Speaker 1: Callaroga.
Speaker 2: Shark Media are Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 2: Good feisty one today, a lot of fighting I always
Speaker 2: like that, and a reminder I'll have episodes all through
Speaker 2: the holiday weekend. I'm planning on recording them all right now.
Speaker 2: If my voice holds out, I've got one of those
Speaker 2: old fashioned colds that we used to get before COVID,
Speaker 2: remember those, I've got one. But I've written all the
Speaker 2: weekend scripts. A lot to tell you about, including a
Speaker 2: lengthy Anthony Jeslnick article in Cracked that I've shared in
Speaker 2: the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Please feel
Speaker 2: encouraged to join us. Let's start with Dave Chappelle, an
Speaker 2: article in the San Francisco Gate byline by Dan Gentille.
Speaker 2: I believe Dan has a little history with Dave, which
Speaker 2: he writes about in the piece. Dan writes, so someone
Speaker 2: who has covered Chappelle extensively, to the point where the
Speaker 2: comic briefly made my stories a part of his act.
Speaker 2: Chappelle was at the Paramount Theater on Saturday night. He writes,
Speaker 2: A look like Dave was poised to go into grievance mode,
Speaker 2: leaning into his heel persona one fan behind me in
Speaker 2: line outside the venue remarked that he was hoping we'd
Speaker 2: hear the old Dave Chappelle, and at first it didn't
Speaker 2: seem like it. Chappelle, who has banned cell phones. We've
Speaker 2: talked about that, apparently want a step further. This time.
Speaker 2: You weren't allowed to bring pens or notebooks.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Dan writes, three different security guards disarmed him from his
Speaker 2: journalistic weaponry. The fact that I was on assignment didn't
Speaker 2: dissuade them, no media at all. They said, Dave, dude,
Speaker 2: this is not going to help you. This is not
Speaker 2: going to help you. Dave Chappelle, This is not going
Speaker 2: to help you. You do not want the media to
Speaker 2: turn on you, Dave Chappelle. I am warning you lovingly.
Speaker 2: You don't want the media to turn on you. After
Speaker 2: briefly you're visiting the Netflix controversy, Chappelle turned to politics,
Speaker 2: noting that the transgender community will be nostalgic for his
Speaker 2: jokes once Donald Trump actually begins taking action. But aside
Speaker 2: from a couple non sequitor slurs throughout the night and
Speaker 2: a callback involving the state of Gaza, Chappelle kept the
Speaker 2: promise he made it at the end of the closure
Speaker 2: that he was done making trans jokes. Interesting note here,
Speaker 2: Dan Wrights. Those who have seen Chapelle live had heard
Speaker 2: most of this material. He shared a bit about San
Speaker 2: Francisco needing a batman with a punchline about teaching the
Speaker 2: homeless community the thriller dance. But unlike in the past
Speaker 2: we spoke about SF, this time it felt much more affectionate.
Speaker 2: Throughout the night, he peppered the set with compliments to
Speaker 2: the Bay Area, noting that after Chappelle' show ANDed, he
Speaker 2: spent most of his time in San Francisco. Now, this
Speaker 2: next section has leaked out before. Despite the ban on pins,
Speaker 2: I mean, what are they gonna do? I mean, you
Speaker 2: could smuggle some coal in your crotch and right on
Speaker 2: your arm. You're not gonna be able to stop this.
Speaker 2: Dave Chappelle spoke about the twenty four presidential election, saying
Speaker 2: the whites are back. Chappelle reiterated his support for the
Speaker 2: Democratic ticket, saying he didn't believe in celebrity endorsements, but
Speaker 2: that he voted for Kamala Harris. He also talked about
Speaker 2: how he knows Elon Musk and thought it was a
Speaker 2: stupid idea by Twitter, but boy was he wrong. Dave
Speaker 2: joked about that they're eating the cats and said he
Speaker 2: drove to a Haitian restaurant daily in support and he
Speaker 2: didn't know what the meat was, but it sure did
Speaker 2: fall off the bone. That is a quality joke. Dan writs,
Speaker 2: I'm happy he gave critics breath. The sees me nothing
Speaker 2: to complain about. It was a pretty great show. Chappelle
Speaker 2: and relaxed storyteller mode. No punching down, no knife twisting,
Speaker 2: no dying on hills of bad opinions. He seems subdued, empathetic.
