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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Slate caught my attention with the headline the Cults of Kill Tony. Luke Winky writes under the headline Tony Hinchcliff’s fame skyrocketed after he made a joke that spooked even Donald Trump in Texas. I watch how he became the most powerful comic in America.
Luke writ’s doing well on the program can be genuinely life changing. Kim Patterson, an affable storyteller with a thick Florida accent, was working on a golf course when he first passed through the Mothership in twenty twenty three. He crushed his set two years and five hundred thousand Instagram followers. Later, Deadline reported that Kim is part of the upcoming Kevin Hart comedy seventy two hours.
Meanwhile, Casey Rockett was living in his car when he moved to Austin after …
He’s now admit a nationwide tour. On the other end of the spectrum, bombing on Kill Tony can leave a burgeoning comedy career in tatters. For every Patterson. There are scores more overmatched stand ups who crack under the immense pressure of the moment, punch lines or botched pacings, muffed flop, sweat beads on foreheads, and those sixty seconds begin to feel like an eternity. Hinchcliff smells blood in the water.
The post interview morphs into a brutal heezing. The subject then SLINKs back through the enveloping curtains at the rear of the stage, smarting from an uncoverable psychic wound, broadcast for the whole world to see. Stephanie Robertson is a comedian who on the Dose of Reality podcast said that was the worst moment of my life. We all bomb in comedy, but everybody has access to my bomb. I was like, my life is over.
I’ve humiliated myself. The piece then walks through how kill Tony works in the history of Kill Tony. I imagine if you listen to this podcast, you are familiar with most of that story. Mike Gleeson, a forty five year old comedian from Chicago, till slate. He moved to Austin with the specific intention of getting on Kill Tony.
Gleason said I needed to find my audience, and I feel like this is my audience. Every other aspect of comedy show out edgy voices. It’s more mainstream. Everybody wants to get on TV. I had no interest in getting in the Tonight Show.
I think Kill Tony is better than the Tonight Show. A good episode of Kill Tony is better than the Tonight Show. A bad episode of the Tonight Show is better than a bad episode of Kill Tony. If that makes sense. That’s my opinion there not.
This late piece, Brian Garr talked about the change in the Austin scene. It was night and day after COVID. You could immediately tell who was new. They were all young, they’d all moved here from Io or whatever, and they all had a trans joke, all of them. It was like a signifier for them.
We could tell immediately it was here to get on Kill Tony. It’s a bunch of kids in their twenties trying to impress a bunch of dudes in their forties. Comedy establishment does not like that Kill Tony exists. All right, maybe I’ll pick it that some more tomorrow. Sebastian Maniscalgo, speaking of a billboard magazine to discussed whether or not he’s a foodie.
He apparently hates the word foodie. Sebastian said, I wouldn’t say one of those guys who’s like, ah, there’s a nineteen sixty nine Portel that you gotta have, or this wine has notes of cedar. I just know what I like when I drink. My wife and I got married in Napa, and I was introduced to one about fifteen years ago through my father in law, who’s a big wine guy. When it comes to food, I like to cook.
I’m not doing any castronomy over here. I’d like to make steak. I like to make chicken. We do taco night for a kid, so I’m always trying to perfect the taco meat. My daughter, who’s eight, I made burgers for last night and she said, Danny, I like it, but it’s got too much oil on it.
I had put a little oil on the bun and then put him down on the grid toe him a little bit. I overoiled it, which I knew, and she picked it out. I was like Jesus, eight years old. Eight years old, I didn’t care what I was eating. But apparently my daughter is Bobby Flay Sebastian, have ever gone back to Sicily to see your father’s origin?
Sebastian said, I took my father about twelve years ago. My father and I always wanted to go back to his hometown. He never took us when we were kids, and then later in life, I said, we got to make a trip. Then he goes down with quadruple bypass surgery. He comes out of that and I go, listen, We’re going to Sicily before he died.
