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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Couple quick jokes from Late Night Jimmy Fallons said, George Santos expelled from the house, and I for one feel better than Congress is now only filled with completely honest people. Finally, Charleamine, the God hosting the Daily show this week, said Santos put on his coat before the vote was even over. Let me correct myself.
He put on a coat for all we know there’s another congressman like somebody stole my coat. Pretty good, Fellon. Santos has already joined Cameo and is charging two hundred dollars a video, because that’s what you want to do. Give your credit card information to George Santos. Ricky Gervais stepping up love this.
Ricky Gervais is donating one point nine hundred and ten one thousand pounds to worldwide animal charities. He has split the cash evenly, says Toortal across donations to eleven worldwide animal charities, including All Dogs Matter, Animal Sos, Sri Lanka, Catastrophes, Cat Rescue, Sheldon Animals, Sanctuary, Dogs on the Streets Helping Rhinos. I actually donate to helping rhinos, millions of friends, mirror dogs, Pause to rescue PDSA and wild futures. Travai says, I hope the dogs, cats, rhinos, and monkeys invest this money wisely, because when my career goes up, I’ll lead it back. Jason Zinneman writes for The New York Times he does a great job covering comedy.
He’s definitely a must follow. I saw this morning he wrote best Comedies of twenty twenty three, and I was like, I’ll mention this on the podcast. I have not looked at this at all because I like to react in the moment. Jason writes, it’s time to stop taking Jim Graffigan for granted and more surprising takeaways from special stand up sets and other funny moments This year best special. According to Jason Zinnemann, while he’s not flashy, each year, he gets a little better figuring out new challenges that fit is every man aesthetic.
With his ten special Dark Pale in Prime Video, his comedy has become so skillful, varied, and pleasingly prickly that it demands closer attention. Now I don’t have that on my list. I have it in the not on the list category. I won’t bog it down with my list today, but I have twenty things in my best of twenty twenty three and don’t have Gaffikin on there. So it’s interesting that Jason and I don’t agree on that one.
All this is subjective anyway. Best Breakthrough writes Jason, best stilling for if you didn’t want me then, also not on my top twenty list. I even have a note hear to myself that I thought the crowd sounded sweetened, meaning they added some laughter into it. Best story Teller went to The Domino Effect Part two Loss, which is Ali Sadiq’s special on YouTube. He’s telling high stakes, dramatic tales of heartbreak and run ins with the police, but with the lightness and ease of someone just filling you in about their day.
Also not on my list. Fascinating here. Best bit went to John Early for Now More Than Ever, a mix of stylish satsire, soulful cover songs, and occasional observational humor. That one I do have on my list at number nineteen because it was quite different. Best New Double Act writes Jason’s in Him into the New York times like many funny duos April Clark and Grace Freud of Girl God look and Sound nothing alike.
Want to like Key Slacker the other more fiery baritone, but they riffed so effortlessly that they seem to merge. I am unfamiliar with them. Best closer went to Mark Marin for From Bleak to Dark. I also don’t have Maren on my list, and I’ve been on a major Mark Maren kick lately like Big Time, and that last special didn’t grab me at all. Jason writes, what would suicide by bat look like?
Only a comedian would think of that? Long and hard on the subject. Best online roaster, Jason writes the arch eladist Dan Rosen has created his own critical beat on Instagram, doing stylish and ruthless insult comedy on tasteless interior design hacked to Core in shallow architecture and not familiar with Dan. Best Canadian newcomer went to Sophie Buttle, She’s solid. Best take on crowd work went to Dion Cole in a Netflix set.
A best response to a peeping cell phone went to Joe Parra, who responded, in a deadpan you just ruined my life and then kept moving. Best Impression went to John Mulaney for doing a traditional al Pacino. Best buffoon Diane Morgan’s long running character Philamina, Kunk four Kunk on Earth, which is I think still my favorite thing of the year. Kunk on Earth is wonderful if you should watch it. Best YouTube Special, Jason writes a highly competitive category.
Never have been more funny people putting out specials. Django Gold’s folksy screwball jokes not familiar, Chase O’Donnell’s deliriously ditzy act, Seaton Smith’s Madison Square Garden Show, and Joe Lists, but Nathan Mackintosh’s Money Never Wakes stands out for its exasperated comic elements about the cocoon lives of the one percent. I think out of all of those, I’ve only seen Joe List again. There’s just so much out there. Best comic On comic comedy, Gary Golmans Born on Third Base, which will be out December twenty First, all right, we can look forward to that, Jason says.
It’s filled with intricate language, drunk jokes that have built Gary into a critical darling. This is his most political and pointed work focusing on the inequities of class. Best gen Z Surrealist, a cheerful, young Arizona absurdist who’s just getting started. She produces edits and stars and cartoonishly bizarre videos featuring milk spelling from the sky, goofy puns, jump scares, and I’ll throw this in the Facebook group. The Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group bj Novak.
You know him as Ryan from the Office. The Hollo Reporter covered Bjay’s Chain Fest twenty twenty three, attending Mindy Kling, John Legend, Chrissy Teagan, John Mayer, Andy Cohen, Chris Pratt and others. Wow, the Hollowed Reporter tells us the red Robin Berger was Mealy. The pizza hut Crust didn’t achieve their Greasy Lacy trademark. Only Duncan was able to retain its sense soorial qualities on site for this influencer crowd, and only Jack in the Box managed to truly complete the assignment.
