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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late Night on Strike. The Late Bought says, tonight marks the end of Succession, the show that made us all feel grateful for our own dysfunctional families. It’s like therapy, but with more money and cousin Gregg. The ending of Succession as everybody talking, just like that infamous sent Brano’s finale, Cousin Gregg better hope they don’t invite him out for ice cream.
Barry also ends Tonight, Bill Hayter until the La Times. You’re always trying to write what’s honest for these characters as opposed to fan service. I’ve done fan service and the show immediately spits it out. We did something I can’t say what it is in the finale. I wrote it and Sarah said, why are we shooting this?
But that’s good. Hopefully you create an environment where people can come up to you and go this stinks. I put together today’s show very early on Friday morning. There was still almost no reviews available for Bert Kreisher’s The Machine. I find that very suspicious.
But at eight am on Friday, Rotten Tomatoes audience score was ninety nine percent not out if critics had reviewed it yet some of the audience reviews, and I would expect that Berts fans would like this movie a lot. One said, I was expecting a small movie better suited for streaming, but to my surprise, the movie was very cinematic and it actually had some great emotional beats as well as a wealth of comedy and committed fund from Mark Amil, maybe four stars. Another review, if you’re looking for something to laugh out loud out in public space, The Machine is a great deal of crude, obnoxious and provocative content delivered by the Machine himself, Bert Kreisher and Mark Amil is a treasure troph of talent he deserves well as Bert’s father. One professional review from the AU they wrote, The machines central story isn’t all that amusing. It’s played out by Jimmy Tasho as a strapping twenty something Bert.
The film’s flashback sequences surrounding his wild youth and how he utilized the pop culture of late nineties to make himself seem more humorous than he was aren’t all that funny. It’s extended exhibition that we just don’t need. But there’s an energy to Kreisher’s eventual story, and it helps that, in spite of his relative crudeness, that he’s watchable. The eventual story spoilers, ends up bringing Burt and his father played by Mark Hamill, to Russia, where the sleek villain and heel’s arena is described as camping it up just enough, demands Burt. He traces two decades plus steps and locate a watch that belongs to her mobster father.
There isn’t much here that demands to be seen on the big screen. If there was ever a movie that screamed streaming, it’s this. But you have to hand it to Sony Pictures for releasing This in theaters, playing into the welcome mind frame of a decade gone by, where smaller films such as This still got the most minute of lookins, even if it barely lasted as a theatrical engagement. Crazier fans are surely the machines target audience, and I suspect they’ll Gell enthusiastically with his brand of comedy. They gave it three stars out of five.
Movie Phone asked Bert Kreisher, what was it like playing an exaggerated version of yourself on screen? Where it said. Even in the shortcomings, I don’t fight people. I’m not a big fighter. So even in the fight scenes when I sucked, it was okay because Burt would suck.
That make a stress for me because I was really embarrassed because I didn’t know I had a kissing scene. I don’t read the action in scripts. I just read the dialogue. If I read the action, it’s going to take me a day and a half. So my wife comes to Serbian.
She says, you know you have a kissing scene tomorrow and I was like what. She goes, yeah, you have to kiss your wife. I’m like, hold on, are you being serious? She’s like yeah. I was so uncomfortable.
I hadn’t kissing another woman in twenty years. I’m not good at kissing people. I’m not the best kisser, and I don’t like it. I didn’t like first kiss as ever, So now I have to have a first kiss with someone in front of all these people. That made me uncomfortable.
He said he didn’t even pitch this movie. Did I do the story already? I can’t remember. Because I did a lot of shorts for YouTube, and I did the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is my weekly show on the Live one app. New episode out today, So forgive me if I did this one already, but I’ll do it quick.
He didn’t pitch the movie, pitch two others. This suit at the movie studio goes, so, i’ll make a movie with you. What do you want to make? Bert says, if you’re telling me, I get to make a movie, I want to make the Machine. The guy’s like, well, why didn’t you pitch that?
And Bert says, I don’t know. Pardon me? Is like, what if it’s a big hit and then I get kidnapped by the Russian mafia. The suit guy goes, sold, that’s your movie. It’s Godfather Part two meets the Hangover.
I love it. That’s some high praise for the movie. Movie phone lists other movies silvery to the Machine. Movie phone algorithm. I think you’ve lost your mind.
Here you’re ready, here’s the list. The Godfather and The Godfather Part two. You know, the two movies sometimes consider it be the two greatest movies of all time. Yeah, the Machine is just like that. They also compared it to The Godfather Part three, which you can’t even compare to The Godfather Part two.
