WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:10.560 Callaroga Shark Media. Sit there. I'm Johnny Mack with your 2 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:13.240 daily comedy news. I imagine this week and next will 3 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.239 be very slow for comedy news here, but I will 4 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.879 have a normal schedule to have episodes for you each day. 5 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:21.440 I'll mix in some of my end of the year 6 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:23.640 countdown specials. I can pre tape a little bit here 7 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:25.320 and give myself a couple of days off. But if 8 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:27.559 you're looking for an episode on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.280 New Year's Eve, ne Year's Day, You've got an episode 10 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.520 for you every day. Thank you for listening. I really 11 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:35.840 enjoyed Jay Leno and Adam Carolla speaking to the Rap. 12 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.159 The Rap asks a good question. Is there a common 13 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:40.119 thread that you guys started off with that would still 14 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.119 translate to today? Leno said, yeah. The most common is 15 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:44.960 a girlfriend or boyfriend going why do you have to 16 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.000 work every night? If you're the spouse of a comic, 17 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:49.439 I'm sorry, you might be close to equal or second 18 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.000 in importance, but you're not first, especially if you're starting 19 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:54.600 out in that relationship. No comic, male or female, is 20 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:56.439 going to be happy in a relationship unless they're happy 21 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:58.479 with their act. Unless you're happy with what you're doing 22 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.600 on stage, then I am worth to give my love 23 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.320 to this person. But if you're dating one of these people, 24 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:04.400 they have to do it every night because it's the repetition. 25 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.400 It's the only way they sit around that other twenty 26 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:08.280 three and a half hours waiting for their little set 27 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:10.840 to come out. And there's nothing better than killing an audience. 28 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:13.599 There really Isn't People say sex is great? Oh yeah so, 29 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:15.519 and not really as good as a good comedy set. 30 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:17.560 You know this joke? Right? A comic's in Vegas the 31 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.280 first time. He's all excited. It's like one o'clock in 32 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:21.079 the morning, goes back to his room after playing a set. 33 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:23.519 The phone rings, Hi. My name is Felicity. I'm the 34 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.400 leader nancer across the street, and I saw the show 35 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.079 tonight and I thought you were really funny and sexy, 36 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:28.400 and I thought maybe I could come over and we 37 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:31.239 could fool around. I mean, i'd leave before morning. I'd 38 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.319 just like to spend some time with you. The comic goes, 39 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:35.280 did you see the first show or the second show? 40 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.120 Corolla laughs at that and says that is such a 41 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.799 universal comedian thought, because you do two shows and there's 42 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:42.680 always one you like more. And then at some point 43 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:44.959 you run into someone they go, I see you back 44 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.239 at the whatever, and you go, oh, which show? When 45 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:49.040 they say the bad show, which isn't even bad, it's 46 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:50.920 not as good as the good show, there's a God 47 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.359 Hates Me kind of moment. Corolla and Leno were doing 48 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.640 that fantasy camp coming up in January. The rap is curious, 49 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.000 can you take anyone and give them some beating spark? 50 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:00.799 Carol says, I, I don't think you can make a 51 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.280 non comedian into a comedian. I think you take somebody 52 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:05.400 who's got a little acorn of comedy and maybe turned 53 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:07.280 it into a mighty oak tree. But I need some 54 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:09.919 acorn in there. But being good on your feet and 55 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:12.159 being relaxed and being sort of conversational in front of 56 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.439 people as a universal application, if you're an attorney certainly 57 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:17.719 or socially, whatever it is, maybe you're not gonna end 58 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.560 up being on the marquee playing the theaters that these 59 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.560 guys play. It's still like I would always tell people, 60 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:24.439 take a groundlings class, take an improv class. Why because 61 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:26.560 you're gonna join the cast of SNL NO, so you 62 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.400 can be funny at a party, give and take and 63 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.080 have good conversations. It could pay off on a first date. 64 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:34.520 Leno says, I always find people's comedic ability is inversely 65 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.840 proportional to their intelligence. You want to try and take 66 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:38.560 as much from your life as you can. If you're 67 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.520 like adult person, a dullart, if you come across a 68 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.120 sort of boring, then be really boring on stage. That's 69 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.560 where your humor is. Corolla with his zing, that's what 70 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:48.199 Jay does. He draws them decisive life show a fans. 71 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:50.400 How many people have had their Dusenberg breakdown on the 72 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.039 four h five, Leno says, See be a comic. Have 73 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:54.360 you ever seen a group of animals and one of 74 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:56.319 the animals is injured and all the other animals try 75 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.159 to come and eat it. That's kind of like being 76 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:01.719 a comic. That's what happens. Just now. ESPN wrote about 77 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:06.159 Adam Sandler's basketball capabilities. ESPN rights. It's March twenty twenty 78 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.199 three and an LA based photographer who goes by the 79 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.280 moniker Xavier Luggage, is in the middle of his first 80 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:13.000 pick up basketball game at the Point Set, a recreation center. 