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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You may have seen that Colorado’s top court rule that former President Donald Trump is disqualified from returning to office, et cetera, et cetera. Jimmy Fallon joked Christmas is almost hear and people are ready returning gifts. In fact, Colorado returned Donald Trump found again.
The insurrection clauses the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in eighteen sixty eight. Right now, President Biden’s like I supported it, then I support it now. A lot of good buzz on Gary Goleman Special at the time of this recording on Friday at ten am. I haven’t seen it yet. I was at a wedding on Thursday night when it came out, but I’m hoping to watch it very shortly.
Vulture was ecstatic about it, and they said, what’s most exciting about the hour is not just the incredible precision of Goldman’s material or his perfectly dialed in persona knowing a little cocky, just a hair too self assured. It’s that Goldman has the vision and desire to push his work in this direction. He’s so clearly invested in and he’s the instinct to do it with no pulled punches and no excuses for talking about something that might make his audience feel bad. It’s thrilling to watch, and it delivers on the implicit promise Goleman makes by getting on the stage. The politics never undermines the jokes.
It only makes the jokes land harder.
Speaking of Gary, there’s a great profile of him in Esquire.
I’ve shared it in the podcast group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. If you want to read that. I’ll talk about that in the upcoming days. I’m looking forward to Ricky Gervais’s special coming out on Christmas Day, A so I can watch it, and B so I can finish off my top specials of the year list. Ricky went on Twitter and said, in this show, I talk about sex, death, pedophilia, race, religion, disability, free speech, global warming, the Holocaust, and Elton John.
If you don’t approve of jokes about any of these things, then please don’t watch. You won’t enjoy it and you’ll get upset. I’ve got a bunch of these year end review articles that I haven’t gotten to yet, which is good, believe me. I’ve been doing this for a few years now, and it’s great to have a lot of stuff at the end of the year. Let’s take a look at Paste magazine’s twenty best comedy Specials of twenty twenty three.
Number twenty, they have Mark Marin’s from Bleak to Dark nineteen, Sam Jay’s Salute Me or Shoot Me eighteen is Sasheer Zemadas The First Woman, That one I Haven’t Seen seventeen Django Gold’s Bag of Tricks. Paste writes Jango Gold spent years writing for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert before focusing on stand up, and it’s easy to tell he’s a writer when watching his self really special Bag of Tricks. All Right, that one’s on YouTube. I’m gonna add it to my list. I’m gonna make a list of things I need to watch this weekend.
Jengo Gold. His smart jokes are built on great ideas that often end with unexpected punchlines, and you can see the thought and carry put into creating many of them. He also has an ingratiating nor mcdonaldish delivery that helps sell the occasional joke that doesn’t land Cool sixteen is Heather McMahon’s son I never had haven’t seen this one either. That one is on Netflix. Netflix hasn’t surfaced that one for me.
That’s interesting how the algorithm works, isn’t it. Fifteen Josh Johnson’s up Here Killing Myself Good List, Pace Magazine. New York based comedian Josh Johnson describes growing up poor with candor and of course humor. During the first part of up Here Killing Myself. Whether accounting the seamless bag his family Cereal came from, on the questionable quality of their local pharmacy, he paints an effective picture.
That one’s on Peacock. I have added to my list. I got a lot of things to watch this weekend. That’s great. Fourteen Brad Wenzel’s Joke Joke Joke, Pace Magazine writes, joke joke, joke, It’s just that a succession of hilarious bits without any segways.
I’ve edited to my list of things to watch with several things on my list the comedy snob, I’m gonna have a quick hook, so these things better of good openers are gonna be like, I have seven other things to watch. Brad Wenzel special looks like it’s on YouTube. Thirteen. John Mulaney, Baby Jay, I’ll talk about that during the week. Kyle Knane Shocks and Struts at twelve, criminally underrated.
I have that one very high. Nate Pergatzy, Hello World. At eleven, I have that very high. Mike Berbiglia, the old Man in the Pool. As I’ve said a few times, I think you guys will like it, and I have reasons I didn’t Number nine.
I’m seeing a lot of buzz on this. I definitely want to get to this one this week. In Dina Hashem’s Dark Little Whispers, taped at the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago in late twenty twenty two, Dark Little Whispers opens it to Dina on stage as metal music blair as a song featuring her on drums and vocals. The juxtaposition is clear. Hasham may possess an understated presence on stage, but that just accentuates her electric sense of humor.
That one’s on YouTube. I like this list a lot because it’s not just the same names that we see over and over on the other lists. Very nice. Eight. Mae Morton’s sap didn’t do it for me.
Seven Emma Arnold’s myself that specials on YouTube paste rights. Arnold finds pleasure in what some people might call the little things, which are not so little after all, and certainly not to be taken for granted, namely thinking of her mentioning dental insurance. Six Chris Fleming’s Hell I love that special. That’s way up on my list. Five they have Wanda Sykes, I’m an entertainer.
That one didn’t grab me. Four Harri Condobolu’s Vacation Baby. I have that high up on my list. Three that’s Stellings. If you didn’t want me, then that one I didn’t dig.