So I’m not sure how this works also on the list they hang over the hangover port two, they hangover port three, which side unseen. I’m gonna guess it compares to the equalizer John Wick and clearly Sebastian Meniscalco is about my father. I’m not sure about your list. Their movie Phone. Sarah Silverman’s special debut on HBO last night.
She was on The Last Laugh podcast. In the special, Sarah jokes about how some of her humor might be selling out her culture for laughs. At one point during the special, Spoilers, Sarah asked the audience to the name of the book that Adolf Hitler once wrote. She said, some of the non Jews, I feel like the answered that as well. The answer mine comp She translates it to My Struggle and jokes My Struggle is there a more Jewish sounding book than actual Hitler’s book?
She says, I’m selling out my culture for laughs. I mean, if you think about it, what could be more authentically Jewish? I’m sorry, I can’t help it just makes me so much money. Ticknasarow canceled performance. This is making me go, Hm, what’s going on here?
It’s just odd to me. She has canceled her performance at the Walton Arts Center that was going to take place during the Northwest Arkansas Pride events. The reason given was a scheduling conflict. Now, in my experience in the entertainment industry, scheduling conflict is usually code for how do I get out of this gracefully? Maybe she booked a movie who Knows was scheduled for June twenty third.
That’s also when the Transmorchant Transfest we’re scheduled in Fayetteville. We’ll see what lands on Tig’s schedule on June twenty third. The New York Times wrote about naked stand up comedy. Billy Presida is the thirty three year old producer and host of the Naked Comedy Show. It’s exactly what you think you do comedy, but you don’t wear clothes.
The second time he performed nude, the woman he lost his virginity two showed up. At last she knew what to look like. He bombed, he said. Bombing is embarrassing, but bombing naked is the worst thing that can happen. He says.
For a good night of clothed comedy in Brooklyn, it can be tough to draw crowd, but starting last September, The Naked Comedy Show sold out ten days in advance. He now stages two nights every month and most have sold out. He books veteran comics, the kind of that have done sets on late night talk shows. Their material tends not to be that different from their regular gigs. He looks for for diversity not just in race, gender and sexual orientation, but also body type, and says it’s nice not to have five rip comics on one bill.
Main criteria are you funny? One comedian Twin Colin was the middle of a set. He stopped. He was pretending to forget a joke. He bends over and he grabs a small square of paper to remind him where the joke is.
Oh, where was the paper hidden under his foreskin? All right, it’s the last day of the New Zealand Comedy Festival. I’m going to miss you. I’ve played this guy before, Takashi Wakasugi. I played him when we were looking at the Sydney Comedy Festival.
I like him a lot. His show was called Welcome to Japan, and I found a few other unnecessary promby in No Sharyat, you are in trouble, fast Fast baping, Babe. You know so many people bape in Nosharyat, they’ve everywhere. I think that’s unnecessary, PRAMB. You know, smoking a cigarrette or stop smoking dolls?
Enough dollas enough, we don’t need to be treated. That’s necessary, RAMB. Some of my OSI friends they drink beer too much and they’re worried and they changed. They changed to the vodka. I’m soda.
Do you know Vodca I’m sada. That’s also unnecessary, RMB. But they drink much more, you know, drinking beer or stop drinking. That was enough, that was enough. We don’t need to between.
And you want to be to my country Japan, Japan is fantastic. You should go. You can go now. But in the pandemic Japan border clause for a long time, and so many of my OSI friends they wanted to go to Japan, but they could not because the border claused right then they went to South Korea instead, And I think that’s unnecessary, PRAMB. James a Castor has a new album.
He’s not sure if it’s serious, are funny. It’s a music album. It’s called Party Gator Purgat story. James understands if you’re writing it off because it’s music not comedy, says I do that when people do similar projects, I don’t listen to them straight away unless people tell me. By the way, William Shatner’s album with Ben Folds is actually amazing and should check it out.
Amen on that the William Shatner version of Common People is an epic, epic, epic, epic record that will just bring you joy. William Shatner, Common People pauses podcast. Your phone’s in your hand, go grab that song right now. William Shatner, Common People all right to you back eight. Caster hopes you’ll eventually feel the same way about Purgatory.
The album has its roots in comedy. Was part of a pilot from mockumentary in which a Caster, a former drummer, was making about recording an album as a costume alligator. The series wasn’t picked up, but it left him with a bunch of tracks. Not to say Party Gator, Purgatory is fully serious. It’s still inspired by the death, Afterlife and rebirth of the party Gator, but The Time says it’s also surprisingly polished, dynamic in times poignant.
A Castor says, just Lizard dies by its own merit and how good it actually is. And that’s it and I’m comfortable with that. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows see tomorrow. Who does like vacations?
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