Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello on Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Let's start with kiss el Paso. That's a
Speaker 1: radio station website. It's not a dating website. What do
Speaker 1: you think I'm doing down here in the basement. I'm
Speaker 1: just recording a comedy podcast. I'm not up to anything.
Speaker 1: The headline is comedian Tom Sogura secretly Austin's Ladybird Lake killer.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess no, but I'll indulge kiss el Paso
Speaker 1: and see what's happening here. Kiss el Paso writes. TikTok,
Speaker 1: Well there you go has once again become the breeding
Speaker 1: ground for wild theories and eyebrow raising speculations. This time,
Speaker 1: TikTok is a buzz with a jaw dropping claim. Comedian
Speaker 1: Tom Sagora is allegedly a serial killer operating around Ladybird
Speaker 1: Lake in Austin, Texas and being handed a note by
Speaker 1: the lawyer. Please be sure to make it clear Tom
Speaker 1: Sagora is not a serial killer and this is just
Speaker 1: a bit okay, got it? Kiss el pas Yk. So
Speaker 1: not a dating website, writes. The theory seems to have
Speaker 1: started with a TikTok video analyzing Tom Sigora's comedy specials
Speaker 1: taking place in Austin, specifically after he moved there in
Speaker 1: late twenty twenty one. The video pointed out his frequent
Speaker 1: references to dark humor and murder, some of the supposed evidence.
Speaker 1: Since Segora moved to Austin, twelve men have gone missing
Speaker 1: around Lady Bird Lake. The theory suggests that Tom Sigora's
Speaker 1: move and the timeline of these disappearances are too coincidental
Speaker 1: to ignore. They also claim Sigora's show sales have been
Speaker 1: declining and the number of listeners to his podcast have decreased.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with that being a story, and I
Speaker 1: study this pretty closely. Observers have noted that Tom Sagora
Speaker 1: appears visibly frustrated and angry in his podcast episodes, which
Speaker 1: some interpret as signs of deeper issues. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: all the alleged evidence. We'll keep a close eye on
Speaker 1: that story. Meanwhile, Kevin Hart is still feuding with Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan and says I could care less. Kevin's been talking
Speaker 1: about Michael Jordan during his current tour and says, Michael's
Speaker 1: had an attitude with me for years because I hosted
Speaker 1: a celebrity event for him and he came in late.
Speaker 1: I saw him coming in late, and I hit him
Speaker 1: with a joke. It was quick, it was all in fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know where it came from. I hit him
Speaker 1: with a quick one. I'm forty five years old. It's
Speaker 1: not about the progression of life. You get to the
Speaker 1: point where little things don't matter. I'm not the same
Speaker 1: person I once was now. It's unclear when the charity
Speaker 1: event took place, but in twenty sixteen, Kevin Hart told
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel what the joke was, which is, what age
Speaker 1: do you get where it's okay to wear your pants
Speaker 1: that high and nobody addresses it. He compared Michael's outfit
Speaker 1: to a pregnant lesbian. Over the weekend, Kevin defended himself,
Speaker 1: telling his fans he believes Michael Jordan is a horrible
Speaker 1: dresser and wears some of the worst genes I've seen
Speaker 1: in my life. He went on a joke that Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan has huge back pockets that can fit a Dell
Speaker 1: computer on one side and a modem in the other pocket.
