Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Happy Monday. I'm Jutnimack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and
Speaker 1: the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm loves. Arseniel Hall
Speaker 1: was on Conan O'Brien. They started talking about the worst
Speaker 1: person who ever lived, Jay Leno or Sanuel. Hall said
Speaker 1: he was relieved to be welcomed into Conan O'Brien studio
Speaker 1: because the previous evening he had spent time with Jay Leno.
Speaker 1: Those two have done a few shows together. Arseniel Hall
Speaker 1: told ConA last night, me and Howie Mandela arrived in
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills to do a benefit for abused animals with
Speaker 1: Jay Leno. Yeah, Jade's like, what a horrible guy doing
Speaker 1: a benefit for abused animals. Now, I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: this benefit was because Jay Leno the worst person who
Speaker 1: ever lived. He's not going around going everybody look at me,
Speaker 1: how cool I am? He's just doing benefits now. I
Speaker 1: did find this story from twenty nineteen. I think it
Speaker 1: is yes, and back in twenty nineteen, jay Leno was
Speaker 1: at an event called Stand Up for Animals. Back in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, the worst person who ever lived. Said, in
Speaker 1: these divisive times, there's one thing that brings all people together,
Speaker 1: a public and democrat, libertarian, no matter who you are,
Speaker 1: and that's animals. I mean, all humans just have a
Speaker 1: need for animals. They help cure people, they help us
Speaker 1: have fun, they put us in a good mood. And
Speaker 1: here's a chance for us to do something for him
Speaker 1: and Chilean, he's the worst, right anyway, Arsenio says, So
Speaker 1: last night, about eight o'clock, I'm thinking, get to bed,
Speaker 1: get up tomorrow, Duke Conan, and I'm looking at Jay
Speaker 1: Leno in this green room, and I don't keep up
Speaker 1: with all white folks business, but I do remember that
Speaker 1: y'all had friction. You may recall Jay Leno was the
Speaker 1: host of the Tonight Show and then Conan hosted it
Speaker 1: for five minutes, and then Jay Leno came back. If
Speaker 1: you listen to this podcast, you're probably familiar with the story.
Speaker 1: So I will move on, Arsenio said, I thought about it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, WHOA. I hope Conan doesn't hate me because
Speaker 1: Jay's like a big brother to me, and we fought too.
Speaker 1: Me and Jay were like Canaan Abel. Conan O'Brien said,
Speaker 1: water under the Bridge. This is gonna sound so corny,
Speaker 1: but I'm so happy with my life and I get
Speaker 1: to do all the things I want to do, and
Speaker 1: honestly don't think about any of that stuff. Is Dollywood
Speaker 1: closing now? No one thinks it is, except Bert Kraser,
Speaker 1: who said this on a podcast with Luke Comb's. Bert
Speaker 1: Krascher and Luke Combs were discussing the difference between fame
Speaker 1: and celebrity in which country star fits into each category.
Speaker 1: Bert Krescher asked Luke Combs, hey, have you ever met
Speaker 1: Dolly Porton? And if he had visited the theme park
Speaker 1: as a child, then Bert says, it's one of the
Speaker 1: best theme parks in the entire world. I'm so sad
Speaker 1: it's closing. It's a theme park with a thumbprint, and
Speaker 1: that thumb print is Dolly. It is authentically Appalachia. The
Speaker 1: topography of the park is very hilly, and so even
Speaker 1: with large crowds, you get a good workout. And all
Speaker 1: the food is Appalachia, and so the smells are unlike
Speaker 1: any other theme park. Plus the rides are awesome. It's
Speaker 1: such a great park. Now you might be like John
Speaker 1: why'd you say Appalachia not Appalachia. Well, as I have learned,
Speaker 1: in the central of the Southern region, people tend to
Speaker 1: say Appalachia, while in the North, where you Yankees live,
Speaker 1: you people from New York City say Appalachia. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be correct. I may have made things worse.