Two John Early is now more than ever. I have that on my list, but near the bottom. And they have a number one Joe Perez Slow and Steady. That one did make my list. I’ll explain my reasons for that later in the week.
Here’s another deep dive. I really like this one from the Toronto Star. Ten comedy albums that make us laugh and think. I did skim this one. What was surprising to me is I was unfamiliar with all these people, so I appreciate this stuff.
I also like learning about these things now. The Star says these albums are available to stream. I hunted around in the places I use, and I wasn’t able to find them, which is part of the reason I’m not familiar with them. They have Nicky Pain, Nikki, p a Y and E. Nicky’s albums called Performative.
The Toronto Star says Niki deals with her aging parents, mental health issues, and her awkward sex life. Next up is Dian Smith’s Cheweeny in a Tank Top. The Star rights a couple of this album’s best jokes reference their ties here to Toronto. One surreal but uplifting one is set on a plane from Toronto, LA, while another chronicle their sarcastic inner voice at a dinner party thrown by astronaut Chris Hatfield. But the funniest track involves meeting John Hamm at a bar, which caused the comics Poison Clarity to be momentarily and hilariously put on pause.
I don’t know what order this is in. It’s not alphabetical, and I don’t know if we’re going from best to worst, worst to best, or what order they came out in. But there’s a number three next to Paul Thompson’s album called Horny. Much of the material on this album is NSF W, Yeah, no kidding. From the title, he wishes he could be on news events the same way he does sports outcomes or reverse catfish scenario.
Thompson is utterly completely himself. Four Andrew Barr baarr Pursuit of Happiness. Bar has passed the one year sober marked part of that journey’s recounted in the first half of this double album, a double comedy album. Wow. Five is Kevin Banner’s heavy Favorites, with favorite spelled in the British Canadian way.
Whether he’s weighing in on bad tattoos or anger issues, joking about being a new dad, or trying not to intimidate women on sidewalks at night, He’s got a smooth, effortless delivery that belies how carefully his jokes crafted. Six Slogan Brown’s black Man, White Privilege. Most of the songs are too raunchy to describe, but one involves h Yeah, these are too runchy described. One involves animals. Let’s move on, Melanie Dolling d ah l I n G.
Greetings from the Big City. She’s from Winnipeg and jokes about moving to Toronto and being broke. Eight is Mike Rita’s Live in Toronto. The bulk of the album draws on his Portuguese immigrant parents who attempt to follow the raptors, take edibles, and watch porn on their phones, all with amusing results. That sounds fun.
Chuck Burn b y r N. His album is called Pounding Fatties. It’s wearing a cowboy hat and making a silly face on the cover here Toronto, Starr says. They say comedy is a young person’s game, but Burn, the most mature stand up on the list, just keeps getting better relationships, fatherhood, visiting the US. Burn covers them all with a signature lead back style number ten.
Meg McKay’s clown baby mc kay, The Star writs, a couple of years ago, I reviewed McKay’s debut album and concluded she had and yet found her voice, and pleased to say she now has and it’s quirky. Glenn Sumi wrote this and I will share it in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Great stuff from the Star. There, Let’s do one more for Vulture. The Best Comedy Books of twenty twenty three.
Ten. A Guide to Midwestern Conversation by Taylor Kay Phillips. Phillips breaks down the elements of the aggressively normal friends, relatives, and acquaintances who are content to drive around, eat lots of cast roles, reluctantly entertained guests, engage in gift giving one upmanship, and never ever say what they’re thinking or feeling. Nine The Time Miaosen a Talking Cat’s hy two K Quest to Save the World by Marty Beckerman. Vulture writes, what can I tell you when the book subtitle lays everything out so bluntly and hilariously, You’re either going to read this right now or permanently rejected with disgust.
Doctor Taris Switcher lives in twenty forty in a hellish post climate change world with a robot cat. Eight Funny You Don’t Look Funny Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials by Jennifer Kaplan. Seven is Sure I’ll Join Your Cults by Maria Bamford her memoir. Six Grief Strike The Ultimate Guide to Morning by Jason Roder. The memoir in the form of a third person faux Manual wrote wrote the book as part of his own process and coming to terms with the loss of his mother.
Five Gary Goleman’s Misfit, a lot of Gary Goleman this week, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties. Four Escape from Hawaii, a tropical sequel by Jack Handy. Remember Jackie used to have stuff on SNL. He’s the Breens behind tuonsis the Driving Cat and Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
Also Deep Thoughts is where you might know his name from.
Three Great Falls, Montana, Fast Times, post Punk, Wirdos, and a Tailiff Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts. Less of a memoir and more of a tribute to the people, places, and things that inspired his art and made him whole. Number two, Hi Honey, I’m homo sid that’s a great title. Sitcom Specials in the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baum and Vulture’s number one comedy book of the Year. Kind of a big deal.
How Anchorman stayed class and became the most iconic comedy of the twenty first century by Saul Austerlitz. I’ll share that in the Facebook group too. You got a lot of reasons to go over to Facebook today. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ve got episodes free every day.
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