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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We’ll start a little political today. A couple things that caught my eye and made me chuckle. South park was back, and you see, the people of South Parker were having trouble finding funding for their annual turkey trot race, and they decided to turn to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for help.
One resident noted the Saudis were giving money to just about everybody lately. Cartman and Token got into a little bit. Token told Cartman he doesn’t feel right. He doesn’t want them to pay America for sports rather than hacking up reporters or paying Pete Davidson to do comedy.
Meanwhile, the Vice President visited the troops and he got ripped for a come…
Now I’ll play some of the material from Vice President Vance, and then I have some thoughts about this. Who really likes be honest with yourself? Who really like turkey? Nobody does it because turkey doesn’t actually taste that good. But on Thanksgiving, on the most American holiday, I got a fan over here, on the most American holiday, we are gonna cook a turkey, by God, because that’s what Americans do.
We cook this gigantic American bird, and we do all kinds of crazy things to make it taste good. And look, here’s the thing. If you’ve got to deep dry something to make it taste good, it probably isn’t that good. So that was the vice president at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, last Wednesday. Now the material, he doesn’t know how to do it.
But as I looked at the material, I kept imagining Jim Gaffigan doing this exact same material and getting laughs. It’s all in the timing and the pacing. And I’m not a stand up comedian. I’ve never performed stand up comedy. I’m a dude in a basement recording a podcast.
But if you can do this and in your head Gaffigan voice, and slow it down and go think about turkey, be honest with yourselves. Who really likes turkey? Right? You take a pause there, nobody does because turkey doesn’t actually taste good.
And then Gaffigan, we would get a laugh for that.
And then this is a very gaff again. Ask tag, if you’ve got to deep fry something to make it taste good, it probably isn’t that good? Do that in your Jim Head voice? All right, Amy Schumer. I’m struggling with this story because, as I mentioned last time this came up, I’m here to have fun.
I’m here to be rascally. I’m here to make fun of things that deserve to be made fun of. Say you have a bourbon business and you’ve lost your mind and you’re going all in on that, or you think you’re gonna open a successful theme park in Nashville. That’s why I’m here. So I don’t come to make fun of whatever is going on with Amy Schumer, but it is increasingly in the news.
The Daily Mail shared some Instagram photos of Amy Schumer, and they said Schumer looked leggy in a Cleveland boasting beige Valentino mini dress featuring a strip of ruffles and bows with black slingback pumps. But they noticed Amy Schumer was not wearing her wedding band in the post, and that her husband Chris isn’t always seen with is on as well. So that has a fuel the speculation onto what’s going on in their marriage. Now I’m going to tell you I was not wearing a wedding ring for quite a while At one point. You know why, because I played beach volleyball and it was really hurting my hand when the ball would hit my ring on my finger, and my hands were swelling.
So I took my ring off for a little bit. My wife knows we’re married. I don’t leave the house. Maybe once a week I go see the trivia guys. That’s it.
I’m not doing anything. I’m in the basement of recording a podcast, so I want to just like not have everybody freak out because you take a ring off. Sometimes your finger is a little fat or maybe and I’m not being a jerky here Amy lost weight. Maybe the ring is too big on her finger. Now I’m not being jerky there, I’m being dead serious.
The Daily Mail quotes a close friend is telling them on November thirteenth, Amy is one hundred percent getting divorced. She got skinny, She’s over it. Chris is mostly out of the house at this point. They’ve listed two homes down Brooklyn and New Orleans. She deleted Chris from Instagram, then deleted everything else.
She’s gonna file soon, but it’s over done, the Daily Mail ell says, shortly before wiping her Instagram account. Amy had instant story that Chris and I are still married, while also praising Hulu’s new show about divorce attorneys, called All’s fair. Louis C.K. I know we think he’s canceled. He’s not canceled.
He got a nice profile on The New Yorker because you know, he wrote a book, and you know some stuff happened a couple years ago, and I’m sure he played the Rio Comedy Festal don’t worry about any of that, because Louis C.K. Plays nice with the media, and we’ll give you an interview. The New Yorker writes, these days, c K occupies a strange place in the culture. He’s in a cancelation limbo, joined by the likes of Chris Brown and Andrew cuomo. Ck isn’t too canceled to perform several sold out shows at the Beacon, but he’s canceled enough that if you managed to snag a ticket, you might not want to brag about it to your co workers.
He’s canceled enough that if the show’s one of his strongest stand up routines in year, you might write about it, but not without mentioning that he’s disgraced. They quote some of c K’s material, including I’ve lived too long to give an f about a sunny day, and shares the experience of putting his father in a nursing home, quoting ck, you know what this place does. You know what they do? You give them money and they take your father. See Kay enjoys dating women his age that it’s interesting to talk to them about their lives.
The line, apparently is nobody gets to fifty eighth single without a horrible leffing life, and you get to hear about it every day. It’s the best. Kevin Hart’s got the second best special of the year. That’s on Netflix. You should watch it.
It’s very funny. Kevin is lightly talking about collaborating with Kat Williams and Mike Epps. They were in early talks about a possible ensemble comedy project with echoes of Harlem Nights. Kevin told the seven PM in Brooklyn podcast, we all got older, and I think our conversation has gotten better. You know me, Mike Cat there’s always a little ruffle in the water for quite some time, but picking up the phone does a lot.
As for the roots of their frustrations, it was about the idea of what we felt. It possibly felt that we should be doing together and that we weren’t because we weren’t. Assumptions were made and feelings developed, and animosity comes in. So amending whatever the problems were in our days of old allows this generation to see like we’re not afraid to do that, and it alleviates the future world of conflict for them. I feel like we’re much better today than we were yesterday.
