WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:12.960 Calorokas Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Sebastian Manuscalco 2 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:17.559 shared his go to high protein breakfast with the folks at Men's Health. He 3 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.960 showed off his black and white striped fridge. Men's Health says the fridge itself 4 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.239 is meticulously organized, filled with every imaginable fruit, vegetable, meat, cheese, 5 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.280 pasta, et cetera. Not only is it visually appealing, but it 6 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.799 showcases the variety of foods and flavors he incorporates into his meals. You mean 7 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.280 he doesn't go to the National donut chain every morning and eats something that's totally 8 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:41.039 unhealthy and a large iced coffee of caramel and milk. Maniscalco jokes that the 9 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.679 container of Bell peppers is strictly for color and equips. We bought it for 10 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.560 the look. He claims. His staple ingredient is eggs, and a typical 11 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.799 breakfast for Sebastian Maniscalco consists of three or four eggs, smoked salmon, and 12 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:56.320 some avocado. When he's on tour. He likes to eat healthier and prioritize 13 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.799 protein as a way to sustain the energy and physicality required. For sets. 14 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.399 One thing you'll never find in his fridge. Every Friday growing up, my 15 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.400 mother would make liver with onions and it was awful. Manuscalco then took Ment 16 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.239 Health to the gym, where he showed off his latest edition pickleball courts. 17 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.719 He jokes, because he's now fifty, it felt necessary. Yeah, I'm 18 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.519 fifty something and that seems to be the rage. I'm still out there playing 19 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:25.280 beach volleyball with people literally half my age. Last week a teammate was talking 20 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:27.200 to someone on the other team and she realized, Oh, it's not just 21 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.439 I could be your mom, I could be your grandmother. Ha ha. 22 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.599 Sebagin said, when I was in my twenties, thirties and early forties, 23 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.239 it was primarily esthetics. Used to be a lot about weight training. There's 24 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.519 no more plates. Now it's more about nutrition and being flexible. I don't 25 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.079 really care if I have the biggest chest, biceps, legs. That's not 26 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.400 the intention here. The intention now is about mobility. Entertainment Weekley did a 27 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.879 big profile of Stephen Colbert. He pulled out a frame photo of an early 28 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:57.439 career Walter cronkite where he used to discuss the day's headlines with a puppet named 29 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.799 Charlemagne. Colbert said, this is my that Walter Cronkite started off as a 30 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:05.040 morning anchor who had a puppet lion, so let's not hear about the dignity 31 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.759 of CBS News. Back at Northwestern University, he paid his fifty dollars rent 32 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:13.280 by building cheap futon frames out of two by fours and dry wall screws and 33 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.000 sell them to the broke college students. He recalls dead fall apart. In 34 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.319 the middle of the night. People would call me furious, and I'd put 35 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.479 a handful of screws in my pocket and grab a cordless drill. I'd ride 36 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.039 my bike across Evanston, I'd fix their bed, and I'd go home. 37 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:29.360 Eventually he got a job answering phones and selling souvenirs at Second City, a 38 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:32.439 perk of the job free classes. Perhaps his improv background makes him such a 39 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:36.319 good listener, He says, I'm not setting the tone. My interests are 40 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.800 eclectic and my tone is malleable. There's almost nothing that we could talk about 41 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:42.599 that I'm not going to find some interest in. I'm willing to ride your 42 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.680 pony wherever. The only exception is when he has politicians on the show. 43 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.159 With politicians, I feel a different obligation to ask the questions that I want 44 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:52.560 to ask, not the questions that they want to be asked. It's not 45 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.520 like I want to be adversarial, but when you interview a politician, you 46 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.120 can't edit anything they want you to edit. He plans to host the late 47 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:01.520 show as long as they I'll let him. Vulture caught up with tignatsorrow and 48 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:06.000 asked Tick about the joke she's most excited to show her kids one day. 49 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.039 Tick said, I'm very curious what they're going to think about when I take 50 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:12.639 my shirt off, and boyish girl interrupted. It was only from watching Drawn 51 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.280 did they find out even had cancer. They had no clue that'd see my 52 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:17.680 body, and they had no questions about my scars. But I remember lying 53 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.919 on the bed the morning after they watched Drawn, they had a lot of 54 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.560 questions about what cancer was. They were pointing out my scars and they were 55 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:25.479 like, and this is from cancer. So I guess I'm curious what they'll 56 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.080 think about that moment. When I took my shirt off, the first time 57 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.520 I did it at Largo, I felt a little insecure because I like my 58 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:36.719 son Max am modest. I was definitely uncomfortable, but I remember Bo Burnham 59 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.759 was there and after the show he was like, whoa, my mind is 60 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.680 blown. This is not just about women or cancer. This is about body 61 