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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. On his podcast, Tim Dillon was joking about fake business. This is a recurring theme he does. Dylan was talking to Bert Kreisher and he said, my thing was like fake business where I would call realtors and I would get into actual negotiations about a property, and I would say, I’d be a fake realtor and I’d call them up and I’d go, listen, my clients are deadly serious. They live in the United barrab Emirates, and here’s you know, here’s a couple of things we need to get, we need, you know.
And what happens is it’s immediately real business for the realtor, but it’s fake business for me because the clients don’t really exist. They don’t know it’s fake business. Yeah, ninety percent of what you do in sales is fake business. It’s not real until they signed a thing, which very few people do. So even though it’s fake business, it’s real business for them.
So it trains them, it keeps them going. Tim continued, explaining the bit, Yeah, represent a lot of very discerning clients in the LA area. None of them exist, but they’re high end They’re very discerning. They want malibill on the water, they want Beverly Flats. I like wasting the time of people.
It’s a great thing for both of us because sometimes I have time and I’m in traffic and call them up and I go listen. I have a client is very excited about this property. It seems price a little higher relative some of the other comps in the area. I just want to know, are their details about the house that would justify that. I’ll wait and then they’re like, absolutely, I’m glad you asked.
Tim says I have no respect for the real estate profession. The Tim Daland podcast is very, very funny. Am I horrible that I find that funny? That he’s wasting people’s time? He told it very well.
Vulture wrote about Richard Belzer. This by Rich Schneider, who said, back in the day, watching Belzer play whacka Heckler for his entire set was a lesson. He was cool in his delivery and precise with his words, never showing fear or anger. He exited with the same stret he entered with, and more applause than years. He never gave up the stage.
When Belzer actually got to do his acting clubs. He had all the tools, a quick mind, an ear for impressions and dialects, a decent singing voice, and a fearless attitude. But what made the room filled with comics was his crowd work. His attitude was so New York and not a woody Allen kind away kind of Martin Scorsese reen soaked garbage strike taxi driver in New York. He puts such anxiety in the room way more than the usual hope this comic can make us laugh.
Nervousness, What a great description, Snyder continues. During any given show, Belzer might talk to ten audience members and insult each one in a different way. By the time he finished mulling some heckler, the rest of the audience avoided his gaze like he was a gang of switchblade flicking, leather jacketed hoodlums entering their empty subway car at three in the morning. In an error where most comics were clean to get on the tonight show, Richard used the F word in all its forms. The port authority should have hired him to record greetings at bus terminals, train stations, and airports.
Welcome to New York. You f’s have a good effing time. He had nicknames for the audience kid pal Babe, Sparky. Once he tagged an audience member Sparky, they might as well have started playing taps. The pitch kc caught up with Brian Reagan.
In the past, Brian had claimed as his influences Johnny Carson, second mention of the Day Drink, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor, and the pitch KSE was curious what Brian Reagan adapted from them. Brian said, well, I learned different things for different people. Johnny Carson was always kind, He was always nice to his guests. The classic example I use is he had an older woman on the show who had a potato chip collection. She wasn’t a star, she wasn’t a celebrity.
She just had all these potato chips she thought looked like different things, and she came out with her little potato chip collection and showed them. And it would have been so easy for hosts to ridicul or mock this woman, but Carson made her feel like a queen. I love the kind of comedy I call it laugh with comedy as opposed to laugh at comedy. You can laugh at people. I don’t find that particularly nice.
I prefer laughing with them, So I got that from him. Brian continues, I watched her Richard Pryor special that I hadn’t seen a long time. He’s on stage doing this thing, and I literally start crying because like seeing somebody raised comedy of the form of art. Watching this master, I’m thinking, Wow, some people can do this in a way that’s just elevated. Somebody can turn comedy into beautiful art.
As for Steve Martin, he does double barrel comedy. It’s a mixture of silly and smart. His character is silly and naive and unaware that the comedian who created the character is brilliant. So at least for me, when I’m laughing, I’m laughing at both. The La Times asked Harry Connabolo, what’s the risk part of the comedian job?
Travel? Travel is hard. I think that’s true for any touring performer. I love performing, I love going to other cities, but the process of getting those cities and staying in a hotel and stuff that was exciting when I was twenty eight. At forty, it’s like I have a kid and I have a partner.
I have a life. I want my kid to see me.
Also, I take shows that don’t go well little harder now because it’s like I l…
Amen, Hori Kondobulu. I love this job, but it’s brutal, brutal on the body, brutal on the mine. How many friends birthdays did I miss? How many weddings did I miss? That’s part of what comes with you going where the gigs take you.
Let’s see who’s at the festivals. It’s the last night of the Nashville Comedy Festival. Alley Wong at the Rhyme and seven o’clock, Jimmy doert Zini’s four and seven, Rocky Dale Davis at nine fifteen. All right, that’s easy. We could do Jimmy at four, Alley at seven, and Rocky Dale Davis at nine fifteen.
That’s a rap on Nashville. Moontower wraps up only one show today at the Paramount. It’s the Philippe Esparza headliner events off Barbosa. Vanessa Gonzalez joined Philippe on that Bill No more Melbourne, but good news. If you like Australian comedy.
The Sydney Comedy Festival starts April twenty fourth. Yeah, two hundred and forty five shows. Are you like John, We’re sick of Australian comedy? Well too bad? April twenty four to May twenty first, two hundred and forty five shows.
I liked the international stuff. I hope you do too. Some of the comedians going to Sydney Joe ly Set and Sara Pesco from the UK. I’m going to butcher this name Shock, Bazudenhout from South Africa and Scotsman Larry Dean. Local comedians Osher Gunsberg, Katie Flanagan and Dave Hughes from the Arizona Wildcat.
The first open mic that Linda Ray felt truly comfortable at was one hosted by a woman at the Surly Wenchbub and Tucson. Ray started doing comedy at the Estrogen Hour and opened my comedy show for women back in twenty sixteen. She said. When I started doing comedy, the only open mics in town were Laughs and Mister Heads. I love the name of all these clubs.
Last year she got involved with Lady ha Ha, giving female comedians one more to performed. Priscilla Fernandez is the co founder of Lady Hahn, says, the whole point is to empower you to start an open mic, to do shows, to do different kinds of comedy, to have the courage to know that you have a community sporting you. Lady ha Tuesday’s at Bumpstead’s one thousand and three North Stone Avenue in Tucson. If you’re a local and from w ZZM. A Grand Rapids comedian has taken stand up to the metaverse.
Aaron’s Souls calls himself the unemployed alcoholic. He said, I left a job to dress alcoholism in my life and was going through a kind of a tough time. Was an extended period of unemployment. His wife’s suggested e TRVI laughfests, first time or showcase, so he got in a comedy. But then there was that whole pandemic thing.
That’s when he discovered the metaverse. He said, I wouldn’t have quite expected my path to follow that route, but it did. He created the Soapstone Comedy Club. The venue was founded in Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Inside the club, which is a virtual club all remind you.
A banner says, we’re all here because we’re not all there. He said, I’ve seen people that suffer from severe social anxiety end up taking the stage, hearing your room all the people applaud them. It’s truly life changing for them. So if you’re on Horizonal World’s check out the Soapstone Comedy Club. That’s your comedy news for today.
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