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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News five of the late night host Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Seth Myers. They’ve teamed up for a podcast, twelve episodes of Strike Fource five. Each of the hosts will participate in the conversation. Whoever’s leading the conversation will rotate.
The late night host will give all proceeds to the out of work staff from their respective shows. All right, kind of cool something to listen to.
Meanwhile, earlier in the week, a handful of comedians put on a stand up show…
This part of the strike protests. Comedian Mona Shake organized the events. One of the performers recent roast Battle LA champion Sarah Fitz Himmy. Sarah said, right now is a pivotal time in history for actors and writers to defy crappy pay and working conditions, not to mention lack of health benefits. I mean, who do you think you guys are?
Stand up comedians? Shake opened her set with a bit about audience members confusing her from Mindy Kaling and joking Mindy is rich I am or That’s why I’m doing this. She then segued into a criticism of Bob Eiger. I’m not sure this really landed. She probably told it better than I do, but the line Bobby said it was unrealistic of WGA members to ask for a two percent raise.
Just to put things in perspective, the average writer makes sixty nine thousand dollars a year, while Bobby makes seventy four thousand dollars a day. I think he failed math point taken. I’m not sure that’s a great joke. Alex Hooper said, it costs studios forty eight cents to send you a one cent residual check if you’re wondering where our money’s going. Felicia Michael’s followed.
Hooper ended her set after a few minutes, saying she’d soon devolve into a bunch of penis jokes, which does feel fair on a picket line in front of Fox Studios. Billboard did a big profile of Bert Kreischer about his tour. Bert said, each summer, I want to surround myself with my favorite humans, which are always going to be comics. I want to hang out with my friends and family. Tour and have fun.
I want to float on rivers, boat on lakes, end up in oceans, go hiking, shoot guns, get high on mushrooms and do whatever we can to have a blast. This year, the Fully Loaded tour included at times, Mark Normant and Shane Gillis, Tiffany Hatash, Stavros alki Is, Fortune Feemster, Davittel Lewis Black, Jim Norton, andrews Antino, Big Jay Oakerson, Jay Farrow, Dan Sodor, Chad Daniels, Ralph Barbosa, Rosebud Baker, and Tammy Pascatelli. All of them are great. Wow, what a list. Grayshers said, we wanted to make it the best experience a comic could ever have, with extra tour buses and plenty of amenities to make it feel like a great gig.
As for the lineup, Bert said, this is interesting. There are certain acts that other comedians have a hard time following. Acts like Chad Daniels, who was simply amazing.
Also, I had Tiffany Hattish on the lineup, which no one could follow either.
Most promoters wouldn’t give a hoot and just say find someone to follow them, But as a comic guy to say now it’s not how it works, and I’m able to talk to a comedian like Dan Soder and ask him to open and he’ll do it because he understands and the request is coming from a comedian.
And then I’ll take the bullet and close the show behind someone like Chat or …
Everybody there knows me. I’d just take my shirt off. People go crazy at the heart of things. I love comics. I love being on the road with comics, and my daughters, who I bring on tour with me love it too.
During the tour, one of them told me, I love this. You wake up in a different city every morning. If breakfast rate and everyone you eat with is hilarious, this is amazing. The same profile quoted one of the suits. I hate when suits get involved, right because everything I just told you was like fun and upbeat.
And then the suit says, our intention for creating fully Loaded was to build a lifestyle brand that represents all of the aspects of life that Burt enjoys the most, that could then support multiple ventures and revenue streams for years to come. I want to throw up, listen to yourself, and then could support multiple ventures and revenue streams for years to come. Stop. You took all the fun out of it. Congratulations to Adam Sandler.
He has a new all time best reviewed movie. Yeah you are so not Invited to my bot Mitzvah has a high Rotten Tomato score ninety six percent, higher than his previous films across thirty four years of making wonderfully awful movies. Hustle, which is the second best Adam Sandler film and a good Movie, has ninety three percent Somehow The Myrowood Stories has ninety two percent. Uncut gems, the best Adam Sailor movie ninety one percent. Oliver Anthony showed up at Joe Rogan’s Common Club.
