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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with today’s Daily Comedy News and I’m gonna have to read slowly today. It’s kind of a slow day, which is all right, it was really busy last week. Tonight is the fundraiser for those affected by the LA wildfires. Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are joining forces for a benefit comedy show.
Shane, You’re gonna hear a lot about Shane the next couple weeks. He’s in another bud Light commercial. In this one, he teams up with post Malone. The commercial will air during the Super Bowl. In the ad, we see post Malone and Shane Gillis dressed in patterned shirts and jean shorts.
They’re standing on a porch. They ring a doorbell while holding a case of bud Light. Shane is wearing a bud Light cap and asks post Malone is this it? While gazing into the camera. They then force a new cashphrase, which is come on.
So when your friends in a couple weeks are doing come on all the time, that’s what this is about. My sense it’s going to get really annoying really quickly. But anyway, I enjoy Shane Gillis, I will continue to read slowly. Red and Black dot Com caught up with Tom Sagora. Redinblack dot Com is a student website, so we won’t follow them for asking the very generic question, Hey, Tom Sigora, what inspired you to get into comedy?
Sogera said, I was a big fan of stand up. I liked laughing obviously, like making people laugh. I thought I was in a comedy acting more, but I kind of fell in a stand up. There were early influences, you know, cosby Eddie Murphy, Carlin, Bob Newhart. As you age, you start to consume more of it, you know.
I went to Robin Harrison, and I started doing David Teal Chappelle and Luis c. K. Sigora is ten years younger than I am. His influence is being like Carlyn Newhart, Eddie Murphy. That just seems too old for me, Like, yes, if you’re me, but coming along ten years later, I’d expect some more nineties comedians to be in there.
Red and Black ass Sigora if he has a favorite bit or joke he wrote over the years. Sigora said, I wouldn’t say I have one. Usually when you look back in your different hours, you have a few things that stand out for each ower. They could be your favorites for different reasons. I think the ones you look back favorably on, for me at least, are the ones where you take it from life and you take it to the stage and talk about it and build it into a strong bit.
Tom what’s your perspective on how comedy has changed in the age of social media? Segora has said, I mean, comedy’s broader and more consumed to different mediums than ever before. We’ve never seen anything like this, So anyone can grab a phone and upload any type of video and it’s good and that the truly talented will stand up. You’ll notice them.
And then you’re also bombarded with just obviously so many awful things.
But that’s just kind of the nature of it. It’s like you have to deal with the bad to get the good. With stand up, We’ve never had a more popular error for stand up. We’re literally in an unprecedented golden age, and it’s for sure because of accessibility and the Internet, and some of that is social media too, But you kind of have to remind people there’s nothing wrong with being great at it on social media. But you’re not in the same categories.
People will get on stage. If you want to get on stage, you’ve got to do it. Sounds like mister Sigora is not a fan of quote unquote TikTok comedians. That’s what I’m reading there. Scarlett Johansson would like her husband Colin Jost to sell the Staten Island Ferry that Jost bought with Pete Davidson.
Scarlett was on The Today Show and said, if anybody out there would like to start a GoFundMe for the Staten Island Ferry, please be my guest. I don’t know if I’m speaking for the Staten Island Ferry or against it, but help our family. Okay, this has now become a telethon for support the Staten Island Ferry. Colin Jos said to Scarlet, I hope you have a good thick pair of gloves at home, because someday you’re going to be getting so many paper cuts from all the checks that start rolling in from this ferry. It’s gonna put food on our table.
Finally, Scarlet, if we sell it for scrap metal, we could actually maybe, Jost, that’s what you need the gloves for. Handling the scrap metal. We’ll see, You’ll all see. Congratulations to Jerry Seinfeld. He’s been nominated for Worst Actor by the Razzies.
Apparently the folks at Razzies didn’t think that Pop Tarts movie was good. I enjoyed it, but I guess I’m right in the demo wheelhouse. I thought it was funny. Amy Schumer nominated for Worst Supporting Actress for what Cracked dot com calls her unlikable turn as breakfast mogul Marjorie Post. Seinfeld got a second nomination for Worst Director.
On Frosted got a nomination for Worst Screen Combo. Nominated for any two unfunny comedic actors. It’s unclear to me which two unfunny comedic actors they mean. Apparently Cracked did not like the Pop Tarts movie. Again, I liked it.
They went out of their way to compile some reviews. Matt Zoler on Roger Deeber dot com apparently had said it’s not only a critic proof movie, it’s an artistry proof movie and an audience proof movie. Richard Roper apparently said if there was a thing called the IMDb Witness Protection Program where you could get your name taken off the credits of a chick of the project. This would be that project. Oh boy, Jerry’s out on tour with Jim Gaffigan.
They’re playing Canada and Tom Pop is opening. That’s a good show. When Tom Pop is in the three slot, that’s pretty good. The News Herald asked Tom Pop about opening Tom’s headliner at this point in his career, and Tom said, we’re all good friends, and they asked if it’d come along and join them for this little Canadian run. It’s very cool to be able to hang with your headlining friends that you never get to hang o with when you’re working.
It’s a big part of why you do it. You normally are all out on your own. Could follow up by the News Herald who We’re like, it’s interesting there are some veteran comedians whose egos, well deserved or not, would have a hard time taking that opening gig. Papa said, I’m successful enough for my ego doesn’t get in the way. I have my audience, but their audience is larger.
