Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Shonnie Mack with your daily comedy news.
Tom Sever Have you heard of him? Hall of Fame picture, best known
for being a picture on the New York Mets. So when Tom Seaver was
late in his career, he's pitching a game and the pitching coach comes out
and says, you don't have your best stuff today, you got nothing?
And sever goes, yeah, and he gestures at the hatter and he goes.
But they don't know that that, my friends, was yesterday's podcast.
For scheduling reasons, I needed to tape both yesterday and today, and after
all the twenty minute episodes I've done lately. Naturally, when I was prepping
the show on Wednesday, there was almost nothing new, and I was like,
ah, you're kidding me. Couldn't like Kat Williams say something about somebody
or something. Now, I had some stories. Today, I had plenty.
I'd planned on pre taping today, so I have plenty for today Today's
real Yesterday, I was like, all right, let me see if I
can check and jive and get through this. And it worked. It was
a pretty good episode of the fifteen hundred or so I'm not sure it was
the greatest episode, but it was perfectly fine, so I was happy with
how that came out to. Doug Benson has already been scheduled for the Tower
City Comedy Festival. You know when that is? January twenty twenty five.
Then has this super early. It's in Paris, Texas, three nights,
fifteen plus shows, one hundred plus comics. Sounds fun. Doug Benson is
your headliner, Johnny, Sure you're not bluffing today because you led with Doug
Benson's playing a show nine months from now? Are you sure you're not bluffing
today. I'm not bluffing today. This is a high quality episode. Steve
Martin's new documentary is out Apple TV plus been telling you about this one.
It's in two parts. The first part focuses on Steve's comedy. The second
part the movies and the banjo and the Hall of Fame lamp and all that.
I'll watch part one. Bill Maher says, what I've decided to do
is not preemptively give up my nervous system to Donald Trump like I did last
election cycle, or maybe the last two times. If he wins, he
wins, I'll do everything I can to make sure that doesn't happen, but
none of them have much influence. The country's polarized. It's like a prison
yard. You're either on one team or the other. Everybody says they want
to be in the middle, but really they just go to their corners.
So either trumpill Winterer he won't, and then he becomes president. Either he'll
blow up the world or put me in Guatanamo Bay or whatever. I just
can't worry about it constantly. Paley Fest announced a few moderators. Jet Apatow
will moderate Curb Your Enthusiasm on Thursday, April eighteenth. Patton Oswald will moderate
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Saturday, April twentieth. Some casting news from
This is Spinal Tap. Lars Ulrich, you know him from Metallica, and
Chad Smith that's the guy from Red Hot Chili Peppers. They're gonna play drummers
in the sequel too. This is spinal Tap. Now, if you saw
the first one Spinal Tap, drummers tend to die. Also in the sequel,
Fran Drescher's back, Rob Reiner's back, new editions to the cast.
Paul Schaeffer isn't Schaeffer in the first one. Did I imagine that? Yeah,
Paul plays are you fucking? In the original? Yeah? All right,
I didn't imagine that. Maybe I just think at reading comprehension. Anyway,
Shaffer is in the sequel. Here in the sequel, we catch up
with Spinal Tap. They reunite for one final concert after a fifteen year hiatus.
They originally wanted to release this this month for the fortieth anniversary of the
original film March of eighty four, but there was a strike, delay and
stuff, and the movie still does not have a release date. Steph Tolev
spoke to w p R and they said, crowd work is where Steph really
shines. By the way, some of us were talking about David Tell's CrowdWork
at Tell is the best. Did you watch it Tell specially? Yet?
Watch it Tell Special number one special? Year? Heckle. Steph tolav at
your own risk her most viral videos of a man who overstepped and then left
the theater. She tells the story. It was at the comedy store.
I was in another room, so I missed what happened at the beginning of
the show. So I came in. I was talking to this couple,
and they ended up not being a couple. They were like Boston employee.
Then someone else yealed out. He sponsored the show move on with this tone
that was so rude for no reason, and he left. So I got
mad because I was like, you can't heckle me and leave. Sorry,
I now this works. You want to kill me? You stay in the
room, you deal with it. I convinced the host at the end of
the show to bring me back up. I was so pumped to go back
on stage. The crowd went nuts too. They was bet up there.
The heckler slunk away once more. Steph says, then he ended up being
route to me after texting a guy whose showed was still making fun of me.
I was like, yeah, your chance, you wasted it. Sorry,
you can't be a troll. You troded me to my face. This
is what happens, Johnny. You assure you that trying to pull a CEV
here this These stories sound pretty generic from the BBC You're for Comedy News.
Ed Gamble has swapped a hot dog for a cucumber in his advertisements on the
Subway. He has swapped a hot dog for a cucumber. You dirty listener,
I know what's in your mind right now, hot dog, cucumber.
Don't act like it's not. You're thinking about food. Yeah, I know
what you're thinking about. So Ed Gamble had used a hot dog in his
advertisement for a stand up tour. Hot Diggity dog makes sense to me.
However, Transport for London aka TfL does not allow foods high in fat,
sugar and salt to be advertised on its network. Really, a spokesperson for
TfL said, following a review the advert, we advise that elements would need
to be removed to and short complied with our policy. This is somebody's job.
On Instagram at Gamble describe the incident as a career highlight, adding eat
your greens kids. So he removed the hot dog and put in a cucumber,
but his team kept the ketchup and mustard. Gamble said, I actually
don't have a problem with the TfL regulations. They make sense to me,
but the new posters promote something way more harmful. The idea of the cucumbers
pairwell with ketchup and mustard. I'm not sad to have them remove the hot
dog. It was only featured on the poster because I wanted to eat during
the photoshoot. Hopefully it's not too late to change the title of the show
to Q Diggity Cucumber. Today's daily comedy news is brought to you by Monsters,
Sharks and Dinosaurs. It's a podcast, Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs.
