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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigoria wants you to shove your junk into his glory hole. No no, no, no, Relax, Relax, relax. It’s for Liquid Death.
It’s an informercial spoof. It was created by the Canned Water brand to encourage you to recycle. You can now purchase a Tom Sigora recycling glory Hole. It’s a three foot tall box with a cutout where Sigora’s mouth is. It’s large enough to easily accommodate empty aluminum containers, but Sagora says don’t toss in plastic because plastic isn’t actually recyclable.
Five percent of it gets sent right to landfills. Now, if you’d like a Tom Sigora glory Hole, it costs fifty eight dollars. Andy Pearson is Liquid Death’s VP of Creative I like Andy, Andy said, we all grew up with messaging about how important it is to recycle. But there’s also something important we’re missing in that lesson, which is to waste less. Single use plastics like plastic bottles are endemic to our modern world.
What we want to do with this video and the entire brand is to get people to stop and think critically about their choices, and of course the best way to do that humor at it. Sagora react when he was pitched. We read him the title and he stopped us and said, yep, that’s it. If you are not familiar with the juxtaposition of the words whole and glory, don’t google it. Rob Schneider has canceled a trip to Canada.
I don’t know if you saw this story. Last week, a Ukrainian veteran was given a standing ovation in the House of Commons. Okay, what’s the issue? While the Ukrainian veteran fought against the Russians? Okay, what’s the issue?
He fought against the Russians during the Second World War. Who fought against the Russians in the Second World War? The Nazis, that’s who. Once everybody put that together, didn’t go over so well. How Speaker Anthony Rhoda resigned, expressing profound regret from my error.
Right, enough with that About the Rob Schneider part. Schneider posted on social media, this guy fought for Hitler, not like we call people Hitler today, the Hitler like an actual aid off Hitler. Dallas News caught up with Ralph Barbosu said, you never know how people are going to react to what you say. You might have an idea, but I think it’s a comedian. You should be allowed to at least have the attempt to say whatever is you want to say, as long as your first priority is that it’s going to be funny.
So I think a lot of time people could tell when you’re trying to be funny and when you’re just trying to be mean. Now, I think if you’re saying a joke is a comic and you’ve done it four or five times on the road, you can tell if it’s rubbing people the wrong way. Then you shouldn’t know what you’re getting into. Don’t hide behind the stage if people are getting angry. I mean, I think people have the right to come kick your ass every now and then.
I don’t think people should be canceled, But I also don’t think the comics should take advantage of the stage. My number one thing is always remember my point is to be funny. I’m not outdire to leave a message or to offend or anything. I just find something funny. In my special I make jokes about water, like people just drink water because I just find something funny in there.
So when I do talk about guns or politics, it’s not because I feel like, oh yeah, I’m gonna offend somebody or anything like that. It’s just out of like what I saw funny in it. Now I few people were offended by it, and you want to cancel me, do what you want to do. I also, if you’re funny or people like what you’re saying, you can never truly get canceled. You can only get rid of fans who now know more about you.
Will There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Now that the writer strike is over. Drew Carey had been covering the cost of meals tip included for card carrying WGA members at two restaurants. It’s May twentieth, Drew now tweeted, Yo, WGA West members, congrats. If the strike is officially over, you have until midnights.
Have one last meal at Bob’s Big Boy or Swingers. Go celebrate love y’all. Media reports suggested Drew’s bill was ten thousand dollars a week at Swingers alone. The strike is over, so Bill Moore’s show is back. It’ll be back this Friday, Mare tweeted my writers in real timer back see your Friday Night.
We’ll see what this means for the Strike Force five podcast. I assume it will come to an end. On a recent episode, Jimmy Fallon said after he left s al in two thousand and four, he wanted to pursue a career in acting in movies. Lauren Michael’s contacted Fallon ask him if he’d ever want to do Late Night. Remember there was ida where Conan was going to take over the Tonight Show in like five years and then eventually did so, there was like a five year gap where like Conan O’Brien was on deck.
Lauren said, would you ever want to do a talk show? Fallon recalled, no, I don’t know, I don’t think so, and six years asked me if I’m around, I’ll think about it. Well, Lauren Michaels did follow up. Fallen said he consulted with his wife, who said, you have to take this job. You’re one of three human beings ever to do this.
So I call Lauren and I go, I’m in. I’d love to do it, and Lauren goes, great, NBC doesn’t really want you, but I have to talk to them. I’m not even on their list. By the way, Michael steps in and went to bad for Falon, telling NBC either you do this with Jimmy or I’m not involved, or something like that. According to Jimmy Fallon Seth Myers said that Late Night wasn’t on his radar either, something that he wanted to do in his future.
He came across a New York Post story that said he was one of the rumored replacements for Jimmy Fallon. Said Lauren Michaels then called him Meyer’s joke. When you talk to Lauren, it often feels like a follow up call to a conversation that never happened. He just started saying, you know, I think you’ll do it, and it’d be good. I’ll take time, but you’ll have Jimmy as a lade in.
