Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Hunnie Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. The laughter, the littlety hear in my
Speaker 1: voice is because Nicki Glazer did an interview and guess
Speaker 1: what they asked Nicki Glazer about. That's right, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: The question at hand, did Taylor at Swift influence your
Speaker 1: own sound? Hmmm? Intriguing? Kind of like asking Joe Piscopo
Speaker 1: if Bruce Springsteen influenced his comedy. But okay, Nicki said,
Speaker 1: without question, I think when I first started stand up,
Speaker 1: I sounded exactly like my favorite stand up who was
Speaker 1: Sarah Silverman. I was obsessed with Sarah Silverman in a
Speaker 1: way that I am with Taylor Swift right now. I'm sorry, Sarah,
Speaker 1: that's really terrifying. Did NICKI follow you around the country
Speaker 1: attending all your comedy shows and doing the jokes along
Speaker 1: with you? Sounds horrible. So when I first wrote my jokes,
Speaker 1: I was like, what would Sarah Silverman write? No matter
Speaker 1: how hard I tried not to think about Taylor Swift,
Speaker 1: there was no way I wasn't going to sound like
Speaker 1: Nikki's hoping to go to Taylor Swift's final show on
Speaker 1: December eighth, and says I hope she doesn't add more
Speaker 1: shows because I can't go to the dates that they're predicting.
Speaker 1: I have in fact checked if they added more dates,
Speaker 1: and doesn't really matter, does it. If she does, I'll
Speaker 1: probably shed some tears. I just want to be there
Speaker 1: to see her wave as she says good night for
Speaker 1: the final time, to thank her for all she's given us,
Speaker 1: because it's been so much work for her. I just
Speaker 1: want to be there to wave at her. She sinks
Speaker 1: down at the recesses of that stage one last time,
Speaker 1: let me jump in. I saw Taylor Swift last summer,
Speaker 1: played the heck out of her music, saw the concert
Speaker 1: that it was fantastic, But like Taylor shut up at
Speaker 1: the Chiefs game last week, and I was like, can
Speaker 1: you just go away? And the Kelsey Brothers guys tap
Speaker 1: the break? Well, maybe not tap the breaks, because I
Speaker 1: think the Kelsey Brothers have about ten minutes left before
Speaker 1: everybody's sick of them, So you might as well cash
Speaker 1: in now and be on every commercial and show up
Speaker 1: at every event. That train's about to stop. I feel
Speaker 1: for the Kelsey's John. You're making friends today, I know,
Speaker 1: I just I can't. I just turned it into Mark Marin.
Speaker 1: I just can't sit in the basement and not say
Speaker 1: what's popping into my brain. There's a microphone in front
Speaker 1: of me, you know, Nicki Glazer. What we do post
Speaker 1: here is listen to this. She's got to be doing
Speaker 1: a bit right. Listen to his answer. I'm going to
Speaker 1: fly to cities to go to Taylor Swift singalongs, which
Speaker 1: I'd done before the years tour. I'm going to potentially
Speaker 1: start a Taylor Swift cover band that would either open
Speaker 1: my own shows on the road, I would do it
Speaker 1: as an add on a little show when I'm on tour.
Speaker 1: I'm currently also getting really invested in football, or at
Speaker 1: least trying to. Yeah, because you got that gig with Amazon.
Speaker 1: I really find a lot of similarities between the way
Speaker 1: my boyfriend loves football and the way I love Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: Maybe if I really find a way to love it,
Speaker 1: I can have this thing to look forward to every fall. Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on, review spoke to Jim Jeffries. Jim had a
Speaker 1: sitcom in the works that got canceled when the pandemic happens.
