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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Chicago Tribune had somebody over at the Seinfeld Gaffigan show at the United Center. Some of the topics marriage, brunch, vacation, children’s movies, horses, circuses, cemeteries, golfviser’s pets, having kids, submarines, and pop tarts. The Tribune says some topics that didn’t come up war, poverty, politics, racism, and inequality.
And the Tribune says that shouldn’t be surprising. Jim and Jerry don’t do statements. They don’t write around themes. They don’t take off a couple of years only to return transformed touting a fresh thesis. These are not those kind of stand ups.
And you know this early in a set, Jerry said, everybody’s sick of everything. Two hours of Seinfeld and Gaffigan back to back becomes a two man march against universal annoyances at a time when nothing feels universal anymore. Surrounded by footlights, taking the stage to Sinatra, they lent an air of throwback, minus the hackiness that that might imply. Seinfeld spoke with a painfully hoarse voice. At times he offered some nuggets of his personal lifeifications not his thing.
He said, let’s buy a lot of money to fight in a hotel room. When an audience member creepily writes The Tribune stood still at the lip of the stage for a long moment, then sprung forward and snapped a selfie, Jerry sounded amazed and said, look at the arrogance of this individual. Gaffigan joke that everyone thinks he has cancer because he’s lost lots of weight. In truth, he’s been taking an appetite suppressant. Turns out that all these years, all I had to do is take a weekly shot that killed depression inside of me.
They joke that they’re going to have a steel cage match with Steve Martin and Martin Schure at the Tribune rights, but neither plays arenas often, and you can see why. For Seinfeld, the cavernous United Center, echoing his jokes about nothing much at all, dreams a smidge of his chit chatty intimacy. Gaffigan’s goofy hush feels swallowed at times, even more muted than intended. Inside such a large space, it’s also harder to sustain a cascading breathless eruption of laughs when the audience is so scattered. Interesting take there in the arena.
Trevorah as a new title. He is the chief tourism comedian for South Africa. He’s leading a new tourism campaign entitled the Best of Us. The campaign kicks off with Trevor Noah walking poolside at a holiday home. Trevor addresses common misconceptions and queries he often gets about South Africa.
Let’s listen. Hi, I’m Trevor Noah and I’m South African, and because I’m South African, people from all over the world insist on asking me questions about South Africa. So I decided to make an ad to answer some of those fascinates and questions, like how cold and snowy is your Christmas? Well, Tracy, unfortunately we can’t afford snow. Now I’m just playing.
We’re in the Southern Hemisphere, which means when it’s freezing in Connecticut, it’s fantastic in Ktown. Klaus sent me this one. Can you play golf in South Africa? Well, Klaus, we actually have some of the finest golf courses in the world. Judging by your thirty seven handicap.
And you play golf. Trevor doesn’t just answer quirky questions. He highlights South Africa’s verse attractions and these sound awesome, like right up my alley, wildlife scenes in Kruger National Park, bungee jumping at the Blowcren’s Bridge, I won’t be doing that one, surfing in Jurban’s Golden Mile, shortcage diving in Gansby. Maybe I’m not into South Africa at all. I don’t want a bungee jump, nor do I want a shirtcage and high end golf courses along the Garden Route.
Hmm. I probably should have read that before I commented, I like the National Park stuff. I’ll sit on a beach. Bill Burr spoke to nik dot net about having anxiety before shows. Bill mentioned an irrational fear of his laces coming inside as he performs.
He explains that he would combat that by double knotting his shoes, but he was still scared. He was worried at full my career would be over. The Boston Globe profiled Bill Blumenerke, an event promoter of Boston comedy. Bill got quite the wax job from the Boston Globe. They wrote that blumen Reke placed a big bet years ago the comedy audiences would maintain an upward trajectory.
It was a gamble that’s paid off handsomely. Two thousand and eight, Bill signed a twenty year lease at the eleven hundred seat Wilbur Theater. Bill said, we used to advertise in the newspaper, on the radio. Now it’s all online, it’s all viral. Thirty five years ago, if a comedian played the night show with Johnny Cerson, that meant they could sell maybe another three hundred and forty tickets in Boston.
Now it’s aline all viral. The article then starts talking about some Boston comedians and we wind up with Dean Cook commenting on Matt Rife. Rife saw Dane Cook when Rife was fifteen. Rife sent Dane an email. Dane Cook told him to come to La after he graduated from high school.
Eventually, Dane Cook began mentoring Matt Rife took him on tour as an opening act. Dane said, not only was he extraordinarily funny and fast with CrowdWork, but he was starting to use social media in a real honest way. Dane Cook himself known for using social media twenty years ago, and Dane said, at that moment, I really felt like I was on a solo adventure. Nobody had broken through using technology. Part of the hoopla was who’s this guy that’s doing this.
That’s not so much the question today, when it’s almost expected that you’re going to take your stand up to an arena level. Boston based comedian Emily Raskowski thinks the recent growth of large scale comedy shows is a boon for the business, with a trickle down effect for club comics like herself. Emily said, anytime people level up to bigger venues, it opens up space for other people to also level up. Dane Cook warns of a gold rush. She says, I’m sure the heaviness, the gloom and doom of the twenty four hour news cycle made people want to get out and be part of something uplifting.
