Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Remember Louis Ck did some stuff and
Speaker 1: then we canceled him and we never heard from him again. Well,
Speaker 1: he's kicking off a year long tour April seventeenth, with
Speaker 1: two sold out dates in Winnipeg, Canada. The tour continues
Speaker 1: through April fourth, twenty twenty six. I didn't misspeak there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is going to go on for a year. Ck
Speaker 1: had done an email blast explaining to his fans, I'm
Speaker 1: working out many clubs now. He played a club right
Speaker 1: in my town. I didn't know that it was happening
Speaker 1: until it was quite sold out, and plus I think
Speaker 1: I was heading on vacation somewhere, so it's kind of like, eh,
Speaker 1: I'll just stay home. That reminds me though, I should
Speaker 1: probably check in to see who is playing that place.
Speaker 1: Just checked. Nobody super major. They've added, but they've got
Speaker 1: Rachel and Adrian. Okay, not too bad. See Kay's that
Speaker 1: I'm working out in many clubs now and through the
Speaker 1: next few months, getting the new joke stories in general
Speaker 1: stupidities ready for the tour. I took about two years
Speaker 1: off before this tour, and I'm very glad I did.
Speaker 1: I'm having a great time on stage now and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to share this crap with all of you. I
Speaker 1: hope you can come because I like you and I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid of you. C K signed off the email blast,
Speaker 1: happy to be lucky to be alive. For those of
Speaker 1: you wondering what I've been doing, I've taken up sculpture
Speaker 1: at clay and stone and drawing with charcoal. I've written
Speaker 1: a novel and I'm working on a second. That about
Speaker 1: wraps it up on me. But it's true. It's the
Speaker 1: part of the brain that knows how to reflexively care
Speaker 1: for child because it isn't as easy as babysitting. Like
Speaker 1: it's your mother's intuition. Those are the eyes in the
Speaker 1: back of your head, all those senses that are in
Speaker 1: fact over developed because you're inflamed when you become a mom.
Speaker 1: So it's the reason why I can anticipate what my
Speaker 1: child might need, or why a mom can do that.
Speaker 1: So while you're out looking for your phone, you're still
Speaker 1: making sure your child doesn't fall or grab a knife.
Speaker 1: So does a give and take. I often forget to
Speaker 1: use a turn signal now, but at least I know
Speaker 1: my daughter's favorite foods a late times. How do you
Speaker 1: balance mom brain with comedy. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a balance. A balance just suggests you haven't fallen so
Speaker 1: off killed that you're in some sort of mental facility.
Speaker 1: And I know that women often get asked about that
Speaker 1: there is no balance, it's just doing it. I just
Speaker 1: get up, I put one foot in front of the other,
Speaker 1: and I do the best I can. And I know
Speaker 1: from watching other moms, I've decided it never come down
Speaker 1: too hard on myself, like you're really doing the best
Speaker 1: you can, and the good news is your kid doesn't
Speaker 1: know any better, and just do it to the best
Speaker 1: of your ability, knowing that you'll be faulted for much
Speaker 1: in the way you faulted your parents anything you did
Speaker 1: and didn't do. Anyway, we might as well have let
Speaker 1: them have that cookie. Eliza said. They consistency of getting
Speaker 1: up in those clubs year after year and knowing everyone.
Speaker 1: That's the one consistent thing in my life over the
Speaker 1: last twenty years, and it's always been something that brought
Speaker 1: me such joy, and I love my fans so much.
Speaker 1: The heart is broken when you're not with your kids,
Speaker 1: and then when you're with them, you're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: need a break. But it's a weird thing, like you've
Speaker 1: become two different people. When I leave home to do
Speaker 1: the shows, I just have to know that my heart
Speaker 1: is in pieces. But I got this amazing job. But
Speaker 1: I can't say that I get the joy from being
Speaker 1: on the road the way I did before. Like I've
Speaker 1: been to Pittsburgh, I've been to Austin. I've been to
Speaker 1: the gift shops. I've been to the bars, beating the steak.