Speaker 1: To hear about the pandemic, Yeah, everybody had to stay
Speaker 1: home for like a year. It was a thing. Look
Speaker 1: it up. It's a pretty interesting story. Jim said. It's
Speaker 1: hard to put your finger on what happened after the
Speaker 1: pand I make. It's hard to know what would have
Speaker 1: been and what could have been. But then on the
Speaker 1: other hand, without COVID, I might not have married my wife,
Speaker 1: so you don't know. Also, I think a little of
Speaker 1: that time off actually made me a better writer, so
Speaker 1: I had more time to write jokes and do the
Speaker 1: behind the work scenes of stand up comedy rather than
Speaker 1: just the stuff people see. Jim gave up alcohol and
Speaker 1: switched over to weed and said, as soon as I
Speaker 1: walk off stage, I take an edible and then I
Speaker 1: get myself a little bit of something to eat, and
Speaker 1: I go to bed. That's as much parting as I
Speaker 1: do these days. The days of cocaine and women are
Speaker 1: long behind me. I always had a couple of drinks
Speaker 1: before I went on stage, and a drink could hit
Speaker 1: you differently. Sometimes you couldn't feel it, sometimes you felt
Speaker 1: it too much, and it was a bit of a
Speaker 1: bouncing act. Where now I don't drink at all before
Speaker 1: I go on stage, so I've got a clear mind.
Speaker 1: Maybe with the heckling. I was a little bit faster
Speaker 1: with the heckles when I was drunk, as you'd say
Speaker 1: the first thing that came to your mind. But I
Speaker 1: also said a lot of stupid stuff that could have
Speaker 1: gotten me in trouble. So I think I remember my
Speaker 1: shows a lot better. I think I'm a lot more
Speaker 1: polished than I've ever been. In Australia, he's hosting a
Speaker 1: game show called The One Percent Club and says hosting
Speaker 1: a game show for a blooke like me is a
Speaker 1: pretty easy gig. Not really lines to learn. You just
Speaker 1: got to talk to people. You've just got to read
Speaker 1: a few questions. You just got to keep smiling. A
Speaker 1: lot of people gave me guff for hosting a game show.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal, man, I love game shows. I
Speaker 1: watch at least one game show a day every day.
Speaker 1: I like the question and answered things. It keeps you engaged.
Speaker 1: Game shows for me with the last bit of television
Speaker 1: where you're not looking at your phone because you have
Speaker 1: to focus. So, as a fan of game shows, I
Speaker 1: never thought i'd have the opportunity to host one, because
Speaker 1: no one would ever see me that way. But I've
Speaker 1: loved every minute of it. Mark Maron, who I just
Speaker 1: turned into a couple of minutes ago, spoke to the
Speaker 1: Phoenix New Times. They were curious if there's anything he
Speaker 1: won't talk about in his act. Maaron said, nothing is
Speaker 1: really off limits. I sort of moved through my material
Speaker 1: from my own point of view and my own struggles
Speaker 1: and my own ideas. Haven't understand things I've tell jokes
Speaker 1: in my life. There were wrong mind that I've told
Speaker 1: jokes in my life that could be seen as controversial
Speaker 1: if I was a bigger voice on the scene. But
Speaker 1: for me now, there's nothing off limits. You can talk
Speaker 1: about whatever you want. You have to decide for yourself
Speaker 1: whether you want to shoulder the repercussions of what you're
Speaker 1: saying and whether it's worth saying. So, really, whether or
Speaker 1: not there's anything I can or can't say or won't touch,
Speaker 1: it's not because videological principles. It's just about, like I
Speaker 1: want to deal with that crap. Mark Marin, where do
Speaker 1: you think comedy is headed in the next ten years?
Speaker 1: It seems female comics are on the rise, right said, Look,
Speaker 1: it's always going to be the same. Somebody can find
Speaker 1: an audience, they'll play for them, and if more people
Speaker 1: get on board, then you know they succeeded being in
Speaker 1: that level of comic. There's a lot of comics around,
Speaker 1: a lot of them are just okay and working their angle.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of different business than why I started in.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of weird crowd work going on. But
Speaker 1: you know, Nicki Glazer's a huge comic now and chearned it.
Speaker 1: You know, Maria Bamford's a genius, and there's Kate Martin. Look,
Speaker 1: comedy's not going to go anywhere. It's just like the
Speaker 1: dominant paradigm at any point in time. Since everything is content,
Speaker 1: everything is based on likes and followers, the justification for
Speaker 1: what success is really has nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: creativity of the art of comedy. It's not like that
Speaker 1: changed much, but it's changed in terms of how one
Speaker 1: gets seen in popular There's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are terrible and extremely popular. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's ever been different. I think comedy will just keep
Speaker 1: lugging along. Like you said, there's a lot more women
Speaker 1: and a lot more diverse voices out there doing it
Speaker 1: where they make it on the large radar I don't know.
