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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Laugh Factory hosted its forty third annual free Thanksgiving fees for the community. I was hoping to tell you about this one before Thanksgiving, and I’d googled it several times because I know they do this every year, but I hadn’t seen anything. Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada said, the key thing for us is everybody getting together and helping.
We give them an opportunity to forget about their life and just laugh. Some of the people dishing out dinner, Tiffany Hattish Ding cook Tom Dressen Dane has done this a few times and said, I came down here with my wife and I said, this is an experience like no other, and we have to come by. Tiffany said she’d experienced the event from the other side. She came to the Laugh Factory for Thanksgiving in nineteen ninety one. In those early years, she was the one who needed the meal.
Tiffany said, when I first started here, I was sitting at the tables eating. I was receiving a meal full circle, and I’m glad to keep doing that. The club is inviting the public to attend or volunteer at the next evening of dinners and shows that will be on Christmas Day. The Wall Street Journal magazine profiled Travis Kelsey. You know him, football player guy that’s dating Taylor Swift.
If you live in America, you’ve probably seen his face in the last two months. Why are you talking about this, John? Because Travis Kelsey talked about his love for comedy. J R. Moringer wrote the article.
He’s also the person who co wrote Prince Harry’s Spare cross plug for Pallace Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer on. We talk about the Royal Family. We’ve definitely talked about Spare anyway, Jr. Says Kelsey hauns clubs for open mic nights, and he’s gotten friendly with several rising stand ups.
I wonder who they are. Kelsey cited Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell is some of his comedy inspirations. He loves to rewatch movies with Chris Farley, Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler and intends to share those with his girlfriend, who I’ll remind you is Taylor Swift. Poor Taylor Swift is going to have to sit through Jack and Jill isn’t she. I’m sorry, Taylor, you might want to just break up with Travis and write the song now.
Actually, don’t sit through Jack and Jill, then write the song, Moranger wrote. Kelsey has warned to Taylor Swift she’s gonna have to reckon with that part of his personality. Kelsey’s quoted as saying, I told Taylor that I have the world, and I’ve got to introduce it to her. I let her know this is my jam right here. I’m so sorry.
Taylor. Up Rocks spoke to Ronnie ching the question do you want to host the Daily Show because then you don’t have flexibility to do other things. Ronnie said, I think John Stewart set the standard for how much dedication you need for the job to do it properly. The machine of the show is so strong, meaning the sports staff and the producers, the writers, the editors, the institution of the Daily shows. Probably it’s great a strength because they know how to do that show so well.
So you can make a show of news with jokes and ain’t get by on that pretty well. You can have a good life whatever, But if you really want to make that show great, you need a point of view, and you need to be very dedicated to the show, anticipating where the culture is right now and commenting on it. I’m happy with whatever they choose. I still think working at the show’s the best job in comedy. I don’t want to speak for the other people working there, but correspondent is I think, for sure the best job in comedy.
You come on, you learn a lot. Always said it’s like the Harvard Business School of comedy. Forget the fame, even if you don’t become one follower more famous. You learn how to write comedy, you learn how to perform, you learn how to edit, how to produce, how to direct, how to do improv TV production. Every field piece is like an indie film, and you have a lot of support.
All right, But you know, if we gave you the show, you might not be able to tour so much. Ronnie said, it would have to be a choice. If they came to me and they asked me, it would be giving up that tour work. Yeah, I’m not sure. I’m lucky to be in a position where I’m not just on the show, but outside the show, I’m doing the stuff that I like.
It would have to be something i’d consider I don’t know. It’s hard to answer. The follow up there as well, you’re clearly not campaigning for the job, and Ronnie said, I’m not Americans. I don’t know how to campaign for stuff. I look up to all the other correspondents, all the correspondents I ever worked with, I think are much better than me.
It’s very un American. But if you asked me from a purest skill set point of view, all the other correspondents were way better than me. When I first joined the show, it was like, Man, if I could be ten percent of any of the correspondents who’ve ever been on the show, if I could be ten percent as good as them, I’ll be extremely happy with myself. So that was my goal. So the other correspondents in AWE.
I look at everyone in AWE, everybody currently on the show. I like to think I’m pretty hard on myself. I think all comics are all the good comics I know. I can’t remember who told me this. I think Sam Maurel said this.
He said, all the good comics think they’re a hack. All the good comics hate their own routines, are just like I made them laugh. It’s the same old stuff I’ve been doing for months. Now, where’s the new bit. It’s almost like only the bad comics will walk on and be like, I’m the freaking greatest of all time.
Obviously that’s public persona, and then how you feel internally, So publicly, if your stand up persona is the grace of all time, then that’s different. How you feel inside. Do you believe your own actor? You’re just saying it for comedic effect. So I think all comics are just trying to write better jokes.
They feel like their own material isn’t the best. I think that’s a fairly common denominator among all the good comics I know. Good interview there, David Spade opened up the Fly on the Wall podcast, that’s the one he co hosts with Dana Carvey. Spade made it clear that the interviews are recorded in advance. Dana’s sun Dex passed away recently, and therefore there will not be any new episodes on the immediate horizon.
Spade said, Dana is obviously going through something semi unimaginable right now, and I can’t even put into words. Dana is one of my best buds, and it’s hard to watch this and of course, Dana really really appreciates the outpouring from every possible angle. Everyone I think understands how difficult it’s hard even talk about. They have a few episodes in the can, including one with Dana Ackroyd, then some best ofs comedic troop. The State playing the Riviera Theater in Chicago tonight.
