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Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news, daily
Speaker 2: briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry.
Speaker 2: A sentence the algorithms love the oscars are tonight. That
Speaker 2: was well covered yesterday. Meanwhile, Wanda Sykes was on Stephen
Speaker 2: Colbert's program and encouraged him to burn this Bitch Down
Speaker 2: on his final episode scheduled for May twenty first want
Speaker 2: of Sykes told Stephen Colbert, you gotta go to hell
Speaker 2: off the last show, burn this bitch down. You always
Speaker 2: bring the fire every night, but this last show has
Speaker 2: to be destruction. Colbert said, I want to get Pope
Speaker 2: Leo on here. He's ghosting me. He's holy ghosting me.
Speaker 2: Jimmy O Yang has a new special bullet Where's it
Speaker 2: going to be airing nowhere? It's a theatrical release. I
Speaker 2: couldn't believe it when I read this. It is Jimmy
Speaker 2: O Yang's third comedy special, this one called Finally Home.
Speaker 2: He taped it during a sold out arena run in
Speaker 2: Hong Kong. The special screen exclusively in Hong Kong at
Speaker 2: Emperor Cinema, is beginning March twentieth if you can't make
Speaker 2: your way to Hong Kong, wait a week and we'll
Speaker 2: open in theaters across the USA and Canada March twenty seventh.
Speaker 2: Jimmy O Yang, self proclaimed as the Taylor Swift of
Speaker 2: Hong Kong, Love It. In the special, he talks about
Speaker 2: his family fighting for the bill and his experience as
Speaker 2: an immigrant returning to his hometown for the first time
Speaker 2: in twenty five years, weaving together his English set with
Speaker 2: a touch of subtitled Cantonese. There is a trailer. I
Speaker 2: play a little bit of it. I found it to
Speaker 2: be a little noisy, and I like Jimmy O Yang
Speaker 2: a lot, so I am excited about this one. But
Speaker 2: I didn't love the trailer. Let's listen.
Speaker 1: You know why Asian people love gambling. It's our only
Speaker 1: extreme sport. Oh we got. The only thing that gets
Speaker 1: maya adrenaline going is the possibility of losing money to
Speaker 1: a stranger. Of these Chinese karaoke systems. After every song,
Speaker 1: the machine gives you a school is it ai put
Speaker 1: is some old assum in the back judging you through
Speaker 1: the kitchen seventy two? No, they're asking the seal of
Speaker 1: TikTok He's like, are you Chinese, I'm Singaporean, Sir. He's
Speaker 1: Singapore and China. No, it's in Singapore, Sir.
Speaker 2: Tom Sigora was speaking with Forbes about his amazing staff
Speaker 2: at why m H Studios. Sigora, on his podcasting front,
Speaker 2: said they handle everything. They take care of everything from
Speaker 2: the booking to the prepping of the show to the
Speaker 2: technical aspect. There's a post studio there, social media team.
Speaker 2: They do everything, and the idea is we just show up.
Speaker 2: We get to be ourselves and hang out and do
Speaker 2: the show, which I think is the best version of
Speaker 2: the show for us. It's just beyond there but yourself,
Speaker 2: have fun, talk crap, and that's kind of how we
Speaker 2: try to do it. Incredible staff at y MH. Tom
Speaker 2: said he had no idea the podcast would really launch him.
Speaker 2: He said, of course not. I had zero desire to
Speaker 2: do it. I didn't want to start a podcast. I
Speaker 2: got talked into it and reluctantly was doing it. That's
Speaker 2: one of those things where I realized I was having
Speaker 2: fun doing it. I didn't even realize there's an audience listening.
Speaker 2: You couldn't tell it first, but I just realized you
Speaker 2: can put up the show you want to put on.
Speaker 2: It's the same as stand up and stand up. You
Speaker 2: get to say what you want to say. And so
Speaker 2: when I had been a guest on a podcast, I
Speaker 2: was like, I don't do this. But I realized I
Speaker 2: didn't want to do their podcast. I want to do
Speaker 2: my podcast, and figuring that was a really exciting thing.
