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From the Washington Post. Comedians made some hilarious jokes about climate change. Were they right time, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Well, let’s see this one from Michelle Wolf. Climate change is a real big deal, and everyone says Mother Nature.
And I do believe Nature is a woman, because she’s trying to kill us in the most passive aggressive way possible. It’s not some sort of immediate fire or flutter cool explosion. She’s just like, what, I raise the temperature a little. Oh, are you comfortable? Maybe I wouldn’t have if you’d taken out the recycling like I asked.
I’m fine. That’s from twenty seventeen. The Washington Post then said a two degree fahrenheit increase over the past one or fifty years may sound inconsequential, for research shows the incremental heating were experiences pushing climate weather events to more extremes. I love what they did with this article. Nate burgatcy I looked up a list of what you’re supposed to do for global warming.
Is an individual, just talk to your friends and family about it. Think about how far it goes. I had a great aunt and uncle Phis fight each other at a wedding. Let me get the middle of that fight. Any chances fights about global warming, because I’d just love to get that conversation rolling.
That’s from twenty nineteen. Sis say people need to talk about climate change more, but Brigatsi describes how hard that task is. He’s not wrong. A bit of a stretch there, Washpo Joe Kim Booster from twenty twenty two Psycho Sexual. He has a couple in the crowd if they plan to have kids, they say yes, Joel says, so he don’t believe in climate change.
Wow, what an interesting way to learn that. I do think if you’re having kids knowing everything we know about the way the world is going, It’s sort of like when you’re at a party that you know is dying down. You get a tax from my friend. They’re like, Hey, should I still come to the party? Yeah?
Jump with that uber. I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’m sure there’ll still be ice at the party by the time you get here. When what you should be doing is calling them immediately being like, don’t come here. Somebody put on a podcast.
Party’s over. But The Washington Post points out, if the US meets its goal to cut emissions by half by twenty thirty and zero by twenty twenty. A child born today would have less of an environmental impact per year over their lifetime. Let me jump in here. I have that lilt in my voice when I’m amused by an article.
I’m actually if you know me in real life, I talk about the climate emergency a lot, So I don’t want to diminish this article. I’m just enjoying it as host of Daily Comedy News. The jective position between these jokes and these like serious points in between, that’s what’s making me laugh here. Interesting note from the author. I don’t know if Booster knew the carbon footprint of having a child when writing this joke.
Disclaimer I opened for him on his tour about a year before special and don’t remember talking specifically about climate change or hearing this joke. Kasha Patel is your author and also a comedian. Kristen Silvis, climate change is crazy. They got me scared about property at this point. I don’t want to pay for flood insurance.
I don’t even have car insurance. Like Silvis jokes flood insurance premiums or another cost that can be challenging to answer everyday expenses. Silvis told the Post comedians have always been vessels for change. Why not make use of that platform and humanize big issues like this? Well done, Washington Post.
Kamail nan Gianni, Hey, Camail, do you think of yourself as a comedian? If I were to say comedian actor Kamail nan Gianni, what part of you would think actor comedian Kamil na Gianni or actor writer Kamale This from the Good One podcast. On Jianni’s answer, it was a moment earlier where you said you were a comedian and that hurt my feelings. I was like, this, Emma, are over here. I definitely consider myself still a comedian.
I love doing it. I just haven’t done it all since February twenty twenty. That was the year I just finished shooting Eternals, and I was like, this will be the first year I do stand up and then you know, it didn’t happen. The hardest thing about coming back from breaks is for some reason, the jokes you’re doing before stop working, so you need new jokes. But it’s very hard to get into the gear of writing new jokes if you’re not used to being on stage.
So there’s always the tricky thing for me, The big barrier to coming back is having the time to do jokes and test them out. And do jokes and test them out. It’s a commitment. Like getting ten great new minutes would take me a while. Weird Q and A here Q, remember when you hosted SNL A, yeah, I do remember I hosted SNL so weird.
I was so nervous for it. But it’s really not a nerve wracking experience. It’s really more than ending an exhausting experience. The week is so busy, you’re going, going, going, going.
