Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media hardly. Oh, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website, a
Speaker 1: fantastic website. Asked to Nick swartzon a Nick Wartson how
Speaker 1: long you spend between your hours? Nick said, the new
Speaker 1: one I wrote pretty quick. He was pretty surprising. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. It came out really fast. I'm already chipping
Speaker 1: away at a new one. I think I have maybe
Speaker 1: ten minutes. I try to write as much as I can.
Speaker 1: I always trying to tell young comedians that they go,
Speaker 1: what device do you have? Write NonStop? Even if the
Speaker 1: joke doesn't make sense now, ten years from now, you
Speaker 1: put it in your notebook or on your phone and
Speaker 1: you'll figure out how to crack a joke. That's happened
Speaker 1: to me several times. The Gorilla said it's amazing how
Speaker 1: people work at different rates, like Jim Gaffigan and has
Speaker 1: a new hour every year. Swartan said, I know, it's
Speaker 1: super annoying. I love Gaffigan, He's an old friend of mine.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it puts so much pressure, like f
Speaker 1: I've got to turn out another one. Gaffick, it's a machine.
Speaker 1: Guys like him, Brian Reagan, Luis c kse at Bash
Speaker 1: and they keep dropping it. Look at somebody like Chris Rock.
Speaker 1: Chris Rock's been doing it forty years and what does
Speaker 1: he have? Four specials? Maybe five and forty years. Gaffigan's
Speaker 1: been doing it as long as I have. He is
Speaker 1: what ten? It's amazing. I plauw them. I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of all of them. I asked David Spade, why don't
Speaker 1: you have more specials? And he was like, because you
Speaker 1: burn that material. I'd rather just tour it for as
Speaker 1: long as I can because it's so hard to write
Speaker 1: a new hour. Vogue interviewed Nikki Glazer. No, when you
Speaker 1: interview Nikki Glazer, what do you ask her about Taylor Swift? Nikki,
Speaker 1: other than meeting Taylor Swift backstage, have you spent much
Speaker 1: time with her in person? Nicki said, we had an
Speaker 1: interaction on Instagram that you're probably familiar with where I
Speaker 1: apologize for talking out of line and then she wrote
Speaker 1: a comment back. But nothing since that, Nicky, how many
Speaker 1: concerts have you been to? The final number, unless she
Speaker 1: adds more shows, will be twenty two. Right now, it's seventeen,
Speaker 1: so I have five more to go, and I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I feel like she's the Beatles in terms of a
Speaker 1: once in lifetime performer artist and songwriter talent. I don't
Speaker 1: have liked to see The Beatles live, so I just
Speaker 1: need to capitalize in this while I can, and it's
Speaker 1: the most fun thing I've ever done. Initially, when she
Speaker 1: announced the tour, I wanted to go as many as possible,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of embarrassed by how much I like her.
Speaker 1: I've been mocked for it by my family and friends,
Speaker 1: and I'll add people recording a podcast in their basement.
Speaker 1: My boyfriend was the one who actually said, I've never
Speaker 1: seen you happier than when you're at these Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: sing alongs. I' mean going to a few of the
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift nights at different clubs and music venues when
Speaker 1: they just play Taylor Swift and you dance and sing
Speaker 1: with everyone. And I'd done some Taylor Swift day parties
Speaker 1: on Zoom. He said, you should go to every show
Speaker 1: you possibly can. I'm almost slipping in a triumph here
Speaker 1: for some reason. I might look ridiculous and people can
Speaker 1: make fun of me, but I honestly think anyone who's
Speaker 1: making fun of Swifty's is jealous that they don't like
Speaker 1: something that much. I really think that's at the heart
Speaker 1: of it, like they're too cool to let themselves like
Speaker 1: something that much and they're not even capable of it.
Speaker 1: I do think it's a special kind of personality that
Speaker 1: I have that leads me to be obsessed with things
Speaker 1: this much. But I'm so happy that I have that personality.
Speaker 1: It's brought me so much joy. I make the joke
Speaker 1: that being a swift eye has brought me so much
Speaker 1: joy as being an ant. It's probably brought me more joy.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, your niece is gonna love
Speaker 1: this article. In about ten years, I'm not gonna have kids,
Speaker 1: and this just felt like the right time and spent
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in something I love. When all my
Speaker 1: friends were spending thousands of dollars on fertility treatments and kids,
Speaker 1: I was like, let's do something fun with it. I'm
Speaker 1: always impressed by how on point Taylor Swift is and
Speaker 1: how she can just nail everything as well. Listen to this.