81 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:15.919 The park typically fills around six pm with people arriving 82 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:17.960 to get their games in, but it's an hour so earlier. 83 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:19.759 When the intention of the player snaps towards the side 84 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.520 of the court, they all see him warming up seemingly 85 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.680 out of nowhere. Luggage told ESPN, it was like, damn, 86 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.080 that looks like Adam Sandler. Sandler shows up without an durage, 87 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.520 donning his signature brightly colored, oversized polos and baggy shorts. 88 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:35.719 He looks to make the extra pass. He dishes out 89 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.360 as many compliments as assists, regardless of whether he's on 90 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.800 your team, and competition reigns supreme. Luggage said, he's like 91 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:43.479 the random older dude that pulls up to the court 92 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:44.840 and you're kind of like, all right, whatever, and then 93 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:46.919 you pick them up and he's making the craziest passes, 94 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:48.960 not moving too much, not doing the most, but he's 95 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.199 just got the og game like he's been playing forever. 96 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:52.680 He came up to me and was like, oh, man, 97 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.199 I hope you're not fast. And I looked at him 98 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.039 and I'm like, oh, you're fed up. He was meaning 99 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:58.960 to play, not just to mess around, you know, like 100 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.680 you wanted to win for sure. It was honestly pretty magical. 101 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.479 Bro Patrick Quinn is a comedian who played Sandler in 102 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.800 twenty nineteen, they were in a park in La Sandlor 103 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:10.360 comes by, he goes, you, guys, mind if I play 104 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.719 with you. Quinn played against Sandler in one game, then 105 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.159 they teamed up for the next. Quinn said, he's essentially 106 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.360 an influential person in other aspects that you're like. I 107 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.319 wouldn't expect him to be doing these plays. It seemed 108 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:20.560 like he had to be playing a lot to do 109 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:22.959 something like that, and he was nailing them. Sandler once 110 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.279 again was wearing bright colors and a large T shirt. 111 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:29.240 Quinn said, Sandler's outfit is disarming. His theory is Sandler 112 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:30.879 does it on purpose, so you don't think he's going 113 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.480 to absolutely dominate on the court. He was playing point, 114 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:35.800 calling out the plays. He was calling shots out, he 115 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:37.839 was doing no look passes, he was creating shots, and 116 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:39.519 he was going up and down the court. He was 117 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.439 back and forth, sweating, putting in some work. I was 118 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.839 very impressed. Shashua Jackson said Sandler had to be wearing 119 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:47.639 something from a decade ago, like three XL pants, wrinkled 120 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.560 big and tall shirt. He definitely had clothes on that 121 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:52.839 could fit a six foot eight linebacker. He executed a simple, 122 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.800 beckcut and squared his body with the rim. Jackson turned 123 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.439 around and said it was a perfect pocket pass. I 124 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:01.079 had to go with it. He doesn't wow. Sandler executed 125 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.800 the past but described it as super quick and soft. 126 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:05.720 He says it's still the best past that I've ever 127 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:07.879 received in my life. And I'm not saying that because 128 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.839 it's Adam Sandler. Luggage said, to be honest, I don't 129 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:12.920 even remember him really leaving. I just remember that he 130 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.439 just wasn't there. The only time spoke to Tom Popa 131 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:21.519 about his podcast, Breaking Bread. They were curious, are there 132 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.560 any similarities or parallels between the world of comedy and food. 133 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:27.279 Papa said, yes, there are. I name my podcast Breaking 134 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:29.800 Bread because I'm huge into baking bread and I love 135 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:31.920 to host dinners and get together as I've always enjoyed it, 136 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:33.800 I thought it'd be perfect to talk about the food 137 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:35.560 we all love. We all have drinks before enjoying a 138 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.360 meal and a baked bread. For every guest to open 139 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.040 up the conversation and literally break bread over conversations is 140 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:42.720 one of the things that I live for. It's passion, 141 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:44.439 mind you all the time. The podcast is growing. We 142 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.319 just said Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman and more. Jerry 143 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.000 people are realizing this is a safe, comforting place to 144 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:53.079 talk and enjoy bread, food, drinks, and conversations. As for 145 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.240 food and comedy, the end result is both similar and 146 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.399 that you're hosting people you're entertaining with, either with your 147 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:58.839 food or your jokes, and you just want them to 148 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:02.480 escape their lives and smile and enjoy themselves. Also, the 149 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.120 process of cooking and baking is just as humbling as comedy. 150 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:06.839 I've been doing both for a long time, and it's 151 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.519 always a new experience. Anything can happen at a show, 152 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.480 we're breaking bread at home. Really, Tom, you always have 153 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.279 to be humble about your craft. It's not just a 154 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:15.839 thing you can pin down. You get better at it, 155 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.600 but it'll never be one hundred percent perfect. No one 156 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:19.519 ever nails one hundred percent of every joke on their 157 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:22.920 act all the time. Baking and cooking is very similar 158 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:26.240 in this regard. Leanne Morgan wrote in her book that 159 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.360 she felt unseen in the comedy industry for decades and 160 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.480 had some advice. Leanne said, I was coming up in 161 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.920 comedy clubs when Comedy Central was big, and back then 162 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:36.759 they didn't want to see a mama talking about three 163 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:39.000 little children and how she couldn't fit in her pants. 