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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Hunnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The laughter, the littlety hear in my voice is because Nikki Glaser did an interview and guess what they asked Nikki Glaser about. That’s right, Taylor Swift. The question at hand, did Taylor at Swift influence your own sound?
Hmmm? Intriguing? Kind of like asking Joe Piscopo if Bruce Springsteen influenced his comedy. But okay, Nicki said, without question, I think when I first started stand up, I sounded exactly like my favorite stand up who was Sarah Silverman. I was obsessed with Sarah Silverman in a way that I am with Taylor Swift right now.
I’m sorry, Sarah, that’s really terrifying. Did NICKI follow you around the country attending all your comedy shows and doing the jokes along with you? Sounds horrible. So when I first wrote my jokes, I was like, what would Sarah Silverman write? No matter how hard I tried not to think about Taylor Swift, there was no way I wasn’t going to sound like Nikki’s hoping to go to Taylor Swift’s final show on December eighth, and says I hope she doesn’t add more shows because I can’t go to the dates that they’re predicting.
I have in fact checked if they added more dates, and doesn’t really matter, does it. If she does, I’ll probably shed some tears. I just want to be there to see her wave as she says good night for the final time, to thank her for all she’s given us, because it’s been so much work for her. I just want to be there to wave at her. She sinks down at the recesses of that stage one last time, let me jump in.
I saw Taylor Swift last summer, played the heck out of her music, saw the concert that it was fantastic, But like Taylor shut up at the Chiefs game last week, and I was like, can you just go away? And the Kelsey Brothers guys tap the break? Well, maybe not tap the breaks, because I think the Kelsey Brothers have about ten minutes left before everybody’s sick of them, So you might as well cash in now and be on every commercial and show up at every event. That train’s about to stop. I feel for the Kelsey’s John.
You’re making friends today, I know, I just I can’t. I just turned it into Mark Marin. I just can’t sit in the basement and not say what’s popping into my brain. There’s a microphone in front of me, you know, Nikki Glaser. What we do post here is listen to this.
She’s got to be doing a bit right. Listen to his answer. I’m going to fly to cities to go to Taylor Swift singalongs, which I’d done before the years tour. I’m going to potentially start a Taylor Swift cover band that would either open my own shows on the road, I would do it as an add on a little show when I’m on tour. I’m currently also getting really invested in football, or at least trying to.
Yeah, because you got that gig with Amazon. I really find a lot of similarities between the way my boyfriend loves football and the way I love Taylor Swift. Maybe if I really find a way to love it, I can have this thing to look forward to every fall. Okay, moving on, review spoke to Jim Jeffries. Jim had a sitcom in the works that got canceled when the pandemic happens.
To hear about the pandemic, Yeah, everybody had to stay home for like a year. It was a thing. Look it up. It’s a pretty interesting story. Jim said.
It’s hard to put your finger on what happened after the pand I make. It’s hard to know what would have been and what could have been. But then on the other hand, without COVID, I might not have married my wife, so you don’t know.
Also, I think a little of that time off actually made me a better writer, so …
Jim gave up alcohol and switched over to weed and said, as soon as I walk off stage, I take an edible and then I get myself a little bit of something to eat, and I go to bed. That’s as much parting as I do these days. The days of cocaine and women are long behind me. I always had a couple of drinks before I went on stage, and a drink could hit you differently. Sometimes you couldn’t feel it, sometimes you felt it too much, and it was a bit of a bouncing act.
Where now I don’t drink at all before I go on stage, so I’ve got a clear mind. Maybe with the heckling. I was a little bit faster with the heckles when I was drunk, as you’d say the first thing that came to your mind. But I also said a lot of stupid stuff that could have gotten me in trouble. So I think I remember my shows a lot better.
I think I’m a lot more polished than I’ve ever been. In Australia, he’s hosting a game show called The One Percent Club and says hosting a game show for a blooke like me is a pretty easy gig. Not really lines to learn. You just got to talk to people. You’ve just got to read a few questions.
