Speaker 1: Callarogas Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. After last weekend and all the talk
Speaker 1: of Hebburg. If you're like, you know, I gotta like
Speaker 1: that style of comedy, check out Chang Wang. He recently
Speaker 1: spoke to review wm dot com and he talked about
Speaker 1: how he spends time on the road connecting with nature.
Speaker 1: He told Review, I enjoy the infinite diversity and beauty
Speaker 1: of plants. I find that to be very relaxing and
Speaker 1: inspiring and grounding. It brings me to the present, want
Speaker 1: to just stop and lean in and look at the
Speaker 1: details on a flower or a leaf. The review rights
Speaker 1: a mix of universal observational humor and ultra laid back
Speaker 1: slacker charm. He gets compared to Mitch Hedburg. Wang said,
Speaker 1: my kind of humor, my approach to life, and my
Speaker 1: approach to my stand up. Essentially, it's kindness and joy.
Speaker 1: So that means being present, paying attention to finding all
Speaker 1: the little joys that are everywhere. I mean, there's disasters,
Speaker 1: it's chaos right now, especially in the news and everything.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy out there. But there's so much good
Speaker 1: and beauty and joy that we just overlook because it's everywhere,
Speaker 1: and it's so small, we're too immersed in it to
Speaker 1: see it. Sometimes. He's one of those guys that you know,
Speaker 1: you've never heard of, that's been grinding it out for
Speaker 1: twenty years already. I hope he pops his career did
Speaker 1: step up in class when he had his Netflix special
Speaker 1: in twenty two. That one's called Sweet and Juicy. Watch it,
Speaker 1: it's funny, Wang said. I'm more of a people pleaser.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big trash talker. I don't like punching,
Speaker 1: especially punching down. I prefer sharing things that might bring
Speaker 1: a little delight rather than aggression and violence and conflict.
Speaker 1: I'd rather delight people. I feel like I had a
Speaker 1: really chill upbringing, But I think there's something about being
Speaker 1: an immigrant or being an other in your youth. You
Speaker 1: pay attention to what's the vibe in the room. Whenever
Speaker 1: we go out somewhere, you pay attention to who's looking
Speaker 1: at whom, what's the energy. I felt like immigrant kids
Speaker 1: they just have a superpower to have that sensitivity and
Speaker 1: that awareness. But it's also a bit of a rougher
Speaker 1: way to grow up to be constantly considering these things.
Speaker 1: To get back to the plants. Wang says, I think
Speaker 1: eventually there'll be some sort of possible creative convergence between
Speaker 1: my jokes and my performances and my love for plants.
Speaker 1: Give them a cable show. Jeopardy fans, they're all in
Speaker 1: a ker fluffel. You see today on Jeopardy. Comedian Guy
Speaker 1: Brainam will be competing on Jeopardy against Mike Dawson for Portland.
Speaker 1: Reddit users noticed Guy's name and face on the Jeopardy website.
Speaker 1: One redditaur said, check in the lineup for this week's contestant.
Speaker 1: I was a bit surprising the name Guy Brainum. At
Speaker 1: first thought, maybe it's a coincidence, maybe there's two Guy Branham's,
Speaker 1: but nope, seems to be the same guy. Since it
Speaker 1: lists writer and comedian as his occupation. Some wondered why
Speaker 1: is he on Jeopardy and not celebrity Jeopardy. One theory
Speaker 1: he must be smart enough to get on normal Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Paullie Shore is opening a comedy club, which is interesting
Speaker 1: because Polly is the son of the legendary Mitzi Shore,
Speaker 1: known for operating the comedy club in Los Angeles. So
Speaker 1: is Polly opening one in La Nope, Texas, Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: Sean Nope, San Antonio. Shane Quaid is Polly's business partner,
Speaker 1: and they've been transforming the Woodlawn Theater into a comedy venue.
Speaker 1: They hope to produce at least two hundred and four
Speaker 1: shows each year, so let's see fifty two weeks in
Speaker 1: eight years. That's four shows a week, more or less.
Speaker 1: Most will be stand up, but they also envisioned doing
Speaker 1: occasional concerts as well as movie premiers. Tonight is the
Speaker 1: soft opening San Antonio. Comedians will be featured at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: The first five hundred tickets each night are free. After that,
Speaker 1: tickets are ten dollars eighty three cents. Random number guessing
Speaker 1: when you have the tax that comes out to like
Speaker 1: an even number, like twelve or something. So that's the
Speaker 1: soft opening. Tonight. On April twelfth, it's the grand opening.
