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Caloroga Shark Media, Hey Aaron, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Wrestle Votes dot com it has some intel on what went down at the roast of WrestleMania, hosted by Tony Hinchcliff. They wrote two hours of jokes that included some sexual puns and f bombs. Paul Hayman stole the show triple h end of the night with a surprise appearance. Lenna McMahon was in attendance. Don’t hold your breath for this to ever make air.
Wrestlingnews dot Co said. Paul Hayman was incredible. Tony Hinchcliff had everybody rolling. This was so much fun. Cell phones were put in pouches for good reason.
Lol. I doubt this makes it to TV. Stuff was wild. The show took place after WrestleMania at Night two. Wrestle Votes says the show was two hours long.
The New York Times had a cover piece about Naperghetzi. Now I’m seeing here with Nate exactly what happened with Nikki Glaser last year. The really good support team, the prs out there. You know, we heard that Nate was gonna host the Emmys in parallel with that there’s this big thing with the New York Times. Now that didn’t just happen overnight, So the press machine is out for Nate.
I share the article in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There’s also a podcast version of the interview if you’d like to listen to yourself. The New York Times asked Nate how he got so big. Nate said, talking about relatable things and authenticity. Not that I’m going out for authenticity, but you’re in a world where you have the Wickeds and Avengers movies, and that’s great, but there’s not a regular person on a screen anymore.
Movies used to be like planes, trains and automobiles and home alone. That’s a regular guy in the movie that you enjoy watching. It’s easy to take in and you don’t always want to be thought provoked. That’s something I’ve tried to stay clear of. I need you to be able to come and trust that you’re going to get the entertainment that I’m showing you.
That I’m selling you, and I’m talking about myself, and I’m making fun of myself with the materials written for you. I’m not doing it to make myself look good. I’m doing it to make you laugh. You can either laugh with me or at me. You relate to it or you think I’m an Either way, I’m here to entertain you.
As for his style, Nate said, most of the comics I was around were the complete opposite of everything I did. I had to learn how to do what I was doing in those rooms. But I didn’t want you to notice that I was clean, right. I talked about that on Saturday with Andy woodholl It’s one in the morning and these people are drunk, and how can I do this material that’s not sexual or whatever everybody else was doing. You learn how to hide it, because if he walked up and said I’m clean, it’s gonna be like, yeah, this guy’s not cool, exactly what Andy said.
The Times was curious about Nate’s evolving look in the last six or seven years. You’ve changed your look. You got a different haircut, you grew the beard, mustache, started dressing a little cooler, lost some weight. Nate said, yeah, kids, show business showed up and goes, hey Fatso if you want to make it, you better get your life together. No, no one asked me to do anything as a comic.
You’re you. You’re talking about yourself, so you’re going to be you. But I wanted to do it. I’m going through it right now. I do not have great eating habits.
I eat a lot of fast food and chain food didn’t get in the way. I stopped drinking in twenty eighteen because I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted as a comic, this was going to be the way. I’ve realized that with food too. So if I wanted to do stand up at this high level, possibly make movies, I have to put in the effort to handle all this touring and the mentality it takes to stay focused. I always say, I’m looking forward to the day you can’t see my nipples through my shirt.
That’s we’re all working towards amen. Brother Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News Digital. The premise from Fox News Digital that was comedy was moving to the right. Dylan said, you know, when people call it a right word shift. My pushback to that is, were these statements right word in twenty fifteen or two thousand and five?
When did they become right wing statements? When did it become a right wing statement to say I should have the bodily autonomy to not take an experimental vaccine. When did it become a right wing statement to say I don’t think the US should be in wars? I remember those were left wing statements. When did it become a right wing statement to say that the United States should look after the middle class and workers instead of importing cheap labor so that the profits on Wall Street could go up?
Those are right wing points. This is the craziest thing ever heard in my life. I think the parties flip, but I think they might flip again. You know, this could happen again, where the Republican Party becomes anti free speech and the Democratic Party becomes pro free speech. It could happen again, certainly flip.
