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Speaker 2: Hey man, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news
is tonight at the start of the new era of
late night, It's Goodnight with Ben Gleb making its YouTube premiere.
I'm not sure this will have the same impact as say,
a four day a week eleven thirty five network show,
but who knows Goodnight with Ben glee will become the
first late night type show launching on YouTube, made exclusively
for YouTube, we are told Glebe's weekly series is designed
to evolve the traditional celebrity focus late nights base, offering
chats with the usual suspects, while broadening in scope to
include top thought leaders, creators, experts, entrepreneurs, wellness and financial experts,
relationship coaches, AI futurists, and psychologists. Shows a tape of
the night before as in Last Night, and we'll debut
on YouTube every Thursday at ten Eastern. Not sure why
they pick that time. There's a live studio audience, a
wall of screens showing the first global virtual studio audience.
Bill Carter said. There will be a band, and each
week we'll also feature a post show after party episode
where glebe dives deeper with his guests and additional curated invitees,
often over drinks and candid conversation. All right, I come
with an open mind. We'll check that one out. Pete
Davidson and John mullaney talked a little bit about how
some people hosting Saturday Night Live aren't that good during
the Netflix as a Joke Festival, John mulaney reflected on
his time as a writer and he said, when I
was twenty five, I'd tell Oscar winning host I'd right
there monologue. I'd be like, yeah, I got to say
all that, it's got to go great, and then that
tank eight times out of ten. Pete david said laughed
and said he too would tell hosts they crushed it
even when they didn't. Lene said, they'll have actor face.
They sort of don't get it because they're just an
actor and they'd be like, hey, was that good, and
you're like, no, do you have ears? Pete said, it
off and tell the hosts you're really performing for the
people at home. Lane added, play for the camera the audience.
They're just there to help you, but they're not going
to laugh a lot. Pete and I don't always go
their chores. They wait outside they try to win a lottery.
Half of them probably don't even speak English. They do,
they're big fans of the show. They camp outside. Mlaney
recalled an instance when a very big comedy star bombed,
saying it was the comedy store's own fault because it
was very difficult writing the monologue. But when the famous
comedy star checked in, when Mlaney, m'laney said, it's bad acoustics, Melanie,
that's pointed out it's famously one of the best Mike
sound studios in the world that used to be the
home to the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Speaking of symphonies, Josh
Johnson Symphony was I did this by accident. I just
I didn't plan this at all. These two stories is
happen to be in this great back to back Josh
Johnson Symphony his first ever HBO comedy special. He wanted
it to be timeless, he told Emmy's dot Com. No
interesting that Emmys dot Com interviewed Josh Johnson. HM keep
an eye on that when the Emmy nominations come around.
Josh told Emmys dot Com, I really want people to
be able to look back and enjoy this thing I've
done with HBO for years and years and years. That's
why I didn't make any topical references. I'm just talking
about things that feel particularly universal, at least to me.
I haven't gotten to it yet, as I've mentioned a
couple times on the shows in London last week and
now that they are Knicks games, and then four as
a Horizon six came out and at James Bond video game,
So you know, I haven't really been in TV mood.
In Symphony, Josh comes out and he takes a moment
to look at the audience. D Emmys were curious, what
are you doing, Josh said, He's trying to form a
connection with them. It's also taking a second to take
stock of what's happening. Let's say you're fully locked in.
You could just run out there, start doing your first
joke and be thinking about outlands, thinking about last per
minute and everything, where you could take a quick second
to stop and not just enjoy, but really respect the
fact that these people are all here together for a reason.
I think it takes the moment of noticing to really
make yourself present and fully respect everyone was there. Josh
talked about his career. He's been doing stand up since
twenty twelve, but says I was pretty happy. We're gking
at the grocery store and doing stand up at night.
In a sense, I couldn't imagine doing what I'm doing now.
If you have a real love and curiosity for something,
then you can't help but give it a shot. When
I moved to Chicago, I landed and almost immediately try
to find an open mic pressure Billio's in Chicago. That
was the first open mic that I did. I had
five minutes and I didn't mention time well. I told
two jokes in a story and then kind of finished.
I really want to respect the light. Because I was new,
I didn't want to make enemies or anything. Emmy's was
curious about the sets Josh puts out on YouTube every Tuesday.
How do you handle that? Josh Johnson said, I've always
written a lot, a lot, a lot a lot. While
some things can be very funny and topical, they're just
not gonna be relevant forever. To me, it makes the
most sense to share those things so that those who
couldn't make it to the show get to enjoy it. It
also helps build some community. There are people who tune
into the live YouTube show every week and we chat
in the chat and I'm very thankful to the people
that made a ritual out of it. As for hosting
the daily show, Josh has said in the past he
compares a too boring of friend's car. You want to
return it without any damage. Josh spoke more about that
and said, I think it's important to consistently feel that way.
