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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dean Cook caught up with Philly Weekly. Philadelphia Weekly has a tremendous comedy column. It’s really great.
Ad Am Arosi is the guy who rates it, and he asked Dean, considering all the success you’ve ADDIE’s still hungry. Dane said, I still have the same sense of ambition. It’s more about an inward journey at this point and what I could share with fans and those who continue to check in with me. Ad had a nice segue talking about sharing. You were one of the first comedians use social media.
We all know that story. Dane said, that’s my wheelhouse. I love talking comedy and creativity. What gets me kicking is the house and wis of promotion, getting publicity in a world that is very corporate, the question becomes, how can you independently find your fans and an avenue in which to share arts. When I was coming up, the lord was of Mesa in California, and going through this new window work, I could talk with the guy in Delaware or grown Tampa and share ideas that were funny, quirky.
I was a tip of the spirit At the moment today, it’s different. You’re up against backlash, naysayers, rubber nickers who just want to cause trouble. So now you’re referee doing a lot of defending beyond the art. Still, there’s one thread that remains. You want to be in people’s pockets with ideas and content for people to engage in.
Mission critical on this tour was as I was putting together new ideas, was what were people responding to. Look, the moment is heavily politicized, regardless of what side Red state, blue state. I found that people still wanted to escape. What can I say that someone on a daily nightly news comedy show were during its talk show Monogue hasn’t said brilliantly and poignantly, that’s not my lane. So as this tour started, I’m still about things that are happening observationally.
I’m just not pushing any kind of agenda down anyone’s throats. Then they got into and I didn’t realize this. Maybe everybody else knows this, and I forgot Dean Cook auditioned to be Captain America in the Marvel movies. Dan said what I didn’t realize. Then I wanted to bring a lot of the humor that I recognize from the comics to my performance.
I love Michael Keaton, one time stand up comedian as Batman. I’d seen comics play these darker cartoon characters and still bring levity the part. That’s what I was hoping to do. Taylor Tomlinson told Forbes. I was a really shy, scared kid.
I was really really anxious to go on stage for the first five years I was doing this, But once I was up there, I felt like myself. I felt like, Oh, this is who I actually am, this is who I want to be. Over the years, I got closer and closer that and now I feel like I’m the same person off stage that I am on stage. At first, I just couldn’t be that person every day, but I could be that person for ten to fifteen minutes on stage. Taylor Thomason spoke about her previous specials and said, I wanted Quarter Life Crisis to be about being in your twenties and not knowing who you were.
I wanted it to feel consistent throughout the whole thing. Look at you was me being able to do all that, and that was great and really rewarding. That being said, it was also really sort of emotionally exhausting by the end of that tour. It was just a lot every night to sort of stick to that landing and presenting the material in a way that wasn’t going to make people uncomfortable while also making it clear that I was fine and I was okay. Just took a lot to do it and then meet people after shows and talk about it more.
I wanted this new Current Hour to be lighter and sillier and probably just a little more fun for myself and for the audience right now, I like where the Hour is. Quarter Life was kind of about not knowing who you were, and I think this hour is kind of about knowing who you are, but not knowing where your life isn’t where you thought it’d be. Everyone has a different age in their head of this is what I’m gonna have X, Y and Z, and this is what I’m going to have everything figured out, But life doesn’t work that way at all. Everybody in my life in their twenties and thirties, they may have their dream job and they’re not married. They might be married, but they don’t know if they want kids or they have kids, and they don’t have the dream job, or they got divorced.
So that’s kind of the overarching theme of have it all. Hey, bad news for long time listeners. I was hungry and I’m like, hmm, you know what hit the spot George Lopez Tacos. You remember that during the pandemic George Lopez made a huge deal about George Lopez Tacos. Well, I went to look and website no longer exists.
If you go to Lopez Tacos dot com and doesn’t respond. They went on Grubhub and try to order some George Lopez tacos and it said not available on grub pub anymore. If you are new to this. George Lopez Tacos was created by George Lopez and Next Bite. George Lopez Tacos was a delivery only restaurant with locations across the US.
