Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Tonight in New York City at the
Speaker 1: Beacon Theater. It is the Night of Too Many Stars.
Speaker 1: John Stewart is your host. Some of the performers Chris Rock,
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, Ronnie Chan, Alex Edelman, Susie Smond,
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Sherman, Max Weinberg's Jukebox, James Austin Johnson,
Speaker 1: and Sam Morrell. In a statement, creators Michelle and Robert
Speaker 1: Smigel said, we created a Night of Too Many Stars
Speaker 1: with our friends in the comedy world at a time
Speaker 1: when most organizations focused only on research for a cure.
Speaker 1: Seeing so many parents struggle to find appropriate services and
Speaker 1: schools for their children inspired us to create an event
Speaker 1: to support the vital programs and services that individuals with
Speaker 1: autism need right now. This was started back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and three. Also back this week, the Boston Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival it's twenty fifth year. Congratulations to those guys. The
Speaker 1: lineup includes headliners Eddie Peppatonimo Phillips, My Michael Costa, Brooks
Speaker 1: Wheelan from Saturday Night Live. Remember Brooks Know Me Neither
Speaker 1: and Amy Miller, a bunch of stand up contests, a
Speaker 1: benefit show for comedians affected by the fires in LA,
Speaker 1: a diversity showcase, and a clean comedy show. Founder Jim
Speaker 1: McHugh says, every year we do stuff that works, and
Speaker 1: we do stuff that doesn't, and we just keep rolling along.
Speaker 1: I love that sentiment fire call correctly. Jim asked made
Speaker 1: me a judge at the festival a long time ago.
Speaker 1: I had babies and couldn't go up to Boston to
Speaker 1: do it, but that would have been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: The idea is to appeal to a wide range of taste.
Speaker 1: McHugh says, We've always had the feeling of whoever you
Speaker 1: think is the best comedian.
Speaker 2: You're right. The Boston Globe did a bit of a preview.
Speaker 2: The contest starts tomorrow. The idea is to showcase local acts,
Speaker 2: Jim says. The whole purpose of this thing we started
Speaker 2: twenty five years ago, was trying to get the industry
Speaker 2: to come here and see the acts. April third, the
Speaker 2: Funny Together Tour is Clean Comedy Providence. Comedian Ronda Corey
Speaker 2: is joined by Bug Coulson and Mike Murray. Bug Coulson
Speaker 2: is a great name. Eddie peppatone also on the third
Speaker 2: at City Winery at two thirty pm. On the fourth
Speaker 2: at seven o'clock, a more reasonable time celebrating diversity in comedy.
Speaker 2: Your host is Beer with a Queer Jeff Klein. Also
Speaker 2: a fun title, Emo Phillips on the fifth at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: On the fifth, Daman Miller says, I think the most
Speaker 2: forty year old thing I do, though, is I have
Speaker 2: a special word for when I've had too much white
Speaker 2: wine and I want to get at a Fistfightchie headlines
Speaker 2: two shows with Courtney Reynolds, and on the fifth it's
Speaker 2: the Boston Comedy Finals, where the final eight contestants will
Speaker 2: compete for the top prize in front of a panel
Speaker 2: of judges. Ryan Hamilton will receive Comedian of the Year.
Speaker 2: Seems like a really good festival, and the one over
Speaker 2: the weekend in Rhode Island also fantastic. Nice to see
Speaker 2: the comedy festivals back. Somebody you may know started a
Speaker 2: comedy podcast six months before the pandemic, and boy in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty size stretching the New Republic seems to agree
Speaker 2: with me that everybody's live with John mulaney is an
Speaker 2: ambitious mess. They write, John Mulanie's new Netflix talk show
Speaker 2: is filled with ideas that are funny in theory but
Speaker 2: only barely working practice, echoing some of what I talked
Speaker 2: about with zivin yesterday. How do you tell the difference
Speaker 2: between a talk show that reinvents the form so radically
Speaker 2: that it confounds the viewers' expectations about what a talk
Speaker 2: show is and a talk show that just doesn't work.
Speaker 2: The young man Philip who wrote this piece says, I
Speaker 2: wasn't old enough to experience the nineteen eighty two Late
Speaker 2: Night with David Letterman, but I suspect that it did
Speaker 2: something like the former Letterman worked almost immediately. The Letterman
Speaker 2: was quirky, but it leaned into the it's twelve thirty,
Speaker 2: the NBC bosses or asleep, No one cares. Let's just
Speaker 2: make ourselves laugh, which is kind of what Mlanie's doing,
Speaker 2: but with a much brighter spotlight. This writer is wrong
Speaker 2: when he writes I imagined that the early viewers of
Speaker 2: Letterman's Late Night initially he may have been confused about
Speaker 2: how the gap tooth Goofball was using the hour allotted
Speaker 2: to him. Nope, not at all right from the get go,
Speaker 2: even the initial opening credits for Letterman, let you know,
Speaker 2: it was low key. You know, over the years, the
Speaker 2: Letterman theme evolved into this big show busy theme by
Speaker 2: the time we got to the CBS version of it.
Speaker 2: But that initial version very very chill, and the understated
Speaker 2: vo no, no, no, this was not screaming showbiz. This
Speaker 2: was screaming It's twelve thirty and nobody cares. The writer says,
Speaker 2: I don't yet know how to watch Mullaney. Mlaney opens
Speaker 2: with a monologue that is followed by pre tape bits
Speaker 2: of varying quality, occasional audience gag, celebrity guests on couches,
Speaker 2: and a musical performance. There are Johnny cars and Ed
Speaker 2: mcmh's style exchanges between Mlanie and Richard Kind. I personally
Speaker 2: don't know if Richard Kine was the right choice either.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's an unpopular opinion, but I just said it.
Speaker 2: And there are lutterman esque absurdities, like the same old
Speaker 2: delivery robot that ranges freely around the set. That is true.
Speaker 2: This next paragraph is on point. There's a kind of
Speaker 2: punk wonderment about shows like Letterman's or Eric Andres throwing
Speaker 2: things at the wall to see if it'd stick. As
Speaker 2: acidic as they are. There's a hopeful spirit of formal
Speaker 2: exploration at work, but Mullaney show as a certain sourness,
Speaker 2: a deliberate lack of wonder that's most detectable in his
Speaker 2: management of the panel portion. On one hand, it's slightly
Speaker 2: funny to watch deliberately in Congress guests awkwardly squirm as
Speaker 2: they tried to offer advice to callers, uncertain what exactly
Speaker 2: they're supposed to do. On the other hand, it kind
Speaker 2: of sucks to watch that good analysis there. Let's stop
Speaker 2: off at gossip corner. Shane gillis dating an Instagram model,
Speaker 2: Grace Brassel is building up her follower collection and people
Speaker 2: aren't paying attention. On Instagram. Last week, she shared photos
Speaker 2: of the couple's recent trip to the UK. They attended
Speaker 2: UFC Fight Night Edwards versus Brady in the O two arena.
