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The Shark Deck made you see last week we learned that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had secretly accepted luxury tips from right wing billionaire Harlan Crowe. Long set up there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily comment he knews. Jordan Clapper was host in the Daily Show. He said, of Harlan Crowe, that’s his actual name, not his Game of Thrones cosplay character.
Stephen Colbert said, Crowe is an arch conservative who was known for his assorted Nazi memorabilia and garden full of statues of the twentieth century’s worst despots. It’s so impressive that they put him on the cover of Hitler, Holmes and Gebels. I like that joke, Jordan Clepper. Again. On top of that, Clarence Thomas’s mom is still living in that house rent free, and Harlan Crowe is paying for thousands of dollars of renovations, all of which Clarence Thomas should have disclosed by law, though in his defense, laws complicated and he’s only a Supreme Court justice.
Interesting interview with Deane Cook in the Niagara Falls Review, and I really like how they wrote this. They wrote the enduring image of Dane Cook as a comic and constant ocean, prowling the stage, waving his arms, his body, reenacting every story. It helped make him the biggest comic in the world for a long stretch. But even then, Dan Cook knew that manic style had a shelf life. At some point it’d have to hold the audience’s attention without running laps around the stage.
Dane said, I remember calling my mom after I broke through that first year and saying, I can’t be this guy. I don’t want to be this guy. She was like, what’s the plan? Dane said, The plan is to age out with my generation. I have to be willing to evolve and to grow and mature.
He forced himself to plant his feet and engage with the audience. Dane said, I hadn’t experienced bad sets like it did in twenty eleven when I made that decision to implement stillness. I was crushing it for years. I was like, Okay, I know all the tricks and the caness little tells. I know my things, but that was hard, really hard, And yet within a few weeks of doing it, it empowered me.
I was like, I’m funny, even if I’m just sharing something and no gear of the early two thousands, he said, I was like the coolest guy in the room, and it made me the uncoolest guy in the room. Thank goodness for youthful little nieve. It’s hey, people don’t realize this is a perk early in life. As you get a bit older, you look at some of the trick tres avenues you have to take in the entertainment industry, and it’s not for the week of heart. It’s not for the strong of heart.
Even it’s cutthroat, it’s competitive. It’s everything that’s the opposite of what you see when you see the red carpet and the razzle dazzle. It’s a brutal machine, and you’ve got to know yourself well enough to go how do I fit into the machine of the cancel culture? These days? Dane says, you can say the words, you can describe in great detail and abomination a racist incident.
You could talk about all of it if you’ve lived it. You can’t be observing and reporting like it used to. They don’t want it, they don’t want to hear it. You’ll get turned off. Ray Romano’s new movie is out in Parade Magazine asked him, so exactly how autobiographical is this movie?
Did you meddle in your son’s future like your character Leo did? Ray said, my son Joe is six five and what’s the star of his basketball team? In LA I loved going to the games, and if I’m being honest, I also enjoyed the attention that I got from It’s kind of sad if you think about it, because I’m a celebrity from TV and I needed more attention. I live vicariously through him, But he wasn’t going to play in college, unlike my son in the movie. Ray, did you have immigrant Italian parents?
Where? I said? Mine was second generation. My wife’s family came right over from Italy, and for thirty five years I experienced that rich tradition of family and celebrating and eating, and I’d took in their standards and what they believed in. I wanted to write for that universe.
Is it true? Ray? You lived at home until your twenty nine? Ray said, that was my life. I lived in my mom’s house and moved out the day after I got married.
Let me tell you I have a twenty five year old son still living at the house in LA and another who’s thirty in moving out. But I have quite a different house than when I grew up in For that one, we had a bathroom and the house was about sixty nined square feet. I shared it with my mom, dad, and two brothers. My kids have a theater, eleven bathrooms, of pool and tennis courts. I don’t think they want to go anywhere ever.
Adam Divine told High Times when I was eleven years old, I was hit by a thirty two tons cement truck and couldn’t walk for almost two years. I had twenty five or thirty surgery something like that, and after having such a near death experience as a kid, comedy was my warm blanket. It was something that made me feel good. I like making people laugh, and it was something I could do from a wheelchair once I didn’t die. I think my parents were like, all right, if he wants to do comedy, more power to him.
He’s not dead, secnty whatever he wants. I honestly don’t know if I would have gotten involved in acting or commed if I hadn’t had the accident. I’m from Omaha, Nebraska. Comedy wasn’t a real job. To have the accident changed his perspective.
