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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. More details from the Mark Twain Prize. The other night, Conan O’Brien sold the Kennedy Center, You’re making a terrible, terrible mistake. He talked about Adam Sandler and said a lot of amazing, amazing people have flown to DC to say nice things about Adam Sandler.
But if he asked yourself why so many of Adam’s friends were able to speak tonight, I’ll tell you why. Because when Adam isn’t working, they’re not working. Sandler was asked if he thought Chris Rock went too far during his recent comedy special. Sandler said, never thought that in my life. I thought it was unbelievably relaxed, funny, thoughtful, crushed it and was real to himself, and it was exciting to watch us when the super Bowl is on, I thought about it all weekend.
All right, Rock is doing this thing tonight. I agree with Adam Sandler on that it did feel like a really big event. Rob Schneider also commented about the Chris Rock special and he said he’s outrageous. He’s incredible. He really does set the bar.
He’s able to take really complex socidal ideas and make them hilarious and bring us on board to some place of sanity, some place of reason. He’s so hilariously reasonable. He’s subversed us to his point of view, and that’s his genius. And modern comedy changed after Chris Rock. Truthfully, twenty five years ago, I think David Spade had the line of the night.
He said, in these walktimes we live in, the one person who would not win the Mark Twain Prize was Mark Twain. He had some miffy material. Chris Rock himself was there. He discussed current events and said, are you guys are really going to wrest Trump? Do you know this is only going to make it more popular.
It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid? Trump banged a porn star and paide someone off so his wife couldn’t found out. That’s romantic.
We’ve all been cheated on. Don’t you wish the person that cheated on you paid off somebody so you wouldn’t find out. Trump was so bad as a president. He was so bad that Joe Biden had a burst off a monument. Biden was dead for sixteen years.
Chris Rock also gave a shout out to Paul Pelosi, who was in the audience and said, Paul Pelosi got it. He knows how I felt staying political. From the Hollywood reporter, Jason Sadacus and members of the Ted Lasso Cast dropped in on the White House on Monday. They discuffed mental health awareness. Sadeka slash Lasso took one question.
It was from the actor who plays journalist Trent Krim on the series. Krim asked Sadeka slash Lasso how he felt about Kansas City being considered as a host city for the twenty twenty six World Cup. Again, I’ll remind you this was real life at the White House, and for some reason we’re doing this bit, sadekas Lasso said, I mean, I love this town. What I’m generally worried about is once we get all these folks from all over the world to come to Kansas City to see your food, eat our food, meet our people, You’re gonna have a lot of folks that want to move away. That’s what I’m worried about.
Bizarre from Radar Online. Tom Brady’s got one condition for the upcoming roast of Tom Brady the rule no jokes about Gazelle. Bunchin Radar Online quotes insiders who say Brady has no intention of performing his own material. At the Roast. Tom is fine being the butt of jokes.
Say whatever you want about him, but not about his family. It’s the one rule that’s non negotiable. A source says. The biggest obstacle between them which Gazelle’s complaints about Tom putting football before family. So he decided to show her he’s willing to focus on them before taking that TV job at Fox.
His only goal right now is to get his family back quick stop. At Gossip Corner, there were some rumors about her hanging out with her jiu jitsu instructor, and a report suggests Gazelle has begun dating Tom’s billionaire friend, Jeffrey Sofur. A source A lot of sources, it’s like a British press story. A source claim that Gazelle Tom lived near Jeffrey in Florida during their marriage. Sofur’s net worth is estimated to be two billion dollars, while Tom Brady has a fortune worth of reported five hundred twelve million.
Leon Morgan getting a Netflix special on April eleventh. What’s the title, Johnny Mack. It’s called Leon Morgan, I’m every Woman. The special will celebrate women in an observational and instructional way. Some of the experience that we talked about during the program will be Morgan’s experience while growing up in Tennessee and being married for over twenty years.
