Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: Nicki Glazer spoke to NPR and discussed doing comedy about
Speaker 1: sex because of her fear of it. Nicky said, sex
Speaker 1: was always the scariest thing to me. It was always
Speaker 1: the most interesting thing. I didn't have sex until I
Speaker 1: was twenty one. I didn't kiss a boy until I
Speaker 1: was eighteen. I think I was scared of boys. I'm
Speaker 1: scared of sex. I was in a constant battle with
Speaker 1: my body from the age of seventeen on, just not
Speaker 1: liking what it was and being ashamed of it. So
Speaker 1: I think immediately when I started doing stand up, I
Speaker 1: was attracted to those kind of unspeakable things that I
Speaker 1: was just wondering why more people don't talk about them,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to sex. She discussed whether some
Speaker 1: topics should be off limits because she personally hasn't experienced them.
Speaker 1: Stay with me here until I finished the paragraph. Nicki said,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have a right to talk about
Speaker 1: rape because I'm definitely fearful of it and it's something
Speaker 1: that could happen to me. But if somebody's like I
Speaker 1: was offended by what you said, I'm just like, oh yah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got that. I'm sorry I have a panic attack
Speaker 1: on my show because I talk about a subject that's
Speaker 1: really close and personal to you and traumatize to you.
Speaker 1: I'll give you your money back, or at least the part
Speaker 1: of the ticket that I made out of the money,
Speaker 1: because I don't want anyone have a bad experience. But
Speaker 1: I definitely don't think that that's reason enough not to
Speaker 1: talk about these things. I do think my jokes aren't
Speaker 1: meant to be cruel or make fun of anyone who's
Speaker 1: a victim or has a condition. I don't want to
Speaker 1: offend anyone. I don't understand this rule of you only
Speaker 1: get to talk about things that you've lived. Because I'm
Speaker 1: just a comedian, I might not of the right take.
Speaker 1: I'm not right about everything, and I'm not enacting change
Speaker 1: politically with my stand up. It's just an entertainment thing.
Speaker 1: So for me to be taking so seriously that you
Speaker 1: said this thing and it's offensive, it's like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: a clown. There's no requirements of courses I had to take.
Speaker 1: I have no certification for what I'm doing, so you
Speaker 1: shouldn't expect me to get everything right. And I'm completely
Speaker 1: open to people saying, hey, you have the wrong take
Speaker 1: on this, and here's why, and for me to adjust
Speaker 1: my joke to that. I have no problem with that.
Speaker 1: She also talked about performing while depressed and said it's
Speaker 1: hard to perform when I'm like really really depressed. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get to the theater and be backstage and
Speaker 1: think I'm about to go do this thing. I have
Speaker 1: to turn it on. But I will say the second
Speaker 1: I step out there, the adrenaline kicks in and it'll
Speaker 1: offer me relief and I'm able to be honest about it.
Speaker 1: That's the nice thing about doing stand up because they
Speaker 1: don't have to perform the same songs every night at
Speaker 1: the same play. I kind of get to say what
Speaker 1: I want to say, so I can kind of talk
Speaker 1: about it and work through it that way. I think
Speaker 1: of depression as like getting a flu. At first, I
Speaker 1: get these sniffles or a little sore throat, like a
Speaker 1: little tingle in the back of my throat of depression.
Speaker 1: That's when I need to throw on some comedy and
Speaker 1: it really does help. And I'm realizing that late in
Speaker 1: my life, actually my depression is way more in check now.
Speaker 1: Deadline asked Sam Morrel one of the biggest challenges of
Speaker 1: building a career as a comic Today, Sam said, I
Speaker 1: think the challenges are really just adapting, seeing the next
Speaker 1: move on the chessboard, and also writing. Writing is really
Speaker 1: am I getting better? I always look ahead? Am I
Speaker 1: getting better at comedy? Is this hour better than the
Speaker 1: last one? I think this one is? And I think
Speaker 1: my pace is better. My friend is very critical of me,
Speaker 1: and I like it that way. I like that he's
Speaker 1: honest with me, and he's like, there was more of
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency with your pace, and I got this,
Speaker 1: And now you're relaxed and know they're gonna laugh. You
Speaker 1: have confidence in the bits. I think that comes with
Speaker 1: writing a certain way, but also believing and trusting your audience.