They both draw more than I do. That’s just the reality. So it’s cool to be able to play a fifteen thousand seed arena. I’m honest enough to know I can’t fill this fifteen thousand seed arena. But I just love comedy and love those guys.
It’s the same when my friends go out and open for Chappelle, or if they go out and open for Bird Kreischer on his Crazy tour, or all this stuff kind of ebbs and flows. I think it’s a blessing to be a comedian, and it’s a blessing to have friends that are doing so well. You rarely let your ego get involved in show business, especially if you want to be happy. That’s good advice from Tom p Opper right there. Truth be told, It’s more fun being in the club than it is an arena, just as a personal feeling, the audience giving the feedback.
The arena’s a little too big. You don’t feel it, you don’t connect in the same way. You could do a great show. But I love clubs and smaller theaters just from a pure experience. I don’t want to jump on it, but I couldn’t see going to see a comedian in an arena.
And the last laugh got up with James Doomian. They point out that one of the top comments on James’s video is that Lorne Michael’s not hiring James is the biggest fumble in comedy history. James said, who knows, Maybe that was Lorne Michael’s drunken feeling guilty, maybe as a secret YouTube comments page where he goes to confess his regrets. Bad news for Patton Oswalt, Patton, I hope you’re not hearing this from me. You are no longer hosting the game show The One Percent Club.
It is getting a second season, but not with you. For season two. Joel McHale takes over as the host. Joel says, I’m one million percent excited to be partnering with Fox to host The One Percent Club. I absolutely love the show and love the gameplay to the ten x and guarantee my hair, makeup, and wardrobe will look great at least sixty eight percent of the time.
But now I have good news for Patton Oswalt. Patton, you have a different gig. You’re apparently going to be on Suits La. This is the spinoff of Suits People Got Into Suits on Netflix. NBC has shared a trailer for suits La.
Some real actors portray themselves in the series. Those actors include Patton Oswad and Brian Baumgartner, Kevin from the office. He’s gonna be on Suit’s La. Why, I don’t know, Johnny Mac, Is it such a slow news day that you’re taking the headline from Newsweek? Is Joe Rogan running for governor?
Is it such a slow news day that you’re taking that seriously? Why? Yes, it is, dear listener. Now, before I even do the story, do you think Joe Rogan’s running for governor of Texas? Of course he’s not.
It’s clickbait. But I clicked on it. What did they write? All right? So apparently Joe Rogan’s there.
He’s hosting his podcast. He’s talking to his guest, and Joe says, many politicians are just actors who are ugly, and they’re like, well, I can’t really make it in show business, and I want a lot of attention. I want to be a special person, so I’ll do politics. I’m good at b sing. Most people, you know, they’re trusting, like, oh, he’s saying the right things.
If you say the right things, you know, abercadabra, and then the next thing you know, you’re an effing governor. Will Joe run for governor? No? All right, he’s made that clear. No, I’m not running for nothing.
I don’t want to do nothing. That’s a double negative. Maybe he’s trying to head FACUS. He wants you to think he’s not running for governor. But he said I don’t want to do nothing, which means he wants to do something.
He also said I’m not running for nothing. Double negative. So maybe Joe Rokan is running for governor. What do you think? Yeah, that’s what Joe’s doing.
He is trying to head FACUS, and then when he runs for governor he’ll say no, I said, I’m not running for nothing. This has been out there since twenty twenty five. Were you coming at me now? That’s what he’s saying. Josephs I have the best job in the world.
I get to talk a crap with zero responsibilities. If I get something wrong, I go listen. I’m a moron while you’re listening to me in the first place. I have no desire in any way, shape or form to have anything to do with anything involving politics. I don’t want to be in control of it.
Sometimes I’m proud of myself with this program. You know, it’s pretty easy when there’s a ton of news. When I somehow can make an episode out of nothing, and I’m doing that right now. I am happy. Apparently there’s a pee Wee Hermann documentary this on HBO.
Called from forty hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Mount Wolfe has made a documentary pee Wee as Himself. The Hollywood Reporter says, one of the many pleasures of peace Ue as Himself is getting a sense of Paul Rubins as a separate personality, even as the possibility never quite leaves your mind that Paul Rubins, as featured in pee Wee as Himself could be every bit as fabricated as pee Wee Herman. Rubens filmed forty hours of any rus with wolf That’s a lot, and the impression conveyed by Peewee as Himself is one of constant push and poll rights The Hollywood Reporter. Part one is dominated by Paul Rubins storytelling and reflections, though there were appearances by his sister and friends from college and some people from the groundlings. The second episode picks up with Pee Wee’s playhouse.
The hollod Reporter says Rubens is candidate and perhaps regretful about some of his controlling behavior on the show and its eventual demise. I’m sure people will enjoy that. Pee wee Herman, and none of that was ever really my thing. I’m not anti, but not my thing, But I’m sure people will enjoy that. One.
Sketch Fest is dark today, but they have a pretty busy week tomorrow out in San Francisco. The music of the Kids in the Hall, Bruce McCullough, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson and the Red Room Orchestra at the Greed American Music Hall. That’s fun at that same venue on Wednesday, Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers and a whole bunch else this week. You can check it out at SF Sketchfest dot com on the schedule tab there. And that’s your comedy news for today.
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