She’ll also joke about raising three children and the fact that she has become a grandmother. Philadelphia Weekly they have a great comedy section. Asked Brian was saying if there’s anything you want to do before retires. He said, Yeah, for sure, I have a horror movie or two in me that I want to get out there before I’m done. Not that I’ll ever fully retire, and yeah, it’ll definitely involve my comedic muscle, but more in the dialogue and crafting characters that deal with a brutal or scary situation, grounded and with a sense of humor intact.
He also talked about meeting Don Rickles. I’d shared that anecdote not too long ago. We got a little more here, he said. I got to be around Don Rickles a handful of times. He was such a fantastic post and one of the pure funniest people I’ve ever been in the room with, so quick, so quintessential.
Don Rickles. He busted my chops whenever I saw him, which is all I wanted from the situation. I still quote his put downs. A kid, next time I see you, can you at least put on a suit. I’d invite you to the house.
But the wife, I’ll think you’re the gardener. Cute kid? Where’s his rake? Zany’s comedy called a Nashville tweeted out that comedian and Zany’s favor, Brett Turhune’s new special, it’s called What on Flat Earth, is now available on Amazon Prime. I haven’t seen that yet, but that sounds cool.
Taylor Thomason she’ll get two new specials on Netflix, but she’s not going to make the Best of twenty twenty three list. Here’s why. The first special is not due out until twenty twenty four. Thompson’s psych She’s told Variety that’s a level of security you don’t get very often in this business. It’s a huge weight off your shoulders.
I feel incredible, grateful and lucky. The twenty twenty four special will be shot at the end of the current tour, which is currently dubbed the Have It All Tour. Taylor says, I’m a pretty personal comedian. I’m not super topical or political. I am generally writing about things happening in my own life and what I hope is a very relatable way.
And the question I think everybody around my age, which is almost thirty, grapples with, and my friends around me you’re grappling with, is comparing yourself to everybody else. She’s kicking around series ideas for Netflix. That’s interesting, but she is not looking to sacrifice stand up. She says, when it comes down to it, I love touring so much every week and I’m gone, and if you want to make a TV show or a movie, you have to take a significant amount of time off from touring. Touring is the most fun and the most lucrative thing for me to do, and for a lot of stand ups to do, you don’t really ever have to do with show or movies.
So all the projects I’m developing or I’m interested or thinks that I really love and think would be great, because I’m so happy with where I am with stand up, That’s all I ever wanted. I was working out this morning in the Apple Fitness Plus Spin program, and I wanted something to stare at, so I put on Kill Tony on the YouTube. Tim Dillon and Roseanne were the guests, and I loved Tim Dillon. I’m like, oh, this is gonna be really good. And at one point Roseanne was so annoying.
I’m in the basement by myself while the dog was there, but by myself, and I said out loud, Holy f she’s terrible. I said that out loud. That’s how annoying Roseanne was on this show. If you’re not familiar with Kill Tony, you should check out Kill Tony. They pull names out of a hat.
If you get picked, you come up and you do a minute of stand up. It’s mostly amateurs, most of them not good. Then Tony doesn’t banter with the guests. Roseanne kept talking to these civilians at length, and by at length, I mean eleven twelve minutes. I had to keep grabbing the remote and I’m like, Okay, they’re boring, you’re boring.
Can you stop. I was shocked that Tony didn’t try and take control of the show. He just let Roseanne go.
Meanwhile, Tim Dillon gets it.
He would speak once every ten minutes, assassinate and then get back out. That’s how you do it. It was one comedian on there. I was in the middle of a workout that I mentioned that humble Brax. I didn’t write down his name, but skim through the show.
The comedian who has cerebral palsy, which is central to what his material is and I don’t want to spoil it. Fantastic kill Tony is the name of that. Shrine Lover left a five star review on Apple Podcast. Thanks so much. Shrine Lover wrote a daily listen so great.
Thanks for the Dusty Slay five o’clock somewhere advice, Wow watch three times. Keep up the great work. Thanks shrine Lover. Yes, Dusty Slay hilarious comedian has a bit about the Jimmy Buffett song. It’s five o’clock somewhere.
I’m not going to even dance with the devil. I’ll let Dusty tell it. Just go on YouTube type in Dusty Slay five o’clock somewhere and enjoy the nine minute bit. It is fantastic, an all time bit, really great. Dusty will be coming to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center.
