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Speaker 2: Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daly comedy news
Speaker 2: The La Signs, which has a great conception. By the way,
Speaker 2: They caught up with Danny DeVito and Charlie Day. They're
Speaker 2: out promoting season seventeen. If It's always sunny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Danny DeVito apologized for sounding like he had just come
Speaker 2: out of the salt mines. He said, I did a
Speaker 2: lot of yelling this week. Danny talked about joining the
Speaker 2: show and said, I knew lots about the show already.
Speaker 2: I was going in because I was friends with the
Speaker 2: president of the network at the time, John Langraf, sent
Speaker 2: me the first eight shows and I watched it with
Speaker 2: my family. He was saying he was talking about these
Speaker 2: really talented guys that he was working with, and John
Speaker 2: was building a network over there. I can't remember exactly
Speaker 2: where we met, but when we met, it was weird.
Speaker 2: It was the first thing. Throw me a little bit.
Speaker 2: Do you remember where it was? Charlie said, yeah, we
Speaker 2: had a lunch. You meet Robin Glent on Beverly Boulevard.
Speaker 2: We didn't have an office. We were writing the second season.
Speaker 2: You'd agreed to the show and you came in, like
Speaker 2: your character from Get Shorty. You started ordering for all
Speaker 2: of us, and you told us some crazy story about
Speaker 2: your father having a box full of tea and watches,
Speaker 2: and we're just taking notes. I think we pitched a
Speaker 2: couple different character names. I think you shot down a
Speaker 2: few of them, but you liked Frank. Charlie Day said Danny,
Speaker 2: I know that I went and spent maybe a whole
Speaker 2: week rewatching almost everything he'd ever done. I watched every
Speaker 2: episode of Taxi. I watched almost every single movie I
Speaker 2: could find, just studying a fighter you're going up against,
Speaker 2: and it was Get Shorty that really kind of locked in
Speaker 2: for me. A lot of people, what have you do
Speaker 2: that Louis de Palma thing over and over again. You're
Speaker 2: so great at that. But there was something so idiosyncratic
Speaker 2: about to Get Shorty character and unpredictable that we were like, oh,
Speaker 2: if we could tap into that. I think it took
Speaker 2: us a couple of seasons to do it, And then
Speaker 2: it felt like Kissmith that he sort of came in
Speaker 2: a meeting like that. Guy. Divido talked about Frank and
Speaker 2: Charlie's relationship and said, I like the idea of the
Speaker 2: scheming and everything that everybody else does, and they do
Speaker 2: it in a normal way. They want to make money,
Speaker 2: they want to get ahead, they want to be famous,
Speaker 2: they want the bar to succeed. They want this that
Speaker 2: Whenever Charlie does something, it titillates Frank. The Times of
Speaker 2: London spoke with Taylor Tomlinson. Now something driving me nuts here.
Speaker 2: First of all, I really like Taylor Thomason, but I
Speaker 2: just think this copywriting is so lazy. The Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: of stand up talks about oversharing it. Why is she
Speaker 2: the Taylor Swift of stand up? Because their name is Taylor,
Speaker 2: because they're both blonde. Taylor Thompson looks more like Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift than I do by a lot. But is she
Speaker 2: the Taylor Swift of stand up?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What does that even mean? They're both named Taylor. Okay,
Speaker 2: Joe Coy has never made a mean, horrible joke about
Speaker 2: Taylor Thompson as far as I know. Taylor Thompson has
Speaker 2: never iced Joe Coy's career by giving him a dirty
Speaker 2: stare instead of just laughing at the joke and going
Speaker 2: ha ha. Anyway, I digress. The Taylor Swift of comedy said,
Speaker 2: I've been a full time comedian for ten years, and
Speaker 2: it's been NonStop. Before that, I was working two jobs
Speaker 2: and in college. I think after this tour, I'm going
Speaker 2: to take some real time off because I've been burning
Speaker 2: the canile. It both ends for a long time. My
Speaker 2: career is everything I've ever wanted. There are certain aspects
Speaker 2: of my personal life that could certainly use some time
Speaker 2: and attention. Taylor grew up in a religious family. She
Speaker 2: began a question her of faith at age eight after
Speaker 2: her mother died from cancer and her father, who she
Speaker 2: no longer speaks to, remarried ten months later. Tomlinson said,
Speaker 2: I've had to work through a lot of my guilt
Speaker 2: and shame around sex and leaving the church. When there's
Speaker 2: a significant part of you that's being repressed because you
Speaker 2: were raised a certain way by certain people, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's possible to talk about that without a lot
Speaker 2: of anger and resentment release. It wasn't for me. Coming
Speaker 2: out as bisexual was the final piece. Look, I'm not
Speaker 2: an atheist. I'm not ruling anything out or judging anybody's choices,
Speaker 2: as long as you're not using religion to scare, manipulating, control, people,
Speaker 2: so it's just been many years of sorting through all that.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's funny to make jokes about something you're really
Speaker 2: angry about, but it also could be detrimental if you
Speaker 2: try to talk about something too soon. Some of the
Speaker 2: jokes I've done about my mom dying, I tried when
Speaker 2: I was twenty and I hadn't been in too much therapy,
Speaker 2: and I think you can tell when someone's not doing well.
