Speaker 1: Caalaroka Shark Media. Hello Shunning back with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: In case you haven't noticed, everything in the world has
Speaker 1: to be a controversy. Well, they're putting the Seinfeld Show
Speaker 1: out on four K blu ray. Seems like a harmless thing.
Speaker 1: What could go wrong? Fans are hoping that the four
Speaker 1: K release doesn't ruin the show like Netflix did. Crack
Speaker 1: dot com looked into this. First of all, the box
Speaker 1: set will cost two hundred and fifty dollars. What are
Speaker 1: you insane? My DVD set is perfectly fine. Fans are
Speaker 1: worried about which aspect ratio the four K disc version
Speaker 1: of Seinfeld will be in. You see, the Netflix version,
Speaker 1: not unlike the HD ramaster that aired on TBS, reframed
Speaker 1: and cropped the original four x three box image to
Speaker 1: accommodate modern widescreen TVs, but in doing so they've ruined
Speaker 1: certain jokes. For example, in the episode The Couch where
Speaker 1: Jerry discovers that Poppy has pete on the sofa. In
Speaker 1: the Netflix widescreen version, they edited in a blatantly manufactured
Speaker 1: close up shot of the pea stain because it wasn't
Speaker 1: clearly visible in the cropped wide shot, which completely throws
Speaker 1: off the subtle timing of the reveal. Good news we
Speaker 1: are hearing. The new four K Blu ray of Seinfeld
Speaker 1: will feature the original one point three to three by
Speaker 1: one aspect ratio, but that version will only be released
Speaker 1: as a limited edition. The standard Blu ray will be
Speaker 1: one point seven eight by one. Another concern, Netflix's four
Speaker 1: K scan employed color correction that looks different from the
Speaker 1: original show. For example, in the Netflix version, Jerry's apartment
Speaker 1: looks way greener. By the way, if you want to
Speaker 1: deep dive in this feed, somewhere down there, I went
Speaker 1: into a rabbit hole one day about Jerry's bookcase. Now
Speaker 1: that the stuff is in high depth. In one of
Speaker 1: the early episodes, you can see Jerry's bookshelf where he's
Speaker 1: got VHS movies. They're clearly porn movie if you read
Speaker 1: the title. Somewhere there's an episode about that, but we
Speaker 1: don't have time for that today. I have to tell
Speaker 1: you about Paul Sheer in the ketchup controversy. Paul Sheer
Speaker 1: was on the Subway Takes web series and said restaurants
Speaker 1: need to stop with the artisanal ketchup. Heines has perfected it.
Speaker 1: We don't need your mango chutney ketchup. I just want
Speaker 1: the sugar. I want the taste of Heines. Sheer went
Speaker 1: on further, Instead of restaurants are going to be serving burgers,
Speaker 1: fries should not be extra host Kareem Rama agreed, said,
Speaker 1: if I go to place and the burger doesn't say
Speaker 1: burger and fries, you have to buy the burger for
Speaker 1: eight dollars actually eighteen dollars in New York City, plus
Speaker 1: another seven dollars for fries, and then they bring out
Speaker 1: the artisanal ketchup. Paul Sheer said, in you're recking the experience.
Speaker 1: I don't even enjoy the fries, and the fries are
Speaker 1: the best port You can give me a little thing
Speaker 1: of fries like this. Don't treat me like an animal.
Speaker 1: They then express sympathy for the restaurant employees who were
Speaker 1: in the kitchen crushing tomatoes to make the from scratch ketchup.
Speaker 1: She said, I don't know how you make it, but
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone knows. That's why it's so bad.
Speaker 1: The Heinz factory has figured out something that no one
Speaker 1: else could duplicate. By the way I'm doing this like borderline,
Speaker 1: half assed, angry Jerry Seinfeld and like Paul Shear was
Speaker 1: pretty soft spoken. Hey, Sarah Silverman, who do you feel
Speaker 1: like is killing it right now? Sarah? It's told the
Speaker 1: Columbus Dispatch. Taking a torrow, she goes at a joke
Speaker 1: from every angle. When you think she's exhausted at every
Speaker 1: possible angle, she finds a new one. There's nobody like
Speaker 1: Robbie Hoffman, Moe Welch and Naomi Expergan, Tim Robinson. He
Speaker 1: has a show on Netflix. Sketches are about fifteen to sixteen
Speaker 1: minutes each, just hilarious. You have to watch it, Sarah.
Speaker 1: How does it feel to have a multi generational audience now?