Speaker 2: The old Chappelle. Anthony Jelsinick is the guest on this
Speaker 2: week's Mark meron a very good listen, Such a good listen.
Speaker 2: I went through the extra step of actually pulling the
Speaker 2: audio clip Number one here Mike's Anthony Jelsinick quit stand
Speaker 2: up Eventually.
Speaker 1: If I'm done with stand up, I might leave. I
Speaker 1: might maybe Chicago.
Speaker 3: Done with stand up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you you think that way? Because I think
Speaker 1: in terms of the hour. So if I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't have another hour in me, then I'm done.
Speaker 3: I know, But don't you feel that after every hour?
Speaker 1: I not really like halfway through this hour after this tour,
Speaker 1: I was like, this might be it. And then as
Speaker 1: I finish, I'm like, you know what, what if I
Speaker 1: do it again? Like, wouldn't that be great? And this
Speaker 1: is my fifth one now. Yeah, so I'm like, if
Speaker 1: I could do a sixth, you know what would that
Speaker 1: look like? And that's fascinating to me.
Speaker 2: It seems neither comedian is a fan of what Joe
Speaker 2: Rogan is doing these days. Maren discusses whether or not
Speaker 2: he would play at the Mothership.
Speaker 3: People are like, would you ever do the Mothership? I
Speaker 3: wouldn't even think about it. But I don't have any
Speaker 3: reason to perform for those guys. How much do I
Speaker 3: have to hate myself? But I imagine you have some crossover.
Speaker 1: Sure. I went toward the Mothership because I knew Curtis,
Speaker 1: the guy who was running the place at the time,
Speaker 1: from the store he went over there. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was doing I was doing a couple of shows on
Speaker 1: a Sunday and I went over there for a tour. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like, this place is beautiful, it's great,
Speaker 1: it's set up as a great comedy club, but it's
Speaker 1: too easy. Yeah, you know, it's like you can't fail there.
Speaker 3: I could.
Speaker 1: They just want to hear like the bad words. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they would be so happy to see you there
Speaker 1: that you would destroy. Yeah. I can't imagine Joe Rogan's
Speaker 1: ever had a bad set.
Speaker 3: At that comedy club because they're also they're happy to
Speaker 3: be part of the thing.
Speaker 2: And an interesting take here from Anthony J. Justinic about
Speaker 2: playing arenas.
Speaker 1: I don't know why people go to arenas to see bands.
Speaker 1: It's exactly a terrible way to see anything. I get
Speaker 1: why the comics want to do it. I don't understand how.
Speaker 1: I don't understand a Madison Square Garden has become this
Speaker 1: like this new club like I got to do I
Speaker 1: was lucky enough to do uh not Sydney Opera House,
Speaker 1: so we've not got to do that too. But Carnegie Hall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was so happy. Yeah I did that. And I
Speaker 1: go and they're like, the next time you come to
Speaker 1: the New York Comedy Festival, well have you do Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden? Yeah? And I was like, why do I
Speaker 1: give up about Madison Square? Like this is what this
Speaker 1: is the it for me. Carnegie is the coolest place
Speaker 1: I could be in and it was amazing. I loved it.
Speaker 1: That like, not from now on, I want to do
Speaker 1: just like nicer theaters. Yeah, you know, I don't ever
Speaker 1: want to do an arena ever, but that's a nice theater.
Speaker 1: Is is a lot of fun for me.
Speaker 2: I mentioned at the top. There's a lengthy interview with
Speaker 2: Anthony in Cracked. I've shared the link in the Facebook
Speaker 2: group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Jessa Nixt said, even
Speaker 2: in my set now, if there's one joke that's way
Speaker 2: too hardcore, and that's okay. I just don't want to
Speaker 2: do a set full of that. But it's nice to
Speaker 2: know the audience thinks that could happen at any time.
