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Caloroga Shark Media. Time, Johnny Max, today’s my least favorite day of the year with your comedy news forgot to say that part. So recently my daughter asked me, what’s your favorite holiday? And I said, Thanksgiving? Why?
Dad, Because everybody celebrates Thanksgiving, and you know, I just like it. Everybody takes the day off. We all kind of do the same thing, the same basic tradition, turkey football, go to somebody’s house. Details may differ, but you know, the basic thing. Kind of everybody in the country celebrates it.
But then I said, except me. I’d rather just stay home, play video games and get a pizza. So we continue that conversation. I said, my favorite moment of the year is Friday afternoon into Memorial Day weekend because you have the whole summer in front of you. The possibilities are endless.
There’s long sun, so you know, around five oh one on that Friday, it’s like, oh, it’s summer. This is so great. Today, the day after Labor Day, is my least favorite day of the year. We are as far from summer as possible. You can’t listen to the Beach Boys.
Shomy Buffett doesn’t sound right anymore. You gotta go back and hard rock winter music. And if you have a job, job, and I don’t have a job job right now. Boy, the bosses always are like, okay, back to work fall initiatives, and it’s just like, I don’t want to be here, dude. Anyway.
THEO Vaughn claims he was so paranoid about using the bathroom when he interviewed a former President Trump that THEO decided to urinate in a cup. Why he thought the secret Service agent might think the sound was some kind of secret message, THEO said, some super scared there. He ended up just being into a cup. They had a red solo cup that I brought in there and peed in it, and then I just bought it into the toilet. Dude, like along the side of the toilet walls.
It’d be real quiet, you know. I just kind of think I was getting super paranoid. I think super paranoid is an understatement. Phil Wang’s new special is out today. Apparently I source this from The Fordian, which is like The Guardian but a typo Phil Wang?
Are you excited about your new stand up special? Wang? In their Baby arriving on Netflix today, Phil Wang said, I am I don’t know, he said, more. Apparently because of my previous one, Philly Philly Wang Wang was affected by the pandemic. That was a really good special.
That last special was covid Wang. This is normal, actual whang. And it’s nice to have an exclamation point in the title, like Oklahoma. It gets you going before we even started. It was filmed at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.
How’s that? Phil said? So cool beautiful, the only completely candilit venue in London, if not the country. Right now, stand up is being consumed in very intimate ways, often on phones, so it plays into that the combination of wood naked flames adds an extra frisen. Johnny Mack has to look up the word frisen.
Anybody out there know what frisen means. Frisen, also known as esthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively balanced effective state and transient paresthesia, sometimes along with pilo erect and my dresses. I’m still not sure what that means. I think it means like, oh, the environment feels cool. Prison is the French word meaning to shiver or to have chills.
The BBC has an article called Frison why music can give you chills or goosebumps, Just say goosebumps. Boston Magazine asked Dane Cook the question that anyone would ask Dane Cook. Dane, do you believe the old saying time plus tragedy equals comedy. That’s exactly the first question I would ask Dane Cook. Danefield it and said absolutely.
I’m doing a documentary right now talking about putting my brother in prison during what was the most harrowing time of my life and career, was at the height of my comedy career, in the depth of personal tragedy and betrayal. And in the documentary, not only am I laughing at some of the things I went through, but I’m enjoying being entertaining telling people how I got clobbered, literally eviscerated by that betrayal. Boston mag fought up, does comedy come from a place of anger or pain? Dane said, no, I’ve never subscribed to that. There’s certainly something to be said for overcoming trauma and overcoming challenges.
You know, a lot of good comedies come from being bullied or minimalized. But I gin it’s really more about understanding people and interpreting those clunky human moments that we all experience. Dane, when was the last time you snorted from laughing too hard? Yeah, I put a comment there. I don’t know what you’re accusing Dane Cook of, and I’m definitely not.
I just find the choice of the word snorted interesting, Deane Cook said, probably just lying in bed with my wife. We were both scrolling TikTok showing each other things. That’s still the funniest thing in the book when the guy comes out on his front porch and he doesn’t know the whole porch is black ice. He just takes a header and ends up halfway down the driveway. I’m a sucker for slapstick.
I was also listening to some old Patriso Neil bits and I laughed out loud. On the same day some old Opie and Anthony clips of them playing the male Gibson tapes where he’s yelling at his wife, and it was all just so twisted and demented. I had a good long day of laughing at all that content. Opie’s got a podcast by the way, and he’s been playing old Opie and Anthony clips on that one Vulture caught up with Langston Kerman and John Mulaney the question that everybody’s asking, will there be more episodes of Everybody’s in la Mulaney said, I think we’d like to figure out how to do more. It was a very interesting experiment in this confined amount of time.
Definitely open to it. We had lots of bits that we didn’t get to. Langston said, yeah, I’m into it, but I’m not in charge of that. By the way, speaking of John Mullany, and I shared this over the weekend, I’m play it again here. It was a really good conversation with John Marco Sarasi, and in it he slipped into a Mulani the discussion you’ll hear the extended discussion.
I said that I hadn’t realized that his vocal range was in the same range as mulaney, and then here listen to this. Milani’s is just in a certain kind of range and register that I think is just feels right when I’m joking with my friends, if I’m trying to have riff off with them, It’s just the place that I do it’s a little bit presentational, it’s really clear. It helps you make a clear setup, and you different to the setup for the punchline because he changed the often. So that’s Saturday with John Marco Langston. Do you happen to know any friends in comedy who are the subject of rumors that one day they’ll host the Oscars?
