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Caloroga Shark Media. Another busy and weird one today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A center is the Algorithm loves toms Agora returning to Minneapolis. Now, I thought this was interesting.
He’s playing in the ACME Comedy Club three nights August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth. I wonder why Tom Sikora is doing club shows. I don’t have a theory. I just find it interesting. Maybe he’s work shopping, maybe he’s going to record something.
But if you’re in Minneapolis, a nice small room to see Segora. Industry insider establishment comedian Nikki Glaser was on Karras Swisher’s podcast, There’s a Sentence, regular role comedian just like you. Nikki Glaser says, I don’t live like I see a lot of people living.
Also for fear of like if you crash in a private plane, no one feels sorry for…
That’s my biggest fear. Now wherever I’m in one, she joked, if I’m on Southwest, people would be like, oh my god, what a woman. Of the people. What a hero. She died so young.
Nicky said, people hate people flying on private this elitist b word. She deserved it. I do feel like it’s a huge waste of money. I don’t mind flying. I’m not famous enough that it’s really a hindrance to me.
I’m sure Kara Swisher, totally related to Flying Coach Kevin Hart went on Alex Cooper’s podcast. He got in a little trouble. He was describing Timothy Schallomey, and he described Timothy Shallamey as having the body of a German woman. That did not go over well with the Timothy Shallomey fans. It was a little kerfluffel over the weekend.
He also made fun of Elon Musk and Nick Cannon. They discussed Bruno Mars. Kevin said Bruno was born in the wrong time. He probably yells at his parents. Why didn’t you have me even in the sixties and seventies.
I should have been back there with those guys. He then made fun of machine Gun Kelly, saying the product of a wrong tattoo choice. There’s nothing you can do now, there’s nothing you can do about it, can’t cover it up. He can’t do what anything. It is what it is.
He has a full flooded shirt tattooed on him, dark green shirt. Nobody could say anything. Everybody’s got accepted. The roast of Kevin Hart airs on Netflix Mother’s Day Night. Who scheduled that at least the Knixt Games at three point thirty, which also gets the comment who scheduled that at least for me?
I can watch both? The roast of Kevin Hart Sunday, May tenth, eight East five West. Kevin said, have at it, say what you want, because I’m gonna say what I want. Kevin discussed his career, saying, I’ve been doing this for so long that the brand of Kevin Hart sorry to go third person has become pretty big, so because the brand aspect attached to me in business opportunity. I got commercial in places where I had to because that’s the direction I was going, and rightfully so very happy with the decisions I made.
Is excited to return her roasting, saying this is what I do. This is where I started. Ground zero was snapping and jonesing and hitting people below the belt. That’s the good stuff. And I think doing that and giving the world an opportunity to see that and laugh at it.
I don’t give an f say what you want laugh. More from that Variety interview with the Netflix is a joke at Comedy Festival, Folks, Variety was excited about the more Solo Hernandez show. Yeah, their premise, The Marcelo Hernando Shows a huge showcase for Spanish language comedy. What does the global marketplace for comedy look like right now? Good question.
Robbie pro who runs Netflix Comedy, says, what we’re seeing is not necessarily emerging markets, but more stand ups who are successful in the US can now sell everywhere in the world. If you look at people’s tour schedules, it’s a wide array of where they’re able to sell because there’s a pocket of mega fans everywhere. Comedy has become a real export around the world, mostly through Netflix. Marcelo may be talking about his mom, but he’s talking about my mom too, and someone’s mom in Japan. Some of those themes are super universal.
I just threw up in my mouth. Bob Odenkirk predicts the end of Manisphere comedy. He told The New York Times it is low hanging fruit. It’s like literally on the ground. It’s fruit that’s on the ground rotting.
See I disagree. Comedy is not actually a fruit, thus it cannot be literally low hanging fruit. Odenkirk said Manisphere comedy was the reactionary comedy movement of the last five years. I don’t think it has a lot of depth to it. It’s a movement that I’m happy to see transforming int his something else and disappearing or dissipating.
Odenkirk made a good point. He argues that audiences often mistake performance for sincerity. Bob said, if you want to say something honest, then you should get off a comedy stage. Everything you say is of construct everything. Let us use the stage to be as crude as we can be, and as clumsy and oafish as we can be.
