Speaker 1: Calarogus Shark Media from the Latin Quarter of Montreal. I'm
Speaker 1: Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news. I just left
Speaker 1: New Faces two. It was awesome, way way stronger than
Speaker 1: New Faces one. Wally Burm was your host for New
Speaker 1: Faces two, not as strong as John Marco, and I
Speaker 1: was wondering how that would set up the room. Would
Speaker 1: it be strong enough to lead into the comedians. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about that, because boy Max Eddie came out number one,
Speaker 1: Max out of San Francisco. At that point in the evening,
Speaker 1: I wrote in my notebook Best so Far a couple
Speaker 1: notes he does have a hack joke in the middle
Speaker 1: of his set that he needs to totally drop. And
Speaker 1: he did do the same exact joke as somebody did
Speaker 1: in New Faces One that said absolutely crushed. Put an arrow.
Speaker 1: If I put an arrow in my notebook, that's a
Speaker 1: good sign. Only one person got an arrow out of
Speaker 1: New Faces One. Next up was Catherine Blandfield out of
Speaker 1: Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: I love her.
Speaker 1: I think she might have been my favorite of the
Speaker 1: twenty comedians I saw on Wednesday evening.
Speaker 2: Really really really liked her.
Speaker 1: She got an up arrow at a star She was
Speaker 1: followed by Vittorio Angeloni. That's the guy out of Northern Ireland.
Speaker 1: He had a great opener about the room and how
Speaker 1: well lit. It was very, very funny, and he crushed.
Speaker 1: So you had a strong open number one with Max
Speaker 1: Eddie and then Catherine Blandfield and Vittorio Angelone crushing back
Speaker 1: to back. So could it keep going? Could Sam Bero
Speaker 1: out of Chicago.
Speaker 2: Keep it going? Sam also got an up arrow out
Speaker 2: of me.
Speaker 1: He had a tough draw after two crushers, but really
Speaker 1: really funny, maybe just a hair not as good as
Speaker 1: the two previous, but super solid. In the five spot,
Speaker 1: Randy Numayer gets a tough straw after everybody crushing before her.
Speaker 1: She was really good too. She's out of Vancouver. Liked
Speaker 1: her a lot. Then Tom Murphy from Montreal hometown crowd
Speaker 1: behind him. I stepped down from the previous group, but
Speaker 1: by no means not funny, meaning funny. Chloe Radcliffe in
Speaker 1: the seventh spots out of Minneapolis, super entertaining, really strong performer,
Speaker 1: more entertaining than funny, but strong. Ory Styla out of
Speaker 1: London in the eight spot. I liked him a lot,
Speaker 1: really nice performer. Dean Stanfield out of Texas, came out
Speaker 1: dressed as a cowboy in the nine hole.
Speaker 2: More of a storyteller.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure New Faces is the right room for
Speaker 1: that type of act. You know, if your storyteller, you
Speaker 1: got to build these things and it takes a minute.
Speaker 1: That said really enjoyed him as well. Dylan Adler closed
Speaker 1: the night and it was approaching eleven o'clock. Johnny Max
Speaker 1: gets a little tired, starting to struggle a little bit,
Speaker 1: but high entered. I performer a great closer, great way
Speaker 1: to close the night. So you know, ten solid comedians there.
Speaker 1: They did do the thing again where they had his
Speaker 1: tatan fake laughter. I forgot to mention yesterday they had
Speaker 1: the room ice cold to keep us awake.
Speaker 2: I guess that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: In between new phases one and two, I saw Alistair
Speaker 1: Ogden hanging out in the hallway and I was really
Speaker 1: tempted to be like, hey, what to do my podcast?
Speaker 2: But I resisted.
Speaker 1: Also so Bruce Gray hanging around, I probably could have
Speaker 1: grabbed him, and I was like, oh, but then, Neil
Speaker 1: know I have a podcast and I'll listen to it
Speaker 1: and then I'll hear what I said about his set,
Speaker 1: so I did not ask him. Hi, let's do a
Speaker 1: quick news story here from the corner. Nish Kumar talked
Speaker 1: about why Trump isn't actually good for comedy. He says
Speaker 1: he's not one of your cracksmoking mayors. He enjoys the festivals.