Speaker 1: Your headliner Paully Sure, He'll do shows at seven and ten.
Speaker 1: Those tickets go from thirty two forty eight to sixty
Speaker 1: three eighty seven. Then on May third, Tom Cotter and
Speaker 1: Carrie Louise will do shows at seven and ten. Their
Speaker 1: shows cost twenty one sixty five to fifty three oh
Speaker 1: four random numbers. The Woodland, opened in nineteen forty five,
Speaker 1: is a movie house and was the site of the
Speaker 1: world premiere of the movie The Alamo starring John Wayne
Speaker 1: That happened in nineteen six. They ripped out the seating
Speaker 1: and put some custom made leather seats. That's not gonna
Speaker 1: go well, those are gonna get torn up. What are
Speaker 1: you doing. That's a mistake, Quait said. We want people
Speaker 1: to be able to sit here for three hours because
Speaker 1: the other theaters we've been to you just don't want to.
Speaker 1: You say that now that first tear in a leather
Speaker 1: seat's gonna kill you. You can't have drunk people watching
Speaker 1: comedy shows on the leather. That's not a good idea.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They've betted space between the rows to make
Speaker 1: it a little easier for patrons to slide past one another.
Speaker 1: You are Elcos will be posted on the back of
Speaker 1: each seat, allowing folks to order drinks from the bar
Speaker 1: and have them delivered by servers without having to stand
Speaker 1: in line. That's neat. A forty five panel led wall
Speaker 1: will be installed at the back of the stage, meaning
Speaker 1: comics can have any kind of background they want Mary
Speaker 1: Picaorisi is hosting the soft opening and says everyone talks
Speaker 1: about Austin and Austin is fantastic. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but I think people are sleeping on San Antonio prepping
Speaker 1: the show. I stumbled across this one. I've never seen
Speaker 1: a note like this. I just thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1: Ali Wong is coming to Portland. You were a show
Speaker 1: at Helium being advertised as a workout. The show's called
Speaker 1: work in Progress. Ali will return to her stand up
Speaker 1: roots to workshop raw and unfilled her new material in
Speaker 1: an intimate club setting. Ali will also do work in
Speaker 1: progress sets in La and San Jose. The Helium shows
Speaker 1: are May twenty eighth and twenty ninth. One hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one dollars for reserve seats, one hundred and six
Speaker 1: for general admission for a workout, plus eleven dollars for
Speaker 1: the service charge. You could take your service charge and
Speaker 1: uh was the helphrase stick it up your nose with
Speaker 1: a rubber hose. That's what you could do with your
Speaker 1: eleven dollars service charge. So one hundred and seventeen dollars
Speaker 1: for a workout? Are you kidding me? No? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. With that, I can go see
Speaker 1: Pauli Shore for thirty two dollars and forty eight cents
Speaker 1: and Pauli will be doing as a material. And they
Speaker 1: have leather seats. What do you have Helium? Anybody know
Speaker 1: what kind of seats they have at Helium? Let me
Speaker 1: look at a picture. Looks to me like Helium Comedy
Speaker 1: Club has shares, wooden shares. You don't want to sit
Speaker 1: in those for three hours. Put in some leather seats
Speaker 1: if you get to charge you one hundred and seventeen dollars.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Also, the May twenty ninth show
Speaker 1: is at four forty five pm on a Thursday. What
Speaker 1: are We doing? Stephen Rodgers has announced his new stand
Speaker 1: up special. Half of We will premiere on Nate Bergatzy's
Speaker 1: Nate Land YouTube channel on April eleventh. The specials produced
Speaker 1: by Nate and Brian Reagan. The new hour has Stephen
Speaker 1: Rodgers blending wit and vulnerability as he shares his relatable mishaps,
Speaker 1: personal struggles, and stories from his engagement all building. No,
Speaker 1: there's a spoiler here, I'm not no, no, no spoiler.
Speaker 1: Watch it erase that from your brain. He stares stories
Speaker 1: from his engagement. You just sit there. Why I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. Come on, what kind of article is this?
Speaker 1: I could edit that out, but as you can tell him, silly.
Speaker 1: Today Hattiesburg wants to be the city of one hundred murals.
Speaker 1: So if you want to be the city of one
Speaker 1: hundred murals, you gotta have some murals. So they put
Speaker 1: up mural number sixty two honoring Fred Armisen. Why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1: Luckily Fred happened to be in town on his comedy
Speaker 1: tour when this miro went up. That really worked out.
