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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny mcam Jury Duty. Great. I’m recording this section around eight twenty pm Eastern on Sunday night. Just watched Jimmy Kimmel do the monologue.
It was wasn’t heck, vanilla might be the word like. He just went down the middle, didn’t try too hard, really wasn’t trying to knock it out of the park. Just told some nice, safe jokes and nobody will getting mad. The Hollywood Reporter recaps some of them.
Let’s get to what everybody wants.
Slap jokes. The best joke of the night. If anyone in the theater commits an act of violence, you will be awarded an Oscar for Best Actor and permitted a nineteen minute speech. He added, there’s a crisis team in place. If anything unpredictable or violent happens, just do what you did last year.
Nothing. Some other jokes that landed James Cameron is not here. You know it shows too long when even James Cameron can’t sit through it. How does the Academy not nominate a guy who made Avatar? What are they think?
He is? A woman? Tom Cruise and James Cameron didn’t show up that two guys who insisted we go to the theater didn’t go to the theater. Batgirl became the first superhero, became defeated by the accounting department, and a joke that was this one might be hacked. I’m happy to see Nicole Kidman has been finally released by that abandoned AMC.
Thank you for encouraging people who already at the movie theater to go to the theater. Yes, I think everyone has made that joke for the last two years. Krat spoke to Jim Gaffigan about Jim’s inner voice. You know when Jim does the oh, I think we probably should have called those nice guys back. It’s serious when they helped us early in her career.
You know when he does that. Yeah, Jim said, I don’t know the exact origin of it, but there’s different examples of when I used it. It was a good way to disarm people if you were late, you speak for them. So it wasn’t used for humor there. It was used for articulating that you understand how they feel.
But in terms of stand up, I’m a nineteen nineties New York City comedian which was combative, not physical combat, but verbal combat the audience. There wasn’t an assumption that you make it through the set without someone saying something, and so there was this need to keep moving. There was also this needs of communicate a toughness which really doesn’t resonate for me. I guess the facilitation of the inside voice was necessary so that instead of being heckled, I was heckling myself. But it served a purpose as a nineteen nineties New York City comedian and not leaving air in the set.
I think it went to a completely different level when I started performing longer sets, usually middle sets at the DC Improv. That’s when it became this creative tool of presenting different options in the audience and attaching a different point of view on the topic. Point of view is so important. If your point of view is I love Bacon. If you have this other voice, you can embody and vocalize a completely different option.
Working at the DC Improv, that’s where it became part of the element of a larger show. Hey, Jim, we ever stopped doing the voice. Jim said, it’s a little bit of an element of who my stand up point of view is. With Dark Pail, which is this most recent Hour. What usually happens is when I’m creating the hour and I’m fumbling around their material, I use the inside voice to comments on the material.
With every hour, you’re trying to push and challenge the premise of what you’re talking about and challenge your audience. In other words, you can’t just talk about food. Like any good conversation with good friends, you can’t have the exact same conversation. It has to evolve, and so in the development of new sterial, the inside voice is very important for saving me when things aren’t working, and then it disappears a little bit in the processes I’m fine tuning and I’m changing orders and stuff like that, and in the end, when i’m polishing the material, it’s woven throughout as an additional layer. This is really interesting, isn’t it.
Yes, it’s weird because there’s been times when there’s no inside voice, but it usually is part of the process of creating the materials. Any writer knows there’s times when things come out whole, and there’s times when you have to work really hard, and then when you get to a final draft. That’s what the inside voice adds to. It’s a playful additional point of view that I think helps. Ethica dot Com caught up with Nicky Glazer.
Hey, Nikki Glaser, how did COVID affect your business? Interesting choice of words, business. Nicky said, it affected it a lot. I’m gonna guess yeah, I’m pretty sure being a comedian not being able to play anywhere would affect your business. Yes, Nicky said, Like stand up went away for probably four or five months until people started doing outdoor shows.
This is something I’ve done every single night of my life, practically at least four times a week at the very minimum, since I was eighteen. So it was quite an awakening of Oh. I always thought this thing would be there for me, this form of expression, and I realized when it was taken away, it was quite a crutch. And it was almost like an addiction going up every day. I compared to going to the gym for people who are addicted at working out, Like if the gym’s closed, you would go, what am I gonna do?
You do homeworkouts? And I was doing zoom shows, which are not fun, and I felt really rattled and really depressed and anxious. That’s when I kind of realized that stand up wasn’t just me doing it to get better or meet doing it because I have to for work. It was me being able to express myself and get feelings out every day practically. So I just died making my podcast daily at the time, and I got a karaoke machine so I could just sing every day and perform my living room.
So I asked the AI to write some jury duty jokes in the style of Mitch Headburger. I hit the base. I was hoping to get picked for a case about a stolen a hot dog car. That way, if they found it got guilty, I get to sell out. Justice has been served with mustard and relish.
That’s pretty good, chat chypt mitch Headburg. Next one. I don’t mind doing my civic duty, but jury duties like being in a really boring play. We’re not allowed to leave the theater. They say that everyone’s in title to a fair trop.