164 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:41.279 I didn't fit the bill. Nobody cared, but anyone in 165 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:43.240 my heart there were women out there who'd relate to me. 166 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:45.399 I didn't go and live in New York or LA 167 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:47.360 because my husband had a good job and we needed 168 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.680 health insurance. But that ended up being the best thing 169 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:51.399 that ever happened to me. It was one of those 170 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.399 silver linings and blessings because I was able to have 171 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.399 a real life with my family, and my real life 172 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:57.759 led to this wonderful material. I could mind that people 173 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.000 could relate to what I had to do. I would 174 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.600 tell others to do is just keep believing in yourself. 175 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:04.439 I just kept going. I'd pray about it, and God 176 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:06.600 never shut the door. When I would get discouraged, I'd 177 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:08.560 get some kind of sign to keep me going. Now, 178 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.000 at fifty nine, I feel like I've really become my 179 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.120 authentic self. I was recently asked to speak at my 180 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.600 alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and I tell those kids, 181 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.959 don't change who you are. Don't be ashamed of where 182 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.040 you're from. That's what made you who you are. Be authentic. 183 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.959 That's what people are attracted to. That is great advice. 184 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.480 Roz Hernandez is one of Vulture's comedians You should and 185 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.160 will know. Roz says, sometimes when my family would eat spaghetti, 186 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:34.000 I would secretly take one of the noodles out and 187 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:36.720 slurp off all the sauce like a plain noodle. And 188 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:38.439 a time one end in a nod he stood with me. 189 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:40.319 When no one was looking, I'd put the noodle in 190 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:44.279 one of my nostrils and then fake snees really dramatically. 191 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.639 When I'd remove my hands from my nose. My family 192 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.319 would see a long noodle dangling from my nose, and 193 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.000 then I would gaslight them and be like, what is 194 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.319 something on my face? She says, I'm gonna dust that 195 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.040 one off next time I go on an Olive Garden 196 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.160 date wors show. Ever, I used to present as a 197 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:59.319 drag queen with a big wig and the whole shebang. 198 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.079 I hosted a month show in the smaller room of 199 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.439 a venue with two stages. I couldn't even sell those tickets. 200 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:06.000 For for a while, Joe Rogan would sell out the 201 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.720 big room or the people who couldn't get tickets to 202 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:10.920 see Rogan would come to my show instead. I learned 203 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:12.519 that the people who want to see Joe Rogan but 204 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:15.600 didn't get their tickets in time or not mine's demographic. 205 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:17.800 All right, what's your writing process? You have to sit 206 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.240 down at a computer and write crappy jokes every day. 207 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.319 I feel like I heard older comedians say do that, 208 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:25.040 and I'd get frustrated because my mind doesn't work like that. Now. 209 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.120 I just try to live life and take notes of 210 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:29.560 funny things and experiences, and then I usually think about 211 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:31.319 how to make them funnier as I drive around town. 212 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.240 Biggest financial hurdle as a comedian not having rich parents. 213 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.519 Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice. Best get good in 214 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:40.600 a smaller market before moving to a big city. I 215 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:43.080 ignored this when I started in LA and I've regretted 216 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.799 it because it's really hard to undo first impressions. Worst 217 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.360 try to appeal to everyone. Cracked writes that Jerry the 218 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:53.399 character on Seinfeld. The character Jerry Seinfeld is far from 219 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:57.240 a need freak according to actual need Freaks. Someone in 220 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.480 the subreddit wrote, how come Jerry's supposed to be a 221 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.759 need freak, yet him and his friends rarely put shoes 222 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.720 on the couch. Along with that was a screenshot of 223 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.879 Jerry enjoying a diet coke with a sneaker firmly planted 224 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:13.279 on the cushion of his teal couch. Gabriel Phileppe works 225 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:18.279 for the Environmental Resilience Institute and said, we can track 226 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.879 in all sorts of bacteria, but certainly some of the 227 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.200 ones we're most concerned about are e coli because that 228 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.200 causes severe dominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. There's been 229 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.480 studies that swab the bottom of shoes and something like 230 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:34.000 ninety nine percent of the shoes test positive for fecal material. 231 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:36.799 TV watchers point out Jerry gets rid of a shoelace 232 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:38.759 for touching the men's room floor, but steps on the 233 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.879 coffee table with that same shoe when user said, he's 234 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:44.879 quite insane, a little confused. I guess that's your comedy 235 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.480 news for today. Christmas is coming. I will have normal 236 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.840 episodes all through I don't take a day off. Sometimes 237 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.200 I pre tape. If you listen on December twenty sixth, 238 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.720 then you're like wow. John spent his Christmas recording to 239 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.639 the December twenty sixth podcast. No, that was a pre tape, 240 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:02.799 but I'm around, see you tomorrow.