Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with you Daily Comedy News.
I don't think I'm in a mood, but I just have this feeling today
as I record comedy is a little boring right now. I just feel like
there's a rhythm of Hey, it's Tuesday. There's a Netflix special, okay,
fine, and HBO does one a month, and the comedy podcast there's
like a circle of ten people and they all go on each other's podcasts and
that's all fine. We're doing some comedy festivals every weekend, and there just
seems to be nothing new, and there's not a new face. There's no
one shaking things up. There's no one bringing anything new to the format.
I don't know what I want, but I feel like it's been a minute,
you know me. I'm always looking for a good controversy or something to
goofon at George Lopez, Tacos, at Jim Gaffig and Bourbon. There's just
nothing. It's just very workmanlike in the industry right now. So let's see
if that's just summer doldrums. There has an announcement that I think maybe fed
my malaise. The New York Comedy Festival will put out their initial lineup the
twentieth Anniversary New York Comedy Festival, and this November will feature more than two
hundred comedians in more than one hundred shows throughout the city. I've spoken about
this festival in the past. The people who work with it, especially back
in my serious XM days, nothing but great to me. But New York
is so large that this festival, it's New York City. Man, it
disappears. It doesn't have the presence of, say a, a Montreal comedy
festival, or a comedy festival in a smaller city. This one. They
all hang a couple banners up. But if you don't know about it,
you won't know about it all right. It's November eighth through November seventeenth.
The headliners include Judd Apatow. This is alphabetical order, David Tel, Bill
Moore, Tracy Morgan, JB. Smooth, and Jabuki Young White. I
mean those are your headliners, mar Morgan, JB. Smooth, at Tel.
Yeah. Other headliners include Jeff or Currie, Zorna Gorg Gabe Iglesias.
I'm surprised he's not that topless there, Joe List, Matt McCusker, Nurse
John, Miss Pat, Adam Ray is Doctor Phil. The rest is history,
justin Silva, Dan Soder and Jimmy o'yang. The New York Comedy Festival
is the largest and longest running annual comedy festival in the United States. That's
kind of stunning, but probably also true. Launched in two thousand and four,
not that long ago, festival founder Caroline Hurst said, from up and
comers to a less stars, a diverse town lineup brings laughter to a wide
range of comedy fans and venues all across five boroughs of New York City,
with even more shows to being out soon. At a time when we need
laughter more than ever, We're thrilled to make New York laugh once again.
Here's the lineup so far, Friday, November eighth. You can hear my
excitement and I'm trying not to be a Debbie Downy here, but just like
like I said in the open, I just feel like comedy's going through the
motions right now. Seven o'clock Jeffy Currie, seven o'clock, Miss Patt,
nine to forty five, Dan Soder at town Hall. Okay, Saturday Night
Joe listed Town Hall Jimmy o'yang and Carnegie, Jed Appatow and Friends at the
Beacon and Justin Silva at town Hall Sunday the tenth, Nurse John Wednesday the
thirteenth, The Rest is History Live at town Hall, Thursday the fourteenth,
JB. Smooth of town Hall, Jabuki Young White at the hard Rock,
David Tell at town Hall Friday the fifteenth, Tracy Morgan at town Hall,
Jubuk Young White Again, Gabe Iglesias at the King's Theater, Adam ray Is
Doctor Phil Live at the Beacon Saturday, a podcast taping, Matt Moncusker,
Jibuki Young White Again, and Bill Maher at the Beacon, and then on
Sunday Zarna Garg. That'll clearly fill in more. But I'm on the New
York Comedy Festival dot com history page now I wish they went a little further
back. The farthest background go is twenty thirteen, and as they write,
the festival marked its tenth year featuring Now listen to this lineup? Is this
a little more exciting? Maria Bamford, Hannibal Burs, Bill Burr, Whitney
Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Jim Jeffries Anthony, jessinek Nick Kroll, Bill Maher,
John Mulaney, Charlie Murphy, j Farrell, Nix Wardson, and Wanda
Sykes. There was a stand Up for Heroes show, which included Bill Cosby
all Right, Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld, and musical performances by Bruce Springsteen.
You see what I'm saying Like I'm having trouble getting too excited for this
one. I'm sure it will fill in. I don't know. Sorry to
be a downer. There is a controversy. Jack Black says he was blindsided
by band made Kyle Gas's remark, and Jack Black has canceled the Tenacious D
tour. Kyle Gas made a comment after the assassination attempt on Saturday. Tenacious
D band member Kyle Gas joked, don't miss next time. Jack Black said,
I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I
would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form, amen,
Jack. After much reflection, I no longer feel its appropriate to continue the
Tenacious D tour and all future creative plans are on hold. I'm grateful to
the fans for the support and understanding this is a great job by Jack.
