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Not everybody listens, but don’t blow off the episodes. They gotta have nothing because they’re actually pretty good. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Stephen Colbert with a pretty good joke. Earlier this week, Trump’s social media account put out a bit of disturbing content. It was a campaign video with a headline about a unified Reich.
Now, before you get two worked up, there’s a simple explanation. Donald Trump wants to rule over a unified Reich. I love that joke because of the simplicity. Let me digress here. I’m actually saving this as a real topic for a Monday, but I just shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group Joe Cooy trailer and dude, can you go more than two words without an F bomb?
We’ll start a discussion in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group about working clean. And I’m not saying you have to work clean, but I am saying don’t work dirty for no reason. And if you play that Joe Cooy trailer, you’ll hear what I’m talking about. We’ll do that on Monday. Shane Gillis throughout the first pitch at the Philadelphia Phillies game on Wednesday, Shane said, I’m trying not to be like fifty cent.
If you’ve ever seen it, fifty cent had one of the worst ceremonial first pitches of all time. I got one day of practice in I was at the University of Texas. I got to throw from the mound a little. NBC’s John Clark asked Shane Gillis how he felt leading up to the first pitch. Let’s listen, you perform in front of a lot of people.
Yeah, Like, is that nerve racking or resists? This is way more nerve wrecked. This. It’s a test, my man. With that, I’m certain I’m gonna fail.
You’re gonna be fine. How cool is this? It’s awesome. This is a cool team. I’m happy to hopefully not ambaniss myself.
Good luck. Shane Gillis, a south paw from Pennsylvania, threw a strike. Congratulations OutKick saw that new Shane Gillis show tires on Netflix. I’m looking forward to it. But last night I went to see The Rolling Stones.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are eighty, by the way, which is encouraging. I could host this thing another twenty five years. I saw my buddy Sal yesterday and he was asking me where do you record from? You go to a studio, and I’m like, no, basement. USB Mike straight in too my MacBook and he’s like, that’s what I thought.
Sounds good. Well, thank you, Sal, But yeah, I’m in my basement. I digress all right. OutKick talking about Tires. The headline from OutKick, Shane Gillis’s new comedy series is a massive middle finger to wokeness.
They write in a non spoilery way, what I can say is that Tires couldn’t care less about what should shouldn’t be allowed to be joked about. The premiere episode includes jokes about I gotta clean this up, favors that you might do for somebody you really like. You know what I’m saying, nutche nudge wink wink, say no more the results you get from such a favor nudge nudge wink only fans where you know, as you know, sometimes I lock myself in the basement and I watch some comedy from Natasha la Giro. I don’t know what you think I’m doing down here, reliving the high school football glory days, Oude Hussein lying about hooking up with women and being an idiot. Where else can you find a show with jokes about sex and the deceased son of Saddam Hussein.
That’s a good question. And it’s a pure R rated comedy and exactly what Shing Gills fans have come to expect from him. It’s absolutely everything the anti comedy woke mob hates? Is there actually an anti comedy woke mob? Does that actually exist?
Where? Is just like we just write articles about it and I talk about it every day, and Chappelle does twenty minutes about it, and Gervaise sweets about it, and everybody writes articles about everyone’s being canceled while Luis c. K plays Madison Square Garden. Is there an anti woke well? I haven’t seen it.
The jokes are so edgy at times that you might even feel a little uncomfortable, and I loved every second of it. The entire premise is a middle finger to people who want to sanitize comedy Again, are those those people. Or maybe it’s me because I don’t want JOKOI to try f bomps. Maybe I’m the anti woke mob. Wow, I just had a self awakening.
Tires also includes appearances from Stavros Halkias and Andrew Schultz. Schultz’s character immediately gets hit with pejoratives as soon as he’s introduced again. The show is edgy as hell and I love it.
Speaking of Andrew, Schultze just performed at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week.
The National News said comedian doesn’t hold back and uae return. They tell us it’s rare for a comedy show to leave you tearing up with emotion. But that’s exactly what happened when I saw Andrew Schultz at Eddie Hot Arena on Tuesday. Who’s a return to the area. Apparently Andrew had played there in October as part of the UFC Showdown Week.
The writer says, back then was the first time I’d heard of Schultz. Curious to know who this American comedian was that had sold out Eddie Hot Arena. It came across a short clip he uploaded on his YouTube channel. I instantly became a fan. After all, who wouldn’t be impressed by someone from the US learning and joking about an Arabic slang used to describe teenagers who hang around malls and groups.
