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Caloroga Shark Media. When is the NFL back? What am I supposed to do all day? Hi? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
I will talk about Chin Gillis on tomorrow’s episode. Ricky Gervas tweeted worst ad Ever and shared this, which I found funny. Hi. I’m Ricky Gervaias, and this is Dutch Bond Vodka. It’s a beautifully crafted premium spirit.
It tastes great and it’s friendly to the environment. It’s known as the posh one in the brown bottle. But if you can’t afford it, just get smart enough get that for fifteen quid. In some places it does the trick.
Meanwhile, Jim gaff again via the NWI Times, Jim did an add of character post…
Jim tweeted, I grew up ten minutes from Valpariso, in the home of Orville Popcorn. I was thrilled when a friend sent me this limited edition popcorn bourbon by Journeyman Distillery. No, it doesn’t taste like popcorn. Or movie theater butter. It’s made with popcorn.
It’s awesome and reminds me of northwestern Indiana. The bourbon is only available in Valpo, but Journeyman Distillery has a bunch of stuff you should check out. I don’t know if that was paid or just enthusiasm. Who knows. Jimmy Kimmel dropping some hints that he might be near the end of his talk show Ronney, he caught up with The La Times.
Jimmy will host the Academy Awards on March tenth. It’ll be his fourth time. The first time he hosted was remember when they messed up the Best Picture Award. Kim Will said, I didn’t think I’d ever hosted again. I did two of them and they went well, and something crazy happened at one of them, with a story I’ll have for the rest of my life.
I how much work goes in of them, so I thought, yeah, I don’t necessarily want to do this ever again. What changed his mind, according to The La Times, was Top Gun Maverick. Kim Will said, I knew there was a movie that people had seen and just makes the job easier than this year. I’m sitting at a movie theater watching Barby and thinking, well, maybe I’ll do it this year, because at least I have a point of reference with everyone. Kimmel has experienced enough to know that the more popular the nominated films are, the more the audience gets the references to a movie’s plot and his monologue, Kimmel said, I made a joke about Moonlight that made it clear to me that the vast majority of the room had not seen the movie even though it won Best Picture.
Only three people have hosted more times. Can’t you name them? They are Bob Hope nineteen times, Billy Crystal nine, and Johnny Carson five. During the summer, when he was on the Strike Force five podcast, he mentioned he was considering ending Jimmy Kimme Alive, but it was the strike that made him realize how much he still enjoyed it. He said, it’s hard to yearn for it when you’re doing it.
Wednesday night, I was very tired, and I had these scripts to go through. I had to revise and rewrite all these pitch ideas for the oscars, and I was literally nodding off into my computer. In those moments, I think I can’t wait till my contract is over. But then I take the summer off, or I go and strike, and you start going, yeah, I missed the fun stuff. However, I think this is my final contract.
I hate to even say it because everyone’s laughing at me now. Each time I think that, then it turns out to not be the case. I still have a little more than two years left on my contract. That seems pretty good. That seems like enough.
I would imagine ABC would give that slot back to the affiliates. Right, are you going to start another fresh late night show? I think those days have passed. We’ll see. The Montecito News asked Brian Reagan.
As many people who asked Brian Reagan about Working Clean, Brian said, when it first started, I wasn’t completely clean, had some stuff in my act that would shock people today, but it was a small percentage. I enjoy the challenge of seeing how hard and get people laughing without hitting those four letter words or buzz topics. But it’s not a mission statement. I’m not riding around on a white horse with a banner that says, follow me to the land of clean. Dirty is fantastic as long as it’s truthful and real and organic.
But that’s not me. Does he swear in real life? He says, hang around one of my golf foursomes and you’ll hear some pretty rough language, probably after my very first t shot. Was he always funny? The answer is definitely no.
In fact, I can be amazingly unfunny if you hang around me long enough. I’m not mister cut up. It’s mostly nose to the grindstone. I hope this doesn’t sound lazy, but it doesn’t work well for me to sit down and try to come up with material. It’s not how my brain works.
I just do what I’d normally be doing, and every once in a while I’ll see her experience something in a different way, and I want it might have some legs out stage. That’s the writing process. Rolling Stone spoke to Ramy Yousef. He says his early stand up back was basic stuff. I talked about dating a lot.
I remember doing one set at a bar. I was like, I’ve been fasting for raman On. I do it because I actually believe in it, and then there was silence, and then I thought, oh, that’s interesting. It was a type of silence where I was like, did I just say something edgy?
And then I thought, Oh, yeah, this is what I’ve been trying to get at.
I was like, oh wait, everyone’s engaged. It’s not like they’re rejecting it. They’re actually really curious as to what I’m going to say next. In that moment, I didn’t have that part. But then I said, oh, that’s my job.
