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The Shark Deck. Happy July fourth, Tom Segoora has got a new special for you on Netflix. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Segura says he has no patience for comedians who pool punches out of fear for being attacked online. He said that backlash stuff is not real.
It’s not true. The time you get into deeper stuff is when you the comedian, decides to engage in the backlash. Guess what, it all goes away. His new special, Sledgehammer out Today, recorded in November. He jokes about parenting his two young boys, calling them like raising wild donkeys, getting his mom high for the first time on gummies, and his admiration for Brad Pitt.
This is interesting. They shot four different performances in Phoenix. They thought they’d cut it together and make a perfect special, but they ended up using just one show, and that was the first performance. Segoora said it was such a crazy, energetic, fun environment. He’s got more specials coming out on Netflix.
The next one will shoot late twenty twenty five at the earliest, though, so enjoy this one. Tom is also building out YMH Studios. They’re working on some movies. One of the movies Fat Astronauts, a comedy in development scripted by Tom Sigoor and Bert Kreisher. Fat Astronauts centers on two brows who live at De Botch Lifestyle on a moon colony and decide they never want to come back to Earth.
Gee, who would you cast as two fat astronauts in a movie written by Tom Sigour and Bert Kreisher. And they’re partying on the moon. We’ll see. Unfortunately, there’s that pesky writer Strike Segur says, you’re trying to do as much as you can without going into a coma. As a company, it’s fun to try new things.
He talked about his podcast podcast. Advertising is slowed down, but he’s confident it will rebound. Tom said, what has happened over the last year is not that unusual in business. You have an economy that’s been slowing down continuously for a while, and that always affects marketing at ad dollars. It’s cyclical.
This kind of thing doesn’t stay this way forever. I feel like the recovery has begun, he says. When he or his wife Christina Pizitski Christina Pee or on the road producing there your mom’s House podcast can be challenging. What we end up doing is going in a hypermode for several weeks to record and produce a big batch of episodes. I don’t want to compare it to real working people, but it ends up sucking the life out of you.
If you do eight episodes in one week, it’s a lot. It’s not our preference. The Sydney Morning Harold asked Fortune Feamster seven questions. Let’s see what they are. Question number one worst habit, Fortune said, I don’t always pay attention to detail.
Someone will tell me something and I’ll shake my head and then three minutes later I’m like, wait, what did you want me to do? That sounds like me seconds greatest fear, she says, I think as a performer, you always worry that work will just end, so we all bust our butts thinking things won’t last. What line stayed with you? Her line? But the pause of fear upon your chest.
Only love can sue that beast, and my words are paper. Tiger is no match for the predators of pain inside her. What’s that from John? That’s from the Indigo Girls. Love will come to you.
Fortune’s biggest regret. I couldn’t have changed this. But I wish my grandmother had been able to see me grow up beyond high school. She’d never got to see me perform. Orn’t be out.
Fortune’s favorite room is her office. It’s sort of my safe space and where I create. What art or song does she wish was hers? Basically any adele song and if she could solve one thing world peace. Kevin Hart was on Jay Shetty’s podcast and Kevin answered the question what’s the biggest drug in life?
Kevin said, the biggest drug, it’s not cocaine, it’s not heroin, it’s not molly or opioids. The biggest drug is fame. And the reason why it’s the biggest drug. It makes you feel like you’re powerful and like everywhere you go and anything you want, everything you want, Nobody prepares you for the world of fame. Kevin also talked about his near fatal car accident and he said, I really almost died.
The incident shaped his stance on fame, allowing him to sort his priorities out and get his responsibilities in order. Kevin said, I didn’t even have everything dialed up. If something were to happen, I’m out here. I’m just roaming. I’m out here aimlessly living.
I’m moving so fast I’ve yet to grasp the true concept and reality of responsibility. The event enabled him to prioritize his family alongside work. While the responsibility of balancing the need for work and spending time with his loved ones has led to several contradictions, he still tries his best to change every day. Kevin said, I believe in God. I’m not a spiritual sun maybe, but very thankful for the life.
God has allowed me to live in the opportunities that have been but embark upon. But I’ve got a lot more appreciation after life was almost gone. Jocelyn Chia wrote an editorial for Newsweek under the title I was canceled for a joke. Jocelyn is the comedian that made a joke about the Malaysian flight. Jocelyn writes, I first saw someone sharing my clip in an Instagram story.
The words were in Malay, which I didn’t understand, but ended with a wow. Funnily enough, I think it was a compliment. I reposted the story. However, as negative story shares and comments rapidly piled up, I soon realized that the wow had not been meant as a compliment. I knew one I had to do.
