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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigor is beginning to promote his new Netflix series Bad Thoughts, and he tells Variety Bad Thoughts as everything, prosthetic, genials can join, twins, deep fakes, and one horrified Peruvian mother. Sigora said, we had to watch a few episodes at a private screening room with hidden cameras. She told me, give the money back.
You can’t air this. I’ll never see my friends again. Bad Thoughts is six episodes. It starts May thirteenth, and it’s described as grotesque, stylized, and brazenly absurd. Variety describes it as black mirror by way of David Cronenberg, if Cronenberg were tripping on mushrooms.
Sgora tells Variety, I always wanted to make movies, and this felt like the first step. I’m trying to be Jordan Peel with penises. It’s interesting how this came together. It started as a few short films that Sigora wrote between tour stops. He pitched them to a director, They did an eleven day shooting.
Then they had enough material to convince Netflix to order the full series. Tom said, I told my wife what we were filming, and she goes, I’ve non here for twenty years and these have been in your head the whole time. The show was produced while Tom Sigora’s wife, Christina Pozitski, was battling cancer. Tom said she was diagnosed in June last year. I told her I’d pause production.
She said, no, go make your show. She was home recovering surgery while I was in full prosthetics acting like a sex crazed mutant. The only note they got from Netflix involved the N word. He also says in South Korea they may have to blur some of the penis shots. Apparently, if it looks too human, it’s a no go.
Brian Cranston almost joined, but Tom says he liked the script, but he didn’t work out. So I just played the part of myself. That’s show bizy, you know. Tom Sagora, Brian Cranston. Bad Thoughts will also compete at the Emmys for Outstanding Short Film, Comedy, Drama or Variety Program.
Bad Thoughts on Netflix May thirteenth, and it’s May already not too far away. This weekend, the Mark Twain Prize Conan O’Brien remember that was the thing that happened. Well, they released a trailer and it’s really strong. Let’s listen. Thank you all for coming, and shame on you for being here.
Conan was like, don’t be cynical, and then collected fifty million dollars. You are the richest underdog in this town. Can you prove that? Not only can you meet your heroes, but when you do, he’ll flirt with your mom. Look, I know this is your knight, but you look like an idiot right now.
You just look at him. You know, the poor bastard never had a chance. I’m a comedian because of you. So after this you’ll be facetiming my parents to apologize. We have five wings here, each hotter than the last.
Oh, this one really saw Yeah, he introduced us to a bear who masturbated through a nightmare. History will show this will have been the most intertaining gathering of the resistance ever. Dam me. David Letterman is still alive today. At four Eastern, Pete Davidson takes over the axe Instagram paid which Pete will host an Axe Me Anything.
I see what you did there? It is a Reddit style ask me Anything. This one focused on confidence and Underdog wins. Pete is also headlining a commercial four acts. It is called short Kings.
In the commercial, Pete Davidson gives a pep talk to a young man insecure about a relationship before spritzing him with his favorite axe sent Pete commented on dating apps, He’s like, it’s just like no, yes, no, it’s so rude, like you don’t even know the person you know. So I really feel bad for this crop of people because I have anxiety, and when I grew up was just flip phones. It was pretty awesome. But the kids today, I don’t even have a shot. So I just hope it changes and other people revert backwards a little bit.
Since Pete is out hawking deodorant, he was asked about deodoran and said, I mean in high school, Axe was a shower. I went to an all boys school and it could be awkward when you’re using the gym, and showering in a school when you’re growing up could be tough. So I always had axe and was just spray it all over and then shower when I got home. Reminds me of growing up and playing basketball outside and having a normal life. My fragrance was Phoenix.
It’s the blue one. I just remember vividly going to CVS with my mom every two to three weeks and getting new bottles. I hate to say this, but it’s kind of how like prime sports drinks are now. Where you collected it was cool to have like four of them on your dresser. There was just something reassuring about it, and you knew that even if you smelled like crap, you’ll be fine if you have it.
So it really brings me back to my childhood. Don’t miss the Axe Me anything. Today at four, Jordan Klepper will do another special for The Daily Show, this one with the really complicated title The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation. Yes there are three colons in that title. In The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation.
Jordan Klepper will dive into the pocket of young voters who turned out for Trump during the election. Klepper’s travels take him everywhere from college campuses to MMA octagons. It is Jordan Clepper’s sixth Daily Show branded special. So you might be saying, well, why don’t they just give the Daily Show to Clupper and you are reminded. Oh yeah, remember he hosted the Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was in the post Daily Show spot at one point.
So I don’t know if he’ll get another at bath there anyway. Clipper’s Mega the Next Generation special Monday May nineteenth, eleven thirty pm on Comedy Central will be on Paramount Plus and The Daily Show YouTube channel the next day. The Lost Culturista’s Awards are getting more serious this year. They’ll be on Bravo. These are the awards given out by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.
The Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards recognized culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year through musical performances, special guests, and over one hundred award categories. The awards will be taped in La July seventeenth, will air on Bravo August fifth, I will stream the next day on Peacock. This next story is just fascinating. Dave Thomas from Second City Television remember him now stay with me here. He says that a close call with death in twenty twenty affected his worldview.