Speaker 2: It's similar to going on stage and knocking over the mic.
Speaker 2: It just makes people nervous if they feel like you
Speaker 2: don't have full control over yourself their jokes I wrote
Speaker 2: for this tour, then I ended up cutting because I
Speaker 2: was like, I don't think I'm ready to talk about
Speaker 2: that yet. It would feel icky and like I overshared
Speaker 2: because I was talking about things that aren't resolved for
Speaker 2: me emotionally and are still very much affecting me in
Speaker 2: a complicated negative way. Mack Packer Andy Samberg says that
Speaker 2: Liam Neeson's upcoming Naked Gun reboot is good. That's stunning.
Speaker 2: I'll trust Andy Samberg, now, let's all be fair. The
Speaker 2: Naked Gun is directed by Akiva Shaeffer, who's the frequent
Speaker 2: collaborator with Andy Samberg, both from The Lonely Island and
Speaker 2: The Wonderfully Terrific. What is the jose Ca and Seiko
Speaker 2: Mark Maguire thing? What's that called? Oh my god? I
Speaker 2: love that thing. So either he's stating out with his
Speaker 2: friend or you know, Akiva. Schaeffer's got a pretty good
Speaker 2: track record. When I saw the trailer, when I saw
Speaker 2: the original idea, I was like, yeah. But Andy Samberg
Speaker 2: says The Naked Gun is pure joy, saying that Schaeffer
Speaker 2: crushed it. Samberg says everyone who's seen the film loves it,
Speaker 2: and the film is all jokes. Wall A Wall. Everyone
Speaker 2: I've seen it with walked out saying the same thing,
Speaker 2: which is like, I didn't realize how much him is
Speaker 2: that feeling of a pure silly comedy that's all jokes.
Speaker 2: Wat a Wall in a theater, Me and a Kiva
Speaker 2: are always involved in each other stuff, and I think he
Speaker 2: just crushed it. Liam is so funny at it. He's
Speaker 2: so good. Pam Anderson is so good at it too.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited for them. I hope everybody goes and
Speaker 2: sees it because it's super funny album. Hopefully, The Naked
Speaker 2: gun is out. August first caught this one in Vice.
Speaker 2: I didn't write this article. I'm just telling you about it.
Speaker 2: The headline in Vice is, these guys watch Adam Sandler's Click,
Speaker 2: the most demoralizing film ever made. Every single week. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you I didn't write this. Wece wrote ever have
Speaker 2: the misfortune of seeing Adam Sandlor's Click. I put it
Speaker 2: on to ease a hangover sometimes in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: expecting a brain numbing, heartwarming rump, abiding by the same
Speaker 2: two word arc that all Adam Sandler films abided by.
Speaker 2: That point, idiot prospers. In case you're wondering, it goes
Speaker 2: a little something like this. Adam Sandler's character finds a
Speaker 2: magic TV remote in a warehouse that can fast forward
Speaker 2: time itself. He rejoices because he can now skip all
Speaker 2: the boring parts of his life, arguments being ill, eating
Speaker 2: dinner with his family, and go straight to the good
Speaker 2: stuff like promotions and pay hikes. But then the magic
Speaker 2: TV remote learns Sandler's preferences, and it goes rogue, choosing
Speaker 2: for itself which parts of his life to fast forward. Soon,
Speaker 2: Adam Sandler's hurtling towards the grave, powerless to stop the remote.