Speaker 1: All I want to do when I get off stage
Speaker 1: just to go to sleep so I can get home
Speaker 1: the next day. That's called turning forty. Eliza, welcome to
Speaker 1: the club. I don't know how old Eliza as. How
Speaker 1: old is Eliza forty two? Yeah? You turned forty, That's
Speaker 1: what happened there. You just want to go to bed.
Speaker 1: I got to a point where if you start a
Speaker 1: census with, hey, man, do you want to go to No?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't care what the rest of the
Speaker 1: sentence is. And you know the odds of you going
Speaker 1: see the Rolling Stones. I have backstage passes. Then I'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh wait, oh, no, yeah, I can't go.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, Hey, John, do you want
Speaker 1: to know? I just want to sit home watch TV.
Speaker 1: I'm old. That's why I really like a friend of
Speaker 1: the show, Jason's intimate, who has counseled me that you
Speaker 1: know it's okay to watch a comedy clip online. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Jason Zinitaman. In front of the show, Liza said, when
Speaker 1: you're a woman, you're always gonna get asked more about
Speaker 1: your children than men do. And for me that was
Speaker 1: a bit of a stutter step, because even to begin
Speaker 1: talking about something as life changing, life affirming and life
Speaker 1: shattering as having kids, these are waters that you've never
Speaker 1: navigated before. And I've gotten horrific comics like You're not
Speaker 1: gonna talk about your kids, are you, which is disheartening
Speaker 1: because men get to do that and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's so charming, give them a sitcom, but when women
Speaker 1: do it, it seemed like, ah, well, she's unaffable now
Speaker 1: she has kids. That's not gonna be for me. I'm
Speaker 1: just reacting to that. I don't think that way, but
Speaker 1: I guess people that's awful. Eliza says, I also have
Speaker 1: a lot of hot takes about other things. So for me,
Speaker 1: the commentary on being a mom is less about the
Speaker 1: specissivity of an interaction with my child and more commentary
Speaker 1: on societies commentary on women having kids, And with that
Speaker 1: I keep it to a minimum. So I'm still blown
Speaker 1: away with experience that I'm having. I haven't processed it
Speaker 1: all yet, so in five years I'll complain about the kids.
Speaker 1: Bert Kreischerho spoke to Las Vegas Magazine. Bert shared, I
Speaker 1: think it's always been clear that have been drawn to
Speaker 1: tragic characters like Chris Farley and John Belushi, But when
Speaker 1: I got into comedy, everyone seemed to be on the
Speaker 1: straight and narrow. I didn't meet Ron White until later
Speaker 1: in life, and it's hell quit drinking pretty quickly into
Speaker 1: me doing stand up. I think if you're wondering who
Speaker 1: my canary in the mind is, that, of course is
Speaker 1: Doug Stanhope some folks that Burt enjoys. Tim Dillon makes
Speaker 1: me laugh hard as s Theo Vaughn and Staffers Halkias.
Speaker 1: He never do a bad podcast with same with Big
Speaker 1: Jay Ogerson and Dan Soder, all those guys is absolutely
Speaker 1: deliver when they're on a podcast. Ali reporter asked Andrew
Speaker 1: Schultz about comedy Gatekeeping, pointing out it used to be
Speaker 1: Johnny Carson than Letterman. Who's it now? Everybody say it together?
Speaker 1: On three one two three, Joe Rogan Andrew said, I
Speaker 1: think it's Rogan and Kill Tony Tony Hitch close show,
Speaker 1: especially for new comics. I'll hear reporter, what are you
Speaker 1: all called the maniverse? The manisphere? Andrew, the manisphere. It's
Speaker 1: so funny. I guess we're that we're a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys that we're just having locker room talk or whatever
Speaker 1: the f that term is. I think the tricky thing
Speaker 1: is when we get labeled in certain ways, like ah,
Speaker 1: they're all sexist, racist bigots, and I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna have some writer from Maine to tell me I'm racist. Stop.
