Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. By there, I'm Johnny mack. If your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. John m'laney spoke to GQ about his
Speaker 1: early days in how he was part of an old
Speaker 1: comedy scene. John said, I didn't feel like we were
Speaker 1: black flag or anything, and I was on the straight
Speaker 1: edge of it, but it did feel like we were
Speaker 1: weirder than the norm. Then he noticed he was getting
Speaker 1: big laughs on the road, just like he was in
Speaker 1: New York. He said, I might have been in Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: It was like twenty thirteen. It was older parents at
Speaker 1: the show with their teen kids, and they both seemed enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I thought, this plays in East Village, but it's also
Speaker 1: working in Wisconsin. Maybe we should see how far we
Speaker 1: can push it. It was around then that he started
Speaker 1: wearing a suit. Yeah, I think from memory. If you
Speaker 1: look at his earlier albums, he's in a hoodie. Mulaney said.
Speaker 1: An AHA moment came when he was playing a club
Speaker 1: called Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta. I remember that club
Speaker 1: when all six comics on the bill wore the exact
Speaker 1: same nerdy white guy outfit, and so did everyone in
Speaker 1: the crowd, and he said, I remember thinking they paid
Speaker 1: money to see something. Why does it look like one
Speaker 1: of the audience members is standing on stage talking and
Speaker 1: he began to suit up. The Harvard Gazette spoke to
Speaker 1: Eliza Slessinger. She discussed the balancing act between not offending
Speaker 1: and not allowing public opinion to ruin a good joke,
Speaker 1: and says female comedians are always judged more harshly, quoting Eliza,
Speaker 1: as women, we are constantly having to justify everything and
Speaker 1: make sure that you know I don't mean to offend.
Speaker 1: We love to pick apart people and women. We do
Speaker 1: it deliciously. We love the shodden fruit of I know that.
Speaker 1: All she said was she loves fluffy clouds, but she
Speaker 1: didn't say she loved ring clouds also, which means you
Speaker 1: hate the rain, which means you love climate change. So
Speaker 1: Lussingery discussed the algorithm and said, we all have our
Speaker 1: own personalized channels on Netflix, and we all have our
Speaker 1: own personalized comedians because we have so much to pick
Speaker 1: from on social media. That's just not the way the
Speaker 1: human brain works. How could I tailor something that one
Speaker 1: percent speaks to you. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we're all people we all go through the same things.
Speaker 1: When you could tap into that, which I always strive
Speaker 1: to do, that's how you over to play Kuala Poor
Speaker 1: and also Irland and also Tokyo. You're reaching a very
Speaker 1: human thing. Leanne Morgan says she gets her positive attitude
Speaker 1: from her mom. I'm from a rural farming community of
Speaker 1: five hundred people and my extended family, my grandparents, aunts
Speaker 1: and uncles, a lot of family. We were always around
Speaker 1: and we all seem to make jokes out of the
Speaker 1: bad times. Did you hear me say, Aunt, I'm from
Speaker 1: Queen's Why did I say, Aunt? I'm leaving it in
Speaker 1: aunts and uncles. That's how we talk what's going on.
Speaker 1: I'm selling out. Listen to me with the aunt's crap.
Speaker 1: You guys should throw pies in my general direction. I
Speaker 1: hope you miss, but if you don't, I'll understand. Leanne said,
Speaker 1: we use humor together. I can't believe I said, Aunt,
Speaker 1: Deacon Mike and Cleveland. You've known me for thirty years?
Speaker 1: What is wrong with me? Leanne Morgan said, we use
Speaker 1: humor to get through things. Bad things would happen, but
Speaker 1: we would make light of what we could get through it.
Speaker 1: I think humor can help us see that when bad
Speaker 1: things come, there are silver linings like oh, that happened,
Speaker 1: and this wonderful thing came out of it. Leanne says,
Speaker 1: I can get bogged down and start looking at social
Speaker 1: media and freak out. It's easy to get sucked in
Speaker 1: and start thinking the world's on fire. When that happens,
Speaker 1: I get off social media and try to remember that
Speaker 1: God is in control. I pray, and then I try
Speaker 1: to get out and walk. Being in nature helps me.