I love this one. I just wrote a bunch of episodes for it the
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Where you get your podcast? Check that one out. The CBC says
Just for Laughs has been a launch pad for Canadian comedians. What happens to
us without it? Comedian Sam's Faraza writes, a few weeks ago, I
was feeling pretty good about being a Canadian comic. I'd flown out to perform
on a taping for Just for Last Vancouver as part of the next season.
We see gyms that the new wave of stand up series. The morning of
my filming, on a typically drizzly Vancouver day, I wrapped myself at a
complimentary hotel robe. I treated myself to room service. Life was good.
Then the JFL announcement. My first thought was, what a devastating blow this
would be a Canadian stand up My second thought was could my exorbitant room service
be blamed for this? Then I remember and I had paid out of pocket
Just for Laughs as a beacon for Canadian comedy. It's the carrot at the
end of the stick that every Canadian comedian is chasing, whether they admit it
or not, it has a hand in creating the very foundation of Canadian stand
up and as a result, getting booked on the Montreal Festival, the biggest
comedy festival in the world, is one of the very few springboards for success
in our industry. It has propelled comedians from amateur to something to at least
somewhat resembles professional status. Getting on JFL means something. It's a stamp of
approval, a sign that you've made it. I'll add an amen to that.
Showcases for JFL have all un canceled at the last minute, and comedians
like myself that work on these important sets all year long have been left high
and dry. Although it says it hopes to resume the festival in twenty five,
that feels like a tall order the of the festivals dependent on jp R.
That's the just for last company pulling off a huge restructuring in a year's
time, let's take a lot of innovation and downsizing, no small feat for
a large company that's already struggled to pivot. As for other avenues for success,
comedians are left with crumbs. There are little to no comedy specific grants
for stand up. Often we're grouped together with theater artists in the grant world,
forcing us to compete with completely different art forms. Meanwhile, circus arts
gets its own category. And hey, no shade to sirc to sleigh.
Just want a fair fight. And if you're thinking, just post you stand
up online build a following. I could tell you a thing or two is
someone with a medium size falling online. First, the money doesn't come easy
because you have to have an online following. And secondly, while festivals are
far from the only thing to work toward in comedy, getting an opportunity to
perform at a festival like JFL is a huge goalpost that's now in peril.
If JFL does come back next year, it's hard to imagine Canadian comedians getting
a good deal. Canadian comedians will be the first to tell you it means
bringing in more bankable American talent paid for by Canadian taxpayers and artistic institutions.
The same criticisms the festival is faced in the past will likely become more ingreened
in the future. Speaking of Canada, Canadians are applauding a comedian who expertly
shut down an American that insisted on correcting him during a set. Michael Harrison
is a New York based comedian from Saskatchewan. He posted a clip titled an
American Canadian explaining Canada to me, What a surprise. We don't have a
thirteenth grade He've been lying to him. Sorry to correct you. Yeah,
we don't have that. I'm Canadian. Trust me, I'm very aware of
what our country has. We actually don't. Ontario had that a long time
ago. They don't have it anymore. The woman goes, you have it.
No, they don't trust me. I hate to admit this to you.
You're wrong. The audience laughs. He turns to the audience and says,
this is how American that woman is. You're wrong about your country.
This is why people don't like you guys as much when you travel other country
because of that. Mike Lazer's debut comedy album Life Rules Mixed Ape, Volume
one out today on a special Thing Records, The Tights eight tracks of Comedy
Gold. Mike hit the stage to explain that saying yes to life, his
love of weed Town, for cooking, having good merch therapy and validation,
and the pressure Beast tells Us Originally from Saint Louis. Mike Glazer is an
entertainment juggernaut with extensive credits, including appearances at the twenty twenty three NHL Awards
and No, I didn't forget. I just moved it to the end.
Let's see what's happening at Melbourne. Let's say you're listening on Friday, which
means in Melbourne it's Saturday. By the way, Sunday's episode of this podcast,
already recorded is a look at up and coming ozzy comedians, so a
bit of a format breaker. It'll be me just going, hey, here's
this guy I've never heard of. Here's a clip, but it's a lot
of fun. I think it came out well. I'd love to know what
you think of that episode, and you can share that in the Facebook group
a daily comedy news podcast group. The Melbourne site. They must have been
listening to me complain about it. It loaded a little quicker and they now
have a tab this Saturday, which made it a lot easier for me to
do mental gymnastics. Let's see if we could find something with an actual clip
today. Tom Ballard's good point, well made, says, there's a clip
and there is let's listen rolled. Michael jokes about the name coronavirus Corona.
That's like a bee. Then I drink what's next Peroni virus? Yeah,
look, everyone of those toilet piper o the news. It was hilarious.
Then Tom Hanks got it and we were like, this is serious. Sheriff
Woody is sick. Then Richard Wilkins got it and we were laughing again.
Okay, we were like, oh, now, this is a wonderful news
story. All right. It took me a minute to find a clip.
There. He drops a lot of F bombs. I'll give you a note,
as a guy in a basement doing a podcast talking to a professional comedian,
your particular material doesn't need the F bomb every third word. Just drop
it all. You don't need it. Johnny Max is not anti swearing,
but you know, I don't need to do this podcast. Like, hey,
if you enjoy the fing show, tell a friend about it. They
might effing like it too. Like I don't need to do that. Eater
does that? Comedian? Now I hear my dog flopping upstairs. My dog
is sixteen and a half years old. I'm going to go rescue her.
Oh, my God just fell again. All right, see you tomorrow.