Speaker 1: I know you didn't grow up with anybody but white people,
Speaker 1: but I know you got this NPR job or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I don't think you need to tell me how
Speaker 1: to be an ally. This happened with Bernie Sanders. When
Speaker 1: Bernie caught steam, the Democratic Party tried to suppress him
Speaker 1: a bit, and they started labeling his followers the Bernie Bros.
Speaker 1: And they're like, he has a sexist problem and a
Speaker 1: bigotry problem, all these same things. Then the second had
Speaker 1: started seemingly being helpful for Trump. It was the same playbook.
Speaker 1: People getting privy of that. I don't think it's advantageous
Speaker 1: for that to be used. Paraphrasing here from the Holler reporter, Hey, look, Andrew,
Speaker 1: some people think you helped Trump get elected. Andrews said, listen,
Speaker 1: for every election, we want two candidates that we love.
Speaker 1: I mean, that'd be awesome. Me and Charlie, Me and
Speaker 1: the God who have been doing brilliant idiots for ten years.
Speaker 1: Charola Maine's close with Kamala. He had Comma on the pod.
Speaker 1: I had Trump. We're boys for ten years. We're talking
Speaker 1: crap about politics every single week. It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1: That's the version of America you want to see. You
Speaker 1: want to see you guys who might have somewhat differing ideas,
Speaker 1: but it can cross the aisle tons. I up as
Speaker 1: a Democrat my whole effing life. I grew up in
Speaker 1: the arts in New York. My family had a dance studio.
Speaker 1: I was going to the ballet. So to me, that's
Speaker 1: the best version of what we can be. We're all
Speaker 1: talking crap to each other, making fun of each other,
Speaker 1: and then we're disagreeing on how unconstitutional Doge might be.
Speaker 1: Vir does broke to Yahoo Canada, where he finds his
Speaker 1: audience is usually made up of around sixty percent Indians.
Speaker 1: Vier says, I think a lot of people coming for
Speaker 1: two reasons. Maybe the Indians are coming in because they
Speaker 1: want to get caught up with home, because they miss home,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of bringing home to them. Large part
Speaker 1: of the audience their parents are from where I'm from,
Speaker 1: but it's not the place I'm actually from. What I
Speaker 1: find is a lot of Indians they kind of grew
Speaker 1: up with this time capsule version of India that their
Speaker 1: parents left behind. So if your mom and dad came
Speaker 1: to Canada in seventy five, that's what you grew up
Speaker 1: believing India was. You know, when you're twenty one years
Speaker 1: old and it's my job to come in and be like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm from Mumbai. This is what we do think your
Speaker 1: parents told. He was a lie. This is modern India
Speaker 1: and we're hopefully a little more fun and a little
Speaker 1: more audacious than you thought. Blood Yellow dot Com is
Speaker 1: your home for comedy news, And they told the story
Speaker 1: of the time John Jones almost made Jim Norton pass
Speaker 1: out with a leg kick stunt. Yes we're talking UFC.
Speaker 1: John Jones was out promoting UFC one forty. He appeared
Speaker 1: on the Opian Anthony radio show. Part of the show
Speaker 1: was a running gag where Norton would allow a fighter
Speaker 1: to put him in submission hold. Jim offered to take
Speaker 1: a kick from John Jones. Jones lined up through what
Speaker 1: appeared to be a kick far from full power. Jim
Speaker 1: immediately let everyone in the studio know he was in
Speaker 1: severe pain. Norton's first words were that he feels like
Speaker 1: I have to cramp. Norton reflected on the moment on
Speaker 1: a podcast with Dan Soder. Hurt me so much, I
Speaker 1: almost vomited. I remember I had the urged a crap
Speaker 1: and to throw up. I remember he sent me back
Speaker 1: in a shock. He put a shit into my thigh
Speaker 1: and it was fight week two, a bad week, and
Speaker 1: he also choked me. I remember I went to the
Speaker 1: bathroom and I was like, I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: pass out. Jolt News caught up with comedian Sam Miller,
Speaker 1: who can work both clean and dirty. Miller said there's
Speaker 1: a lot of comics that I think it's not really
Speaker 1: art if you have to follow rules. I'm very proud
Speaker 1: that I can switch back and forth, because a lot
Speaker 1: of other comics can't work clean. I don't mind at all.
