Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Jenny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Michael Jay and Colin Jokes apparently have a
Speaker 1: good relationship, but seems there was one joke Michael Jay
Speaker 1: didn't like. He told this story to Dana Carvey and
Speaker 1: David Spade. They were curious if there was any punchline
Speaker 1: that he didn't like. Chase said, I think jalapagno business.
Speaker 1: I was pretty furious about that one. Joe said, you
Speaker 1: were just upset that it worked so well. The joke
Speaker 1: in question related to a twenty fifteen Ohio criminal case,
Speaker 1: which saw a woman charged with stabbing her boyfriend because
Speaker 1: he ate a tub of sauca they were meant to share.
Speaker 1: Chase said, I remember and run through when you did
Speaker 1: it because I'd never heard it before. I don't remember
Speaker 1: what the setup was, but the punchline was halapano business,
Speaker 1: a play on words on the saying all up in
Speaker 1: your business. On the final airing, Jose recapped the crime
Speaker 1: and concluded by saying you'd be angry too if your
Speaker 1: boyfriend was jlapagno business, and Chase said, I was like,
Speaker 1: if you tell that joke on the air, I'm leaving
Speaker 1: him quitting the show, and he did it on air
Speaker 1: and it destroyed. I was so frustrated. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what we'd do anymore. On the
Speaker 1: original airing, Chase shared, first of all, I hate you
Speaker 1: for laughing at that. My joke got pulled after dress
Speaker 1: rehearsal because they said it was too offensive and way
Speaker 1: over the line. Man. The PR people over at CNN,
Speaker 1: they definitely worked hard at getting word out about how
Speaker 1: I got news for you. You've got a couple of stories today,
Speaker 1: and I'll do some more tomorrow. Since the show airs
Speaker 1: on Saturday. And look it's canceled because it's scheduled on
Speaker 1: Saturday night. I know if anybody's gonna watch it. Micha
Speaker 1: Lee and Black told Inside Hook, I'm so plugged in,
Speaker 1: like annoyingly so, I know so much about the news,
Speaker 1: mostly as a function of being unemployed. I live on
Speaker 1: Twitter discuss even me. Black appeared in a pilot for
Speaker 1: an NBC version of the show years ago that never
Speaker 1: took off. When CNN came calling, he was like, why
Speaker 1: see it in doing this? This doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: to me, So I asked that question to CNN. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this doesn't make any sense, and they said they've been
Speaker 1: airing Bill Mahers show on Saturday nights and reruns and
Speaker 1: it'd been performing really well for them, and they saw
Speaker 1: an opportunity there and they were looking for something to
Speaker 1: pair with it to expand their weekend programming from just
Speaker 1: Sunday Originals to Saturday Originals. Seem like a good fit,
Speaker 1: some one was explained to me. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're smarter than I thought you were. They've been really
Speaker 1: respectful of Roy Amber and I in terms of letting
Speaker 1: us do what we want, never saying well, in the
Speaker 1: British version they do this or they do that. I
Speaker 1: think they're very cognizant of the fact that this has
Speaker 1: to stand on its own two legs with an American
Speaker 1: cast doing it the way we would do it. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure the architecture of it, the way the show
Speaker 1: is constructed, and the design and the games that are
Speaker 1: all within it, that's all lifted from the British one.
Speaker 1: But in terms of how we executed here, they haven't
Speaker 1: give us any notes other than go as far as
Speaker 1: you want to go, which is the best possible note
Speaker 1: to receive. He said. The crew instantly connected. While filming
Speaker 1: a test episode, even though they didn't know each other,
Speaker 1: Black says, I felt so familiar and so comfortable, and
Speaker 1: they were so funny. It felt to me like we'd
Speaker 1: be doing it for years. I was shocked, it really was.
Speaker 1: I think all of us have enough experience in the
Speaker 1: format sitting on a stage, there's an audience, there's four
Speaker 1: or five cameras, and you're just like shooting at the stuff.
Speaker 1: I think it felt natural for all of us and
Speaker 1: a very easy place to fall into. The X factor
Speaker 1: is always like, well, what's the chemistry going to be? Like?
Speaker 1: So far is so good. I mean they were making
Speaker 1: fun of me. I was making fun of them. They
Speaker 1: were making fun of each other. That's all you want.
Speaker 1: That's all I want. If some tragedy or something, or
Speaker 1: I should say, when there's some tragedy or something, it's
Speaker 1: entirely possible we will be preempted that week, depending on
Speaker 1: the nature of whatever's happening, and I'd be fine with that.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get up on September thirteenth to
Speaker 1: joke about September eleventh, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: think my approach would be to treat the events with
Speaker 1: the seriousness they deserve. That doesn't mean you can't find
Speaker 1: the humor in them. But then there's just some things
Speaker 1: that are not going to be funny, and I won't
Speaker 1: try to make them funny. If a school shooting happens,
Speaker 1: you're not going to see me up there making armpit
Speaker 1: fart noises over it. I'm just not The CNN press
Speaker 1: machine got Rolling Stone to write an article. Roy Wood
Speaker 1: Junior said, I wouldn't mind RFK Junior as a guest.