Speaker 1: I'm always impressed by how on point she is and
Speaker 1: how she could just nail everything I really find similarities
Speaker 1: between how I do my act sometimes and how she
Speaker 1: does her thing. I'll love a joke written. I like
Speaker 1: to make it fun for myself and to change it
Speaker 1: up for myself, but you still get the essence of
Speaker 1: what it is. So yes, I see differences in Taylor's shows,
Speaker 1: and it's been well documented, but her dancing has just
Speaker 1: become more free. She's become more comfortable within the steps
Speaker 1: that she's learned and memorized. I've seen the comfort level grow.
Speaker 1: There seems to be more easy with her performing, and
Speaker 1: I respect how much fun she's having every time. I've
Speaker 1: really never been able to sense any kind of performativeness
Speaker 1: that makes me think maybe she's hiding something. I don't
Speaker 1: think you've ever seen her pretend to root for a
Speaker 1: touchdown talk about performative geez. People always ask how the
Speaker 1: concerts are different, and I'm like, they're really not. She's
Speaker 1: always ten out of ten perfect with the thing she
Speaker 1: says in between songs. You can tell when she likes
Speaker 1: a crowd more than another crowd. Boy, I'm gonna hear
Speaker 1: from the Swifties now, you don't want to make fun
Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift. I mean, one time Joe Koy was
Speaker 1: hosting the Golden Globes and he made a Taylor Swift joke. Here,
Speaker 1: let's listen. As you know, we came on after a
Speaker 1: football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and
Speaker 1: the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber
Speaker 1: shots of Taylor Swift. That did not go over well.
Speaker 1: That joke was so poorly received that Scott Becker right
Speaker 1: now is banging his dashboard because I brought up the
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift recurring joke. Hi. Scott phil Wang spoke to
Speaker 1: the Indie one hundred and said I would not be
Speaker 1: a comedian if I wasn't mixed heritage. Of his new special,
Speaker 1: he says, it's the trifecta of my material Asian ness,
Speaker 1: food and some kind of smut. When I got in
Speaker 1: a comedy at seventeen eighteen, when I first did stand
Speaker 1: up for me, was a way of dealing with my
Speaker 1: alienis of owning it. If putting in front and center,
Speaker 1: in front of everyone, in front of this new country
Speaker 1: I was trying to assimilate into. Without that point of difference,
Speaker 1: I felt like if I fitted in, I felt like
Speaker 1: I was just like most other people. I don't think
Speaker 1: I would have done that. So I think my heritage
Speaker 1: is central to me being a comedian. I think it's
Speaker 1: why I am a comedian. Hassan Minhaj had that big profile.
Speaker 1: In Esquire, his new specials out on October twenty second,
Speaker 1: he tells the story of when he started performing stand
Speaker 1: up twenty years ago. He wouldn't get home until late
Speaker 1: at night. His parents thought he was on drugs or
Speaker 1: dealing drugs. Are both. His dad said, I don't think
Speaker 1: you're pursuing a career in comedy. Hassan said, I wish
Speaker 1: I was cool enough to be dealing drugs. I was
Speaker 1: actually performing at a bar in front of eight people.
Speaker 1: They discussed his YouTube rebuttal to all the back and
Speaker 1: forth about his previous special. Hassan explains why he made
Speaker 1: the choice in the first draft, which he wrote to
Speaker 1: convey how scary the incident was. His comedian friends thought
Speaker 1: that his wife came across as a knack when the
Speaker 1: envelope with the white powder arrived at their home. Being up,
Speaker 1: became upset about what it might have happened. Expressed her
Speaker 1: fear that her husband's career put the family in danger.
Speaker 1: By altering the anecdote to have the white powder land
Speaker 1: on their daughter, he was able to convey faster and
Speaker 1: more sharply how the consequences of his career choices at
Speaker 1: something and they become very real. Plus Minaje, not his wife,
Speaker 1: was now the butt of the joke. He says, it
Speaker 1: was a shortcoming on my part. I could have made
Speaker 1: the exposition better. I didn't need to pull in my daughter.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing where I'm looking back at it
Speaker 1: and like, hey could have changed that, but kept it
Speaker 1: the way it was. Our daughter was right there and
Speaker 1: we had this full on thing. Write the scene, keep
Speaker 1: tweaking it. That's the toughest thing about being a performer
Speaker 1: is that everyone has a character in your life. I
Speaker 1: have to balance that. They have to win and I
Speaker 1: have to lose. You never get it right, you know.
