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The Shark Deck. Oh man, I just did something. I’m so excited about it. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You’ve been listening this week, you know, I’ve gotten obsessed with the AI chatbot writing some jokes, so I asked it to write some Mitch Hedberg style jokes, and all it did was give me back actual Mitch Hedberg jokes.
So then I’m like, all right, write some Mitch Hedburg style jokes about helicopters. Wow, these are pretty goods. Let me bust out my half ass Mitch that I haven’t done in a while. And here we go. The helicopter is like a flying staircase, but much more thrilling.
Helicopters are like giant Bubba bees, but with much more attitude. I used to have a fear of helicopters. Then I realize, what’s the worst it could happen? They crash, that’s just like falling with style. And here’s the one that’s really just doing a cover version of a Mitch joke.
But helicopters are like elevators, but with blades. They could take you up, damn or spring you around. All right, that’s ridiculous. Love the chatbot. The Grammys are tonight.
Your host is Trevor Noah. He says, I have a lot of free time these days. That’s part of it, he told the Holly Reporter. Moments that you have backstage with the performers, you’re just walking around, You’re seeing Billie Eilish and she’s having a moment with another artist. You don’t get to see that anywhere else, and you get to experience that level of joy.
For me to be part of that is truly, I guess now it’s a three times a lifetime opportunity. I never take it for granted because all these people are the soundtracks to our lives. He’s very excited for Beyonce, the most decorated woman in Grammy history. She’s nominated for nine Grammys. At tonight’s show, Trevor said, I can think a few artist who are more deserving of holding that title.
In that position, and without disrespecting any of the previous holders of that title in any way, it’s safe to say that Beyonce has truly done more than many to shape not just the music, but pop culture, the perception of black women, black people in general, connecting the diaspora in the way that she creates her music at defining dance moves. I mean she’s left an indelible impression. Oftentimes people have amazing lunces is on music or in culture, and then we’ll say, oh, it would have been great if they were celebrated. It’s wonderful that Beyonce gets her flowers well, said Trevor told CBS. The nerves come in because you’re standing in front of not just some of the best, but some of the biggest performers in the world.
Nerves are part of what I do every year. I noticed that I develop a different rapport with the people in the room that opens up to a few more jokes and a few more conversations in a way where people understand the context of who you are in relation to them. Means you get to have a little fun without anybody feeling like you’re dunking on them. Desert News talk to Nate Bergatsy. They asked him, what’s different about this new special?
By the way, as I’ve been mentioning that special is fantastic, you’ll find it on Amazon. I had a deep dive a little bit. Amazon didn’t put it right in front of me. Actually to type in Nates AND’s higher name for it to surface, but go find it. It’s really good.
Nates said, You’re always kind of changing as a comic. You’re always kind of changing as a comic just because of the older you get. I’m very very happy with this so hour. I talked about growing up I have a little bit and there about growing up Christian, talking about my family. This hour was very fun to tell, and I had a lot of fun telling it.
People laughed a lot. I enjoyed touring this hour, but I’m excited to have it on tape. Amazon is doing a comedy Bush where they’re going to do a lot more at stand up and he gets to go and kind of be the face of That’s a giant deal and I’m excited to be an Amazon. All right, Nate, who’s the most famous person you’ve ever made? Laugh?
His answer, Tiger Woods. I don’t think I got a laugh. I think I was bombarding him with too much where he didn’t know to laugh. He also said, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, he saw me perform, and then I performed at his seventieth birthday party. And you know who else was in the crowd, Tom Hanks.
So there you go. They laughed and enjoyed the show, so that was a big one. Ringles Starr was there as well by and see him laugh. Yahoo profiled Ellen degenerous, and they flashed back to a New York Times article from nineteen ninety four when Ellen got her sitcom, and Ellen said, I was laughing out loud when I read the script. I knew what I could do with it.
I wanted to do a smarter hipper version of I Love Lucy, only don’t take it so farth that I’m in a man suit with a mustache, trying to fool Ricky that I’m not his wife. I wanted to show that everybody could talk about the next day. During the height of Ellen’s popularity, she came out in real life and on the show. ABC cancel the sitcom just a year later, as ratings dipped. Palm Springs Life asked Taylor Thomason, Hey, Taylor Tomlinson, what are the best and worst parts of being on Sword?
Taylor said the best part being in different places, getting performed for different types of audiences, different crowds, but trying hard to be more present, spend more time in cities I go to as opposed to just flying in, doing the show and leaving. The worst part irregular sleep patterns. Travel is hard on your body, so it requires a lot of self awareness and making sure you’re taking care of yourself physically and mentally.
Speaking of travel, I was recently down in Key West and I recorded a lot from…
I have to assemble that audio, and that takes a little more work than just riffing a comedy stories here. So I’m hoping to start a new season of Travel is Back in March. But in the meantime, you can listen to back catalog episode Travels Back where you get your shows. Then they asked her about workshopping material when you know you’re not going to be recorded, as opposed to say taping a special. Taylor said, it’s hard because people aren’t supposed to record shows, but there’s always a possibility.
