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Conan O'Brien told a friend of the pod, Jason Zinneman of The New York
Times, that longevity is overrated. Zinneman says the first time Conan made this
point was in April at a restaurant in New York, when he proposed that
all statues and monuments should be made with durable soap that dissolves in seven years.
A month later, Conan declared himself anti graveyard, So does he want
to be cremated? Conan said, I want to be left at a ditch
and found by a jugger. W p R spoke to Dmitri Martin about is
a recent special Dmitri deconstructed they were curious about his use of voiceover to give
the audience a sense of what it's like being Dmitri. Mister Martin said that
speaks to the screen relationship or viewers who perform relationships. That's different when you're
on a screen than when you're live, because you can get entighter depending on
your coverage, which I think is interesting comedically because now we can get a
lot closer. It's a surprise sometimes a suddenly we're in height, but then
once you are closer, you can be a lot closer auditorially, so close
that you can get into the performer's head with a voiceover, if you can
pull it off. I used it sparingly, but I think it worked pretty
well. It's a simulation of the experience of being on stage, especially if
you've told jokes so many times that on the show X number of times,
you get accustomed to it and try to keep it fresh and present. But
you know, it's just how the human mind works. Sometimes your mind wanders
and you're telling a joke, but you're thinking about, oh crap, what
times? Only flight tomorrow? Hey, Mark Norman, how's your newest hour
going? Mark said, it's cooking because I have short jokes. The Beast
reality joke that took months to fix and got going. It's about thirty four
seconds. All this work I'm putting into it. I guess it's stupid and
kind of kind productive, but it's almost like collecting pennies to try to save
up money. Each joke is like a penny, and you've got a jar
of pennies, and you may have something worthwhile there, but it takes forever,
so I'd say I'm about thirty five minutes in. Liz Meely says I
owe my career to social media. Some of her early material went viral and
said it's sort of the best thing that's ever happened to me and the worst
thing that's ever had happened to me. I started clipping up my jokes over
fifteen years ago, and that's how these viral videos very early in my career,
via YouTube at first and then Instagram. It's those clips and singular jokes
that gained me an audience. But as a storyteller and someone who's more long
winded, you need to know a little about me to even appreciate every joke.
I've had people say mean things about me because they have no context.
I did a show in Istanbul and the booker clipped up a joke about my
cat dying and me kind of flippantly being like, I don't care. All
the hate comments I got I had to translate them. They were like,
you don't deserve cats, you horrible person, and I'm like, WHOA.
Both my parents are veterinarians. I love cats. It's a joke. But
because the clip was out of context, I look like a monster. If
you had watched even the first jokes around it, you'd know how much I
love my cat and cats in general. How tongue in cheek. The response
was, when you clip it up and take away context, I was getting
Turkish hate mail. Will Ferrell's legal first name is not Will. Apparently this
bothered him when he was a kid. At the beginning of every school year,
Will was on Christina Applegate and Jimmy Linn Siegler is a podcast that exists.
Apparently Will said, this is some minor things in terms of it's not
even really trauma. But I remember feeling so embarrassed because my real name is
John John William Ferrell's. The first day of school, I'd be John.
The teacher would be like John Ferrell, and was so embarrassing for me to
have to say, here, but I go by Will. I don't go
by John. Boy sounds like a rough childhood. Huh. Wasn't my choice.
My parents named me John, but they called me Will. I grew
up as Will, but on a rule sheet, my legal name is John
Ferrell. I don't know why that was so embarrassing to me. I have
to explain I'm actually Will the self aware. Will Ferrell said, people are
going to be listening to this going that is the lamest thing ever. Are
you in Milwaukee? Can you get to Milwaukee? Do you want to be
in Milwaukee? Well? Today you want to be in Milwaukee. This week
it's the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. We'll be covering that on the ballot
to podcast Baublelot, where you get your show's funny show ten minutes being snarky
about the politicians. A lot of fun that one, anyway, Comedy Central
is hosting in Dog Decision twenty twenty four, Rescuing Democracy. This is a
voter registration slash pet adoption event in Cathedral School Park today eleven am to five
pm. The free event is designed to encourage fans to rescue dogs and democracy.