During the last election cycle we’re in, the Democratic Party was the pro war, kind of anti speech, seemingly pro corporate party. But if we go to war with Iran start boarding people that wrote op ed’s critical of Israel, then you’ll see the Republican parties now the pro war, anti free speech party. So you actually have to just believe in principles, and you have to hold the people that you’ve elected to account. You can’t follow the people who’ve elected Otherwise you’re just in a personality cult. You’re not a free thinking person.
You have to say, I have a belief. The belief is we shouldn’t do this, and if we do that, whoever it is, Kamala Trump, Bernie whoever, you have to hold him to account and say, you know, I don’t think this is good for America. A lot of Tim Dillon press get some more stuff coming up from later in the week, but he is out there making the rounds, and apparently the cable news networks have discovered he’s a really good guest because he’s got that great mix of doing the talk show thing combined with great jokes. As I’ve said before, I loved Tim’s podcast, and then someday he is going to step on a land mine. I could see it coming, and then I’m going to deny that I ever told you that I liked this podcast.
I’m such a coward. I could be like Tim Dillon. Never heard of him. Michael Costa’s Toll The Last Laugh podcast that when we did the guest hosting thing on The Daily Show where every celebrity came in and hosted, we really learned that many celebrities can’t read a teleprompter. I mean, some were not treating it as we felt was a very important, funny, coveted position.
And by the way, nobody was like met or terrible. But you’re just going man. I grew up on the show, the show’s foundation of who I am. Don’t half ask this please. Thankfully the network finally said, you know, these correspondents really give ahoot about the show.
Canadian comedian James Mullinger has joined the list of comedians who won’t come to the United States. James has canceled a planned show in Maine next month. He told the CBC, I love my job, but not so much that to want to be locked up for two weeks, Although would probably make for good material, but my wife needs me at home. If I didn’t have people dependent on me, I’d possibly take the risk. Mullinger had the venue and date booked his paperwork in order, but says it seemed risky to make the trip to Maine.
It just felt like not the right time. I didn’t want to get swept up in either misinformation or propaganda or necessarily believing everything you hear. But it just seemed risky. Hearing the performers being locked up even though they’re there with the correct paperwork. Have I missed a story of their performers being locked up?
I’ve missed that. I kind of feel if a comedian were locked up, I probably would have mentioned it on the show. Maybe I’m forgetful. Wellinger said, Canadians need to support homegrown comedians. By the way, he’s a brit who moved to Canada.
Canadians can do their part this summer when they’re deciding what comedy shows to go to choose Canadian performers. There are Canadian comedy festivals booking solely American comedians. Let’s treat Canadian comedians the same way we treat Canadian food. Embrace them and support them. Big Jay Ogerson dropped a special on YouTube over the weekend.
It’s called Them They Decider. Caught up with Big Jay Decide or asked for somebody who has seen your work, what should they expect? Big Jay said, for me, as a comedian, I’d say it’s always going to be dirty. You can always expect it’s going to be dirty in some capacity. That was a comedy I was drawn to when I was younger.
So much. What I try to say is it’s palatable. Dirty when I first started being dirty when I was younger, it was definitely for shock, because you get a reaction out of people when you do dirty stuff, whether they like it or not. But over the years, because it was kind of the comedy that Ozo was drawn to myself, I was like, how could I do it? So there’s a strong chance that if you bring your six year old mother with you, she still likes it somehow.
This is a CrowdWork special, Jay said. I knew it was going to be no material in all crowd work, which if you tell the crowd that, the crowd knows what they were there for, so the crowds are much more forgiving. That was the easiest prep. There was nothing to do besides get the stage the way we wanted, the lighting and everything. But that was the beauty of it.