Speaker 1: Fred said, to see myself as a musician. He's doing
Speaker 1: that drum thing highlighted on this wall next to the
Speaker 1: other artist. Is an honor, of course, it's a double
Speaker 1: honor that I was born here. Hattiesburg is a constert
Speaker 1: miner in my life. I am proud and honored to
Speaker 1: be from here. Let's stop off on gossip corner. Louis c.
Speaker 1: K selling some real estate. He apparently has sold his
Speaker 1: three bedroom, three bathroom apartment in a four story walk
Speaker 1: up in Greenwich Village, New York City. Gimme Shelter says
Speaker 1: it was sold for two point three six million dollars.
Speaker 1: It first hit the market last May at two point
Speaker 1: four to five million. So somebody got a nice little
Speaker 1: deal there from Louis c. K. Three bedroom, three baths,
Speaker 1: three level apartment inside a four story, ten unit walk
Speaker 1: up at three forty five West Fourth Street. Now can
Speaker 1: this be right? He bought the co op with his
Speaker 1: then wife in two thousand and six for two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars, according to property records, two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand, and he sold it for two point
Speaker 1: three six million. Nice job, Louis c. K. We're told
Speaker 1: the home opens to a large living room on the
Speaker 1: parlor floor that leads to a small L shaped kitchen
Speaker 1: with a vintageile that could used for prepp and storage,
Speaker 1: as well as a breakfast bar. Another large room with
Speaker 1: three windows and a fireplace can serve as a dining room,
Speaker 1: and additional bedroom stairs rise to a second floor bedroom
Speaker 1: with another fireplace and views of historic Jackson Square Park.
Speaker 1: I'm from New York City. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: heard the phrase Jackson Square Park, and I would dare
Speaker 1: you to send letters, but again, I grew up there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is. It might be historic,
Speaker 1: but it ain't famous. Let me look this up. Bordered
Speaker 1: by Eighth Avenue on the west, Horatio Street on the south,
Speaker 1: and Greenwich Avenue on the east. The park interrupts West
Speaker 1: thirteenth Street. I mean it's nice looking at all, but
Speaker 1: not the most famous park. And for those of you
Speaker 1: not from the York City, when I'm saying park, you're
Speaker 1: picturing like big giant thing. This would be the size
Speaker 1: of a roundabout in your town. Okay, I digress. There's
Speaker 1: a third bedroom at street level that's accessed by a
Speaker 1: spiral staircase from the parlor floor, and that has its
Speaker 1: own private entrance, and it could be used as a
Speaker 1: home office. So you wanted to get away from everybody
Speaker 1: and work on your stand up comedy. C K apparently
Speaker 1: loves buying and selling things. In December of twenty two,
Speaker 1: he sold a fourteen hundred and fifty square foot co
Speaker 1: op on twelve Street for one point eight million after
Speaker 1: buying it for two point four to five million. Oh
Speaker 1: took a big loss there, leiy, what are you doing there?
Speaker 1: He also sold his five bedroom home at thirty five
Speaker 1: Charlton Street for five point eight million. That's less than
Speaker 1: the six point five million he paid, so what's going on?
Speaker 1: He was really terrible at real estate until very recently.
Speaker 1: Who knows. Let's see what's happening at that Nashville Comedy Festival.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, people gonna be really upset. Bridge done Arena
Speaker 1: to night seven o'clock, Kill Tony, destroying comedy. But they're
Speaker 1: hilarious jokes. Ooh. The man is fear is getting up
Speaker 1: and doing one minute jokes by amateurs and then Tony
Speaker 1: and the gang slam them and we all have a
Speaker 1: good time. Stop doing that, Tony, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You're destroying comedy. It's fun show, folks. Check it out
Speaker 1: over at Zanies at seven viered Oz Kurt Metzger. He's
Speaker 1: been known to be in a controversy or two. He's
Speaker 1: at the Lab at Zani's at seven Veer again at
Speaker 1: nine fifteen at Maine Zanies Kurt again at the Lab
Speaker 1: at nine fifteen. If you're in Nashville tonight, go see
Speaker 1: Kill Tony and uh if you can hustle over to Viera,
Speaker 1: do that. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been rocking
Speaker 1: and rolling of it had a chance to tell you
Speaker 1: about it. Luckily, the Age has seen a bunch of
Speaker 1: shows let's see what they're into. Broden Kelly, you know
Speaker 1: him from Anti Donna. He's playing Bear Deluxe until April twentieth,
Speaker 1: The Age tells us Broden Kelly is officially a cult figure.