Length had said, what do you want me to do? You want me to nudge him? Listen? I didn’t get a single joke on in twenty sixteen. Langston was a writer that year.
Chris rocketed everything I offered, and I respect that choice. He was doing the right thing for him, and John hosts a lot of cool stuff. I’m sure he’ll figure it out if that’s what he wants to do. Melandy said, I think I’m not hosting. I said, no, people are telling me I’m not.
Yeah, I’m not doing that. Vulture asked Josh Johnson how the Daily Show has felt since John Stewart came back. Josh said, I think we’re in a beautiful place. I think we’re doing one of the most historic election seasons the country’s ever had, and I think we’re doing with a team that’s been tested, having to go through so many different guest hosts, a testament to the agility of everybody to work with different voices and have a real sense of what the show wants to do and what the show has to do outside of just one person. So now we have John Back, I don’t have this amazing news team of people rotating that all have very distinctive voices, and they all have very different comedic takes on sometimes the same topic.
One of the ways to keep people engages to mix up both the delivery of takes and the takes themselves, and it helps keeps the show fresh and the people excited. Let me jump in here. We have on here on the Caloroga Shark Media Network Ballot. That’s our ten minute daily show ish kind of program, and I contribute to the writing. It’s been a lot of fun fun lately that show has found its voice.
So Ballot’s ba at Doublelot wherever you get your shows. There’s some shows with similar titles. It’s the one with a cartoon drawing of an elephant with Trump like hair and a donkey with Kamala like hair. Josh says, I think the daily show feels more exciting because I’m coming from the Trump years where we’d have a show ready and then Trump would do something at three and would be like, we should probably include this. So things don’t rattle to me at all.
I think it’s more sort of the unprecedented events where’re like, what’s the best way to talk about this, where we’ll look back and be really excited that we took the opportunity. Do you want to host? I’d be open to it, but right now I’m happy to be learning. I’m excited to be doing my chats and going out in the field. I’m just learning the differences between writing and being a correspondent, and the differences between performing for the studio audience and performing for people at home, and how to get more and more comfortable out in the field.
Mike Cannon will have a new special add on September fifteenth. It is called A Traumatized Animal, a little premiere on Chris de Stefano’s YouTube channel. Chris also served as the specials producer tape last April at the New York Comedy Club in Stamford. Traumatized Animal irreverent and honest look at parenting as a millennial father looking to break the chain of generational trauma and an hour jam pack with jokes and stories. Mike candidly speaks about his own mental health struggles and love for his child one on the Way, as well as deep dives into his own childhood while breaking down how it’s impacted his approach as a father.
There’s a relentless and refreshing, authentic hour of comedy from a comedian that’s ready to launch. And I love this article from Slate. It’s about Adam Sandler, they write, it needs to be said that despite his current rehabilitation on the pop culture for Mint, Adam Sandler has mostly starred in slop. I, like almost every other thirty three year old white guy on the planet, retained some fawnas for the schlocky eighty eight minute comedies who produced in the late nineties and early odds, Billy Madison, The water Boy, Big Daddy. But my affection for those films has more to do with my wistfulness for a bygone, outrageously y two K form of cable TV osmosis that’s impossible to replicate in the streaming age.
It’s ten PM on a summer night, you and your friends are a six pack deep and crushed into an unventilated basement den, someone flips on Spike TV, Happy go on, Life’s never been better. This is the world which Adam Sandler became a superstar. And I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I haven’t revisited much of his work since I left for college. The jokes weren’t great then, and they’ve only gotten worse since. People are coming around.
Have you noticed now where what five years into this podcast? You can go back? There are tons of episodes with me putting in the title Adam Sandler’s not funny or something like that, Like I’m on the record on this. People are coming around to Johnny Max’s corner of Hey, maybe Adam Sandler is not funny at all. Seems like a nice guy.
He’s a good dramatic actor, uncut gems, the Basketball one, the Space one. He can do it. But some of these things awful, Jack and Jill, come on, he’d be Halloween seriously s late right. Sandler put us all through a truly grotesque late prime. I think even in his most ardent, defenders would struggle to go to bat for click or pixels.
We’re grown ups and grown ups two those have ten eight percent of rotten tomatoes, the Sandlor Cinematic four Mammeeler war thin Quickly. There were a lot of fart jokes, a lot of poof jokes, had a potentially lethal dose of Rob Schneider, and Yeah. As Sandler enters his late fifties, all of his crimes have been miraculously washed away. Last year he won the Mark Twain Prize. His recent special bolstered by strong endorsements from needle movers like The New York Times.
The Comedy Specials being framed as the next chapter in Sandler’s ongoing cultural coronation.
Meanwhile, halfway through it, Sandler concludes a story about a genie who on…
Has he changed? Have we skipping ahead? Nearly all his peers, particularly his nineties era SNL compatriots, are heavily invested in what they perceive as a war for the soul of comedy. It’s led to some exhausting, redundant seminars posting as stand up specials. I never needed to hear Chris Roxay, the word woke.
Sandler should fit the same mold. He’s a man in his late fifties who can credit much of his success to the low browed territory in which his filmography treads. Instead of fighting in culture war, he’s dedicated as craftmanship to becoming astonishingly effective telling the same penis poop and Ford jokes he’s been telling for decades, trimming the fat, reforging their elements. Tell the land with something you could call grace, and that it is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
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