Speaker 1: Taylor Tomlinson was recently in Portland at Helium. She posted
Speaker 1: a video celebrating this girl on National Daughter's Day. In
Speaker 1: the clip, she's talking with a member of the audience
Speaker 1: who says, my dad's a bong. Tomlinson's like, your dad's
Speaker 1: a what? Oh, your dad's ashes are a bong. The
Speaker 1: audience member says no, they're made into a bong. Tomlinson says, God,
Speaker 1: we're in Portland right now. If you'd put me in
Speaker 1: this room right now and we're like, we won't tell you.
Speaker 1: If you'd put a sack over my head, put me
Speaker 1: in a big suitcase, driven me around for three days,
Speaker 1: put me on the stage and been like, guess where
Speaker 1: you are? And I heard they turned my dad's ashes
Speaker 1: into a bong, I'd be like Portland, Oregon. Molly Kearney,
Speaker 1: who's no longer on Saturday Night Live, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, this is turning fifty
Speaker 1: this year, and we are going to talk about SNL
Speaker 1: every day for the next nine months, including this sentence.
Speaker 1: Molly is joining that sitcom DMV that's the one that
Speaker 1: stars Tim Meadows. DMV's a workplace comedy set at the
Speaker 1: place everyone dreads going. Most the DMV are quirky and
Speaker 1: lovable characters and making minimum wage doing a thankless job
Speaker 1: where customers are annoyed before they even walk in the door.
Speaker 1: Good thing they have each other. Carney will play Barbara,
Speaker 1: the boss, who considers herself one of the gang, even
Speaker 1: though the gang does not. Barbara is a glass half
Speaker 1: full oversharer who's incredibly inappropriate and terrible at reading a room,
Speaker 1: so she's Michelle Scott from the Office. Barbara cares deeply
Speaker 1: and tries very hard but misses the mark, so she's
Speaker 1: Michelle Scott from the Office. Tim Meadows plays a driving examiner. JB.
Speaker 1: Smooth is getting a game show. Apparently Prime Video was
Speaker 1: all about the game shows. They've already announced pop Culture
Speaker 1: Jeopardy with Colin Jost, who's on Saturday Night Life, which
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, is turning fifty and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about it every day for nine months,
Speaker 1: and Wishless Games with Nick Cannon. The JB. Smooth one
Speaker 1: is called Buy It Now. It's a business competition where
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs get ninety seconds to pitch their product to an
Speaker 1: audience of potential customers. They're called the one hundred. If
Speaker 1: the one hundred like the product and price, then the
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs get to a panel of Amazon executives and celebrity entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1: The panel selects which products join Amazon's exclusive Buy It
Speaker 1: Now store and award one entrepreneur twenty thousand dollars whoa
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos Way to open up the wallet. There twenty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Woo, big spender wy Gred al Roker was
Speaker 1: on Instagram and he announced his comedy crush. It's Kate McKinnon,
Speaker 1: who was on Saturday Night Live. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this SNL's turning fifty. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about it every day for the next nine months. In
Speaker 1: the picture, al Roker is smiling at Kate McKinnon, seemingly
Speaker 1: listening to her as she spoke to him during a break.
Speaker 1: He captured the post I had here Kate mckinn and
Speaker 1: she is my hashtag comedy crash. One word. Her inventive
Speaker 1: goofiness and goodness shines through and is genuinely nice. Here's
Speaker 1: an idea you didn't think was gonna happen, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's not a terrible idea. The UK is thinking of
Speaker 1: doing their own version of Cheers. You may recall Cheers
Speaker 1: Ted Danson played Sam Malone. Now some of you were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know what Cheers is, and then some people are like,
Speaker 1: I was born in two thousand and four, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what you're talking about. All right, So Cheers
Speaker 1: was a sitcom in a bar Ran for eleven seasons
Speaker 1: and two hundred and seventy five episodes on NBCC. Back
Speaker 1: in the twentieth century they made more than six episodes
Speaker 1: of things. I mean two hundred and seventy five episodes
Speaker 1: on something on Netflix would have to run what thirty
Speaker 1: years Kelsey Grammer was on this show Cheers. He played
Speaker 1: a character named Frazer. You may have heard of him.