If you’re like, Who’s Oliver Anthony? Because I was like, Who’s Oliver Anthony? I do this every day. I’m not familiar with such a comedian. No, he’s the guy that recorded rich Men North of Richmond to the song that went in viral recently.
Yeah whiskey Riff says Tom Sagura got the honor of introducing Oliver to the stage and said, guess what, I have a special treat for you. This doesn’t always happen, but this does happen when you come to really kop blaizis like the comedy mothership. I’m gonna bring on stage right now. This is so effing cool. This young man has exploded in popularity and we’ve all been blown away by this guy’s talent.
We’re so lucky to see him here live tonight, the very amazing talented Oliver Anthony. Everybody, let’s hear it, Whiskey Riff said, the crowd went nuts. Bill Mar will be in Grand Prairie Sexist tomorrow and said sexist knows how to party. I generally enjoy the Red States more than I don’t want to talk ill of anybody, but I’d much rather be in Dallas than you know, San Francisco or someplace like that, because they’re not politically correct. The Dallas News asked Bill Mar what kind of audience he expects.
Bill said, politically mixed, which is very rare. It’s very rare throughout history, but especially now when we’re so partisan. One reason I love doing stand up is it’s the audience who wants me to go there. I’ve always found there’s no problem in Texas. Asked for the Dallas metro area, it’s kind of the perfect combination for the last few years since the left kind of went nutty on their own.
I consider myself mostly what you’d call an old school liberal, but that’s very different from woke. I love it that I can make fun of and do the Trump jokes and everybody laughs at those, including the Republicans and the audience. And I could make fun of the woke nonsense and everybody laughs at that, including the liberals. I think there’s a hunger out there for common sense, left of center centrism. And they asked Bill Moore if Texas is any different now than it was in the nineteen eighties.
Bill said, I’ll say this about the South, it’s definitely less southern than it used to be. I’ve been in many Southern cities and I don’t hear any accent anymore. Austin is a little too New Yorky. I wish it was more Texas. I’m not looking for rural.
But you know what I love about the South is it’s still more friendly than anywhere else. Like I said, less stick it up your butt, just looking to have a good time, looking to laugh. Scott Rakowski is mad at the NFL. That’s the guy who formerly hosted HQ Trivia Well. Last week, the NFL put out a video for the upcoming Sea in which starred Macpacker Keegan Michael Key.
He presented an NFL script for a table read that included star players such as Jalen Ramsey and Patrick Mahomes. Regowski took to Socials and said, now, does it surprise me that a soulless mega corporation with zero creativity or independent thought would choose to blatantly rip off actually creative people to make their content. No, it doesn’t. Does it tick me off? You betcha because the person they ripped off this time was me.
Apparently, Scott feels it’s similar to his old NFL Writer’s Room bit. Scott added, they have the gall to use this. It is their tagline. You can’t make this stuff up. You’re right now, NFL, you can’t.
You stole it. Shame on you, Shame on all of you. The not Funny League. Bete Davidson apparently told the audience at the Garden the other night that he’s using kettleen. No, Kettleen’s not a thing ketamine.
I could have edited that out, but you’re laughing right now, so I left it in. Pete Davidson not on Kettaleen, but he says he’s been using ketamine just a little bit to help with his depression. Dave Chappelle has added some more dates to the Dave Chappelle Live. It’s a Celebration Bitch’s Tour. The new dates include October seventeenth, Milwaukee, the nineteenth Boston, and then the Raleigh, North Carolina on the twenty fifth, Charlotte on the twenty sixth at Lanta on Halloween.
Hey, thank you, Scott Beckett. Scott went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. And he didn’t buy me a coffee. No, he didn’t buy me two coffees. No, he didn’t buy me three coffees.
No, John, how long are you gonna go with this bit? I’m gonna finish it. He didn’t buy me four coffees. No, Scott bought me five iced coffees. Thank you very much, Scott.
Scott has been listening for a while. We email on the side occasionally. Again, feel encouraged to reach out to me. The email is in the show notes. Scott wrote, you’re doing good work.
