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Caloroga Shark Media. Maybe fourth of July. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Eddie Murphy was on the New York Times conversation. I saw the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, talking about this one.
I held on to it so i’d have something in the late off position on July fourth. Pretty interesting interview. I did share it in the Facebook group again, Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Now I didn’t share it. That’s a lie, that’s a conflation.
I didn’t share it. I was going to share it, but Dylan shared it. Thank you Dylan, And they remind us that at one point, Saturday Night Live was cud on the thin ropes, and Eddie Murphy helped bring it back through sheer force of charisma rights the Times, as well as instantly iconic, hilariously unpredictable recurring characters like Gumby and mister Robinson. Eddie brought the show back to life. A highly plausible argument can be made that without him, SNL may not have made it to a tenth anniversary, let alone the fiftieth.
I agree it would have been really easy to put on Saturday Night Videos. I was watching Friday Night Videos on. It was a YouTube, a full episode with bumpers and everything. The first song was the Police Synchronicity two, and then it went into Paul McCartney No More Lonely Nights. There was Lionel Richie, and I’m like, this is wonderfully terrible, but I love that show.
I lived in Queen’s We didn’t get cable till nineteen eighty seven, and not because my parents were cheap queens in New York City was not wired for cable television until nineteen eighty seven. You couldn’t get it, So Friday Night Videos and a channel Nick called You sixty eight was all we had if here from the New York City metro area. You know what I’m talking about anyway, Eddie, back when the first Beverly Hills Cop came out, did you feel you understood what it was about you that met the moment so perfectly? Eddie Murphy said no, not even in retrospect. I was twenty two when I got to do cop and twenty years old when I started doing forty eight hours.
Now I look back at those times and I trip about how young I was back then. I kind of took it for granted one thing that led to another, and I wound up on a movie set. Then when stuff worked and became hit movies, I was like, Okay, that’s what it’s supposed to be. Will Eddie Murphy go back to stand up? Eddie says, I used to have little periods where I’d be like, I’m going to do it again.
The closest I got to do it again was right before the pandemic, because I had done Saturday Night Live, and I was like, let me go to do one stand up special and bring it all full circle. Then the pandemic hit, and when you’re stuck in the house for two years, I wasn’t going. When I got out of here, I want to do stand up again. Here’s a good analogy. It’s like somebody was in the military.
They were on the front line in Vietnam, and they got all these metals because they did all this amazing stuff. Then they moved up and became in general. So it’s like going to the general and saying, hey, you ever think about going back to the front line. You want to bullets whizz past your ear again. No, Eddie was Elvis the influence behind some of the on stage stuff.
You wore when doing stand up. I’ll jump in there. I think Richard Pryor was definitely an influence there. Watch Sunset strip and then watch Eddie stuff a similar outfit. Eddie said, Elvis had a huge influence on me, though other suits and raw I come out, I have a scarf.
I was rolling like Elvis too. I didn’t have the Memphis Mafia, but I had my little crew of dudes in the same way you see me dressed in Delirious and in RAW. I used to dress like that in the streets. Totally in my Elvis trip. When I got older, I was like, oh my god, Elvis wasn’t cool at all.
Elvis was going through some stuff now Michael Jackson, that whole red jacket thing and thriller thrillers after Delirious. When I own the red suit. I’m not saying he was influenced, but I had on the red jacket before, Eddie. Do you understand what you mean? The comedians like Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Chris Tucker.
Eddie said, well, I didn’t lay down a path. They took their own path. The comic used to be the sidekick, the comic was the opening act, and I changed it to where the comic can be the main attraction. That’s fair. They thought of comics one way, and I was like, no, a comic could sell out the arena and a comic could be inn one hundred million dollar movie.
All that changed with black actors was like, the black guy could be the star of the movie, and it doesn’t have to be a black exploitation movie. It could be a movie that’s accessible to everyone all around the world. The Hollirod Reporter did a comedy round table. Taylor Thomlinson was on it. The questioned, Taylor, you said that audiences weren’t as interested in hearing you tackle darker subject material like your mother dying when you were younger.
I did you gauge that and when did a shift? Taylor said, I just started really young, So watching a nineteen year old do stand up at all is uncomfortable. People are already scared for you and nervous about the show. So I don’t think I had the maturity as a performer to pull those jokes off. It took a few years of performing anywhere and everywhere you could.
How do you know when something’s not working Taylor Tumlinson. She says, people aren’t laughing and it’s devastating. It’s what you would call a bad show for other people. It’s when people are laughing too much and you’re like, none of this is new. No, It’s when people are sad and uncomfortable and looking at you like are you almost done?
What’s so great about stand up is that you know pretty quickly if something does or doesn’t work. Jackie Novak was on the round table and she feels that the question one of their subjects that the rest of you have felt audiences wouldn’t go with you, and Jackie said yeah, but for Biglia said something to me like, there’s your agenda, and there’s the audience’s agenda or the booker’s agenda. Work your agenda for me. That meant I’m gonna put my show up in New York, but I need to work it out first, and so I’m doing it at the jukebox in Peoria, so I know it’s gonna land. Well.
I mean, some people might find it interesting, but I’m planning my feet and saying the words, and maybe I’m burning my chance in the room where I did it. The punchline in Philly and my boyfriend we talk about it now and he’s like, yeah, the way you want up in Philly just bombed was great. You had to do the thing you did. And I was like, I bombed. I was always like, what do you mean?
I stood up there doing my art. It was almost delusion, required delusion. But this phrase my agenda, really helped me almost not listen to the crowd, and it was huge for me. My agenda doesn’t matter tonight. Everyone in this room might hate me, this club will never hire me again.
And I had a lot of bad nights before the run at the Cherry Lane Theater, nights where I just had to stand there and say my words and get them in my head. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla put together a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty four so far next weekend, Like on the thirteenth, I talked to to the executives at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website. So that’ll be the Saturday Interview in about ten days. This Saturday, Alex Bennett, longtime radio personality with ties to the comedy scene, is the Saturday Summer Interview. Anyway, The Gorilla has the ten best comedy specials of twenty twenty four.
And I like this list because it doesn’t match mine at all, and it reminded me of a bunch of specials I need to catch up on and this will be a good weekend for that, right and plus itagely fourth, I have to watch Jaws tonight on Thest Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen Don l Rawlings a New Day. I can’t remember if I clicked on that one or not. Dusty Slate Working Man, I love that one. I didn’t drop the G there. That’s not a queen’s accent.
The title is called working with No g Man Keith Robinson’s Different Strokes on Netflix. Haven’t gotten to that one yet. I was shotgunning the Bear. I wanted to watch the entire Bear before I got spoiled. I have completed it now I won’t spoil it for you.
And I’m also trying to keep up on the boys, and I can only watch about ninety minutes of TV in one sitting and then I fall asleep. Rommy Us have some more Feelings. I didn’t like the direction on that one, even though I really like Rommy. Alex Edelman’s Just for Us I keep forgetting to watch that one. That one is on Proper HBO.
Dan Locatta’s for the Boys. I’m hearing great stuff about that that’s on YouTube. Neil Brennan’s Crazy Good. Like Neil, I feel like perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow someone added some accidental crowd noise. I’m sure nobody meant to do it, but the mix just sounded suspicious to Johnny Mack and I punched out on it.
Sal Volcano’s terrified. Hearing good things about that one that was on YouTube, but Taylor Tomlinson’s Have It All. That’s on my list. And I know I do this frequently, but let me just skim my list really quickly for you in case you’re looking for something to watch this weekend. My list rost of Tom Brady, David Tel Hot Cross Buns on Netflix, Triumph You Lucky Bastards YouTube, David Cross, Worst Daddy in the World YouTube, Dusty Slay, Kyle Kinane YouTube, Dirt nap As an all time fifteen minute chunk about Fast and the Furious.
Dmet You Martin on Netflix, Jimmy Carr Netflix, Kat Williams, Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agendas on Netflix. Brian Simpson tig Nataro Taylor, Tomlinson, Rachel Feinstein also unfrosted the Jerry Seinfeld movie and John Marcos Siresi’s recent fifteen minutes that he dropped on YouTube. But last week or this week all highly recommended. And this is reminding me too. Vulture had a list.
There’s a couple of things I want to catch up on this weekend. So let me just remind myself. Oh, I need to add Nathan McIntosh down with Tech to my list. That’s on YouTube as well. I’ll do that now.
One of the ones I want to check out that Vulture recommends Christina Catherine Martinez is how to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age. That’s on YouTube. I just want to check out. And Natasha Vain Blonde World Dads here on YouTube. And let’s keep the podcast tight today so we can all hit the beach or do whatever it is you do on July fourth.
That’s your comedy news for today. Back tomorrow with a normal episode. See then,