Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. But we've had a little run of
Speaker 1: what I'm describing as angry comedy articles, and I've had
Speaker 1: fun sharing them. Here's another one from Pajeeba. Seane Gillis
Speaker 1: blame gen Z for him bombing his SNL monologue. Andrew
Speaker 1: Sandford writes, you don't tell people you're performing for that
Speaker 1: you lost them, nor do you start making excuses if
Speaker 1: you do. The great and powerful Conan O'Brien talks about
Speaker 1: that all the time. He's mentioned that during his years
Speaker 1: as a talk show host, anytime a guest would turn
Speaker 1: to the audience says something the effect of this isn't
Speaker 1: going well or I lost you guys, it would signal
Speaker 1: the interview's death. Even if you think things aren't going well,
Speaker 1: you lead with confidence. You don't start blaming the audience.
Speaker 1: That doesn't strictly apply to being a late night talk
Speaker 1: show guest either. I was part of the New York
Speaker 1: City stand up scene for a bit, while that didn't
Speaker 1: end up working out. I've seen a lot of bad
Speaker 1: stand up. More often than not, when a comedian starts
Speaker 1: blaming the crowd for their poor performance makes things a
Speaker 1: million times worse. I've seen comedians whose whole act insists
Speaker 1: of intermittently telling the audience. I guess that was too
Speaker 1: much for you guys, or everyone here is so sensitive
Speaker 1: tonight it's bad form. I do agree with that, that
Speaker 1: is a good point, but we'll get to the Shane
Speaker 1: Gillis part. Shane perform a monologue about Trump wanted to
Speaker 1: buy Greenland and how white guys want to know if
Speaker 1: their girlfriends have slept with a black guy. Surprised it
Speaker 1: did not go over well. He then pivoted to a
Speaker 1: joke about the Civil War, and by that point the
Speaker 1: crowd was pretty checked out. Even commits the cardinal sin
Speaker 1: and jokes about losing the crowd, even when he hasn't
Speaker 1: fully lost them yet, it was bad to be even
Speaker 1: slightly fair. Of course, so likely mostly liberal New York
Speaker 1: City crowd wasn't going to go for Gillis's stick, but
Speaker 1: he should know that he should pivot. You don't have
Speaker 1: to change who you are, just tell more jokes that
Speaker 1: may work where you are. But Gillis doesn't take the
Speaker 1: blame for any of that, as he explained on a
Speaker 1: recent episode, of SmartLess. It's the young people's fault. He
Speaker 1: didn't do well, but it was not Shane Gillis's fault.
Speaker 1: You guys so much just of Sheen Killa. I don't
Speaker 1: get it. I think he's funny. It's got a goofy
Speaker 1: smile that telegraphs that he's just, you know, a guy
Speaker 1: shocking jokes. Just have a good time taking Toataro. We'll
Speaker 1: headline the twenty twenty five Eureka Springs Pride Festival coming
Speaker 1: up on June fourteenth, that's next Saturday. Already, ticket price
Speaker 1: has caught my eye, sixty eight fifty to one, sixty
Speaker 1: four to fifty. There's also VIP meet and greet tickets
Speaker 1: in case the one sixty four to fifty wasn't enough
Speaker 1: for you. The BBC, for some reason did a travel
Speaker 1: guy to la with Osco at Kotska. Somebody in London's like,
Speaker 1: h I want to go to La. I wonder what
Speaker 1: Oscar has to say. The part that catches my eye
Speaker 1: is about the comedy clubs. Osco says, the comedy scene
Speaker 1: in la is pretty diverse. We have everything for you.
Speaker 1: She suggests dipping your twos into the scene by visiting theaters,
Speaker 1: it's a little more artful than a comedy club. The
Speaker 1: allegioned theater is her recommendation. Meanwhile, Largo is her go
Speaker 1: to for music enthusiasts if you like seeing musicians who
Speaker 1: just like seeing celebrities trying out their new jokes for
Speaker 1: the first time, and Largo's a great place for that.