He told the Canadian press, I had sepsis and my arms and legs were twice their size. I was in the hospital, I was actually in hospice, and I thought I was basically done. I look back in my life at that time and I thought, you know what, I’ve got no regrets. I had a good run. But he got out and thought, what am I going to do with the rest of my life?
He is seventy five years old. How do I put some meaning into this life before I kick the bucket? So he has headed off to Ukraine. He’s creating a video campaign for the Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a Key based US registered charity run by one of his friends. The Ukrainian Freedom Fund aims to provide non lethal equipment to outgun Ukrainian forces.
Now I love this paragraph from the Canadian press. I’m going to read it verbatim deliberately because I can’t believe they put this all in the one paragraph. Okay, you ready quote. I looked at the situation the Ukraine and I thought, well, this is terrible and I should try to help, says Thomas, whose credits include nineteen ninety three’s Coneheads, the two thousand and one film Orre at Race, and ninety sitcom Grace under Fire. Why did you have to put his credits there?
Anyway? Dave says this might sound cornery, but I hope in some small way what I do might help raise money that I’ll least suffering, maybe remind people that one person can make a difference if you decide to. You can’t make a difference if you try. Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. This from Entertainment Weekly.
I’m not sure. Chloe Feiyeman realizes what words came out of her mouth. Okay, there’s a TikTok video. Chloe Fineman says she was scolded by a rude restaurant manager in New York while exchanging pleasantries with Demi Moore and to me’s dog, pe Laff. Fineman says she walked into an Italian restaurant on Madison Avenue.
A server led to them the table right away. Fineman explains, there’s several empty tables and I sat down. Then I look up and there’s the dog and Demi Moore and I was like, oh, hi, we met once or twice, and I’ve held Peeloff because Peloff was backstage at an SNL show. Fineman’s sister says, and she said hi back.
Also, Chloe continues, the manager sees me, I don’t know, maybe I had no make…
Did I not look legitimate enough for this empty room at the restaurant? And the guy’s like, what are you doing here? Come with me? And I guess I didn’t realize you had to talk to another Italian guy to get a seat, even though there’s like a thousand empty tables. It’s very confused.
And here’s the part where I think she doesn’t realize what words came out of her mouth. Chloe Feineman said, I was a calm down. I’m not nobody. I’m on SNL. Dude, calm down.
Just because you’re on SNL, you’re not in some extra tier. Chloe says. He was like, I don’t care who you are. I treat everybody the same. Yes, good job, mister restaurant guy.
I don’t care that you’re on SNL. We have rules here at the restaurant. Follow the rules. You can be on SNL all you want. You don’t get special class.
Fineman recalled, and I was like, you’re being rude, and he’s like, you’re being rude anyway. I don’t want to get into details. Well, let’s say a personality of mine started to come up that I don’t love. I took myself out of the situation. You could call it a caring moment.
I also call it living in New York and everyone is rude as f somebody sounds a little entitled, but I wasn’t there. I don’t know. And in Philly, where people are even more friendly than they are in New York. It’s Variety Pack, a two weekend festival of Philadelphia’s weirdest all to comedy acts, not just stand up, not just improv, not just sketch, little bit of everything. It kicks off tonight through the third and then again May eighth through the tenth at the Drake Theater.
Producer Chaz Martin says, Philly is full of weirdos. We have incredible stand ups, brilliant improv in an emerging sketch comedy scene, but there’s been a void when it comes to truly wild, out of the box comedy. That space used to belong to the beloved Good Good Comedy, which closed in twenty twenty. Variety Pack is here to bring that spirit back. If you like your comedy weird and unpredictable.
This festival is for you. It kicks off tonight with Have You Seen My House? A Whirlwind cabaret featuring the songs of Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Moore. Other shows this week and include Cartoon Club, The Entire Effing Twilight Saga in sixty Minutes and clip Show, a live comedy show hosted by character actresses are Eric Thomas and Chris Newcomer. And yesterday I promised I’d finish off that John Clees article.
He spoke with the Hollywood Reporter. They were curious about the pythons fighting. They’ve seemed to always be fighting, and John said, if you look at the history of most groups, you’ll find there’s always quarrels at some I think we’ve done quite well. What people often don’t understand about a team is that a team is not composed of all people who do the same things well. It’s a group of people who do different things well.
Terry Gilliam, at an early stage, decided he just wanted to direct movies. Eric Iidel didn’t really come forward until the nineteen eighty three is in the Meaning of Life. Because Eric is very, very strong on music, and particularly on lyrics. Michael Palin, who always loved travel, did some travel programs. Terry Jones did all sorts of things.
Graham Chapman was two people. Really. He was Chapman sober, who was an extraordinary good writer and a really fine actor, and Chapman drunk, who wasn’t awfully good in anything and couldn’t remember his lines. Whereas I like comedy and I very much enjoy simple pleasure making audiences laugh, very different people, so inevitably, as we get older and become slightly more authentic, we go in different directions. And that’s your comedy news for today.
See tomorrow