Speaker 1: A quick overview of some shows that have crossed the pond,
Speaker 1: as they call it. You may have heard of The Office. Yes,
Speaker 1: that was a British show. Originally Ghosts was a British
Speaker 1: show heading the other way. They tried to make a
Speaker 1: British version of The Golden Girls called The Brighton Bells
Speaker 1: didn't work. The seventies show called Days Like These didn't work,
Speaker 1: and Married with Children called Married for Life didn't work.
Speaker 1: One of the suits over there said the British pub
Speaker 1: is an endangered species. So there's an answer for the
Speaker 1: why now about it. The attitudes of Cheers of the
Speaker 1: eighties are very different to the attitudes of today, so
Speaker 1: there's a massive amount of work to be done around
Speaker 1: taking inspiration from the original characters but creating something fresh.
Speaker 1: The daughter of one of Australia's most famous comedians claims
Speaker 1: her stand up gig was canceled because she makes jokes
Speaker 1: about trans people. Biddy O'Laughlin, who was due to perform
Speaker 1: at the Cranker Comedy Show on October fifteenth in Adelaide.
Speaker 1: Biddy's mother is the famous comedian Fiona o'lachlan. Biddy has
Speaker 1: been kicked off the lineup following a complaint made by
Speaker 1: a pub staff member. Biddy told the Advertiser, I know
Speaker 1: some of the bartenders see me as a churf that's
Speaker 1: trans exclusionary, radical feminist, but I don't consider myself a feminist.
Speaker 1: Biddy's Instagram involves clips of her making jokes about trans women,
Speaker 1: along with photos of her and a red cap with
Speaker 1: the slogan make Women Female Again and giving off some
Speaker 1: Trump vibes there. She caption one photo fighting for you
Speaker 1: ladies and for your daughters, she continued. Even if you
Speaker 1: don't think it's an issue, and you want to call
Speaker 1: me a hateful bigot, I'll take the hit. The road
Speaker 1: to hell is paved with good intentions and men are
Speaker 1: not women. They call me the JK Rowling of the
Speaker 1: Adelaide comedy scene. There's put that on a poster, which
Speaker 1: is weird because I've never written a book. She also
Speaker 1: shared a clip from one of her stand up gigs
Speaker 1: where she responded to a heckler, but he said, I
Speaker 1: saw trans comedian once and he was so bad that
Speaker 1: I thought for a second he might actually be female inside.
Speaker 1: All right, let's wash that off with this from The
Speaker 1: Toronto Sun. Comedian Ben McKay, a rising star on the
Speaker 1: comedy scene, blend's lighthearted fun and punchline heavy humor with
Speaker 1: personal stories and spontaneous moments. So again to recap here
Speaker 1: and The Toronto Sun's done this before. He is a
Speaker 1: comedian who blends stories, spontaneous moments and punchlines hmm, innovative.
Speaker 1: He's influenced by Sean Mlandy, Gary Goldman, Hannibal Burris. How
Speaker 1: would you describe your comedy series, Ben McKay, Ben says,
Speaker 1: I'd like to think my comedy is lighthearted and fun,
Speaker 1: yet precisely written and punchline heavy. Plus I get distracted easily,
Speaker 1: so there's lots of in the moment stuff as well.
Speaker 1: John Mulaney's probably been my biggest comedic influence. He was
Speaker 1: the first comedian I really identified with. Beyond that, I'd
Speaker 1: say Gary Goleman and Hannibal Burris were also influential to
Speaker 1: me early on growing up, Mullany was always my favorite. Wow.
Speaker 1: Imagine growing up to Mullaney. I saw it like Mulany's
Speaker 1: new to me. He's like new wave to be Wow.
Speaker 1: I'm old. When I was young, I just fell in
Speaker 1: love with stand up in general. I'd take any opportunity
Speaker 1: to see stand up, so I was always watching Comedy
Speaker 1: Now specials just for laugh galas and anything i'd get
Speaker 1: my hands on. Who are you into these days? Some
Speaker 1: Canadians Alex Wood, Andrew Barr, Nigel Grinstead, Adam Christy and
Speaker 1: Jarrett Campbell. They're all fantastic and I feel fortunate to
Speaker 1: get to work with them. I've also discovered a lot
Speaker 1: of American comedians that I really like from the Don't
Speaker 1: Tell Comedy tapings on YouTube. We're hearing only great things
Speaker 1: about Don't Tell Comedy. I might have to get out
Speaker 1: to one of those shows, but then I would have
Speaker 1: to leave the house. That's your comedy news for today.
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