Speaker 1: Seeing my magical grand babies keeps me grounded. I agree
Speaker 1: with her, going for a good walk and getting fresh
Speaker 1: air and clearing your head. I know personally when I write,
Speaker 1: I write better in the morning. I write better promos
Speaker 1: in the morning. I write better scripts for the show
Speaker 1: in the morning by like three four in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: I do tasks I call them like, oh can I
Speaker 1: just addit something where I don't have to think but
Speaker 1: morning brains where it's at. And go for a walk today.
Speaker 1: I actually exercise before writing the podcast, before recording the podcast,
Speaker 1: So I feel good today. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Leanne says, I come home from la or I'm shooting
Speaker 1: a sitcom from Netflix or everybody thinks I'm a star
Speaker 1: and my name is on things and I feel like
Speaker 1: Beyonce and my family's like, can you wash my panties?
Speaker 1: And I need to go pick up a prescription at Walgreen's.
Speaker 1: That keeps me grounded. That is hilarious. Leanne any advice
Speaker 1: for those of us who want to be funnier, She says,
Speaker 1: go see live shows. Go see your favorite comedian, or
Speaker 1: go see a funny Broadway show. Back to the Future
Speaker 1: the musical it's closing soon. You should go. It really
Speaker 1: does feel good to laugh with other people. Well, you
Speaker 1: could even go on social media and find somebody that
Speaker 1: tickles you and watch them instead of all this other
Speaker 1: mess about death and impending World War III. The Guardian
Speaker 1: spoke to Phil Wang. He said, no matter how much
Speaker 1: experience I have, no matter how many times I've been
Speaker 1: on TV, I always approach every gig assuming people don't
Speaker 1: know who I am and have noticed that I'm Asian.
Speaker 1: It's like a sick for me. I can't stop trying
Speaker 1: to bridge the gap by joking about it. I'm writing
Speaker 1: new material at the moment and are ready. The first
Speaker 1: few minutes are about being Chinese. It's not conscious. Jerry
Speaker 1: Seinfeld once said, every comedian only really has the same
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and I think there's something to that. Doing
Speaker 1: stand up about Asians is a way of me taking control,
Speaker 1: addressing what I think is the elephant in the room.
Speaker 1: As my career has progressed, comedy has become a different
Speaker 1: experience the way I see it. I used to date
Speaker 1: comedy and now I'm married to and I still love it,
Speaker 1: but it's not all about new experiences in places. It's
Speaker 1: now just part of my life that's not the same.
Speaker 1: I'm complacent. I still worry about not getting eighty percent
Speaker 1: in whatever I do. I recently watched my first special
Speaker 1: on Netflix and thought, this could have been better. I
Speaker 1: got that bit wrong. Next time, maybe I'll get one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. I'll jump in there and I teach this
Speaker 1: to my fellow podcasters. I teach a couple college classes.
Speaker 1: You will drive yourself nuts and in the homework at
Speaker 1: some point the show's done. Believe me, every single episode
Speaker 1: of this podcast I listen, I'm like, oh, that could
Speaker 1: have been better, that could have been better, and yeah,
Speaker 1: but at some point you got a hand in the homework.
Speaker 1: Vultra had done their list of the comedians you should
Speaker 1: know and will know. One of their comedians is Vic Mchayliss,
Speaker 1: whose career would you want? Vic says, the landscape of
Speaker 1: comedy is changing so rapidly it's hard to say. I
Speaker 1: love comedy based folks who really lean into acting and
Speaker 1: use their success to choose their work. Lisa Kudrou, Paul F. Tompkins,
Speaker 1: and Quinta Brunson are all people I would love to follow.
Speaker 1: Worst show ever. When I was first starting out, my
Speaker 1: indie team got booked on a show at a venue
Speaker 1: none of us were familiar with through someone's cousin. When
Speaker 1: we arrived to check in, we realized we'd be performing
Speaker 1: in a club, not a comedy club, a club club
Speaker 1: as in bottle Service. My best guess is the booker
Speaker 1: thought we were doing stand up, but he was hoping
Speaker 1: would say funny things while hyping up the crowd as
Speaker 1: the DJ switched out. What she was not expecting were
Speaker 1: six over eager improvisers looking for one word suggestions to
Speaker 1: get started. We have been paid a very small amount
Speaker 1: of money upfront, so the show had to go on.