If you asked me, everyone is a title to a fair trial, except the guy who stole my bike. A surey duty. It’s like playing Russian Roulette, except instead of a bullet, your dodgic boredom and bad coffee. Alright, Joe Rogan says President Biden is mentally gone and slams quotes effing sideshow of diversity cabinets. Yes, This from The New York Post.
Joe Rogan explained he will not be voting for President Biden. He said this to his guest comedian Russell Brand. Joe said, I would vote for President Trump before i’d vote for Biden, just because I think with Biden, like he’s gone, like you know, he’s gone, He’s going to be relying on his cabinet, and he his cabinet would be this effing sideshow of diversity, which is exactly what it is. Rogan seemed focused on Sam Brinton, a former Biden Department of Energy official who faces multiple felony charges for allegedly stealing luggage from other passengers at airports. This from the New York Post.
They add Brinton, who identifies as non binary, was a top nuclear waste official at the Department of Energy until December, when the agency confirmed Britain had been fired. Rogans, that’s one person who stole all the women’s clothes, that’s Sam Britton. That’s a diversity hire. You just said. I’ll look at this a man who dresses like a woman and has a beard and a mustache, but also wears lipstick.
This is perfect for us. I don’t give an f with the guy’s a good at or bad ad. I don’t give an f what their credentials are. This makes us look like we’re inclusive. This makes us look like we’re on the right side.
So let’s hire that person. You can’t have those kind of people running a Ben and Jerry’s. You certainly can’t have those kind of people running the effingwellst powerful government the world’s ever known nuts. It’s nonsense. Russell Brand chimed in and said he’s like the perfect metaphor of what it is.
The system’s over and for all the talk of diversity, what have you got. You’ve got a career politician white mail that’s falling apart before your very eyes. Joe Rogan added, I think Rhonda Santis would work as a good president. I mean, what he’s done for Florida has been admirable. Stay tuned.
Let’s see who’s at south By Southwest tonight. This is the part of the show where you and I pretend were at south By Southwest together and not sitting at jury duty board out of our mind, reading a book with tiny print that we can’t see anymore because we’re in our mid fifties. Six o’clock Joe to Rosa’s Sandwich Summit. Joe Rosa comedian and owner of New York sandwich shop Joey Roses, is joined by the chefs and creators behind some of Austin’s best eats to talk about all things sandwich. Mo Pittle credited as Jewboy Burgers, Callie Spear credited as Holy Roller, and Sarah Martin Bidgie credited as Nicksta Tuckeria throughout a meaty I see we did there.
Throughout a meaty round table discussion, they’ll share their thoughts and unique spins on this classic culinary concoction, from the art of creation to the bread it brings in. Joe and Guess will be joined by a few festival comedians to add in a bit of cheese to the conversation. Website here also lists Eddie peppatone there. Let’s bounce on over to the Joey Roses website and see what we could order. Menu.
You’re gonna click on menu here, I’ll say we’ll pick it up. We could get the East for eight bucks per scudo Salami Otiago Peppado’s olive oil that sounds really good. An eight bucks that’s not bad, especially for New York City. And eight bucks sandwich that’s got to be like the size of your finger. Sandwich is in New York City are quite expensive, my friends.
The Rosie also wait Bucks Mortdella white American Tomato, hot cherries mayo, or regguaedo. No, I’m not going to read you the whole menu, but there are eight different sandwiches you can get. Then there are specialty sandwiches. These are twelve and fourteen dollars. For example, the cuz is homemade chicken cutlet, marinated cherry tomatoes, Racota provolone, and parmesan sean.
I’d probably get that. And there are extras. Are they fries or chips? Nope, crispy Brussels sprouts? Six bucks, that’s random, four and a half stars, eighty four reviews on yelp here.
The top three review stopped in here to try a sandwich after hearing so much about it on Joe to Rosa’s podcast. Next guy said, my current fave is the East e see it told he was good, and the third review says all of them were fantastic, but for me, the Horse Radish Mayo on the Beefy just took it to the next level. All right, now I’m curious about the beefy, then I’ll get on with things. Are you throwing your phone against the wall yet You’re like, why is he talking about food? I hate when hosts do that too.
The beefy, roast, beef provolone, sweet Peppers, Horse Radish, Mayo, salt pepper or Reggao eight bucks. Oh, these will sound delicious. Back to the festival. Seven o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. We Used to Be Funny is stand up comedy.
Let’s see Come celebrate the world premiere of I Used to Be Funny with a night of laughs. Join the film star Rachel Senott. She’s like the It’s comedian right now as she hosts We Used to Be Funny, a comedy showcase featuring stand up performances from Sabrina, Jayley’s and Caleb here On. They co star in the film, also appearing Beth Stelling and Moore. Gonna have to make some tough choices.