You’re not you. You’re pretending to be a person named you. Really smart there, that’s insightful. Some reason Dave Chappelle has popped into my head. Rob Schneider was on the Doctor Phil podcast.
You gotta say one thing about Rob Schneider. He’s interesting. Right. You may not agree with Rob Schneider, but anytime I mention him, it’s always interesting. Schneider told Doctor Phil when you stop the conversation.
That’s when violence starts. Doctor Phil said, well, comedy isn’t just punch lines at social math. In one sentence, a comic can expose what we’re afraid to say, what we secretly believe, and what the culture’s trip wires are. Schneider said, it’s liberating. I mean, if people come to see comedy for any reason, it’s to feel liberated standing up for what’s right in free speech.
It’s not going to come without a cost. May cost you friends, may cost you a job, a potential job, may cost you money, and it certainly costs me money. A social media clip from Jim Brewer is making the rounds. I played it, I was like, what the hell is Jim talking about it?
And then I looked it up, so I let you seequence the same way.
Here’s Jim Brewer talking about something you forget. A couple of years ago, we were putting stickers on gas pumps and said, I did that? Have you checked the gas prices lately? Where are the stickers? Where are the stickers?
It works for one person and not the other, but it is amazing how much we will go to defend a same scenario because you believe that’s your profit and you believe this one’s taking the promised lab It’s mind boggling. So I did some research, and here’s what I think Jim is talking about. People are putting stickers with the face of the President of the United States saying I did it. People are putting them or were putting them on gas pumps. So it seems that that’s what Jim is talking about.
Jim Brewer appears to be upset with the price of gas. I think not sure. Fiera Eisenberg has announced her new special I Used to Be Nicer, produced by Lewis Black’s company, will be on Veeps five pm Pacific Friday May fifteenth. In I Used to Be Nicer, o, Fira Eisenberg gives a Canadian middle finger to toxic positivity, parenting, marriage maintenance, aging therapy, and the cost of eggs. She says, I’ve been told my whole life that I’m so nice?
Is this the Canadian in me? The accommodating woman in me. Well, thanks to parenthood, getting a little older and being told to just be positive one too many times, I can finally say I used to be nicer. Now I’m honest and it’s better for comedy. Yesterday we talked about Hulu Comedy and if you listen to the show, I just the Hulu Comedy brand.
They’ve gotten some big names, but it’s everybody like a little past their prime.
And now I’ve gotta play a trailer for you.
This is from Lisa Ann Walter, who is releasing her first stand up comedy special. It’s called It Was an Accident. We’re told Lisa An Walter is sixty two years old and it’s been doing stand up comedy for years. And I’m gonna play a trailer for you. Now.
I’ve clipped the beginning because the beginning of the trailer she’s yelling and it’s so annoying. So I’m gonna lop off the top and get you straight to a joke. Here’s Lisa and Walter. I’m thrilled to be here, honestly because I have twenty teenage boys at home, so I’m just happy to be in front of people who like me. All right, where’s my LGBTQ?
Where are you? Thank you very much, thanks for coming out and also coming to the show. Hey shut up. I mean I know what mindfulness is because my kids told me. But I’ve seen the way I eat, and I’m pretty sure I don’t practice it.
I don’t know why I can’t find a fella. I’m pissed off so often lately, guys. I swear because I’m a grown ass woman in America and I’m paying attention to by known, we were headed towards the Handmaid’s tail, and I was gonna be wearing that big red cake. I wouldn’t have cut out carps. I had a young boyfriend for a while after the divorce.
I didn’t want to, but uh, I was divorced in LA and that’s the law. Now. Was that not awful? That was awful? Right?
Like? None of those jokes are good anyway. Lisa Ann Walter was an accident part of Hilarious Celebrity Traders or Celebrity Traders UK. Is there a Celebrity Traders USA? I don’t know if there is.
Anyway, British Traders is a zillion times better than US Traders because US Traders is people playing reality TV. Oh, I gotta come back to that in a second. But British Traders is like regular people and it’s just way more entertaining. But this time it’s celebrity Traders, and there are five comedians on it, James Acaster, Joan McNally, joe Lycett, Rob Beckett, who if you watched Last One Laughing, you will love and Romesha Wagon Nathan who was also on Last One Laughing to reality TV. My other daughter was over at the house and we were looking for something to watch.