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:45.360 image. This is about being comfortable with the human body. That really gave 62 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.319 me more strength and power behind what I was doing. It doesn't matter who 63 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:51.960 you are or what's going on. This is about bodies. The Old Reporter 64 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:55.800 had a round table of comedians and they talked about not wanting to see someone 65 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.240 you know in the audience. Taylor Thomlinson said, I've had people, people 66 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:01.439 from high school come to sit in the front row and You're like, no, 67 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:03.680 please, not like there. They think they're being supportive, and they 68 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.439 are. We appreciate it, but I'm like, sit halfway back, right 69 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:11.840 where the darkness starts. And she also doesn't like any folded pair of arms 70 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.960 in the front row, no matter what they're attached to. You're kind of 71 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:16.839 like, let's unfold those over the course of the night. Mike bur Bigley 72 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:19.920 has said people you know are not who you want in a stand up comedy 73 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:24.439 audience. Jackie Novak and I swore together and we always compared it to being 74 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.680 an exog dancer a stripper. It's like you don't really want your friends to 75 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.959 be there when you're stripping. Vulture wrote five new comedy specials you should definitely 76 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.399 watch when you have a moment. Got a holiday week coming up, we 77 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:40.079 probably have some time. They point out upward of one hundred and fifty stamp 78 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:44.720 specials were released in twenty twenty three. Here are some recommendations. Alex Edelman's 79 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.079 Just for Us. This is the one about Edemun's story at the time he 80 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:50.319 went to a white supremacist meeting in Queen's and tried to hide that he was 81 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:55.199 Jewish. I've not seen that one yet. Kyle Kanane's Dirt Nap on YouTube. 82 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.959 I love that one. That has a nice fifteen minute chunk about fast 83 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.000 and furious that I think is an all timer. I don't know how deep 84 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.680 the ald timer list is, but I would put this up there with things 85 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:08.959 like Eddie Murphy The Barbecue. Nathan McIntosh is Down with Tech on YouTube. 86 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.160 I had finally gotten around to that one. That's pretty good, A focused 87 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.480 assault on a single topic, tech companies and the tech nerds, he argues 88 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:19.560 who run the world. Macintosh's strength is his frenzied performance and specifically is constantly 89 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:24.399 cracking sky is falling voice. I will recommend that one to you. You 90 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:30.000 should watch that one. Christina Catherine Martinez her debut special Martinez a shot alone 91 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.480 in an empty gallery space, surrounded by a fridge, oven and baking materials, 92 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.759 wearing an unfinished pink dress will tighten the back with large steel clamps. 93 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.040 It's not the first Specials shot without an audience, but with how to Bake 94 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.480 a Cake, it underlines the loneliness of the material and the emptiness of modern 95 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.839 life that Martinez is commenting on this one sounds pretty cool. I haven't seen 96 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.800 this one. When she mentions her day job at a startup, an ominous 97 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:53.759 off camera voice asked her what she did there. She says, I honestly 98 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.040 have no idea. As far as I could tell, my job was every 99 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.120 day going on office and then I'd like touch base all day. That's what 100 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.000 they don't tell you in college. You can work in any creative industry if 101 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.680 you know how to touch base, if you check in and circle back, 102 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:08.759 then you have upper management written all over you. Boy, Now I really 103 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:13.040 want to watch that Another one I haven't seen. They recommend Natasha vain Blands 104 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.399 We're All Dads Here. This one, also on YouTube. We're All Dads 105 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.360 Here, they say, feels like a little Oasis time machine, because, 106 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.720 unlike many recent specials, she's just really, really silly. She tells a 107 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.439 joke about how her old roommate used to know she was going to the bathroom 108 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.120 because she'd hear vain Blant say oh boy to herself, which only gets sillier 109 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.800 when vain Bland explains that she spilled water on her laptop after writing that joke, 110 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:34.560 so that when the computer repair person brought it back to life, all 111 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.319 they saw on the screen was the phrase, oh boy when I poop. 112 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.920 What makes the kookiness work is vain Blad is a deliberate, self aware joke 113 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:46.720 writer and precise performer, able to gracefully slip an out of characters and voices. 114 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.399 And while most YouTube specials are shot without much direction beyond just documenting the 115 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:54.000 live show, We're All Dads Here has some nice flourishes. That sounds like 116 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.240 a really good special. I would like to check that one out, and 117 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.639 perhaps this week, when I have a little more time, I will that 118 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.399 your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend 119 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.360 about it hopefully they'll like it too, and you can all hit follow on 120 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:09.240 your Apple podcast app. You know cool, See you tomorrow.