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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hey, Nikki Glaser, what do you do on your day off? She’d selldethca dot com. I watch The Last of Us with my boyfriend.
I go to dinner, and I try to spend quality time with my boyfriend, which is new for me because even though we’ve been together for ten years off and on. For any comic, I think it’s a struggle to have a relationship with someone who’s not a comedian because the hours are strange, and socializing is such a part of it, and it’s a compulsion. And I go to three clubs a night and I’m just driving around. It’s hard to take someone with you to that because I’m just in and out, just run into a set. But there’s no part of it that’s like invite friends, let’s all hang out.
It’s like a marathon. It would be like someone coming to watch me work out. I don’t want company. I just want to get it done and go home. She says she was obsessed with comedy from the start.
This feels so good and it’s just so much fun, and I have a whole new batch of friends. And in the beginning, you don’t have that many opportunities to go on stage. It’s like once a week there’s an open mic or maybe then it gets to be you find more of them, and then there’s three or four times a week. You’re doing three minutes on stage, and now I’m doing fifteen. It’s three sets a night, so you end up talking for forty five minutes every night.
You’re running around town. It’s a lot more intense. But I always tell comics that are starting out there was like, what hell, what should I do? And the advice every comic always gives is get on stage as much as possible. And I always say, if you have to give that advice to someone, they’re not cut out for it, because it shouldn’t be hard to do this every night.
It’s the best feeling in the world to get laughs, and it becomes addictive feeling for sure. It’s like the biggest hit of dopamine you could possibly have. I think Heroin might trumpet. She adds. I liked acting as well, and I still do, but it always feels like there’s some part of it where you can go, well, it’s not completely me.
The comedy is like you like me. You write it at your performing. It’s a control freaks dream doing stand up. The New Yorker asked Kate Brolant, did you ever beg your parents to go on any Hollywood auditions? I mean, you’re already nearby, and Kate said, what happened was one of my best friends growing up, Sammy Birch, who’s a really brilliant screenwriter, had a mother who was a casting director, and her mother’s friend was casting Lizzie McGuire.
And it’s kind of a fun gag. A lot of us girls went into audition. I was thirteen and I got it, which truly has never happened again. The only other job I’ve ever received from a straight audition was for Tarantino, So yeah, I had a leg up at Lizzie McGuire. They asked her, did you go to cross Roads, the private school in Santa Monica where all the celebrity children went.
Her answer was interesting. She said, I went to Archard School for Girls. I was supposed to go to cross Roads, and it broke my parents heart when I decided not to. I think I was really scared about being around boys. They asked her about the bott misfisseine in La and she said, I dropped out of Hebrew school because it conflicted with the Steel Magnolia’s play rehearsal scheduled at school.
All right, how’d you get into stand up? She said? I always had a very romantic obsession with New York City, and therefore Woody Allen up redacted. Now I’m like, was there a world which seventeen year old me was gafaying at Woody Allen stand Up? I didn’t understand half the references.
Then I started overcome really knew what else was coming out of New York what was then referred to as the alternative comedy scene. My senior year of high school, the SNL Oral History book came out, and I remember clutching it and crying to my English teacher, being like, I have to go to New York. By the way, I love school and I still do. The pitch KC caught up with Brian Possain. Hey, Brian Posey, when you first started out with so rare to see someone exclusively talking about nerd culture and metal culture after decades of being a comedian, what’s left for you to explore?
Brian said, I don’t know you hear your crusty old nerds gatekeepers, you know, complaining about things. But at some point you just have to let go of a lot of the stuff and not be too attached to it. I mean, I feel like I grew as a person through my connection with Star Wars and eventually just letting it go cracks me up as a crusty old dude now to watch other people when they get upset about things, and especially some of the petty things that nerds get mad about, which is kind of surprising because I always felt like as nerds we should be welcoming everybody. It wasn’t something that I consciously said, Hey, I’m going to be the nerd comic. I just started talking about it at different shows.
I found myself mentioning that I was mad about Star Wars, and then it connected. That encouraged me to keep doing it, to let people in, you know, about what I cared about. Good question here, Who are some up and coming comedians that most people don’t know that you, Brian Persane are really into. He said, my friend Blair, So she’s hilarious. She’s starting to blow up.
My guy that I’m bringing with me, Johnny Taylor. He’s one of the funniest dudes out there. He’s not young, he’s quite my age, but he’s been doing it a long time and deserves recognition because he’s super, super funny, smart writer that fits really well with my act. It’s really important to me that the show’s consistent and solid. I don’t want to follow somebody week just so it makes it easy for me.