Speaker 1: Musicians joined the lineup so you can be watching stand
Speaker 1: up comedy the same night Beck is doing a set.
Speaker 1: She also recommends places you've heard of, like the Comedy
Speaker 1: Store in Hollywood Improv. As for the Comedy Store, it
Speaker 1: has a pretty diverse lineup in the audience is true
Speaker 1: comedy lovers. Meanwhile, the Hollywood Improv a list lineups are
Speaker 1: the norm, she says. The Comedy Store in Hollywood Improv
Speaker 1: are two places I perform at a lot. Those are
Speaker 1: places I really feel at home. I love that the
Speaker 1: place I'm working at feels like a second home. Rob
Speaker 1: Wriggle will have a memoir out this fall. It's called
Speaker 1: Grit Spit and Never Quit, a Marine's Guide to Comedy
Speaker 1: in Life. I worked with Wriggle a few times, really
Speaker 1: enjoyed his company. Just like a cool guy, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Wriggle tells People magazine, I hope people
Speaker 1: will be able to identify some of what I went
Speaker 1: through and it would be a service to them on
Speaker 1: their own journey. The book tells stories from his twenty
Speaker 1: three years in the Marines, plus his time in movies
Speaker 1: and TV. Rob says, I like to think of it
Speaker 1: as a motivational memoir. I hope people will be able
Speaker 1: to identify with some of what I went through and
Speaker 1: it would be of service to them on their own journey.
Speaker 1: Wriggle retired from the military in twenty thirteen as a
Speaker 1: lieutenant colonel. That's no joke, he says. They pushed me
Speaker 1: beyond my perceived limits. So whatever I thought it was
Speaker 1: capable of, the Marine said, actually you can do a
Speaker 1: whole lot more when pushed, and they were right, and
Speaker 1: it opened up my mind a lot too. If I
Speaker 1: could do that, maybe I can do this. I started
Speaker 1: to actually believe myself and say, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: going to bet on myself and so that's when I
Speaker 1: finally got the courage to gopher it with regard to
Speaker 1: comedy and acting. So I give them Marine Corps especially
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for that. Wriggle learned the hard way.
Speaker 1: You need to embrace the suck and never give up
Speaker 1: if you want to get anywhere in life. The description
Speaker 1: concludes with he's jumped out of planes and he's become
Speaker 1: one of the most recognizable comedians in the country. But
Speaker 1: at his core, Rob was a regular guy from Kansas
Speaker 1: with grit, spit and the will to never quit. The
Speaker 1: Boston Gloto bast Come out Bell, is it harder to
Speaker 1: ridicule Trump now than it was during his first term?
Speaker 1: Come out and said you can still make fun of him.
Speaker 1: I joked that my New Year's resolution was to be
Speaker 1: more petty. Bell says, the president is still surrounded by
Speaker 1: bumbling fools, but they're bumbling fools that could turn us
Speaker 1: into North Korea West. That's not a joke. The reason
Speaker 1: to make fun of it is so we don't give
Speaker 1: all our power away to them. The more we can
Speaker 1: look them in the eye gives you the juice to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to go there and hopefully save
Speaker 1: the country. Send your letters to w pmal Bell. Brad
Speaker 1: Williams spoke to k e Yt. Brad was born with
Speaker 1: a chondroplasia. The primary feature of that is dwarf Ism.
Speaker 1: Brad found himself bullied at a young age and says
Speaker 1: his dad equipped him to handle it. Brad told k
Speaker 1: e Yt he and I would write comebacks together, would
Speaker 1: write retorts to common things he thought kids might say.