When I checked around noon on Monday, the Jim Gaffigan video was up to three point four million views. In case you skipped the weekend episodes, Jim posted live from Old Forester the Bourbon Set on YouTube. Jim got a big profile on The Wall Street Journal thanks to Scott Beckett for sending that over. We learned that during the pandemic, Jim collected a bourbon from every state. The Journal met up with Jim at the Great Jones Distillery in New York City.
Jim says, we should probably eat. I have to go to my son’s basketball game after this. I don’t want to recreate the scene from Hoosier’s. They were enjoying a flight of four whiskies. As for the Old Forester set, we learned that the company became a title sponsor of the special.
The company covered production costs. Jim asked the team to throw in a case of whiskey into the bargain. Jim asked for a King of Kentucky, the company’s oldest and rarest bourbon, which sells and stores for over two thousand dollars a bottle. Jim said, that was the moment where I had this realization, Oh, I’m being paid with a case of bourbon. Out today on the eight hundred Boundarilla YouTube channel, Matt McCusker is the speed of light.
If you missed yesterday’s show, we now are in the opening nominations phase of Comedy Survivor. Go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. There’s a little cartoon there of a Comedy Survivor. Thurger names in there. What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna put sixteen comedians on a hypothetical island.
Every week the Facebook group will vote one person off. Hopefully we’ll get some jokes and bits along the way. The boys in the group are debating the artwork. Hey man, that’s what Ai Drew? Does Joe Coy look like?
Jimmy Kimmel. He kind of does. A lot of people could be nominated, So jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and get your nominations in. We’ll start taking a look at that later in the week. Just for last Vancouver celebrating its tenth anniversary.
I guess that’s the JFL portion of Vancouver because there was a Vancouver Comedy Festival, and I don’t know is ten right because I feel like I was at serious when it was JFL Vancouver and I haven’t been at serious in over ten years. It’s back February twelfth to the twenty second names announced so far. James A. Caster, Otsko at Kotska, Laura Romoso, Phil Rosenthal, Rene Vaka, Michelle Botteou, Namesh Patel, Brent Buttz, Connor wood, Ismo, Drew Lynch Ruffi, Bastos Cristella, al Mary Beth Baron, Ed Gamble, Lucy Darling. I’m tempted to go, and I’m tempted to hook up with Mike from the Letterman podcast.
He lives out that way, and I’m like, yuh, we get supportable recorders, we could probably do some podcasting damage there. So I don’t know. I’ll see how My schedule is I do teach at colleges. I have to see you know, it can’t always run out of town. But comedy festivals tend to be on the weekend.
But also, Vancouver’s a bit of a hike from here, so I’ll take a look at it. I kind of want to go. I like Vancouver a lot. Billy Gardell spoke with Parade Magazine. Billy said, during my second show, Bob Hart’s Abashchola, I thought maybe I’m done with stand up.
Then he got a weird twitch and he said his wife knew immediately you’re going back to stand up. Billy says he’s not here to bash the youngins. They’re dealing with stuff we never dealt with. Look, I’m from gen X. We were feral cats and we were over compensated and raised a generation of housecats.
Now we can’t be upset that they’re not great dealing with stuff. No politics, and he says, when you give an opinion, you’re just lecturing somebody, But when you share experience, now you’re including somebody. If Jay Leno said that you guys would do bad, Hey, Leanne Morgan, are you superstitious at all? Before you get on stage. Do you have any rituals, she telled the Hollywood Reporter, I kind of am.
It sounds crazy, but if I don’t have on a heel, I don’t feel like I’m gonna put on as good as a show I’ve tried, because they hurt. You’re standing up there for an hour and a half. My psciatica starts barking at me. Some my styles will get me a cute tennis shoe, but I feel like I’m not gonna have a good show. She’s trying to put me in suits, which would probably be more modern and hip and cute.
But I don’t feel right. I don’t feel like myself, which is looney. And I say a prayer before every show and I take deep breaths in What are you nervous about, Leanne Morgan? It’s not the material. The nerves do go away.
I think what I get nervous about now is when I jump to arenas. Arenas are a whole different thing, and every arena is different. Some of them feel like you’re in a cavern. People can’t even see you. I hope I got to do more of those things, but I’m not used to it.
If somebody like Oprah’s coming, It’s on my team. Don’t tell me if I know Oprah’s coming or someone like that. I’m sitting there thinking, because Oprah think I’m dumb? Am I using the correct grammar? And the Scolar Brothers caught up with stlp R.
They were talking about their podcast, Dumb People Town. We take three stories, usually from the state of Florida. Some guy rabs a house with his cat. I’m gonna break on an entire story. If some woman decides to drive around town with her kids and a baby pool on top of her car.
She’s trying to be mother of the year. It’s an exploration of dumb behavior, and we’re trying to fight back against the wave of dumb in this world. With comedy and Vulture did their list of comedians you should and will know. One of them is CP. All right, CP, what’s the best and worst comedy advice you ever received?
Best? Just enjoy the moments where you’re getting to be what you always wanted to be. I think when you let money, status, fame and all those different things play a part, and how much you validate your progress loses a bit of the magic. Worst advice hold on a material the more you hold on a material, the more you stifle your creativity. Your brain needs to be flowing like a freeway.
I’m always working on new material because my job is to be a comedian. My job is not to say one set for the rest of my life. I want to have as much fun as I can and I want to enjoy my days on this earth, living in my purpose of bringing laughter to the world and leaving my mark. Those are good words there, and that is your comedy news for today. Right hit the Facebook group, nominate some people, and I’ll see it tomorrow.