Speaker 2: One minute, his kids are toddlers, the next day have
Speaker 2: gray hair, His wife marries their swimming coach. His dogs
Speaker 2: keep dying until one attacks, and when he's a pensioner
Speaker 2: and the doctor's find out he has cancer. This year
Speaker 2: I came across the Twitter account click Thinks, ran by
Speaker 2: two anonymous Australians who've been watching the Adam Sandler movie
Speaker 2: Click every week since twenty twenty, and will continue to
Speaker 2: do so for the rest of linear time. One of
Speaker 2: the anonymous fans said, we started an online movie night
Speaker 2: during the pandemic. We didn't think too hard about our
Speaker 2: first pick. We just landed on Click. Then the next
Speaker 2: week came around, instead of something new, we just watched
Speaker 2: Click again. Five years on, we're still watching Click every
Speaker 2: week as if it's the only thing holding reality together.
Speaker 2: It's like a dare that nobody backed out of. I
Speaker 2: like that it feels like a play with a clear
Speaker 2: two act structure. For the first half, it's the kind
Speaker 2: of humor that Sandlor fans would expect. But then as
Speaker 2: the film transitions into its second act, it pulls the
Speaker 2: rugout from under you. Suddenly it's no longer about the
Speaker 2: comedic possibilities of a TV remote, but about the devastating
Speaker 2: consequences of prioritizing the wrong things in life. This guy
Speaker 2: has over one hundred and fifty physical versions of Click.
Speaker 2: He says his favorite is the Japanese version, which translates
Speaker 2: to if you could choose yesterday. He's got a Korean
Speaker 2: VHS tape. He's working on a rare Russian VHS copy.
Speaker 2: The Click fan said, the film encourages us to reframe
Speaker 2: how we see our daily lives, not as filler between
Speaker 2: big events, but as the core of our human experience.
Speaker 2: Today is comedy auction. Comedy auction is part stand up show,
Speaker 2: part fever, dream yard sale. Audience members bring weird, wonderful,
Speaker 2: or cursed items from home. Two comedians auction them off.
Speaker 2: Greg Berman ish your host. Each item comes with a story,
Speaker 2: Each bid comes with a punchline. All proceeds go to
Speaker 2: a local nonprofit. If you're in Portland, Oregon, it's at
Speaker 2: Kickstand Comedy today. Check that one out that sounds fun.
Speaker 2: Over in the UK, Channel four is getting all involved
Speaker 2: with YouTube now they've started something called a comedy thing.
Speaker 2: So two points Aam's gonna report on this anyway, and
Speaker 2: then b when I saw they called it a comedy thing,
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, you know, I've been hosting something
Speaker 2: called The Weekly Comedy Thing for over a decade. Now,
Speaker 2: new episode out today on the Live one app. The
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Speaker 2: Weekly Comedy Thing? The Weekly Comedy Thing is like this,
Speaker 2: except I can actually play the bits, you know, royalties
Speaker 2: and stuff rules. I can't just be like and here's
Speaker 2: a six minute clip from George Carlin. Podcasting doesn't work
Speaker 2: that way, but on the Live one app, I can
Speaker 2: do that. It's called The Weekly Comedy Thing. New episodes
Speaker 2: every Sunday, and a new one out today anyway. The
Speaker 2: really differently titled Comedy Thing by Channel four will publish
Speaker 2: weekly long form programming for YouTube plus content on TikTok
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Speaker 2: out today a new podcast, Crown and Controversy that is
Speaker 2: a spinoff of the Palace Intrigue podcast. So Crown and Controversy,
Speaker 2: the elevator pitches what if the TV show The Crown
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Speaker 2: And now stick around for this.
Speaker 3: Interview our sister. I'm going to bring forward and yours
Speaker 3: and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow,
Speaker 3: that's great, thank you, that's so generous of you. Car
Speaker 3: that's great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic.
Speaker 3: She said, this is too much money, this is wrong.
Speaker 3: I don't want anything to do with and stormed out.
Speaker 1: Of the room.
Speaker 3: And I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh
Speaker 3: my god. So I realized from that that this was
Speaker 3: not an easy thing to do. So I learned a
Speaker 3: lesson from that, and I knew that I had to
Speaker 3: do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise
Speaker 3: it was not going to work. So that happened. And
Speaker 3: then the third thing that happened was that I was
Speaker 3: looking at my financial statements and I had more money
Speaker 3: there than I was really using. It was sitting there.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me.