Speaker 1: He says, these shows are always really good fun. There's
Speaker 1: an international circuit of comedians to do these things that
Speaker 1: do Montreal, Edinburgh and Melbourne, and it's a really great
Speaker 1: opportunity to catch up with some friends and also get
Speaker 1: to see some good stuff as well. He told Yahoo Canada.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot when I'm in town, and I've
Speaker 1: seen some unbelievable shows. He was doing a show in
Speaker 1: Toronto in February when Trump got into it with the tariffs.
Speaker 1: Kumar said, that was a particularly febrile time. I think
Speaker 1: I was hoping that things might have calmed down a
Speaker 1: little bit, but obviously they were never gonna calm down.
Speaker 1: It's a fascinating experiment what happens when a country for
Speaker 1: seemingly no reason, out of nowhere, for versus centuries of
Speaker 1: diplomatic relations with its neighbor with whom it shares a
Speaker 1: land border. Well, you know here as a Canadian. You
Speaker 1: Americans keep putting out Adam Sandler movies, I mean, Happy
Speaker 1: Gilmore too out on Netflix today.
Speaker 2: Don't do that. Why would you do that? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Let me take the break a little early here. I
Speaker 1: got to go back to the hotel room to upload
Speaker 1: these shows so that you're actually hearing this now, and
Speaker 1: I've got a pretty robust second half. So early break,
Speaker 1: you're right back here in Montreal. He just for laughs,
Speaker 1: Montreal Comedy Festival. It is the second Friday, so it's
Speaker 1: a big day. At one o'clock today the New Faces
Speaker 1: Writers four o'clock, Smash Reads, Reddit Stories Live. They a
Speaker 1: lot of industry type stuff. At five o'clock breaking down
Speaker 1: the pilot structure. Six thirty Early show just for laughs.
Speaker 1: Gallow with Roy Wood Junior. Seven o'clock Nick Muhammad is
Speaker 1: mister Swallow Show Bony seven o'clock. Robbie Hoffman headlines JFL.
Speaker 1: That's a good title for a show. Well done there,
Speaker 1: The Nasty Show at seven, Nathan McIntosh at seven, Wally
Speaker 1: Burram at seven, Gina Yes Sheer. Gina's show at seven
Speaker 1: is called twenty twenty five One hell of a Decade.
Speaker 1: Seven o'clock Just for laughs, Shorts, New Faces, Stand Up
Speaker 1: Encore at seven, Best of the Fast seven thirty, Nate
Speaker 1: Jackson A Lot of Buzz on Nate at eight o'clock,
Speaker 1: Will Anderson's Will Legitimate eight thirty, Nish Kumar Nish, Don't
Speaker 1: Kill My Vibe eight thirty. Bilingual show Bonjour High at
Speaker 1: nine o'clock. I always love the title because one of
Speaker 1: my I mean, I'm not the most original person, but
Speaker 1: if I'm in Montreal or France, I always do the
Speaker 1: bonjour hello, and then you speak to me in English.
Speaker 1: But I find that works a lot better than walking
Speaker 1: and going yeah, let me get a Venti iced coffee,
Speaker 1: like just at least attempt. My brain is able to
Speaker 1: read French pretty quickly, especially if I'm in a French
Speaker 1: speaking country for thirty six hours. The vocabulary comes and
Speaker 1: goes depending on how much prep I've done. When I
Speaker 1: did Paris a couple of years ago, I was five
Speaker 1: years ago. No, it was right before the pandemic. I had,
Speaker 1: you know, done the duelingo and listen to a bunch
Speaker 1: of French podcasts and I was okay. Ish pronunciation otuocious.
Speaker 1: But you know, I find if you try, people are
Speaker 1: pretty cool about It, Rachel Scanlon at nine o'clock Just
Speaker 1: for Laughs, Pilots at nine o'clock, Michelle Batill's Gala at
Speaker 1: nine thirty, Danny Boy at nine thirty, May Martin at
Speaker 1: nine thirty, Variety's ten Comics to Watch at nine thirty
Speaker 1: That's a heck of a show. Also at nine thirty,
Speaker 1: New Faces, Stand Up, Encore, Best of the Fast nine
Speaker 1: forty five, Andrea Jinn at ten, Steph Tolev at eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine. At the Festival
Speaker 1: tonight at nine thirty, May Martin said, I usually get
Speaker 1: people to write questions and put them in a bucket.