Speaker 2: I feel great. It's a weird place to be in
Speaker 2: because I did this tour for two years or recorded
Speaker 2: in April. I'm one of those guys you could either
Speaker 2: watch a special a million times and edit and perfect it.
Speaker 2: We can watch it twice and say get out of here.
Speaker 2: I can't look at it again, and I'm the latter.
Speaker 2: Johnny Mack is the same way. What's the line perfect
Speaker 2: is the enemy of good? Something like that. I alsolect
Speaker 2: the general pattern quote A pretty good plan violently executed
Speaker 2: now is better than a perfect plan. Next week. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you just got to hit publish. Jesslink says a morning
Speaker 2: that I can't do these jokes anymore. I just had
Speaker 2: a great run in Europe though, so much fun. I'm
Speaker 2: excited for the special to get out there and see
Speaker 2: what the public thanks doing the show for two years.
Speaker 2: It's people buying a ticket and coming to see it.
Speaker 2: But when you're just checking on Netflix and you don't
Speaker 2: give a hoot, that's when you really find out how
Speaker 2: good it is. And I'm excited for that. I'll find
Speaker 2: out if I've ruined people's thanksgivings a lot more with
Speaker 2: jessin Nick and not in Tomhrow's episode, but starting on
Speaker 2: Friday again. The full article there is in the Facebook group.
Speaker 2: I have to remember to watch James Acaster. As I
Speaker 2: talked about over the weekend, HBO stopped releasing things at
Speaker 2: ten pm on Saturday night. Not a good time, Tuesday
Speaker 2: night good time. There seems to be some sort of
Speaker 2: beef happening. I'll source Vulture here, and I have to
Speaker 2: make sure I understand it. Kendrick Lamar dropped an album
Speaker 2: and apparently took a shot at comedians. I believe mister
Speaker 2: Lamar has a line about making Cat Williams proud. Kendrick
Speaker 2: then raps, don't let no white comedian talk about no
Speaker 2: black woman. That's law. He does not specify which white
Speaker 2: comedian he's referring to. Vulture speculates it could be Gary Owen,
Speaker 2: possibly Matt Rife, but people seem to believe it's Andrew Schultz.
Speaker 2: On the July seventeenth episode of Andrew's podcast, he made
Speaker 2: a few jokes about his guest description of a black
Speaker 2: girlfriend effect, in which a non black man, quoting Vulture here,
Speaker 2: dates a black woman and adopts a new style fade
Speaker 2: haircutting beard. Schultz at that time said they grow the
Speaker 2: beard because they need a cushion when they get slapped clip.
Speaker 2: When viral online the guests apologize, Schultz refused to apologize.
Speaker 2: Live streamer Academics said he was speaking to Schultz. Apparently,
Speaker 2: Schultz may have said, is this guy too woke to
Speaker 2: un stand a joke? We'll keep an eye on that one, hey,
Speaker 2: Just for laughs, announce their dates for July. We get
Speaker 2: to go back to Montreal July sixteenth to the twenty seventh.
Speaker 2: Super awesome to see that one coming back. And they're
Speaker 2: bringing back the annual Comedy pro Conference, and I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to see who they announce. Let's stop off on
Speaker 2: gossip Corner from the Modesto Bee. Bill Burr was in town,
Speaker 2: The Modesto Bee says in one post, Bill Burr records
Speaker 2: himself in front of our iconic arch as he declares
Speaker 2: that all towns should have something like it. Burr reads
Speaker 2: the motto water wealth, contentment Health, Burr says, not saying
Speaker 2: it's true, not saying I felt that one is up here.
Speaker 2: It's funny to say water health, contentment, health. And I
Speaker 2: have an f in McDonald's right next to it. Actor
Speaker 2: Jeremy Renner commented, my hometown. Another post chronicled Bill Burr's
Speaker 2: day out in Modesto. Apparently he stopped for breakfast at
Speaker 2: Good Day Lucille and he had a south By Southwest
Speaker 2: biscuit sandwich. He then checked out the Modesto Children's Museum.
