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Caloroga Shark Media. Rommy, you seff, I see what you’re doing. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight at the Oscars the other night, Ron who was asked about Taylor Swift attending one of his stand up shows and what it was like if he got to meet her, and he said, I did. I got to hang out with Taylor a few times.
She’s incredibly kind, really funny. Easily could hang in comedy, you think, because I don’t agree? Do you need proof? Rommy here, listen to this joke. Big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL.
On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Taylor made a stoneface to that Taylor could not easily hang in comedy at all. The interviewers were surprised that Rommy thought that Taylor could hang in comedy, and he answered why timing. Music’s timing, and she’s just got that kind of timing. She’s got time to seemingly murder Joe Coyn’s career.
Tell you that much. Conan O’Brien’s TV show is actually going a premiere I know we’ve been talking about this for I think it’s eleven years. Conan’s been working on a show for Max Max HBO Max Max Thursday, April eighteenth, Conan O’Brien Must Go Well finally premiere last spring. Conan said, my friends around the globe never asked me to visit them, so I did. In Conan O’Brien Must Go, Conan O’Brien travels far and wide, setting himself down in Norway, Thailand, Argentina in Ireland to meet some of the people he had previously interviewed for his podcast.
He shared some footage showing him skiwering stale food in the kitchen of a Norwegian rapper, kissing a python at a market in Thailand, and presenting to a young woman in Argentina a Larry David lookalike. She has a crush on the actual Larry David. Will there be more episodes, he says, we have a backlog of fans we want to get to. We made these four, then we’ll see. I’ll translate.
HBO Max has no money, You’re not getting any more episodes of this. Conin Codin said, there are some hilarious people around the world that I’ve talked to I have a sense our country may sometimes be seen as not caring about the rest of the world. Sometimes we could be like, we just want to take care of America. Sometimes I like going where my status is low. People are free to make fun of me.
I can feel silly. I like to go other countries and be a little bit aware, a little bit uncomfortable with my surrounding, seeing what I can do and if I can make people laugh. He calls this comic diplomacy. Do you attend Duke University, Well, then you’re going to like the commencement speaker at the class of twenty twenty four. It will be Jerry Seinfeld.
Jerry and his wife currently serve as national chairs of Duke’s Parents Committee. Oh, Johnny mac knows how this works. Let me guess yep. They are parents to a current Duke student and a Duke alumna. Jerry’s children.
Always funny how that works out. Jerry will receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree during the ceremony. Congratulations doctor Seinfeld. Start there on that title around. It worked out really well for Bill Cosby.
Mark Marion placed second at the nineteen eighty eight WBCN Comedy Riot in Boston. He recently told WGBH. When I came in second issue McGuinness and the Riot, that’s when I started working. So I spent a lot of four bit of traumatic time there, doing one nighters all over the New England area. You remember doing a nine hour drive to a gig in Maine where he opened for an X rated hypnotist.
What would that even be? Maren said, it was so developmental for me performing for every type of New England audience. Coming back to this part of the world always seems familiar, a little bit like returning to where the trauma happened. But I still love it. Alex Edelman will have a special on HBO Max Max HBO Max.
It is called just for Us and described as brisk, smart and belly laugh funny. No date yet other than April. Alex Edelman gave a quotage which was, you know, when I was in high school, I saw John Updike give a talk and he said, if you’re lucky, the work that you write might at some point find itself in conversation with the times in which you live, and well, call me mister lucky. There is a trailer I will share it with you. I have made several edits here for pacing.
My name is Alex Edlan. I’m a comedian and I’m gonna tell you a story. It’s a Tuesday night and I see this tweet and I sent it to my best friend in the world, and I wrote, David, do you want to come with me to this meeting of Nazis and queens? People are just pulling up chairs here. It’s like a semi circle, or like an anti semicircle.
So yes, as you heard in Just for Us, Edelman decides to go to a meeting of white nationalists and comes face to face with the people behind the keyboards. The Guardian wrote, Grod Carmichael is a superb stand up if only did stop checking his phone on stage show Jeremy chromp the g There the Queen’s came out checking his phone on stage. When Sarah Silverman took the stage at Hammersmith Apollo one night in two thousand and eight, she could have been more hip or more hyped. America’s most cutting edge comic came among us forty five measly minutes later, her reputation at least among short changed London comedy goers was in tatters. I will circle back to that.
Just put that in the back of your brain for a second. The Guardian says they were reminded of this at SOHO this week when Drod Carmichael made a rare UK appearance and went down like a dead shark. At least Carmichael’s gig didn’t end like Silverman’s with a crowd and open Revie. The Moon was more of amusement that one of the world’s most revered comics should self sabotage. The trick would stand up has always been to feign spontaneity, to appear to be coming up with stuff out of the blue.
He does not pull it off here. Yes, there are flashes of comic power the riff on Kanye is the only black man white people freely criticize, but mainly it’s just Carmichael scrolling on his phone, more interested in his reputation than his audience. He doesn’t stand for much of the gig, despite the fact that sitting on the stage renders him barely visible to most of the audience. The audience’s phones were impounded before the gig. Ironic, and given how little here is worth recording one woman heckled and said they made us put our phones in little bags, they should have made you do the same with yours.
So I was curious about the Sarah Silverman thing. I found an article in The Guardian from October two thousand and eight. The headline Sarah Silverman’s UK debut was no laughing matter. Back then, they wrote, Sarah Silverman ticks a lot of boxes for me. She’s subversive, consistently inventive, politically right on and sexy.
Not normally a big fan of the taboo busting comedy that’s her stock in trade. But since her turn on The Aristocrats, where she spun a crafty tail mixing up something horrible, I don’t eve want a voice here and the American light entertainment industry. I’ve been one of Silverman’s increasingly numerous British fans. That is until she, or perhaps for promoters, did everything possible to shake as many of us off as they could. Thirty five hundred tickets add a cool fifty pounds in two thousand and eight currency.
I’ll let somebody else do the math there. That’s what kind of evening’s entertainment does that get? You began with a weight of over an hour due to a technical fault. We got into the venue at eight o’clock. Half an hour later.
The show started kind of Matt Berry and rich Fulcher came on and engaged in three minutes of forced banter with the audience. Then they introduced the proper support act, Steve Ag, who wasn’t there. It’s not AG’s faulty was sick, but who decided not to bother booking a replacement. We got a blank and you’ll miss it video message from Ag, a trailer for Silverman’s new TV series, and then the headline act herself, all forty minutes of her factor in an encore consisting of five minutes of Q and A bastially improvised after it became clear that the slow handclapping crowd weren’t gonna leave otherwise. The evening ended with Silverman telling the audience to go home at nine to twenty five pm on your TV Tonight, Girls five EVA returns for season three, this time on Netflix that had previously been on Peacock.
I watched the first episode and I liked it a lot and was going to watch more, but it wasn’t available to me on whatever cheap tier of Peacock I pay for anyway. This will be on Netflix now. I suspect this will pop now that it’s on Netflix, as shows sometimes do when it goes to that platform. Some new albums to tell you about. Kaitlyn Pulufo’s new album, Dirty Bird, is available wherever comedy is streamed and sold.
On Dirty Bird, Kaitlyn Plufo addresses the struggles of growing up softball skinny, the benefits of dating are young and short, fiance, and the complexities of creepy feminism. Track six is called We Demand Kirth. Track thirteen has two words of the title, the second word raccoon. The first word rhymes with fizz. Wow.
I don’t want to make it look like a were a prude here. I’m not at all. I just try to keep the company clean. Heer and fizz raccoon but not quite makes me laugh. Richard Servante has a new album coming out, also on Blonde Medicines label, April twelfth.
This one’s called They’re Gonna Know, an exploration of this modern world we live in where trolls no longer live in caves but abound in in cell forms in the cloud. The Internet is out of hand, and Richard is not afraid to say it. In fact, Richard isn’t sure if he’s had a real life interaction in years, and it shows in this weirdly detached but somehow relatable style. The album also tells the story of I hope this isn’t true, Richard buying three hundred bitcoins when they were a dollar and spending them on magic mushrooms that would turn out to be a about seven million dollar trip. I hope that’s a joke.
There’s also a story about a girl on a dating app who refused to go three miles to see him at a bar, despite her profile saying that she loves to travel. That sounds very funny. The bio Richard Savarte is like John Wick if his dog never died, So pretty chill. Let’s see if he has any funny attract titles Drack seven, Jetgy Robots, Track eleven, Shut Up Linel Richie. You want to own Richard Pryor’s old house.
This is the one where he set himself on fire in nineteen eighty. It’s on the market. It’s known as Hacienda de la Suenos. It’s a gated wallt property currently owned by a former NFL player Richard Mendenhall. He has set the price at four point two three six million dollars, and that’s not a random number.
It’s an homage to his total rushing yards he had his career of forty two to thirty six. Bought the house in twenty seventeen for two and a half million. Men in Hall told Mansion Global your own for comedy, and he was I’m a fan of Richard Pryor. He’s iconic and I feel a special connection him because we’re both from Illinois. I’m from Skochie and he’s from Peoria.
He’s a man of such magnitude that when I saw the property, I thought what was good enough for him is good enough for me. Prior bought the house in the mid seventies. He sold it in eighty nine for nine hundred and forty thousand dollars. And The Toronto Guardian caught up with comedian Angelica Skanora. How would she describe her comedy style?
Said brashing in your face, lots of wild act outs and unique observations about mostly reliable things. Influence is Adrian apple Lucci because of her razor sharp joke writing and risk taking Kat Williams for his stage presence, and Ali Wong for being fierce, doing it all and making her own rules. That’s a great list for favorite comedian growing up. I started listening to Dane Cook in high school when he pull up on MySpace. I was drawn to him because he did such act outs, and that piqued my interest because I love physical comedy.
I remember lip syncing his albums in my bedroom and pretending I was on tour, which looking back, was very foreshadowing behavior. Favorite comedian right now Jessica Curson favorite pre show ritual. She says, I do bizarre at theater school warm up exercises, barking like a dog on all fours, tongue twisters, and jumping jacks to physically release the nerves, just to name a few. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like what I do here, buy me a coffee.
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