Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Did you see the NYPD is taking away Trump's gun permit? Stephen Colbert said
that he's gonna have to change one of his signature brags. Tell you what,
I could still stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and I don't know,
give somewhat a purple nurple. Seth Meyers talking about Trump accepting the GOP
nomination from potentially behind bars. If he wins, they won't be able to
swear him in on the Bible until that one inmate comes around with the book
cart while Seth again. According to a new poll, fifty eight percent of
Republican voters believe that convicted felons should be allowed to become president if they're elected,
which is up fifty eight percent from last week. Joe Rogan making the
headlines accusing Robin Williams of being a joke fief. I've heard this many times.
I believe it has been established by others. Perhaps maybe my lawyers are
passing me a note. Allegedly, some have said, I I've heard that
Harlan Williams told Rogan I'm sure he could do anything on his own volition.
But I always heard stories that Robin Williams was that guy. Did you ever
hear anything about that? Rogan said, yeah, I heard a lot of
stories that he was that guy. I think Robin Williams was like part of
that manic sort of style. It's like a constant needs have this bit about
anything that you're talking about. Ever, killing, I think was more important,
and filling that hole inside of him was more important than anything. So
he would just do other people's stuff if he didn't have anything to say.
Rogan said that Sam Kinnison got mad at Williams. Rogan added, He's still
from everybody. He still from a lot of people. If you ask any
of those comics from back then, there's always instances of Robin going on a
talk show and doing your biddor going on this and doing your bid at a
club. Harlan said, maybe he was just so spontaneous he would just puke
it out. Rogan said, that's not real. There's no way I think
he wanted to kill more than he wanted to be ethical at any cost,
and especially back then when nobody was really watching you other than other comedians.
In a biography, Robin there's a story that takes place at the Comedy Store
in nineteen seventy nine when an unnamed former was heads of their own Robin Williams
against a wall and ordered Robin to pay him three hundred dollars for the parts
of his routine he had believed had been lifted, a shakedown that Robin supposedly
agreed to. Rogan said, the thing about these people, and they always
get caught, and when they get caught, everything after that sucks. This
is how you know a thief is legitimately a thief. If they're being unjustly
accused, they're always going to come up with new material. They're always going
to be creative. They're always gonna have new great jokes because they're actually writing
and working on it. But if it's true what you see as an initial
special or something, or a few things they do that are really funny,
and then you see this massive drop off and like the concepts that they talk
about, the irony they discover, they don't have any legitimate points. When
you're like, wow, this is crazy. There's none of that. It
all goes away and it almost becomes like a person doing an impression of the
original successful person because they have no creativity. With every thief, you see
a couple big early specials or something, and then you see that massive drop
off and terrible performances after that. It's because they're not real. They're parasites.
It's what they are. They're vampires. I have nothing to add.
I think Rogan just absolutely nailed that. But yes, I have heard accusations
against Robin Williams in the past. Dana White was on Andrew Schultz a Flagrant
podcast, and Dana let us know who wrote his roast jokes at the roast
of Tom Brady. The answer Bill Burr. Now that you know that,
I can hear the Burr in it. Let me see if I can channel
a Burr like Cadence. Anyway, Tom, you played for the Patriots so
long. I was actually starting to believe you were from Boston. Then I
saw you run and I was like, nah, he's definitely from San Francisco.
Right, you can hear it. Dana said, stand up is the
most underrated thing of all time. If you're public speaking and you f up,
you can recover. You f up telling a joke, It's a downward
spiral. You'll never be able to pull yourself out of because you're not a
professional comedian. F that stuff. I've done it twice. Remember I said
it here. You'll never see me do any of that stuff again. We'll
see. Neil Brennan talked about some of his peers being elevated to oracle status
and said, when I see them being elevated to oracle status, there's probably
a protective part of me. That's probably a grateful part of me, And
there's also part of me that's like, what those guys are idiots? What
him? Sam Morrel will have a new special on Amazon on Prime Video,
this one called You've Changed, taped at the Wilberth Theater in Boston. Sam
Riff's on the worst person he's ever dated, the complications of getting older,
and his perspective on everything from cable news to the parils of social media.
There is a clip, and it's a good clip. Let's listen. I
was on the subway the other day in New York. I accidentally made eye
contact with a crazy person. That's a terrible moment as a man. That
is the closest you come to feeling like a woman in a bar. They're
like, oh no, we locked eyes and now he's coming toward me,
which is not what I wanted. He sits next to me on the train,
puts his hand to my leg. There's nothing you can say. You
can't be like, oh, I don't like that when people do that.
I don't feel safe right now, so I have to get up. I
walk away. I put my hand the pull. He follows, and he
puts his hand right above mine, so it's touching. He's just staring at
me. Everyone in the train's watching, but they're not watching like they're gonna
help. They're watching like, thank god he chose you. That could have
been a problem. Vendor's special is out this week. The La Times did
a big profile of her. If you Hannah's publicist, you deserve your money.
This week, Esther Zuckerman wrote the article and wrote, when I told
Hannah at the start of our interview I'd seen her new comedy special, a
look between terror and elation crossed her face. Hannah says, it feels like
the most intimate extension of myself being in soul that I'm sharing. But hear
you say you've seen it is the first time I've heard someone say they've seen
it. It filled me with joy and excitement and anticipation at a little shock.