Speaker 1: Then I do a little section where I improvise and answer
Speaker 1: questions from the audience. I like to create a kind
Speaker 1: of atmosphere where it feels like we're seeing something that
Speaker 1: won't happen again. May says, Canada has been very good
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, it's great up here. No Adams Sanlor movies.
Speaker 1: I like it. I've been coming to Montreal since I
Speaker 1: was a kid. It's it's nice to check back in.
Speaker 1: You see the same people every summer. It's special and
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's the Festival still thriving also tonight in Denver,
Speaker 1: the Rise Comedy Festival, running tonight through August second to
Speaker 1: the fourth annual Rise Comedy Festival more than one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty performers from around the United States. Organizer Nick
Speaker 1: Armstrong says, the comedy scene in Denver's huge. We're happy
Speaker 1: to be hosting so many people here. We have an
Speaker 1: all access pass which allows you to get into all
Speaker 1: of the shows, and it's actually very inexpensive ninety nine bucks.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're around and you want to hit
Speaker 1: shows for a week, that's awesome. We try to make
Speaker 1: it as inexpensive as we can so people can watch
Speaker 1: as many as they want. There are some comedy junkies
Speaker 1: in Denver this weekend. The focus is on stand up.
Speaker 1: There's a Stand Up Colorado. It's a local showcase Saturday night.
Speaker 1: These stand up competition finals. Comics compete for five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars, and one hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: but the big prize is to get to perform in
Speaker 1: front of influential judges. Armstrong said. Each year we bring
Speaker 1: in different judges who work in the industry, book festivals
Speaker 1: and help comics get real exposure. Last year, some guys
Speaker 1: gave out their emails and told comics to send them tapes.
Speaker 1: That kind of connection can open real doors. Next weekend
Speaker 1: is dedicated to improv. There's also Festival Intensive, a four
Speaker 1: day educational programming featuring four instructors and twenty four hours
Speaker 1: of training. The festival got three hundred and fifty submissions
Speaker 1: for this year's festival. Nick says that was actually down.
Speaker 1: I think people are travel adverse because of budget, or
Speaker 1: at least that's what we've been told today. I'll still
Speaker 1: take it. I mean, that's still a really healthy response.
Speaker 2: Sure is.
Speaker 1: Nick doesn't want the festival to get too big. We
Speaker 1: don't want it to become this huge thing because we
Speaker 1: don't want it to become so diluted that people can't connect.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a good festival. San Diego Comic Con kicks off.
Speaker 1: The south Park guys will be there with their one
Speaker 1: point five billion dollars that would pay for thirty seven
Speaker 1: and a half years of Stephen Colbert shows. There's an
Speaker 1: immersive south Park experience at court Yard. While you're there,
Speaker 1: you can take part in an interactive photo opportunity, some trivia,
Speaker 1: karaoke giveaways, and more. There's also a costume contest, including
Speaker 1: categories for best Kenny, Best Kyle, Best Stand, Best Butters.
Speaker 1: The event is free and open to the public. You
Speaker 1: can also check out the Comedy Central panel at six
Speaker 1: forty five and Hall Eah featuring Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Speaker 1: and there are a billion and a half dollars down
Speaker 1: in the United States. I feel bad for you people
Speaker 1: because you are being stuck with the release today on
Speaker 1: Netflix of Happy Gilmour Too. I mean, it's just awful. Luckily,
Speaker 1: here in Canada, we don't have to deal with such things.
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler says fans stopped him in the streets for
Speaker 1: twenty eight years asking for this sequel. Well, everybody, you
Speaker 1: got white yass Or, Sailor said, for almost three decades,
Speaker 1: he rejected the idea, and then one day changed his
Speaker 1: mind to maybe I'm wondering how much money Netflix offered
Speaker 1: him that changed his money spoilers. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to ruin an Adam Sandler comedy for you spoilers
Speaker 1: when Happy gil Woar two begins. His life isn't perfect
Speaker 1: right now, says Adam Sandler at least at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the movie, and he's a family man. He's getting
Speaker 1: back into the golf game. The cast includes Ben Stiller,
Speaker 1: Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Travis Kelcey, Bad Bunny, and a
Speaker 1: bunch of pro golfer. As Adam Sandler said, we wrote
Speaker 1: him stuff and everybody was kind enough to come and
Speaker 1: everybody and it did a great job. Every day on set,
Speaker 1: someone cool would show up and would hang out. Christopher McDonald,
Speaker 1: who's seventy years old now and as one of the
Speaker 1: best guest starring roles on Star Trek The Next Generation
Speaker 1: as Lieutenant Castillo. Remember that, Yeah, Yesterday's Enterprise.
