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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bird Kreischer thinks podcasting changed the game, well, podcasting and social media. Bird said, when they kind of clicked, I think people fell in love with comics voices. I think people got to hear you and know you and feel like they’re your friends.
And that’s why people loved Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen, all of them, because they felt like they knew them. During the pandemic. It’s saved our lives. I mean it saved my life. But I think podcasting for comics gives them control over their own narrative of how they want to be represented to their fans.
Look at somebody like THEO Vaughn, who’s white hot right now. He’s always been funny as hell. But if you leave it up to Comedy Central, a lot of Comedy Central digs lately, if you notice that, like a lot of Comedy Central digs lately. But if you leave it up to Comedy Central, they may not get it, and they may edit him weird. But THEO knows how.
Theo’s the funniest, so he sits in front of a camera and just theos it for an hour and people love him to death. I think he gave a lot of people way to use their own voice. Theo’s podcast is very easy on the ears. Grayshers said, I gotta say Joe Rogan was the one who was like, if everyone hating each other, we can help each other. When I started, everything was an audition to get a development deal, to get a whole deal.
Everybody was kind of crappy behind their backs to each other. It was a weird energy. If we’re not friends, but we worked together. Then when podcasting showed up, Joe started putting people on and we’re like, yeah, this is Burt. He’s funny, go see him live.
And all of a sudden, everyone’s like, what, yo, Aurried, you want to be on my podcast. Everybody cares about each other. We’re upfront to each other about how much money we make, what the clubs pay, We talk about ad sales on podcasts. It’s very different than when I started, and you couldn’t get someone to help you get past it. The seller speaking of Joe Rogan in your post was speculating that Joe Rogan may ditch Spotify for another platform, perhaps even joining Elon Musk’s x you Know Twitter after Joe’s contract with Spotify expires next year.
The Joe Rogan Experience is believed to draw eleven million listeners per episode. Joe reportedly has a two hundred million dollar deal. A Rets Research founder Richard Kramer told The Verge, it’s a situation where you’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t. If you do keep Joe Rogan, Spotify will be locked into paying Rogan as much or even more than before at a time when they need to contain costs. But if you don’t keep them, that’s really tough because your biggest property and source of sales within the ad business walks.
Ashley Carman wrote about Joe Rogan for Bloomberg. She reports Joe Rogan’s appearance at a Spotify advertiser event in Austin recently suggests he’s gonna stay with Spotify, according to people familiar with the event, reports Bloomberg. Spotify flew podcast ad agencies and brand reps out to Texas for a full day of corporate sponsored fun. They were wind and dined. They went to the Grand Prix alongside Dak Sheppard, who schmoozs with guests for about forty minutes.
Later, the group eight in cahoots a private event space where Joe Rogan joined in. Joe hung out for forty five minutes, circulating the room, saying hi and taking photos with atten D’s. So we’ll see if Rogan stays. I had promised you if you don’t listen on the weekend, I had promised on Friday, I would talk about the Grammys on Monday in Today’s Monday. I actually did it on Saturdayday.
Normally I do the weekends in advance, but I hadn’t recorded Saturday, and the news broke and I was excited about it. So if you want to hear the Grammy discussion, that’s the beginning of Saturday’s podcast, which was really, really, really really robust for a weekend episode. The nominees for Best Comedy Album are Trevor Noah, I Wish You Would Want of Psykes, I’m an Entertainer, Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, Sarah Silverman, Someone You Love, Dave Tappell What’s in a Name Again? If you want to hear my analysis of that, go back to Saturday’s episode. Whitney Cummings has her Only Fans special out this week, and yes, I was on OnlyFans earlier researching comedy like I normally do.
Oh you don’t believe me here listen, I am seven months pregnant. If I got pregnant even a year earlier, I would have sold the baby for Taylor Swift seconds. I live in LA so I get an invite to a gender reveal party every month for the same kid special. Sounds like it’s pretty funny. It is Whitney’s sixth special.
It’s called Mauthe. It’s her first for OFTV, and it’s free on OnlyFans TV November fifteenth. Whitney recently spoke to Yahoo about the evolution of her comedy and said, your comedy should be concurrent with your evolution as a person. The idea is you’re the same person on stage as you are off stage, so hopefully you’re not doing the same kind of stuff twenty years later, because I’ll look back sometimes in my first or second special and I’ll cringe a little bit. I’m like, you know what, that’s who I was at that time, and that’s okay.