Speaker 2: He took a photo with the sign for Johanna's Bail Bonds.
Speaker 2: People on the Modesto Reddit page said of the show,
Speaker 2: he killed it. He knew it was a smaller venue,
Speaker 2: so we barely stuck to a set list and ad
Speaker 2: libbed the whole time. But in the best way possible.
Speaker 2: Oh comedy newbie, I bet you he didn't you believe
Speaker 2: what you would like? Also from Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler
Speaker 2: walking around New Jersey. Boy, how exciting He took a
Speaker 2: few moments to post with the very busy Hackensack Police.
Speaker 2: They posted Hackensack pde had an amazing time providing security
Speaker 2: for Adam Sandler while he filmed this new movie Happy
Speaker 2: Gilmour too. Our officers are huge fans and we're thrilled
Speaker 2: to see the magic of Hollywood and action. Thank you
Speaker 2: Adam for bringing your talent and humor to Hackensack. Before
Speaker 2: I get letters, half my family's cops. So I don't
Speaker 2: want to think I'm anti police, but I also live
Speaker 2: in the suburbs, and I see what happens with overtime.
Speaker 2: Providing security for Adam Sandler is a cushy gig. Sorry,
Speaker 2: angin about half my Family's Cops. Friend of the Pod
Speaker 2: Jason Sinnaman wrote in The New York Times about hilarious
Speaker 2: He was on a zoom call with Craig Erwitch, the
Speaker 2: president of the Disney Television Group, who said, we're not
Speaker 2: trying to do you know, one hundred things. We're trying
Speaker 2: to do a few carefully selected things that we really
Speaker 2: believe in that I think, quite frankly helps quality control.
Speaker 2: Craig says he's open to sharing viewership data with comedians,
Speaker 2: something that Netflix has hesitated to do. Jason writes frustrated
Speaker 2: some comics who are hoping to understand their audiences for
Speaker 2: purposes of where to tour, how to negotiate their next deal.
Speaker 2: That is a major reason a lot of comedians love podcasting,
Speaker 2: by the way, so Gora has talked about that at length.
Speaker 2: Craig also promises to use old fashioned marketing muscle. We
Speaker 2: don't believe that it's just up to you, you know,
Speaker 2: the algorithm to kind of get you to the right time,
Speaker 2: in the right place. They sure push the heck out
Speaker 2: of gaff Again. I'm not sure there's any post launch
Speaker 2: buzz on the Gaff Again special, but there sure was
Speaker 2: in advance. Gaff Again on the Zoom said from a
Speaker 2: promotional standpoint, there's no comparison. I was grateful for the opportunity,
Speaker 2: but it felt more like an experiment, whereas Hulu has
Speaker 2: a twelve month to two year plan. Yeah, because they
Speaker 2: also own ABC. They also own ESPN and the Disney products,
Speaker 2: so you could very easily get Jim gaffikin on Monday
Speaker 2: Night football. I can absolutely see from an artist standpoint
Speaker 2: where that is very appealing. Burwitch was asked if you
Speaker 2: would ever program something like Dave Chappelle's The Closer, and
Speaker 2: he said, it's probably not what we would want to do.
Speaker 2: What we would consider is does it feel gratuitous and
Speaker 2: purposely hate fuller provocative or purposely controversial. Now, it would
Speaker 2: probably stay away from that. This is not to do
Speaker 2: with Disney. We want these comedies to be enjoyed by
Speaker 2: as many people as possible, and we don't feel the
Speaker 2: needs of purposely court controversy to get attention. So let's
Speaker 2: look at the list again. Zorn A garg Andrew Santino,
Speaker 2: A tail Lane, Sebastians. On that list, you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: I see what they're doing. Makes sense. That is your
Speaker 2: comedy news for today again. I got an episodes all
Speaker 2: week and for you, you have an awesome Thanksgiving. If
Speaker 2: you skip tomorrow's episode, I understand, spend some time with
Speaker 2: your family watching the football, eat some turkey. I'll be here.
Speaker 2: You can listen to two episodes on Friday. That's allowed,
Speaker 2: all right, see you tomorrow. We're not