It doesn’t spend any of my material. I don’t have to write a new hour of stuff. I’ve learned that if you ask people enough questions, you find that everyone’s weird, and the people who are purposely weird to be noticed tend not to be the most interesting people. John Oliver hit the Mets game. Snytv’s field reporter Steve Gelbs started interviewing Sean Oliver.
Oliver’s excited about the Mets hot start telling Steve Gelbs, this is amazing. I can’t quite believe it’s happening. It doesn’t feel real. It doesn’t feel like we’re allowed to have this many nice things in one place. I hope everything’s going to stay like this forever, ideally.
Steve Gelbs asked John Oliver about the production cycle of the show. Oliver said, it’s change a little bit because in slower news times we can do that, slower cooking. We’re still trying to do that. But when things hypothetically speaking are happening like a president suggesting sending American citizens overseas to foreign gulags, yeah, that probably feels like something you need to address as soon as possible. So, yes, we’re working at two speeds right now, our regular speed and then crash shows.
Unfortunately, when Twitter user posted John Oliver a typical leftist AC with severe TDS who randomly has to bring up more lies on a Sunday afternoon on the Mets broadcast, two stories that I lightly mentioned yesterday and my voice was giving out, and I promised you i’d talk about them. Otsco at Cotska. We’ll have a special on Hulu on June thirteenth. The Specialist part of their super secretive Hilarious Comedy initiative that the publicists don’t want to tell comedy podcasts about, but we find out anyway. You cannot keep the truth from Daily Comedy News at Cotska will explore themes of adulthood, marriage, and the absurdity of everyday life in Father.
In Father, she deals with the reality is being an adult who’s still struggles with life’s basics, from skipping laundry for seven years to discovering that weddings require marriage licenses. I also had mentioned Tina Fay commented on the possibility of Tina Fey replacing Lauren Michaels as the head of SNL in twenty twenty four. Lauren said Tina could easily do the job herself. Tina Fey till the Hollywood Reporter. I was very nice of him to say, and I love him very much.
He’s irreplaceable. His set of gifts and skills are entirely unique. His eye for talent, He’s one of the last three people in show business who actually understand everything. I’ll leave it at that. Bo and Yang jumped in on the whole Amy lou Wood SNL controversy.
Remember Amy didn’t like Sarah Sherman’s portrayal of her. Yang told Extra, however, she reacted to the sketch is completely valid. With parody, you kind of forget the sort of human emotional cost that it sort of extols on someone. You need these reminders every now and then that parody can go too far sometimes and that we as comedians can take accountability for that instead of banging our foot and saying we should be allowed to say whatever we want. Everyone at SNL is just a fan of the show, obviously a fan of her.
We just think that she should be so proud of the work she put into this season. Brett Goldstein is comparing ted Lasso’s season four renewal to a dead cat. He told a story to NPR. I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot. He had a cat that died.
He loved his cat. The cat was run over and they buried the cat. He was a child. They buried the cat in the garden and he lay in the bed so sad, upset and crying, and he prayed and prayed, and he wished that the cat would come back.
And then the cat did come back.
It turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat, And I think about that all the time. Brett added, and so I’m like, no, wonder this guy’ left in the head because he thinks death isn’t real. So of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy because he thinks he could bring things back from the dead. Aaron posted in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us and participate.
I particularly welcomed this comment, as I wrote in the group, I woke up at one thirty in the morning. I had a nightmare, and like you know, when you have a nightmare, your system’s like racing and I needed to just play on my phone to calm the heck down. Aaron wrote more on the Abu Dhabi comedy season, it’s not a festival because it’s spread across several months and they’re all arena shows. Good point, she pointed out. You can also go see Toto the Band, not the Dog.
Aaron right, Chappelle isn’t on sale yet, but his best tickets are going for twelve hundred and fifty dirhams I think, and for reference, one hundred durhams is about twenty seven US dollars, so I’d have to multiply there. I’m too lazy to do that. I have Google. Let’s see. Right now, as I record this, Google is telling me that’s about three hundred and forty dollars to go see Dave Chappelle.
