Speaker 1: Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Jim Jefferies started at age seventeen. In nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four, he did some open nights in Sydney and
Speaker 1: said two of them went really badly and one of
Speaker 1: them went okay, And in fact one that went badly
Speaker 1: hurt me so much. I thought, this is all I
Speaker 1: ever do in my life. I didn't get back on
Speaker 1: stage until I was twenty. Now it's all I could
Speaker 1: ever do in my life and the only real job
Speaker 1: I've had. I think about it a lot, and I
Speaker 1: do feel really lucky. We all get older, Jim says,
Speaker 1: I still push boundaries, but it's a lot less about
Speaker 1: shock and more about clarity. Now. The funny thing about
Speaker 1: comedy is that it's more universal than people think. People
Speaker 1: everywhere relate to having kids, hating their jobs, worrying about money.
Speaker 1: The accent changes, but the laugh is the same. Mike
Speaker 1: Birbiglia had sold gold Derby about meeting Pope Francis the
Speaker 1: previous pope. Meeting Pope Francis was very moving, and I
Speaker 1: think it was very inspirational. He was a deeply kind,
Speaker 1: loving and compassionate person who wanted change for the Catholic
Speaker 1: and he wanted progressive ideas, bussing gay couples and welcoming
Speaker 1: divorced couples back into the church and all these things.
Speaker 1: He would sort of go, well, of course, but actually
Speaker 1: there's a faction of people who don't want that to
Speaker 1: be the case. And so I say in my special,
Speaker 1: I go, in case you don't know this pope, he's
Speaker 1: pretty good, but only compared to other popes. If you
Speaker 1: met him at a party, you'd be like this guy,
Speaker 1: But compared to popees, he's amazing. Some of the popes
Speaker 1: were literally Nazis, by the way, the Kurd Pope Pope Leo.
Speaker 1: I'm writing a podcast called White Smoke, and we've been
Speaker 1: putting that out seven days a week since Pope Leo
Speaker 1: took over. There is like the podcast is barely religious.
Speaker 1: Like this week alone, we were talking about how Pope
Speaker 1: Leo met al Pacino and how Pope Leo is related
Speaker 1: to Madonna and Justin Bieber and he's a White Sox fan,
Speaker 1: so there's all kinds of fun stuff to talk about
Speaker 1: with Pope Leo. That podcast is called White Smoke. Wherever
Speaker 1: you get your shows for Bigly I said, I feel
Speaker 1: like stand up comedy is always best when it's whatever
Speaker 1: you're obsessed with. In my obsession when I started writing
Speaker 1: this thing was the Good Life. How do you answer
Speaker 1: your child's questions? We don't necessarily know the answers. I
Speaker 1: was really knocking out of the park when she was
Speaker 1: five with the answers, but now that she's eight, I
Speaker 1: don't know all the answers. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: explain drugs and the thing that happened with my dad.
Speaker 1: Her BIG's daughter asked if Grandpa was okay at a stroke,
Speaker 1: and Mike said he didn't know. That's some one was like,
Speaker 1: oh well, let me try to say this on stage
Speaker 1: and see if I can find the comedy in it.
Speaker 1: If you look at all my specials, that's the challenge
Speaker 1: behind each one. How can you take a light threatening
Speaker 1: sleepwalking disorder and make that funny? How can you talk
Speaker 1: about having bladder cancer and make that funny? And it's like,
Speaker 1: if you can, that's the ultimate comedy handshake with the audience,
Speaker 1: and if you can't, then you just have to find
Speaker 1: another topic. I've developed a relationship with my audience where
Speaker 1: I trust them now to be okay. With it, and
Speaker 1: they trust me to take some big swings emotionally. I
Speaker 1: think it's symbiotic at this point, and I think there's
Speaker 1: a degree to which as a comedian, the audience will
Speaker 1: go there. If what you're saying is funny, If it's moving,
Speaker 1: the audience will go there, and if it's boring comedically
Speaker 1: or dramatically, they won't. Jimmy O Yang told The South
Speaker 1: China Morning Post. There's an expectation, especially if you grow
Speaker 1: up in a Chinese family, to go to college, and
Speaker 1: there's only a few majors that are considered legitimate majors
Speaker 1: like doctor lawyer, a can finance. At first, I was
Speaker 1: an engineering major, but then didn't love it. I try
Speaker 1: to find something easier that would also make my dad happy,
Speaker 1: so I chose economics. His dad helped him get an
Speaker 1: internship with Smith Barney. Jimmy says it was like a
Speaker 1: golden ticket. Everybody wants to work for Smith Barney, but
Speaker 1: Jimmy never enjoyed it. He said, when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I'd build little forts with my chopstick wrappers. He took
Speaker 1: hot jobs, try to make money from his hobbies. He
Speaker 1: worked as a DJ. He got into comedy and said
Speaker 1: I didn't have any stage for it. Although my jokes
Speaker 1: weren't very good in the beginning. I think Hong Kong
Speaker 1: people have a great sense of humor, so I learned
Speaker 1: a lot from that growing up. Of course, my dad,
Speaker 1: he's a very funny, charismatic Shanghai knees man. Bob Odenkirk,
Speaker 1: you have any wisdom for us, Bob tells Esquire. No,
Speaker 1: I do not have worthy wisdom to give anyone. It's
Speaker 1: a strange moment for me. I feel more uncertain than
Speaker 1: I having a long time about who I am, what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do. I've been out of my element
Speaker 1: for about fifteen years now, starting with Better Call Saul.
