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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m funny it odd putting the show together today. First of all, nobody’s really announcing anything, you know, news cycle and stuff that makes sense to me. But also, as I’m recording this, none of the big comedians have said anything like nothing at all.
Very strange to me. It was a news cycle where people were out and about and everybody’s hiding out today. I don’t know what’s going on. Very strange. I deep dove on threads and Twitter found some stuff, but not from the majors.
Did you see this fake Malania thing? So from time to time a woman appears standing next to Donald Trump who is ostensibly Malania Trump, and sometimes people on the internet myself included, look at the person and are like. Is that Milania? Is that a secret service agent in big glasses? Is that somebody from Trump’s press team?
I saw some tweet that aim with the person or is it actually Milania? On election there were many of us I’ll raise my hand that thought fake Mulania was out and about again. John Marcos Sarresi tweeted or threaded whatever it is. What do you do on threads. I guess he threaded.
Whatever actor that played Malania is texting her friends right now, like I got bumped up to a recurring comedian. Dan Wilbur threaded, at least we never have to vote again. Jim Chews, Oh no, he’s gonna make skang Fest a national holiday, isn’t he someone who goes by thick frog leg tweeted, And I haven’t seen a man beat a woman this bad since the Olympics. Comedian Matt Ruby Democrats should figure out how to make a podcast that appeals to men who like sports. Michael ian Black is not hiding out, he wrote on his very good substack Time it Again, people like me have been wrong about our fellow Americans.
Those Americans have told me time it again that I live in a Hollywood bubble, despite the fact that I live in Savannah, Georgia, and that I don’t understand the problems of regular folks like them, despite the fact that I come from fairly modest circumstances myself. Time and again, I’ve dis missed these people’s opinions of me because I didn’t want it to be true. Turns out it was true. If this is who regular folk want to leave them, then I really don’t understand it at all. Skipping ahead, he wrote, are we more of a union today or less?
People like me believe one way we’re wrong about everything else, So I hope we’re wrong about this one too. Send your letters to Michaeleaan Black. What about that weird thing with John Stewart and John Fetterman? Apparently Stuart on the show said Fetterman was unable to join us. But because we are a professional and venerated news show, it’s not like I just have to sit here with nobody to talk to or nothing to do, just because somebody said no thirty seconds before we were supposed to have them up as a guest in non political news, Bert Kraser will serve as Florida State University’s homecoming parade Grand Marshall.
Krascher is a nineteen ninety eight graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, where he studied creative writing in the English department. The homecoming parade takes place Friday, November twenty second, at two pm, and we’ll celebrate the forty fifth anniversary of the homecoming parade. We’re told with a vibrant display of school spirit. Creative floats and a performance from the world renowned marching chief Jefs. The Bread is one of the week’s most anticipated events.
Paul Reiser is not afraid of new cycles. I saw this on election night. I was like, what are you doing? Really? Now He’s got a new special out on comedy dynamics.
It’ll be out the nineteenth. Actually it’s called Life, Death and Rice Pudding. In Life Death and Rice Pudding, Paul Reiser discloses the secret to successful downsizing, explains why the whole do unto others thing doesn’t work in marriage, and why boiling pasta naked is never a good idea. The copy adds and for absolutely no additional charge, you will come to understand why finding raisins and rice Pudding underscores the very meaning of life. Okay.
Baltimore Magazine spoke to Stavros Halkius. He started out his movie Let’s Start a Cults, which is already going to be available on video on demand starting November twelfth. Stavros said, I’ll be honest, it’s really bizarre. I’ve never had to be passive and just kind of let a movie come out with stand up, especially when you’re performing you’re so in the mix you can worry about things because you have to do the show. This is the first time I’ve ever made something and it’s a finished product and then watch it and not been able to change it, make little tweaks.
Baltimore Magazine said, I don’t think this is a spoiler, but your shirtless in several scenes and bottomless in one. To worry a little bit about being naked, Stavros said, who do you think wrote those scenes? Do you think anybody else asked for that but me? The director wasn’t begging me. I’m not Sidney Sweeney.
My nudity wasn’t going to sell, but I didn’t know if I was going to get a chance to make another movie. I think one class of comedy trope is a really over the top kind of sex scene that’s played for laughs. I do a nude calendar every year. It becomes absurd when you swap out a hot woman for a fet guy. You see how ridiculous how overly sexualized a lot of media is.
And I thought, putting me in the middle of that is going to be funny, So no trepidation. If anything, I was the one asking for more nudity. So I’ll do it straight here. On Thursday. My plan was to teach my college class, which means I have pre recorded Friday’s episode.
It’s still timely, but I won’t talk about the election. We’ll dive in on Saturday more about the election. I’m sure you don’t mind the break. The New York Comedy Festival kicks off tonight. As I’ve said in the past, it’s a fantastic festival.
They’ve been nothing good to me. But I do think New York City’s too big and this thing disappears, and given the current mood, I’m not sure this is gonna pop. We’ll see Happy to Be Wrong tonight six o’clock at NYCC East Village Christa Stefano. Then Chris is gonna haul it over to NYCC Grammercy for the same show at seven o’clock. At eight o’clock, dead funny and all star tribute to Joan Rivers.
