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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Lucas was on The Joe Rogan Experience. He started making fun of Rogan, calling him a strong ass. Howie Mandel, who looked like a school teacher when you see them out in public.
The Allien Reporter talk to some famous podcasters, including THEO Vaughn with some Q and A let’s go quick here THEO current favorite podcast not involved in answer, The Joe Rogan Experience, and Matt and Shan’s Secret podcast. Question, how would you like to see podcasting evolve? Answer? I don’t know. Question biggest challenge facing podcasting now?
Answer everyone has a podcast, even animals. Thoughts on listening at one point five speed love It? I listened at two point three, but I’m crazy. Question we need podcasts because answer? Mainstream media doesn’t allow certain humor and voices f them.
We made our own question, weirdest ad you ever had a record? Answer Lenny’s erin tablets, change the color of your p one milliger and five milligrams. Jimmy Kimmel was on a Podcastparrently as One with Gavin noosem Marshawn Lynch and Doug Hendrickson it’s called Politiken. That’s a weird combination of hosts anyway, Jimmy Kimmel said, I don’t know if there’ll be any late night television shows on network TV in ten years. Able to be one out there, but there won’t be a lot of them.
There’s a lot to watch, and now people can watch anything at any time. They’ve got all these streaming services. It used to be Johnny Carson was the only thing on at eleven thirty, so everybody watched, and then David Letterman was on after Johnny, so people watch those two shows. But now there’s so many options. Maybe more significantly, the fact that people are easily able to watch your monologues online the next day really cancels out the need to watch it when it’s on the air.
Once people stop watching it when it’s on the air, networks are going to stop paying for it to be made. Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Matt Rife. I know, right in the la time said, Matt Rife is living his comedy dream and now for the hard part maintaining it. Matt Riiche’s scheduled clocking forty to fifty shows a month writes the la Times led to a stretch of consecutive days without sleep as he stayed up prepping for shows, editing social videos, and barreling from city to city. He fought through it before a pair of recent shows in Indiana.
He said he almost collapsed while leaving his hotel room was forced to cancel the gigs hours before showtime. Suffering blurred vision and painful ringing in his ears, he could barely walk or talk. He had to be taken to the er Raife said during an interview with the Kuckuburra Lounge in Hollywood, I felt like I was legitimately dying. It’s embarrassing, man, because everybody around me saw this coming. Everybody’s response was, can’t believe this didn’t happen sooner.
He talked about crowd work and said, when you’re rehearsing your sat building material on a show for an hour long material special, you can definitely get tired of telling your own jokes. When I started doing comedy, this was never a dream of mine to be at this level. I was just like, if I could ever sell out a comedy club one time. Ever, that’s the epitome of what I think a comedian probably could be. Fellow comedian Eric Griffin, who directed Lucida, said, what I admire about Matt Riife is his work ethic.
Nothing was added to him. He’s been working hard for twelve years now. The fan base is kind of caught up with it, and they’ve made him super famous. Riife became obsessed with comedy at age fifteen when Grandma took him to see Dean Cook. The first time he went on stage for an open micy he said, he almost soiled his pants.
Thank you Matt for that image. Matt said, I had all my jokes memories, but I’m so nervous and the host goes on stage. We have first time tonight. Give it up for the uncomfortably young Matt Reef Griffin says he draws people in because he listens, so when he’s doing this crowd work with people, he’s genuinely interested in what people are saying. Those are the type of clips that have gone viral for him, and those are the things that resonate with people.
It’s not just CrowdWork for the sake of CrowdWork. As I mentioned earlier in the week, I really liked the special. I thought it was a lot of fun. It’s not trying to be high art. It’s just an hour of jokes and I laughed, had a good time on the couch.
You should watch it. It’s fun rife Warren’s audience members. Don’t try to be funny. Don’t do that. Just yourself.
I’ll bring the comedy out of you. Don’t worry. We’ll find it. We’re gonna Jordan and Pimp in this. Don’t be selfish.
The Guardian spoke to one of my favorite comedians, Phil Wang. He’s got a new mustache and says it’s an experiment. My girlfriend asked if I could grow one, because she’s into the look. She’s the wind beneath my wings mustache. Wise, now, I’ve written some stand up about having one, so it’s locked in for the time being.
I’m laughing. Last week I was like, yeah, maybe I’ll try and grow a cheezy mustache, or at least I won’t shave until my wife notices and complains about it, and then every day I would like forget about this concept and shave it. So I didn’t grow cheesy mustache. Maybe over Labor Day weekend, we’ll see, The Guardian said. Eur Asian people I’ve said your success means a lot to them.
Is that a source of pride? Phil Wang? Phil said, definitely. They messaged me about my book Side Splitter, How to Be from Two worlds at Once. Some say I was the first East Asian comedian they saw on TV.
Thankfully that’s not the case anymore, and there’s been a real explosion in the past five years, which is very encouraging. Tastes abroad in the comedy industry tends to follow tastes. A lot of the work for us was done by Kate Bop, squid Game, parasite and everything everywhere all at once. The more people see Asians and other entertainment forms, the less weird it comes to see them do stand up. These things build on each other.
I call it cool bleed. It also follows food culture. Interestingly, Tai Vietnamese, Korean, and Malayian food have all gotten big in the UK, which provides more reference points. East Asian comedians can talk about kim chi and Western audiences will understand. These things all track together and give us a leg up.
Phil Wang’s special is called Wang In There Baby. It’ll be on Netflix September third. Jimmy Fallon announced He’s staging a haunted maze at thirty Rock Why I don’t know either, designed by the team behind Universal Studios, parent company of NBC, that explains that theme parks Halloween horror nights. Jimmy Fallons Tonightmares will feature ten rooms, in one of which Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave, each based on some of his deepest, darkest nightmares. Those fears include werewolves, aliens, breen eating zombies, murderous AI robots, and abandoned gas station, and a cornfield crawling with homicidal scarecrows.
In a statement, Jimmy Fallon said, Tonightmares has got everything you need to get supremely frightened this Halloween. Jimmy also has a new book. It’s a children’s book called five More Sleeps Till Halloween. The book is due out September third. It’s a follow up to Jimmy Fallons very very famous and very very popular twenty twenty Christmas book Five More Sleeps Till Christmas, Not to be confused with the Beastie Boys Five More Sleeps Till Brooklyn.
So where can I see Tonightmares? Right in Rockefeller Center. So that’s where they do the Christmas tree. So I see what NBC’s doing here, all right, So we’ll do the Halloween thing and we’ll run that for a month and then we take that down. We put up the tree, actually pretty smart.
Tourists will eat that up. I used to work in that neighborhood and yeah, I’ll just repeat myself. Tourists will eat that up. Jimmy found Tonightmares will run select nights from September twentieth through Halloween. Are you psyched for the Australian edition of the Office.
It’s the thirteenth global incarnation of the Office. This one will air globally on Prime Video except in the United States VPN much, which is a shame because the Australian Office is in English and we could watch it. We can enjoy it. In the Australian version of The Office, Felicity Ward plays Boss Hannah Howard, who manages the packing company Finley Cretic. In the Australian version of the Office, Howard gets news from the head office that they’ll be shutting down her branch and forcing everyone to work remotely, a move that Caesar going to survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her work family together the staff of Finley Kratic Adulture and must endure Howard’s at landish plots as they work together the impossible targets that have been set for them.
I wonder if there’s a Jim and Pam thing. I wonder if there’s a Tim and Dawn thing here let’s see. The cast includes Eve Poor Steen, Ruskoppolos, Sherry Sebbins, and a bunch of other Australian act wars that I’m not familiar with. Dina Hasham spoke to Slate about the New York City roast scene from ten years ago. Dina said, at a certain point it was a feeder for the Comedy Central Roast Battle show on TV, So it was like a way to get into the Stand Comedy Club, which is where it was being hosted for the most part.
So it was like a way of showing my joke writing ability and hopefully a way of maybe getting my first TV appearance, which actually happened. So for me, it was a way of advancing my career more than like a love for the sport of roasting. Slat said, some comics love it. Dina said, yeah, it’s a lot of work. You have to sit down and learn a bunch of stuff about somebody else, Like, if you’re really crazy, you’ll scout their podcast and try to find something that I didn’t even know that you’re gonna know about them.
And it’s so much work for jokes that you could never ever use again, and you can’t really test them out, Like you can’t take the jokes and go to a show and test them. So you’re just going up having no idea how the crowd’s going to react. And I’ll leave you with this fun story from Yahoo back in November twenty twenty five, Marcelo Hernandez you know him from Saturday Night Live, At just wrapped rehearsal with that week’s host Dave Chappelle, Marcello says, I was like, hey, Dave, do you know the entrance to Madison Square Garden. You see Marselo Hernandez was booked to open for Joe Coy. You remember Joe Cooi.
I’m not gonna do it. I’m not gonna do it, relaxed. Got back at friend of the show right now is losing his mind. He thinks I’m gonna play the Joe Coy clip. Should I play the Joe Coy clip makes con back at upset.
Remember that time Joe Coy host to the Golden Globes and he said this about Taylor Swift. Big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Bro Ah.
All right, Marcelo Hernandez, he’s there with Dave Chappelle and Marcello’s gonna open for Joe Coy at MSG and he goes, Hey, Dave the entrance to Madison Square Garden and Dave goes, are going to take an uber in Madison Square Garden and Marcello’s like, yeah, what’s wrong with that? And Dave says, there’s twenty two interests at Madison Square Garden. You’re never going to get in. Chapelle made a call. Soon Marcelo Hernandez was on his way and he learned about loading doc Baby.
Welcome to show biz, Marcelo, and that is your comedy news for today. Hey, if you like the program, tell a friend about it too. If you like talking about comedy and joining the Facebook group, It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group meets you here tomorrow