Speaker 1: Sarah said, I love it. I've always loved that. I
Speaker 1: do a bunch of odd jobs. Sometimes it's good whether
Speaker 1: you know me from Monk or stand up or wreck
Speaker 1: at Ralph. I have r rated stuff and g rated stuff.
Speaker 1: It's cool, Sarah Silverman, What if you weren't a comedian?
Speaker 1: What we'd be doing? Sarah said, I can think of
Speaker 1: three things. I'd work with animals, elephants or chimps. Those
Speaker 1: are two things. Or I'd be a teacher. That's the
Speaker 1: third thing. Part of me likes the idea of high
Speaker 1: school kids. This is ego talking. I feel like I
Speaker 1: can really shape them kindergarten for the same reason I
Speaker 1: really like kids talking to kids. Their lives are so different.
Speaker 1: Hour is feeling like you have grown to be someone
Speaker 1: who would protect you as a child. That's huge, Or
Speaker 1: I'd work with mentally challenged adults. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this. Saturday Night Live is turning fifty this year,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about it every day. Ago
Speaker 1: Nuotam says, we literally work in an office building, which
Speaker 1: he spoke to The Wall Street Journal. I'm talking to
Speaker 1: people coming in for their nine to five scanning their
Speaker 1: badges as I'm doing the same thing to go make
Speaker 1: hahas and put on a costume. How does the week go? Monday,
Speaker 1: the staff meets the week's host and floats ideas. Tuesday
Speaker 1: group dinner with the host, followed by night time writing sessions.
Speaker 1: Wednesday a readthrough followed by an initial selection of sketches,
Speaker 1: which triggers production on everything from props to costumes. Thursday
Speaker 1: and Friday a rehearsals and filming of pre tape promos
Speaker 1: and sketches. A Saturday night and eight pm dress rehearsal
Speaker 1: that determines what makes the live show. At eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: mikey Day explained how the roommate thing works. He says,
Speaker 1: we just get paired there randomly, like college roommates. Heidi
Speaker 1: Girdner said, my first year was really hard for me
Speaker 1: to knock on doors and think anybody would want to
Speaker 1: write with me. Not because people weren't welcoming, because I
Speaker 1: thought I was following the rules of senior junior, sophomore
Speaker 1: freshman Keenan Thompson's Where's by the rule of making himself available.
Speaker 1: He says, I remind people, hey, I'm always down to
Speaker 1: be the hot dog vendor. Will Ferrell has a new project.
Speaker 1: It's called Street Justice. Will will play dirty Harry type
Speaker 1: who goes about taking justice into his own hands. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I could say that working. I also think
Speaker 1: the days of Will Ferrell doing Will Ferrell's style comedy
Speaker 1: have passed. I could be wrong. Jimmy Fallon talked about
Speaker 1: his new comedy album Holiday Seasoning features some big names
Speaker 1: like the Jonas Brothers and Megan Fee Stallion and Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1: There's also some non music people from comedy like Will
Speaker 1: Ferrell and Chelsea Handler and then checking both boxes weird out.
Speaker 1: Fallon said, I'm so excited about this. I'm proud it's
Speaker 1: a good one. It's a fun project to have. I
Speaker 1: can't believe I have my own Christmas album. It kind
Speaker 1: of makes no sense, but here we are. Somebody had
Speaker 1: put the thought in a Jimmy's head to do an album.
Speaker 1: He said. I recorded one song and it wasn't good.
Speaker 1: It was corny. I don't know what it was. It
Speaker 1: wasn't me. I was like, I'm not good at this.
Speaker 1: Michael Boubla is much better at doing this, Kelly Lark's
Speaker 1: and Mariah Carey, the real singers. That's not what I
Speaker 1: can offer. So I go, I have a comedy song.
Speaker 1: I was working on my iPhone. I had a song
Speaker 1: called Chipmunks and Chestnuts, which is a Roy Orbison inspired
Speaker 1: Slim Whitman Monty Python type of song where a guy
Speaker 1: hits a giant high note that's almost annoying. It makes
Speaker 1: me laughs. I recorded that and I started adding tracks
Speaker 1: to it, and then I go, maybe I won't do
Speaker 1: any covers. I'll do all original songs. I thought that
Speaker 1: was more of a challenge if you can write a
Speaker 1: comedy holiday album. I don't know when the last one was,
Speaker 1: but we're overdue for one, so might as well just
Speaker 1: do it now and have some fun. You get this
Speaker 1: opportunity to create new stuff and just put it out
Speaker 1: there and see what sticks. You know, there's a Bob
Speaker 1: Dylan influenced one. There's a couple college radio type of
Speaker 1: keyboarding jams where I go, yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: anyone's going to get this one, but I think it's funny.