He said, anything as possible. You only have one life, you might as well try to live it in the way you want to live it. As much as it sucks, I’m still in residual pain from the accident, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world, because I know I wouldn’t be here doing the things I love to do if it weren’t for it. How to get started, I got a job working the door at the Hollywood imbrov I consider that one of my first breaks because at the time I was seeing stand up every day at work. Every night, I was seeing Chris Rock, Dave’s Rappelle, Sarah Silverman, Zach Allafanakis.
Then during the day I’d write with the guys come up with different internet videos at the same time. It just met Ander’s home in an improv class the Second City in la It’s after we met that I think everything started to click into place. Salon asked Jay Farrow about dramatic acting, and Jay said, you could see how a lot of people were comedians are transitioning over to that. Martin Lawrence just did a film where he plays a detective not funny at all, it’s a serious role. If you’re good at making somebody laugh, you can make somebody cry too.
You have those skill sets. Comedians have to reflect on life. So whatever’s going on, whatever we’re portraying out there, whatever we’re giving out there, this is an actual life that we’re painting for you, and we’ve been through it. That’s why you can connect with it. So it’s just natural.
Eddie Murphy’s grated drama. He should have had an Oscar, Jamie Foxx as an oscar. He got a for Ray, Mike Gapps, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Donald Glover, the way he crossed Over, the way he did Atlanta, the way he did music. So kay to be multi talented in twenty twenty three. As long as you have a fan base and if people are willing to give you business, he can’t get canceled.
All right, Jay Farrell, if you were going to be in a biopic, who would you play? And he said, I mean the easiest one. You can literally see it Eddie Murphy. Yeah, that would be pretty good. Actually, listen, I could put the leather suit on and just talk to people.
Just be cool. That’s what it’s all about, just being really cool. I could play Will Smith in a biopic. If you’ve ever seen me do behind the actor on YouTube, the series I used to do with two actors going back and forth. I had Will Smith.
I put tape behind my ears. He had them joints out like this like a dog because Will Smith’s got Sonar on his head. Shout out to Will Smith, though he don’t need no bad press. The Nashville Comedy Festival continues Ricky Smiley’s at the War Memorial Auditorium at six, Miss pat at seven at Zany’s Fortune Themester at eight o’clock at the Riemann Ali Sadek at nine at Zany’s Very Very Full Day at the Moon Toower Comedy Festival in Austin. I won’t read them all.
I’ll just skim and see what catches my eye. Here The Sklar Brothers present Tagget at seven thirty at Parish Sclar Brothers Adam Ray, Dana Gould and Natalie Palamedia. She’s fantastic, Lisa Ann Walter, Liza Trigger, Andrew Dismuke’s Andrea Gin That’s a good one. I like shows with a lot of comedians. At the hide Out at Age thirty it’s called Killers.
Ralph Barbosa, a lot of buzz on him, Paris Sashey, Mike Vechio and Michael Longfellow, Lori Kilmartin, Josh Adam Myers, David Nihill, Jordan Jensen, Daniel Van Kirktt, Tone Bill, Maria Bamford’s a headliner at the state Side at nine thirty, Big Jokerson the headliner at state Side at eleven thirty. And guess what, It’s the last day on Sunday for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I’m gonna miss doing that, especially because they have clips. William Wang show is called favorite Only Child. Promotis said the show it was great, very enjoyable and funny from beginning to end.
Highly recommended. Let’s listen from China. I don’t like to tell people that anymore, you know, because the news I went to a job where you where are you from? It depends do you like Sushio squame straightforward? But it’s funny, right, fantastic.
I gotta tell you behind the scenes. I just went through five six clips and I don’t know these performers. I’m not an expert in all things of stranding comedy and everything. I clicked on was a sketch where pre produced package. I could not find any more stand up.
So I think we’ve reached the end of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I did enjoy it. I hope you did too. The BBC has confirmed the dates of the Cardiff Comedy Festival. This one’s coming up May twenty four to the twenty sixth.
This one’s a little different. It’s a more i’ll call it industry. The BBC Comedy Festival is described as a chance for producers both establish a new and those taking their first steps in the TV industry to come and reflect, celebrate and explore comedy in the UK. There’ll be a bunch of panels and events open up for the public and the tickets are free. So we’ll keep an eye on the Cardiff Comedy Festival.
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