Wow. Aaron Wright’s I also know Joe Coy is using gadget free pouches, probably so no one can record any of his lame jokes and then beat them to death for two years. I particularly like that comment, but Aaron points out that, yeah, yonder pouches are annoying, But having intended a couple shows at the arena without pouches, I can confirm that audiences here are rude and shameless with their devices to the point of almost ruining shows. Aaron’s planning on grabbing our last minute tickets for Trevor Noah very cool. Thank you for checking in with that.
It is festival season. The Sydney Comedy Fest is underway. I’ll dive in on that a little bit more tomorrow. Being honest, here, I’m wiped out. I woke up on Monday and I saw the Pope had passed away.
And here at the company, we have a podcast series called White Smoke about the papal succession. So my morning I got up, it was about six twenty in the morning. Check my PHONEO saw that happen. But I was half out of it, and I’m like, let me make sure that actually happened. It wasn’t just a tweet.
You know, that’s not a mistake you want to make. So went on the New York Times website and they had it in like thirty six point font. Read the story when on Washington Post you want to confirm things in two sources, and they also had it in thirty six point font. So I’m like, okay, this is real. So I spent the morning.
We had some episodes scheduled. For example, they were going to canonize the Millennial Saint on this upcoming weekend, so I had to park that episode to make sure that doesn’t automatically run. Write a script for a new episode I scheduled. We already had in the can the Pope oh bit, So I turned that loose, wrote a new episode, wrote some promos, and trying to build a company, so I got to hit the trades tell him we’re up to all this. So that’s been an exhausting morning.
So Sydney Comedy Festival can wait. I’m trying to get back to Ireland. Maybe I can hit up the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. It is Ireland’s longest running and best loved comedy festival. May twenty third to the twenty fifth Cat Laughs is coming to Belfast for the first time.
The Guardian calls it the best little comedy festival in the world. Your lineup Friday, May twenty third, Colin Murphy, Patty Raft, Mark McCarney, deetro Ocane, David o’derty. Some good solid Irish names there. Oh, then there’s an interval and then Gerald Faarley, Emma Duran, Alison Spidtele and Neil Delamere. On Saturday, Carl Spain, William Thompson, Susie McKay, Mike Rice, Colin Gettis, Sean Walsh, Deonna Doherty, flat Illitch.
That doesn’t sound like an Irish name at all, Vittorio Angeloni. What’s going on here? Sunday Andrew Ryan, Chris Kent, Kyla Cobbler, Ray Broadshaw and Scott Bennett. Not Scott Beckett, the guy that doesn’t like to Joe Cooy joke. This is a totally different person.
This is comedian Scott Bennett, who probably appreciates the humor behind the Joe Coy joke. Christopher MacArthur, Boyd, Shane Todd, Rich Hall and Patty MacDonell. John why did you do that story? Because I want to go back to Ireland. I felt like reading a bunch of Irish names.
I also would love to hit the Arctic Comedy Festival. This one is coming to Yellowknife on May seventeenth, Dawson City on May twenty first, and Whitehorse on May twenty third. You can go see Mary Walsh, one of Canada’s most memorable comedians. The festival tells us Walsh delivers in a unique and memori way that will leave you in tears. And one more story.
This is not a commercial. I just saw a press release on the newswires and I appreciate Pretzelized. I just like the copy they wrote. Pretzelize, the innovative snack brand known for combining pretzels with classic snacks like crackers and peda chips, launching a social first, fully produced sketch comedy series. It stars New York City comedians Eric Newman and Mark Gerber.
The series features two friends on opposite sides of the chip debate across four scripted, increasingly dramatic episodes. It’s not just a series, it’s your new favorite Internet debate, one that invites consumers to pick aside, take it way too seriously, and make their snack options known. That’s right, it’s pretzilized. Good job a copywriter. They invite us to join the pre solution.
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