It’s got to happen. So shortly after he had the surgery, me and him took a journey to Sicily, to the Amalfi coast and in Rome. I got to see where he grew up. It reignited his passion to go back to his hometown and reconnect with old friends. It’s nice to see that he’s fallen in love with where he came from because he was so worried about work.
My father came to this country and that’s all it was work. Hey, this whole mentality. If you left too long, people are gonna forget him, which I have too a little bit. In comedy nowadays, you feel like you’ve constantly got to be out there touring on on Instagram. Then I talked to Chris Rock and he’s like, you can’t make an entrance if you never leave the room.
That’s great advice, Chris Rock. I took that to heart. I think I’ve established a fan base where if it did take some time off and wasn’t constantly out there, I’d keep them when I came back. So I’m trying to take Chris’s advice. Josh Johnson a lot of buzz on Josh.
He spoke to the BBC about the Johnny Corson era and how things have changed in comedy. Josh shed Now it’s sort of direct to consumers posed before we had the TV networks that worked as sort of the buyer. Back then, it was a sort of one size fits all approach. That’s why so few people could break through and why breaking through to the masses was this instant success. But there’s only a golden era of each thing.
There’s only so long that something gets you something before everyone’s trying to do it, and then it doesn’t do what it used to do. I look at trajectories and how to advance a career in the same way I look at stock tips. By the time I find out it’s too late. By the time someone can give you a template of everything to do to get where you want to go, that thing’s probably outdated. I can’t necessarily speak to what everyone’s career was like in the Johnny carsoner Jay Leno era, but I imagine that audiences stuck with you because of the moment they got swept up in when you were being created.
I think with the Internet that people that find you now are staying with you because of who you are. Josh continued, there is something to be said for old systems continuing to still be good for you. There’s this idea that being on TV sort of isn’t what he used to be, right. I think that’s just because with the Internet, people have more options. But that doesn’t mean that these platforms that are either legacy names or have a very wide reach aren’t incredibly influential to a person’s career.
I think there’s this idea that independent creators and independent media will one day take over everything. I don’t actually think that’ll be what happens. I think independence will gain more market share in the future. But I also think that you cannot understated when people get out of traditional TV, traditional movies, traditional news and everything. As much as we like to think they make bad decisions, I think we still like the idea that there’s a big thing a person could do.
Kevin James told DW he didn’t think Ray romano sitcom was gonna work. He said, I couldn’t believe it. He’s such a low energy guy. Sitcom guys to me were like big, wacky characters. I’m like, this is death.
It’s not gonna happen. The first few years of going with Ray, even when our shows came out, would go to CBS functions and things like that red carpet. Things were so rough because they knew him. But my SHOWO had just come out, so they’re taking a thousand pictures of Ray. I’m just kind of standing there.
Nothing’s clicking. When he would attempt to get closer to Ray Romano, the photographers would ask him, could you move over? He says it was tough. Kevin James said he learned everything from Ray Ramono on how to do a sitcom. One tip was how to underplay a scene.
Romano was so good on his sitcom and the way through things away. I was like, wow, we have to watch him and learn from him because I’m going to be too big on cameras. So even in the King of Queens when I see episodes now, I’m like, throw it away, kid, what are you doing? I’m like, gee whiz. I wish I could go back and redo it.
Steve Martin is heading to Chattanooga. He will be co hosting the International Bluegrass Music Associations Bluegrass Music Awards It’s Complicated September eighteenth that Memorial Auditorium. Steve said, I’m thrilled to be hosting with Alison Brown and connecting with all my bluegrass friends as opposed to my kind of dumb comedy friends and now for something completely different. The Briton Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating Monty Python. Ten stamps celebrating things like Nudge, Nudge, Know what I Mean and the Lumberjack Song.
Other stamps include the Spanish Inquisition, I Didn’t Expect That, the Ministry of Silly Walk’s Dead Parent, and the Nude Organist. Four more stamps honor the fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python on the Holy Grail, including one showing the Black Knight insisting it’s but a scratch. Michael Palin said he was very glad to share a stamp with the nude organist. Boy, that’s a lot of fun. Just for Laugh Sydney is coming back in November thirteenth edition.