How do I step into that because that’s actually what I’m chasing. My first filter was if this doesn’t get a laugh, you still have dignity. He started working a bit about how the hardest part of being a Muslim is that you go to the mosque on Fridays before the weekend, whereas Christians don’t have to go to church until Sundays. His joke, I’ll be at the mosque being like, I don’t know what I’m doing tonight. It’s such a worse position.
After pre apologize, it feels so much nicer to do it and then say sorry. As the routine began to connect with the audience, he felt emboldened, saying, because this is fully me, but it’s also in the reference of the culture I’m surrounded by.
And then I started writing it in those pockets interesting anecdote here from…
He did a set on Stephen Colbert in twenty seventeen and a couple of stage performances before that, he’d closed his act by saying, I’m not trying to be preaching, and really not. All I’m trying to say is just submit to Islam because it’s the truth and it’s the only way you’ll be saved. Seriously, both times it got huge laughs, but Yusef says the Late Show producers was so nervous about the joke that they told him if you fight us on this, we’re not gonna let you do the set. He pushed for a compromise. He would close with submit to Islam, and if they still felt uncomfortable, they could edit it out of the aired version.
Instead, it killed, and the final version of the segment ended with a cut to Colbert beaming with delight as he sent the show to commercial. Wow, that’s a great story. Hey, if you need something to do today, say there’s no football at one pm Central time, you could do the math there. Tom Cashman’s Pests premieres on the eight hundred Pound grill Is YouTube channel at one Central. Congratulations to Macpacker Henry Winkler if you’re new to the podcast.
The macpack is my fantasy the celebrities I would hang out with if I were also famous. So it’s it’s Michael Chickliss, Henry Winkler, Andy Samberg, Jeff Goldbloom, Tom Cavanaugh. I forget there’s like a holist, but I would hang out with these people. I got to meet Winkler once, and I know he’s heard this so many times, but I was just like, oh my god, seven year old me would just totally be losing it. Now, what a nice guy.
Mack Packer. Henry Winkler will receive US’s prestigious Oakie Award for Exceptional Achievements in Film and TV Comedy. The award presentation takes place Tuesday, March fifth, at seven. It’ll include an in depth conversation with Henry Winkler, moderated by Bill Hayter. The La Times profiled Jeff Dunham, who combined puppets with Johnny Carson’s approach to comedy, and it paid off big.
In nineteen seventy, Jeff Dunham was given a dummy a gift from his parents. Twenty years later, he made his first appearance along with Peanut, on The Tonight Show. The Ali Time says, you took ventriloquism to the highest level humanly possible and made it cool, not that it was uncool. You get it. Jeff says, oh, I get it.
This is how I know for sure that we’re living in a simulation. Some dad out there and the kids going, hey, Dan, watch this, and the dad goes a really famous ventriloquist. Now that would never happen. Not sure if you know this, but in the vaudeville days, the ventriloquist was the act they shoved on stage when the curtain came down to keep the audience entertained. Why they reset the stage for the real act.
The time said, you used to be one of the few comics selling out arenas, and now there’s an amazing comedy boom. Do you feel like you should get a finder’s fee? Then I’m said, it’s pretty great. What’s going on. The one thing that’s said about being a headliner is you hardly get to interact with other big headliners to share stories and talk about how long a second what it took to get to the top.
It’s also interesting to me is what comes along with social media and being able to put yourself out there instantly if I had a choice to come up now or when I did, I’d choose then just seems crazy difficult now with all the social rules and what you can and can’t make fun of. If you’re an established name, you have a bit of license, but even then you really have to navigate those waters and know your audience. I really feel like the world is full of good people and it takes a handful of idiots and the jerk faces to mess it up for everyone else. From Truro to old Phil Wang has plans to release an album of swing music. He says crooning, rather than comedy, is his true passion, tells s Trotle, this year, I’m trying to do different things.
Maybe I’ll record Phil sings the Blues or something. I’d love to do that. Sometimes I still think I need to stop this stand up experiment and get back to my real life, because this hobby’s gone is long enough. Still doesn’t feel like a decision I made. People always say, how did you fall in the stand up?
And I think that’s quite an accurate description of how you do it. You fall into it, But the real passion is the swinging and the crooning. I find it too painful to do now, because comedy takes every last bit of your earnestness from you. It makes you cynical about everything, and music is very earnest. It’s very hard to sing cynically.
When I sing alone in the shower or something, I love it and I’m gonna leave you there. I want you to picture Phil Wang naked, yeah, in the shower singing. Don’t act like you’re not thinking about it. That’s your comedy news for today. It’s he to wor