Speaker 1: Caalarogus, Shark Media Boom. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
Speaker 1: Jim Jeffries rejects the suggestion that he hates women. Jim says,
Speaker 1: I don't believe I'm a misogynist. No, but that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's probably what a misogynist would say. I'd rather this
Speaker 1: be part of an interview. This was with Rolling Stone Australia,
Speaker 1: New Zealand, when people could actually hear me talk then
Speaker 1: read what I'm saying, or have some idiot in a
Speaker 1: basement recording a podcast read the words from a transcript
Speaker 1: from what Jim actually said. Why would we do that?
Speaker 1: That's dumb, Jim says, But look, you never watched a
Speaker 1: female comic go on stage about some guy they had
Speaker 1: sex with, who had a little member who didn't make
Speaker 1: them finish. I've cleaned that sentence up three times and thought,
Speaker 1: how dare she? Right now? If I were to make
Speaker 1: a joke about some women's general tillia being too large
Speaker 1: and me not finishing, I'm the worst man in the world.
Speaker 1: Right There's no difference between those two jokes. There just isn't.
Speaker 1: But do you believe that that woman when she makes
Speaker 1: the joke hates men. No, you don't think that she
Speaker 1: hates men like you know, I don't. Women are half
Speaker 1: the population. I'm gonna make jokes about them. I do
Speaker 1: self deprecating comedy all the time where I make jokes
Speaker 1: about myself. Oh, I guess you could make an argument
Speaker 1: that I hate myself. He discusses his mother. She was
Speaker 1: a hard person to grow up with. She was physically
Speaker 1: very abusive and verbally a very abusive person. So sometimes
Speaker 1: I imagine I've had a chip on my shoulder about women,
Speaker 1: and it's probably been unfair for much of my life
Speaker 1: because my abuser was a three hundred pound woman growing up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that's where this might
Speaker 1: come from. Now, if you were here a female comic
Speaker 1: in an interview say their father was abusive and belittled
Speaker 1: them and was physically abusive and all this type of stuff,
Speaker 1: and then they said something about how men are, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't begrudge them. You can see where that's coming from.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, there's no gray are with this
Speaker 1: that you can't see where I'm coming from? Or why
Speaker 1: is this the one subject where you don't know that
Speaker 1: I'm joking? Jim are there any jokes you do regret,
Speaker 1: he says. One in his twenty sixteen Netflix special Freedom,
Speaker 1: he took aim at Jenny McCarthy and her son, Prison
Speaker 1: made a joke about whether or not the son was
Speaker 1: autistic or just Jenny McCarthy's son. Jim says, I was
Speaker 1: more doing it because she was an anti vax person
Speaker 1: and I thought which she was doing is very detrimental
Speaker 1: to the world, and I felt like she was a
Speaker 1: person who was more of a hindrance on the planet
Speaker 1: than anything. So I made a joke about her child
Speaker 1: as a parent. Now I'm deeply sorry I did that.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done that. Maria Bamford has a book out.
Speaker 1: She and her husband, the artist Scott Marvel Cassidy, have
Speaker 1: collaborated on Hodge Book and Laser Eyes, a graphic novel.
Speaker 1: It describes their relationship from the perspective of their dogs.
Speaker 1: Maria Bamford told The Express News, it's a beautiful sort
Speaker 1: of a memorial to all the dogs that we've had
Speaker 1: over the course of our relationship and how they supported us.
Speaker 1: Max was a marine and then he got into private
Speaker 1: detective work and that's why he did the perimeter of
Speaker 1: whatever room he was in. He'd go around the perimeter
Speaker 1: and make sure everything was safe. Then there were Arnold
Speaker 1: and Betty. They were a bonded bear and they were
Speaker 1: just completely in love with each other. Maria says they've
Speaker 1: typically taken in older dogs, even though it's a setup
Speaker 1: for heartbreak. She says, you know they're going to pass away,
Speaker 1: But I prefer an older dog because I think that's
Speaker 1: what I am. I like to sit down, I like
Speaker 1: to eat. Sarah Silverman spoke to NPR about her early career.
Speaker 1: You may recall it Sarah did blackface at some point.
Speaker 1: Sarah said, I think early on there was more character
Speaker 1: in her early work and certainly was purposely racist and
Speaker 1: all the ists because the character was an ignorant, arrogant person,
Speaker 1: and I felt like the truth would come through that,
Speaker 1: and at the time it worked. I can't imagine a
Speaker 1: level of ways in which that special does not hold
Speaker 1: up now. I think it would be hard to find
Speaker 1: any clip that works. It's very hardcore and it does
Speaker 1: not hold up in today's world. But that's also what
Speaker 1: art is. You know, you watch it in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five, and it's a very different show than when
Speaker 1: you watch it in twenty twenty four because you've changed,
Speaker 1: because the world has changed around us. I'm absolutely not
Speaker 1: proud of a lot of things in it looking back
Speaker 1: at it today, but I accept that that's what it
Speaker 1: is to be an artist who's been around a long
Speaker 1: time without the leeway of changing and growing. We're just
Speaker 1: defined by our singular moments. The world was bigger and
Speaker 1: it was way more ignorant. It's funny because the character
Speaker 1: was this ignorant character that I could point to and go,
Speaker 1: she doesn't understand, she says all these horrible things, but
Speaker 1: it's okay because it's a character. And then really, I'm
Speaker 1: super liberal blah blah blah. And then the irony was
Speaker 1: that the real meat behind that was ignorant. But I
Speaker 1: have to accept that because that's me. And in order
Speaker 1: to grow, you have to accept that you can grow
Speaker 1: and change me different than you were, and not to
Speaker 1: find yourself by your most ignorant moments. Kevin neil And
Speaker 1: spoke to the Union about explaining his comedic delivery, and
Speaker 1: he said, it's kind of like describing how you look.
