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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m pretty open about this, so I tracked the stats on the podcast. Do you know what episode did really well last week? The one I titled Tim Dillon and Bert Kreisher something something Joe Rogan Lazy name dropped in that one.
You gotta do that. Then later in the week I did one with Dave Bird and the title didn’t do as well. So, hey, guess what, guys, Tim Dillon and Bert Kreisher. I had a conversation about Bert being one of the biggest arena comics in the world. Tim was like, you’re what number three?
Number four? Bert’s at four? Tim? Who were the first? Bert Sebastian Fluffy and Joe Koy Fluffy meaning Gabriel Iglesias.
Bert said, I’m going after Joe Koy. He has the nation of the Philippines, the whole nation. If I could just isolate a minority to fall in love with me. Yeah, we’re going head to head. The SmartLess guys are taking their podcast on the road.
SmartLess another thing to drop in your podcast title for SEO in case you’re playing at home. Yes, Jason Bateman on Hayes and Will Arnette are taking their podcast on the road. I don’t love their podcast. Am I allowed to say that out loud or I’ll be shunned from the entertainment industry. I really don’t think it’s that good.
They’re pretty famous. I get it, they’re good, good guests, but I want to actually listen. I don’t think it’s actually that good. The trio will have their journey documented for HBO Max as they share the experience and their friendship. What’s it called smart list?
Colin on the Road? If you’ve never listened? Is smart list? Well? Each episode features a mystery guest that one of the hosts know about and the other two did not.
Once the mystery guests makes themself known, the three interview them in their own comedic way. The show was described as a podcast The Connecting unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hill larity. People Magazine talk to Dna Gottfried. She was looking back on husband Gilbert Godfried. It was the one year anniversary of Gilbert’s passing.
Dana said, before I reflect, I want to take a moment to thank my incredible friends, family, The Gilbert podcast community and Gilberts fans for all their support. You guys carried me. I’d also like to give a special thanks to the most brilliant magician and my superhuman friend, Penjalette, who texted and asked how he was doing every single day all caps since Gilbert passed. He did not miss one day. Thank you.
Dana told the story. He was February twenty six, nineteen ninety seven. I had just turned twenty seven. Gilbert was turning forty two. We met at a Grammy party at the Tavern on the Green.
I was there because I worked in the music business. He was there for free food. I accidentally dropped food off my plate. He picked it up and put it on his plate. I thought it was a bit odd, but I guess I’ve always been attracted to a bit odd.
He looked incredibly sweet and a little lost. I felt sorry for him, so I was nice. He asked my phone number. The rest was history. I don’t know how to explain the uniqueness of our relationship.
I was young, outgoing, and social. Gilbert was shy and introverted. Time out. I love when people talk about off air or behind the scenes Gilbert. He was not his public persona at all.
A very introverted, quiet spoken man. He was not the ah that you know from his public He’d be like him, very nice to meet you anyway, she said. Gilbert was shy and introverted. We were opposites, but like two pieces of a puzzle, we fit together perfectly. For the next ten years we dated.
He’d come over to my house every night to watch TV since I actually paid for cable. We were in love. Gilbert used to say he was like a McDonald’s happy meal. You can’t replace the French fries for onion rings. He knew who he was and he wasn’t going to change.
I told him I would never want him to change. I embraced who he was. Eventually he took the plunge and trusted me. We decided to move in together and start a family. While packing, I asked Gilbert to try and get rid of some of his hotel soaps since they filled up the entire second bedroom of his apartment.
Yeah, Gilbert apparently would take every soap home from every hotel. He asked his sisters if they needed any soap, and they said only big bars. Gilbert, being Gilbert, stayed up all night, opening the little rappers, running the soaps under the water in the sink, mashing them together to make big bars. The next day he delivered a garbage bag full of custom made big bars of soap. I thought it was so sweet.
I couldn’t help but love him. Great stories there. Vulture pointed out that two recent stand up specials, those being Chris Rocks and Kyle Cananes, both talked about filthy pillowcases. And Chris Rocks he said, you don’t even realize all the amazing little things a woman does for you until you don’t have one. The other night, I’m trying to get some sleep, trying to sleep, couldn’t sleep.
Suddenly dawned at me. I was like, this pillowcase is filthy. Are we supposed to change these? Kyle Knaane’s joke. If you’re a single man in here, leave now, go buy new pillows.
I encheathed what I assumed to be a pillow one day in the daylight, and what I extracted from that pillow case. It had the same texture and patina as a Wild West wanting poster. Was cold and slick, the edges were crumbling and curled. At one side was burnt. How did that even happen?