Speaker 2: On Friday, I told you THEO Vaughan was going to
Speaker 2: be at the Baton Rouge Parade. As I record this.
Speaker 2: Later on Friday, I'm told that THEO Vaughn dropped out
Speaker 2: of the parade, no reason given. At this time, some
Speaker 2: people observed that THEO Vaughn had a Friday night show
Speaker 2: and two Saturday night shows in Florida, neither of which
Speaker 2: are in Louisiana, where Baton Rouge is Now you can't
Speaker 2: travel back and forth, and THEO can probably afford the plane.
Speaker 2: But maybe, perhaps possibly he didn't want to be in
Speaker 2: Florida Friday, Louisiana Saturday and then do two shows last night.
Speaker 2: Who knows. Hope everything's okay there. George Lopez spoke to
Speaker 2: NJ dot Com about doing politics. He said, I tried
Speaker 2: not to cross the line, but in comedy, no one
Speaker 2: else was talking about the inner workings of the family
Speaker 2: or what we mean to America. I was never particularly political,
Speaker 2: but over the past fifteen years I felt there needed
Speaker 2: to be a voice. It didn't matter to me whether
Speaker 2: people agreed or disagreed. I wasn't doing it for approval.
Speaker 2: It's a small part of what my act is, but
Speaker 2: of course it's there. I always try to make people laugh.
Speaker 2: I'm not preaching, and there are ways I can still
Speaker 2: get the message across without dividing the room. Ron Funches
Speaker 2: had nice things to say about Donna Kelcey and about
Speaker 2: meeting Travis Kelcey. This happened when Ron Funches was on
Speaker 2: Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Funch Is called Kelsey
Speaker 2: an amazing game show host. Never met this man in
Speaker 2: my life and honestly was like, all right, football guy
Speaker 2: to come in here and knows the show, the thing
Speaker 2: I want to do. I want to host the show.
Speaker 2: Let me see what you got. And I'm like, damn,
Speaker 2: this man is charming as hell. I get this is
Speaker 2: why you're marrying a billionaire. He's so charming and so
Speaker 2: sweet and so kind. Angela Kinsey, you know her as
Speaker 2: Angela from the Office, revealed she would love to reprise
Speaker 2: her character for the Peacock spin off series, The Paper.
Speaker 2: I don't think i've actually finished The Paper. I was
Speaker 2: kind of sort of into it and got distracted. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I should probably watch the last two episodes
Speaker 2: whatever I have left. But shockingly, Angela would take more
Speaker 2: work no way, she told she'll developer Greg Daniels, Greg,
Speaker 2: if you need Angela Martin to come, you know, if
Speaker 2: Oscar is having an accounting problem and Angela needs to come,
Speaker 2: I'd be more than happy to. We'll see if that happens.
Speaker 2: Mackenzie Crook played Gareth on The UK Office, the Real One,
Speaker 2: no offense. It's not like I don't love the American Office,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. I had to say the UK
Speaker 2: Office because the UK Office is the Office. This one
Speaker 2: with Steve Karel is the American version anyway, I digress.
Speaker 2: Krook told The Guardian after The Office, I wanted to
Speaker 2: write something that wasn't cruel humor, that didn't have a
Speaker 2: cringe factor, and in doing so I stumbled upon my genre,
Speaker 2: gentle comedy. Not wild about the term. It sounds both
Speaker 2: unfunny and as if you're trying not to offend anyone.
Speaker 2: He said, you recently rewatched The Real Office and said,
Speaker 2: in series two, a fire alarm goes off and everyone's evacuated.
Speaker 2: Watching it, I had this real Pavlovian reaction where my
Speaker 2: heart just sank because they knew something awful was coming up.