Speaker 1: The couple pop jams on there that hopefully can get
Speaker 1: radio play. I like those. It's a roller disco type
Speaker 1: of song called Holiday that I think everybody can get behind.
Speaker 1: He talked about the evolution the lyrics being it's a
Speaker 1: holiday time to celebrate, we'll stay out all night. Then
Speaker 1: you had bass, and you make it more Jackson's more chic.
Speaker 1: Then it turns to that and I go woul. The
Speaker 1: Jonas brothers do this. We sent it over their people
Speaker 1: and they were like, love it, let's do it. They
Speaker 1: recorded their version. They turned it into a real song.
Speaker 1: Jimmy says, don't overthig it, released it, put it out.
Speaker 1: I have Ladys come on the show and sometimes they go, yeah,
Speaker 1: we cut this down. I wrote a hundred three songs.
Speaker 1: We cut it down to ten. I go, you wrote
Speaker 1: on a hundred and three songs. If I ever wrote
Speaker 1: a hundred three songs, my alum would have one hundred
Speaker 1: three songs on it. Are you kidding me? I'd be
Speaker 1: so proud. So don't overthig it. Don't go. Someone's gonna
Speaker 1: make fun of me for this one. Put it out.
Speaker 1: It's something else to listen to. You go, this one's weird,
Speaker 1: but I kind of like it. That is my vibe too,
Speaker 1: Like this podcast. Apparently you like it because you're listening.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Other people might get stupid. I don't care.
Speaker 1: You'll learn that as you get older. Just do your thing.
Speaker 1: As we're working with weird, al found said he's my idol.
Speaker 1: He got famous for his parodies first, but then when
Speaker 1: you buy the album you get into the deeper cuts
Speaker 1: and dear to be stupid and his poke stuff. I
Speaker 1: was writing all these songs for the album, and I
Speaker 1: was trying to hit every holiday I could think of.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about New Year's Eve and there's no
Speaker 1: real happy New Yar's Eve songs. They're all sad. They're
Speaker 1: all depressing. That's covered. There's no missing sad New Year's songs.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of them, whether it's all Ang
Speaker 1: Xi or Dan Folberberg or whatever. I wanted a good song.
Speaker 1: You just put on a New Year's Eve party and
Speaker 1: everyone go, this is so silly. I have to dance
Speaker 1: around and picturing mosh pits and picturing people screaming at
Speaker 1: the top of their lungs. It's track number one side
Speaker 1: too me weird Al Yankovic and the Roots. I said
Speaker 1: to him, what do you think of this? He immediately
Speaker 1: got back and said, I'm in. I love it. Do
Speaker 1: you mind if I rewrite a couple of things? I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go. We started going back and forth. In two days,
Speaker 1: he had a full, unrecorded version of it, full sheet
Speaker 1: music of every note and every harmony, advanced stuff. He
Speaker 1: took it next level and he goes, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a ban on this. I go, I can. I didn't
Speaker 1: think about that before I get a quest love. I go,
Speaker 1: I have a song with weird Al. He's like, I'm in.
Speaker 1: Weird ELL's a legend. He's the only one. I'm so
Speaker 1: honored to work with him. He's my idol. I Wanted
Speaker 1: to Be Weird Al Yankovic. It's a Friday night in
Speaker 1: the Big City. It's the New York Comedy Festival. Six
Speaker 1: o'clock Near Comedy Club, Joke Sista's Comedy Show eight pm,
Speaker 1: Chelsea Music Hall, Bodega Chat Live, Beacon Theater at seven.