It includes giveaways, doggy swag, pet adoptions, voter registration opportunities,
and a meet and greet with members of the Daily Show team and more.
In Dog Cision twenty twenty four being co host with Headcount, a voter registration
organization, and Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission mad Act Love It. There'll
be another one of these in Chicago on August eighteenth, the day before they
started the Democratic National Convention. So you might want to put that on your
calendar, Becky and look Redisha to vote, vote for wherever you want.
But if we get to the end of this thing and you're like mad about
it and you didn't vote, that's on you sort of. I mean.
Alex Bennett over the weekend explained how electoral college works and in some states it's
not really gonna matter, but vote vote, but especially down ballot on the
local stuff, super important. To vote Tom Green to remember him. He
is now a celebrity farmer in rural eastern Ontario. During the pandemic, he
purchased a one hundred acre property at White Lake after living in La for twenty
years. His new reality show Tom Green Country features his simple post LA life
with a fifteen hundred pound mule, a donkey, and six chickens. The
unscripted series is among seven new Canadian content productions getting the go ahead for release
on Prime Video. Ah Yes that local Canadian production money Love It. Ali
Sadik spoke to Cracked and said, people relate to me because I don't win
in every story. A lot of people win in every story. But you
know, even Superman and Batman get beat sometimes. I always admired Muhammad Ali
because he was a four time world champion. The point is he lost three
times. You can only become a four time champion. If you lose,
you gotta lose. Not true. You could like retire and then someone else
gets the belt and then you come back, and then you could be a
four time champion without ever losing. I think Ali, you gotta aspire here.
He often talks about releasing his own stuff, and he says with other
entities like Netflix, they own your special for the duration of it. Somebody
owns a part of your life. So me going the independent route is important
to the legacy of my children to be able to own the rights to my
material, to my life. As always putting out independent albums, why not
put out an independent special? Remember comic selling DVDs after show? You were
putting up some type of money to make that DVDA. Just scale it up.
I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm just taking advantage of the wheel.
The new thing with YouTube and the Internet and Instagram, at Facebook and TikTok
now they're putting a stipulation on young comics. You have to have a certain
amount of followers. For us to put you on shows, need to become
an asset with your followers. I get it, but you're judging people by
Instagram and Facebook and all these things. Now, these are not marketing people.
These are people who do stand up. I feel like an audience is
like a friend, and with my friends, I can tell you the good
and the bad. We're gonna laugh and cry together. The Guardian took a
look ahead at Edinburgh twenty twenty four and wrote, find the funny with these
twenty comedy shows. Let's fly through these on a hot Sunday afternoon. Let's
see a show about wealth and relatability. Olga Koch or Coke comes from Money.
Olga stepped into the big league at Fringe in twenty twenty three, rights
to The Guardian with a show called Prawn Cocktail, pairing SaaS tales of trans
national hookups with a thoughtful critique of soul bearing comedy. Next show MSCID is
Sue Gray Emma cutter Teeth way back as a character comic on the Edenburgh Fringe.
Now she returns with an intriguing new offering in disguise as the Grand Inquisitor
of Partygate turned power behind Keir Starmer's Throne. Next up, Bobby Davaus.
Everything is funny if you can laugh at it. Bobby bounces back after suffering
a stroke on stage just six months ago. Wow Rose Mottafeyo's show is on
and on and on. Her first solo show since her prize winner Horn Dog
Roses show is expected to be the hottest of tickets, says The Guardian.
That's only four. I'm not doing twenty. I'm doing five and I'm splitting
this up. But John, what are you thinking doing twenty five? We'll
do five and the fifth one Demi ade Juibe is going to do one.
Demi, a writer for James Cordon's CBS show, promises original comedic songs,
presentations and one single backflip. Those are five of the twenty I'm not doing
all twenty shows that The Guardian is excited about. I will tell you the
others. Don't worry. We're here every every day. It's not like there's
a cap on the amount of comedy news I can do. Just some point.
I'm like, all right, I'm not going to read twenty and that's
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