Keep it going.
Also, you’re missing out on Gary Coleman.
He’s got a lot of news out there, so that inspired me. I wrote to Scott on the side. I tried to give Gary Goleman a radio show back at Sirius XAM, kind of late in my run there. But one of the things that would happen is we pitched all kinds of things, all kinds of people. Hey, bosses, why don’t we give Deane Cook a show?
Who’s that? Hey? Why don’t we give Amy Schumer’s show? Who’s that? And Gary Goldman?
Hey, why don’t we give Gary Goldman a show? Who’s that? There were some executives who would go unnamed, who was like, if you didn’t walk in with Jerry Seinfeller Chris Rock, they were like, I don’t know who that is. And I always wanted to take long term bets on people, and history has proven my instincts were pretty good. So yeah, we talked to Gary about doing a show, but I couldn’t fund such a show, And thanks to Scott’s encouragement, I reached out to see if I can get Gary on the show because he has a new book coming out.
It is called Misfit, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties. I self describe us from the eighties, so this is perfect. Gary Goldman’s Misfit Growing Up Awkward in the Eighties is due out September nineteenth. The book will bring us through the full gall out of school years, reflecting on the awkward and difficult moments and interactions between kindergarten and twelfth grade. Official paragraph here.
Whether it’s stories of failed show and tell presentations and fumbling in his first football game, where memories and anecdotes about his family, friends and neighbors, the book brings us deep into Goldman’s childhood landscap both inside and away from the classroom. Sounds fun because, like I said, I’m from the eighties. There are something called the Streamy Awards. The Streami’s recognized creators in more than forty five categories across beauty, comedy, food, gaming, music, podcast, sports, and more. And yes, I did hear myself drop the g and recognize that Queen’s accent comes out sometimes, Folks, I’m like somewhat expert in comedy.
I don’t claim to know everything, but here are the nominees from the comedy category. I don’t remind you I’ve been hosting this pod every day for four years, worked at Serious XM for ten years. And at least six days a week. I’ll go on Google and throwing words like comedy and comedian. So I was quite surprised to find the nominees in comedy for the Streamy Awards are Zamarcus, Sean Chris Collins, Lucas Lopez, the McFarland’s and your winner, r DC World.
Congratulations, r DC World. I’m curious. Yes, I’ll take out the Google machine and find out. I’ve gone to the r DC World. Pay they say, RDC World is all about making our fans laugh.
We provide entertainment through skitz, flog, short films and more. I clicked on the videos tab, and let’s see how aliens would be if they landed in the hood Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg when they see each other. That one as a million and a half views. How Doc Rivers was in the locker room after the Sixers, Scott blew out two and a half million views. So these guys are doing quite well.
Congratulations r DC World, you’re winners of the Streamy Awards. Comedy. Some festivals this weekend. If you’re in or near Philadelphia, it’s the inaugural Philly Comedy Fest in Port Richmond Twelve Hour Comedy Festival Sunday at the gall and Company malt House. Matt McCusker, Ian Fight Ends, Tim Butterfly, Sarabelle, and Peggy o’leria among your performers.
Meanwhile, in South Coast Massachusetts, it’s the Whale City Comedy Festival that kicked off last night. One of the performers you can see tonight, he’s really good. Anthony DeVito. He’ll be in New Bedford. Nico White plays Saturday.
Sean Donnelly, Who’s a really good play Sunday. Details at Willcitycomedy dot com. Ian Lara is on tour. It’s the Problematic Immunity Tour this weekend in Chicago at Zenis and he’ll be on tour through at least December. December eighth and ninth in Toronto.
Information at Ian Lara Live dot com. That is your comedy news for today. Tomorrow, I’ll look at a list somebody made of the top thirty stand up specials of all time. I didn’t look at it before recording. See you’ll hear me react in the moment.
I did not react well. So let’s tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. Normal episodes have a great Labor Day weekend. Let’s hit the beach while was still ken. Thanks to DraftKings for supporting the show.
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