Speaker 1: It would be funny, I guarantee you that, and at
Speaker 1: times it would be very what the f is happening,
Speaker 1: but informative at the end of the day, and I
Speaker 1: think that part of it's fun to see. The thing
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to remain conscious about the American version
Speaker 1: of this is there's still a lot of people suffering
Speaker 1: under a lot of these policies that are quarterback by
Speaker 1: people that were thrown around a pure as guests, and
Speaker 1: so there's a way to tend of the wins of
Speaker 1: the people that are in pain while creating a sense
Speaker 1: of accountability or explaining yourself for people that have pushed
Speaker 1: some of these policies. I don't want to laugh at
Speaker 1: stuff that's insensitive. At the end of the day, I've
Speaker 1: had six days to yell, curse and cry. On Saturday nights,
Speaker 1: we will laugh. In the Daily Mail, Alexa Semino talks
Speaker 1: about being at participant in Kill Tony. I found this
Speaker 1: very interesting, Alexa writes. I had waited in the sign
Speaker 1: up line on the first day of the show, even
Speaker 1: convincing my editor to let me out of work early.
Speaker 1: I arrived at four pm, thinking an hour was plenty
Speaker 1: of time to screw my place in line for the
Speaker 1: five pm sign ups. I was very wrong. At least
Speaker 1: eight hundred aspiring comedians had been waiting and sweltering ninety
Speaker 1: five degree heats since eleven am. By the time I arrived,
Speaker 1: only three hundred to four hundred lean in and I
Speaker 1: didn't make the cut that day, but I was determined
Speaker 1: the next day. I came prepared. There were only twenty
Speaker 1: or so people in mind when I arrived at mid day,
Speaker 1: so I was golden. I chatted with the other comics
Speaker 1: who had flown in from all over the country. Wow,
Speaker 1: it felt like a comedy tailgate party, where instead of football,
Speaker 1: we discussed the kill Tony bump. Referring to the possible
Speaker 1: career boosts that would come from being selected to perform
Speaker 1: on the show. When it was time to sign up,
Speaker 1: we were herded like cattle through metal detectors made to
Speaker 1: sign waivers. We were given wristbands and ushered beneath the
Speaker 1: arena on the left side of the stage. Especial section
Speaker 1: was reserved for comics who had entered their names in
Speaker 1: the bucket. A live man fired up the crowd. The
Speaker 1: show kicked off as Tony began explaining the bucket poll system.
Speaker 1: That's when I realized I had willingly signed up for
Speaker 1: three hours of anxiety because no one knew who was
Speaker 1: going to be called. I whipped out my trusty red
Speaker 1: Joke book, frantically flipping through the pages and knowing I'd
Speaker 1: be so shocked I'd probably forget my own name. I
Speaker 1: needed to strategically select jokes that were second nature, like
Speaker 1: the kind of jokes I knew so well I could
Speaker 1: recite them in my sleep. Eventually, her nerves calm because
Speaker 1: she's not being called, and then she writes it turns
Speaker 1: out my chances of being called were far higher than
Speaker 1: I thought, for one reason. I was a woman. Tony
Speaker 1: wanted a woman and had one last bucket poll left
Speaker 1: for Saturday night show, so he kept drawing names until
Speaker 1: he found one mine. I was rushed backstage by the
Speaker 1: production crew. My face pale, my hand's trembling. The production
Speaker 1: assistant laid down the law. Don't touch the judges, don't
Speaker 1: go over your time. When you hear a kittens me
Speaker 1: owt from the soundboard, wrap it up, Tony says, make
Speaker 1: some noise for Alexa Semino. I walked up the stairs,
Speaker 1: picked up the signature red microphone, looked out to the
Speaker 1: sea of twenty thousand faces stretching out before me. You
Speaker 1: could hear a pin drop. I launched it into my set.
Speaker 1: The words tumbled out with a confidence I didn't know
Speaker 1: I possessed. The crowds laughter echoed throughout the arena. In
Speaker 1: comedy terms, I had killed it. I managed to banter
Speaker 1: with Shane Gillis, dressed as Donald Trump. I was awarded
Speaker 1: a big Joke book, a prestigious symbol that the bucket
Speaker 1: pull had impressed the judges. Stepping off the stage, I
Speaker 1: was greeted by some of the most famous names in comedy.
