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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Incase you missed it. I dropped another Colber Bonus episode yesterday around noon. So much to catch up on.
It has been busy since Shane Gillis hosted the SPS and then Colbert Gate happened. Let’s catch up on THEO Vaughn, who called out Vice President j D. Vance for changing a stance on the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. THEO Vaughn first reposted a clip from his October podcast with Vance, in which Vance told listeners, quote, seriously, we need to release the Epstein list this is an important thing. In a separate post, Levon asked, yeah, what changed?
Mark Maron and talked about his beef with John Stewart, calling John Stewart his nemesis. Maren said, there was a jealousy to it, but it got consuming. But it went on a long time and he knew it. We’ve had confrontations about it and we are not friends. Apparently this goes back to the nineteen nineties when both Maren and John Stuart were trying to be the quote King of Politics, satsire or whatever.
A battle. Maren said, Stuart has won. When I was coming up as a comic, he had always thinks just because he had committed to a haircut and away presenting, but like he was just everywhere. John always represented to me while I was failing. So when I see him and act like he was peraxonentally destroying me.
In a two thousand and nine set, Mark Maron referred to John Stewart as quote Jewish pander monkey. Mark Maron is also Jewish, Maren said on Conan. Because of that, he doesn’t particularly like me. I don’t think it’s a daily thing, but I know it him to the point where that was a reality. Maren told NPR he invited John on WTF a few years ago to apologize on the air.
John Stewart told him, Hey, I don’t know if you remember, you know what a jerk faced d word you were to me back in the day. There’s no love here man. Maren apparently never made a second request. Maren told Rollingstone in twenty twelve he said, look, I always though you’re very creative, and I’m sure whatever you’re doing is nice, and if you want to have coffee, it might be willing to do that Maren said his behavior was resentment insecurity, jealousy, and he laughed that even Jon Stewart is a podcaster now over the act of it, the fact that he, like everybody landing with a podcast. That’s satisfying because I helped create it all right after I recorded like the entire weekend because I just wanted to go to the beach.
In between me doing that and Colbert Gate, Variety on a Thursday afternoon released ten Comics to Watch. Now, what’s weird about that is normally, like I record this podcast, you know, I do this seven days a week. Normally, anything you want that makes the trades comes out by ten am Eastern. So it was really weird that Variety released the ten Comics to Watch at twelve thirty or so Eastern time on Thursday. As I’m recording on late morning on Monday, I’m kind of frustrated that JFL hasn’t released the New Faces list yet because I want to tell you about that.
Anyway, Variety’s ten Comics to Watch. The honorees will be celebrated in Montreal a cocktail reception on the twenty fourth. I’m counting on my fingers, that’s Thursday, and they would do a showcase on Friday. The comics to watch include Mary Beth Baron. Bridy writes, for as long as Beron could remember, comedy’s always been a part of her life.
Quote, being funny was very highly valued in my family. My dad had great taste in comedy. Because my dad was older, he had vinyls of comedy albums. And he also introduced us to Monty Python and Spaceballs and Airplane and all those movies that I used to stay up late at night and watch I Love Lucy on Nick at Night. I was obsessed with I Love Lucy.
She started with a women’s open mic night at the UCB and said the jokes were so vulgar because when you first start, I think the instinct is just to be as blue as possible. Went really well. I was totally hooked. I really blew up my entire life to pursue as a job. Next up to watch Dion Mojo Brooks.
I’m not familiar, Brooks says. My first time in front of the full audience, it was an audience of four people. Two other people were my mom and dad. The other two people were my aunt and uncle. This past year he was on the We Them Ones comedy Tour hosted by Mike Epps.
Midway through my set, they started giving me a standing up. It was in that moment, in front of ten thousand people standing up, clapping and screaming, and it hit me, I’m doing this. Joe Dombrowski, he started in third grade. He said, I stole all my jokes from a magician that my parents hired from my first communion. The jokes were cheesy, but it killed and I was hooked.
He now runs an LA show at the Comedy Store called My Straight Friends and says, I’m talking about my marriage, building a family. Some my onits is now half teachers, half the gaze. I’m living my dream talking about my life. Next up, Robbie Hoffman. You know Robbie from Hacks.
Hoffman says, yeah, lots of people recognizing me now, and for good reason. I’m a silver screen sensation. What can I say? Influences include Howard Stern, Judge, Judy Simon, Campbell, her mother, brothers and sisters, Nate Jackson. I’ve seen a lot of buzz on.
Nate Brody says a master of crowd work, points out while every comic now does it for social media clips. He was doing it before that existed. I was panning for gold. I’m putting a bunch of gunk in a thing and shaking it around and weaving in what I’m thinking. When you do it right, it brings everybody in.
It makes the room smaller. He says. Many comedians use CrowdWork as filler. His crowd work has done methodically. I’m information seeking, and then from that, I’m developing a punchline, act outs and even callbacks to other stories from the night, or I’ll pair it with a story or joke I already have.
So it feels like a moment that aligns, like an epiphany. Morgan Jay on the list. Morgan started in comedy in two thousand and seven. He had studied piano and guitar and had choir experience ahead of studying theater and the classics at NYU. Before throwing himself in a comedy, Morgan said, I knew it was this or nothing Eradicating the safety net is really helpful to push you into those next steps of your evolution as a performer.
Also on the list, friend of the show John marco Ciresi. He’s been performing overseas and says, not everyone understands all the jokes and the laughter is more muted. That can mess up the timing along the way. It’s a good experience As an artist. I’ve learned to shift the musicality, like if you sing a song at a different temple for a remix, makes you more flexible, more nimble to live off the audience.