Speaker 1: From what I hear, people would say that my stand
Speaker 1: up is very absurd, and a lot of misdirection, and
Speaker 1: I did to friends, tell me my comedy kind of
Speaker 1: sneaks up on you. When I'm onto the next little
Speaker 1: hunk I'm talking about. The laughter is just coming to them.
Speaker 1: It's very conversational. You know what makes me laugh? Or children?
Speaker 1: Children are so naive and they do things that are
Speaker 1: just funny. I also like to go on the Daily
Speaker 1: Dose on the Internet and they have videos of animals
Speaker 1: or kids or anything. It's really funny. My laughter comes
Speaker 1: from normal people doing silly things. Chicago Sun Times caught
Speaker 1: up with Langston Kerman. He graduated during the Great Recession
Speaker 1: and said, I ended up moving back to my mom's basement,
Speaker 1: which I vowed I would never do length since now
Speaker 1: thirty seven, it all felt dark to me. It was
Speaker 1: so antithetical to what I had envisioned in my head.
Speaker 1: I went to school, I got could grades and follow
Speaker 1: the rules, and now I'm back in this life I
Speaker 1: didn't want. He decided to take a risk and pursue
Speaker 1: a dream. He signed up to do a comedy set
Speaker 1: at an open mic at Doc Ryan's. I went up
Speaker 1: there and I bomb for five minutes. But it was
Speaker 1: the great kind of bomb that a sick person like
Speaker 1: me can somehow translate as you should go do this again.
Speaker 1: She keep trying. So every week I'd go up to
Speaker 1: that open mic and bomb, and every week I felt
Speaker 1: a little bit better about the idea of pursuing this.
Speaker 1: He has a podcast called My Mamma Told Me, which
Speaker 1: showcases black conspiracy theories. For example, did Bill Cosby attempt
Speaker 1: to buy NBC? Does the Black Illuminati exist? Or aircraft
Speaker 1: chemtrails infecting the public with chemical or biological agents. Kerman says,
Speaker 1: we take a lot of pride in either of us
Speaker 1: being scared of any conversation. I think conspiracy theory is
Speaker 1: so important. I don't mean that we should all be
Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists, but I do think the conspiracy theory is
Speaker 1: sort of like the adult version of imagining and whimsy.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating me to unpack where these ideas come from.
Speaker 1: It is netflix special. He relays a time when a
Speaker 1: student made fun of his poetry, and Kerman said, I
Speaker 1: deeply resent that child. She's not a child anymore as
Speaker 1: a grown person. Should I ever come across her, I
Speaker 1: got smoke for her. Felippia Sparza said, I had great
Speaker 1: advice one time from Paul Rodriguez because I was worried,
Speaker 1: how is my comedy going to cross over? How's it
Speaker 1: going to transcend to other cultures, to other nationalities, And
Speaker 1: he told me don't worry about any of that. If
Speaker 1: you're funny, the audience will cross over to you. It's
Speaker 1: not your job to cross over to them. Deadline caught
Speaker 1: up with Matt Berry. Matt, what were you doing before
Speaker 1: you were an actor? Berry says, I was in the
Speaker 1: London Dungeon. That The London Dungeon is a lunch in
Speaker 1: tourist attraction. It's across between a museum and a live
Speaker 1: performance kind of thing. During the course of the day,
Speaker 1: you'd be Jack the ripper in the morning, and then
Speaker 1: you'd be a judge in the afternoon, and it's hired.
Speaker 1: You'd be doing something like twenty or thirty shows a
Speaker 1: day and I loved it. It was fantastic fun, but the
Speaker 1: money was horrendous, so I'd do gigs in the evening.
Speaker 1: And that's how Dark Place happened. I was doing a
Speaker 1: gig and Matt Holness and Richard Aoide come up to
Speaker 1: me and said, we're doing a TV version of their
Speaker 1: friend show Dark Place, and would like you to play
Speaker 1: the Spanish doctor. In my head, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you're taking a risk there. Because I've never done any
Speaker 1: TV or any company before. I haven't got a clue.
Speaker 1: But obviously I didn't say that to them. I was like, yes, yes, fine,
Speaker 1: because I had nothing to lose and absolutely nothing going
Speaker 1: on at that point, so it was all to play for.