The writer then shares that he or she went to see Andrew in Boston and then added, I was surprised to see the same opening acts I’d watched in the US comedians Derek posted Mark Gagnon, who took the stage and warned up the crowd while they were both entertaining. I had already seen them perform the same jokes a few months previously, making me worry that Schultz might do the same. You see somebody in Boston and the Abu Dhabi Comedy Week and you get the same material. I don’t think he could be like, what, how could we not do it a fresh set? Yeah, if you’re not going to play your hits at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Week, I don’t know when you’re going to This is not the seller good news.
The writer says, I was relieved to learn that wouldn’t be the case. As he stepped down on the stage with a thin bamboo stick, or as he joked, his comicky stick, I hope I pronounced that right. That is the aforementioned that slang word about teens in malls something to defend himself from these teens in malls and keep them at bay. And the two times I’ve now seen him live, I’m continually impressed just how good he is at what he does. And he personalized his sets based on what city he’s in.
He is a seamless way of knocking out jokes in such a natural way they’d already think he was quite familiar with the region. That’s cool, while we’re in the weeds here. While most of his jokes were hits, I did have to turn up my partner at one point to see if he understood a quip about UAE beating Saudi Arabian football, as there seemed to be some confusion, even with Schultz seemingly asked the crowd if that was true. My partner clarified that he thought it was a reference to Al Anine beating Alan Nassar in the AFC Champions League a couple months ago. That’s deep, Andrew, that’s deep.
Jen Marco Cireesi, his star is rising. Picks eleven New York City are aware of who he is now. They had him on They tell us recently, John Marco dropped a series of semi not safe for work announcements for the third leg of his Leaning into Our, which features John Marco in various states of censored undress with a winking, off kilter approachability. It’s this charming blend of self awareness and on assuming male energy that have made Seresi something of an internet heart throb for countless scores of straight women and gay men. I wasn’t aware of any of that.
I’m neither of those, and I’m a fan those star has been on the rise for some time. The leading and tour has coincided with some recent major industry attention for the host of The Downside with John Marcos Ressi podcast. He says, I was always funny leading. I always enjoyed comedy, and I probably thrived more in comedic roles than dramatic roles, even though deep down I always wanted to be like Daniel da Lewis, he says with a wink. But then after several years in New York and not getting that much work and struggling, I finally wrote a play for myself and it just lent itself to being comedic.
I got very addicted to the feedback loop of stand up comedy and stand up comedy, I immediately get to find out if something is good or bad or how to make it better, and it just sucked me. In Pixe eleven says, among John Marco’s strongest comedic attributes is the loose and cutting but kind way the comedian navigates awkward situations that can evitably arise at a comedy show full of drinking adults. Earlier this year, he was performing at a drag bar in Ohio doing some Trump material. A guest in the front row let her support be known. John Marco said, there’s no way you’re in the front row of a drag show and voting for Trump.
I don’t think it’s my job to take a poll before the show. Is there anyone in the audience who’s Republican? But you got to ignore, especially seeing as how drag queens have become the focal point for conservatives to try and use hysteriot inside homophobia, et cetera. Anyway, I could not talk about it, so I challenged her on it, and I said, how can you beat a drag show when the people you’re voting for would in their fantasies ban this from happening. All right, I have an on the fly update.
That first half was pretty good. I bumped two stories to Monday, and now I can tell you Monday is also pretty good. So listen all weekend solid episodes all the way through huzzah. Following up on yesterday, I was doing a Taylor Swift rant that yeah, I do listen back in the car every day on my way to the National Donute Chain. And as I listened back to Thursday’s episode that first segment where was talking about Nikki Glaser, I didn’t like it.
I didn’t nail it. I’d like to do that one again. Just didn’t nail it. Heather jumped in on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, not knowing that I didn’t like the segment, but I didn’t like the segment, and Heather wrote, friendly neighborhood Swifty here just wanted to say that Nikki Glaser brought up Taylor Swift. She wrote, do not insert Joe Coy joke.
Okay, because on Taylor’s new album she has thank You Amy, and she reminds us that the spelling on thank You Amy has a capital K a capital I and a capital M and the rest in lower cases, and Kim spells Kim. She has a song on the new album that people think is about Kim and reignited the Kim K hate. I think that was Nicky’s first thought when Kim K got booted the Brady Roast, but then she remembered that this family sucks in general in most people’s opinions. Fun fact, Nicky’s body shaming comments about Taylor were used in the Miss Americana documentary, which Nicky has since apologized for. Appreciate the note there.
I do like Taylor Swift, by the way. I just I like the bit more than I like Taylor Swift. When I saw Taylor last year, that was the best concert. I think. I’ve talked about this in the past, and I’ll let you know how the Rolling Stones were last night.