There was no moment when anybody ever said to me, would you like to host the show? Tomorrow is National Coffee Day, so if you’d like to support the show, A great way to support the show is go to buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News and for National Coffee Day, I will take your donation and I will go to the National Donuts chain and I will get a large ice coffee with caramel and skim milk, and I will thank you on the show, but not until next week because I prerecord the weekends. You know, that’s how it works. Buy Meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Hey, I’m excited about a new project I’m working on.
It is called ghost So in October we’re doing thirty one ghost Stories in thirty one days. It’s a podcast. I’ll just search for ghost scary Stories daily, ghost Scary Stories daily. It’s actually a sneak preview up. That’s pretty cool.
I did listen to Mark Marin with Chevy Chase all that community stuff. It was like maybe a minute. I didn’t clock it, but it was not like Chevy one on community for an hour. He clearly just didn’t want to talk about it. I feel like Marin had to edit a lot of that down.
I’m not sure. It just felt like maybe even Chevy stepped out of the room a few times. I thought, I don’t know, but it wasn’t that bad. It was definitely very very interesting. Check it out for sure.
Chevy Chase on Mark Marin’s WTF in the interview, Chevy talked about going to school with Christopher Guest, as well as musicians Walter Becker and Donald Figgan. You may know them from Steely Dan. Chase said he played drums in a band with them before they went on to co found Steely Dan. Chevy said, we started Steely Dan basically I was Fagan’s first drum and I loved it. We started at Board College.
I can’t remember the name of the little place that people would go and play guitars and sing, and we called ourselves the Very Bad Jazz Band. That was literally our name. I think I was a good jazz drummer. I love doing that kind of thing, and I didn’t many times later too. I didn’t want to be a rock and roll drummer kind of guy, you know.
As for the community stuff that Nicole Brown went on Twitter and posted, he seems nice. Chevy is coming to Rochester. He and his wife will take part in a live discussion and audience Q and A following a screening of the nineteen eighty nine Christmas classic National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation that’ll be at the Mayo Civic Center on Wednesday, December thirteenth. I wonder how much he’s getting paid for that. I can’t believe he’s doing it.
Wow. The Golden Globes have announced a new category. It is Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television. It will honor six traditional stand up comedy performances of at least thirty minutes that first aired in the United States, excluding work that’s part of a larger series or TV films. Brian Posin’s tour kicks off.
He’s in Ferndale, Michigan at the Loving Touch, then off to Grand Rapids, Chicago, San frand Burlington Appleton Cuday, Wisconsin at the X Ray Arcade on December first, and Madison on December second. Brian Possin dot com for details there. College Humor has changed their name to drop Out. Dropout is the name of the ad free subscription streaming platform they launched in twenty eighteen. College Humor has been around since nineteen ninety nine.
Dropout hoes more than seventy five quote uncensored unquote original series. Some of those include to Mension twenty, Game Change, makes some Noise, I’m Actually dirty, Laundry, Play It by Ear, and Breaking News. College Humor’s website shut down at twenty twenty, but they have a YouTube channel with fourteen point seven million subscribers. That channel is now being renamed Dropout. Okay, sure about that.
Guys. Michael Blaustein you may know him from the podcast Stiff Socks. He’s taping a special at Comedy Works in Danverds a night through the thirtieth and let’s see what’s going on at Just for Last Toronto this evening six thirty, The CBC’s Because News seven o’clock, Tom Popa, Paul Elia, Jeremy Hotts, he’s great, I know where we’re going there, Joe Nicole Johnson, Sidney Washington and Colin Quinn. Those were six different shows. That’s not one sort of amazing crazy show with six comedians of that level.
Seven thirty Antidepressant Thursdays, eight o’clock Double Threat Maddy Kelly and Charles Haycock, Second sid at eight, Laugh Therapy at eight, eight thirty Best of Absolute Comedy A thirty Tiny Grievance Comedy, a weekly showcase of some of Canada’s funniest comics. Nine o’clock Just Tom, Ian Edwards, Chris Red, Robbie Hoffman. Nine thirty Jim Norton. I didn’t know Jim Norton was at this festival. Awesome ten o’clock riverd Butcher, Asian Comedy All Stars, eleven o’clock Low Key, Katherine Cohen, Sam Morrison, Martin or Bano, eleven thirty Midnight Madness.
All right, you heard me get excited about something. Seven o’clock. We are definitely doing Jeremy Hotts. He is fantastic. Eight o’clock.
I don’t know. You want to do the Double, the Diret, You want to do Thursday laugh Therapy, You want to grab a beer because I’m just killing time? Nine thirty. I want to go see Norton. I haven’t seen Norton in a while and I love him.
And that’ll take us to the eleven o’clock shows. Nothing really grabbing me, and I’m probably gonna want to go to bed. That’s your company. These for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify orherever you get your shows.
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