I mean, it sucks for the fans, but I like someone having the
courage of their convictions. And no one should advocate violence, and obviously no
one should say something about, you know, not having someone killed. Does
that not go without saying. We can disagree on the politics of stuff,
but I mean, come on, Gas apologize for the comments and an Instagram
post on Tuesday morning, he said the line I improvised on Sunday night and
Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous, and a terrible mistake. I don't condone
violence of any kind in any form against anyone. What happened was a tragedy
and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgment. I profoundly apologize to
those I've let down and truly regret any plane I've caused. Don't forget someone
was killed on Saturday. Today's st was planning to perform seven shows across Australia
and New Zealand over the next two weeks. Sounds like that partnership may be
over. Taylor Thomlinson's publicist deserves a raise. A coworker used to call these
articles wax jobs, and Taylor got quite the wax job from Variety the headline
how Taylor Thompson overcame debilitating fear and became the sole woman of late night with
After Midnight. Some publicists worked real hard to get this one in. At
the center of a simple but colorful stage stands the thirty year old Thomlinson,
the picture of calm in a pantsuit that manages to tow the line between professional
and hip. Thomason, the only woman currently hosting a late night network series,
will later reveal that when she first took the job, Steven Colbert gave
her some value of advice, which was You're not going to be amazing right
away. He let me know that this would take a while to learn and
not to expect to nail in the first week. And that helps so much
because I still feel like I'm learning how to do this job every day.
That is true. Like any profession, things get better with reps, including
this dumb show here that you're listening to. Tomlinson was a natural since it's
January seventeenth debut. To this day, she reads like a season pro,
rolling with the punches, putting her guess at ease, and keeping the audience
entertained. Again, I'm not here to make fun of Taylor Thompson. I'm
making fun of the publicist deserving a raise for getting Variety to print this thing.
Even Colbert is impressed by how quickly she seems to have adapted, as
why he first selected her for the job. He says, I like that
she's young, grew up in social media, and can work at a high
reference level world, but still seems suspicious for what social media feeds us every
day. What I didn't expect was how someone so young can be so confident
in the role and adaptable to changes so fluidly. She's thirty years old.
Let's not act like she's twelve. She's an adult woman. Disguise the limit
for the comic who seems up for any challenge. Asked if there's anything about
Tomisin that might surprise people, Steven Colbert says she spends her free time racing
motorbikes and can bench press two hundred and fifteen pounds. She also doesn't mine
when friends lie about her to the press. If you enjoy what I do
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like them. I just when I came back from Los Angeles, I got
on the scale and I was like, ooh, you need to chill out,
buddy. And I've been chilling out and I'm down six pounds. How
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I need my coffee to get going. Have you downloaded The Artist a Killer's
Canvas yet? Come on? Hook us up. That's our new limited series
for mature audience. Is rated. Are about a serial killer that's called The
Artist a Killer is Canvas. I like this lead from the Stranger. They
wrote Joe Para is the ace knuckleball picture of comedy, and I think they
nailed that there. What do they mean? They say, Joe Parra's jokes
come at you slowly and unpredictably. While they may initially see maunderwhelming compared to
those of high velocity comics. They invariably wind up in the strike zone and
make you shake your head in disbelief and amusement at their off kilter trajectory and
their revelatory thud they make in the catcher's mid of your mind. His deadpan
oki oki delivery belies a sharp, sneaky wit. You nailed it. They're
the Stranger. The stranger was curious. They asked, Joe, hey,
Wikipedia, is your birth year is either nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine.
Can you set the record straight or do you prefer to remain a mystery.
Joe Paris said it doesn't matter. The stranger said it might matter to
so people, And Joe said, am I thirty five, thirty six at
thirty seven? Let that keep them up at night. The stranger says,
does it seem like an advantage for your comedy to not have everyone know other
thing about you? Joe said, it's different nowadays. Before the TV show
Joe Para Talks with You, it was nice to go on stage with a
complete blank slate and win an audience over reveal a little about yourself bit by
bit. But I feel like it's not even possible nowadays, because people know
a decent amount about me through the TV show and my other work. It's
a different feeling. At the beginning of the shows, there is already a
kind of a background of who I am, what kind of comedy I'm gonna
do. In some ways, it's nice not to start from zero the audience.
At other times it's kind of less fun. You can't get to know
each other together. At the same time, I love this too. The
stranger said, I haven't seen every minute of your comedy, but I've seen
a fair amount. Do you not dip into the well of your Italian upbringing?
Joe said, well, I'm no Sebastian Maniscalco, but I got a
couple of jokes about my Italian upbringing this time around. There were some mild
mentions of it on the TV show, the way the grandmother made the meatballs,
the way she was always cooking. I'm not an immigrant myself. I'm
a few generations removed, so I don't feel like it's part of my everyday
reality. It'd be a little weird if I was a blonde guy talking about
being in Italian the whole time. There's a new comedy album out today from
Mickey Overman ROUBM is called This is Me. You can get that on the
eight hundred pound Gorilla. Dave Chapelle has announced an intimate New York City show.
It's this Thursday at the Grammarcy Theater. Tickets went on sale by the
time you heard this. Sorry, I try so. I imagine it's sold
out and it's one of those cell phone free events, which is just a
pain in the hat. I wouldn't even want to go. I need my
phone. I don't want to deal with your stupid pouches. A message from
the venue reads, with your confirmation, you agree to place your phone in
a lock pouch, which you keep throughout the evening. If you need to
use your phone, return to the distribution tent at the entrance. Anyone caught
using a cell phone during the show will be immediately ejected. Stop it's just
annoying. It's a twenty first century dude, So someone's gonna put some crappy
cell phone video of your joke on the internet. Whatever. That's your comedy
news for today. Let me know your thoughts in the Facebook group A daily
comedy news podcast group. Am I just in a mood today. It is
comedy, a little flat right now, and I'll see tomorrow