Good to see the Just for Lass people are rocking. This year’s confirmed performers include Eddie Zord, John Bishop, Ashley, Gavin, Rob Beckett. You Yanks may have noticed Rob on last one laughing, Reggie Watts, dre le Eth Reagan and a bunch of names that you may not recognize at this point. Now, I know you’re listening every day, going Jenny Mack, stop talking about the Fringe. I’m not going to Scotland.
You keep telling me these shows are playing. How do you really expect me to go to Scotland and CdSe shows? Well, friend, listen to me. I’m here to tell you about fringe at home. Shortlist dot Com put together a list of the comedians which I would be reading to you now, except my browser just froze as I started to scroll down the page.
Now, why don’t you edit this out, John, because that’s not fun. It’s still not responding. Apparently shortlist dot Com does not get along with the Safari browser. Let me open up Chrome if you’re a new listener. We’re a little more casual on the weekends around here.
Ah. Yes, on the Chrome Responsive website. Some shows you could watch. Patrick Spicer’s Pivotal you’ll find that on YouTube. Jeff Innocence Smart Casual also on YouTube.
In his words, he became an overnight viral sensation after doing comedy for twenty seven years. Sarah Milliken’s show Chatterbox is on YouTube as well. Short list tells us she’s a cornerstone of British comedy for a reason. If you want to dissect the world of fashion, exercise, cake and relationships, this one is worth the watch. Vittorio Angeloni Translations.
Okay, he was one of Montreal’s new faces. He was fantastic. Why don’t you watch this? Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feelingcouraged to join the group, Dylan, are you listening? Dylan?
You’re gonna watch Vittorio Angelone’s Translations full stand up special on YouTube? Okay? Because why am I calling out Dylan before I even have breakfast? Dylan has watched three comedy specials every single day. I don’t know if he stays up later, I don’t know if he gets up earlier, but like Jim Jeffries, straps a special on Netflix, Dylan’s watched it by six thirty am.
Anyway, Victoria was really good at New Faces. Shortlist tells us we could watch joe Lycettz. I’m about to lose control. Tom Houghton’s the honorable. You’ll find that on shortlist dot com if you need the list.
And now you don’t have to go to Scotland and complain because they were always complaining about the Fringe. Here’s a guy, Drew Cripps. He wrote on The Scotsman. I truly believe the Fringe used to be like a playground. I remember sitting her in a circle listening to Bob’s Owner of Heroes of the Fringe regale such allegories to me and fellow wide eyed alternative comedies of the future.
We listen to stories of comedians, mishaps and adventures at the fringe, tales so wild I can’t share them here in the print. Just take my word for it. The Fringe used to be more punk rock, more of a playground, more truly fringe. Now things have changed. I understand when a comedian sinks eight grand just for the privilege of standing on stage.
They need to justify that cost by transmuting it into some three and a half star review from a student reviewer, The Fringe today is just about mucking it up with your mates. It’s about awards, recognition and careful social maneuvering. The introduction of awards only made it feel more competitive, but I’m not doing any of that. I’ve set things up so I can actually enjoy it. I’m very lucky I’ve met someone who could provide me with free accommodation.
Last year, all my props got destroyed. I asked the venue if they had a bag for my props. They give me a bin bag and put everything inside it stored in the container. Unfortunately, at the venue thought it was a garbage can with garbage in it, including coconut milk and half eaten sandwiches, which ruined all my gear. So I had to improvise a new show.
People really enjoyed, and I sold out my half run, extending it to the full Fringe due to popular demand. This year, I’m going in with no props. I’m hoping one day the Fringe can return to that legendary playground it once was a place where comics can be lose, have fun, and truly play until then doing my best to keep that spirit alive with a few other idiots. That is your comedy news at for today. If you’d like to program without commercial interruptions, if you’re on Apple Podcast, click that manner.
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