Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark media. I know Johnny Manhood your daily comedy
Speaker 1: news no Taylor Swift fan. Nicki Glazer tells any why
Speaker 1: I'm not a politician. I'm not enacting laws. My job
Speaker 1: is to be truthful to myself, and what's authentic for
Speaker 1: me is to share these dark thoughts I have. It
Speaker 1: really releases some of the shame I struggle with the
Speaker 1: morality that's put on comedians say the right thing and
Speaker 1: have the right take. We do have an influence, obviously,
Speaker 1: but we're also telling jokes. It's hard because the things
Speaker 1: I do think are so wrong and so bad, and
Speaker 1: there's fear of getting canceled for saying the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: But ultimately I know I'm a good person. I dealt
Speaker 1: with a lot of like, am I a bad person
Speaker 1: because these thoughts? And I'm really not. I could sleep
Speaker 1: well at night knowing that I didn't really say them
Speaker 1: to hurt anyone. I'm only as sick as my secrets,
Speaker 1: and so I try to release as many secrets as
Speaker 1: possible up there. I do worry about Nikki the more
Speaker 1: of these interviews I read. In her recent special Someday
Speaker 1: You'll Die, she ponders guns are easier to find than compassion.
Speaker 1: She then calls out the suicide lifeline nine to eight eight.
Speaker 1: Throughout the special Sedgy material, it took her a while
Speaker 1: to get to a point where audiences felt comfortable laughing
Speaker 1: with her right City Wire Glazer says, it becomes a
Speaker 1: challenge the suicide material stuff. I was getting a lot
Speaker 1: of pushback from audiences, and I thought, Oh, guess I
Speaker 1: can't really go there and talk about my suicidal thoughts
Speaker 1: and joking about how I'll probably kill myself some day.
Speaker 1: They're never gonna be okay with it. But I kept going,
Speaker 1: and I kept trying until I found a way that
Speaker 1: actually worked, and it was one of the biggest laughs
Speaker 1: of Mindsire said, that was really gratifying. I hope she's
Speaker 1: okay there. Bob Saggitt was friends with John Mayer, so
Speaker 1: no surprise that Bob Saggett's favorite charity will honor John
Speaker 1: Mayer with a special award at the Scleroderma Research Foundation's
Speaker 1: annual fundraiser, Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine that's on October twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: The nonprofit will give John Mayer and comedian Jeff Ross
Speaker 1: the Bob Saggat Legacy award in honor of how they
Speaker 1: helped Sagat raise funds and awareness. Jeff Ross will host
Speaker 1: the event, which would feature additional comedians, TBA musicians and performers.
Speaker 1: Kelly Rizzo, Bob's wife, said, I could not be more
Speaker 1: thrilled to see the Bob Saggatt Legacy Award go to
Speaker 1: John Mayor and Jeff Ross. They were two of Bob's
Speaker 1: dearest friends and both in body's dedication to the cause.
Speaker 1: The reference ensure that Bob's impact continues, proving that laughter
Speaker 1: and music can be powerful tools in the fight against
Speaker 1: this disease and bring us closer to a cure with
Speaker 1: every event. After Saggot died in twenty twenty two, John
Speaker 1: Mayer paid for a private plane to transport the body
Speaker 1: back to California and later served as a pallbearer at
Speaker 1: the funeral. Earlier this year, on Bob Saggot's birthday, John
Speaker 1: Mayer posted a photo of himself with Saggot, saying, I
Speaker 1: miss you the most when I'm exhausted and I just
Speaker 1: want to talk to my friend. We all miss you.
Speaker 1: Lost me be out of our control, but remembrance is
Speaker 1: our active defiance and we will never Forget You. Zarna
Speaker 1: Garga got into comedy because of her teenage daughter. After all,
Speaker 1: mom sold funny stories. How hard could it be? Sarna
Speaker 1: jumped on stage in twenty nineteen. She'd never been inside
Speaker 1: a comedy club before. Then her children convinced her she
Speaker 1: was funny. She went up onto the open mic and
Speaker 1: was given half an hour. That's eternal. A half hour
Speaker 1: is endless. She didn't really have material, so she went
Speaker 1: with what she knew. Gark told post Media the thing
Speaker 1: is I discovered there's a big and vibrant audience for
Speaker 1: Indian mother in law jokes. I didn't know enough to
Speaker 1: have stage fright to be honest with you later around
Speaker 1: the op but Mike encourage me to go up there
Speaker 1: and talk about whatever I think is funny. I thought
Speaker 1: about a lot of things my mother in law said
Speaker 1: to me, so I went with it without thinking twice.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad I was ignorant of what it should
Speaker 1: be to be afraid up on stage because the vibe
Speaker 1: of just naturally showing up on stage and talking about
Speaker 1: life is also how I do it. Now. It's much
Speaker 1: easier for me to not overthink it and to treat
Speaker 1: every show like a big extended dinner party. Zarna says,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be part of my culture to
Speaker 1: know there are inappropriate people in everybody's life who say
Speaker 1: crazy things. They don't have to be Indian or even
Speaker 1: have a mother in law. We all have that friend
Speaker 1: or neighbor or uncle or aunt wherever that randomly blurts
Speaker 1: out completely inappropriate things. It thinks it's totally okay to
Speaker 1: do it, these things of all the one thing at
Speaker 1: a time. Once I understood what stand up comedy was,
Speaker 1: I hung out with comics, learned what they were doing.
Speaker 1: I'm immersed in that world of entertainment in the comedy format.
Speaker 1: Now in a minute, I'm very tuned what's going on
Speaker 1: in the digital space. It's very interesting. Once you decide
Speaker 1: you want to do something, you start learning before you
Speaker 1: even know you're learning. Greg Fitzsimmons said his first writing
Speaker 1: job was with Bill Maher. I was hired to do
Speaker 1: audience warm up but only been doing comedy maybe seven years,
Speaker 1: and he liked my warm up, so he offered me
Speaker 1: a writing job. I was with a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: who's still as writers twenty five years later. It's like
Speaker 1: a club there I didn't stay in that club. I
Speaker 1: got fired, but you know that just happens when you're
Speaker 1: write for TV shows. You get fired a lot. Usually
Speaker 1: a producer will call you in and gently let you go.
Speaker 1: But Bill sat down with me and did it himself
Speaker 1: like a man, and I'll always respect that. The South
Speaker 1: of China Morning Post is your home for comedy news.
Speaker 1: They caught up with Phil Wang, who said stand up
Speaker 1: is like alchemy, turning nothing into something. There's something mystifying
Speaker 1: about that. To stand on stage on your own and
Speaker 1: turn that nothing into a room of laughing people. I
Speaker 1: found that fascinating. It's not about I'd give it a go.
Speaker 1: The first gig I ever did was at school in
Speaker 1: Bath when the drama teacher invited people to do five
Speaker 1: minute open spots. To me and this other kid said yes.
Speaker 1: People were surprised, but I found I had a knack
Speaker 1: for performing. The jokes were mainly stolen from you, Twoe,
Speaker 1: but I had the ability to tell them the sense
Speaker 1: of the rhythm, the intonation, the punctuation, the musicality of it.
Speaker 1: Three years ago, Wang put out a book called A
Speaker 1: Side Splitter, a book about being mixed race and having
Speaker 1: grown up in Malaysia and then moving to the UK.
Speaker 1: Phil says it was awkward and confusing. I suppose in
Speaker 1: Malaysia I was sort of treated as a white kid,
Speaker 1: a bit foreign, but people mostly found that interesting. But
Speaker 1: I never really felt like part of the gang or
Speaker 1: that I was meant to be there, which is why
Speaker 1: I was excited when we moved to Britain and then
Speaker 1: at the school I was treated as the Asian kid.
Speaker 1: I realized that was gonna be the case wherever I am,
Speaker 1: so I might as well embrace it. And embracing it
Speaker 1: I found stand up. Phil has a degree in engineering
Speaker 1: from Cambridge and said going to Cambridge was important for
Speaker 1: the comedy angle. Although I was still half thinking I'd
Speaker 1: be an engineer and half thinking I'd be a comedian,
Speaker 1: but comedy overtook the engineering. The second year of engineering
Speaker 1: was the hardest I've ever worked in my life, and
Speaker 1: then I promised myself I'd never worked that hard again,
Speaker 1: and I have kept that promise. Dane Cook, how has
Speaker 1: your comedy changed over the years. That was a question
Speaker 1: from Boston dot Com and Dane said, well, anytime it
Speaker 1: starts to change, I go back to Boston and fix it.
Speaker 1: To get right back to exactly what I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing in the first place. I'm a cut up.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to say the thing that's wrong. I have
Speaker 1: to remind myself of that. What about cancel culture? After all,
Speaker 1: this is an interview with the comedian, and he got
Speaker 1: asked about that. He says, I don't pay attention. I
Speaker 1: don't care when Dave Chappelle spoke his mind on his
Speaker 1: Netflix special, if Shane Gills got cann from SNL, they
Speaker 1: made it come back. Tom Brady Roaston ever laughed so
Speaker 1: much in my life. I kept saying, I can't believe
Speaker 1: this is live. Comedy's back right now, right now, and
Speaker 1: they'll never take it away from us again because enough
Speaker 1: comics have gone through the ring of people dissecting their bits.
Speaker 1: Judging an excerpt of a comedy routine is like trying
Speaker 1: to defend somebody for crime, but you're only allowed to
Speaker 1: use a tenth of the evidence. With an excerpt, it's
Speaker 1: impossible to know where somebody's heart and soul is. They'll
Speaker 1: still be comedians who misstep, but as far as silencing
Speaker 1: or tampering with a freedom of speech of comics, that
Speaker 1: that's over. Dane's line, if it hasn't happened to me,
Speaker 1: if it isn't how I see the world, I ain't
Speaker 1: saying it. But if it happened to me and I
Speaker 1: experienced it, I'm saying it. That's my truth. As a comic.
Speaker 1: I believe that if you're observing and reporting on things
Speaker 1: that are actually happening, just like in journalism, it's fair game.
Speaker 1: I didn't write the story, but I'm telling you what happened.
Speaker 1: New Arab caught up with Dave or Hedge. Dave expressed
Speaker 1: his hurt and pain over the situation in Palestine. Dave said,
Speaker 1: I just feel like there needs to be more empathy
Speaker 1: and it's so sad what's happening. Palestinians deserve better treatment.
Speaker 1: I feel it's inhumane. We should be ashamed of what's happening.
Speaker 1: You feel helpless and it's just very sad. How are
Speaker 1: we arguing anything when children and humans are just dying.
Speaker 1: The conversation to talk to Dave at being cast in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three films, sometimes I think about dying,
Speaker 1: and Dave said, it's always great to be you know,
Speaker 1: cast or looked at for your skill set. I mean
Speaker 1: for me, to play many different types of roles and
Speaker 1: tell different types of stories. I think it's something I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to do. I don't necessarily have to play
Speaker 1: a Middle Eastern person all the time. Some comedy tapings
Speaker 1: this weekend, Roywood Junior. He'll tape a special at the
Speaker 1: Lincoln Theater in Washington tomorrow night on the seventh. Then
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Nick Fune. All of a sudden, hearing a
Speaker 1: lot of Nick Fune, I guess he's been opening for
Speaker 1: Nate and Nate is producing this new special. Nick Thune
Speaker 1: will be at Zenies in Nashville. Yeah, so this is
Speaker 1: really in the Burghetzi verse. If you're not familiar with Nick,
Speaker 1: he is a dead pan who mixes storytelling and one liners.
Speaker 1: Also on Sunday, Dean Delray. Guess who's opening for Dean Delray?
Speaker 1: Who's opening for Dean Delray? Bill Burr? Wow, this one
Speaker 1: is also in Nashville. So you're gonna have to choose
Speaker 1: which show you want to hit. This one's at the
Speaker 1: Cavern's just outside of Nashville, and Pellam at Tennessee Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: Dean Delray with special opener Bill Burr. And that's your
Speaker 1: comedy news for today right this weekend. Tomorrow, I have
Speaker 1: an interview with John Marcos Siraisi. We went most of
Speaker 1: an hour really interesting discussion, talked about some of his projects.
Speaker 1: We got into naty gritty of comedy. I was enjoyed
Speaker 1: speaking with him. And then on Sunday, I'll poke at
Speaker 1: the variety list of comedians you should know and will
Speaker 1: know as I can tell you since I already recorded Sunday,
Speaker 1: I only got to half the list on Sunday, so
Speaker 1: that might also be Monday's episode. But good stuff coming
Speaker 1: up over the weekend. If you enjoy the program and
Speaker 1: tell a friend about it, they might like it too.
Speaker 1: All right, see you back here tomorrow with Jamarco