Speaker 1: In this wildly unhinged but completely focused hour. He starts
Speaker 1: by presenting us with three different Facebook groups where fans
Speaker 1: those pictures that may or may not look like the
Speaker 1: Anti Donna star. Oh, that's like. One of my favorite
Speaker 1: Facebook groups is people that vaguely look like Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: I love that one. I can't get enough of that one.
Speaker 1: The Age says. Kelly definitely holds our attention through the
Speaker 1: use of a four part structure. He knows when it
Speaker 1: hit us with an obnoxious banger, and presents some jokes
Speaker 1: as facts. One line, apparently he told Funnier than I will.
Speaker 1: I found out during the research for this show that
Speaker 1: this is the worst song ever made. Five stars. They
Speaker 1: gave it all right, Freddy Billa Moria. Freddy's show is
Speaker 1: called Allow Me to Interrupt Your Doom Scroll and you'll
Speaker 1: find Freddy at the Theory Bar until April sixth. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me check you, caunty here. What's today? Today's the
Speaker 1: fifth but Melbourne's out of us, so it might be
Speaker 1: the sixth in Melbourne. By the time you're hearing this,
Speaker 1: get move and everybody the age tells us his newest show.
Speaker 1: Allow me to interrupt your doom. Scroll runs the gamut
Speaker 1: of topics. Dogs hitting a high school, reunions, dating, go
Speaker 1: into the library while it all sounds runn of the mill.
Speaker 1: Billa Maria injects each scenario with a layer of unpredictability.
Speaker 1: One of the topics spoilers. Don't act like you were
Speaker 1: getting on a plane going to Melbourne. Don't get mad
Speaker 1: at me, and I'm spoiling the show you weren't going.
Speaker 1: Where does one milk a scorpion? Four stars? And let's
Speaker 1: do one more. Julian Cosgriff is at the Art Center
Speaker 1: Melbourne doing her show Fresh New Worries. She'll be there
Speaker 1: until April twentieth. See if you've got some time, book
Speaker 1: a flight. I watch your flights to Melbourne. Let's look,
Speaker 1: I'm in a silly mood today. In case you can't tell,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on kayak. We'll fly out of La
Speaker 1: all right, you guys get to La on your own
Speaker 1: and let's fly out on Friday. The eighteenth because it
Speaker 1: takes a minute to get to Melbourne. We'll fly economy.
Speaker 1: I assume you're between eighteen and sixty four. Let's see
Speaker 1: what we got here. You want to fly direct, right,
Speaker 1: I'm not stopping over a NonStop? Are there no non
Speaker 1: stops from LA to melbourn Oh? I picked Melbourne, Florida wrong, Melbourne,
Speaker 1: leave it in. I was gonna say, because I've flown
Speaker 1: from LA to Melbourne, Australia. Wait, have I not been clear?
Speaker 1: Are some of you heading to Melbourne, Florida going? I
Speaker 1: heard there was a big comedy festival here. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, this is the one in Australia. Don't add
Speaker 1: to Melbourne, Florida. There. As far as I know, there
Speaker 1: is not a Melbourne Florida International Comedy Festival. They word
Speaker 1: international was your clue. We should start one now right,
Speaker 1: We should start dan booblets out there. You know how
Speaker 1: to do festivals. Let's start a Melbourne comedy festival at
Speaker 1: the exact same time. But we'll do it in Melbourne, Florida,
Speaker 1: and maybe we can get some guys. Kayak's telling me,
Speaker 1: no flight's found. I think this bit is over. Move on, John, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go see Jillian Cosgriff. Even though there's no way
Speaker 1: to get to Melbourne, apparently from Los Angeles. She's there
Speaker 1: until April twentieth. The age tells us Jillian has already
Speaker 1: won this festival's top awards. Upon entry to the show,
Speaker 1: you're invited to contribute to her Pindora's box of concerns.
Speaker 1: At irregular intervals, she serves up those anonymous problems back
Speaker 1: at the audience. The clever hook is how common our
Speaker 1: most private fears really are. Four Stars booblets, get on
Speaker 1: this Melbourne, Florida International Comedy Festival. Let's do it all right,
Speaker 1: see you tomorrow.