Speaker 2: She captured one of her posts, drink fifty five Guinnesses
Speaker 2: and fifty five beers with my buddies in Europe that
Speaker 2: got a lot of attention. One person accused her of
Speaker 2: being after Shane's secret grilled cheese recipe. Another person wrote
Speaker 2: about Shane's choice of hat, Shane hasn't taken off that
Speaker 2: Eagles hat since we won the Super Bowl. All right,
Speaker 2: You're not getting a forty five minute episode today. You
Speaker 2: got three in a row. We're back to normal. Andy
Speaker 2: Woodall has released a new album. It's his seventh comedy
Speaker 2: album called Beach Brain. He says it is his silliest
Speaker 2: album yet. Andy says, my hope is it will appeal
Speaker 2: to like minded beach Brains. Have given Beach Brains a
Speaker 2: little taste of life by the water. On the album,
Speaker 2: Andy explores the humor in second marriages, gaslighting, and buying
Speaker 2: toilet paper in Bulk. I am working with Andy's publicist,
Speaker 2: have Andy on the show in a little bit. Yesterday
Speaker 2: you heard Jason Zennemann mention an Andy Kaufman documentary. The
Speaker 2: Guardian wrote about it. They point out Andy Kaufman constructed
Speaker 2: so many clever hoaxes to house this work that many
Speaker 2: assumed he must not have died young at the age
Speaker 2: of thirty five. Can I tell you when I was
Speaker 2: at serious? I know I mentioned it every day. Sorry,
Speaker 2: it's big chunkle my life and I am posting a
Speaker 2: comedy podcast. It's relevant. I was having lunch with Andy's brother,
Speaker 2: Michael Kaufman, now their sibling. So Michael Kaufman obviously looks
Speaker 2: a little like Andy. And as I sat there letting
Speaker 2: my mind wander, looking at Michael Kaufman many years after
Speaker 2: Andy's death, I started to wonder, is it possible I'm
Speaker 2: sitting here with Andy Kaufman. We had a cool idea
Speaker 2: for a broadcast at Sirius. So Sirius does these. They
Speaker 2: call them town hall, so you have a celebrity in
Speaker 2: like we did one with Bruno Mars, and you have
Speaker 2: a bunch of fans come up and the fans get
Speaker 2: to ask questions. The Kaufman estate, led by Michael, was
Speaker 2: willing to announce Andy Kaufman town Hall, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to do a whole big put on of promoting this
Speaker 2: is the return of Andy Kaufman. They were on board.
Speaker 2: We had a press release drafted, and the Big Boss
Speaker 2: just didn't get it. You know. I was planning on
Speaker 2: doing a live broadcast where we just dragged this thing
Speaker 2: out as long as possible, but again Big Boss didn't
Speaker 2: get it, so it didn't happen. But I kept wondering
Speaker 2: is this actually Andy sitting here with me? The new
Speaker 2: documentary is called Thank You very Much, and the Guardian
Speaker 2: tells it's it's upfront about how alienating Kaufman could be
Speaker 2: to audience members, to casual observers, even a coworkers, while
Speaker 2: at the same time never framing his work as pure
Speaker 2: endurance tests. There's a glee in his blurring the lines
Speaker 2: between reality and fiction, even when he does his best
Speaker 2: to hide it under voices or makeup. Thank You very
Speaker 2: Much doesn't depend on the same old clips, and watching
Speaker 2: all this Kaufman footage emphasizes how inimitable the man was.
Speaker 2: Funny sentence here. What's more difficult to replicate is Kaufman's
Speaker 2: dedication to his strangest whims. When Tim Heidecker passes away,
Speaker 2: it will probably not kick off a thirty year ambiguity
Speaker 2: over whether he's genuinely dead. Thank You very Much is
Speaker 2: out in movie theaters in the United States. Out in
Speaker 2: Santa Monica, it's the Bergamont Comedy Festival. The La Times
Speaker 2: covered it. The lineup consists of ninety three percent female
Speaker 2: identifying BIPOC, LGBTQ, plus acts and other perspectives. Historically overlooked
Speaker 2: by gatekeepers and stand up. They spoke with Joe Stetler,
Speaker 2: who's a third grade teacher who lives with an incurable cancer.
Speaker 2: Joel says, comedy has become away for me to sort
Speaker 2: it all out. My response has remained one of the
Speaker 2: few things I can control. Storytelling and stand up given
Speaker 2: me a space to turn something dark into something meaningful,
Speaker 2: not just for myself but for audiences who know what
Speaker 2: it means to have life. Kick the door in among
Speaker 2: the highlights on Saturday, April fifth, an hour from Cameron
Speaker 2: Esposito with new material developed since she filmed her Four
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Speaker 2: on April eleventh. Oh, dropout is the old college humor.
Speaker 2: This article tells me now I know what it is, okay,
Speaker 2: and that is your comedy news for today. If you
Speaker 2: skip the weekend for some reason, good stuff about Mitch
Speaker 2: Hedburg over the weekend. You might want to go back
Speaker 2: and check out both Saturday and Sunday's episodes. If you
Speaker 2: are into Mitch Hebburg, meet you here tomorrow.