But I honestly think more of what a spawned this area has to do with the entrepreneurial nature of stand up. But Dane Warren’s there’s only so much revenue to go around. But if you’re good enough, if you keep growing with honest, enthusiastic entrepreneurship, I think a lot of people will get to the arena level. Matt Raife talking about his looks and said, yeah, I’ll play it. I’m young, dumb and cute card.
But then once you become twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, you’re an adult. People stop caring about what you look like, at least in comedy clubs, like are you actually gonna be funny? So now I’m at this point where I kind of hate that I did that to myself because I’m putting a weird position of like, yes, I have this massive fan base that is predominantly women, who are such a powerful fan base. They’re so supportive, and I mean, obviously, I mean look at that. I mean the ticket sales we did in forty eight hours is insane.
But then I have to sort through all of those fans to find, Okay, who are the real comedy fans who were actually here because they believe I’m a funny comedian. Big Think profiled Neil Brennan, who said, the biggest lie I’ve ever told myself is that I wasn’t capable of existing or thriving on my own. This goes back to two thousand and three. He was co writing Chappelle’s show, right and high. But that fell apart when Dave retreated to South Africa for almost a decade to hide from the preciures of press coverage.
Remember that, Yeah, Dave walked away at the top of his game. Somehow has gotten back to the top of the game. You don’t see that often big think rights, as the brain can so cruelly do. Brennan told himself that his success was only thanks to Chappelle, that he wouldn’t be able to cut it alone, a perception that nearly destroyed him. Neil Brennan said, I had an index card in my pocket of funny things that I’ve written or done, whether there were sketches on the show, or lines or whatever, things that I’ve done as a reminder that I had some worth.
I felt like if I was drowning or sinking, I could look at this and call off the dogs. In my mind. Right now, I’m a bit on the fence about how much of life is a solo endeavor and how much is healthy to invest in people. I’m spending a lot of time and energy on people who weren’t reciprocating, so now I’ve withdrawn from a bunch of them. I thought there’d be this hole where they were There isn’t Whitney Cummings special is out today.
It is called Mauthee. It’s on OnlyFans TV. Marlon Wayans was on The Breakfast Club. Maryland says he wants to get even more personal in his future stand up comedy specials and dedicate the next special to his trans son Kai. The special would be titled Skittles or Rainbow Child and would be about his daughter who’d transitioned to his son.
Maryland said, my daughter AMAI is now Kai, and so I talk about the transition now their transition, but my transition as a parent, going from ignorance and denial to complete unconditional love and acceptance. I think there’s a lot of parents out there that need to have that message, and I know how I’m dealing with it. It was a very painful situation for me, but man, it’s one of the best funniest hours I probably could ever imagine. Lewis Black spoke to m Live and revealed in the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, he spent time in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula helping to build a cabin. At the time, the area was known for its twenty five cent screwdriver cock tales.
Lewis said, oh mo, that twenty five cent orange juice in vodka can’t beat that. I always wondered why people live there, and the first time I sat down at the bar, I went, all right, I get it. Please don’t destroy as the Treasure of Foggy Mountain will be out soon. And they found the perfect person to play Ben Marshall’s dad. Ben Marshall’s dad played by Conan O’Brien.
Director Paul Burgranti said Conan was very excited and took it very seriously. We immediately thought of him, but we were nervous because he’s so important to us. But we asked him and he was like, I want to make sure you do a good job. Apparently Conan shared some wisdom with the crew, including relationship advice. That advice Conan said, don’t cheat on your partner.
Jason Sidekis will be back in Kansas City this weekend for his seventh annual Thundergong charity event. The benefit concert supports These Steps of Faith Foundation, which helps uninsured and underinsured amputees get the prosthetic limbs they need. The event will be hosted by Jason Sdeakas and will feature musical performances from his Ted Lasso co stars Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, and Sam Richardson. Will Forte A we’ll schedule to appear. Sadekas told The Hollywood Reporter that Hannah is very shy, very nervous.
She’s been taking hours and hours of vocal lessons to get ready for this type of thing. But it’s a joy to know that she’s willing to do it, and I love her to pieces for it. Sadeka’s has plans for his guests. We’ll try to get some barbecue in them, whether they want it or not. They usually do.
Then it’s getting the hotel and they’re always welcome to go to my mom and dad’s place and hang out there. Bill Angvall caught up with Fox and asked that you don’t go with the attitude of trying to cancel people or find something offensive. Bill’s promoting here’s your sign, it’s finally time. My last show that’ll premiere in December. Bill said comedy’s the best thing in the world, and to be able to go to a place and laugh.
Don’t go with the attitude that you’re going to try and find something that’s offensive. That’s what you’re wanting to do. And I don’t know where to tell you to go, but please don’t do it at a comedy show, because comedy is great. It’s very fun. It’s fun to laugh, and you feel better if you’ve had a great night of comedy.
So don’t put it under the microscope too much. Bill talked about life off the road. When I first started out in the business, I couldn’t wait to get on the road. You know, it’d be packed two or three days before I had to leave. It used to be that the show outweighed the road as far as the amount of fun I had.
I started realizing that the road was making it a little more difficult. I wanted to go out in my own terms. He said. Having grandkids was a big game changer. It seemed like I was missing out on stuff, the same kind of stuff I’d missed out with my kids.
I didn’t want to go through that again. I wanted to be able to really spend time with my kids and my wife and our grandkids. So I knew it was just one of those things that you just kind of know. Bill Speci will be on Amazon Prime Video December fifth, And that ‘s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it.
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