Speaker 1: Should have probably just sat Appalachia. Lu Comb said she
Speaker 1: definitely stayed true to her East Tennessee roots. She's always
Speaker 1: been a huge proponent of the region and has installed
Speaker 1: that spirit in Dollywood. You know what I'm going to
Speaker 1: call out friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Scott, help
Speaker 1: your Yankee friend pronounce words, Shoot me a note, text
Speaker 1: me bro. Newsweek ran a fact check. The fact check
Speaker 1: is is Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park closing permanently? They
Speaker 1: report Dolly Parton's theme park Dollywood had to close early,
Speaker 1: just days into a new season, in a development that
Speaker 1: sparked confusion online. The park had been due to close
Speaker 1: at eight pm on Monday, March sixteenth, but according to
Speaker 1: an update posted on Instagram, it closed at five pm.
Speaker 1: The fact check by Newsweek says Dollywood has not been
Speaker 1: closed permanently. It was shut for a few hours. It
Speaker 1: is possible that Bert Krescher was wrong. Mark Norman's talk
Speaker 1: to The La Times. They were curious about at the
Speaker 1: beginning of Mark Norman's special, a tape goes into VCR
Speaker 1: in case you missed it, and I did. The tape
Speaker 1: is labeled best of Gay Porn, and The LA Times
Speaker 1: asked the very important question, were there any other working
Speaker 1: titles for that tape? Norman said, no, My dumb friend
Speaker 1: edited it and put that in himself as a little
Speaker 1: easter egg. He thought it'd be funny, so I had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with that. I was a big skateboarder
Speaker 1: in my youth and I told him I wanted a
Speaker 1: tape in a VCR like an old skate video, so
Speaker 1: that's what he did. Thanks for catching it. They were
Speaker 1: also curious about Mark Norman throwing his fist in the
Speaker 1: air from time to time? Is that a tribute to Rocky?
Speaker 1: Mark said, I don't know where I got that from.
Speaker 1: There's really no story behind it. I just got pumped
Speaker 1: up to do comedy. The LA Times. Yeah, sometimes when
Speaker 1: comics become parents, the material goes straight to kids say
Speaker 1: the funniest things. But you're still feels pretty horned up,
Speaker 1: but not overly kid heavy. Mark said, that's news to me.
Speaker 1: Now I was conscious of that. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: be the Aushuck's dad. Kids are so crazy comics. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you noticing that. I don't know about the charged
Speaker 1: up part though. You know, Louis c k is the
Speaker 1: best with that. He has a ton of kid stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's still, you know, throwing your kids at a
Speaker 1: dumpster and all that. So that was kind of min
Speaker 1: nord star. They're curious about all of Mark's projects. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm a weirdo and I like to work. He used
Speaker 1: to be a janitor and I used to move furniture.
Speaker 1: So podcasting and stand up is not so bad. You
Speaker 1: talk about having a job. It is a lot, and
Speaker 1: I have no free time, but I don't mind it.
Speaker 1: I hang out with my two friends. We do a
Speaker 1: pod together each so that's how we get to hang out.
Speaker 1: Now we monetize it, so that's something. And then the
Speaker 1: stand up, I actually just love doing it, love of
Speaker 1: the game. If I wasn't doing it, like during COVID,
Speaker 1: I wanted to put a gun in my mouth, I
Speaker 1: felt like I had no self worth. I just started
Speaker 1: drinking every day and doing drugs. Comedy gives me some meaning,
Speaker 1: which is kind of sad, but that's how I'm wired.
Speaker 1: If I have nothing to work towards, I'll just collapse
Speaker 1: in on myself. They asked him about what's standing out
Speaker 1: with the newer comics coming up another good question, he says,
Speaker 1: I think comics are chasing going viral. I get it though.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants the followers, everyone wants the views, but they're
Speaker 1: not really chasing good jokes or quality comedy. Let's say
Speaker 1: that's a big thing, but it's not even the young
Speaker 1: comics fault because you hear the clubs say stuff like
Speaker 1: we need a comic with a lot of followers or
Speaker 1: we won't book you, so they're scrambling to get followers.
Speaker 1: But I'm on fashion and young comics are probably gonna
Speaker 1: make fun of me. But I think the cream tends
Speaker 1: to rise. So if you're killing, you're writing good stuff,
Speaker 1: and you're getting up the right people will notice you eventually.
Speaker 1: I think the old guard, like Louis c k and Seinfeld,
Speaker 1: these guys are all very against the Internet. They're like,
Speaker 1: get off the Internet, and I'm saying, no clip cell
Speaker 1: tickets both extremes, the young and the old. I think
Speaker 1: we need a little bit of readjusting towards the middle.