It looked like a map to the New World. That’s what it looked like. Whatever fluids come out on my face at night. The liquid had expanded and created rudimentary coastlines of the Americas. Over here.
You could say, oll, this is Hollywood from the Mediterranean to hear. Ultra says the differences in these bits speak to the comedian’s contrasting sensibilities. Chris Rock uses brevity to sell his material, while Kyle Canaan achieves the same results with extended soliloquies. Rock takes great pains to appear in control. Canaane deliberately engineers chaos.
Arizona Bigamedia dot Com caught up with Jim Brewer. Let me see if I can get my half ass Brewer impression. Actually, back in the day when I worked with Jim at Series XM, I could do a really good Jim. I would write a lot of copy for Jim, so I really how to capture his voice.
And then you’re around him enough and I could capture it.
So the way I always get into this and I’m doing this for real and real time. Here the first time I met Jim, somebody had said, hey, do you want to take a meeting with Jim Brewer? And you know, it was Jim, and I’d think Jim would open this if you listed everybody on Saturday Night Live. Jim’s not in the top ten. But I was like sure.
So I had a meeting with Jim and he pitched his radio show and he goes, as I can already tell I’ve got my good Jim today, all right, so the show it’s it’s me my friend Pete. Pete was Pete CORRELLI I would tell stories. So I sat there with Jim for like an hour and he might have been high, you can ask him. And I wasn’t really sure what I was pitching because I would have how to go back to my boss and said, hey, you know Jim Brewer, Yeah, he was on SNL. He’s like one hundred and fourteenth best guy that was ever on.
Anyway, he wants to do a show where he tells stories with his friend Pete. And again this is fifteen years ago. Be worn. At this point, nobody knows who Pete Corley is at that point, so I can’t walk back through and be like, yes, Jim Brewer, and Pete tells stories. So I asked Jim to do a demo.
The demo he did was the best demo I ever got in my entire radio career. I took a CD of it. You remember CDs. That’s all the story is. I left the army and Boss’s chair with no note, so, knowing my boss, he played the CD.
That pilot sold itself. Greatest demo I’ve ever heard. Jim talked about his current show and he said, it’s a lot of family stuff. It’s a little bit of current events. I’ve got my good Jim today.
It’s a lot of family stuff. It’s a little bit of current events. He usually hits whatever was going on first ten to fifteen miss and from there every curl too. I don’t curse on stage. I don’t swear.
It’s helping that I’ve recorded three straight podcasts. I’m a little gravelly anyway. I like the people can bring teenagers and those twelve and over. Jim explains back in two thousand and eight he made the decision to keep his comedy clean in part because he had kids. He said a woman approached him and said, oh, you’re the guy from TV and stuff.
You’re really blue when you’re live right, you’re like really dirty. You’re the drug guy. Jim said, I know, w what maybe mad? And they also made me realize she thinks that way? Who else thinks that way?
Why do you think that way? If you grew up watching Saturday Night Live or Half Baked, you just know a screen persona you no know the son, father, husband, the married, moral faith guy. Jim’s kids they’re grown now. Yeah, I’m thinking about that. Jim’s kids are a little older than mine.
Yeah. Yeah, they’re not little kids anymore. They are a constant source of materials for his routines. Jim said, never ends so long as they’re in the house. Even after I’ll never run out of material.
I’ll never run out of material being married. Jim says he has left TV in movies. In his rear view mirror, I’ll jump in. Yeah, he was like over show business when I was working with him. He just wanted to be a family guy.
He’s a good guy. Jim said, I left that world back in two thousand. I didn’t want to be in that world anymore. I want to be in at WHORL I could control my destiny. Would stand up starting to put out what I want to put out and have a desire for that grind.
I’m not a big fan of that world. There’s not a lot of good morals go along in that industry. Jim Brewer is at Farnsworth Hall Fry and Harold’s Cave Creek Corral. Those are somewhere in Arizona. Whyt You go on Jim Brewer dot com and figure out where.
All right, I’m going to be in trouble with Kara Wood again. Caraman. You know Karash, she is the power of the streak. Look, I was doing great last week. I ran Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
I played volleyball. Wednesday night. At the volleyball game, I’m not doing a bit here. Four balls in my buddy crashing into my other buddy, and first buddy broke his leg. We’re not as young as we used to be.
Then when I got home, my name was throbbing a little, and I said, all right, I’m taking Thursday off.
And then Friday.