Let’s see what else we can do. Eight o’clock Stand Up Downtown Josh Johnson, Joel Johnson, Pete Lee, Eddie Peppittone Godfrey nine o’clock. Up next is some of the strongest emerging and established comics, Catherine Blandford, adrian Ia Pollucci, Ismil Lufti, Sam Talent, Nick Thune. At ten o’clock, I’ve been looking forward to this one. Johnny Cash Junior and the Neppo Babies Hooting.
Nanny Johnny Cash Junior, played by Menfessor, hosts an evening of the most famous Neppo babies performing in their biggest hits or maybe their parents’ biggest hit. Performers may include such Neppo babies as Walt and Peppa, Dank Sinatra, Meryl Streep, twelve Savage pre Post Malone, Robert Downey Junior Junior, Frederick the Entertainer like his dad. Oh, that’s awesome, Asterisk Musk Puke Combs, Itsy Bitsy Bowell Too Longoria and Takishi, sixty nine Day Lewis Comedians performing James Domi and Anthony A. Samnwick, Matt Besser, John Gamberling, Natalie Palamedes, Greg Proops. I would absolutely make you go to that show, and that one’s not until ten o’clock, which means, though we’re gonna miss the roast, Battle Funnel round at eleven.
All right, let’s play this out. Let’s do the Sandwich Summit at five. That goes to six fifteen. We’re gonna end at Tonight’s one of those nights we’re gonna have to grab like a slice of pizza and a Canna soda. Then let’s do we Used to be Funny.
That was the Rachel Senat show. I went on and on about. That’s at seven. That goes to eight fifteen. Then let’s hit up next at nine, but leave early, so we hit Johnny Cash Junior at han o’clock.
That’ll take us to eleven fifteen, and then let’s see if we can sneak into the end of the final round of the roast battle, which starts at eleven, goes to twelve fifteen. So we’re gonna be busy tonight. Have a big lunch. Good stuff from Dustin Siebert. In the Huffington Post, he wrote, I longviewed stand up comedy as a medium of largely unchecked freedom, one of the only ways in which someone can take a battle acts to social property and get away with it in the name of laughter.
For years, I was the owner and operator of the Lighten Up it’s only jokes manwagon, but I’ve been constantly challenged on that idea over the last decade. Chris Rock encountered and paraphrasing here this in his most recent special Jokes that no longer hit in a society with evolve sensibilities, he played with certain sensitive topics, including abortion of trans people, with the caveat that he has no problem with them, but he seems to be catching the most talents Twitter for bits criticizing two black women, Megan Markl and Jada Pinkett Smith, the latter of whom he outright called a bitch. Many older comedians, especially those who’ve been performing since the eighties, when we collectively bustled a gut of demeaning jokes, and social media wasn’t around openly struck with adapting the new standards of funny. We’ve had time to analyze how unkind black entertainment has been towards black women historically, so lobbing the B words towards it, generally beloved black celebrity was never gonna land well. Some of the legends have embraced the evolution of funny.
Cat Williams Got Love a couple of years ago when he suggested, the comedians who don’t get with the times aren’t really funny. To begin with, Eddie Murphy, one of the progenitors of the last several decades of touchy humor, publicly apologize for his nearly forty year old, wildly homophobic routines that are tougher to hear these days. But most older comedians are in transient in their unwillingness to evolve, choosing it’s dead to bitch and moan about how they don’t recognize comedy anymore and can’t tell the jokes they used to do. It would seem only a small percent of comedians can remain wildly popular as stubborn anachronism, including Rock and Dave Chappelle. Only recently have Chappelle’s jokes come under horseh scrutiny, especially regarding his focus on trans people and his recent Netflix specials.
A very vocal minority has sought to expose the potential danger and power in the comedy statesman’s words. Yet that minority has emboldened him and seemingly made him more popular than ever. The thing is, Chappelle’s funny wouldn’t be nearly as funny to the masses if he were an up and comer, his offensive humor is accepted largely based on the trust he’s established over a three plus decade career. Same with a Rock. Even if his routine isn’t as fresh as it was twenty years ago, he is more than enough cache to convince sizeable audiences to pay money to see him.
Twitter outrage over outrage will likely help contribute to crazy viewership numbers that Netflix will never reveal. Very good piece there, and it pairs up nicely with this one. Sarah Silverman was on CBC Radio one and they asked her about some of her bits in the past, including one that goes along the lines of I hope the Jews did kill Christ I’d do it again, and about her wearing black face. Sarah Silverman said, gee, comedy is not evergreen. If you’re not looking back at what you did ten years ago and cringching, you’re probably doing something wrong.
She spoke about her two thousand and five stand up special Jesus Magic and said, there’s like N word hard R. The R word is that enough to say M word for little person. I’m not saying this out of fear, but just that of being mindful, because once you learned something, you can’t unring that bell unless you decide you’re gonna just you know, something cuts people say it. Anyway. That’s your comedy news for today.
I had intended to do another one of the pieces from Vulture about AI comedy, but that’s going to be a bounce for today. Maybe we’ll get that tomorrow. A little along here, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.
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