started mocking Anthony Fauci.
Carvey and his co host David Spade started making fun of Fauci’s COVID nineteen guidance. Carvey did a Fauci impression. I won’t do one. But what Carvey said as Fauci, Okay, I’m sorry. If you’ve had two boosters and two vaccines, he can get and give it to another guy who’s had five vaccines and four boosters.
Carvey pretend to be a citizen, asking Fauci a question that question, what’s the difference between a vaccine and a booster? Switching back to the Fauci impression, he said, I don’t know, it’s just more vaccine, but booster sounds better. The Ollywood Reporter spotlighted late night writers who are currently out of work. One is Jesse Joyce, who writes for Jimmy Kimmel Alive. He’s been a comedian for twenty three years, but it kind of stopped doing stand up once it began working on Kimmel in twenty seventeen.
While he’s back and booking shows, he said, there was literally just a strike thing where it was like, oh, I guess I have this skill, I could dust off as the sole provider of income from my family. He admits, it’s super weirds have stand up as your fallback safety net. Joyce recently teamed up with fellow Kimmel writers Troy Walker and Devin Field for three nights in Denver and has a show booked at Kimmel’s Vegas Comedy Club in September with five of the staff writers. He says, Jimmy’s trying to help everybody, noting that Jimmy is letting the writers use the Jimmy Kimmel Alive name, which makes it easier for them to book gigs. Matt Coff is a writer at The Daily Show since twenty thirteen.
He said he’s always had stand up as a side hustle, but he’s pivoted to full time during the strike, getting on stage four to five nights a week and booking road gigs. He said, I haven’t really talked to anybody who’s like, I’m gonna make just as much money doing stand up as I did writing for his successful late night show. The sense I get is that, like me, they’re on a quest for validation, that maybe they’re not getting validation. Did normally get from their late night writing job. Making a joke at a room and getting a laugh could be pretty a pretty good replacement for doing a good stand up set, and vice versa.
I think a lot of people are sort of like me, where they’re like, I don’t really have any other skill, so I gave to stay at home playing the Legend of Zelda, or I could try and get sharp with my joke writing. And at the Cubs game last week, Jim Gaffigan saying, take me out to the ball game. I’m gonna let that wrap up the audio for today, so I’ll say goodbye before you hear Jim sing for two and a half minutes. You can follow the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify YouTube. Normal episode tomorrow.
I’ll have a nice Fourth of July. And here’s Jim. Take me out to the ball game. Commedia author and a coggling native Jim Kiffigan and three of us kids. He comes stands I want to hear you if you want some runs, I want to hear some singing.
Do you want some runs? Then stand up? They follow the leader A one, A two, A three, Take me out to the ball game, Take me to the ground, bind me somepy nuts and berg own root root root for the car. Everything you say, forge one, two, three strikes you around, Cats runs there, mighty, throw that out there, Throw that out there? Did you know you can name a cockroach after your ex lover and have it fed to the animals at the zoo.
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