I also loved how Rodney Dangerfield gave the audience a joke to go home with you could go home and the next day tell a joke at the water cooler. I was want to make sure within my act there are a couple jokes that can easily repeat the next day at work and be the funny person, Like I saw the spars of this comic last night. Here’s this joke, and you get to make everybody laugh. There’s so many even if they’re not comics, there’s so many memes. There’s so many little one liners.
People send memes to each other every day, and they send these tweets. So now I’m gonna go a little more conversational. Now I’m gonna tell these stories that no one else can tell. I’m going to get more specific. I am going to get more personal.
Okay, you’re curious. I wound up seeing the Beach Boys on Saturday night. I was going back and forth, should I see Jimmy Card down on Philly or the Beach Boys right by my house? And around five o’clock, oh, a ticket popped up and it was in Rowe Jays. I had a really nice seat for the Beach Boys.
I’m a huge Beach Boys fan. Mike Love is eighty two and I’m like, you should probably go see him nudgs nudge, wink wink, Saintamore, know what I mean. I’d made a similar decision to go see Jimmy Buffett back in twenty twenty two, and I’m glad I did Mike’s hand a pretty good. I saw the Mike Love Beach Boys. I don’t know pre pandemic.
It might be ten years now, and Mike was starting to sound a little Kermit, but it was in good form on Saturday Night, so I enjoyed that. Oh and people are asking me how old the crowd was older than old? Your parents were there. I don’t know how old you are, but it was your parents, it was George Costanza’s parents. It was every old person, stereotype, senior citizens knocking people over, didn’t care.
I had a really good time.
Also on Saturday Night, Saturday Night Live, and Ron DeSantis now being playe…
In one sketch, a woman complaining to her doctor played by bow and Yang, that she’s been seeing a mysterious figure in her sleep every night. The doctor uses a new therapy to conjure the image while the woman is awake. Timothy Shalomey appears in a white tank top, baggy blue pants, and wavy blonde hair and says, I’m Australian YouTube twink turned to indie pop star and model turned hbo octor Troy Siven being played by an American actor who can’t do an Australian accent. The woman asks isn’t he kind of famous? And Bowen Yang says he’s gay famous, It’s different.
The Simpsons have responded to the notion that Homer has stopped choking Bort Simpson. Matt Greening has a duole. The image features Bart holding up a phone that says Simpsons, no more strangling. Homer strangles him and says, why you little clickbaiting. The producers also included a note that said Homer Simpson was unavailable for comment he was busy strangling Bart.
The nine hundred pound Gorilla was catching a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival. Some really really, really enthusiastic writing to the point where I was like, all right, who wrot this? Well? Who wrote it was Eric Farwell. Eric is a freelance journalist who’s been covering comedy since twenty fifteen with pieces in the Atlantic and Vanity Fair.
So okay, this isn’t somebody who just woke out of bed and went, let me write flowing things about comedy. So I’ll take this as a respected opinion. Eric Farwell writes, Eagle Wit ran a long set that proved just how great he is. Bad writing here would be to tell you he’s like Michael Jay or Sam Jay or nineties two thousand Chappelle or Chris Rock because really, egle Witt is his own frequency of comedian, engaging with cultural topics. Sure he is truly brilliant jokes that can seem edgy, and is also inviting intimacy and honesty in this work, Witt isn’t trying to position himself as the version was all the answers, but somebody who wants to Paris Sochet was next.
There’s a contest to see who New York’s funniest comedian is, and if that’s the only metric we’re going for, Paris should win. High praise there. Not only did she run material she’d never performed before, she made it look effortless and crushed so hard the writer says, I lost my breath laughing. She told one joke so dirty, I’m not going to share it with you. The confidence, it’s an absolute perfection of Sachet’s language and structure, made her time in Unforgettable ten minutes.
Eric Farwell writes, if you’re very, very very lucky, you’ll see Britney Corney perform stand up one day. There’s no one who can match her ability to be funny, interesting and illustrative on stage. Most of stand up is a version of the truth, but Corney has such a distinct voice in place she’s operating from that it feels like a one to one of actual experience to joke on stage. Her interest is history, language, and zoology, allowing her to weld academic panache, sweet nerdiness, and jokes so good it borders on sacrilegious. Well.
For example, she has a bit about dating records and the tempo of steel drum music that has a punchline that refers to her date as a pigeon of a man. Firewell wrights Jay Jorden was undeniable. In his set, Jordan has this great syncopated delivery as a Joe continues making a meal out of the end vowels without it impacting the rhythm. It’s so good that it becomes intuitive after his sets, the way earworms convince you this one song as the epitome of music. He’s getting too big for one borrow meaning Brooklyn and his getting ahead can only be good for comedy.