I’m not like some comedians who would just ignored block nasty comments. I used to be a lawyer, and in the face of verbal attack, the lawyer and me will rear her argumentative head and engage in battle with this kind of massive onslaught. However, engagement would have been both futile and emotionally destroying. Instead, it was time to play defense. I switched the setting of my social media to limit the comments and the messages I could get.
I’d deactivated the two platforms I was barely active on. Why I give the haters extra places for their bile. I turned on an auto responder for the email address that I was getting unwanted emails on, and pause the inbox all calls from a Malaysian number. I turned off Google alerts from a name and did not read anything being written about me. That night, I barely slept and woke up the next day to frantic sounding messages from the comedy seller.
I was informed that due to the review bombs they were getting, which eventually amounted to four thousand one star reviews, they had taken down the video. They requested that I take the video down too, which had their logo on it, and sent me a video without their logo that I could post if I wish. The comedy seller backed down. I was in this all alone against an angry nation of thirty three million people. By Thursday, the Singapore Foreign Minister had apologized to Malaysia from my joke.
The harassment also intensified. Multiple attempts were made to hack my socials. My personal information was exposed. The comedy seller website was hacked. In every venue I had ever worked at, was review bombed and threatened with strong arming them and not working with me.
IBM called to cancel me for a series of broadcasts I had done for their American and European offices every quarter for the past two years because their Malaysian office was unhappy with my joke. A new Or comedy club told me I could no longer be on a show I was previously booked for. A full on war was being waged against my mental health and livelihood. People advised me to just apologize, saying, Dave Chappelle can afford to not apologize. You can’t.
Jocelyn Rights, Chris Rock took a punch Dave Chappelle was attacked. Hasan minhas received an anthrax scare, Singaporean comedians that faced condemnations and calls for their arrest by Malaysians. A Malaysian comedian was arrested and is going to be standing trial over joke, and the list goes on. Even though it was just one person, I still wanted to take a stand, a stand for myself, my art, my fellow comedians, and for the freedom of speech, especially in a comedic context with no malice involved. So I chose to repost the video.
I wanted to send my haters the message I was not going to be bullied into backing down. I also posted humor stories about my situation and let them know there’s one thing they can’t cancel, my sense of humor. Wow. And here’s a July fourthe kind of thing from The Gazette. Comedian Bob Hope visited Cedar Rapperts three times.
I don’t know why they randomly did this. I don’t know if there’s some sort of anniversary or something going on there. I’m a big Bob Hope fan. I know a lot of people judge Bob by his NBC comedy specials. He did when he was eighty plus years old, and Bob lived to be one hundred.
Don’t underestimate the young Bob Hope. The radio shows are classic. He had such great timing the USO shows, I’m sure meant a lot to a lot of people. Was he a flawed man, absolutely, but one of the top entertainers of the twentieth century anyway. The Gazette writes performances range from a vaudeville program in nineteen twenty nine to sold out shows at five Season Center fifty years later.
Bob Hope performed in Cedar Rapids three times during his career. His first visit to Cedar Rapids he was twenty six and still mostly performing theater. He was included in a nineteen twenty nine Fathers Day vaudeville program at the Iowa Theater. At The Gazette reported, Bob Hope has some entertaining song and soalk numbers that made it a hit. No mention of the comedy interesting.
Second trip to Cedar Rapids was twenty years later. Bob had made the jump from theater into film and TV. He’d been doing the USO shows. He was accompanied by Maryland Maxwell, his co star in the film The Lemon Drop Kid. Hope and Maxwell arrived at the Cedar Rapids Airport on a flight from Omaha on a Saturday afternoon.
About three hundred people there were to get a glimpse of the stars. Maxwell proceeded Hope off the plane and broke on a wide grin. A banner greeted the new arrival saying welcome Maryland, Maxwell and above that, in smaller letters, Bob Hope End. They added out to the Cedar Rapids Country Club. They played nine holes of golf.
Bob shot at forty on a part thirty five. Maxwell was a novice who shot ten on the first hole. After that, nobody counted her strokes. She asked Bob about her stance and said, is this right Bob? And Bob said that’s it.
At least that’s what they told me. It only costs me eight thousand dollars. Bob came back in September of nineteen seventy nine. He was seventy six years old. Then he sold out crowd of more than four thousand watched his show at the five Season Center.
He said, it’s nice to be in Cedar Rapids. This is a beautiful garage. It was the same joke he had told three decades before. He did some local humor, saying Cedar Rapids is such a clean town. It doesn’t have any slums.
To spice things up. A hobo comes across from Waterloo once in a while, and he made fun of President Jimmy Carter, saying, I don’t know why people pick on Carter. Hell, he hasn’t done anything. When the show was over, Bob hopped in who was nineteen thirty five? I rolls Royce headed to the airport.
Is private plane took him to his next stop. Enjoy the fireworks. That’s your coming in news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow