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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News late night off. Because of the writer’s strike, I’ve been training the late Bot. Today, late Bot wrote some jokes for me. I didn’t even ask it to write jokes. We’ll do those ones tomorrow because today late Bot has a bit for us.
You’re ready. My next guest is from Georgia. He’s wearing a purple robe and a crown. He’s a cheesy mustache and was recently named Monarch of the Realm. Please welcome mister Jeff Charlesworthy.
Jeff Charlesworthy, everybody. If people bow down to you when you enter a room, and it’s not just because you’re short, you might be the King of England. If your crown is even bigger than this mustache, you might be the King of England. If you’ve ever referred to your town as my kingdom, you might be the King of England. If your mom got you your job, you might be the King of England.
And if you’ve ever been addressed as your majesty and you didn’t correct the person, you might be the King of England. Not bed late bass me Brigatsy took some time to share some important information about a popular lizard species. Let’s listen. Hey, what’s up. I’m stand up comedian Nate bar getsy and I’m here on behalf of all the her pathologists that get upset when you say HeLa monster.
Instead it HeLa monster. It is pronounced HeLa monster. Even though it’s called g i La, it’s pronounced HeLa monster. This is a serious thing. We got one idea, and yeah, just don’t mispronounce it.
Yeah. The folks at the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary visited Nate at his rental house over the weekend in Lancaster County. Jesse Rothacker of the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary not only corrected Nates. He explained that a Heila monster is not poisonous as is commonly assumed. That’s good, but he explained that the Heila monster is venomous.
Nate said, that’s way worse. Jesse went on to explained, look, if the HeLa monster bites you, you won’t die, but you’re gonna want to die. Variety interviewed Hannah Gatsby and said, hey, you didn’t mention Dave Chappelle and this reason special. Did you purposely leave him out home? Hannah said first starteds boring.
There was a time in the tour when it was certainly in front of my mind, and then it quickly receded. My audience likes me because they don’t like the usual toxic perspective, And to talk about him, would it be center his conversation. I just don’t want that voice to be dictating how I approached my work. I didn’t think he said anything that I was interested in. That’s what I would have had a dude.
In order to talk about Dave Chappelle, I’d have to begin with Dave Chappelle, and I don’t want to. I’m a gender queer, autistic, vagina wielding white person. There could be a really interesting conversation between us, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. I don’t think there’s good faith on his part. He’s done three specials grinding down the same points without any change in nuance, So I think he’s on his track.
Good on him. That’s not my track, and I’m not going to go out of my weight to engage with that. And I think there’s something also quite political about a queer gender performer expressing joy on stage. Well, would you be open to having a conversation with Dave Chappelle, and I said, apparently I have to do it on his churn. So no, I just think it’s a toxic place.
I don’t think he’s open. I don’t think it’s constructive. There’s so much cruelty going on, and we both represent communities that are experienced in that cruelty, and I don’t want to stand in direct opposition of that. There’s nuance and there’s intersectionality at play here, but he’s not engaging in that yet, and I’m not going to make him. I’m not also going to be drawn in on his terms.
I do think conversations at a point where we’re not listening to people with lived experience anymore. We’re listening to people who have really hostile, reactive views, and it’s caught up in a moral panic, which also has a very very strong right wing online presence that’s stirring up the debate, and it’s fairly acknowledged. I want to come from a more constructive point of view, Like, I’m gender queer, I have a life. It doesn’t revolve around trying to justify my experience. Variety asked, all right, well, how do you feel about Netflix and its stance as a home for comedians.
With these varying opinions, Anna said, if you want to change the conversation, you still have to be part of the conversation. So that’s what really informed me. We keep trying with this relationship. Part of it is I have the second special that we’re working on now, or I’m creating a lineup of fairly new gender queer performers from around the world, trying to break it out of the American centric idea. You know, everyone around the world as a humor and I’m trying to do something constructive, trying to create more content.
It doesn’t sit easily all the time. But like I said, if you want to change the conversation, you really do have to step into the murky waters, don’t you. The Free Press had a really good article titled can Joe Rogan make Austin the Comedy Capital of America. The writer went to see Joe. Joe’s up on stage drifting on getting COVID and says, imagine if I died, I talk so much stuff about the virus.
Part of Joe set ragged on the notion that men can get pregnant, and that got vigorous nodding and cheers. The writer says she wasn’t allowed to photograph or record Rogan. Were the four other comics who performed. That way they could try out new material without risking online backlash. She writes that gave them the freedom to follow Rogan’s free range footsteps, which they did to the delight of the crowd, with jokes about subjects like Leah Thomas, the Ivy League swimmer who took home an NCAA title as a trans woman, thongs, guns, and abortion.
They meet up in the green room between the seven thirty and ten thirty shows. Rogan says, hey, with the grip of someone who is a double Brazilian Jiu jitsu black belt. She asked if his comedy club has a mission. Joe says, yeah, it’s there on the wall. He points to a sign.
The sign says get it together, bitch. He explains, you’d be backstage getting ready to go, and Joey Diaz, who, by the way, some people have met Joey Daz in real life and found them to be the worst person on the planet. Your experience may vary, and Joey Das would be like, get it together, bitch, shock these mffors, and they’d starts shaking and moving around, and you’re like, all right, let’s go. Rogan says, the kind of comics he’s putting up aren’t the type that’s afraid to touch quotes third rail stand up, and that’s what he lives for. When people do risky subjects is my favorite stuff.
We don’t do it as an alternative to comedy. We do it because that is comedy, Rogan says. The Mothership is his take on LA’s Comedy Store, the club known for launching the likes of Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Robin Williams. His vision is to build up a club is set up for comedians with a strong open mic program that won’t throw performers under the bus for their material. Rogan says, we’re just trying to make it a great creative space for stand up, almost like a laboratory, like the best place to develop material.