And then Gary Goleman took the stage. Sitting in the back, comics gathered behind me, writes, farwell to watch as I’ve always known comics to do with Goldman. Yeah, that’s side praise when the comics watch the other comics. Goleman is free on stage, not because he doesn’t care, but because he cares so much that he’s taken the time to learn how to harness and is something close to perfect. The crowd laughed at jokes about the intellectual anxiety, and in Oppenheimer screening Harlem and Jesus workshopping his speeches, what they heard was pure poetry.
The Only Times did a lengthy, very interesting interview with mo A mayor mo Is Palestinian. They discussed the current conflict Mohmayer said, the sad part is the fundamental issues have not changed. It’s not the first time Gaza has been under bombardment. It’s not the first time the West Bank is experiencing this kind of settler violence. It’s all elevated and heightened.
Of course, it’s not anything new, So it doesn’t shift the perspective on the show, meaning his wonderful television show MO as much as you would think. It just puts the pressure on us to make sure that we execute it to the best of our ability and we amplify the humanity of it all. We’re all realizing how incredibly important this show is. The fact that it’s literally the only TV show with a Palestinian family and a Palestinian lead co creator at the head, MO created a show with comedian Irami Usef, makes it super important to do this story justice. It’s an amazing opportunity to humanize and to create more understanding and to give people a point of reference.
All right, will the current situation be acknowledged? On season two of MO, most said, clearly, what happened on October seventh is a tragedy. Any loss of civilian life is a tragedy. Period While there’s no way to move forward and build a story without acknowledging what’s happening in the world, it’s awesome possible to know how things will unfold. I mean, what’s the world going to look like in a year when the show drops.
We can’t tell the future, but we could speak about the seventy five years that has build up to where we are now, and we’ll definitely be examining Israeli Palestinian relationships through our characters. The only times asked Moa Mayre on a personal level, how are you holding up? Most said, it’s been a whole month now, and it’s excruciating. Every day I wake up with a sick feeling of my stomach, but also with gratitude for what I have. I have an immense amount of worry for my people back home.
I’m worried about what this will all escalate into, because it seems like there’s no end to the violence. In the bombardment in Gaza. There’s been a lot of extremist settler violence in the West Bank. They’re armed and taking over town, so I’m deeply concerned about that too. The only time said, there’s that old adage that trauma is the bedrock of great comedy.
Mo said that all Palestinian should be hilarious. How about a ceasefire so we could turn in some scripts. Hollywood is waiting. We’ll make sure to get some good zingers in there too. Most comedy is fantastic.
Mo is a good show that one’s on Netflix doing that off the top of my head, very good show. A new comedy vertical is coming to streaming platform VEEPS, featuring new specials from David Cross, Brad Williams, Catherine Ryan and Reggie Watts. Not Bad. Veeps will also be the streaming home for sets from sketch Fest twenty twenty four. The upcoming specials are David Cross, Worst Daddy in the World November twenty seventh, Brad Williams Starfish on December twenty first, Katherine Ryan Missus November seventeenth and Reggie Watts in twenty twenty four and Blair soci Live from the Big Dog December first.
John Clees has been out and about a lot lately. He was talking about Monty Python’s Flying Circus and said the BBC just let us get on with it because it was so cheap and it went out so late, except when they were putting out the Horse of the Year show instead, which they did quite a lot. At the start, they didn’t bother to watch it, so there was no supervision. And it wasn’t because they were enlightened. It’s because we weren’t important.
Cleese is pushing back on our report that had said the new stage version of Monty Python’s Life of Brian would not include the famous scene where Stan, a member of the People’s Front of Judea, declares that he wants to be a woman and have babies at a live show. Clees had mentioned in the audience that had a reading of the script in New York the actors had objected to the scene on the grounds it was transphobic, but Clee said, but I never said I was taking out of the show, and suddenly there were debates on TV about it. He then told a story from nineteen sixty six about writers not checking facts. He said, I remember being interviewed by the Observer in sixty six and the writer has said that my father had been in the church, which is terribly funny and quite incorrect. But she’d misread her own notes in the church apparently looks very close to in insurance.
She apologized and said it didn’t matter if Kate. You’re curious why John clees and retire, he says the genuine reason is financial. After his third divorce, the settlement was twenty million dollars, John said, I’d like to buy a place in the sun before i’d die, or at least a place in the sun where I could be buried. There are a whole lot of things I’d like to be doing, reading, writing and thinking about and you can’t really do it when you’re busy doing interviews to sell tickets that your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, I want you to tell somebody about it.
They might like it too. Nudge nudge and wink wink. Know what I mean? Say no more. Fill the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, overcast podcasts See tomorrow.