Speaker 1: I had to leave this dramatic show and I had
Speaker 1: to learn on the job, and then I did an
Speaker 1: action movie called Nobody. I'm coming to the end of
Speaker 1: a chapter where I redefine myself, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what that means. One of my qualities on screen is
Speaker 1: that I'm strangely earnest. My earnestness really doesn't lend itself
Speaker 1: as well to comedy, which is what I've done for
Speaker 1: most of my career. It fits better in a drama.
Speaker 1: One of the weird things about where I am now
Speaker 1: is I don't know what to do next. Where's the
Speaker 1: next load of laundry. There's no laundry to do. I
Speaker 1: didn't deserve half of what I had. You know, I
Speaker 1: can't pretend like I have to engineer some great career.
Speaker 1: I'm so far past anything at any right to dream of.
Speaker 1: So I guess I have to work on myself, which
Speaker 1: is that wonderful thing people do when they have enough
Speaker 1: money and they're honest about the fact that the universe
Speaker 1: has been really good to them, and anything that remains
Speaker 1: that's a discrepancy or an unsettling feeling is all theirs.
Speaker 1: He does have advice about fights. In a real fight,
Speaker 1: I would, upon the advice of every single stunt man
Speaker 1: I've ever worked with, get out of the room as
Speaker 1: fast as I can. Every one of them will tell
Speaker 1: you the first thing you do in a fight is
Speaker 1: get away from the fights. Fights are not fun, and
Speaker 1: they're not good, and almost no one wins. It's not
Speaker 1: a movie. A lot of what you do for screen
Speaker 1: fightings goes against the basic rules of actual fighting. When
Speaker 1: you swing a punch, you go big and wide as
Speaker 1: you can which is not a good idea in a
Speaker 1: real fight, because now you're way open. Lots of slessengers.
Speaker 1: Tour dates include Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Slavinia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.
Speaker 1: Eliza says, I'm very lucky to have fans all over
Speaker 1: the world, so I always get to do Europe. I
Speaker 1: was in Finland, which is an incredible comedy market, and
Speaker 1: these girls came to my meet and greet. They made
Speaker 1: me this really cool card. They kind of look like me,
Speaker 1: and they were like, you should come to Estonia. I
Speaker 1: never thought about a Estonian and b that there would
Speaker 1: be cool girls like that. So I've been working on
Speaker 1: this tour for a few years and I was inspired
Speaker 1: by meeting those really cool girls. I hope they're still
Speaker 1: my fans because I'm coming. You should always be mindful
Speaker 1: of where you are and what your audience is. Outside
Speaker 1: of America, certain references will land because of our pop culture,
Speaker 1: but I think it's always good to cater to and
Speaker 1: never pander. A couple of local jokes is great, but
Speaker 1: the point of view stays the same. Seth Meyers did
Speaker 1: a lot of press for some reason. This month. He
Speaker 1: spoke to the Good One podcast. He said one of
Speaker 1: the ideas for SNL fifty was I wanted to have
Speaker 1: all the impressions of democratic presidents come out and just
Speaker 1: thank the liberal institution of SNL. Then the fake presidents
Speaker 1: would say, thanks for your help. We've won six out
Speaker 1: of thirteen elections. Meyer said, as much as people talk
Speaker 1: about influenia LESNL is, it's like sub five hundred if
Speaker 1: you truly believe it's the liberal media. It's wildly ineffective.
Speaker 1: And I like this profile from Star News Online, who
Speaker 1: tells us Wilmington, Delaware's most controversial comic. She's a gay,
Speaker 1: conservative mom and recovering addict. She also claims to hate
Speaker 1: being gay. Ellie Coleman has a lot of good quotes
Speaker 1: in this article. Her production company is Ellie Degenerate Productions.
Speaker 1: Ellie Coleman says, mainly, I'm just focused on what pays
Speaker 1: my bills and gives me a savings account. She sounds
Speaker 1: very real. I don't leave my house for less than
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars unless I want to, and being able
Speaker 1: to do that, like coming from being homeless to being
Speaker 1: able to like pay me three hundred bucks, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: We are told. Her comedic persona is a heightened version
Speaker 1: of her chip on the shoulder personality. One might call
Speaker 1: it lesbian redneck, a millennial bland of white trash hip hop,
Speaker 1: conservative leading politics, and jokes about everything from gay sex
Speaker 1: and drug abuse to being married and raising a toddler.
Speaker 1: Coleman used to wear her hair in a mullet. She
Speaker 1: wears baseball caps, padded vests with furry colors, and or
Speaker 1: Dale Earnhardt t shirts under flannels. She describes her style
Speaker 1: as one hundred percent insensitive. It's insensitive, and it's one
Speaker 1: half the population is thinking, but they're too scared to
Speaker 1: say it. During June, she jokes about the Pride flag.
Speaker 1: She started making jokes about Biden during the twenty four
Speaker 1: election because she was sick of hearing so many liberal
Speaker 1: Trump jokes, and explains a lot of the stuff I
Speaker 1: say on stages and how I really feel. But I'm
Speaker 1: dead serious when I joke about being gay on stage, Like,
Speaker 1: I think the gay community has taking it way too far.
Speaker 1: We got dudes marching around inspeedos and stuff around kids.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, maybe tone it back a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, go do that in a bar. She sounds
Speaker 1: like a lot of fun. I enjoy her. She is
Speaker 1: Ellie Coleman, and that is your comedy news on this Sunday.
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