But when I left Taylor, and I’m a big Springsteen fan, I said, Okay, Bruce, you and the guys are going to stand at one end of the arena and play guitars for two and a half hours. I’m no longer impressed. Heather also to post with hashtag Bob’s Burgers fans Unite Well. Ellen is a Bob’s Burgers fan. Now I’m hoping the Bobsburgers fans unite and maybe, you know, if people run with the gag enough, maybe they’ll make like a fan film, or maybe they’ll like actually produce an episode of Bob’s Burgers from all this merch, and then we could all laugh at the joke that the show was real for the last fourteen years.
We’ll see Ellen wants to buy me a coffee dot com thank you, Ellen, and bought me three ice coffees. You can hear one right here. I’m gonna keep doing this because i haven’t done this in a while. And she wrote in the words of the why David Letterman, if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatever. She adds, I believe that applies to Johnny Mack as well.
I’m not offended anytime anyone wants to compare me in any way to David Letterman. Great compliment accepted. Thank you, Ellen. Hope you’re enjoying Bob’s Burgers. Oh my brain is fried here.
So I’m looking at the next story. It is from people and it says Richards tells people, And I’m like, do I have a Keith Richards from Merlingstones. Do I have a Keith Richards story in here? Oh no, no, No, it’s Michael Richards. He was Creamer on Seinfeld, still talking about that infamous night where he lost that on stage.
He said, I was immediately sorry the moment I said it on stage. I’m not looking for a comeback. My anger was all over the place and it came through hard and fast. Anger is quite a force, but it happened. Rather than run from it, I dove to the deep end and try to learn from it.
Hasn’t been that easy. Crisis managers wanted me to do damage control, but as far as I was concerned, the damage was inside of me. He says he has spent the past seventeen years in deep analysis. It was time to figure out where all the anger was coming from. Part of it came down for him, his own insecurities.
Somehow I couldn’t connect to the joy of being an artist. I was a good character actor, but I was comfortable being the character, not in being me. I said no to the offer of a store in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I didn’t feel deserving. I said no to hosting SNL twice because I didn’t feel good enough.
I never really felt satisfied with my Seinfeld performance. Fame magnified my insecurities. As for the infamous night in two thousand and six, he says, I’m not racist. I’m nothing against black people. The man who told me I wasn’t funny had just said what I’d been saying to myself for a while.
Felt put down. I wanted to put him down. The Veil Comedy Festival back this weekend, kicks off tonight. Jenny Zigrino Is you’re a headliner. You’ll find her at the Gambit Bar tonight at seven thirty.
She says, I feel like every time we do comedy in Colorado, I have an amazing time. Last year I was at the High Planes Festival in Denver. It was so great hang out with my peers from all over the country. My favorite memory from doing a festival like this is the crappy diner food you have the next morning after the closing party. I love seeing friends I haven’t seen at a long time at festivals, discovering new comedians that are hitting the scene.
My favorite part of festivals crazy after parties. I like to go back to the hotel and sleep and just knowing the funniest people in the world are on the same show as you. It’s the craziest thing that has ever happened to you at a comedy show. She says. One time I asked Blake Griffin for his phone number.
Blake Griffin, the NBA player, best known, I think for his time on the Clippers, the La Clippers. He gave it to me. I don’t know if it was real or not. Comedian Mark Masters is the organizer of the Veil Comedy Festival, and he said, you can go to comedy festivals where you’re going to a theater and you’re watching with five hundred or thousand people. You’re watching most of our shows with less than one hundred people.
And after the show you go into any of the great restaurants in and around Veil Village and the comedians who just saw on stage or sitting right next to you. Boy, imagine if Patton I was what was there eating a hot dog and that would be some scene. It’s very common for me to hear stories about guests buying beers for comics. I’m thinking, what’s the term. There’s a term.
I can’t think of it. For female fans of comedy who sometimes buy a beer for comedians. Sounds like it might be an opportunity to buy a beer for comedian this weekend. There’s a term. I can’t think of it right now.
Comedian Monroe Martin is originally from Philadelphia, is in New York City. He will also be headlining the Veil Comedy Festival. Mark Masters was asked how does he pick it comes to the festival. There’s a whole committee that scores their submission tapes. It’s a complicated process.
And I don’t choose the comedians. Those comedians get scored by a group of industry professionals and selected through a screening process. I’ll chime in. I assume part of the screening process is cost Like, let’s go to the Johnny Mac Comedy Festival. I’m gonna have Chappelle, Seinfeld, Malaney and affagain at Bill Burr and Seane gillis pretty cool festival.
I can’t afford to book it. And that is your comedy news for today. Oh and look at the clock. This was not a short episode today and I bumped another story. So we’ll have robust stuff all weekend.
Uh. You know, if you’re taking the weekend off and bring your podcast app with you or catch up on Tuesday. I’m cool with that. Have a great weekend, see you tomorrow.