Speaker 1: Coming up at noon Eastern today, the results of Comedy Survivor.
Speaker 1: As I speak to you right now into your ears,
Speaker 1: I have no idea who was voted off. I think
Speaker 1: I know because I look at the Facebook groups sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I don't actually know yet. I didn't produce the
Speaker 1: episode yet, but it will be out at newon Eastern today,
Speaker 1: out today. If you need something to watch, Joe Dombrowski's
Speaker 1: Dad on Arrival, available via early access on the eight
Speaker 1: hundred Pound Gorilla. I'll also encourage you to watch Last
Speaker 1: One Laughing UK on Amazon. One of the comedians on
Speaker 1: there is Diane Morgan. She's currently also storing in a
Speaker 1: train railways. Is that redundant train railway? Could you have
Speaker 1: just said railway? Leave it in train Railways? Inaugural safety
Speaker 1: video it is called Travel Safe with Diane Morgan, she said,
Speaker 1: at first I thought it was a mad idea asking
Speaker 1: me because I thought, am I the right person for this?
Speaker 1: And then I thought it'd be an interesting challenge to
Speaker 1: do something like this two people every single day or
Speaker 1: getting injured. I had no idea is that high, So
Speaker 1: don't run down a platform whatever you do, or try
Speaker 1: to throw yourself between the doors. Diane's trying to work
Speaker 1: out more. She said, I went through a phase last
Speaker 1: year of running, but then when it got really dark
Speaker 1: and cold, I stopped. Amen's sister Johnny Mack had a terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible winter for running. But it's still forty degrees out.
Speaker 1: If it ever gets warm again, I promise you I'll run.
Speaker 1: Even bought new shoes. Diane says, I'm so busy throughout
Speaker 1: the day. It's difficult to find a time when you
Speaker 1: can go. But I really need to start doing something.
Speaker 1: They all start doing yoga at home or something. We're
Speaker 1: lifting weights. That's meant to be good, isn't it. I
Speaker 1: like this Diane Morgan. I find her very funny. I
Speaker 1: don't find her to the worst person to watch on TV,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. And she says, I'm
Speaker 1: starting getting in age where I just hate anything modern
Speaker 1: as well. She may be perfect. Noah Gordon Schwartz will
Speaker 1: be launching a weekly comedy series tracking the craziest elements
Speaker 1: of the new trend of prediction markets. You may know Noah.
Speaker 1: He wrote all five seasons of The Marvelous Missus Masel.
Speaker 1: He's hosting The Spreadsheet twelve part series on YouTube in April.
Speaker 1: Each episode will track the week's most votable prediction contracts
Speaker 1: across pop culture, sports, and global affairs. Noah says social
Speaker 1: media first allowed people to voice their opinions about anything. Now,
Speaker 1: prediction markets actually allow people to try to make money
Speaker 1: off those opinions. Or you know, sometimes there's some things
Speaker 1: that happen five minutes before the markets open or five
Speaker 1: minutes after the market's closed, and there's some sort of
Speaker 1: international thing and there's some trades, and you know, somebody
Speaker 1: just guessed well and made a ton of money. That's
Speaker 1: been happening a lot lately, So maybe you can talk
Speaker 1: about that stuff. Shut up, Sean, Okay, let's see what's
Speaker 1: happening at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Melbourne Arts says
Speaker 1: Sammy Jay's Hero Complex is one of the most memorable
Speaker 1: comedy shows they've ever seen. Five star review. It's about
Speaker 1: Sammy Jay's lifelong obsession with the comic strip character of
Speaker 1: the Phantom, and it described as a heartwarming hour of
Speaker 1: constant grinning, chuckling and laughing punctuated with revelations that may
Speaker 1: just blow your mind. Sam Nicorestes Baby Joomer Troutle describes
Speaker 1: it as who knew a show about finding the perfect
Speaker 1: two piece skirt suit would be so uproariously funny, life firming, angry, dumb, insightful,
Speaker 1: and political all at once. Babydomer at the Weston until
Speaker 1: April nineteenth, And that is your comedy news for today.
Speaker 1: Coming up in noon Easter and the results of Comedy
Speaker 1: Survivor See you then,