You just got to keep smiling. A lot of people gave me guff for hosting a game show. But here’s the deal, man, I love game shows. I watch at least one game show a day every day. I like the question and answered things.
It keeps you engaged. Game shows for me with the last bit of television where you’re not looking at your phone because you have to focus. So, as a fan of game shows, I never thought i’d have the opportunity to host one, because no one would ever see me that way. But I’ve loved every minute of it. Mark Maron, who I just turned into a couple of minutes ago, spoke to the Phoenix New Times.
They were curious if there’s anything he won’t talk about in his act. Maaron said, nothing is really off limits. I sort of moved through my material from my own point of view and my own struggles and my own ideas. Haven’t understand things I’ve tell jokes in my life. There were wrong mind that I’ve told jokes in my life that could be seen as controversial if I was a bigger voice on the scene.
But for me now, there’s nothing off limits. You can talk about whatever you want. You have to decide for yourself whether you want to shoulder the repercussions of what you’re saying and whether it’s worth saying. So, really, whether or not there’s anything I can or can’t say or won’t touch, it’s not because videological principles. It’s just about, like I want to deal with that crap.
Mark Marin, where do you think comedy is headed in the next ten years? It seems female comics are on the rise, right said, Look, it’s always going to be the same. Somebody can find an audience, they’ll play for them, and if more people get on board, then you know they succeeded being in that level of comic. There’s a lot of comics around, a lot of them are just okay and working their angle. It’s a lot of different business than why I started in.
There’s a lot of weird crowd work going on. But you know, Nikki Glaser’s a huge comic now and chearned it. You know, Maria Bamford’s a genius, and there’s Kate Martin. Look, comedy’s not going to go anywhere. It’s just like the dominant paradigm at any point in time.
Since everything is content, everything is based on likes and followers, the justification for what success is really has nothing to do with the creativity of the art of comedy. It’s not like that changed much, but it’s changed in terms of how one gets seen in popular There’s a lot of people that are terrible and extremely popular. But I don’t know if that’s ever been different. I think comedy will just keep lugging along. Like you said, there’s a lot more women and a lot more diverse voices out there doing it where they make it on the large radar I don’t know.
Comedy’s always been sort of a niche thing for a lot of people. Success is based on a number of followers and likes and CrowdWork one hundred million dollar deals. So that’s just the way apples and works.
And now everybody’s just a cog and some sort of strange machines serving tech…
Interesting question here, will you ever have Matt Rife on the podcast? Nah, I’m not interested in talking to him, really, that’s why not, Mark Marin, Have you ever thought about retiring? I think about all the time. I don’t know. A lot of people say it’s impossible to do, but look, doing more acting and trying to figure out how that works for me and standup keeps coming.
It’s still my primary source of creative enjoyment. But yeah, sure I think about retiring a lot. But I don’t know what that looks like. I don’t know. I fuppull out entirely because that’s just a little weird.
But I’m gonna be shooting a movie next month that’ll kind of determine whether or not I’m come out for the acting game in any big way. So we’ll see what happens. Jim Brewer talked about warming up the crowd for Metallica. Al dot Com said that takes a lot of guts to go out there in front of metal heads waiting to hear their favorite band. Had that happened now?
Jim has been friends with Metallica for years. I was sitting at my desk one day, phone rings serious, this is John Hello, this is James Headfield, And it was actually James Headfield. He was down. Jim Brewer didn’t tell me that Headfield was coming up to do the show, so I had to go down to the lobby and get mister Headfield. Who were said when they asked me to do it, and all the time I was like, this is amazing, and it was like, well, it’s not really stand up, what do you mean?
Sort of just entertain the crowd before we come up, you know, like maybe shoot off T shirts and stuff like that. So they had all these different ideas and when I say they, it was more of their team. But I huded Lars down. I said, what exactly do you visualize? And he put it on the line.
He made it so simple. He said, Jim, you’ve been around us a long time. You’re a huge fan. We had you on our thirty year anniversary shows. You interviewed us, you know us, You know the crowd better than anyone.