Speaker 3: I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about,
Speaker 3: not for my people. So I thought, well, if I
Speaker 3: have all this money now, why should I wait until
Speaker 3: I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then
Speaker 3: it was a long process for me to come around
Speaker 3: to that, but that's what finally started this, and I said, well,
Speaker 3: I'll do it. Now.
Speaker 1: Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.
Speaker 3: Well, this is a recording of the real events with
Speaker 3: real people who I decided that I would bring forward
Speaker 3: the inheritance the money I had for them in my
Speaker 3: will and made it a prequest, so it was a
Speaker 3: chunk of money that they were going to get. Well
Speaker 3: they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I
Speaker 3: was still alive to see it happening. So I saw
Speaker 3: what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,
Speaker 3: I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.
Speaker 3: And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward
Speaker 3: and give it to you, but what I want from
Speaker 3: you is a plan so you use this money, so
Speaker 3: it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want
Speaker 3: this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan?
Speaker 3: I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said,
Speaker 3: a happiness plan?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan,
Speaker 3: but it's one of the most important plans you can get,
Speaker 3: and it doesn't have to be very complex. What is
Speaker 3: it that makes you happy? What values do you want
Speaker 3: to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have,
Speaker 3: and you can pursue them. And so I got them
Speaker 3: to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw
Speaker 3: the plan, I gave them all the money all at
Speaker 3: one time. And so then they took it and I
Speaker 3: watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans,
Speaker 3: what they did and how they became happier, and so
Speaker 3: you know, that had to be written about so because
Speaker 3: I wanted other people to see what they did so
Speaker 3: they too could do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.
Speaker 3: Well, it was a very very painful and sad story
Speaker 3: because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter
Speaker 3: and she was hit head on by a drunk driver
Speaker 3: and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at
Speaker 3: the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also
Speaker 3: their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and
Speaker 3: they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never
Speaker 3: be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy.
Speaker 3: They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter
Speaker 3: had been killed. Tremendously painful, off awful story. So they
Speaker 3: were grieving six years later and I met with them
Speaker 3: and I told them how much they had added to
Speaker 3: my life and how much I was so grateful to them,
Speaker 3: and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I
Speaker 3: put them in my will and they could accept that,
Speaker 3: and I said, but I want you to have it now,
Speaker 3: and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.
Speaker 3: They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we
Speaker 3: worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So
Speaker 3: several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to
Speaker 3: do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll do it because I say we're going to wait
Speaker 3: until you die, why not do it now? And they
Speaker 3: did it. And it wasn't the money, interesting life, they said,
Speaker 3: it was the coaching that made the big difference, that
Speaker 3: changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.
Speaker 3: And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look,
Speaker 3: you know it can be you can be happy again.
Speaker 3: And they started to get the mindset of happy people.
Speaker 3: And now you cannot believe what these people they are
Speaker 3: traveling all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now.
Speaker 3: They climbed killamungarratt. These people are loving life. And it
Speaker 3: was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt,
Speaker 3: wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,
Speaker 3: the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life
Speaker 3: because we were no longer living, we were dead and
Speaker 3: this brought us back to life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us
Speaker 1: have I have. You know, when you're in those depths,
Speaker 1: it's really it could be really difficult to find your
Speaker 1: way out of it. And you know, often it looks
Speaker 1: like there isn't a way out of it, and you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like
Speaker 1: this concept could be a good map for you. If
Speaker 1: that it sounds like it was for these folks. I
Speaker 1: always like to end interviews by asking is there anything
Speaker 1: that I didn't ask that I should have?
Speaker 3: How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should
Speaker 3: they do? What would be good for them? And so
Speaker 3: I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think
Speaker 3: about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy?
Speaker 3: And you can be happy, but you have to make
Speaker 3: it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness
Speaker 3: just that if you make that realistically, I want to
Speaker 3: and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice. And
Speaker 3: then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband
Speaker 3: or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist
Speaker 3: or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look,
Speaker 3: I'm made the decision that I want to be happier,
Speaker 3: and I'm like you to help me create a happiness
Speaker 3: plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard,
Speaker 3: but it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise. And
Speaker 3: if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.
Speaker 3: I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Carl Barney is the author and the book is called
Speaker 1: The Happiness Experiments, Lutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where
Speaker 1: could people find the book.
Speaker 3: Wherever books are sold, And it's now available for pre
Speaker 3: order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness
Speaker 3: Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there,
Speaker 3: and I hope they will.
Speaker 1: Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun.