Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journal profiled Louis ck under the headline
Speaker 2: Louis c. K doesn't need everyone to like him. And Hello,
Speaker 2: I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Now this
Speaker 2: came to me from friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Now,
Speaker 2: you're not supposed to do this at the top of
Speaker 2: the podcast're supposed to get right to it. So I'm
Speaker 2: bringing all the rules here, but I got to talk
Speaker 2: to your friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Scott, I
Speaker 2: assume you're reading the Wall Street Journal because you're trying
Speaker 2: to figure out how to make money. Are you not
Speaker 2: paying attention to my friend? Here's how you make money.
Speaker 2: You purport to be like a kind of a nice
Speaker 2: guy hosting a comedy podcast. This is a long cont
Speaker 2: You got to put some time to this. And then
Speaker 2: what happens is someone will invite you into their football pool,
Speaker 2: not knowing that they've invited a total shark who's just
Speaker 2: going to bleed your wallet one hundred dollars at a
Speaker 2: time every week, just taking your football pool money. That
Speaker 2: is how you make money. Did you not listen to
Speaker 2: the gambling ads for two years? Do you not listen
Speaker 2: to me give bicks, and they're always on point. I
Speaker 2: digress Louis doesn't need everyone to like him. Well, that's true.
Speaker 2: C K's out plugging his new book, Ingram, which the
Speaker 2: Journal says signals a new chapter for c K in
Speaker 2: more ways than one. He once ranked among the world's
Speaker 2: most successful stand up comedians, respected for his sku on
Speaker 2: heavy topics such as religion and mortality, and elevated to
Speaker 2: auteur status by his quasi autobiographical Louis and Emmy winning
Speaker 2: series he wrote, produced, directed, and edited. But then in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, his standing imploded when he confirmed allegations that
Speaker 2: he had engaged in a pattern of you know stuff,
Speaker 2: We've talked about it. Don't want to go there, the
Speaker 2: Journal says. Since then, Seek has been living a split existence,
Speaker 2: a parie to some former fans and much of the
Speaker 2: corporate entertainment world, and a secret superstar, as he calls himself,
Speaker 2: among the people who still flock to his show. As
Speaker 2: I talked about that the other day, mainstream not going
Speaker 2: to let him back in. Of course, the Wall Street
Speaker 2: journals kind of mainstream, and yet he can probably sell
Speaker 2: out the Garden, sk said on stage. I'm perfectly okay
Speaker 2: with any outcome. With writing. I have thinner skin because
Speaker 2: I'm not as common. The journal was curious, what are
Speaker 2: you doing differently this time out? C K said, I
Speaker 2: did a show at MSG almost three years ago. I
Speaker 2: walked off stage and I said to myself, you don't
Speaker 2: have to do it anymore. I didn't just take time off.
Speaker 2: I quit and it was a beautiful clean out, and
Speaker 2: I wrote this book. I took sculpture classes and painting classes.
Speaker 2: I was being creative without ego because I wasn't performing.
Speaker 2: And then I started thinking of jokes and making myself laugh.
Speaker 2: It's like a bladder filling up. I thought, well, you
Speaker 2: don't have to be a comedian, but you have a
Speaker 2: membership to the club. So I started doing sets at
Speaker 2: the Comedy Seller, just feeling what it was like on stage,
Speaker 2: and it felt awfully good. When I started putting together
Speaker 2: this set, I made some rules. I'd never done that before.
Speaker 2: Don't charm the audience, don't make a point, don't have
Speaker 2: an opinion. I'm seeing the audience more than I ever
Speaker 2: did before as individuals with different faces, and I'm talking
Speaker 2: directly to them. All that stuff sit for a minute
Speaker 2: and look at them beyond the laugh, how they feel.
Speaker 2: I also got interested in trying different energies, like there's
Speaker 2: one about beating up an old lady to get her donuts,
Speaker 2: and I say, I had to hurt her really bad,
Speaker 2: and I try to really honestly feel remorse. Good stuff there.
Speaker 2: We'll pick up that a little bit more tomorrow, and Scott,
Speaker 2: thank you for setting it over and I look forward
Speaker 2: to taking your money again. This Actually it's a very
Speaker 2: Scott show because he's also the guy that sent over
Speaker 2: this Nicki Glazer thing where she's talked to Pure Wow.
Speaker 2: This was the thing from was it yesterday where she
Speaker 2: was hawking the Alexa plus well. Pure Wow asked her
Speaker 2: about the Golden globes and how you deal with the nerves.
Speaker 2: Nicki Glazer said, I learned her breathing technique from my
Speaker 2: voice coach on the Masked Singer. She taught me then
Speaker 2: when a backstage and my heart is racing, I breathe
Speaker 2: in for four seconds, hold it for eight and breathe out.
Speaker 2: Repeat that four to five times. That slows my heart
Speaker 2: rate down. And during the press, I just repeat a
Speaker 2: mantra in my head that another coach gave me. I'm strong,
Speaker 2: I'm prepared. This is easy. However, that mantra only works
Speaker 2: if I'm actually prepared. Good question here. What's the strangest
Speaker 2: thing an audience member has yelled out? Nicki said, I
Speaker 2: can always see when people are recording my set when
Speaker 2: they hold up their phones, even if they're in the dark,
Speaker 2: because the light reflects off their phone cases. So I
Speaker 2: often call it out in the moment, just quickly say
Speaker 2: I can see you filming. Please don't thank you. In
Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the time they stop. But one
Speaker 2: time this person would have put it down, so I said,
Speaker 2: please stop filming. I'm serious. I can see the light
Speaker 2: reflecting off your phone. Stop filming, and I'm pointing right
Speaker 2: at him. He didn't stop. I was in sense, but
Speaker 2: then my eyes adjusted to the light and I could
Speaker 2: see him and it was just the glare coming off
Speaker 2: his bald head. I felt so bad. He was cool
Speaker 2: about it. I told him to get a case for
Speaker 2: his forehead. If you're a wow, asked what's the question
Speaker 2: in your search history that you really should have known
Speaker 2: the answer to already? Nikki said, how old is Brad
Speaker 2: Pitt's new girlfriend? As a forty one year old woman
Speaker 2: in Hollywood. This should become a knowledge to me. People
Speaker 2: are mad at Tim Minchin. This from The Guardian. The
Speaker 2: backlash came after Tim Minchin appeared to congratulate himself for
Speaker 2: not cheating on his wife. Tim was on the Inherited podcast.
Speaker 2: He talked about the challenges of fame, temptation and his
Speaker 2: long marriage to Sarah. We married in two thousand and two.
Speaker 2: Tim said, I got myself in this situation and I
Speaker 2: got very close to doing the wrong thing. There was
Speaker 2: a time I don't think Sarah remind me saying this
Speaker 2: where she's like, Tim, don't tell me the stuff, Just
Speaker 2: do the right thing. Don't come to me with like,
Speaker 2: ohmost Tim said, It's not in my nature to think
Speaker 2: that the goal of life is to get the best
Speaker 2: version of everything. I'm not someone going, well, what are
Speaker 2: the imperfections of my relationship? I might be able to
Speaker 2: get a better once not on Mitche did not interested
Speaker 2: in trying to find a younger, smarter, hotter partner. I'm
Speaker 2: interested in a nice life. We have a lovely companion.
Speaker 2: People did not like that. They went on the Inherited
Speaker 2: Podcast Instagram page and orde the bars on the floor
Speaker 2: and Tim is praising himself for hitting it. Not cheating
Speaker 2: on your partner and actually wanting to be with them
Speaker 2: is the bare minimum my guy. Another said, the way
Speaker 2: he talks about his wife in this is pretty demeaning.
Speaker 2: I feel sorry for his wife. Imagine thinking this is praiseworthy.
Speaker 2: One more nothing says I love you like I decided
Speaker 2: to settle for this. I got to work with Tim
Speaker 2: a few times back in the day. He was relatively
Speaker 2: unknown in the States when we got to know him.
Speaker 2: So I'm at the Chicago Comedy Festival a night. Was
Speaker 2: absolutely blown away by how talented he is. And we
Speaker 2: did Tim mentioned week up at Sirious or Serious XM.
Speaker 2: I think it was pre merger at Sirius, and I
Speaker 2: just had a good time celebrating his comedy. He is
Speaker 2: really talented, But I don't think these social media observations
Speaker 2: are insane. Charlie barns he'll have a YouTube special out
Speaker 2: on December first. He brings his particular brand of Midwestern
Speaker 2: nice to the Latest Hour full of stories of growing
Speaker 2: up one of twelve children, sneaking beer into church, gambling
Speaker 2: with Grandma, and Midwest cheap hacks. Here is a trailer
Speaker 2: slightly edited.
Speaker 1: Midwest chief hits are hereditary disease. My mom had twelve
Speaker 1: kids and no epidural. That is either the most badass
Speaker 1: thing you can do as a human being or the cheapest.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: I brought beer into church, not really a wine.
Speaker 2: Guy.
Speaker 1: Dalla was byob for the JC, like, that's not child labor, Lady,
Speaker 1: child Labor's what made the golf bag. That's where Nike
Speaker 1: got it, slogan from Just.
Speaker 2: Do It So. THEO Vaughn was reflecting on his recent
Speaker 2: special taping, which by all accounts, including Theo's, did not
Speaker 2: go so well. THEO said, I just wanted to have
Speaker 2: a little bit of more story to it, which is
Speaker 2: the reason why I was trying to have a little
Speaker 2: bit more feeling and emotion so I could kind of
Speaker 2: have more storyline in there about growing up in life.
Speaker 2: And maybe I was trying to do too much. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but you start to realize that these are
Speaker 2: like photo albums. Neil Brennan said to me for the show.
Speaker 2: He goes, hey, this will be the last time maybe
Speaker 2: you ever do this material, so go out and have
Speaker 2: a great time with it, enjoy it, take your time
Speaker 2: with it. These are the things that brought you close
Speaker 2: to people, and it brought people out and hopefully sometimes
Speaker 2: made people laugh. THEO Vaughn said, there was a thing
Speaker 2: where I was directing in my head because I wasn't
Speaker 2: getting certain information. I was like, well, if the stool
Speaker 2: was here in the first taping, does it need to
Speaker 2: be there in the second one? And where do I
Speaker 2: put it when I move it? Little things like that,
Speaker 2: And then they had five extra people though that didn't
Speaker 2: need to be there. Everything was just kind of like
Speaker 2: a lot. Bill Board asked Leanne Morgan about the Manosphere,
Speaker 2: specifically saying the Theo Vonn's, Joe Rogan's, and Andrew Schultzes
Speaker 2: of comedy. Leanne said, I don't know those boys. I
Speaker 2: did meet Andrew Schultz at the Tom Brady Roast. Honestly.
Speaker 2: I got to go to tom Brady's Roast, and I
Speaker 2: swear I thought Gronk was flirting with me. I thought, Lord,
Speaker 2: I'm my grandmother. Is Gronk flirting with me? But he wasn't.
Speaker 2: He's been hit too many times. His eyes I thought
Speaker 2: they were looking at me, but they weren't. I met
Speaker 2: Shane Gillis. I never met Joe Rogan. I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: I think it's so wonderful, Theovaugh, the uniqueness of that.
Speaker 2: Theovonn Honey from Louisiana. I think he's so funny. I've
Speaker 2: seen him live and I laughed until I was weak.
Speaker 2: He talks about hamster bones. I can't even But all
Speaker 2: those boys doing those podcasts, I don't listen to them.