This fall, he’ll be in Rochester, West Des Moines and Richmond, Virginia. As my comedy’s going well, but going from Paris to Richmond, two equally cool cultural centers of the world as me wondering what of life I want to live and helps me create good art. Jay Ying Summers is on the list. Summers said, I struggled with trying to be likable, but I realized I’m not likable. I just have to be honest and specific about what affects me, and that made me find my voice.
Not to try to please everyone. Whenever someone books me in a club, I exhaust every resource to make sure it’s a sold out show for a good performance. I just want to make whoever books me money. I have so many tips I could give to comedians who want to see how to get their numbers up. On social media, promote a show, and have good relationship at a club, because those are business skills as artists.
Influences Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, Ricky Gervais, Steph tolev on the list, I feel like Steph has now broken through thanks to that recent Netflix special. The Variety Piece rehashes you know a lot of the recent articles the Bill Burr at All and to Kara Williams is a parent with kids ranging from age eleven to twenty four, and incorporates them into her material. One night, Choose booked to do three minutes at a comedy club in Harlem. The host stepped away and left her on stage for over twice as long. Williams said, I just talked about it.
Women break up differently than men break up, and the dynamic of breaking up. And people came up to me after and said, oh my god, girl, me too. I’m going through the same thing. And I realized it was healing and I’ve been doing it for over fifteen years. All right, we are getting along again.
Let’s see what else I could tell you about. Shane Gillish. Remember he hosted the SBS nine news cycles ago. The Ladies of the View didn’t like it. Whoopy Goldberg, who, to be fair, has hosted the Oscars four times so kind of knows what she’s talking about.
But said, you know, hosting an award show is a tough gig. So I’ll ask you you think you read that room correctly. Joy Behar, a comedian, said no, no, no, no. Basically, when you do an award show, they’re there to hear their name called. They’re not there to laugh.
Number One. Beehart said, stand up comedy is one of the hardest things people can do. I did it for thirty years. It’s so hard. It’s like a high wire act.
I always say, it’s like I’m on stage naked and everybody else has clothes. That’s how it feels. Bayhart didn’t like when Shane did that. I didn’t write that joke. Maneuver said, never do that.
Johnny Carson was on the air for I don’t know one hundred years. Never once did he say the writer wrote that bad joke that I just bombed with. That’s bad form. That’s a mistake. You have to know how to work the room.
I don’t know if he knows how to do that. Woop Goldberg wrapped it up with, I guess you have to know how to do the material. You can make a work without being offensive and terrible. But what do I know. I’m used to be yeike cause I just cut six stories.
There’s just so much going on. Gossip Corner. Rosie O’Donnell went up in Ireland and took shots at the president. Rosie was at the International Comedy Club in Dublin. She addressed Trump’s recent post in which Trump suggested he might revoke Rosie’s citizenship.
Rosie said, a really smart guy who works for the Democratic National Campaign texted me and said, are you okay? And I’m like, well, I’m kind of upset that Ireland is losing, but no, she said. The person she was talking to then sent her Trump’s post. Rosie said, so, all I saw is a post that said something absurd like Rosie o Donald’s a threat to humanity. Bye, I’m going to take away her American citizenship, which I know no one’s allowed to do in America.
If you’re born in America and your parents are American citizens, which I was, you have to renounce your citizenship in order to get rid of it. You can’t have it. Taken away from you by the government, but the Supreme Court has given him carte blanche to do whatever he wants. I read it and I kind of laughed, and I said, that’s funny, but it’s not real. Rosie then drafted her response to Trump and it went viral.
My response and people went crazy. And as my brother Eddie I said, when he pulled me up, he said that bastard. Does he know he’s going to make you more famous than you ever were? And when he finds out, he’s going to be upset. But you know, this is kind of the worst guy that I’ve ever met in my life.
I’m sixty three years old. He’s like one hundred and seven or one hundred and twenty years old. I knew about him my whole life, So I just told the truth of what I knew. And he went crazy and threatened to sue me. And it’s been twenty years that he’s been calling me fat, disgusting, gay, pervert, everything that he is.
That’s what happened. Abigail Jackson, spokeswoman for the White House, told Fox News Digital it’s sad to watch TDS, ridd and Rosie crash out like this, but at least she’s not in America while she’s having her big meltdown. God bless the Irish.
Also on Gossip Corner, Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed that Trump inspired her …
The BBC reports English broadcaster Richard Bacon asked Ellen whether reports that Trump played a role in the correct Ellen said yes. Ellen apparently said they got to the UK the day before the election and woke up to a lot of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, he got in and We’re like, we’re staying here. It’s absolutely beautiful. The villages and the towns and the architecture. Everything you see is charming, and it’s just a simpler way of life.
Everything here is just better. The way the animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here Out today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, Trey Kennedy’s Grow Up and Let’s take a look at What’s happening in Montreal Tonight five pm, Ross Battel, Canada, seven o’clock Danny Boy Culture Show at seven brits Ish at seven. That’s usually one of my favorite things to happen when I can make it to that. Jang Summers one of the comedians to watch at seven o’clock, Live Sessions at seven.
Those are the album recordings usually Irene two at seven, Ross Battle Canada again at eight, John Dore at a thirty, Casey Rocket at nine, Nina Kunti whose face is it anyway? At Oh I’ve seen her on social She’s very funny, Okay, Nasty Show at nine thirty, Double Threat Matt O’Brien and Julia Headquitz at ten, Another roast Battle at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine. All right, if we were up there, I would say, boy, I really want to see British but we should probably check out Jayan Summers if she’s on the buzz list. So we do that at seven and Nina Conti at nine thirty. All right, back in the morning unless there’s more Colbert news, you never know.
Checkday. Actually, there probably will be a one now that i’m thinking about it, because I’m probably gonna want to comment about whatever John Stewart said on Monday night, so there probably is going to be a bonus episode either way. Keep checking the feed. Appreciate you listening, See you as soon