Speaker 1: That is funny. The podcast is about to get a
Speaker 1: little naughty here, as we quote Kevin Harnton. There's another
Speaker 1: naughty story later, So if you have kids with you,
Speaker 1: maybe stop listening. Okay, adults, you're still here. Kevin told
Speaker 1: the story about when he had to buy penis bills
Speaker 1: following an injury he sustained last year that cost his
Speaker 1: penis to look like a thumb and he could move
Speaker 1: his legs. Kevin joked at the gas station where he
Speaker 1: went to buy the pills would run out of stock
Speaker 1: because one guy buys them all and stores them in
Speaker 1: his back pocket. The joke, I said, there's only one
Speaker 1: back pocket big enough to fit that many penis pills.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. Michael penis pill Jordan. He then said Michael
Speaker 1: will kill him when he hears the joke. Kevin also
Speaker 1: made fun of Michael's kids and said, if you ever
Speaker 1: told me I could get Michael Jordan DNA off the street,
Speaker 1: I would pay top dollar for it, shoot it in
Speaker 1: my son's butt immediately, and go say all right, go
Speaker 1: to a layup jump. Let me see something. If you
Speaker 1: don't think Michael Jordan thinks about it every time he
Speaker 1: sees del Curry on the sideline celebrating with Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Michael got to look down the couch at Marcus and Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Look at you two just sitting here all cuddled up
Speaker 1: with different colored Jordan combinations every day. You two pieces
Speaker 1: of bleep Now, Despite the hilarity, Michael Jordan's son Marcus
Speaker 1: recently tweeted that Kevin Hart is a hilarious man after
Speaker 1: attending one of Kevin Hart's shows. Marcus tweeted at Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart four real the hilarious man as a new joke
Speaker 1: about my brother and Michael joh watch that Kevin is
Speaker 1: continuing to tour until December. A friend of the show,
Speaker 1: Jason Zenneman, in The New York Times, wrote about Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan's comedy special, I addressed this specially yesterday. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a big bag of okay zinman rights. There's
Speaker 1: one question you don't hear investigated on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Speaker 1: One relevant to a success, but taboo in certain precincts
Speaker 1: of the comedy world. Is Joe Rogan good at stand
Speaker 1: up comedy? That can be a dangerous one for some
Speaker 1: comics to touch on, because Rogan is becoming a powerful gatekeeper,
Speaker 1: the owner of a club in Austin, Texas and a
Speaker 1: host who drives viewers to specials and movies. Whereas he
Speaker 1: performs patient thoughtfulness in his podcast, his stand up is
Speaker 1: frantic animated, full of unmodulated yelling, His eyes pop out
Speaker 1: and his face reddens. Midway through burn the boats, a
Speaker 1: jagged line of perspiration forms on his tight yellow shirt,
Speaker 1: making him look like Charlie Brown on steroids. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had a bad sweatstain in there. Bad shirt choice. I
Speaker 1: didn't think Joe looked good, but he looked a little old.
Speaker 1: Zinneman rights his jokes, relying the most well worn of
Speaker 1: stand up subjects, pat downs at the airport. When it
Speaker 1: comes to six men have you heard are different than women?
Speaker 1: The variation with Rogan is additional sentence, mocking the straw
Speaker 1: man of those who think the differences are purely cultural.
Speaker 1: His joke constructions are also familiar the things you think
Speaker 1: but don't do, the words he can't say. He leans
Speaker 1: into stereotypes that have cracked up drunken club crowds for generations.
Speaker 1: When he discovers a genetic test that he has some
Speaker 1: African ancestry. You know, a joke about penis sizes on
Speaker 1: its Why I wrote that in the Facebook comments? So
Speaker 1: that was one of the jokes you could see coming.
Speaker 1: It was borderline hackey. Not only will nothing he say
Speaker 1: here get him in real trouble, but it bonds him
Speaker 1: to his audience, who are told repeatedly that critics are
Speaker 1: humorless and the media is unfair, deceptive and weird. While
Speaker 1: his stand up here is cliche, his podcast is not.
Speaker 1: Rogan has interested in ideas on his podcast, whereas in
Speaker 1: his new special he prefers playing dumb good stuff. That's
Speaker 1: Jason Zennemann. In The New York Times seven Days Vermont
Speaker 1: spoke to Ariel Elias. Any article about Ariel has to
Speaker 1: mention the shot scene round the internet. Her set at
Speaker 1: a New Jersey comedy club, Uncle Vinnie's in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: she incurred the wrath of a Donald Trump supporter. A
Speaker 1: woman can be heard heckling Elias in the video yeeling out.
Speaker 1: I could tell by your jokes he voted for Biden.
Speaker 1: Elias fire's back. I can tell by the fact that
Speaker 1: you're still talking when no one wants you to, that
Speaker 1: you voted for Trump. A few seconds later, the heckler's
Speaker 1: husband hurled a nearly full can of beer at the
Speaker 1: comedian Harryel says, look, I'd much rather have gone viral
Speaker 1: for a well crafted joke than having a beer thrown
Speaker 1: at me. I don't do a ton of political comedy,
Speaker 1: so I think it may have given people a different
Speaker 1: idea the kind of comic I am. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the goal is to have eyes
Speaker 1: on you, gain followers, and sell tickets, so I'm grateful,
Speaker 1: even if it was vaguely traumatic. She was recording a
Speaker 1: new set in Burlington, Vermont, and says, after the crowd
Speaker 1: strikes stuff, I might choose all my taping locations based
Speaker 1: on whether or not I can drive to the venue.
Speaker 1: It's my first special, so I'm not sure what the
Speaker 1: process is supposed to be like, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: what comes next is an editing process where I stare
Speaker 1: at myself and try not to critique my voice and
Speaker 1: my whole body endlessly, then start to beg everyone I
Speaker 1: know with a podcast to have me on a promoter,
Speaker 1: followed by asking my manager a thousand times a day
Speaker 1: what I'm doing wrong. She plans to shop these special
Speaker 1: to streaming services and networks. If that doesn't work, she'll
Speaker 1: upload it to YouTube, but says there's no doubt that
Speaker 1: the market is crazy oversaturated. Now that's an understatement, having
Speaker 1: a specialist in the big thing it used to be.