Speaker 2: I'm listening to pop culture women talking about the Real
Speaker 2: Housewives and who slapped you in Salt Lake City, which
Speaker 2: is terrible. I should be listening to something informative. All
Speaker 2: those boys, they're a big deal, I guess, and you
Speaker 2: know I love men. I was on Nate's podcast the
Speaker 2: other day. We did a charity event last night. He
Speaker 2: was hilarious. We talked about going to marriage counseling with
Speaker 2: his wife and McDonald's. He can sit and talk about
Speaker 2: McDonald's and blow your mind. I think I'm going a
Speaker 2: lane by myself, even among female comedians. I'm sixty years
Speaker 2: old in a grandma. All these girls doing comedy have
Speaker 2: got pretty legs and short skirts, so I'm in a
Speaker 2: big girdle. Oh right. The comedy festivals wrapping up again,
Speaker 2: big thanks to the Flyover Comedy Festival in Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: for finally a comedy festival having a website that is
Speaker 2: useful where you can see things. The main show tonight
Speaker 2: at seven o'clock at Tropical Decors is still say Sloan,
Speaker 2: That'll put a rap on that one. So I can
Speaker 2: now delete that tab and get some memory back some
Speaker 2: if you want to start the New York Comedy Festival
Speaker 2: Today at noon at the program NYC, it's Comedy Records Hoops,
Speaker 2: or maybe it's Comedy Records Hoops. Anyway, it's comedians versus industry.
Speaker 2: They apparently are playing basketball. At three o'clock it's the
Speaker 2: tenth annual Hot Guy Draft, a comedy fantasy event. Comedians
Speaker 2: use their expertise in the field of hotness and plenty
Speaker 2: of hell from the audience to build a team of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five's hottest celebrities, characters and even cartoons on
Speaker 2: that show. Josh Gonoman, Zach Zimmerman and Joel Nicole Johnson,
Speaker 2: Jay Jorden and others. All right, that's fun. Todd Glass
Speaker 2: eight o'clock, Second City. The Man can sell out New
Speaker 2: York City night after night, week after week. Todd Glass
Speaker 2: America's number one comedian, nobody more popular, nobody more famous.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely incredible. You run the Todd glasses on
Speaker 2: Jenny's agreno. I'm a fan of hers. She's at New
Speaker 2: York Comedy Club at seven Louis c k at the
Speaker 2: Beacon again at seven point thirty. We're going all the
Speaker 2: way down to the wire. And New York Comedy Festival
Speaker 2: still can't get their website together. Back to back, we
Speaker 2: have the twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o'clock,
Speaker 2: and then the next item on the website is the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o'clock. Secret
Speaker 2: headliner at New York Comedy Club at nine fifteen, and
Speaker 2: that's a rap on the New York Comedy Festival. Another
Speaker 2: tab gets deleted and Johnny Mack gets a little more
Speaker 2: ram and let me leave you with this awful thought
Speaker 2: from TMZ. Bill Maher confirmed some rumors. The rumor was
Speaker 2: that before filming a showback in the nineteen nineties, Bill
Speaker 2: Maher would take care of himself. Nudge, nudge, know what
Speaker 2: I mean, say no more. Bill shared this with Cheryl Hines,
Speaker 2: as one does Cheryl Hines, of course, married to RFK Junior,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure she's had weirder things said to her
Speaker 2: by men. Bill explained the only way he could sneak
Speaker 2: in a nap before filming politically incorrect was you know.
Speaker 2: Bill said, his wild nights out clubbing left him dragging
Speaker 2: in a work hungover, what a professional, and desperate for
Speaker 2: a pre show nap. Everything went fine until he was
Speaker 2: doing his pre show ritual and someone walked in and
Speaker 2: the story go on out. I'm sure Cheryl Hines was
Speaker 2: thrilled to find out this anecdote. And that is your
Speaker 2: comedy news for today. I have to go watch football
Speaker 2: and take another one hundred dollars from Scott Beckett. See
Speaker 2: you tomorrow