When I was younger, it wasn’t so much of a I love Taylor Thomason, What is she like twenty six? Saying when I was younger, oh, she’s twenty nine now. Yeah, I remember way back in the twenty tents when people didn’t have phones. What are you talk about? When I was younger, there wasn’t so much of a thing.
You just said whatever you wanted, and you were like, that’s never going to leave the room.
And also nobody cares.
I’m not a well known comedian, but that’s the responsibility that comes with being more successful. It looks hard to me to be a really famous comic and a workout material. I know people are very interested in it, even if they don’t record it. They might write it down, might put it online. Then some jerk in his basement reads it to you third hand on his dumb podcast, paraphrasing there stuff.
Because to get to the good stuff, the best jokes in the most vulnerable places, you do have to slog through those rough draft sets. And your rough drafts are in front of people. I was thinking about that when I was listening back to Thursday’s podcast, where I had the AI write the Andrew Santino style proctology bit. I want to move the Columbo part to the front of the set up, and the way I did it, I have at the end. I’m not actually comedian.
I’m not going to rework the bit, but I should have put the Columbo. Oh, just another thing at the top. Go back and listen to the episode of You Knows About Taylor said, it’s really special to feel like you’re in a room of people where you’re like, oh, this isn’t gonna happen again. Like if you have cool crowd work or something, you’re like, oh, this was just for us, this was just for the collection of people at this time. This night, specials feel more polished.
They’re like, Okay, this is all the stuff that I want to live somewhere forever. It is the final day of San Francisco Sketch Fest. One o’clock Bruce McCullough and Kevin McDonald. Four o’clock John Hodgeman, seven thirty Dumb People Town with the Sclar Brothers and Kyle Knane. I would hit that one up.
I’m a fan of all of those, actually, everybody I’ve mentioned. I’m a fan of eight o’clock Riff up Aloza, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy and some others. You might know those guys from Mystery Science Theater three thousand, at least one of the incarnations of that, and that’s hit for this year’s Sketch Fest. The New York Times reviewed Sam morrison show Sugar Daddy. In Sam Marrison’s show the grief comes out and laughs.
The Times writes, In some cultures, keening over casket promises cathartic release. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word keening, keening, k ee ni n g the act of wailing and grief for a dead person. He learns something new over down Daily Comedy News. In some cultures, keening over casket promises cathartic release for the writer and performer, Sam Morrison, a self identified anxious asthmatic gay diabetic Jew, Vocalizing his pain means barreling through punchlines at high speed, pumping the brakes every so often to split his heart open. That’s Sugar Daddy, now running at the Soho Playhouse.
He’s twenty eight. He calls himself an old queen by New York standards, and admits that the recent death of his boyfriend of three years is all he can think about, well that one other thing. The jokes sad gay men are objectively the hornies people in the world. Sugar Daddy through February seventeenth, That’s Soho Playhouse runs an hour and five minutes. The Guardian reviewed Vitscorio Angelone that shows called Translations.
They called it an eye catching stand up debut from Vittorio Angelone, although three stars out of five. Vittorio is an Irish Italian comic who was nominated for Best Comer at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Guardian says he does try a bit too hard to be all things to all people. It’s a smooth and thoughtful hour of comedy, riffing on the relationship between England and Ireland as experienced by an immigrant from Belfast to London. There’s also material on his Italian immigrant family and some throwaway stuff about clicktivism.
This one from the Houston Chronicle. So the rest of the world, Texans are usually thought of as cowboy boot wearing individuals who ride horses everywhere, listen to country music, and love to eat barbecue. But are those stereotypes actually true? We don’t ask the chetbot. They won’t let you make those jokes.
Ara Holliday h O. L y Day is an eighteen year old comedian hailing from Texas, and it’s proving the jokes are not too far off the mark. He’s on TikTok, giving glimpses into his daily life as a native Texan. Like any typical Texan, Holliday rolls out of bed with his cowboy boots and a ten gallon hat already on, starts off his day by gargling with a shot of warm lone Star beer out of a cowboy boots shaped glass. He follows up by pledging allegiance not to the Texas flag, but to the state’s favorite brands h EB, Bluebell, Waterburger, and buck Ease.
I’m not from Texas. I don’t know what those are. What’s buck Ease? Texans are like you, stupid Yankee. Buck Ease is a chain of travel centers known for clean bathrooms.
Love it. Once he’s finished with those, he changes out of his pj’s that include a Texas longhorned T shirt and into his workwear, which is a pinstripe button down with black leather cowboy boots and a black cowboy hat. At nine am, I’m on my eighteenth glass of sweet tea. By the end of the day, I’ll have consumed the Texan standard of twelve gallons of sweet tea. He then practices his yeehaws outdoors after lunch.
He looks out the windows solemnly as he takes a few minutes remember the Alamo and he also completes his daily task of jacking up his pickup truck a few more inches. Holidays at TikTok has been viewed more than five point seven million times one point one million likes. He also has over eleven point four thousand cumments. Sounds like a funny bit and that’s your comedy news for today. Follows for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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