They announced a huge festival Chucktown Comedy Week, a weeklong rotation of top comedians. Listen to this lineup. May seventeenth, Jeff Foxworthy, Lean Morgan, Dusty Slay Killer, May nineteenth, Tim Dillon, Shane Gillis, Big Jayokrison, Nick Mullen Killer, May the twenty first, Nate Bergantcy Chucktown Comedy Week Chucktown Comedy dot Com. As we’ve learned, there are a lot of listeners to this show who are very hip to the comedy scene in Idaho. Idaho, of course the home of Ryan Hamilton.
Now Ryan is not performing in Idaho at the tree Fort Festival, and tree Fort has music and comedy. The comedy kicks off tonight with an open mic at ten o’clock. That’s in Boise. If you’re there, your headliner this weekend will be on Saturday, Tignazarrow two shows.
Meanwhile, in Vancouver, some organizers are trying to host a Vancouver versi…
They want to do this September fifteenth through the seventeenth in Stanley Parks, Brockton Fields. I have been to Stanley Park and it is an awesome park. The promoter is Trickstar Live They already have locations in Halifax in August that’ll feature Jerry sign Felt in Bill Burr, right, so they’re not messing around here. Calgary and late August featuring Jonathan van Ness and Andrew Schultz, and Edmonton July fourteenth through the sixteenth, with lineup at TBA. The Parks People put out a statement said the vision for this festival is to create an inclusive and safe experience that celebrates and features all forms of performance comedy from local talents, a star attractions.
Past festival headliners have included Bill Bird, Tom Segura, Amy Schumer, Melissa Vias and York Chris red Donal Rawlings, Chelsea Handler, and David Spade. The capacity for the proposed Vancouver event would be ten thousand, It would run from five to eleven PM, and tickets to the gated event would range from sixty nine to three hundred and ninety nine dollars, presumably Canadian dollars. The Vancouver Son Ads. Given that most of the performances will be comedic monologues, organizers aren’t too worried about excess noise. Stanley Park is fantastic.
If this festival happens and you’ve never been of Vancouver. You might want to strongly consider that one. Let’s keep an eye on that and see who winds up performing there. Are you watching How I Met Your Father on Hulu? Well you can now watch it on Reform.
Will not yet, I lied you gotta wait till April twenty fifth. Variety says How I Met Your Father will premiere on Freeform April twenty fifth with the first two episodes of season one. They’ll then air two episodes every week on Tuesdays as if it’s nineteen ninety four until they’ve run through the whole first season. How I Met Your Father is currently in a twenty episode second season, and twenty episodes in the era of streaming is a lot of episodes. Andy Kaufman, he’s going to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty three.
Variety rights Andy Kaufman made his mark on the world of professional wrestling when he declared himself the inter gender Wrestling Champion of the World, offering money to any woman who could pin him as part of his act. That led to a feud with fellow Hall of Famer Jerry the King Lawler. Despite Lawler and Kaufman being friends, they successfully convinced the audience they were bitter enemies. Kaufmann claimed that Lawler broke his neck when Lawler performed a pile driver on him, with Kaufmann appearing in a neck brace. Thereafter, they made an appearance to get her on Letterman in nineteen eight two, during which they traded insults before Lawlor slapped Kaufman, knocking Kaufuman out of his chair.
Now, if you were too young for this, listen to me. This was a major bleeping deal. This was huge, and it was early enough that we didn’t quite know for sure that wrestling was fake. And Calfman was really good at this, and the whole thing on Letterman. I don’t know if it was as big as the slap, but it was slap esque.
This was well discussed. This was a big deal, and even Kaufman doing the things saying he could wrestle any woman, people lost their minds over that. Do a deep dive on YouTube. Just google like Kaufman Wrestling. You’ll find all kinds of clips.
It was a fantastic piece of work. The twenty twenty three WWE Hall of Ceremony March thirty first, ten thirty pm Eastern on Peacock. I guess none of us will see it, and that’s your comedy needs for today. Come on Peacock. Spent some and dollars, I’ll shill.
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