And then I went up and did the dress rehearsal and I went great, and I was li…
I have to do that again. When I was asked, I was like, oh, I want to write a good stand up set. I hadn’t been doing stand up a lot, and I just wrote this new seven minute set. That was the last time I was really like trying to build a stand up thing beforehand. They just told me just you know, sometimes Steven Spielberg comes and watches a student my set, and I looked over and he was like that far like row seven I’m talking.
Suddenly, I was like, oh, that’s definitely Steven Spielberg. If you watch it, you can see the moment I spot him and I stumbled for a little bit. You will know exactly what moment it is. I take a deep breath and I look away, and then I go back to it. From Ghana, Webb Dave Chappelle has revealed that jay Z has made some investment properties in Ghana.
According to a report from Ghana, Webb and Chapelle made the diclosure at a private event at the University of Ghana, saying that jay Z showed him pictures of the properties when he informed him about his plans to visit Ghana. The Jewish Chronicle caught up with Ari Shaffier. He said, superstars on TV are done, but there’s so many guys who owned houses, and that wasn’t a possibility before you were either Ray Romano or a road life or barely getting by having an apartment and dying at seventy with a heart attack. He says comedy is as big as it ever was, despite those that protest. Comedians and hosts quoting Ari, podcasts and comics are the only ones making rape jokes anymore, or age jokes and really going for it and being dirty when you can’t get it anywhere mainstream because someone might lose their job, then they come to us.
He was also looking forward to playing Pittsburgh. He appreciates the city for its casual acceptance that everyone is fat. It’s like donah, yeah, yeah, French fries and garbage on top of your salads. And he noted Pittsburgh as a cool city like Nashville or Austin, but without the street cred. He Mike bur Biglia, you booked David Letterman show at twenty four?
Did you realize this a big break? Then? That is a premise floated to Mike Greer Biglia by the Hollywood Reporter. But big said, I think so. They’re out my twenties.
Every article is about me. This guy’s the next big thing. Same with my thirties. Now in my forties, I’m the veteran of comedy. People don’t know how to position me because I’ve never had it happened to me and they signed Feldian or Ray Romano.
Way, it’s who. Ray Romano mentions in today’s podcast, if he had Ray Romano and Daily Comedy News bingo, you won. That’s not how bingo works, Johnny Mack whatever. That was Ali by choice. When I was thirty, I got a CBS sitcom pilot, Greenlit.
Nick Croll and Bob oden Kirk were in it with me, but it didn’t get picked up. Oops, CBS executive. And that moment it hit me like a ton of bricks. I don’t want to be a sitcom star. And it’s not like they don’t still call I’m everything that networks think they want.
Because I smile a lot. They’re like, oh, we can mold this person. This is perfect for us. I had to come to Grips with the idea that the endgame for me is not being rich. The endgame is making something that makes me proud.
Good follow up here, the Seinfeld Romano sitcom path is gone. But is there a biggily a version of Barry or Rammie that’s appeling ber Big said, I love Barry Rami and Moa Mayer’s show, but no, I don’t like serialized storytelling. I’m obsessed with the ninety minute story. Everyone’s like it’s the golden age of TV. Who is the time in ninety minutes or two hours?
I want to meet characters, understand a world, go on a journey and land somewhere that’s slightly different from the beginning. I want to feel something and laugh and walk away and talk about it with my wife. That’s it. Another good question, if you took money out of the equation, would you prefer to release your work as film specials are comedy albums? Berbig said, when it comes to stand up I’m most interested in the audio.
The imagination could do a lot of work. If you listen to a Steve Martin record from the seventies, there are visual gags, but you get a sense for it. I Here Glass taught me this about radio over the years. Audio is so intimate you feel like you’re with the person. To be clear, theater is different.
It’s the sign that we’re all there together. And has he noticed anything about his audience since pin chaiting for Jimmy Kimmel earlier in the year, Rubig said, you realize when you do something that mainstream and wide reaching, the legitimacy that a network platform still gives you. People came out of the woodwork. Certain people were treating me like I had made it. They were like, you know, you could do this and I’m like, no, no, no, I do this other thing.
That’s your comedy news for today. Follow a show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.
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