Speaker 1: Sam starred in comedy through the Twelve Steps program, explaining
Speaker 1: I never thought that comedy was like a thing for
Speaker 1: a guy like me. It didn't seem like it was possible.
Speaker 1: I thought there was no way people would laugh at
Speaker 1: this stuff. I don't talk about these issues with an
Speaker 1: air of shame. There's nothing to be ashamed about. Addiction
Speaker 1: is a disease, and the AMA says it's a disease.
Speaker 1: People wanted it to be better immediately, but there are
Speaker 1: no easy solutions. There's so much stigma on being a
Speaker 1: drug addict and homeless, and then you start talking to
Speaker 1: people and realize even though drug addiction was a very
Speaker 1: personal problem for me, it's a very visible, public, social,
Speaker 1: and political problem. Comedy is a jovial place where we
Speaker 1: can all laugh together and create amity and camaraderie. And
Speaker 1: Jason Alexander was recently on Tom Poppa's podcast and Jason said,
Speaker 1: here's the truth. It's kind of a weird truth. The
Speaker 1: only one of the core for I really got to
Speaker 1: know over the nine years of Seinfeld was Julia. Jason
Speaker 1: said he became more aware of how he knew Michael
Speaker 1: Richards after reading Richard's book. Jason said, I got in
Speaker 1: touch with him and I said, I love the book.
Speaker 1: But here's what's said. I don't think I met this guy.
Speaker 1: You were doing stuff I wasn't even aware of. Jason explains,
Speaker 1: Michael's process was so isolated in some ways, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want any interfere with that process. Jason says that
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld didn't open up to his castmates at all.
Speaker 1: I don't find that the least bit surprising, but Jason
Speaker 1: explains that Jerry wasn't just acting. He was working on
Speaker 1: other aspects of the show. He came down, we had fun,
Speaker 1: We enjoyed each other, and it was a lot of laughs,
Speaker 1: and I know some things about what was going on
Speaker 1: his life, but I wasn't a confidant. He's down, he's
Speaker 1: rehearsing with us, and then he's in the editing room,
Speaker 1: or he's in the casting office, or he's writing, he's
Speaker 1: doing something else. So I didn't hang out with Jerry
Speaker 1: and as a result, I don't really know him all that. Well,
Speaker 1: that's kind of sad, isn't it, Like I get it? Uh.
Speaker 1: And if you ever met Jerry, I wouldn't use the
Speaker 1: word warm. He's not a douche. He's just like he's
Speaker 1: exactly what you think he is. Like he comes in,
Speaker 1: he's not impressed, he doesn't want anything. He's not like, hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta have a bottle of champagne. He's just there
Speaker 1: to do the job. Doesn't want to be your friend.
Speaker 1: He'll fist bump you. Not looking to take selfie's not
Speaker 1: looking to hang out, doesn't want to talk about Seinfeld.
Speaker 1: But again, not a jerky way, just like I'm here
Speaker 1: to do business. Let's doer thing. Okay, all right, that
Speaker 1: was great, guys, See you later, Annie Leaves. Jason did
Speaker 1: say if any Seinfeld cast members needed any help, Jerry
Speaker 1: would be there for them in a second, but clarified
Speaker 1: they had a work friendship, not a social friendship. And
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