Speaker 1: I just said yes to everything and turned up to rehearsal,
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed it. I didn't think i'd work
Speaker 1: after Dark Place. I didn't even know whether they would
Speaker 1: show the whole series, and I wasn't convinced it was
Speaker 1: actually going to air until the first night when it did,
Speaker 1: and no one believed I was going to be on TV.
Speaker 1: I told people, including my family, said I'm going to
Speaker 1: be on TV next month. It wasn't until the adverts
Speaker 1: came on. I was in one of those adverts that
Speaker 1: everybody realized it wasn't full of stuff. Deadline asked about
Speaker 1: the origin of Toast of Lunch and which is a
Speaker 1: fantastic show if you've never seen it, Barry said, I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to do it because I've been doing voiceovers
Speaker 1: for years and years with older actors seeing how they
Speaker 1: behave just finding it very, very funny. I knew there
Speaker 1: was something there, so I wrote all ideas for it,
Speaker 1: his name and everything, and then spoke to Arthur Matthews.
Speaker 1: Because I wasn't successful enough for anyone to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's written this, let's make it a series. I needed
Speaker 1: help in the form of Arthur. And Arthur's still the
Speaker 1: best of what he does. The character Toast. He's pompous
Speaker 1: and he thinks that better things should be happening to him.
Speaker 1: There's a never ending supply of things you can do
Speaker 1: to put him back in his place each time. But
Speaker 1: it's just fantastic to play because it's not set in
Speaker 1: any particular time and as a foot in the seventies
Speaker 1: and in the modern day, so we're not limited to
Speaker 1: what we can do. A bit like Shadows, those characters
Speaker 1: are in their own world and they can do anything.
Speaker 1: Will there'd be more, he said, Well, I did Toast
Speaker 1: of tinsel Down the fourth series where he went to Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and if you've seen that, you'll know what happened to
Speaker 1: him at the end. I don't know. I'm happy with it.
Speaker 1: I did everything with it that I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Vulture as their list of the comedians you should know
Speaker 1: and will know. One of those comedians is young Me Meyer.
Speaker 1: Young Me, if you were immortalized as a cartoon character,
Speaker 1: what we were outfit be? She said, I already wear a
Speaker 1: cartoon character outfit aka the same outfit every day, hot
Speaker 1: pink tennis skirt, mesh crop top, pink bra. It's giving
Speaker 1: dumb bitch cartoon character that f's up everything and think
Speaker 1: she's the main character. And she sort of is, but
Speaker 1: in a villain adjacent way. Vibes worst show ever. Once
Speaker 1: I did a show at a Jewish retirement home in
Speaker 1: upstate New York. I had to get a ride with
Speaker 1: the other comedians in the lineup. We got there and
Speaker 1: the show took place in a fluorescently lit dining hall
Speaker 1: during their dinner at four pm. When I got on stage,
Speaker 1: I started off by saying, so I'm a single mom,
Speaker 1: and this ninety year old grandma on the back just
Speaker 1: yelled boo and did a double thumbs down. I don't
Speaker 1: really remember anything after that. I just slowly walked off stage,
Speaker 1: like what could I even do to recover from a
Speaker 1: double thumbs down? Nothing? Writing process. I cannot write jokes
Speaker 1: while sitting down at a computer at nine am with
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee. No matter how hard I try.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, I would set aside writing jokes time.
Speaker 1: I just can't write jokes in that way. The only
Speaker 1: way I can write jokes is on stage. There was
Speaker 1: literally a two year period where I just stopped doing
Speaker 1: bits on stage when just riff By going up with
Speaker 1: zero material was horrible. But now I feel like I
Speaker 1: can do bits and they're more dynamic and fluid. I
Speaker 1: think joke telling has to be sort of spontaneous for me.
Speaker 1: There's something about being pushed into a hairy situation that
Speaker 1: makes me funny in a way that I can't, for
Speaker 1: the life of me, pre plan any financial hurdles. The
Speaker 1: biggest financial hurdle since becoming a comedian is becoming a comedian.
Speaker 1: I am so broke. OMG. I have to say that
Speaker 1: I was talking to my friend who was a normal
Speaker 1: nine to five job that she hates, and she's also broke.
Speaker 1: We all have to get side whustles as uber drivers
Speaker 1: and restaurants servers or anyway, so why not do our
Speaker 1: dream jobs on the side too. Best comedy advice was
Speaker 1: for my friend who told me just post anything I
Speaker 1: thought was funny, and not to be too precious about
Speaker 1: it or to think about it too much. He also
Speaker 1: told me not to post or act on social media
Speaker 1: in a way to game the system, and always keep
Speaker 1: true to what I thought was funny. Worst comedy advice
Speaker 1: I've ever seen was when some old stand up comedians
Speaker 1: told me to focus only on standout, never get into
Speaker 1: doing online content because it will kill my live performances.
Speaker 1: Although I understand where he's coming from, truth is, in
Speaker 1: this day and age, all comedians need to hone the
Speaker 1: skill of making content. It's a separate language. You mean
Speaker 1: good is it doesn't translate to the station, vice versa.
Speaker 1: All comedians need to learn both languages. And that is
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