The Chicago Sun Times caught up with them. They’re right At New York University. In the late eighties and early nineties, Michael ian Black was on an eleven member campus comedy group that he said scheduled rehearses for every single day, always for at least a few hours. That group is now called The State and largely still intact. Thomas Lennon, another member of the group, said, I don’t know what’s wrong with us.
We obviously have some weird codependency. We’re terrified to be without the other ones. If you go see the show tonight, they’ll be handing out stickers as a callback to the nineteen ninety five EHS compilation release of The States skits and stickers that included the note stickers not included. That’s hilarious, Michael ian Black said, so much of this tour has been about just being with my friends and doing it a way that’s supportive. Because the State in its early days wasn’t always the most supportive group.
We’re very cutthroat. It’s nice to revisit this group in a kinder, gentler way. Thomas Lennon said, I don’t think anyone ever thought would get rich and famous, And if you look at the numbers from the recent State tour, there’s still a lot of us in the group, so we kind of didn’t. Man, it is a million degrees here in the basement studio today. I just took my hoodie off.
Now understand that I’m one of those old people who has thermostats said to like eighty seven. My family hates me because I’m always cold, But boy, it’s warm in here today. I’ve been meaning to tell you, as many of you know, I hit the National Donuts Chain every morning. There’s a guy there that I have nicknamed Evil bill Engvall. He’s been there every morning for like the last month or so.
Why is he Evil bill Ingvall? And this is why I’m sharing the story this morning, because I made myself laugh. I nicknamed him Evil billying Vall because he looks like bill ing Vall. But he has a goateee, which is like the evil Spock joke from Star Trek and Community did that with Evil Abed, So he’s evil bill Ingvall. But then I remembered for a while there actual bill aning Vall had a go tea, So I’m not sure if this guy’s actually evil.
Anyway, if you like Sport the show, one way you can do it. You can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw a couple bucks in the tip jar. I will take your money and I will go to the National dont chain. I’ll get you one of these.
Well, I won’t get you one. No, I’m not getting you anything. I’m getting me one. Why did I say I was getting you one? That’s a complete lie.
No, it doesn’t work the way if you send me money. I’m not like buying you a coffee and going to your house and delivering you a coffee. That’s not how it works. Was that funny or do I sound like a jerky face? Anyway?
Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Phil Wang fantastic comedian. Where’s his special? I want to say it’s Netflix. He’s really good.
He apparently is in the new Wonka film. Is that thing going to bomb hard or what? Yes, it’s gonna bomb hard. No one wants this thing. Phil was on Graham Norton Show and said, I can’t tell you much about it, but I get to sing and dance.
It’s very exciting. I can tell you that I was dancing on a table and a cracked in half and I broke my arm. Apparently Wang was in a sketch group called Daphne, and they once had a skit featuring Wonka as an evil slave driver. Hm. I have a story here that I had pushed to the Weekend.
It’s about a comedian whose name rhymes with Bat’s life. I think I get a skip it today. I’m a little bat lifed out, aren’t you. Let’s skip that story. John Variety profiled Sarah Sherman, who said, I just like outrageous things.
I come from a loud, Jewish, outrageous family. I grew up liking, you know, crazy cartoons, and I love Joan Rivers and the Nanny and Garbage, Pale Kids and red and Stimpy and stuff like that. I grew up liking crazy stuff and then I came up doing comedy in Chicago more of a performance art community. I learned from all these crazy performance artists around me. Had to blend visual art and performance style.
They asked her about her talking meatballs a sketch. Sarah said, Dan Bulla who I write with on the show regularly, I seeing my stuff outside of sn Allan said, I have an idea for you. What if you’re a girl covered in singing meatballs. Sarah’s reaction, no problem. Absolutely.
Some people were like, that’s sketches, so you and I’m like, here’s the magic of the show. It’s actually not my idea. It was a blend of special effects in physical puppetry. The meatball heads were cast members putting their heads inside of a meatball puppet made by Monkey Boys Productions, who do all the puppets for the show and had real puppet arms and legs, And then the VFX team worked around the clock blending physical puppets with special effects and putting little shadows underneath the meatball arms and legs. Sounds like a lot of work.
They talked about the Colin Jo just chopbusting segments on Weekend Update. They haven’t done that in a while I like that a lot, Sarah said, Oh my goodness. The only reason I’m able to do that is because we’re friends and he can take it. He’s so supportive. The show’s amazing, of course, but it’s hard finding something that works.
Your first season gonna be a challenge, and I was like, hey, mind, if I come on, we can update and emotionally terrorize you. He’s like, yeah, no problem. Variety also had some fun facts about Sarah sherman favorite SNL sketch, Massive Head Wound Harry in nineteen ninety one, sketch that features Dana Carvey as a partygoer with a horrific injury. Comics who make Sarah Sherman laugh are Tim Robinson, Eric Andre and Tim Heidecker. She says, those guys are masters of being freaks, and she’s happy that Fran Drescher enjoyed her impression of Fran.
Sarah said, I saw her post about it on Instagram, which felt like a chef’s kiss, Fran’s stamp of approval. Do you hear my voice getting frogg a good thing? I have this iced coffee here because I’m about to record Monday as well. I’ll be back tomorrow, assuming I actually record tomorrow’s episode, and that’s the plan for thirty seconds from now, so hopefully nothing horrific happens in the next minute. Come back tomorrow we’ll find out.
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