Speaker 1: The DJs were so mad they wouldn't turn the music
Speaker 1: down and lay it on the horns Ount effect. Every
Speaker 1: time we tried talking the whole thing, I ended with
Speaker 1: a locally known rapper getting the entire club to chant
Speaker 1: muppets until we left the stage. Some life lessons. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing I've learned is that if I'm not doing
Speaker 1: things outside of comedy, I have nothing to pull from.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it gets so caught up in shows and work
Speaker 1: I forget to do things that make me a complete person.
Speaker 1: I've learned it's not only okay, but necessary to take
Speaker 1: a break and live my life where everything becomes self
Speaker 1: referential and boring. I try to do things I'm bad
Speaker 1: at and work on things that require spending actual time
Speaker 1: with people I love. Comedy requires so much of your
Speaker 1: heart that if it's empty, it's noticeable. What comedy opinion
Speaker 1: Hill will you die on? VIC says comedy videos on
Speaker 1: social media aren't going anywhere anytime soon, and you don't
Speaker 1: have to participate, but it is a valid form of comedy.
Speaker 1: Comedy is supposed to be fun, and making videos for
Speaker 1: people to see without putting studio quality lighting and sound
Speaker 1: behind them is a really cool way to see if
Speaker 1: your ideas resonate with folks. Jay Leno and Adam Caroll
Speaker 1: will be hosting the third annual Comedy Fantasy Camp in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles from July twenty third through the twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: Corolla told The Rap, I met the guy who started
Speaker 1: the rock and roll Fantasy Camp, and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is a great idea. We should do this for comedy.
Speaker 1: The first two Fantasy Camps went so well that we thought,
Speaker 1: why not turn it into something we do once a year.
Speaker 1: And Jay Leno was kind of enough to get involved,
Speaker 1: but not just let his name to it, like really
Speaker 1: get what the campers and really get granular, really spend
Speaker 1: time and burn calories. And I think Jay had a
Speaker 1: good time. Jay Leno says, I had a good time
Speaker 1: because when I was starting out, it was lucky enough
Speaker 1: to meet the comics, Robert Klein, Gabe Kaplan, all these
Speaker 1: comics will come through Boston. I'd meet them and talk
Speaker 1: to them, and that's where I learned from. Because you're
Speaker 1: usually taught from somebody who can't do it, you kind
Speaker 1: of go, who's this guy? People who respect his comedians,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a more unorthodox way of how you
Speaker 1: do it. If you're going to do it, it's the
Speaker 1: only thing you can do to say I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: being comedian, maybe I'll be a writer. Well know, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Then you're a writer. I think if you're a comedian
Speaker 1: and a writer, you're a writer. If you think you're
Speaker 1: an actor and a comedian, you're an actor. Because comedians
Speaker 1: just want to commit. That's the whole thing. You just
Speaker 1: want to do stand up. It's something you have to do,
Speaker 1: and you'll go to humiliating lengths to do it. Corolla said,
Speaker 1: I always tell young comedians or young anything writers or
Speaker 1: podcasters that go, what do we need you for? Like,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of comedians, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of podcasters. A lot of people think
Speaker 1: they're funny. There's a lot of people think they can
Speaker 1: sing country music. Why you And if the answer is no,
Speaker 1: then maybe it's no. But if you think you're different,
Speaker 1: your angles are different, we've never met you before, then
Speaker 1: show up and bring us something we need. Leno's as
Speaker 1: the best advice I always give young comics is don't
Speaker 1: go up as a comic, Try and be an MC.
Speaker 1: If they have a talent show in your town, try
Speaker 1: to be the MC. Speak of your synagogue, your church,
Speaker 1: an AA meeting, whatever you need to do to get
Speaker 1: in front of an audience. Just talk and if you
Speaker 1: get a laugh, continue to talk. If you don't get
Speaker 1: a laugh, then sit down and introduce the next act.
Speaker 1: But get comfortable in front of people talking. And that's
Speaker 1: all the voice I have for you today. You know
Speaker 1: it's the holidays. I'm recording a bunch of these in
Speaker 1: a row, so I don't have to, you know, record
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. I'm sure you understand. If you'd like
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Speaker 1: This is a large iced coffee with caramel and almond milk,
Speaker 1: and I drink these to keep my voice going so
Speaker 1: I can record multiple episodes in one day. You know
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