That's not the way that anyone has made me feel.
It's the thing I do out of respect for what
I get to do. I hope I don't lose that feeling,
not even for a little bit, because it's what keeps
me as intentional as possible. Muscle and Fitness caught up
with Tom Sigoura around the time of The Two Bears
five K. Sigura said, what makes that event work is
probably two middle aged fat guys not known for being
fit decided to do this, and that inspired a lot
of other people had never done it to try it.
I wish we had started eight years earlier. Zagora admits
that he takes the physical side of the event much
differently than his partner Bert. Bert's more of a winged guy.
I can't do that, so I started getting my miles
in months in advance. I kind of hate it, the running,
but I slowly start to embrace it as it gets closer.
I need to start up again. I've been really bad.
It was also four degrees all winter, Sigora said. I've
made physical health a priority. It also makes me listen
to my body in a way I never did before.
I'm more into mobility and circuit training now more than ever.
I don't think about big lifts like when I was younger.
It's so mental. We're all capable of more, but you
have to have the right mindset to prepare and go
through with it. I wake up around six thirty seven
and go to the gym most mornings to run a
mile and have a workout that's more circuit based lately,
so I get cardio and resistance in. I take days
off as I feel any of them. I don't plan
for them. That was the same way when I was
running a lot. Yeah, sometimes you just need that one
day off and then you feel a lot better. Eating
clean isn't that hard, says s Agora. Sleep can be
a real challenge with travel on the kids, but you
can't perform well in any physical activity if you don't
prioritize sleepe, don't overthe g it, just get it done.
It doesn't have to look good for it to count.
Do all the little min Dane stuff. You think it's
a waste of time. It's a difference between making a
full recovery and having lingering issues on race day. I
think we all want to beat each other. We're also
old enough to know we could hurt ourselves and after
the race drinking poroso straight up then cold plunge.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Bill Board put out the list of biggest comedy tours
for April. Number five, Berg Kreischer twelve shows, twenty five
nine hundred tickets, grows two point one million dollars. Not bad. Now.
I don't know what this one is. It's the We
Them Ones Comedy Tour. They did three shows and gross
two point three million. Apparently this tour is Mike Epps,
Carlos Miller, DC, Young Fly, Chico Bean, Mojo Brooks, Tony Roberts,
TK Kirkland, Just Nash, fab Munroe, Jski and Nev Green.
They'll be at the win Trest Arena in Chicago on Saturday.
If you want to go, say how much tickets for
this thing are? Section two one row. J o'r on
you ninety dollars eighty five cents. Number three. Peter Kay
did five shows and gross to four million dollars. Matt
Rie did ten shows and grossed at nine point one million.
And the King of the World and we'll be talking
about him a lot later this week because he's got
a movie coming out. Naprighatzy fifteen shows gross to eleven
point two million dollars. Let me say that number again.
He grossed eleven point two million dollars. That's a gross.
It's not net, but still eleven point two million dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: From The Guardian, the Department of Homeland Security has circulated
a be on the lookout alert to law enforcement nationwide.
All right, who are they looking for? They're looking for
a comedian. The subject of the alert is Ben Palmer,
the national based standup comedian and prankster who has created
a parody anti immigration tip website. I've shared some of
his calls before. If you're not hip to this, His
revealing videos of calls with members of the public who
thought they were reporting immigrants to US Immigration and Customs enforcement.
You know them as ICE, have garnered millions of us
on TikTok and YouTube.
Speaker 3: I made a website for reporting illegal immigrants, and sometimes
people end up on the website thinking that it's real.
And somebody wanted to report a man that they suspected
to be an illegal immigrant that lives in their neighborhood.
So I reached out to see if I could help.
Speaker 4: There is one person who comes and he's non speaking,
non English speaking, and he will come possibly, oh see,
maybe maybe you'll see him two weekends out of the month.
And it's not even for a complete weekend. It's you'll
come Saturday like a thief in the night at ten,
ten thirty, eleven thirty at night, and then leave Sunday
and he's gone. Okay, it's just very very suspicious while
he is here. When he pulled into the driveway. Yeah,
and the lights always on.
Speaker 1: They're using electricity in the home, yes and yes, and
that is definitely suspicious.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: And they're also using the the driveway right.
Speaker 4: And the light is always lit in the garage when
he comes, light stays on. We cannot see the basement
section from our kitchen window. We can only see that
there's a light lit, and that's the garage window that
we can see the light lit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so just not being able to not being
able to see what the resident is doing inside their
own home, that's what raises the suspicions.
Speaker 2: The bulletin was issued by the DHS Nashville Field Office
in February, about a week before The Washington Post profiled
Palmer after a kinderdgarten teacher reported one of her students'
parents to Palmer's supposed tip page.
Speaker 3: And it looks like they have a child who was
born in New York, which makes them an American citizen. Yeah,
so we're looking to deport the parents and leave the child.
Speaker 4: Right. Like I said, I don't know if they're here illegally.
I just think it's odd. You know, it's very odd.
Speaker 1: What did you say was odd?
Speaker 4: It's just odd for them even me here.
Speaker 5: Like I'm a teacher at a school.
Speaker 2: Schools.
Speaker 5: I know the whole law about schools. I mean, they
seem like nice people or whatever.
Speaker 2: But I looked them up.
Speaker 4: In our files and I was like, oh, she.
Speaker 5: Was born in Honduras and he's born in Alzabad or
so right there. It's like, Okay, maybe I'm on the
right path. You know, they drop off their kid every day.
Speaker 3: So their kid is their kid a student at your school?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so now you want to get his parents deported.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just saying, if they're taking up resources from
our county not into illegal people being here.
Speaker 2: Then the be on the Lookout was shared by the
Illinois State Police to a distribution list of state and
local law enforcement agencies. The alert on Palmer was obtained
by the nonprofit Injustice Watch. It's not immediately clear how
many other law enforcement departments around the US may have
shared the federal alert to be on the lookout for
Ben Palmer. At the bottom of the Bee on the
Lookout alert, the dh acknowledges that the comedian does not
pose a danger. At this time. There appears to be
no direct threat to life or infrastructure. A DHS spokesperson
said there is no investigation into this individual. This document
is an internal memo shared for awareness purposes only, adding
that law enforcement and civilians should be aware of potential
websites and individuals impersonating federal law enforcement. Palmer said he
found out about this from Injustice Watch. He called it
a badge of honor to be honest. For me, it's
the best of both worlds. I don't get arrested, but
I still get to say that the Department of Homeland
Security created a document about me, which is in my
line of work. I was looking at these things more
like certificates, badges of honor. The government wastes a lot
of time and SAX dollars for sure, but when you
have your own little section on that, I kind of
feel honored. HBO Max has confirmed the premier date of
a new six episode Australian led comedy series called Make
That Movie. I love the two people in this They
are Sam Campbell and Aaron Chen. I recently played some
clips from Aaron on this program and Sam Campbell you
may know from Luk. Created by Sam Campbell, Make That
Movie follows a chaotic, high concept premise. A self assured
filmmaker travels across the country searching for everyday people with
ideas for future films, before attempting to bring those ideas
to life in just three days. Sam Campbell starts as
the fast talking director. Aaron chen plays Sebastian, an intimacy coordinator.
They're all fab I think that'll be good. A partner
Naturla talked to Joy sauce. They were curious if she
needs the audience's approval. Apart I said, even if it
feels like a one way conversation, it ends up being
a dialogue. Some audiences may be more or less receptive.
Whatever you're bringing to them is fully in your control,
and you can adjust your material based on what lands
or whatd feedback you get. The best part of stand
up comedy is you don't have to fit someone's version
of how you need to show up. You can show
as much or as little of yourself as you'd like. Personally,
I approach comedy from the inside out perspective versus outside.
In her recent hour on Dropout called hopeful, Potato was
informed by the break I took from stand up at
a time spent writing my book, as well as the pandemic.
Now I'm in my forty, he said, it's a time
when women start experiencing mental, emotional and physical shifts. It's
a reckoning with yourself and a second adolescence. If you're
at a place where half your life is done and
you're lucky half lies ahead, what do you want to
do with that time? And I will I ask myself
that question every day, sometimes to take a four hour
train ride to Scotland. Culture had caught up with BJ Novak,
you know him as Ryan from the office. They did
some rapid fire BJ. What's something people get wrong about you?
He said? I have no idea what they think about me,
and whatever it is, they might well be right. If
anyone's wrong about me, it's probably me. I'm too close
to it. When's the last time you laughed hysterically, Bj Novak?
He said, The fact I can't remember tells me I
need to change my life, and for that I generally
thank you. Cultured magazine questionnaire will keeps you up at night? Bj?
The coffee I drag at three pm? And who do
you call the most? He said? Call my parents every Friday.
Everyone else I text. And that is your comedy news
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