Calorokas Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Sebastian Manuscalco
shared his go to high protein breakfast with the folks at Men's Health. He
showed off his black and white striped fridge. Men's Health says the fridge itself
is meticulously organized, filled with every imaginable fruit, vegetable, meat, cheese,
pasta, et cetera. Not only is it visually appealing, but it
showcases the variety of foods and flavors he incorporates into his meals. You mean
he doesn't go to the National donut chain every morning and eats something that's totally
unhealthy and a large iced coffee of caramel and milk. Maniscalco jokes that the
container of Bell peppers is strictly for color and equips. We bought it for
the look. He claims. His staple ingredient is eggs, and a typical
breakfast for Sebastian Maniscalco consists of three or four eggs, smoked salmon, and
some avocado. When he's on tour. He likes to eat healthier and prioritize
protein as a way to sustain the energy and physicality required. For sets.
One thing you'll never find in his fridge. Every Friday growing up, my
mother would make liver with onions and it was awful. Manuscalco then took Ment
Health to the gym, where he showed off his latest edition pickleball courts.
He jokes, because he's now fifty, it felt necessary. Yeah, I'm
fifty something and that seems to be the rage. I'm still out there playing
beach volleyball with people literally half my age. Last week a teammate was talking
to someone on the other team and she realized, Oh, it's not just
I could be your mom, I could be your grandmother. Ha ha.
Sebagin said, when I was in my twenties, thirties and early forties,
it was primarily esthetics. Used to be a lot about weight training. There's
no more plates. Now it's more about nutrition and being flexible. I don't
really care if I have the biggest chest, biceps, legs. That's not
the intention here. The intention now is about mobility. Entertainment Weekley did a
big profile of Stephen Colbert. He pulled out a frame photo of an early
career Walter cronkite where he used to discuss the day's headlines with a puppet named
Charlemagne. Colbert said, this is my that Walter Cronkite started off as a
morning anchor who had a puppet lion, so let's not hear about the dignity
of CBS News. Back at Northwestern University, he paid his fifty dollars rent
by building cheap futon frames out of two by fours and dry wall screws and
sell them to the broke college students. He recalls dead fall apart. In
the middle of the night. People would call me furious, and I'd put
a handful of screws in my pocket and grab a cordless drill. I'd ride
my bike across Evanston, I'd fix their bed, and I'd go home.
Eventually he got a job answering phones and selling souvenirs at Second City, a
perk of the job free classes. Perhaps his improv background makes him such a
good listener, He says, I'm not setting the tone. My interests are
eclectic and my tone is malleable. There's almost nothing that we could talk about
that I'm not going to find some interest in. I'm willing to ride your
pony wherever. The only exception is when he has politicians on the show.
With politicians, I feel a different obligation to ask the questions that I want
to ask, not the questions that they want to be asked. It's not
like I want to be adversarial, but when you interview a politician, you
can't edit anything they want you to edit. He plans to host the late
show as long as they I'll let him. Vulture caught up with tignatsorrow and
asked Tick about the joke she's most excited to show her kids one day.
Tick said, I'm very curious what they're going to think about when I take
my shirt off, and boyish girl interrupted. It was only from watching Drawn
did they find out even had cancer. They had no clue that'd see my
body, and they had no questions about my scars. But I remember lying
on the bed the morning after they watched Drawn, they had a lot of
questions about what cancer was. They were pointing out my scars and they were
like, and this is from cancer. So I guess I'm curious what they'll
think about that moment. When I took my shirt off, the first time
I did it at Largo, I felt a little insecure because I like my
son Max am modest. I was definitely uncomfortable, but I remember Bo Burnham
was there and after the show he was like, whoa, my mind is
blown. This is not just about women or cancer. This is about body
image. This is about being comfortable with the human body. That really gave
me more strength and power behind what I was doing. It doesn't matter who
you are or what's going on. This is about bodies. The Old Reporter
had a round table of comedians and they talked about not wanting to see someone
you know in the audience. Taylor Thomlinson said, I've had people, people
from high school come to sit in the front row and You're like, no,
please, not like there. They think they're being supportive, and they
are. We appreciate it, but I'm like, sit halfway back, right
where the darkness starts. And she also doesn't like any folded pair of arms
in the front row, no matter what they're attached to. You're kind of
like, let's unfold those over the course of the night. Mike bur Bigley
has said people you know are not who you want in a stand up comedy
audience. Jackie Novak and I swore together and we always compared it to being
an exog dancer a stripper. It's like you don't really want your friends to
be there when you're stripping. Vulture wrote five new comedy specials you should definitely
watch when you have a moment. Got a holiday week coming up, we
probably have some time. They point out upward of one hundred and fifty stamp
specials were released in twenty twenty three. Here are some recommendations. Alex Edelman's
Just for Us. This is the one about Edemun's story at the time he
went to a white supremacist meeting in Queen's and tried to hide that he was
Jewish. I've not seen that one yet. Kyle Kanane's Dirt Nap on YouTube.
I love that one. That has a nice fifteen minute chunk about fast
and furious that I think is an all timer. I don't know how deep
the ald timer list is, but I would put this up there with things
like Eddie Murphy The Barbecue. Nathan McIntosh is Down with Tech on YouTube.
I had finally gotten around to that one. That's pretty good, A focused
assault on a single topic, tech companies and the tech nerds, he argues
who run the world. Macintosh's strength is his frenzied performance and specifically is constantly
cracking sky is falling voice. I will recommend that one to you. You
should watch that one. Christina Catherine Martinez her debut special Martinez a shot alone
in an empty gallery space, surrounded by a fridge, oven and baking materials,
wearing an unfinished pink dress will tighten the back with large steel clamps.
It's not the first Specials shot without an audience, but with how to Bake
a Cake, it underlines the loneliness of the material and the emptiness of modern
life that Martinez is commenting on this one sounds pretty cool. I haven't seen
this one. When she mentions her day job at a startup, an ominous
off camera voice asked her what she did there. She says, I honestly
have no idea. As far as I could tell, my job was every
day going on office and then I'd like touch base all day. That's what
they don't tell you in college. You can work in any creative industry if
you know how to touch base, if you check in and circle back,
then you have upper management written all over you. Boy, Now I really
want to watch that Another one I haven't seen. They recommend Natasha vain Blands
We're All Dads Here. This one, also on YouTube. We're All Dads
Here, they say, feels like a little Oasis time machine, because,
unlike many recent specials, she's just really, really silly. She tells a
joke about how her old roommate used to know she was going to the bathroom
because she'd hear vain Blant say oh boy to herself, which only gets sillier
when vain Bland explains that she spilled water on her laptop after writing that joke,
so that when the computer repair person brought it back to life, all
they saw on the screen was the phrase, oh boy when I poop.
What makes the kookiness work is vain Blad is a deliberate, self aware joke
writer and precise performer, able to gracefully slip an out of characters and voices.
And while most YouTube specials are shot without much direction beyond just documenting the
live show, We're All Dads Here has some nice flourishes. That sounds like
a really good special. I would like to check that one out, and
perhaps this week, when I have a little more time, I will that
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