Speaker 1: You're not looking for it to change your life as
Speaker 1: a comedian. And here's another naughty section. You're not still
Speaker 1: listening with the kids, are you? Are you watching the Olympics?
Speaker 1: Did you see the French pole vaulter? Did you see
Speaker 1: what happened here? In case you missed it, there was
Speaker 1: a French pole vaulter and he's going over the pole
Speaker 1: and then, uh, you know what knocked the pole over
Speaker 1: his penis. Yes, this is the thing that happened. Watch
Speaker 1: the clip on the internet. God admit it's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Sorry olympian who trained all that, But you probably suddenly
Speaker 1: have a lot more fans on social media than you
Speaker 1: would have had you won the gold. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Nudge nudge. Some of the headlines covering this,
Speaker 1: The Daily Beast went with Olympic pole vaulter loses thanks
Speaker 1: to battle with his bulge. Well done out magazine said
Speaker 1: this Olympic polevol his own huge poll got in his
Speaker 1: way and cost him a metal. Metro dot co dot
Speaker 1: uk went right at it with pol Walter's Olympic dream
Speaker 1: shattered by his own penis. If you need some stuff
Speaker 1: to listen to you other than this, of course, Patton
Speaker 1: Oswald is the guest on Neil Brennan's Blocks. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: that a lot, Mark Marin dusted Off and Bob Newhart
Speaker 1: interview that I thought was really interesting, And at one
Speaker 1: point during it I forgot that Bob passed away. Bob
Speaker 1: was talking about doing some more acting. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'd like to see. Oh, that's right, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Pretty good, not bad. Written by and starring Ellen Soland.
Speaker 1: Going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival previews at The Tank
Speaker 1: in New York City tonight and tomorrow, and from Missing
Speaker 1: Perspectives the next wave of Australian female comedians Across the Pond.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you could cross the pond from Australia
Speaker 1: to London. Thinking of the world map, there isn't that
Speaker 1: two ponds? No, I guess not. I guess you could
Speaker 1: fly up to Asia and stay landlined. Maybe that's one
Speaker 1: pond I've just I don't know. I usually associate that
Speaker 1: phrase with the Atlantic Ocean, and I digress some of
Speaker 1: The up and coming comedians are Shaiera Gaglanie, Freddy Arthur,
Speaker 1: and Laura Rose. What got them in a comedy in
Speaker 1: the first place, Freddy said, I was very lonely, so
Speaker 1: I started going on dates. People always telling me I
Speaker 1: was funny. But this one guy kept telling me I
Speaker 1: should actually be a comedian. I'd grown up hearing that
Speaker 1: women aren't funny, so I didn't even consider it. But
Speaker 1: then he took me on a surprise date to a
Speaker 1: comedy show, and I remember thinking, yeah, maybe I could
Speaker 1: do this. We didn't see each other for long because
Speaker 1: he ended up sleeping with four other people and then
Speaker 1: realizing he was still in love with a woman he
Speaker 1: hadn't seen in ten years. But I kept going to
Speaker 1: stand up comedy because most up in my nights are
Speaker 1: free and I was still very poor, Shaierra said. Growing up,
Speaker 1: I realized that making people laugh was the best way
Speaker 1: to avoid getting grounded. But to be honest, the turning
Speaker 1: point kind of came when a white male comic mistook
Speaker 1: me for another woman on the Brown women comedy lineup.
Speaker 1: I'd never done comedy before that, so I went to
Speaker 1: watch the show. Turns out, nobody really looked like me,
Speaker 1: but I did end up writing a short stet, doing
Speaker 1: as many open mics as I could find. Eventually I
Speaker 1: ended up in the lineup for Brown Women Comedy and
Speaker 1: now we're bringing it to Edinburgh. Laura Rose said. It
Speaker 1: took a worldwide pandemic and me turning thirty to look
Speaker 1: back and realize it wasn't getting any younger. I always
Speaker 1: had a career to fall back on, a loving husband,
Speaker 1: and well with age, I started to stop caring what
Speaker 1: people thought, so I thought. Fit Shier said. When I
Speaker 1: first started, the comedy scene was like a boy's locker room, smellyon,
Speaker 1: full of bad jokes. But things are changing. Female comedians
Speaker 1: are finally getting the recognition they deserve. It's no longer
Speaker 1: just about being funny for a woman. It's about being
Speaker 1: funny period. But yeah, there's still a way to go.
Speaker 1: The Edinburgh Fringe continues until August twenty sixth. Then that
Speaker 1: is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program,
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