WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:11.960 Callaroga Shark Media from Poolside. I'm Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news. 2 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:14.240 I cann tell you the side audio has been coming up pretty well. That 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:18.800 almost sounds better than me actually using the studio. The Cut did a big 4 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:22.440 profile of Nicki Glazer Nikki having a moment, but none of it about her 5 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.399 new special. The headline the Toast of the Roast. Comedian Nicki Glazer's been 6 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:30.120 in the business for decades, but her set on Tom Brady's Roast seems to 7 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:33.840 have shifted something. Yes, it has. Glazier started doing stand up when 8 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.119 she was eighteen, had an open mic at University of Colorado, Boulder. 9 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.840 She moved to La did veryous stand up at bars, got an appearance on 10 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.600 Last Comic Standing. She was invited to do her first roast of Rob Lowe 11 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.119 in twenty sixteen by Comedy Central, who had seen her on Jeff Ross's show 12 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.880 The Burn. She's had a few high profile, short lived projects, including 13 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:55.600 Not Safe with Nicki Glazer on Comedy Central I Don't Even Remember That one canceled 14 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:59.920 after one season, and f Boy Island on HBO Max canceled after two seasons. 15 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.560 She was on Dancing with the Stars in twenty eighteen, really and first 16 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.159 one voted off. Okay, she was on Bruce Willis's roast where she said 17 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:08.519 I know you was the star of every DVD, just kind of fine on 18 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.599 the street. A year later, Alec Baldwin was roasted. Nikki says that 19 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:15.280 time I was really speaking from what do I actually think of these people? 20 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.640 Rather than what's the funniest joke. She was asked to do her Max special 21 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.680 Someday You'll Die a year ago. It came out on May eleventh, six 22 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.920 days after the roast. She'd planned to do two weeks of press, but 23 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.079 then many of the same people who had said no to her suddenly said yes. 24 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.000 She was fighted on Kimmel Hoda Howard Zeth and said she felt like Taylor 25 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:38.079 Swift for a day. I'll point out still no buzz on the special, 26 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.920 She tells the cut fighting a way to be yourself on stage is hard. 27 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:42.640 When I was four years in a comedy, it started emerging in little places 28 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.319 and I'd be like, oh, what did I just do? But people 29 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:49.120 really responded to it. She cite Sarah Silverman is one of her major inspirations. 30 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.519 She seems really nice, but she says crazy things. I like being 31 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:53.120 met where people still like me and are rooting for me, even if I 32 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.319 could show side of myself that are cuckoo. She wants people to say about 33 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.680 her, she was really nice. I know that sounds crazy, but that's 34 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.480 my face compliment as opposed to funny. She tells the cut I practiced my 35 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.079 Tom Brady set like fifty five times, different variations of it, and I 36 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:08.479 never once apologized in any of those. When I got up there, I 37 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:14.159 literally felt bad, she says. She understands that things going away is what 38 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:16.000 happens in this line of work. Since the Brady Special, she says, 39 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:20.840 everyone's been telling everything's different. I'm like, mhmm, She says, with 40 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.240 a skeptical tune. It was fun being in the bell of the ball, 41 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.120 but now it's kind of cooled off and thank god. She'd like to do 42 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:28.800 SNL in theory, but when she thinks about it, she gets nervous, 43 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:30.439 some sort of like I just did a thing that people are happy about. 44 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.199 Can I just tour now? I'm comfortable touring. I don't get nervous touring. 45 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:38.400 WTTW spoke to Rob Smigel. They asked him his idea for fun when 46 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.080 he's in town. He said, my idea of fun just going to a 47 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:45.639 Tredono's and eating an entire pizza by myself. I would give the same answer, 48 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:47.039 except I'd go to lumul Nati's and the locals were like, why are 49 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.719 you going to those? I don't know, man, because it's right there. 50 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.439 I don't know. Why are you getting raised pizza in Manhattan? The 51 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.599 same thing. Back to the pizza, spikel says, I dream about it 52 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.639 all year long. I still don't understand why they can't bake them in other 53 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.120 cities. But I'm grateful because I'd look like George Went and Chris Farley combined 54 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.919 if deep Dish pizza was available to me every day. I grew up in 55 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:07.560 Manhattan, and I remember driving to Chicago just being a mace that you had 56 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.599 a lake, dude, I did the same thing. We have the crappy 57 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:13.319 Hudson River that nobody could swim in, and you guys at a beach. 