Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Oh man, you're excited. It's Jason Kelsey's
Speaker 1: Late Night Show debut tonight at one am, which technically
Speaker 1: is tomorrow, but ESPN doesn't want you to talk about that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pretend it's Friday night, not Saturday morning. Who cares, John,
Speaker 1: They call it Late Night begains its five week run
Speaker 1: Friday nights at one am Saturday on ESPN, taped in
Speaker 1: front of a live audience in Philadelphia. Topics discuss will
Speaker 1: be mainly football and the weekend's games. However, he plans
Speaker 1: to have guests from all walks of life. Whitney Cummings
Speaker 1: not wasting any time in the new year. The second
Speaker 1: leg of her Big Baby North American tour kicks off
Speaker 1: today in Austin. She will also play cities such as Tampa, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Napa, Milwaukee, Seattle, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and Knoxville. She'll also do four cities at
Speaker 1: the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Canada. Boy, they're booking
Speaker 1: quite the lineup. Fans can expect her to take on
Speaker 1: the chaos of personal growth, owning her mistakes, and her
Speaker 1: reflections on raising a son Whitney told Deadline, I'm so
Speaker 1: psyched to add more cities to the Big Baby Tour,
Speaker 1: especially since my Big Baby loves to tour. I used
Speaker 1: to think having a kid would be the end of
Speaker 1: my comedy and touring career, so it's been a miracle
Speaker 1: to see so many people coming out to hear what
Speaker 1: I have to say about motherhood and being so excited
Speaker 1: for me to finally grow up and start building a
Speaker 1: family after sharing so much about my crappy childhood and
Speaker 1: relationship mistakes. Also, I'm trying to leave California, so each
Speaker 1: city I go to, I'm also auditioning for a new hometown.
Speaker 1: Two shows tonight at Rogan's Club, the comedy Mothership seven
Speaker 1: and ten, also two tomorrow, and an eight o'clock show
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Jim Jeffrey spoke to Rolling Stone about
Speaker 1: his chunk about America's need for gun control. Jim estimates
Speaker 1: that that sixteen minute chunk has been seen ten times
Speaker 1: more than anything else he's ever done. Some people don't
Speaker 1: appreciate the bit, and he's gotten death threats. Jim says, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get those, But if someone's going to kill you
Speaker 1: or they're not going to send you a threat. Every
Speaker 1: time I get a death threat, I feel a little safer,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Could there be a weaker
Speaker 1: action in this world than somebody on social media sending
Speaker 1: you a death threat. Hay then goes on to say, like,
Speaker 1: if insert famous people here haven't been assassinated, why would
Speaker 1: I be first. I've got to be low on the list,
Speaker 1: Like you're kidding me, right, They're gonna go Gandhi, Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King, JFK, John Lennon, Jim Jeffries come on now.
Speaker 1: And he says, I do feel like I'm this comedian
Speaker 1: who's both loved and hated by the left and the right.
Speaker 1: Anthony Jelinik talks who cracked about cutting up clips so
Speaker 1: the way the younger comedians do, and he says, I
Speaker 1: understand why the clips are popular and why they help.
Speaker 1: YouTube used to be the thing. Now it really is
Speaker 1: TikTok and Instagram. Everybody says, I love your clips, and
Speaker 1: I think I'm uniquely suited to that format. Just through
Speaker 1: sheer luck, where you can use all my back catalog.
Speaker 1: Even though I haven't been doing anything but touring for
Speaker 1: the past two years, I've had a social media team
Speaker 1: that's gotten me close to a million followers on those platforms,
Speaker 1: just through old things. I don't know what i'd be
Speaker 1: doing if I was starting out today. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I would try to get on more multimedia, maybe
Speaker 1: try to write more. Maybe I would have started my
Speaker 1: own podcast earlier on. I just always wanted to be
Speaker 1: a stand up and now it seems like the top
Speaker 1: thing you can do in stand up comedy isn't stand up,
Speaker 1: it's podcasting. Podcasting is its own TV show. Now it's
Speaker 1: gotten a little weird for my taste. It used to
Speaker 1: be we're just hanging out fing around. Who's listening to this?
Speaker 1: We have no idea. Now it's about money. Now it's like,
Speaker 1: if I show up and I'm not in a good
Speaker 1: mood on your podcast, I'm costing you money. If I
Speaker 1: say something bad about your podcast, it's affecting someone's bag.
Speaker 1: I think that's changed the art. I think talking trash
Speaker 1: about other comedians comics being like that joke sucks. What's
Speaker 1: what I can do. It's like in hip hop, where
Speaker 1: everybody's feuding all the time. It's good for the art form,
Speaker 1: whereas in stand up now there's so much money in podcasting.
Speaker 1: You can't say anything otherwise you're a hater or you're
Speaker 1: jealous of someone's Patreon, which is insane to me that
Speaker 1: that's even a real thing. Boy, that's a really interesting
Speaker 1: answer there, right, Justin and I gay. If you told
Speaker 1: me that I'd become a stand up comedian, it would
Speaker 1: be my greatest dream. I don't have a boss. I
Speaker 1: don't have to listen to anyone, but if they're like
Speaker 1: you better pay attention to what Joe Robin thinks and
Speaker 1: what he says, because Joe Rogan can really help your career.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what are you talking about? Joe's fine,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to live my life in a
Speaker 1: way that I have to worry about what he thinks.
Speaker 1: I'm sure is a bleep and not gonna move to
Speaker 1: the city he lives in. I'm embarrassed by what a
Speaker 1: lot of comedy has become. John Laney told you that
Speaker 1: when John first told his father want to be a comedian,
Speaker 1: a dad's response was best case scenario. You're like, what,
Speaker 1: Steve Martin? Is there something wrong with being Steve Martin?