The menu included latching Gona and Alas Moss Cabrona with various meat choices, chips, sauce and guacamali, and turro bites. George gave quite many interviews about it, and looks like it didn’t work out. Sorry to hear that Bill Maher is in Taho tonight. He says, I don’t like careful, I like bold, I like honest, I like surprising. He asked me what I’m most proud of.
That would be its survival every week as a chest. Sometimes people say to me, how the show go? If I have been canceled by tomorrow, then it went great. I could be canceled very easily. Anybody could.
But you don’t stay on TV for thirty years unless somebody likes you. There’s definitely an audience for what I do. It’s not like anything else. If you want to hear real honest talk, not tribalism, different points of view, people who talk with each other, listen to each other. They’re not a place is to do that.
It’s certainly a more dangerous place to be out there now. When I was starting, there were no cell phones, so you could be as politically incorrect as you wanted to be and nobody would know about it. We always hear the notion of crossing the line. Comedians would say, how do we know where the line is unless we cross it. The comedy club was a place where everybody understood you were experimenting.
Now I hear a lot about comics. You say something and somebody tweets it out and that’s it. Kind of glad I came up when I did bad News. If you’re a fan of Barry, the fourth season will be It’s a final season. The eight episode season will debut on HBO Max April sixteenth.
One of my favorite things to do on the podcast is play the game that we’re about to play, which is, Hey, pretend we were at a comedy festival. What shows would we go see today? Today we’re pretending to be at south By Southwest. Let’s take a look at the schedule. Four o’clock Funny Thing About Breaking Up.
The Boys Club joined Comic Relief US for special events on the intersection of gender, comedy and social impact. Through a stand up performance by comedian, writer and actress Joel Nicole Johnson and a panel discussion featuring Abby Jacobson and Sam Jay, the event will address the role of comedy and entertainment as a catalyst for change and how, when done well, can combat not cause polarity. Seven o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. This Saturday show Parentheses stand Up Comedy a killer lineup of comedians to make your Saturday night special. They include Aristotle, Athari Sam j Mike Lawrence, Yamanika Saunders, mL Willman.
Eight o’clock The ucb’s Asscats, Anthony and Samniwick, Matt Besser, John Gemberling, Sandy Honig at Jessica McKenna. You’re gonna have our time talking me out of that, but let’s see what our options are. San o’clock, A Good Trip Live, A Night of Comedy and Psychedelic Stories. Steve ag Eric Andre, DJ dog Bound, Sandy Honig, Hamilton Morris, Reggie Watts joined the producers of the hit Netflix doc Have a Good Trip for Night of Comedy and Psychedelic storytelling. Eleven o’clock.
The Hateful Eights Roast Battles Tournaments of Champions Round one. You’re gonna have a hard time talking to me out of this as well. In round one, the top eight roast battlers from around the country will compete to see who advances to round two the next night Tonight, competing Morgan Anderson, Keith Carry, Holly Johnston, Mike Lawrence, Greg Leishman, Lucas McCrary, Bryan Moses, Yamanika Saunders, Ohmed Singh, Stephtleev Dan Wicks. So unlike other comedy festivals. Not too much overlap here.
So here’s what we’re gonna do tonight. Friend four o’clock will do funny thing about breaking up the boys club. That’ll take us to five fifteen. HM. Let’s skip the seven o’clock stand up comedy show and go to Ask Cat at eight o’clock so we’d get some dinner and some bruskies in between their ascat ends at nine fifteen, Oh, I missed one.
They creak in the cave stand up showcases at nine James and Omian’s tone Bill, Joel Johnson, Beth’s stelling Steff’s hole of HM. That’s pretty good. Maybe they’ll let us in late. Let’s go to Ask Cat. We’ll try to sneak into the back of the creek in the cave, we’ll see if we get in.
