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of Daily Comedy News. If you think you hear birds, you do.
It's just too nice to sit in the basement today. So I'm out on
the back deck. Got my pal here, mister Scruff. I'm mister Scruff,
and we're chilling. I got a nice coffee. All this is true.
So you may have heard former President Trump but got in a little trouble
the other day. Bad luck for the late night shows. Everybody but Kimmel
was off, I mean brutal. What happened in my life was I heard
that the verdict was coming down and I had to head out to take prom
pictures with my kid. So I'm at this party and I was talking to
some friendly dad and I eventually had a fall on my sword and I'm like,
look, man, I know I seem all kinds of distracted, but
I work in the media and kind of got to pay attention here. So
that was my life. So I feel for the late night shows. I
mean, if you're work in this business, sometimes you just really want to
cover something, and you know, that was an old time event, So
I feel bad for those guys, Jimmy Kimmel was on my dog just jumped
on my lap. I'm recording a podcast. This isn't he's standing on the
laptop. This isn't going to work here. You sit over here? Sorry,
where were we? In case you can't tell? Today's episodes a little
casual. Kimmel did a full monologue on his show Thursday night. We covered
that on the Ballot podcast. We're doing obviously a lot, since Ballot covers
the election. If you want to bounce over a ballot when we're done here,
you can catch up on Kimmel. The Daily Show tweeted Justice Alito as
called for upside down American flags to be flown at half mast. The Tonight
Show went with Trump fought the law, and the law one. Meanwhile,
as we sit here on the deck in the landscape, or show up for
some additional ambient noise. Colbert Seth and Oliver have not yet responded. I
hope Matt Rife is okay, to be honest. The other day, when
I saw he did the lake cancel, I was wondering if it was one
of those ah yeah, schedule conflicts. But it looks like something's actually up
from NBC Chicago. Rife has postponed eight sold out shows at the Chicago Theater,
so major market, major theater. According to Deadline, Rife is experiencing
quote extreme exhaustion symptoms and has been advised to halt performing a statement reads On
the way to a recent show in Indiana, Matt experienced exhaustion symptoms and nearly
fainted heading to the venue. Matt is currently under advisement from his medical team
to take immedia time off from touring for two weeks. Interesting to me there
that the quote is third party and not from Matt. I do hope he's
okay. Nicky Glazer's recent special Someday You'll Die has two million viewers on both
the streaming version of HBO and the mothership HBO Max, putting on track to
be the largest streaming audience for comedy special in HBO. To Max History,
congratulations, you know be better if it was particularly great special. But I'm
sure I'll get complaints from that online. I don't like every special. It's
okay, Chris Ostrata tweets on Monday, I got pulled over being on my
phone when the cop came back with my license in reag he said, you're
the guy from the full. Astrata says yep. The cop asked when the
season three come out. Astrada says it got canceled and then shares this detail
it got weird, and the cop said, sorry about the ticket. I
wonder if it hadn't been canceled. La Times spoke to Nick Swartzen. He
talked about comedy in the late nineties, not quite the big business it is
right now. Nick said, when I started, everybody was like, oh,
comedy's dead. That was after the eighties had such a major comedy boom.
I was making no money. There was no internet. My family was
poor. I was raised by single mother for the most part, and it
was like we had to do one nighters and biker bars for one hundred bucks.
We had nothing. I always tell kids that, and I feel like
I'm a caveman talking about making fire. They'll complain about things like, well,
how do I do this? I tell them, get on YouTube and
Instagram, make videos, make sure it's make an ig reel and use that
as a calling card. I used to have to sleep in my car.
You guys don't have to do that. There's so many venues. You just
have to be motivated and creative. I'm happy for young comics. It's such
a crazy boom right now and everyone's killing it. It's a really exciting time.
The light time said, do you see it as a daunting time?
Because of the reliance on social media, Schwartz has said comedians can say whatever
we want. You gotta commit to it, and you gotta stand by it.
If you're gonna put something out there, you can't pull back. Comedians
are the last resort of just calling stuff out. So when you try to
censor me, I've done this for thirty years. I don't blink an eye.
Don't tell me what to do. Don't tell me I can't say on
stage. I'm gonna say some crazy stuff and I don't give an f.
So if you're offended, leave my show. Why are you here? Real
comedians double down when you tell the class clown growing up, hey, don't
do that. Guess what the kid's gonna do. He's gonna go harder.
I put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure my shows are great
because every time you do New Hour, you think that's your last one.
So it's a little stressful. When you're established. People are like I bet
Schwartz's gonna go insane and make me wet my vants. So that pressure is
a little dawning to be like, huh, I'm gonna make everyone you're an
eight. Oh and there's more good news. He's filming Happy Gilmore too.
You know who stars in that one, don't? Yeah? Yeah. Nick
is really beyond excited about that. It's been amazing because we know each other
so well. Like Sandler and I clicked pretty much right away. He gave
me the script Grandma's Boy and asked me to rewrite it, and ever since
I've worked with him and toured with him, and he's one of my best
friends. Sometimes they'll take a step back and be like, oh, yeah,
David Spade, Rob Schneider, nor McDonald, these were my best friends
and they still are because creatively, like we get each other. I know
what Adam is gonna like, I know what Spade's gonna like. We're just
all on the same page. Matthew Rappaport shows that Batavia's comedy Vault were canceled
amid safety concerns and planned protests form a pro Palestinian group. These shows were
scheduled for June sixth, through the eighth now off the calendar. Batavia Police
Chief Sean Maza sold NBC five that the police department met with the Comedy Vault
owners in regards to safety after they were inundated with calls and emails to cancel.
However, the police chief says the official call to cancel came from the
Comedy Vault. The US Palestinian Community Network made repeated calls to cancel the show
on social media, promising protests against Rappaport if he had performed at the venue.
Jewish organizations in the Chicago area strongly condemned the decision to cancel the shows,
calling it an infringement on rap words free speech. Alison pure Slovan of
the Simon Weisenthal Center said the Jewish community feels that if it were anybody other
than the Jews, that there wouldn't be this kind of cancelation. Hacks has
been picked up for season four. I've really been enjoying season three. I
finally got into Netflix and watched episode two of Tires. Jean Gillis, if
you're listening during the week, my entire family was on Netflix all week and
I couldn't get in. But I finally got a chance to watch episode two.
Liked it a lot and I wanted to binge it, but I've been
sleepy. I digress. Hacks is back for season four. Sarah Aubrey,
head of Max's Original programming, said, we congratulate hacks brilliant cast and crew.
Hacks is a masterfully crafted comedy, delivering laughs and sharp insights about the
vulnerability and joy of sharing a dream. Hannah Einmender, who stars in Hacks,
has a new special coming out June thirteenth on Max. What's interesting to
me about June thirteenth is it's a Thursday, not a Saturday. Max has
been putting the specials out on Saturday night, and I recently commented that I
wish they would pick a different night. Maybe they listen to me, or
maybe I'm not sure. Is this this is where Max's Brandon gets confusing?
Is this a Max special which is somehow less than an HBO special. It's
very very confusing. This one branded a MAX special, so I guess it's
quote unquote lesser. The hour long set was filmed in April at the l
Ray Theater in La Handah covers everything from climate change to her days as a
competitive cheerleader shot in a cinematic style. The show is called Everything Must Go.
We have a trailer. I'm gonna play it for you now. I
don't want to lead you with my thoughts with a share on the other end.
But there's only one joke in the trailer, so I don't want you
to think that I left ten other jokes out. This is all we have
one joke. Let's listen. When some comedians start off their set, they
will say something like, let me tell you a little bit about me.
This is my version of that. I smoked Los Angeles chronic marrow. I
want four plus times a day during vital stages of my brain's development. So
I am what scientists and doctors have referred to in several articles and medical journals
as ruin. I thought that was a really long way to go for one
joke. No, I hope this one is okay, but I don't know
about that. The Hollywod reporter spoke to Hannah about Hack season four. She
says they have started writing it. She doesn't know what happens in it,
and is excited as for this cinematic comedy special. She tells us I knew
a camera was going to be to my right, and that was the one
I wanted to play several direct looks to camera. Other than that, I
just sort of knew where my close up camera was and where some of the
wider angles were. We also had some cameras following me, and I'm pretty
physical on stage. It definitely changed my performance filming the set. Usually I'd
really played down on the crowd, but I sort of had to play up
to camera. The idea to look directly in the camera came for the fact
that translating the show from live to film, I wanted to figure out a
way to do what I do live to the audience at home, which is
make pointed direct eye contact with people in the crowd. I thought that would
be the most engaging way to mimic what I do live on film. Very
interesting. I'm not going to judge until I see it. My spidy sense
is like, hm, but maybe that will work great. I'm not sure.
Spoilers. You have a piece where you connect toxic masculinity to landscape architecture
from the forties. Where did that come from? Hannah tells us there was
an article in Scientific American I had read called botanical sexism cultivates homegrown allergies.
It explores the topic of botanical sexism, which is a hot hot issue in
the urban forestry community. I think, she explains. I read the article
because I have really horrific allergies and I had a really bad experience in New
York where my seasonal allergies are at an all time high. I could barely
breathe. I started a research and the most prevalent reason that pollen counts are
growing is because of climate change, because as temperatures rise, trees thinks it's
a different season basically, and they release more pollen. Then there's the botanical
sexism theory as well. I read that article and joke started firing off of
my head. That's fun, and I will leave you with this. James
Austin Johnson tweeted this. His version is two minutes twenty seconds. I have
cut this down a little bit for pacing. He is walking through a parking
garage and doing an impression of a very notable politician. I'll let james words
speak for themselves. He captioned the tweet with Don found guilty on thirty four
counts of trying to take down framed photos of hot ladies from Buca to Peppo
men's room calls general manager a discrease. Carbonar are too expensive, just peas
and eggs. Right, here's James Austin Johnson. When you go to a
Buca Debeppo, there's so many wonderful things that are on walls and that there
are on the table. Frankly, if you look at the Pope room,
there is a big head of the Pope and you should be able to play
with it. I think like an action figure is something you know when you
go to collectible store and they have so much behind glass and you can't look
at any of it. The last time I checked Booker Abebbo was not a
collectible store. So we would like to be able to take the frame photographs
down from the men's room at Booking to Beppo and instead what you have is
a very disgraceful judge who has said that you're not allowed to do that.
Win. In fact, you should be allowed to do that because the fun
pictures and the carbonar is very expensive, and I think carbonaro what is that
like four or five ingredients? Peas a it's bacon, you know, they
give it a different name, Italian name, but it's bacon and I think
some cheese, maybe a couple of eggs, and it sounds like breakfast.
But it's a very yummy pasta. But they charge you so much. They're
charging people so much, and there was no way. It's an absolute disgrace.
There was no way to pay for the carbonar Our country is in decline.
Buka de Beeppo is in decline. The breadsticks are not as good.
People say that. People say that the bread's not as good. Definitely not
very good. And that is your pool side comedy for today. If you
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