58 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:15.599 And then I went to Wrigular Field and I was able to get seats in 59 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:16.800 the front row. You can ever do that At Shay Stadium. I walked 60 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:20.159 up to the box office and said he got any good seats, and they 61 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.639 said, yeah, we got some right behind the dugout. That good you 62 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.680 want that. I got to be in Chicago the night the Cubs won the 63 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:30.120 World Series. Triumph covered it. I was doing a show for Hulu's Triumph. 64 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:31.560 That was a good show and it was a political show. But I 65 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.719 was the boss. I was the producer and star of the show. And 66 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.000 Game seven was happening, and I was like, wait a minute. I 67 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:38.319 could just say I want Triumph to go to the World Series and they'll fly 68 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:40.919 me there. Then I was like, no, I don't want to be 69 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.879 in Cleveland for Game seven. I want the night outside Wrigley because if they 70 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:46.039 win, it's gonna be the greatest thing ever, and if they lose, 71 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:50.520 it'll be really funny. He then went into Triumph. Do I have a 72 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:53.159 half ass Triumph? I've never attempted a half ass Triumph. Let's see what 73 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:58.400 happens here. Okay, human beings are separated from this by only one single 74 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:00.879 chromosome. By the way, it's great to be here, the interviewer says, 75 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:05.120 cicadas. Sorry, the correct answer is what is Marjorie Taylor Green? 76 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:11.319 We would have also accepted to Jake and Logan Paul not the worst half ass 77 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.560 tryup, I amuse myself. He did one more In twenty twenty three. 78 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.480 Sales of bud Light dropped significantly due to this. The interview room says, 79 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:24.720 I give up. What is Ben Evleck having a try January? Now I'm 80 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.399 losing it. Luckily, I have this slushy here. My daughter has brought 81 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:29.439 me a slushy. I had it for a minute. There, all right, 82 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:31.240 no more half as triumph. Now I'm reading the transcript here. It's 83 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:35.319 unclear to me of this is Smigel speaking or a quote unquote triumph. I'll 84 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.759 just do it flat because it's I've kind of lost my muse. Now whoever 85 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.000 it was said, I feel bad for Trump. I really do. I 86 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.959 mean the one time he actually pays someone, they indict him for it. 87 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.319 Oh here's one triumph. How is Conan O'Brien. Are you still friends? 88 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:50.240 He does a podcast now, and I'm so proud of him and how he's 89 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.720 evolved. You know, he used to be a nervous host. You'd cut 90 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.319 off his guests. Now in his podcast, he's an experienced, confident host 91 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:00.800 who cut his guests that they said, thank you. Try if police put 92 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:04.399 Rob back on the Phoe Joel Kim Booster sharing why his focus is on not 93 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:09.759 being a trailblazer. He spoke to Variety. Joel says, it's difficult because 94 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:12.800 I'm not somebody who went to this wanting to be an advocate or trailblazer or 95 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.639 anything. I just wanted to make people laugh. All the rest of it 96 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:17.560 is a byproduct. You can't prioritize it. You can't be missioned first, 97 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:23.319 joke second and be successful. He says it actually makes him really uncomfortable when 98 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.279 people call him a trailblazer, and he feels that term should be used for 99 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.399 comedians who helped pave the way for others. Joel says, I started doing 100 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.759 comedy at a very convenient time for someone like being wasn't easy, but there 101 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.160 weren't the same barriers to entry that I think there were, you know, 102 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:39.839 a decade before I started. He calls Guy Breinham the godfather of gay guy 103 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.600 comedians and is a big fan of Margaret Show. As a queer Asian person 104 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.639 coming up, I devoured everything Margaret Show did. She's always been such a 105 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.519 firebrand. She didn't wait around for someone open the door, She knocked it 106 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.759 down herself. That appealed to me. Kathy Griffin back on tour, and 107 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:55.199 she says, I'm the face of the one and a half lunged community, 108 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.680 of which there really isn't a community. She says the hardest part of selling 109 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.319 tickets is she's a woman in an inherently male dominant industry. Cathy said, 110 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:05.519 misogyny so hardcore would stand up. I know that sounds like I'm being bitter, 111 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:09.720 but I'm not. Washington Post did a big profile of Paul Sheer. 112 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:13.319 He has a new book called Joyful Recollections of Trauma. Paul says, my 113 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.160 parents haven't read it. They will read it. My dad has requested not 114 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.959 to read it until he gets back from his trip in Europe because he didn't 115 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.079 want it to wreck his trip. My mom will read it. I love 116 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:23.360 my parents, and I have a very good relationship with them. Part of 117 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.319 the reason I wrote this book in my own privacy and without involving June, 118 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.160 his wife, or my parents, was because I wanted to feel like I 119 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.240 could tell the stories that I wanted to tell them the way I wanted to 120 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:33.680 tell them, without feeling like I had somebody watching over me. I felt 121 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.560 like the minute I added that in the process, I would start to second 122 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.639 guess it. So my mantra was I'm telling my story, I'm not telling 123 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.639 their story. Paul says, I was worried at a certain point my publisher 124 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.959 was going to ask me to write a chapter about the league. I was 125 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.519 dreading that because I didn't see I would fit thematically into the book. And 126 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:50.040 a quick anecdote a couple of years ago at the airport, I'm going through 127 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:53.800 TSA and this guy goes, I know who you are. You're Robin Williams. 