Speaker 1: Dude's had a Hall of Fame career, Melani said. Dad
Speaker 1: has since chilled. I think he enjoyed seeing Oh It's
Speaker 1: a thing people do respect, which was fun for me
Speaker 1: to watch. I didn't need them to suddenly become stage
Speaker 1: parents will love everything I say or even think that
Speaker 1: comedy is important. I don't need that, Ali said. He
Speaker 1: talked to the Philly Tribune. He works out of Houston.
Speaker 1: He said, I've always been proactive and independent, which is
Speaker 1: why I chose to live in Houston. The entertainment industry
Speaker 1: here is not as robust as in other cities, so
Speaker 1: our artists are primarily independent. We have a strong do
Speaker 1: it yourself mentality among our R and B singers, actors, actresses, rappers,
Speaker 1: and entrepreneurs. We do things ourselves because we know if
Speaker 1: we don't, we'll always be waiting for someone else to
Speaker 1: give us a chance. I've been a stand up comic
Speaker 1: for twenty seven years. I wasn't initially involved in social
Speaker 1: media because I began my career before it became a
Speaker 1: major platform. Back then, comics focused on getting TV shows
Speaker 1: or finding someone else produced their specials. I did a
Speaker 1: network special with Comedy Central, but they owned it and
Speaker 1: controlled it. They released it whenever they want, which felt
Speaker 1: like leaving my career in someone else's hands. As I
Speaker 1: prepare the content for my special, I began saving money
Speaker 1: and setting it aside. Simultaneously. I appeared on various TV shows,
Speaker 1: but a strategically avoided burning the material I intended to
Speaker 1: use for the special. Instead, I carefully crafted my performance
Speaker 1: within the context of each show, ensuring I would retain
Speaker 1: ownership of the specific content. I'm hearing more and more
Speaker 1: of that from comedians, and good for them, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: we have ways to distribute things. You could be some
Speaker 1: idiot and abasement talking about comedians and you can self distribute.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool. This is interesting, he says. In
Speaker 1: my early work, I used physicality, but I always wanted
Speaker 1: to express a story through movement. As my artistic perspective evolved,
Speaker 1: I learned how important it was to understand the essence
Speaker 1: of my topics. Rather than focus on apparent similarities, I
Speaker 1: attempted to identify the distinguishing characteristics that set people apart.
Speaker 1: Take Richard Pryor, for example. Many people appreciate him for
Speaker 1: his profanity and frank comedy, but that isn't the real
Speaker 1: meeting of his work. Prior is comedy delves deeper presenting
Speaker 1: perspectives on life and the transformational power of personal experience.
Speaker 1: His debut film, Jojo n Answer, was a reflection of
Speaker 1: his personal life, while Paul Mooney and Des White brought
Speaker 1: their own narrative styles to the stage. I carefully consider
Speaker 1: the perspective from which I tell a story, the underlying message,
Speaker 1: and the reasons for sharing it when constructing it. For me,
Speaker 1: everything revolves around considering the responsibility I bear for something.
Speaker 1: Halfd dot Com spoke to Jim Brewer. Jim says his
Speaker 1: comedy really started in sixth grade. That's when it really started.
Speaker 1: I wrote sketch. We did a talent show, and I
Speaker 1: made everybody howl. He called it his first bug for
Speaker 1: show business. I started writing material and visualizing and following
Speaker 1: fellow Long Islander Eddie Murphy. By the end of high school,
Speaker 1: he was the class clown. He says. Landing Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live was painful for him, as he feels he wasn't
Speaker 1: wanted by the show's management, but by NBC executives at
Speaker 1: a time when the show was not spiking in the ratings.
Speaker 1: Once he was on SNL, he learned about the power
Speaker 1: of a great sketch, saying Molly Shannon did that sketch
Speaker 1: Mary Kathyn Gallagher, and she murdered. I never saw an
Speaker 1: audience react like that from a sketch. That's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do, not just some half ass sketches. He
Speaker 1: says he found his foot on the show by accident.
Speaker 1: He was talking to an intern and Brewer says, Harry
Speaker 1: me messing around to doing my Joe peshe in the
Speaker 1: break room and the intern said, hey, dude, you gotta
Speaker 1: do Joe Peschi on update, and that led to the
Speaker 1: skit the Joe Peschi Show that my opinion, saved my job.
Speaker 1: That's what saved me from that moment on Lauren Michaels
Speaker 1: told Brewer, you have to do something that people know you,
Speaker 1: so that they know it's you doing Joe Peshi. When
Speaker 1: the SNL gig came to an end, Lauren told Brewer,
Speaker 1: you're too nice for this industry. If you ever need
Speaker 1: a producer, I'm your guy. As for the future, Jim says,
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't do a full blown tour, he
Speaker 1: can't see himself not going on a stage. Jim says,
Speaker 1: I got to see Richard Pryor shortly before he was
Speaker 1: a mobile from MS and it was inspiring in one
Speaker 1: of the most powerful comedic moments. I always looked for him,
Speaker 1: and I went to the comedy store one night, literally
Speaker 1: hoping he'd be there, after going there every night when
Speaker 1: he was in La. On the very last night, magic happened.
Speaker 1: I was getting ready to leave, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they said, please welcome special guest, mister Richard Pryor.
Speaker 1: There was a whole bunch of people helping him walk,
Speaker 1: holding him up. They brought him onto the stage. He
Speaker 1: talked slowly, but he was so funny. I can remember
Speaker 1: his it was yesterday. I was talking about the most
Speaker 1: painful stuff in his life, but he was putting it
Speaker 1: out there and was powerful and amazing. To this day.
Speaker 1: It was such a powerful moment. I want to do
Speaker 1: that pretty much right to the end. And that's your
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