It was a summer Friday in April. It was eighty six degrees, so I didn’t run on Friday either, Kara. But I had a really good street going and I’ve been eating salad, So leave me alone. Willya. Kara Wood.
She wrote The Power of the Streak. It’s an easy to read book. And if you struggle with working out regularly and you have excuses like, oh, my friend broke your leg or was nice out, you know that kind of stuff, you need to say start exercising. You need to check out the book. You see.
Kara had no motivation for years, and then she started a streak of twelve years. I get four days in and I’m like, hey, look at me. I work out all the time. Twelve years. She had a career, two kids.
She’s got the secret to having the drive to exercise no matter what. So like, you know, you can’t be like oh, but it was eighty six and it was a Friday, and I had prerecorded Monday’s podcast on Thursday afternoon, so I could just goof off, fright. You can’t do that. You got it? You gotta do it.
Kara’s story is funny, relatable, and inspiring. She’ll give you a step by step guide of how you can do the same thing with any exercise. It does not have to be running. It’s the Power of the Streak. But Kara Wood available in all fomats, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble’s an audiobook on iTunes Audible.
Check her out on the social’s insta is at the Power of the Streak a Twitter at Power of Streak. Kara’s also got her free newsletter if you want to check that out. That one is called knock It Off. It’s about life, motherhood and all things in between. You can go to substack and sign up for free knock it Off dot substack dot com.
I’ll save it the trouble. All this is in the show notes care I think for supporting. Today is a Daily Comedy News I actually wish I had wore Jim Brewer stuff since I have the gym voice down today Jim, he tells, who’s aunt Moontower Tonight? Nothing not a not a show Monday Dark? All right?
Jim, who’s at Nashville Kid Rock, Kid Rocks Comedy Jam? Yeah, I get luck with that Kid Rocks Comedy jam rym an Auditorium seven o’clock. But hold on, Jim, who’s on the show? I mean, I get that you don’t want to see kid Rock? But who’s performing?
All right? It’s Donnell, Shane Gillis, Big Jay, Chris Porter, Eleanor Carrigan and whoever chance, Willie is that’s actually a good show, Jim. Seven o’clock, Leslie Jones. May we’ll go over and talk about Lauren matt Rife at nine thirty. All right, Jim, do you want to do Milbourne?
Now? Can’t you hear? We’re losing the impression? Stop get out on top? All right, that’s good advice.
Who’s at Melbourne today? Andrew Silverwood show is called I Really really want a Zigga Zigga and a nap. Fourth Wall gave it five stares at a stone cold Legend Weekend Notes four and a half stars said want to watch you out for the Adelaide Advertiser four stars, a must see, explosively quick wit. All right, that’s high breeze there, let’s listen. I really should have finished my last show and gone home sober.
But I’ve cocked to Dexie, had a beard, had no dinner and had just enough acid to think that this chair with grass on is real nice. I really shouldn’t be finishing my fringe. I’d really really gone up Version of the House from Friends. This is love. I love this spot.
It’s delightful to where I come from. We tend to take Christmas decorations down by March, but no, not in Adelaide. Oh lord, it’s a risk for me. It’s a real risk for you because you’re about to close out a show with a guy who looks a little bit like a Disney Pixar character went out to rescue buzz like you and got lost at a Mardi Grass. All right, that’s the Andrews silver Wind.
Let’s do one more. Jeff Perkins is almost sold an said caught low avails. Jeff Perkins was your teenager? Are the kind of weird where former classmates would appear on the news and saying, yeah, I think I always knew you should start a cold. She was just a little different.
She watched Door the Explorer. It’s too four into her teens. Let’s listen. Stand up comedy obviously is a very fun job, very stupid job, but I think it’s also very important to use these times when you do get to stand in front of an audience or on TV to spread a message and to educate. And that’s what I would like to do tonight, if you’ll indulge me.
I found a list online that I think we can all really learn from. And this list is entitled forty four Basic things women want that really aren’t too much to ask for, good of them to narrow it down just a tight top forty four. So, so let’s go on a learning journey together. It starts off with someone that holds open doors for her and walks her to a front stoop after a date. Anyone in the audience got a stoop?
It stoops up the back. No, okay, we’re all gonna dialogne rush someone that kisses her with the same passion after three years of dating as he did after three days of dating. Relationships don’t last three years, all right. I think the materials there, I think the pacing is off. I think she could move a little more quickly.
But again, I’m in my basement doing a half ass Jim Brewer impression. So what do I know? Jim wants you to take us home? All right? That’s your comment news for Today File The show Free.
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