Speaker 1: Jeff A. Currie, Miss Pat Town Hall seven o'clock Some
Speaker 1: More the Venue at Hard Rock Hotel. Seven o'clock. Paul
Speaker 1: Ollinger and Friends at Rodney's Comedy Club. Seven o'clock. Askats
Speaker 1: the UCB. It's seven o'clock we Go Horses Out in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn at the Comedy Collective, also at seven. Maria Dakotis
Speaker 1: at the Green Room forty two at seven Steve Fury's
Speaker 1: Comedy Confidential seven o'clock Near Comedy Club, Fibbs and Friends
Speaker 1: hosted by Connor Wood Gramercy Theater seven o'clock, Tiny Idea
Speaker 1: and Little Boy Evil Brooklyn Arthouse. Seven o'clock, Vocabaret at
Speaker 1: caveat seven o'clock. Unchaper Owned Second City seven o'clock. Mecky
Speaker 1: Leaper at the Bellhouse at seven point thirty. Good Luck
Speaker 1: with Maggie Winters in Parker Callahan seven thirty Union Hall,
Speaker 1: Drunk Black History at Little Field at eight. Chris Barnes
Speaker 1: and Nate Meeker co headlined The Gutter. Surprisingly, that One's
Speaker 1: at the Gutter eight o'clock. Out in Williamsburg at eight,
Speaker 1: The Old Man Hustle presents Funny People Comedy Showcase. The
Speaker 1: Standard eight has Oneika McLean Onto some more famous people.
Speaker 1: Eight o'clock. Hank Azaria and the Easy Street Band at
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bowl. That's Hank Azaria pretending he's Springsteen. I've played
Speaker 1: the impression in the past. It's not bad. It's weird,
Speaker 1: but it's not bad. Jack and Michael Whitehall Live at
Speaker 1: Carnegie Hall at eight o'clock. New York Kings Live at
Speaker 1: two seventy five Park at eight. My Grandmother's Ipatch eight thirty,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Art House, Paully's Diner, a night of comedy and
Speaker 1: music at eight thirty. Stand Up, New York Matt kauff
Speaker 1: Ear It's Funnier, Brooklyn Comedy Collective eight thirty. Are You
Speaker 1: Garbage and Friends at Chelsea eight thirty, Ucb's Sorry for
Speaker 1: Your Loss at nine and improvised Broadway Musical with a
Speaker 1: Naughty title at Asylum at nine thirty. Laugh Masters caveat
Speaker 1: nine thirty, Fibbs and Friends hosted by Connor Wood nine thirty,
Speaker 1: Grammercy Kate Owens Cooking with Catherine nine thirty, Strong Force,
Speaker 1: Second City nine thirty, Dan Soder, Town Hall nine forty five,
Speaker 1: Second Show by some More, Second show by Jeffer Curry,
Speaker 1: Tina Frimmel Live ten o'clock at Bellhouse Byron Bauers, Union
Speaker 1: Hall ten Aaron Berg, The Stand at ten Laugh So
Speaker 1: Hard you Don't Cry, and Jenny Hogan and Laura Murley
Speaker 1: ten fifteen, Tiny Cupboard, Pino Noir UCB ten thirty, and
Speaker 1: the Trash King at UCB at eleven fifty nine. You know,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of show. And I don't know
Speaker 1: who's the biggest name, I said, Hank Azaria doing Springsteen,
Speaker 1: Dan Soder. I got a comment here, that's a notch
Speaker 1: down from what a Friday Night at the New York
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival has been in the past, Like a notchdown
Speaker 1: by a lot. But I guess this thing goes another week,
Speaker 1: and if we look ahead to next Friday, you know
Speaker 1: we started seeing people like Gabe Iglesias and maybe some
Speaker 1: bigger names as we get more into this. The other
Speaker 1: thing about the festival, and the festival was never anything
Speaker 1: but great to me. New York City is so big,
Speaker 1: as big as this thing is, as many shows as
Speaker 1: I've just read to you, it's still invisible in New
Speaker 1: York City. New York City is too big for such
Speaker 1: a festival, if that makes any sense. There's a Joan
Speaker 1: Rivers show. Larry Ameros first met Joan in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight to write material for the Mark Twain Prize.
Speaker 1: He asked Joan if anything was off limits, like which
Speaker 1: you make fun of about the suicide of her late
Speaker 1: husband and manager, Edgar. Joan said, I had ten new
Speaker 1: minutes before they closed the casket. That is also the
Speaker 1: Joan Rivers I know. The play is called Joan and
Speaker 1: it's at the South Coast Repertoire runs through November twenty
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Speaker 1: They include What Seriously, a new podcast which combines comedy
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Speaker 1: from Michael Beck, following a man as he searches for
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Speaker 1: Babies presents some audio adventures that are a homage to
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Speaker 1: a dysfunctional northern community radio station, and Stuart Mitchell follows
Speaker 1: up his series Cost of Living with the new Cost
Speaker 1: of Dying, which takes a look at the size of
Speaker 1: the bill that happens when you pass away. Chee John,
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