Just give them a quote experience. And here’s the most important thing is you don’t have to be funny. Tell the stories. We’ve gone on vacations with us. Tell the stories, Oh you and James went to Disney World with your kids that actually happened.
Tell the goofy stories. You know, I entirely leave that up to you. You’re the creator. I’m not stepping on your art. You do what you gotta do.
And the minute he said, dad changed my whole perspective on it. And I’m a diehard Metallica fan. What would I want to see start a show if I don’t have a band? Laura said, you know, when we have someone, especially a band, open for us, we want them to be the next biggest thing. Because hour crowd is so die hard, they don’t show up for the bands.
It’s a bummer for them, it’s a bummer for us. So we’re gonna try this. And it worked really well. If I remember, the first thing it did was kind of come out and let everyone know that the first time I saw Metallica was an eighty six and the fans were skeptical. But the more details that throughout and I start uniting the crowd, find me the oldest metal head in the arena.
And the minute I came up with that concept, you realize everybody was in this together, Like, Hey, I’m like you guys. The quicker we’ve done with this, the quicker we can get to Metallica are even Chattanooga. Do you like comedy? Do you look Out? Comedy Festival features thirty plus comedians.
It runs tonight through the nineteenth. Headliner is Laura Peek, Aj Wilkerson, Drew Morgan, and Leclerk Andre LCF organizer and local comedian Donny Marsh said this year’s festival will feature eleven shows over four days with some of the best rising and top headline comics across the country. Chattanooga’s comedy scene is long punched above its weight, and it’s very easy to get great comics to visit here if you can only make it a one show. I encourage comedy fans to follow these comics on social media beforehand and decide which one you’d most like to see. The festival is a labor of love for comedy in our local scene.
Every comic at my level experience does stand up at night as often as they can, stringing small tours together and promoting small gigs while juggling the other jobs and commitments. This festival wouldn’t exist without the everyday grind of jobs that have nothing to do with the arts. It’s a rewarding process that it’s an honor to bring these great performers to a city that’s given me so much since I moved here in twenty twelve. You can get a festival pass as well. Lookout Comedy Festival dot com.
Vulture has there comedians you should and will know. One of them is Courtney Peruso Worst show Ever. About ten years ago, my friend Casey put me on the lineup for his backyard show Super Tight in San Diego during Comic Con. I really hadn’t figured out how to perform on a lineup after being a Groundlings performer, and I was super nervous because a lot of cool people were there and I was intimidated by stand ups. I went up after Brody Stevens, who crushed with a magician’s assistant act where the premises the magician didn’t show up, so I’m just dancing around and smiling and pointing enthusiastically at things that aren’t happening, like an idiot.
But for some reason, my music stopped about thirty seconds in, so the intentionally awkward bit turned into an actually awkward bit, and everybody was kind of staring at me in silence, like, okay, I wanted to puke and die. Brandon Wardell went on after me and lightly roasted me, and I did a pretty little grudge about it for a while, but in retrospect, he had no choice but to acknowledge my bomb to save the vibe of the show. We ended up working together a few years later, and we’re actually good friends now. Love you, Brandon. What’s your biggest financial hurdle?
She says. What doesn’t help is that my comedy involves self producing shows that are full of costumes and props, and during the workshopping process, I often try out ideas that I quickly abandoned, but in the moment, I’m like, I need to go buy five yards of blue fabric, twenty five toy guitars at a Marie answen at Wig, and a nine hundred dollars portable dance pole so I could try out my bad idea tonight, and then my bad idea doesn’t work, and then I have all that stuff taking up space in my apartment. That’s why I recommend becoming a stand up, not a prop comic. That’s comedy advice. Worst comedy advice, the best.
One time, years ago, I was feeling down about my prospects and was winding to my clown mentor about being old, old and broke and doomed, and he said, whatever, dude, you’re a failed actress who gives a whot, Just don’t it. It’s cool. I cracked up and snapped out of it, and I’ll never forget it. Worst advice was in two thousand and eight when an acting teacher told me to get side swept bangs. They weren’t for me.
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