I love following somebody who crushed. I’ve been sitting on this next item for a bit here, and you’ll be able to tell why in a second. But hey, it’s the weekend I do that. I sleep stories. And the question was Atom Sagora, you did sober October.
Check your colin dud Johnny Mack had that go. Sagora said, I’m not a big party guy, so it’s not like eliminating that stuff as a challenge. Really, I would have a casual drink maybe after show or something that I don’t do now, But I enjoyed doing it for the month. The fun part of me is I’m doing with three other friends. That’s what I would encourage other people to do.
Get a group of people together, especially friends, because then there’s camaraderie and crap talking, and that’s the way that makes it fun. The funny thing is the first time we ever did it. It was completely just for Bert Graisher. We were like, we need to do something for this guy. He’s like got a catrolly, drinks too much, parties too hard, and that was the first time.
Then this year that was the motivation again. The rest of us were like, we gotta try something. It’s crazy because he’s literally this anomaly most people. Once I get into thirties and forties, he’ll be fifty soon, they really have to dial back. I like party and drink it stuff.
We were like, oh, we gotta do this again. So Burt was really the motivation. Of course, we all go this is for Bert, but the benefit goes to all of us. I mean, you have Joe Rogan, who’s always been in great physical shape, but he even celebrates that it’s making him more discipline and he’s already a discipline athletic person. Then Ari Shafier does no fitness stuff.
He’s more in a psychedelics and edibles and weed and he hates that he has to stop for the month. Than me. I’ve been on a bit of a health kick on this tours. I’ve been working out quite a bit. I bring a trainer on the road.
I’ve been eating pretty healthy, but this makes me take it to another level. The truth is we all get a great benefit from the month, and we get messages from people every day that are like, hey, you guys inspired me and I’m doing it too. From the Desert News the case for clean comedy. They rate for clarity. Let’s define what clean comedy is and isn’t before I read ahead, I’ll give you my answer because when I was at serious XM programming the clean Comedy channel was always such a challenge because there’s not that much material out there to begin with.
And one of the big stars of clean comedy was this guy Bill Cosby. He would be like the artist you would play a lot, and he’s not so cool anymore, you know what I mean. Then the other issue is I started out as I had to find it match game naughty, you know, so you might make a joke about boobs, say, or a light’s drug reference, you know, on the sly something like that that would fly over the head of your average eight year old and we’d get the letters. Hey, I thought, this is the clean family channel. So we had to keep just reeling and really get in and you’d basically wind up with Jim Gaffigan making hot pockets jokes desert news rights.
For clarity, let’s define what clean comedy is and isn’t. Comics who avoid profanity and refrain from overtly sexual and vocal material or blue comedy, are generally labeled as clean, but it’s not kid comedy. Leanne Morgan says she works on the PG thirteen range. Yeah, that’s where I tried to start out as a programmer and couldn’t keep it there because at the complaints. She’ll talk about menopause, marriage and underwear, but not in a nasty way.
I do use some innuendo, she said, and I talk about real things, but I don’t use language, and I’m not graphic. Jesty Slay says he tries to do an act thing can be enjoyed without anyone being embarrassed, but it’s all grounded in adult experiences. He says, I definitely have some PG stuff, I have some g rated stuff, but if you come see me in the club, I’m for more of a mature audience and try to find a way to talk about adult experiences that can be relatable without being gross. Why the comics work clean. Nate Brigatsi said, just how I grew up.
It’s basically it. Lee and Morgan said, it’s really just who I am. Brian Reagan said, I’m just doing what I do. Josh Johnson spoke with Movie Web about cancel culture, and he said, I think while they are definitely bad actors, there are also people who get off on overblowing a situation. Databelle, I think that being canceled is like a murky and interesting thing because when you look at people who have been canceled, they’re doing great.
I think for the most part, when you think about being canceled stuff like that and not saying doesn’t happen. I’m just saying that people who you really need to worry about when it comes to cancel culture are regular people. Regular people are the people that don’t recover, right. Celebrities, especially celebrities we love, always try to find their way back. Remember the dentist who shots Cease of the Lion.
Yeah, that guy’s probably not doing great. I wonder what happened to that guy. I don’t imagine his business is doing better than it was before. So it’s like you have to look at it the way things actually end up despite how we feel about them. Now I’m curious, Let’s see what happened to that guy, oh No from the Near Post.
