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Caloroga Shark Media. This Sunday on this program, it is the Mount Rushmore of Late Night. I’ve made my determination of which four heads go up on the Mount Rushmore of Late Night. I’ve already recorded it as part of this session. Really excited about that episode.
So that’s Sunday. Mike Barbiglia. I will have a new special on Netflix on Monday, not Tuesday, Monday, Memorial Day. It is called The Good Life. Mike Birbiglia muses on parents and pancakes in Netflix special.
Mike explains it is his most personal special because it’s not in my past, it’s my life right now. At certain points during the tour, I literally thought on stage, WHOA am I really going to tell this story. That’s sort of the idea behind these show as I try to probe into what’s most painful in order to figure out what’s most funny. There is a trailer. I’ve scoped it a little bit for pacing, and I also want you to pay attention to especially in the first half of the trailer.
I’m pretty confident they added laughter. The laughter does not match the joke here. I get that it’s a trailer, but this kind of thing bothers me. You know, he’ll say a joke and then he wants is like, what it was a great shoke ever had? It just doesn’t work.
But let’s listen. When I was a kid, I always viewed my dad as larger than life. Like he was a doctor and in his free time he got his law degree. That’s how much he didn’t want to be a dad. My dad would sort of fly off the handle and be like, where are my cakes.
I’d be like, we gotta find dad’s case. A few months ago, Jenny had made me pancake. She’s deeply familiar with my health profile, so she knows the right amount of pancakes for me to eat his pancake. So I wanted to do something nice for her because my love language is keeping score. Mike Birbiglia The Good Life on Netflix on Monday.
Earthquake is taping his second special for Netflix at the Buckhead Theater in Atlanta on May twenty eighth. Deadline took the copy that was handed to them and wrote a comic known for his explosive delivery. Earthquake has spent nearly three decades sailing out rooms across the country and the world. That’s a publicist, writing if I’ve ever seen it For Earthquake, the new Hour marks a homecoming that holds personal meeting. After facing barriers early in his career when he’s turned away from performing slots in Atlanta clubs, Earthquake decided open club moved that not only soildified his presence in the city, but also created a launching pad for countless other comedians who would go on to dominate the national stage.
Tim Dillon was on CNN with Ellie Reeve earlier in the week, and people are paying attention to it. I don’t know what people think they’re getting when they booked Tim Dillon, because then Tim goes on and does it Tim things, and he’s hilarious. Hollywood in Toto said. Tim didn’t scream or yell, nor did he turn the conversation into a clown. Note was on off affair.
He spoke clearly, impatiently, even when Reeve clung to her narratives like Kate Winslet’s stay afloat in Titanic. In the process, he mocked the far left news outlet to its face. Reeve asked, Tim, do you think you’re part of a new establishment? Tim said, the News has said, a variation of the same thing for a very long time, and people tend to get bored. Sources like CNN and Fox News fell on opposite size of the same question.
Tim explained that younger Americans grew up online and preferred digital news sources, not fake, stilted corporate speak of the traditional legacy media. Reeve was curious about the power of the Dude Bro podcast universe. Tim said, I don’t know if comedians have gotten smarter or the media has gotten dumber. The media has become predictable and boring, and the Internet has been an antidote to that. Dylan said his podcast bookers reached out to both Bernie Sanders and Governor Tim Wallas to pere on his podcast, presumably before election day.
Both declined the invitation. Dylan shot down the notion that the Dude Bros tipped the election in Trump’s favor by inviting Trump and Jade Vance on their shows. Dylan said, be pretty difficult to look at these podcasts after running an incredibly unpopular candidate who was introduced very late in the race, because an elderly man who could not be the president, who everyone was told was functioning as president for the past four years. Harris was somewhat unpopular and wasn’t a star in democratic politics before this at all, and her communication strategy was pretty weak. Most people have admitted that and hang this defeat on a few podcasters will say they were the problem.
I just don’t buy the narratives. It’s a great way to excuse running an unpopular candidate on a platform American people weren’t sold on. The idea that the power that THEO Vaughan has would be equal to the power of the intelligence agencies or these massive legacy media institutions seems crazy more Tim, I don’t think I’m the new establishment. If you weigh again a few comedians with podcasts versus all the people that supported Kamala Harris. You know, Democrat donors, billionaires, big people.
If the idea is that me and a few comedians have more power than multi billionaires, huge media institutions are whole political party apparatus, I just don’t think most people are going to buy that. From jitnybooks dot com. Fred Kern went to see THEO Vaughn. He wasn’t impressed. Line theovon fails to bring the heat.
Fred Kern writes, when I was twenty. I watched Billy Graham packout Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Souls were saved. Literal storm clouds parted. Even the Channel eight weather guy admitted Doppler in hand that a miracle had taken place over northeast Ohio.
So yes, I’ve seen revival, I’ve seen spectacle. I’ve seen someone take a ninety thousand seed stadium and make it feel intimate. THEO Vaughn did not do that in Miami on Saturday night. What kind of review is this? What do you want theovon to do?
He’s a guy shocking jokes. Mister Kern continues. My seventeen year old daughter got me to his podcast few years ago. I’ve been a fan ever since. Theos delivery is warm and unexpectedly smooth, even when it covers nonsense.
He brings on everyone from a listers like Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Ben Affleck. There’s a trio of name drops to every day characters like garbagemen, lunch ladies, and police officers. The guy is charm, empathy, and a gift for making the oddly specific seem universally hilarious. He’s not Larry the Cable Guy. Two point, oh, Larry played a character well and played a character.
THEO is a walking, talking, anthropological specimen. He’s what happens when he mixed Beavis butt Head and boom Hour. That send the baby to college for urban planning. That’s good writing there. So when I saw he was coming to Miami, I snagged two tickets seventy five dollars a pop.
His daughter was thrilled. Fred’s case is that in an arena, theo’s intimacy get swallowed a whole by the space. That’s fair. He writes normally after a good comedy show. His examples Kevin Hart, Daniel Tosh, and Kevin James.
Kevin James the third one there. In his example of Kevin Hartaniel Tosh and Kevin James, he mentioned Kevin James as an example of a good comedy show. I’m quoting bits for days for anyone who will listen. With THEO. I barely remembered did I editorialize there?
I’m sorry, I barely remembered anything. By the time we hit Biscayne. Fred did like the opener. Amir kay Amir born in Iran, raised in La crushed it. As for the audience, it was a weird demographic.
I was one of the oldest guys there, his daughter probably one of the youngest girls. In between hordes of fifteen year old boys with broccoli haircuts, all hopped up on Andrew Tait and overpriced merch. THEOVONN and an arena is like an AA meeting at a Costco. Too big, too loud, too many moving parts. VN needs a tighter room.
You know, as much as I’m a side eyeing verbally this article, I think the guy’s making some points about the right room for the right talent. I could see what he’s saying, that the just THEOVONN might not work in an arena. Sure, I don’t think it’s a ridiculous premise. I think the writing is entertaining, and hopefully I’m delivering it in an entertaining manner. VON needs a tighter room, something like the hard Rock up the Road with a sixty five hundred person capacity.
There the storytelling could breathe and the crowd could feel seen. Instead, we got a lukewarm arena set from a guy who’s usually on fire in front of a camera. From the Miami New Times, Bosson Usef announced that his June thirteenth show in South Florida, originally scheduled to take place at the Fillmore Miami Beach, will now happen on the same day, June thirteenth, at the Parker in Fort Lauderdale. You have posted on Instagram. You know how they say the thing you’re most worried about usually turns out fine.
I was honestly super upset when our Miami show got canceled, but thank god we found another venue. Yusef talked about why this is a good thing. He gets to drive against traffic because driving inside Miami’s a nightmare and the venue is close to the soccer match with Inter Miami and al ahli, Did I say that right? And I put a lot on my ah there And I didn’t mean to do that. That just came out naturally.
I’m leaving that in. I might have actually said that properly by accident anyway, just a soccer game the next day. Now people are wondering is Usef’s announcement, suggesting that the original show’s cancelation was not his decision. Ticket Holders were given prior to access to the new show, but not before Ticketmaster processed refunds for the original Yousef tried to explain that I know it’s very silly you’re waiting for the refund as you’re buying the new ticket for the last eighteen months. Despite problems and inconveniences that I’m reluctant to speak about.
The show is very successful with your presence and support a long time ago that I don’t vent or open up about the silliness that occurs to me on a regular basis, and that’s for reasons that you all know. I focus on my job and my shows, which make you happy. He hasn’t gotten a specifics, but it is referencing, quote the amount of pressure we’ve been under in the past few months. Some think that as a reference to criticism he’s faced for his combination of Israel’s bombardsment of Gaza after the October seventh attacks. Let’s take a look at the Sydney Comedy Festival.
They gave out the awards. Best of the Fest went to Dan Rath for his show Tropical Depression. In that show, Rath discusses uber rides, moving to Korea, chatbots and more. Best Newcomer went to New Zealand comic Jack Ansett for What’s Everyone Having? For dinner.
In that show, Jack entertains with his hilarious obsession with Facebook community groups and associated online mischief. The twentieth Anniversary Sydney Comedy Festival had three hundred and seventy five shows from nine hundred and seventy one artists across four weeks at venues all across the city. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
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