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The Shark Deck. This is actually take two on take one, which I just did. The music ended and I couldn’t remember what I do and then I was like, oh, you’re supposed to introduce yourself, so Hi, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Cross spoke to the Guardian about the biggest disappointment of his career. Last year was announced that Cross and Bob Odenkirk had reunited to create Guru Nation, a comedy about two rival cult leaders who end up joining forces.
There was a bidding war and Paramount Plus won the bidding war. Scripts were written, a director recruited, then as they got ready to film, the whole production shut down. Apparently the marketing and analytics department couldn’t figure it out, says David Cross. According to The Guardian, that has left a Cross in despair because of the power AI wielding on the industry. A Cross said, I said to the president of Paramount, I don’t know what a computer wants.
We asked the computer what it wants, and then instead of spending a year and a half on this really cool project only for the computer to say no, maybe let’s ask the computer first what it wants, and then maybe Bob and I can go do that. He imagines the marketing department’s thought process. It’s two old sketch comedy guys. They’re both white dudes. No thanks, Cross continued, You’ve got these mega multinational corporations saying it’s cheaper for us to just dump the shows.
We’d crunch the numbers and we’d only make forty two thousand, and that’s not enough. We need to make millions. Cross is confident he’ll always be able to find an audience for his stand up career. It may not be lucrative anymore. I may not be doing Netflix specials for a lot of money, but I can always do it.
Yet it seems like the Netflix money has gone away. Everybody’s self releasing now. I told the story last week where Todd Barry said they couldn’t sell his special, which by the way, top special of the year so far, unless Shane Gillis is better. I haven’t seen Shane Gillis yet, Cross, as he’s only done one joke that he actively regrets because the victim is Native American in it. It’s not smart.
I didn’t make a point. I just wanted a cheap laugh and it’s out there, and I wish it wasn’t. He has stopped doing two other jokes, one involving the freeze the end word, not the actual end word, but the freeze. The other about Native American reparations quote because people who are upset by them eloquently and articulately explained why it was upsetting. I agreed with them.
I didn’t see it that way, and now I do. The one issue that has changed relatively dramatically over the past six or seven years is pronoun changes, which I found so annoying for no other reason than it bumps my idea of correct grammar. I wish they would have chosen a different word than them. They. However, the more I knew trans people, the more I got it, even though intellectually I’m thinking this makes no sense.
I’d rather have people be comfortable than knowing I was having anything to do with making people, especially people were so marginalized, uncomfortable and unhappy. THEO. Vaughn went all in on somebody. I’m gonna tread lightly here because I suspect somebody with a legal background. I was going to call someone else about this one, and I’m not involved, but let me just tell you what’s going on.
I saw a story in podcast News Daily and they wrote, quote this man to fraud at our podcast, claims a new video from THEO Vaughan. It’s the latest claim from former creators at particular podcast company. So I watched the video. Apparently THEO went all in for ten to eleven minutes on his podcast and then separately caught that out to be its own ten minute ish clip, which I watched. The description of the video I watched said the person’s name had defrauded podcasters of over four billion dollars and tried to strong arm them into a deal at his alleged new employer.
Beware of this man and anywhere he does business. He can steal our money, but he can’t steal our voice on God exclamation point. I watched the video. It took some quotes. THEO at one point said, you fed with the wrong rat.
Who’ll keep an eye on that story. THEO very very forceful there. Apparently this John Stewart, John Mulaney, Pete Davidson concert the John, John and Pete Tour not doing too well. If you want to go see them at the hard Rock at Atlantic City tonight. The new York Post said tickets are going for just fifteen dollars.
The Hollywood strike getting a more serious, Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter than Warner has suspended a number of overall deals for its top creatives. Some of them include Bill Lawrence you know him from Scrubs and some other stuff, Ted Lasso, and Mindy Kaling. The Holly Reporter adds it’s important to note that the deals have been suspended and not outright canceled slash dropped, as once the labor action concludes, Warners will need its top producers to ramp up writing and producing immediately as the content pipeline continues to thin. Jim Gaffigan spoke to Salon about using his kids in his comedy Age. Jim said, it’s a moving target because you never want to go full Kardashian.
We live in such a voyeuristic, exhibitionist era. If you’re not revealing some of yourself, you’re not going to develop a relationship with the audience. My general approach on parenting is that if a parent is complaining, means they’re involved, and I’m not hiding anything from my children. It’s weird because one of those things is where a ten year old’s view when having a father that’s comedian is different than a seventeen year olds. It’s interesting because we live in this day and age where some of their peers are really in a comedy or their families are in a comedy, and they might have an awareness, and then some kids are not in a comedy and would never come up.
Comedy is something that’s enjoyed by everyone, so doesn’t hit a particular type of kid. It could be an athlete, it could be somebody who excels in academics, and not that those are mutually exclusive. Jim, you almost stepped in a big controversy there. Can athletes also be smart? Can smart kids also be athletes?
Relaxed Jim, It’s okay. I’ll run into my kids friends when I’m doing shows because they’re going on stage. It’s a strange thing in New York City. Or I’ll be auditioning for something and I’ll see some kids parents. So New York City is a small world.
Bill Maher was in the news a lot this week. The Dallas News asked him how his audiences are different in general. Mars said, back in the day, people didn’t talk about politics at every moment. In fact, they rarely did. It was almost considered impolite.