Speaker 2: I've forgotten all about it. What happens is, David and Gareth,
Speaker 2: you had twenty years start trying to get a disabled
Speaker 2: employee down the stairs, then give up halfway through, saying
Speaker 2: if it was a real fire, that definitely come back
Speaker 2: for her. It's excruciating. Steve Harvey caught up with Hookendbarrel
Speaker 2: dot com You're home for comedy news. He talked about
Speaker 2: his fishing days. He said, I traveled with a rod
Speaker 2: real tackle box, skillet, some charcoal, cornmeal and grease. When
Speaker 2: I caught bass crappier brim, I'd clean them on the bank,
Speaker 2: stop at a rest area, and cook them on those
Speaker 2: cast iron grills. That's how I pretty much survived. Fishing
Speaker 2: wasn't fun for me. He was about staying alive.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: One day he stopped at a lake caught some fish.
Speaker 2: The owner of the property showed up and said, hey,
Speaker 2: this ain't your lake. Why fishing over here? Steve Harvey said,
Speaker 2: I apologize and pulled my line out of the water,
Speaker 2: and then he said, those ain't your fish. Throw them
Speaker 2: fish back. Harvey threw all six fish back in the lake.
Speaker 2: He says, that was my dinner. I got in the
Speaker 2: car a little teary eyed, and I told God, one
Speaker 2: day I'm gonna buy me a piece of land with
Speaker 2: a pond on it, and nobody can throw me off,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to fish wherever I want to. Six
Speaker 2: years later, Steve Harvey was on television. Tomorrow will be
Speaker 2: the OSCARS recap in a normal episode, then at noon
Speaker 2: Eastern the results of Comedy Survivor. I've not yet looked
Speaker 2: at the results as I record this, looking forward to
Speaker 2: see what happened. It was a lot of fun in
Speaker 2: the Facebook group this week, a lot of chatter at
Speaker 2: south By Southwest today at four o'clock the ucb Ascat
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Speaker 2: The website has things out of time order here because
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes before that at six o'clock and why didn't you?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Gotham Comedy Club presents Jared Freed, Tone Bell,
Speaker 2: Gavin Matt's, Casey Balsham and Sophie Buttle. That's a pretty
Speaker 2: decent show. At seven o'clock at the Creek in the
Speaker 2: Cave at south By Southwest So Everything as a sponsor,
Speaker 2: It's Facebook presents Robert Schultz, Amber Wallin, Chloe Radcliffe, Jazz
Speaker 2: Sainey and Paris Sachet. Eight o'clock at Ester's Follies Britannic
Speaker 2: nine o'clock Creek in the Cave has Dropout presents Dirty Laundry.
Speaker 2: At ten o'clock back at esther is the Anything but
Speaker 2: Basic Cabaret. Also at eleven at the Creek in the
Speaker 2: Cave Bombing with Eric andre And from Beliefnet, your home
Speaker 2: for Comedy News. I use that joke? Ready, didn't I
Speaker 2: leave it in? Jeff Foxworthy was speaking at the Conversation
Speaker 2: on Biblical Manhood put on by the Church of eleven
Speaker 2: twenty two in Jacksonville. Other speakers included Tim Tebow, you know,
Speaker 2: the football player, and pastor Matt Chandler of Texas. Jeff
Speaker 2: Foxworthy open up about his struggles in becoming a biblical
Speaker 2: father and man, noting how the failings of his own
Speaker 2: father put him behind the mark. I didn't know this
Speaker 2: about Jeff. Jeff's father was married six times, drank, smoked, custed,
Speaker 2: told dirty jokes. Jeff said, I didn't know how to
Speaker 2: be a good husband. I know how to be a
Speaker 2: good dad. But I could see guys that were good husbands,
Speaker 2: and I could see guys that were good dads, and
Speaker 2: I knew enough to pick their brain. Pastor Martin warned
Speaker 2: about the dude phase of manhood. Foxworthy called that phase
Speaker 2: the freedoms of adulthood with the responsibilities of childhood. We've
Speaker 2: got a bunch of guys locked in right there with that,
Speaker 2: and it's not a good combination. And that is your
Speaker 2: comedy news for today. See tomorrow.