It upped its game with slow braised beef tacos and Chain’s original Taco Perfecto sauce, which took a menu cornerstone to a striking new place. Back in twenty eighteen, Bja floated the idea for a single brick and mortar location called Chain that would aside from the name Chain being a joke itself, he said, the cool thing about only having one means zoning wise, you can put it in one of these chic neighborhoods that are all over LA or New York that won’t allow a Chili’s or Fridays and will only allow one of a kind restaurants. You put Chaine there, then everybody he really just wants to go. The concept’s next iteration was to sit down restaurant in a rented home in LA and seated about fifty people with sixty five dollars a ticket. At one point had a waiting list reportedly fifteen thousand names long.
The restaurant offered no menu and no modifications.
Meanwhile, at Chainfest twenty twenty three, the VIP room was called the Post…
Patton explained that he got the key to the city of Athens, Georgia. They gave me the key to Athens my first comedy album. I recorded it at the forty watt and Athens in two thousand and three, So this year was the twentieth anniversary. And the mayor, who’s a really interesting guy and exactly what you think would be the mayor of Pathens, Georgia. You know, he looks like an early eighties indies store record clerk, That’s what he looks like.
And he’s so chilling, funny, and he gave me that I should have brought it. I have a physical key to the city. Flat Hat News asked, what is the key to Williamsburg coming? Patton said, you tell me Williamsburg. When do I get my key?
Oh my god? What if I get obsessed and start collecting keys to city and becomes my thing? Hey, you just got an offer. Do the rhyme in and now is there a key to the city involved with it? Because I’ll do it if they give me a key.
That would be insane. I just want to collect keys. Flat Hat said, we’ll send an email to Mayor Doug Ponds on your behalf. Oswalt said, I will happily come back if there’s a key to the city. You’re kidding.
Flat Hat reached out to the mayor. The mayor responded, while mister Oswalt may be deserved of such a recognition, the city has no such designation. From Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler was hanging out playing basketball with Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith and his family during Adam’s recent visit to Salt Lake City. Adam played the Delta Center on Sunday night. Smith shared a video of his son’s playing basketball at Sandler.
Sailor can be heard saying the video, boys, I can’t believe we started this friendship. This is forever. LA Magazine talked to Mark Maron about what he’s been eating. Mark is now a vegan, and LA mag was curious as to his reasoning, and Mark said, well, you know, I’ve gone through a lot of different faces for a while there. I had a smoker, and I smoked brisket, ribbi and chicken.
I got pretty good, but I was kind of starting to hit a wall, and I was eating a lot of fish too. It all started to turn me off. But it really started as an experiment to see how much my cholesterol numbers were based on genetics, orde and it definitely went down after I wasn’t missing meat. I was always sensitive to the plight of animals, but it came more so after I went vegan. I just stuck with it.
My cholesterol is okay now, but my sugar went down. I feel overall better, but not that different other than I feel a little lighter and a little less crappy waking up. Did you lose weight, Mark Mirron? I did for a while, kind of leveled off. Some people gain weight.
You have to be careful. You can’t base your vegan diet on nut butters and pasta and bread. You have to balance it. When I cook it home, I generally tried to make some kind of vegetable and a dinner of some sort of green, some sort of beans, some sort of green like keene while or brown rice, and there’s also protein. Air fryers are very useful when you’re dealing with tofu.
If you want to get that crisp bite without frying and oil, the use the air fryer a lot.
Also, there should be something pickled on the plate, some sort of sea vegeta…
I tried to do some Indian cooking too. I got a really good recipe for chana masala that I make at home. I started making this pasta with white beans and tomatoes. Is pretty awesome. I like to cook and it’s always exciting to find new vegan stuff.
Great question here. You travel a lot for comedy do you look for vegan spots? Has that been hard? Marin? You can find one good vegan place in any city, and if you’re there for a couple of days, you can just eat there three or four times.
It’s usually what I hope to do in a place that has what I’m used to or different variations of it, or a lot of things on the menu. New topic, Mark, what’s your favorite LA thing or place to go? What’s your LA spot? Mark said, this place is more Glendale, but I hike up the mountain behind the Brand Library in Glendale like three times a week. I’ve become pretty attached to it.
And I think my favorite LA thing in general is just performing at the Comedy Store, so a one of a kind place. Mark says he does workouts there once a week and from the Star Observer. Mattel Lane gave a social media tour of his hometown of North Halstead aka Boystown, a gighborhood in Chicago. Lane was standing in front of a place called Roscoe’s Tavern and said, this is Roscoe’s. The floor is probably still sticky.
Somebody must have spilled some beer. Looking back in his times hanging out Roscoe, he said, I’m so ignorant, Like I guess everybody was doing drugs. I didn’t know I was drinking a vaka soda, Like, who am I gonna make out tonight? Everybody was just rolling. It just never understood, like how are they having so much fun?
That He went by a seven to eleven and said this seven one to eleven would make state filled prison blush. The amount of stuff that went down drug sex, party, complete and utter chaos. He talked about the first gay club you ever went to called Hydrate and explained, when you go to a gay club the first time and you’re not exposed to anything gay, you walk in and you’re innundated with everything. I remember the sign above the urinal said no meth. And that is your comedy news for today.
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