Speaker 1: After the show, I was bombarded with congratulations autograph requests
Speaker 1: and so much love, especially from female audience members. It
Speaker 1: took me nearly an hour to leave the venue. In
Speaker 1: a few weeks I'll find out if the Kiltny bump
Speaker 1: is real or if we'll be back to climbing the
Speaker 1: stand up ladder from scratch again. I gotta remember to
Speaker 1: watch those shows. The MSG shows are up on YouTube now.
Speaker 1: You know this football like nine nights a week now.
Speaker 1: There aren't nine nights in a week, John, There's like
Speaker 1: football like eight nights a week now, and I was
Speaker 1: having a time to watch kil Tony. But the MSG
Speaker 1: shows are definitely up there out today. Anna Valenzuela's a
Speaker 1: new comedy album, A Murder Puss, is available from a
Speaker 1: burn This Records. There's going to be a book about
Speaker 1: Lauren Michaels entitled Lauren Then, who invented Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: Get ready for nine solid months of SNL talk starting
Speaker 1: with this movie ending with the fiftieth anniversary show. This
Speaker 1: new book, written by Susan Morrison from The New Yorker,
Speaker 1: will introduce you to him in full for the first time,
Speaker 1: with unprecedented access to Michaels, who has spent his career
Speaker 1: mostly avoiding reporters and the entire SNL apparatus. The New
Speaker 1: Yorker's Susan Morrison takes you behind the curtain for the rollicking,
Speaker 1: definitive story of how Lorne created the institution that would
Speaker 1: change comedy forever. Sidebar Mark Maron had lorn On at
Speaker 1: one point, I think two episodes worth, maybe only one.
Speaker 1: That was a great listen. I know Maren put stuff
Speaker 1: behind the paywall after a while. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's still available, but that was really good if you
Speaker 1: can still get it. Other people interviewed in the book
Speaker 1: Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Steve Martin, Chris Rock, Amy Poehler,
Speaker 1: and Jason Sadeikas, Bill Hayter Buck, Henry Chevy, Chase and Moore.
Speaker 1: The book will be out in February. Forbes spoke to
Speaker 1: Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Caroline's Comedy Club in
Speaker 1: Caroline Hirsch is a big part of the New York
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival. They spoke to her about how comedians dress.
Speaker 1: Airlines said to me many many years ago, Robin Williams
Speaker 1: always presents it himself in kind of a you know,
Speaker 1: it was a cool way on stage in the beginning,
Speaker 1: he wore T shirts with suspenders. It was kind of
Speaker 1: his look after get rid of the Hawaiian shirts. Later
Speaker 1: he was a very chic dresser. She says. JB. Smooth
Speaker 1: is the coolest dresser around. Tracy Morgan also make sure
Speaker 1: he's dressed to the nines. Kevin Hard as well is
Speaker 1: dressed to the nines. Those guys really do out there
Speaker 1: and make sure they have a look, very very much
Speaker 1: a look on what they do. Caroline says, once comedians
Speaker 1: get the means, they dress up, that's their thing. I
Speaker 1: watch people go from jeans and T shirt to there
Speaker 1: are many suits. You could see the transition of people
Speaker 1: going through it. Her favorite is when comedians wear bling.
Speaker 1: It's almost like do they dress up so people take
Speaker 1: them more seriously or is it a way to show
Speaker 1: their status that they've made it. It's really about making it.
Speaker 1: Look at Nikki Glazer, she's impeccantly dressed on stage all
Speaker 1: the time. As for the now closed Caroline's Comedy Club,
Speaker 1: she says, it lives on through the festival. That's what
Speaker 1: we've been doing. And look, when the news went out
Speaker 1: that we were closing club, I had so many offers
Speaker 1: from different real estate people around New York saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: come work with us, open another club. But I needed
Speaker 1: sign a step back a bit, and we've been exploring
Speaker 1: other ideas about the Caroline's brand. Speaking of the well
Speaker 1: dressed JB Smooth, The Port City Daily caught up with JB,
Speaker 1: who said, people forget how short life is, and people
Speaker 1: really focus on too much stuff that keeps them stagnant
Speaker 1: and keeps them at a certain mindset for a long
Speaker 1: time until they realize that being in that mindset has
Speaker 1: affected them long term. By the time they get to
Speaker 1: a certain age, they realize they can't fix it. They
Speaker 1: can't repair it because they're locked into it. They presented
Speaker 1: someone to everybody and now everybody knows them as that
Speaker 1: personality and that person. But if you can't find a
Speaker 1: way to laugh, find a place in there for humor
Speaker 1: and growth, we're in trouble. And I think comedy is
Speaker 1: a departure from the normal world. You should put your
Speaker 1: phones away and be in the moment with somebody. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like an intervention. We as humans have definitely
Speaker 1: attached ourselves to a different speed of the world, and
Speaker 1: there's something really intimit about a setting like comedy when
Speaker 1: somebody leans forward in their chair and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got them. That's the fun thing about stand up man,
Speaker 1: sat yourself to the heartbeat, and that it's your comedy
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