Speaker 2: One of the best episodes. He said.
Speaker 1: What I love about Adam Sandler is his heart. He's
Speaker 1: got so much love for people, and he's done some
Speaker 1: amazing work in the last few years. I'm very happy
Speaker 1: for him. Let's break that apart. Adam Sandlor does have heart,
Speaker 1: and that is admirable. I'm there with that. He's got
Speaker 1: love for people. That's fantastic And as McDonald says, he's
Speaker 1: done some amazing work in the last few years. Yes,
Speaker 1: he uncuts you in the Basketball Movie and the Alien one.
Speaker 1: Those are all really good. Just stop making comedies. McDonald
Speaker 1: would not talk about the plot. He said, I signed
Speaker 1: an NDA, this is kind of a big deal. At
Speaker 1: the Happy Gilmore premiere, Sandler was asked by Entertainment Tonight
Speaker 1: what it would take for him to make a movie
Speaker 1: featuring all three of his famous co star actresses together.
Speaker 1: They are Julie Bowen, Jennifer Aniston, and of course Drew Barrymore,
Speaker 1: who has the unique ability to make an Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: comedy watchable. Sandler said it would require a great set
Speaker 1: and happiness. He joked all the ladies, which suggests different
Speaker 1: diets to me during filming that say, Adam, you got
Speaker 1: to stop beating this because they're all like best friends.
Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore, of course, co starred in the two of
Speaker 1: the watchable Adam Sandler comedies, The Wedding Singer and Fifty
Speaker 1: First Dates. But even Drew Barrymore can't solve everything. She
Speaker 1: was also in Blended, which is not a great Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler movie. Sandler said he had to rewrite Happy Gilmore
Speaker 1: two following the death of Carl Weathers, who appears as
Speaker 1: Chubbs in the original. Sandler said, we had a painful change.
Speaker 1: Carl Weathers had a massive part. I would talk to
Speaker 1: Karl and we were excited, and then Carl passed away.
Speaker 1: We had to rewrite a lot of the stuff and
Speaker 1: even what the story was. We made a lot of
Speaker 1: nice references to how great Chubbs was in the movie.
Speaker 1: That was the biggest change in the first version that
Speaker 1: we came up with. He had a son. He was
Speaker 1: coming back to me a lot in my dreams, and
Speaker 1: he had a son who was mad and happy for
Speaker 1: causing the death of Daddy. This had been announced to
Speaker 1: before Colbert Gate. I assume it is still going on.
Speaker 1: It is a fundraiser to help pets come enjoy a
Speaker 1: night of stand up and tail wags at Boris and Horton,
Speaker 1: a dog friendly cafe in Manhattan's Lower east Side. The
Speaker 1: lineup features six stand up comics who doubles daily show
Speaker 1: writers Ashton Womack, Joe Opio, Kat Radley, Nicole Conlin, Matt
Speaker 1: Koff and randall Otis. The benefit is being co organized
Speaker 1: by Must Love Dogs and Comedy, a group known for
Speaker 1: curating inclusive, pet friendly comedy events. The Sport Animal Welfare
Speaker 1: Out Today, James Fritz, New Comedy album Old Man Yells
Speaker 1: at Crowd, I Feel You and I Love the title
Speaker 1: out on a Special Thing Records. Dames recorded it in Chicago,
Speaker 1: where he was once named best stand Up by the
Speaker 1: Chicago Reader. Taking the stage at the Lincoln Lodge, You
Speaker 1: shared his thoughts about dating a witch, de's at getting
Speaker 1: of aasectomy, working as a TA, his dead mom, and
Speaker 1: his dad's questionable behavior at the funeral. That is your
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