In twenty twenty, Cecil the Lions Killers back slaughtering endangered rams and Mongolia The enormous sheep are considered a national treasure and only nineteen thousand left in the world. The Humane Society said for trophy hunters to travel to Mongolia to kill a beautiful and endangered rams and absolute outrage. From twenty twenty two, Cecil the Lion Killer dentist inundated with one starr yelp reviews or at least we can find a little humor here one review. Instead of featuring animals in your office to Corey, you can get some hunting theme wallpaper and really show what you’re about stalking and killing animals in their natural Habitat another review, terrible Dentists do not recommend unless you want bloody gums at the hands of a sociopath. What I love here is most of the people who are leaving straight reviews and it says their locations, so they’re from all over the world, but they’re like, oh, I happen to be and down stopped by there because of an emergency, and the dentist was terrible.
Moving on, remember we’re talking about Josh Johnson, who was talking about Cancel Culture before that little sidebar. Yeah, I had forgotten where we were too. Josh said, I really haven’t encountered those things, and if I ever encountered them, meaning cancel culture, not hunting exotic animals, then I’ll deal with them accordingly when the time comes. But I always trying to show people that I have good intentions and it’s not really worth trying to add people on. I’m not trying to troll anybody.
I’m just trying to make everybody laugh. And I want to share this next story for you. I recorded it earlier today for my podcast Five Good News Stories. I’m sure you’ve heard the promo. That’s where I tell you five stories and they’re all upbeat.
And I had such a good time with this story. I just thought a charity. It’s not really comedy, but you’ll laugh here. Here we go. The headline, My colleague charge guests for food at her wedding.
I got McDonald’s instead. See a woman wants her wedding and she was kind of annoyed to find out the guests had to pay for their meals, so she left and grabbed McDonald’s. Yeah, apparently one bride was trying to offset costs for her wedding and made her guest pay for the food. They were gonna have to pay about fifty dollars for a steak. The guest and question explained that the bride was a co worker and she’d be told before the wedding she needed to have to pay anything to tend, but that turned out not to be the case, and she was like, no, I’m not having any of this and went over to McDonald’s.
She asked the bride if it was cool, if you know, in mind if I step out and grab some Mickey D’s. The bride was fuming at that suggestion and even branded her colleague cheap for refusing to eat at the wedding. So how do we sort this out as friends? We take this to Reddit, of course, and they McDonald’s fan said, reasoning, my colleague invited me to her wedding, which happened yesterday. I was super excited and happy for her.
Just in case, I asked her if there were any guest fees, and she said, nah, you don’t need to pay me anything. On the day itself. Everything went well until the reception and my shock, I was presented with a wedding menu that had prices on it. For example, steak fifty dollars. Everything was ridiculously expensive, including the vegetarian options.
First, I wanted to question her because she lied to me. They don’t have to pay for anything, dude, it was her wedding day. But it was her wedding and I didn’t want to spoil her day by embarrassing her in front of everyone. Good choice, however, The only other option was to simply not eat, as I didn’t bring enough money for both the meal and to ride back. But that was completely unfavorable.
To get my lunch to safe space for the wedding meal, and was pretty hungry. Suddenly, I remember that I saw McDonald’s about five minutes away from the hotel. As tactically as it could, I asked the bride if I could make a quick stop at McDonald’s as I didn’t bring enough money for the reception meal. I said i’d be back in time for the gift ceremony and cake. I thought she’d agree, but to my horror, she got really upset.
She said she had put so much effort to get this michelan Star restaurants service, yet I still wasn’t at that. I was trying to bring her down by saying that I’d rather eat McDonald’s. Bride said it was the woman’s fault for not bringing enough money, and she claimed that when she said the women have to pay, she only met there was no attendance fee. Are their usual cover fees at weddings? What furious?
The bride sold the guests to leave the wedding, and she did grabbing McDonald’s on her way home. Oh wait, there’s more. Back at home, I told my boyfriend everything. He thought it was a funny story. You’re right, boyfriend, but said I was an a hole finding of the money.
I can always pay your back later, and his exact words is it chose the wrong time to be stingy. My other friends agree as well, saying it was not tactically of me for doing that at the wedding, and although she lied, I should have just brushed it off instead of dampering her happy spirits. After hearing their opinions, I feel quite guilty and embarrassed. That was fun and that’s your comedy news for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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