If not, more beers, and then we’ll make sure. At eleven o’clock where at the hateful eight roast battle. That should be a good night of comedy. As I sometimes mentioned, I’m the writer on a podcast called Palace Intrigue. On Palace Intrigue, we cover the royal family, and by cover the Royal family, I mean most days we make fun of Megan Markol.
I’m all about the downloads. I can write a story Kate Middleton looked nice giving money to a charity and hugging kids, and nobody clicks on it. If I put in the headline Chris Rock destroys Megan Markole, y’all click on it. So I play the game from Variety King Charles Coronation to get royal parody on the Harry Enfield comedy The Windsors. Have you seen this?
It’s basically a sitcom about the royal family. It’s kind of cute. While The Windsors is coming back for a Coronation special, the logline Charles’s whole life has been building up to this moment. He wants the UK’s first coronation in seventy years to be a spectacular fair with all the pomp and circumstance he deserves, as does his queen consort Camilla, who can’t wait to drape herself in diamonds and fur. Sadly, the UK is in the middle of a cost of living crisis and wills that’s Prince William to you.
Non royal efficient. Noels thinks the coronation should reflect these more straightened times. The special Assi promises cameos from Harry and Megan. Yes not the actual Harry and Megan, of course, A suit said any channel where it Salton has a landmark show with the word coronation in the title. For the BBC, it was the world’s first televised coronation in nineteen fifty three.
For it TV, it’s the world’s longest running soap Coronation Street. We at Channel four delighted to announce that we now have our own record breaking coronation jewel as the heart of our broadcasting crown. The funniest show on Telly to a momentously historic week for Britain and from The Daily Mail. Comedian Monty Franklin has defended an Australian term after realizing other countries don’t use it, the controversial term the Mexican wave. Calm down, let him explain.
Monte Franklin, capturing a video things in Australia that sound racist but are not. In his video said, you know the wave at sporting events that goes around and everybody does and they have a wonderful time. In Australia, we call that the Mexican Wave. I don’t know why, there’s no need to put Mexican in front of it. He said he realized it wasn’t that common when he was watching TV in Australia with his American wife.
They said the Mexican Wave on TV during cricket, and missus Franklin said, why do you call it that? She thought it sound funny, But I realized I have no idea why we call it that, and I’ve never questioned it. It’s always just been that. They also call it the Mexican Wave in New Zealand. Now stay with me, Franklin said it could be from the origins of the wave itself.
The first time commentators saw the wave was at the Soccer World Cup in Mexico in nineteen eighty six, so they started calling it the Mexican Wave and it kind of stuck. However, a comment in his video disputed that research claiming the wave started in nineteen seventy nine and was created by Crazy with a K George Henderson. In October nineteen eighty one, at a televised A’s Yankees playoff game in Oakland. Another thing he discovered Americans have everything called Aussey cheese fries, French fries covered in cheese, and he said I’ve never heard of this back home. I’m going to speak on behalf of all of America.
I’ve never heard the term ausy cheese fries, not once never, And I’ve been in Australia not there. Other than my time in Australia, I’ve spent the rest of my life in America, not entirely. Trip in the Europe A couple of places would go with a bit. And while I’ve lived in America, I’ve never heard aucy cheese fries? Have you?
Franklin said, as an Australian living in America, I say a lot of things that sound odd and Ray’s eyebrows. Flat white is another one. I have a flat white story. So when I was in Australia, I wanted a coffee and I don’t know, and hey, service like, what would you like. I’m like, I’ll let me get a coffee with milk.
And she goes flat white and I’m like, huh, She’s like flat white. I know what a flat white was. This is before Starbucks introduced flat white, by the way, I’m not that dumb, and I was like sure, and then it came when it was what I wanted. This was one of my takeaways from Australia. I feel like if I spent two weeks there out of just because the next day I went for coffee and I just went flat white.
I feel like if I hung out a little bit, I’d reset my vows again. My favorite T shirt I saw which was bananas or for Peranas. That always reminds me to flatten out my a’s. I feel like I could fit in anyway. That’s your comedy news for today.
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