128 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:56.240 I told him I wasn't Robin, but he went, don't worry about 129 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.319 it. I'll keep it cool. Sheer says, sometimes like scept moments, 130 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.439 I don't deserve because it's easier. But in this case, Robin had been 131 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.720 dead a couple of years, so it was extra weird. So I said, 132 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:09.959 skirt, I'm Robin Williams and thanks him for the kind words. I 133 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:12.000 just took it. If you want me to beat Robin Williams, I'll do 134 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.759 it. That's how far I'll go. Bill Burr was on K and BR 135 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.160 radio and he was sticking up for Barry Bonds and here's Bill to take us 136 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.800 out of the break. Barry Bonds is a victim of the steroid era. 137 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.959 Barry Bonds was the guy, and then a bunch of people cheated, and 138 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:30.000 then the president was calling them instead of Barry, and Barry was like, 139 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.560 all right, here's me on steroids. Here's seventy three. What are we 140 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:38.639 doing here? I can do it with or without steroids. If nobody's doing 141 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.879 steroids, I can beat you. If we're all doing steroids, I can 142 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.360 beat you. My only complaint about that era is that when the guys would 143 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.360 go up with that medieval manner like metal sleeve from their shoulder all the way 144 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:54.720 down their wrist out over the plate. I'm not a big fan of the 145 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.360 admiring the home run and pointing at the dugout and the next guy doesn't get 146 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:03.439 beamed in the head. Miss those days, all right. On Saturday, 147 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.040 I've got my interview with Mark Malkoff, the host of the Inside Late Night 148 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.759 podcast and the former host of the Carson Podcast, which is still available if 149 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.600 you want to download and check out the nearly four hundred episodes of Carson Talk. 150 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:16.920 I liked Mark a lot. We spoke for an hour. If you'd 151 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.000 like to hear it right now. Become a premium subscriber. You've heard the 152 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.759 promos, click the link in the show notes Cali Roga dot supportingcast dot FM 153 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.439 four ninety nine a month. Get the shows early. We've solved that whole 154 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.039 thing where I had to get up in the morning and preload the show. 155 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.519 It'll be there for you. The show's commercial free, and you get the 156 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.399 occasional early release, maybe even some bonus content. At some point, Greg 157 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.759 Guttfeld stuck up for Jerry Seinfeld. Remember Jerry was saying he missed manly men 158 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.600 or whatever he said. Dominant masculinity was Jerry's line. Gottfeld said, I 159 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.639 also missed the days when men were men and women were not. But think 160 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.120 about the unbridled masculinity of yesteryear. You know what I'm talking about, right, 161 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.799 A guy who could put the Marlborough a man of shame, a man's 162 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.279 man if we've ever seen one. And he held up a picture of Liberaci. 163 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.320 There's a new Jim Henson biography, and we learned from this that the 164 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:11.039 plan for Fozzy Bear was for Fozzy Bear to be a great comedian. Jim 165 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:15.279 Henson said, we knew we wanted to have a stand up comedian. We 166 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.840 hadn't mind a Red Skelton type of character that was a bundle of anxieties off 167 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.279 stage and a gung host storyteller up front. But the idea that Fozzi's insecurities 168 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.200 would be counter bounced by his on stage prowess didn't work. Muppet performer Jerry 169 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.960 Jewel said Fozzy was a disaster. We said, this is a bad comedian, 170 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.799 so we put him on stage and let him be bad. But letting 171 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.480 Fozzy eat it on stage wasn't great either, and Statler and Waldorf heckling him 172 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.080 only made Fozzy seem more pathetic. Frank Oz knew it was bad, didn't 173 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.399 know what to do with it. They changed the puppet. Fozzy's fur became 174 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:48.759 a brighter orange and his perpetual grimace was removed. Fozzy instead became a perpetual 175 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:52.600 optimist. Thanks to Frank Oz, we discovered that Fozzy was just a simple 176 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.960 guy. He wanted to be funny and loved. And that is your comedy 177 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.960 news for today. All right, If you'd like the show, add free. 178 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:01.600 There's the link of the show notes there. Pay attention to the promo, 179 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:05.440 which will probably run next It usually does. See you tomorrow.