The Hour comes out Thursday on Max. She called it her very short
life's work, so no bresh, it's casual. In Everything Must Go,
Hannah discusses her bisexuality, her judaism, her passion for the environment, and
her period, in addition to different areas of her life from her stone days
to her time as a competitive cheerleader. Now the article bugged me a little
bit. They just casually threw in there that Hannah grew up in Westwood,
California. Okay, what it didn't mention at all is her mom is Lorraine
Newman. Now why is that relevant? Johnny Mack, You've probably heard the
word nipple baby, And I'm not here to say Hannah's not talented. Many
things can be true. One, you can be talented while someone in your
family has some connections. For example, dear listener, do you know how
to get an agent? Are you on any auditions today? You know why
you're not on any auditions today because you don't know they exist. The world
works on relationships. If somebody could make a phone call and be like,
hey, do you mind if my kid reads for this thing? Or Hay,
do you know anybody who or you're just at a party and you hear
of something. Information can help you. If you're just sitting in your basement,
you don't know. This an audition today. So and this isn't a
Bashan Hannah. This is just in general. Anyone with famous parents in the
industry. At some point it helped. I'll switch to sports. Joe Buck
at some point, it helped that his dad was Jack Buck, who did
Saint Louis Cardinals games. At some point that helped. No Eegle the sportscaster.
At some point, it kind of helps that your dad is on an
eagle. If nothing else, there's an agent or I know somebody at the
Lakers and talks to them for you. You know, stuff like that goes
on. Move on, John, before everybody hates you. Chris Fleming is
llying Pittsburgh this weekend. Spoke to the Pittsburgh City Paper. Chris used to
be better known as Gail, a character he played in the twenty tens in
online videos parodying anxious suburban mothers. Fleming told these city paper people strive for
relatability, and I don't. I think the fun is the challenge is doing
something incredibly specific and making them see it and having them feel what I'm feeling
and then relate to it. I really love that mass communication, the thrill
of it. I love that, and also the body goes into a state
that's so unnatural. There's nothing like it. It's so unnatural, That's how
I describe it. Fleming says he's never been to Pittsburgh for these shows.
He plans on using newer material, no older than eight months or so.
Fleming says, I can't do something for too long. It gets really stale
on my head. The shelf life is I want to shoot it pretty fast,
and recently I've been doing bits. I just put three bits out online
that I was doing for the first time, first or second time, because
sometimes I can get glazed over and dead in the eyes if I'm doing material
I've been doing for too long. But in Pittsburgh, I'm anticipating being able
to mess around a little bit. As they say, in a big theater,
he didn't say mess in a big theater, you kind of have to
make saying a sense of structure, otherwise people get really freaked out. In
the balcony. The further people get from you and the louse of the show
is the more uneasy people get, whereas in a little room it could feel
more like a party or a train that's breaking down in fun ways. After
his recent Peacock special, Fleming doesn't wrestle with wondering if he's weird enough,
writes The Gazette, Fleming says, I feel like I was able to lean
into the esoteric on a mainstream platform that has now freed me to feeling like
I'm not afraid anymore not being odd enough. And when I say odd enough,
I mean hack. I don't want to be hacked. I even allowed
myself to do a bit about the difference between a male doctor and a female
doctor and stuff like that. I don't think I would have felt free enough
to do because I came from this club. It's a burden that's been lifted.
Alex Edelman, you know him from the recent Just for Us a Comedy
special, the one where he attended a meeting of neo Nazis. Edelman sells
Variety he was recently walking in New York City when he thought he recognized someone
from the white nationalist meeting, and Edmund says, I wasn't gonna go Upstille
and be like, excuse me, do I know you from a meeting of
neo Nazis and queens? Because you look exact like this person. The Washington
Post has been profiling DC comedians. Hey, Maddie Brennan, what's your pre
show routine? Maddy says, I always brush my teeth right before leaving the
house for an important show. All right, tell us about the time you
bombed. One time, I was visiting some friends from college in San Francisco,
not long after I started doing stand up. I booked a show to
do when I was visiting so that my friends could see me to perform for
the first time. When I got to the venue, it was a pack
small theater. It was pretty excited, but it turned out that was the
show. Before the show I was on, the show let out and everyone
left. My friends got there and they were the only audience members I've performed
to, just them. That's awful. When we left, I forgot my
credit card at the bar. I was so embarrassed by the whole experience that
my friend had to go back in and ask for my card. That's the
last time I asked friends to watch me perform. Jeff Cirrouley's debut comedy special
Live at the Bomb Shelter out today on Comedy Dynamics, we have a clip.
Let's listen. These Tuecome podcasts are so popular. There's one called My
Favorite Murder that's like the most popular one. I'm like, they're ranking murders,
they have favorites. Imagine like your cousin died and you're just like trying
to get some info and you come across two women having a great time.
You're just trying to get some info and they're basically like, look, I
know, it's like really sad that your cousin like got stabbed and left on
the side of the highway. But listen, it was our favorite murder.
I mean, we loved it, and it was just you're not topping it
this year. I mean, our three favorite murders all time Jeffrey Dahmer's second
victim, Ted Bundy's third victim, and your cousin. I mean, that's
just far money. Top three favorite murders. And that is your comedy news
for today. See you tomorrow.