I’ll talk about that in a second. That’s at the Apollo. Then Christa Stephano is gonna hop on the subway and go to NYCC Upper West Side for another show at nine thirty. And we’re just getting started. This thing will go on for another week.
All right. The Joan Rivers show at the Apollo is titled Dead Funny. It will feature Nicky Glazer, Michelle Buttew and many more. Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Caroline’s Comedy Club and is the festival founder, said the idea was Melissa Rivers idea. Here’s how it works.
Caroline says, they’re going to take Joan Rivers cards. Joan had a library of written jokes. I worked with Joan at w OR Radio two thousand and one. Definitely was too thousand and one because I remember we were talking about not just nine to eleven, but there was that whole Anthrax thing. I remember producing a lot of shows with Joan when the anthrax thing was a big scary thing, and yep, she worked with cards.
Saw it with my own eyes. Caroline said, we’re going to take all of Jones’s cards. She wrote everything on index cards, and she had a big cabin of them, which she gave to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown. But we weren’t going to do a show with that. Melissa had the idea, get Joanes foul mouthed friends, admirers, and fifteen hundred fans together for a night of inappropriate laughs.
Caroline said, it’s a lot of comedians who Joan was really close with. The lineup includes Sandra Bernhard, Patton Oswalt, Matzel Lane, Jeff Ross, Randy Rainbow, and Rachel Brosnahan, who starred in The Marvelous Missus Masel. Hmmm. I’m looking at that list in the ages of everybody and my personal relationship with Joan Rivers, who believe me. We talked about booking people on the show, and Joan told me I don’t really know anybody.
I don’t really have celebrity friends. So look, Caroline hangs around comedians way more than I do. And I’m not here to say that these people weren’t great friends with Joan Rivers. I don’t know. I’m just looking at it, going, yeah, but who knows.
Maybe when I stopped working with Joan, she became really tight with Paton Oswalt. I don’t know, Caroline said, I remember watching her when I was a kid on Johnny Carson, and I can’t believe what comes out of this lady’s mouth. No filter, That’s what comedians do. There was no filter on Joan ever ever. All right, Caroline, who else in the festival that you’re excited for, she said, Zorna garg We gotta call one day because Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton were producing a series called Gutsy about gutsy women, and the producers called us and said, could you suggest some comedians?
And we suggested Zorna.
Also on the festival November eleventh, the annual Stand Up for Heroes show w…
Wonder what they’ll talk about. Bruce Springsteen will be there with the comedians from recent history. Having Bruce Springsteen on stage with you doesn’t guarantee that you win an event, you know what I’m saying. Nudge nudge. Caroline said he’s gonna leave his tour to play here.
That’s how good he’s been. And Patty’s going to do it too. I love that she tagged with Patty. I’m a Springsteen fan and Springsteen fans. I’m sorry, we just make fun of Patty because you go see a show and sometimes Patty’s there and sometimes not there.
Sometimes Patty’s the fifth guitarist, sometimes there’s no fifth guitarist. I can’t tell the difference between the two shows. But Patty’s going to do this show too. You’re making friends today, Jonah, Yeah, I know. I can’t help myself.
And since it’s a little bit slow and no one’s announcing anything, let’s look at Vulture’s annual list of the comedians you should and will know. One of those comedians, Raka Shankar. Raka says Tim Robinson is my favorite comedian. I love it how he always feels like he’s being himself and he continues to reinvent the world of sketch characters in comedy by just experimenting and not caring if it’s too weird. I think sometimes mainstream audiences are too quick to pass over comics like that, and they never get a chance to cook and try more and eventually find their niche.
And I’m so grateful he has gotten to do all that. Sam Richardson too, God, he’s so funny. I also love Quinton Brunson. I love that she has a background and working on the internet has so many of us do, and parlay those skills into professional sketchwriting and then eventually her own incredible TV show that she stars in. All Right, what was your worst show?
She said, my indie improv team, and I once performed a set for a youth group in Long Island at a hotel ballroom. There were teenagers who went on this retreat every year and on the last day a magician would do a show. But this year we replaced the magician. The teens filled to the room and saw their beloved magician was not there and was replaced by random twenty something year old improvisers, and they became sad. They sat down and one of the host announce said, now improv.
We tried to explain what that was, but I don’t think they wanted to hear it, and maybe we were also nervous and weird. All their suggestions were weird sexual slang that we didn’t understand and would ask what it meant, and they’d laugh and didn’t explain. Then we started performing. They were either talking the whole time we had to shush them, or they would imitate our object work from the audience to make fun of us. We left the moment the set was over, and that is your comedy needs for today.
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I went with my usual caramel with milk, which is good, and you know, I figured, all right, if you’re getting two, it’s a good time to experiment. So I got the peppermint mocha. They’ve been pushing pass don’t do that. It sounds like a good idea, it’s just not good all right. See Tomorrow