Speaker 1: And I do. I trust that they're going to get
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I do feel like there's a relationship
Speaker 1: with the audience, and when we trust them, they were
Speaker 1: and when you panter to them, they're too smart. Sam
Speaker 1: discussed his whiskey Bodega Cat and said, it's been a
Speaker 1: rude awakening in terms of the liquor business. But Mark
Speaker 1: and I were just talking on our podcast one day.
Speaker 1: We had a few Innus and Mark goes Man'd be
Speaker 1: so cool to have a whiskey, but we can never
Speaker 1: do that. And then I was like, why we have
Speaker 1: a lot of drunk listeners, A lot of people in
Speaker 1: the service industry and the liquor business who listen to
Speaker 1: our podcast because I think it reminds them of their friends.
Speaker 1: Two friends having drinks together. It was originally called one
Speaker 1: More Drink, based on the idea that you're trying to
Speaker 1: leave the bar, but you and your friend are having
Speaker 1: such a good time, and you're like, fit one more drink.
Speaker 1: You want you to feel that way when you enjoy
Speaker 1: each other's company. We really do, and I think people
Speaker 1: felt that. I was telling my daughter the other night
Speaker 1: about I can't believe when I was in my thirties
Speaker 1: at serious, I would go out after work and just
Speaker 1: get home like absurdly late. And now that I'm definitely
Speaker 1: living on old Man Mountain, I'm like, I can't believe
Speaker 1: I used to do that. How did it even function?
Speaker 1: I don't want to make it sound like I would
Speaker 1: go out to have twenty five beers, but I would
Speaker 1: get home at eleven thirty at night, would be my point.
Speaker 1: On a Tuesday, I don't know how I did that.
Speaker 1: Back to Sam, then when we said that, it just
Speaker 1: turned into people hitting us up, saying, we run a distillery,
Speaker 1: we do this. And we went with a guy that
Speaker 1: we thought was the most Legit didn't work out. We
Speaker 1: ended up buying him out, but he's a great guy
Speaker 1: and we learned from him. Now we're with a new
Speaker 1: guy and he's hustling for us. I mean, we're at
Speaker 1: the comedy seller. How crazy is that? We were drinking
Speaker 1: butdega cat old fashion at the comedy seller, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is funny, this is cool, Okay, Samorell,
Speaker 1: What are your ambitions in life? Sam says it's hard
Speaker 1: to say. I could say myself doing this the rest
Speaker 1: of my life, just burning hours and billing an audience.
Speaker 1: But I do have other ambitions. I love movies so much.
Speaker 1: I grew up really obsessed with movies, all kinds of movies. Film,
Speaker 1: noirth or even now, but forties, fifty, sixty, seventies were
Speaker 1: my favorites. I mean, the sixties and seventies in Hollywood
Speaker 1: was such a cool era. Yahoo profiled Hannah Berner, already
Speaker 1: known for her comedy on social media, showcasing on the
Speaker 1: street interviews and stand up work to her two point
Speaker 1: nine million TikTok followers and one million Instagram followers, but
Speaker 1: the attention that came from her Netflix special or on
Speaker 1: a different level. Hannah said, it was so weird. Look
Speaker 1: when it was charting and I was like, wait, so
Speaker 1: everyone sees that or is that just my account? I
Speaker 1: really put a for six years into this one hour,
Speaker 1: so to be able to let it go and for
Speaker 1: people to enjoy in their own homes, it has just
Speaker 1: been the best part of everything. I never thought I
Speaker 1: was going to be a stand up comedian. I always
Speaker 1: wanted to be a professional tennis player, and that's where
Speaker 1: I put my whole childhood and up until college. I
Speaker 1: think this Netflix special is so interesting because it wasn't
Speaker 1: on my original path. A lot of people can relate
Speaker 1: to having something you thought you wanted and then realizing
Speaker 1: as you grow and learn about yourself, what's actually better
Speaker 1: for you. When I first did stand up comedy, I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, this is tennis, but I don't lose.
Speaker 1: This is fun With tennis. I had a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure from coaches and family and my own pressure I
Speaker 1: was putting on myself, so comedy I just went into
Speaker 1: it being like, let's actually make this fun and let's
Speaker 1: enjoy what my life's going to be instead of been
Speaker 1: feeling like a pressure cooker all the time. Hey, good
Speaker 1: news for me. I was sitting here, I'm reading you
Speaker 1: the Hanna Burner story and I'm like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: I really could go for one of those buffalo chicken
Speaker 1: raps from the smoothie place. And then I remembered, true story.
Speaker 1: I went there last night and got an extra wrap.
Speaker 1: It's sitting in the fridge. I don't even have to
Speaker 1: go out. This is amazing. From The Scotsman, your home
Speaker 1: for comedy news, comedian Roscoe McClelland as a rare heart condition,
Speaker 1: but he's still performing with the Edinburgh Fringe. Roscoe writes
Speaker 1: in The Scotsman, as a stand up comedian, it feels
Speaker 1: like my sole job is to make people laugh. I
Speaker 1: travel around the country from town to town most weekends
Speaker 1: and it's exactly what I do. Usually. The topics I
Speaker 1: poke fun at are very basic, the weather, politics, even myself.
Speaker 1: When the Fringe comes, everything changes. You're afforded the space
Speaker 1: to breathe as an artist, which I find incredibly freeing
Speaker 1: from September until June, I assume the role of role
Speaker 1: in the Forger, a medieval floutist who performed once a
Speaker 1: year in the court of King Henry the Second. Every
Speaker 1: year he was obliged to perform something that looks like
Speaker 1: latinum translates as one jump and whistle and one fort
Speaker 1: This year, in Edinburgh, I'm performing a brand new show
Speaker 1: called Sudden Death. The through line of the show centers
Speaker 1: around a heart condition I was born with, called long
Speaker 1: QT syndrome, a heart rhythm disorder that causes fast, chaotic
Speaker 1: heart beats. Some people may find a bizarre that I
Speaker 1: don't follow the rules, or that I seem to be
Speaker 1: playing chicken with my own existence. I understand there are
Speaker 1: people who had LQTS and didn't get the chance to
Speaker 1: be diagnosed before their lives were said cut short. I
Speaker 1: don't mean to sound flipping or braggadocious. I understand that
Speaker 1: I'm very privileged to still be here to write this piece.
Speaker 1: But the way I perform my style of comedy is
Speaker 1: exactly the same way I live my life. I think
Speaker 1: of it as a tightrope walk. The higher the rope,
Speaker 1: the greater the risk. The greater the risk, the greater
Speaker 1: the reward. The idea of dying, whether it be on
Speaker 1: stage or in my actual life, doesn't scare me. I've
Speaker 1: accepted it as an inevitable consequence of the way I
Speaker 1: choose to go about my work in recent years has
Speaker 1: made me braver. If anything, I find a care less
Speaker 1: about what audiences might think of the topics I mind
Speaker 1: for comedic material, and through that my convictions have become emboldened.
Speaker 1: Roscoe McClelland a sudden death at Monkey Barrel Comedy nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: Until twenty five of August, the Washington Post had profiled
Speaker 1: some DC comedians, one of them Stephen Chen, an absurdist
Speaker 1: comic from Maryland. He said, growing up, I went to
Speaker 1: the McLean Bible church where we had a Jewish pastor.
Speaker 1: Still pretty funny, come to think of it, that might
Speaker 1: be the basis of my humor. It's a pretty normal thing,
Speaker 1: but there's something silly about it. The twist that flips
Speaker 1: expectations is so strange it seems like it's been made up.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that place didn't churn out more comedians. My
Speaker 1: goal is to trick people into thinking I'm onto something
Speaker 1: that I'm making a good point, and then I pulled
Speaker 1: the rug out or pause to make them realize it's
Speaker 1: all nonsense. I explain on stage, and sometimes I know
Speaker 1: I'm weird. My comedy's like jazz. I want people to say.
Speaker 1: I think he was doing comedy. He was on stage,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he knew he was supposed
Speaker 1: to be there. People were laughing, but he wasn't like
Speaker 1: telling jokes. They asked him what his day job is?
Speaker 1: Good answer if you were to consult with my LinkedIn
Speaker 1: I'm currently a chicken baptizer at Chick fil A, but
Speaker 1: in reality, I produce videos and support corporate culture development
Speaker 1: for a healthcare IT company. I don't think i'm at
Speaker 1: liberty to disclose the company's name, as I had to
Speaker 1: change my name and disaffiliate from them on LinkedIn after
Speaker 1: my profile was discovered by human resources. And that is
Speaker 1: your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program,
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