I’m like, I kind of want to watch Survivor season one. We watched three episodes of Survivor season one. Oh my goodness, saw the scene with Richard hash that he played last week. That was one of the episodes. Saw the folks eat rats.
They were just mounting down on the rats. The challenges were much better. Jeff showed up and made them eat live grubs. Oh and Jeff. Now, we had nothing to compare it to at the time, but watching Jeff Probes twenty five years later, he’s so much better at it now.
In those first episodes, he’s not good even a tribal council. You can tell he’s just speaking words that he memorized and it’s not natural at all. Now season one, I think it streams, but they’ve pulled a couple of the episodes for reasons. You’d have to ask them I bought the DVD. I found it’s out of prints, but I found a brand new Season one DVD of Survivor.
Anyway, let you know when I get back to that. If you’re at the Sydney Comedy Festival today, it’s Ikea Wars. Kieran Bullock takes his cult comedy festival favorite across the globe. In ike Awards, Bullock turns host, referee and chaos maker, pitting two contestants against each other in a battle royale. Two people have to build Ikea furniture.
Have you ever done that? Oh? I would lose my mind. It’s always a piece missing. Maybe it’s just me.
I’m sure akia Furniture is wonderful and this should sponsor the podcast. Let’s be honest. But if you think it’s going to be a straight race, think again. There will be added challenges forfeits and hurdles of plenty, but at the end of each night, one contestant will reign supreme as the Champion of Sweden asterisk. We are told the title is not officially recognized by the Swedish government.
Kieran Bullock started the Ikea Show in twenty nineteen at the Melbourne fringe turning through an assortment of Sweden’s flat packed finest while chatting casually with the audience. On the last night, he decided to try a race format, as suggested by a friend, and away we go. If you are in Australia and I know we have Australian listeners, hello Erin Thursday May seventh and Friday May eighth, at the iconic Bondai Pavilion, I spent Was it a New Year’s Day? Was it a Christmas Day? No?
Christmas Day? I was up at the reef. I spent in New Year’s Day, Not Year’s Eve, but New Year’s New Year’s Eve day, That’s what December thirty, first daytime at Bondai Beach. I loved it. I gotta get back there at some point.
That sounds like a fun show. You should go. And let’s check in at the Netflix is a Joe comedy festival. On this Wednesday, We’ve got Nicks basketball tonight and volleyball. So I have to play volleyball and then come back and watch Nick’s playoff basketball on tape.
What does that have to do with the Netflix? John? Why did you just randomly bring that up? I don’t know I’m leaving it in. I don’t know why I suddenly needed to tell you what I’m doing tonight.
Well, let’s see who’s doing shows. Michelle Buteau, Chelsea Handler or Biglia Rod Carmichael, Craig Robinson, I thought you quit comedy Craig Robinson, Matt Rice at the Comedy Store at seven, Mark Norman at the Comedy Store at ten. Both are sold out. Oh A just added this is new. This is like new new Flight of the Concords.
I’m learning this. I’ll see now. Guys. Now, if you have told me Flight of the Concords had a show on Wednesday night, I would have gone out and done the Diane Morgan Monday Flight of the Concords Wednesday. Ah, I’m learning this as I look at it.
Just added Flight of the Concords. Oh wait, they added they added Monday night, Tuesday night and Wednesday. Oh I could have guys, you’re killing me told you Fly the Cord. I’m so upset at this because then I would have gone out so annoying. Come on, I’m not doing a bit.
I’m genuinely annoyed because I would have gone out for if I could have gone out and done Diane Monday and Concords Tuesday or Wednesday, and some other stuff I was out there. I would all right, shut up John to host the show, Okay, Taviny Atish, Sam, Jay Vittorio Angeloni at Dynasty Typewriter at nine thirty. He’s fantastic. Go see him if you can. Drew Lynch, he was a guest on this program at the ice House at seven thirty, and a bunch of other things.
But you know, last night there were a lot of bigger names, but tonight the big show, Flight of the Concords. Now, when I recorded, they must have just just added this, because I’ll tell you behind the scenes, I’m recording this on Monday, and I recorded Tuesday and Wednesday back to back to accommodate my schedule, and they must have just just added this because it wasn’t on the it’s still not on the Tuesday schedule. I know that’s in your past, it’s in my future. So they must have added this like five minutes ago. Anyway, I have volleyball tonight at seven thirty and then at the Knicks playoff game.
And that’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow