Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with your
daily comedy news, the daily briefing on stand up comedy,
comedians on the comedy industry. Now, I did tape this
one Friday. It's eleven forty nine am on Friday. There
is no information about who is performing at the Kevin
Art Roast, which is tonight. I've checked the Netflix page,
I've check Kevin Ort's instagram. There is nothing. So I'm
gonna wildly speculate here. Might we see some of the
following people? The Rock? I can see the Rock coming
by and crushing. Could we see Eddie Murphy? Is that possible? Chappelle,
Chris Rock? Right? I think we would. I think Chris Rock.
If Chris Rock did the Funny af Show, I think
Chris Rock is possible. Jamie Fox Nicki Glazer said she
wasn't gonna do it, so all right, that's on tonight.
Johnny Mack will stay up late and cover that. On
Monday's program, Deadline asked the Netflix executives, how did you
land on Kevin Hart as your roast subject. Tracy Pecosta
from Netflix said, I mean, look, Kevin is somebody who
we clearly love it Netflix. He's been part of the
Netflix family for a long time and it just felt
right and fun and different. Have Kevin be roasted this
year at the festival. Robbie Prau, who heads Netflix Comedy, said,
at a certain point when we were thinking about it,
we were just like, Okay, we have this comedy festival.
Every single comedian is doing it and listen. Of course,
we've had other ideas and other conversations over the last year,
but when it came to it, when we finally had
to make the final decision, we were like, which comedian
can we ask? Kevin was the first person on our
list on that front, and we were lucky to have
said yes. And they're just pairing that with Shane Gillis.
We're starting to look at some of the scripts and
I think it's magic and the people doing the roast.
It's also going to be phenomenal. It's also going to
be a really special day. Let me just chime in
again as my brain is just thinking about the list, like,
I haven't even seen that Jeff Ross is attached to
this or Tony Inchcliff. I mean, they have to be right.
I'm not sure why they're going for the mystery. The
other explanation would be that they don't have confidence in
the events, so they're not trying attention to it. I mean,
we'll know in a couple hours. Deadline talked about Funny
AF Robbie Pros said, as somebody who came from the
Just for Last Festival, that's the sort of the world
I lived in watching this show work and these comedians
having an opportunity. You're right, it's very difficult in that
landscape for that to happen. And quite frankly, back to
your first question of why Kevin Hart, it's because he's
singular in that way. He came to us and was like,
I want to do a show that gives comedians this opportunity,
and even as you see the way that we approach
the roast, it's very stand up for it as well.
The Coast has said, I agree when you say the
discovery piece has been missing, giving the audience the opportunity
to discover somebody, to get super passionate about them and
watch that grow over time. When I watch Kevin on
that show, you could sense the passion for it and
a much who loves it. And I do think it's
contagious even for people that might not think they like
watching that type of show. As I've said all week,
I thought that was a very good version of such
a show. The winner was Ron Taylor, who did a
lengthy interview with Vulture. How do you feel, Ron Taylor?
Ron told them I don't know. The dust hasn't settled
at all, but I can tell you how it feels
right now. It's pretty amazing. I didn't think it'd be
as validating as it's been, especially being able to do
the competition then leave and go to the festival and
be the comedy stores around a body, a bunch of friends.
Everyone's like, oh man, I always knew, and I'm like,
that's crazy, because I didn't. The whole competition was very competitive.
If this was a race, I stumbled quite a few times,
and I was shocked when I recovered losing, not doing well,
not getting the trophy. I'm used to that. Everybody's used
to that. Winning was the part that I wasn't used to.
I'd planned for everything except winning. Good question. Have you
seen your social media blow up because of the show? Definitely.
When the show first aired on Netflix, everybody in the
competition's followers went up and the longer you were in
the competition, the more your followers continue to go up.
I've had people I've followed for years I'm a big
fan of reach out and chop it up with me,
like we've known each other forever. They're like, oh, man,
I've been a fan of your work, and I'm like, really,
I didn't know you knew who I was. Good question.
Were you trying to save your best material for later
rounds or did you think you had to do your
best stuff at every step. I'm going to guess the latter.
I haven't read this ahead. Ron Taylor said, I feel
like there were some people who blew out their best
stuff early on, and there were some people who held
onnesome stuff. I guess I felt more of the amp
of holding on to stuff. But that wasn't my strategy,
all right, I was wrong. I travel a lot, and
I'm normally doing sixty minutes, so the time constrained of
having five minutes made it hard to squeeze everything in.
There were two times in the competition where I'd planned
out three jokes and I was like, that should be
about five minutes, but I didn't get to my third joke,
which was my closer, But when that happened and I
moved on, I still had that joke. So coming in
the semifinals and finals, I had these two great closures
that have actually meant to do already. So I would
have been the person to blow their best stuff early
in the competition, were not for my poor time management skills.
Deadline did a good job on this interview. Next question,
did do you approach your sets differently during the semifinals
and finals knowing the public would be voting live? That
is really smart, Ron Taylor said, I did. Actually. Throughout
the whole competition. We had appealed to the judges who'd
been doing comedy forever. This is so smart. They were
judging stuff like your approach, your confidence, your originality, how
much they learned about you. But the people don't care
about any of that. They just want to laugh. See
my previous comments about comedy snobbery, Taylor said, we saw
whoever got the most laughs seemed to be the people
who moved forward to the finals. So coming in the finals,
all right, I'm just doing the funny stuff. Of God.
It might be dirty, it might be nasty, it might
be low hanging fruit, and some of it is, but
my job is to take low hanging fruit and put
a smart twist on it. I was like, I'm just
gonna say the wall of stuff I can which was
the hardest round the roast by far. I agree with
that as a viewer because it was the only one
for practical purposes that wasn't stand up. Another great question,
considering how much of your material you used on the show,
do you have an hour ready to film or do
you need to go work on it now? Great question,
great Ron Taylor said, I definitely have to go work
on it now, but that was part of the package
of winning. I talked to Kevin after the show and
he said, I'm gonna give you the opportunity to get
on the road and get as many shots as you
can in the gym so you can work this hour
out and away. You couldn't before the competition, so I'll
have the space and ability to create the best hour
I can. Now, even if I did an hour that
was ready, I wouldn't want to just turn around and
throw it out there. I want to take the time
to build this up the right way. Angela Johnson's specialists
out today. It's called Ugly Baby. The La Times asked Angela,
who's the ugliest baby You've ever seen? She said, Oh,
I can tell you. A face popped into my head,
but I'm not going to say it. I mentioned the
show too, and every time I do the joke, I
could see people in the audience got upset, and you
see faces shift, you see people get uncomfortable. It's like
you're not supposed to say certain things, and it's not
even that bad a thing to say some babies are ugly.
She talked about joking with her family and does she
ever run a material by her family. She says, you know,
I'll try it first to see how I feel in
my body doing said jokes, and if I start to
feel little guilty, then I'll run it by them, like, hey,
I'm doing this joke about the one time you did this,
and are you okay with it? Sometimes you're like, yeah,
say whatever, and it's a green light. I actually can't
think of a time when anybody said no. Usually my
family's like, do it. That's funny. I will say in
this hour, I do a whole piece on my mother
in law, and I've talked about my mother in law
and past special. She loves it. She laughs. She'll even
leave comments on the video. But for some reason, I'm
nervous about this one. I think she's getting older and
maybe a little more sensitive. I don't want to think
I'm making fun of her, because I'm definitely not. I'm
just highlighting her little isms. Congratulations to Sinbad, who has
returned to comedy for the first time since his stroke
in twenty twenty. Sinbad data show at the Comedy ice
House on April twenty nine. He is another show tonight.
On social media, Sinbad explained, I can't walk since the
stroke in twenty twenty, I haven't been on stage. It's
just the beginning of me coming back. I'm so looking
forward to these shows. I got so much to talk about.
I'm gonna be talking more trash than I ever did.
His daughter is opening for him, and he's excited for
that because she talks more trash than I talk. Gossip.
Connor whispersins changing gossip. Con probably gossip cone Quaver with me,
Johnny mag salling the tree. There's a website called Naughty
but Nice that I'm familiar with for my work on
the Royal Family podcast Palace Intrigue, and they get a
little out there but this caught my eye, they wrote,
Naughty but Nice wrote, Jimmy Fallon strange Miami Grand Prix
weekend had insiders whispering the same question, What was really
going on? Naughty but Nice writes, Yes, the moment caught
on camera Fallon biting the foam cover off Martin Brundle's
microphone during a chaotic Formula one grid walk was bizarre enough,
but according to horses on the Ground, that awkward viral
clip was hardly the full story. Insiders tell Naughty but Nice,
the late night host had been acting off all weekend.
Erradical late, usually tense, and increasingly difficult behind the scenes,
an insider said it wasn't just the mic incident. There
was the moment everyone saw, but all weekend Jimmy was
acting strangely. He was off his game, running late, distracted, jumping,
and hard to manage. Another source said people laugh because
it looked like classic Jimmy clanning around, but behind the
scenes people weren't laughing. Something felt off. One minute, he
was charming and switched on the next he was scattered
and impossible. It made everyone uneasy. Hmm. I quote unquote
worked with Jimmy Fallon a few times back in the day,
he'd come up and do Brewers Show and maybe some
solo stuff too. Was always good. And have I shared
this before, And maybe I have. It's been a long time.
So at one point, someone use your imagination. Someone was
sending me clips from Jimmy Fallon's twelve thirty show and saying,
go ahead and play them on the series channel. And
I would get these clips from someone and I don't know,
I'd put him on a flash drive or something and
tell my guys, you can play this once during the
live show, and I would never enter at the computer.
And I was totally confident that nobody from the twelve
thirty show was going to ask me why we were
playing clips from the twelve thirty show because of the source,
because someone was sending them to me directly. Anyway, I've
worked with Jimmy found a few times and always enjoyed him.
At the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival Tonight, five o'clock,
La Time, eight o'clock live on Netflix. It is the
Roast of Kevin Hart, hosted by Shane Gillis. Who's performing
who knows I guess he was not performing? Is Nate
Berghetzi because he's performing at the Intuit Dome at that
the exact same time. Meanwhile, at eight West at the
Greek Theater, it's the Flight of the Concords. Oh yeah,
today's the big Morselo hernandez show. He is headlining the
biggest Spanish language comedy show ever to greace the Hollywood Bowl.
The La Times asked Marcello, how do you think your
family influenced your sense of humor? Marcelo HERNANDEZU, in my opinion,
does one thing well, says I think you gotta be
funny if your parents are divorced to my parents, getting
divorced made me grow into an adult quicker. All my
friends have divorced parents have a funny thing about them,
because what's more childish than being like, I can't be
with you anymore. I'd call my dad like a grown up,
pick me up at seven well of dinner, and then
you'll return me to my home because I have school
in the morning. Marcelo, do you ever consult your family
before writing jokes? He said? I think I did. My time,
I earned the ability to say the stuff. We're always together.
I would never want to make my family look bad
for laugh. I don't think that's a smart way to
play it. My mom has always gone on my shows
and been like, what's he gonna say? Now? We have
a great relationship. Something I love about immigrant families is
that we have a pretty good sense of humor. We
don't take ourselves too seriously, because some parts of life
are very serious. Skipping ahead, Marcello said, I've met a
lot of famous people who are really successful but also
super nice, generous and caring and inspires you to be better.
The La times were like, who are those people for you?
Marcelo Hernandez said, Pedro Pascal has been a life changer
in many ways. With that first sketch we did on SNL.
I think Keenan Thompson was always so unreasonably helpful with
me in the early days. Colin Jost was always really
nice to me. Ago Nuodham was like a big sister
to me on the show. Kevin Hart also had big
brother energy with me, and as the Netflix Is a
Joke Comedy Festival wraps up, you can go see more
solo Hernandez at the Hollywood Bowl at seven Kevin Hart
roasted five Nate Bergetzi at five Flight of the Concords
at eight And those are all the shows tonight, no
smaller shows as the festival wraps up. And that is
your comedy news for today. Johnny Mack has to stay
up late, but I will tell you Johnny Max is
gonna record Monday's episode with everything but the Kevin Hart
stuff because I don't like to stay up too late.
Nick's at three thirty today. Oh and Happy Mother's Day everybody.
See tomorrow