We had no idea how much we hated each other, and it worked out much better.
And now everybody has to share every thought they have on Facebook.
It needs to go back to just being about cat videos and humble brag and finding out who from high school’s gay or fat or bald or dead. You just have to accept people. It’s a big country with lots of people that don’t think like you, and they’re not going anywhere. They’re not self deporting, and you’re not self deporting. You just have to get over it and understand that’s how the country is.
They were curious about people moving from California to Texas. A lot of people have done that recently. Mars said, here’s the thing. The people who moved to Texas from California are the ones who are fed up with California. And I don’t blame them.
California is a ridiculous state. Now I’m too old to go anywhere. I’m dug in here. It did take me three years just to get my solar power turned on, because the bureaucracy here is so ridiculous. It took three inspections just to change my garage door.
So I understand why people move. I’m not going to do it, but I don’t think you have to worry about people from California who moved to Texas because they moved there because they have more of what you have and less of what we have. Lean Morgan was profiled by people, she says when perrymenopause hit, she started working it into her act. Lean said, I’ve always been honest, and I’ve always talked about everything. I talked about my body and what I was going through.
Morgan is now fifty seven and says perrymnopause is one of the hardest things. It sneaks up on you and you feel crazy, so I had to talk about it. Women have come up to me after my shows, saying, now my husband gets it. These precious women that felt unseen all of a sudden have a comedian speaking to them, and we all learned from each other and love on each other. That’s been so much sweeter than Oh I got a comedy career from this.
John Marcos Orreesi talked about how his podcast The Downside started. He said, someone said to me, what are the podcasts you can do when you’re in a bad mood. When I’m in a bad mood, I love to complain. I love to talk about it. I love to ask why did something bad happen to the airport?
Why did I have a fight with my girlfriend? Why am I angry my dad?
And then I realized, oh, I can great a podcast where I can let other people d…
I feel like with social media and with promoting ourselves, we’re constantly asked to put on this very specific version of ourselves and not to be too morbid. Then some person kills themselves and it’s like, well, that’s because we all live in a place where people are always putting on a face. Jessica Curson spoke to hartstock Co And said, it’s not always easy for people when I talk about Jews and how I’m Jewish. The more people don’t want to hear about it, the more I want to talk about it because I’m very proud of being Jewish. I feel in various ports of the United States where there isn’t a single Jew in the audience, and it happens a lot of places.
I go I laugh at them and they laugh. I tease them, and that makes them like me, and that’s how I teach them about Judaism. There’s a way to do this so that ultimately they’ll like me. The more really you are on stage we seem to have a theme today, the more the audience will appreciate you. If it’s not going well, well, you can ignore it and just keep on telling jokes.
You have to acknowledge what’s really happening in the room and tell the truth. I’ve taught comedy for many years in the last decade, mostly to women, and I always say that the aim is to be the most really you can possibly be. You want people to leave your show saying I wish you were my best friend. The Daily Mirror went inside the real Ted Lasso Pub in Richmond. Tourists show up there.
Landlord Reese Kent says his pub makes you feel just as good as the Ted Lasso TV show. Kent is just twenty eight. He took over management of the Prince’s Head Pub in April of twenty two. During filming, the pub is temporarily changed. They dress it up as the Crown and Anchor.
That’s where Ted Lasso hangs out, or at least used to hang out. The show’s over, Johnny meck Rees says, now it’s a tourist hotspot for Lasso lovers, and it’s not a big deal. There’s only been a handful of filming days. Re says, overall, though it’s been great for business. I didn’t realize just how many tourists would attract.
People were taking holidays and making sure it was part of their trip. It’s not just about the pub though, it’s about Richmond as a whole. The pub is just at the heart of the community here. He’s a fan of ted Lasso the show. He says, it makes you feel good inside, just like the Prince’s Head.
A lady does a hold Ted Lasso tour around Richmond. They end on the bench on the green. Tourist always want to come in and have a chat. You can even tell when the tour is finished because they all have on AFC Richmond shirts. The crew would only film outside the bar because any scenes filmed quote unquote inside are a separate set.
The set does match the actual pub’s interior, and Re says customers come first. I don’t cancel bookings. People take time out of their holidays to come and often only have one day to visit. It’s exciting to be on ted Lasso, but I have regulars who been drinking here for fifty years. The New York Times took a look at the battle between bots and comedians, and they say AI is winning the war.
Matt Moran lost the crowd with a joke that riffed on the idea that women aren’t funny. His opponent was a chat cheap et powered version of Sarah Silverman. Sarah Silverman Bott said why did the humans stare at the glass of orange juice? They were trying to concentrate? Then it proclaimed roasted.
Neither side was getting big laughs as the Times, with the AI was more unflappable, moving from quipped to quip with the pace of a metronome. Some of its jokes were simple, like your as edgy as a butter knife, and at least one didn’t make sense. But the bot drew blood with a punchline that used details from Maren’s jokes. Silverman bo said, you’re from Long Island and you lost your virginity to a prostitute. Talk about starting from the bottom and staying there.
That’s funny Maran looked defeated, and then the image of Silverman Bat was replaced by one of himself. Then he got roasted by a digital version of himself. The time says humanity lost every round. Happy fake Internet birthday to langsd in Kerman and that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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