The article says it doesn’t hurt that Rogan pays well. By all accounts Derek post In, a former comedy store Dorman turns comic says, I’m rich now I have whole foods money. Rogan says, the more the new people kill the more that people that are above them get better, and we all get better. Iron sharpens iron in comedy when you’re around all these killers, it’s like everybody gets better. On that particular night, the comedians were fahim Anwar, Tony Hinchcliff, who Kill Tony, which if you haven’t check out Kill Tony, please do on YouTuber or podcast.
It’s pretty fantastic. Hinchcliff counts of the Comedy Store and the Comedy Seller in New York is the best clubs in the world except for the audience. He says, krassy you get come from the cities they’re in, and New York is insanely liberal and La has gotten insanely liberal. Hinchcliff says the Comedy Store used to be considered the darker edge of your club in the country until the Mothership was built. On War chimes in, people kind of know what they’re getting into when they walk through the doors of the Comedy Mothership.
Rogan’s rule, be funny, that’s it. And if we could be funny with some stuff that you don’t think should be funny, then that’s wonderful. Let’s explore this, Let’s find out what is that what’s going on here? What’s up with the subject that everybody’s scared of? A cult?
You know, when you start believing things that you inherently know aren’t true, but you say them and repeat them because the cult wants you to do it. This is something you can exploit in stand up comedy, and that’s what stand up comedy is all about. It’s all about that. And it was time to go, and Rogan said, we’ve got to kick you out. It’s almost show time.
I guess this is good news, you know, Please don’t destroy. They do the prerecorded sketches on Saturday Night Live kind of carried the season. I’ll give Bowen, Yang Chay and Joe some credit there too, but I think please don’t destroy. At the most hits well, they are untitled movie. It was gonna come out in theaters now it’s going straight to Peacock.
It’ll be out in November seventeenth. The movie centers on three childhood friends who live and work together and question where their lives are headed, if anywhere at all. Completely ill equipped and out of their element, they set off to find a lost treasure roomor to be buried in their local mountains. Peacock November seventeenth. I don’t like this next item either, The Bear on FX.
Did you watch The Bear? It’s fantastic. Why you upset John? Because they’re releasing all ten episodes at once streamers. Will you stop doing that?
All right? I’m getting on my soapbox. Let me climb up here on the soapbox one. Stop releasing things at three am Eastern. It’s gone awful annoying to wake up and have to avoid the Internet all day so I don’t find out what the mandalorian did.
Release stuff at nine pm Eastern. Succession. You know the show everybody’s talking about. We all watch it at the same time. So stop at the three am two stop with the dump same thing, succession.
If they’d put out all eight episodes at once, some of you be on episode two. Some of us would be like, wait, I found out on the internet. That’s such a thing happened to so and so that’s annoying. Stop with that anyway. FX is releasing all ten episodes of The Bear on Thursday, June twenty second.
That way, there will be no buzz about the show. And like cousin Keith, he watches everything in one second, so he’ll be home and he’ll text me, hey, did you watch all ten episodes of The Barriet? I’ll be like no, I was recording a podcast, which is a ridiculous conversation if you think about it. Season two of The Bear follows Carmen as they work to transform their grimmy sandwich joint into a next level spot. As they strip the restaurant downwards bones, the crew undertakes transformational journeys to their own, each forced to confront the past and reckon with who they want to be in the future.
The only thing harder than running a restaurant is opening a new one. Anyway, The Bear is fantastic. If you haven’t seen season one, watch it and you can binge it if you want. We all watched it last year, but this season two binge thing. All right, John, we get the point.
Shut up. Kevin James is going to start in a new action comedy, Guns Up. Kevin James will play. This is gonna shock you. Are you ready for this?
You’re not gonna believe it. Kevin James is going to play an ex cop I know right, And not only is an ex cop, he’s a family man. I know right. Kevin James x cop family man moonlights as a mob henchman. See he didn’t see that coming.
When a job goes horribly wrong and both of his world’s collide, he has one night to get his family out of the city. It’s a Kevin James movie. I mean, it’s gonna be Adam Sandler quality, right, can’t wait. Tony Danza reunited with his taxi costars. He shared a photo on Instagram.
He was having drinks with Carol Kane, Christopher Lloyd, and jud Hirsch. I was kind of hoping Andy Kaufman would show up and reveal the whole thing was a hoax. Would that not be epic? Like forty years later? Psych?
Oh my god. I still kind of hope Andy Kaufman is doing that somewhere. Tony Danza captured the photo. Love these people so much, and hey, I want to apologize if I got all hyped about the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and you hopped on a plane and you flew down there because you’re like, you know, I love daily communities. Johnny Max said, this show is really good.
Let me get down there. I want to see some shows because Tuesday nights shows were canceled. Yeah, all the festivals canceled Tuesday night, so I’m sorry if you flew all away there, Hey, go see some scenery. It’s pretty. You know you didn’t have to fly home Wednesday morning.
You cut a hung around why they canceled the festival. Severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and gale force winds last of the country roads were flooded across Auckland. Motorists urge to avoid traveling. Around three o’clock a local time, the comedy festival released a statement on Facebook and insta and said We’re devastated to cancel the comedian shows on the opening night of the first week of the twenty twenty three New Zealand International Comedy Festival in Auckland. We’re looking forward to shows going ahead as planned from tomorrow.
That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, John, you’re not gonna tell us who’s news going tomorrow? No, I feel bad if you fly all the way there and they cancel the show, So I’m not doing that today, Apples, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat? No?
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