Speaker 1: Comedy's always been sort of a niche thing for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Success is based on a number of
Speaker 1: followers and likes and CrowdWork one hundred million dollar deals.
Speaker 1: So that's just the way apples and works. And now
Speaker 1: everybody's just a cog and some sort of strange machines
Speaker 1: serving tech giants, which is the way the world's going.
Speaker 1: Interesting question here, will you ever have Matt Rife on
Speaker 1: the podcast? Nah, I'm not interested in talking to him, really,
Speaker 1: that's why not, Mark Marin, Have you ever thought about retiring?
Speaker 1: I think about all the time. I don't know. A
Speaker 1: lot of people say it's impossible to do, but look,
Speaker 1: doing more acting and trying to figure out how that
Speaker 1: works for me and standup keeps coming. It's still my
Speaker 1: primary source of creative enjoyment. But yeah, sure I think
Speaker 1: about retiring a lot. But I don't know what that
Speaker 1: looks like. I don't know. I fuppull out entirely because
Speaker 1: that's just a little weird. But I'm gonna be shooting
Speaker 1: a movie next month that'll kind of determine whether or
Speaker 1: not I'm come out for the acting game in any
Speaker 1: big way. So we'll see what happens. Jim Brewer talked
Speaker 1: about warming up the crowd for Metallica. Al dot Com
Speaker 1: said that takes a lot of guts to go out
Speaker 1: there in front of metal heads waiting to hear their
Speaker 1: favorite band. Had that happened now? Jim has been friends
Speaker 1: with Metallica for years. I was sitting at my desk
Speaker 1: one day, phone rings serious, this is John Hello, this
Speaker 1: is James Headfield, And it was actually James Headfield. He
Speaker 1: was down. Jim Brewer didn't tell me that Headfield was
Speaker 1: coming up to do the show, so I had to
Speaker 1: go down to the lobby and get mister Headfield. Who
Speaker 1: were said when they asked me to do it, and
Speaker 1: all the time I was like, this is amazing, and
Speaker 1: it was like, well, it's not really stand up, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Sort of just entertain the crowd before
Speaker 1: we come up, you know, like maybe shoot off T
Speaker 1: shirts and stuff like that. So they had all these
Speaker 1: different ideas and when I say they, it was more
Speaker 1: of their team. But I huded Lars down. I said,
Speaker 1: what exactly do you visualize? And he put it on
Speaker 1: the line. He made it so simple. He said, Jim,
Speaker 1: you've been around us a long time. You're a huge fan.
Speaker 1: We had you on our thirty year anniversary shows. You
Speaker 1: interviewed us, you know us, You know the crowd better
Speaker 1: than anyone. Just give them a quote experience. And here's
Speaker 1: the most important thing is you don't have to be funny.
Speaker 1: Tell the stories. We've gone on vacations with us. Tell
Speaker 1: the stories, Oh you and James went to Disney World
Speaker 1: with your kids that actually happened. Tell the goofy stories.
Speaker 1: You know, I entirely leave that up to you. You're
Speaker 1: the creator. I'm not stepping on your art. You do
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. And the minute he said, dad
Speaker 1: changed my whole perspective on it. And I'm a diehard
Speaker 1: Metallica fan. What would I want to see start a
Speaker 1: show if I don't have a band? Laura said, you know,
Speaker 1: when we have someone, especially a band, open for us,
Speaker 1: we want them to be the next biggest thing. Because
Speaker 1: hour crowd is so die hard, they don't show up
Speaker 1: for the bands. It's a bummer for them, it's a
Speaker 1: bummer for us. So we're gonna try this. And it
Speaker 1: worked really well. If I remember, the first thing it
Speaker 1: did was kind of come out and let everyone know
Speaker 1: that the first time I saw Metallica was an eighty
Speaker 1: six and the fans were skeptical. But the more details
Speaker 1: that throughout and I start uniting the crowd, find me
Speaker 1: the oldest metal head in the arena. And the minute
Speaker 1: I came up with that concept, you realize everybody was
Speaker 1: in this together, Like, Hey, I'm like you guys. The
Speaker 1: quicker we've done with this, the quicker we can get
Speaker 1: to Metallica are even Chattanooga. Do you like comedy? Do
Speaker 1: you look Out? Comedy Festival features thirty plus comedians. It
Speaker 1: runs tonight through the nineteenth. Headliner is Laura Peek, Aj Wilkerson,
Speaker 1: Drew Morgan, and Leclerk Andre LCF organizer and local comedian
Speaker 1: Donny Marsh said this year's festival will feature eleven shows
Speaker 1: over four days with some of the best rising and
Speaker 1: top headline comics across the country. Chattanooga's comedy scene is
Speaker 1: long punched above its weight, and it's very easy to
Speaker 1: get great comics to visit here if you can only
Speaker 1: make it a one show. I encourage comedy fans to
Speaker 1: follow these comics on social media beforehand and decide which
Speaker 1: one you'd most like to see. The festival is a
Speaker 1: labor of love for comedy in our local scene. Every
Speaker 1: comic at my level experience does stand up at night
Speaker 1: as often as they can, stringing small tours together and
Speaker 1: promoting small gigs while juggling the other jobs and commitments.
Speaker 1: This festival wouldn't exist without the everyday grind of jobs
Speaker 1: that have nothing to do with the arts. It's a
Speaker 1: rewarding process that it's an honor to bring these great
Speaker 1: performers to a city that's given me so much since
Speaker 1: I moved here in twenty twelve. You can get a
Speaker 1: festival pass as well. Lookout Comedy Festival dot com. Vulture
Speaker 1: has there comedians you should and will know. One of
Speaker 1: them is Courtney Peruso Worst show Ever. About ten years ago,
Speaker 1: my friend Casey put me on the lineup for his
Speaker 1: backyard show Super Tight in San Diego during Comic Con.
Speaker 1: I really hadn't figured out how to perform on a
Speaker 1: lineup after being a Groundlings performer, and I was super
Speaker 1: nervous because a lot of cool people were there and
Speaker 1: I was intimidated by stand ups. I went up after
Speaker 1: Brody Stevens, who crushed with a magician's assistant act where
Speaker 1: the premises the magician didn't show up, so I'm just
Speaker 1: dancing around and smiling and pointing enthusiastically at things that
Speaker 1: aren't happening, like an idiot. But for some reason, my
Speaker 1: music stopped about thirty seconds in, so the intentionally awkward
Speaker 1: bit turned into an actually awkward bit, and everybody was
Speaker 1: kind of staring at me in silence, like, okay, I
Speaker 1: wanted to puke and die. Brandon Wardell went on after
Speaker 1: me and lightly roasted me, and I did a pretty
Speaker 1: little grudge about it for a while, but in retrospect,
Speaker 1: he had no choice but to acknowledge my bomb to
Speaker 1: save the vibe of the show. We ended up working
Speaker 1: together a few years later, and we're actually good friends now.
Speaker 1: Love you, Brandon. What's your biggest financial hurdle? She says.
Speaker 1: What doesn't help is that my comedy involves self producing
Speaker 1: shows that are full of costumes and props, and during
Speaker 1: the workshopping process, I often try out ideas that I
Speaker 1: quickly abandoned, but in the moment, I'm like, I need
Speaker 1: to go buy five yards of blue fabric, twenty five
Speaker 1: toy guitars at a Marie answen at Wig, and a
Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars portable dance pole so I could try
Speaker 1: out my bad idea tonight, and then my bad idea
Speaker 1: doesn't work, and then I have all that stuff taking
Speaker 1: up space in my apartment. That's why I recommend becoming
Speaker 1: a stand up, not a prop comic. That's comedy advice.
Speaker 1: Worst comedy advice, the best. One time, years ago, I
Speaker 1: was feeling down about my prospects and was winding to
Speaker 1: my clown mentor about being old, old and broke and doomed,
Speaker 1: and he said, whatever, dude, you're a failed actress who
Speaker 1: gives a whot, Just don't it. It's cool. I cracked
Speaker 1: up and snapped out of it, and I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: Worst advice was in two thousand and eight when an
Speaker 1: acting teacher told me to get side swept bangs. They
Speaker 1: weren't for me. And that is your comedy news for today.
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