Speaker 1: And it was so great because when it happened, I
Speaker 1: wasn't hurt by it. I wasn't shock with it. I
Speaker 1: was just trained for this. Most of it isn't based
Speaker 1: in cruelty. Most of it's based in ignorance. Like a
Speaker 1: lot of discriminatory practices, a lot of people that don't
Speaker 1: like and don't accept certain types of people just haven't
Speaker 1: been exposed to those types of people. The first thing
Speaker 1: a lot of people notice. Sometimes people come up to
Speaker 1: me after a show and go, hey, man, thanks for
Speaker 1: talking about disability and difference. I get it. As for comedy,
Speaker 1: it's a positive effect on mental health for me personally
Speaker 1: because that's my therapy. That's how I get it out.
Speaker 1: And just to laugh, you're releasing these joy chemicals in
Speaker 1: your brain, serotonin, dopamine. You feel good about yourself, and
Speaker 1: if you have a physical ailment like a sort of
Speaker 1: Bruce drm, you go laugh a lot. You'll notice, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not hurting right now. Jim Jeffries was talking about
Speaker 1: the iconic line from Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee, you know
Speaker 1: that's not a knife, that's a knife for that one.
Speaker 1: Jim said, that famous and iconic line by Hogan, to
Speaker 1: me is really what we're all about. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of that Hogan line in all of us. I
Speaker 1: feel like when I travel on land at airports filling
Speaker 1: out the customs form, WHI says occupation I get to
Speaker 1: write comedian? How cool is that? You get to the
Speaker 1: desk and the guy behind it says, say you're a comedian?
Speaker 1: Are you? And they want you to tell a joke.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, if you had just told fourteen year
Speaker 1: old me that one day I'd be writing comedian on
Speaker 1: my customs form, what a blessing. Jim said, there were
Speaker 1: world class comedians who rarely for got to perform outside
Speaker 1: of Australia because it was too much of a hassle.
Speaker 1: It takes all those years to conquer Australia, so why
Speaker 1: would you bother going to another country these in the
Speaker 1: days before say streaming platforms. I just consider myself a
Speaker 1: lucky man who's got a few opportunities. I had a
Speaker 1: lot of luck in my career and I took advantage
Speaker 1: of it. He has a small role in the Jordan
Speaker 1: Peel sports horror film Him, which will be out in September.
Speaker 1: Jim says, it's a couple of scenes. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the movie yet, but when we were making it, I
Speaker 1: knew it was going to be awesome and the trailer
Speaker 1: for it was killer. The film is about American football,
Speaker 1: so it'll come out once the NFL season begins. But
Speaker 1: Stand Up will always remain my first job. It allows
Speaker 1: me to control my destiny and pick where I get
Speaker 1: to go. CBS announced what's taking over the Taylor Tomlinson
Speaker 1: twelve thirty seven slot, and it is Comics Unleashed with
Speaker 1: Byron Allen. Comics Unleased had aired in that time slot,
Speaker 1: filling the four month gap between the end of Cordon's
Speaker 1: show and the premiere of After Midnight. CBS will air
Speaker 1: two episodes of Comics Unleashed back to back each night.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, the run on CBS consisted of
Speaker 1: reruns and never before seen episodes, all of which were
Speaker 1: shot prior to twenty twenty three. The belief in the
Speaker 1: trades and on social media is that these will be
Speaker 1: older episodes as well, So don't get too excited about
Speaker 1: comics Unleashed. Hassan Minhaj during that Hollywood Reporter Comics roundtable
Speaker 1: I've been picking away at talked about I remember when
Speaker 1: we thought he was going to get the Daily Show
Speaker 1: and then didn't because people looked at his comedy special.
Speaker 1: Remember that happened, Hassan Sai. Yeah, I had to go
Speaker 1: through a comedy audit by Turbotext, which is its own thing.
Speaker 1: Make sure you file everybody, bring your receipts. But also
Speaker 1: there's a critique aspect to it that's very new. One
Speaker 1: of the first jokes that came to me was when
Speaker 1: I called a buddy and I was like, how bad
Speaker 1: is it? And he was like, the article's bad, but
Speaker 1: the photos are good. I was like, that's hilarious. It's
Speaker 1: also very funny to fail so bad that you bring
Speaker 1: back Jon Stewart. That is your comedy news for today.
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