Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, While my dogs compete to
Speaker 1: see who can make the most noisess e record, I'm
Speaker 1: chick with Today's Daily Comedy News. David Sell spoke to
Speaker 1: Newsday and they were curious, Hey, David Sel, what made
Speaker 1: you make the Comedy Seller your home base? What's so
Speaker 1: magical about the Comedy Seller? And a Tel said, for
Speaker 1: a small room, it's mighty. Everybody has worked there, from
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle to Chris Rock to Amy Schumer. I know
Speaker 1: Amy and Dave are tight there. But when you do
Speaker 1: a rule of three lists and you go Chappelle, Rock,
Speaker 1: Amy Schumer is just a weird third, I wouldn't expect that.
Speaker 1: You know, you could say we see k You could
Speaker 1: throw in there for example. Anyway I digress. David Tel
Speaker 1: said they've all played theaters and arenas, but they returned
Speaker 1: to the Comedy Cellar because it's like putting on a
Speaker 1: comfortable pair of pants, not shoes. Pants. I like to
Speaker 1: go on last there because it's the hardest spot. Every
Speaker 1: comic loves. The sound on the staff is awesome. If
Speaker 1: I can make someone who works their laugh, then I
Speaker 1: know it's a great joke. Because they hear so many.
Speaker 1: Dave talked about being sober and said, I like to
Speaker 1: work in the moment. The clearer you are, the better
Speaker 1: you can think quicker. In my opinion, nobody's better at
Speaker 1: working a crowd than David Tell. Dave says it's really
Speaker 1: helped me focus, and I think my writing is a
Speaker 1: little better now. Plus my performance has gone up a bit.
Speaker 1: Because there's nothing to hide behind, you have to just
Speaker 1: do it. News Day was curious, how did you develop
Speaker 1: your signature look of baseball cap, gray hoodie and black
Speaker 1: jacket that Tel said, I was broke, short, fat and bald,
Speaker 1: so I figured these seem to work. It's what I
Speaker 1: feel most comfortable, and plus I'm not really a looker. Hey,
Speaker 1: Bill Burr, what makes you laugh the hardest? That a
Speaker 1: question from Variety, Bill said, authentic emotion. My favorite kind
Speaker 1: of comedy is stuff that wouldn't be funny if it
Speaker 1: weren't happened to me. A long time ago, I was
Speaker 1: doing a set in New York City and I'm walking
Speaker 1: up the street after my set, and the door to
Speaker 1: this bar was open, and ten people spill out. There
Speaker 1: are two guys squaring off, and neither of them wanted
Speaker 1: to fight, but they had to act like they wanted to.
Speaker 1: They're both terrified trying to get the other guy to
Speaker 1: back down. Now, if you want these people, it's really scary.
Speaker 1: Nothing about it's funny. But if you're me on the
Speaker 1: other side of the street watching it, it's hilarious. Bill Burtr,
Speaker 1: what's the worst trend in comedy right now? Burr said,
Speaker 1: I don't tell people how to do things, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I should be doing is making fun of
Speaker 1: both sides. My job is not to pick side. You
Speaker 1: come to see me because you want to forget about
Speaker 1: your problems. Even if I do make fun of a politician,
Speaker 1: I always make sure I get them both. If I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make fun of CNN, I gotta make fun of
Speaker 1: Fox and make fun of the whole thing because I
Speaker 1: don't feel that politicians work for us. They work for
Speaker 1: the super rich, and they're grossly underpaid, so they're open
Speaker 1: to bribery. He gives regular people something to get mad at.
Speaker 1: Like with these fires, people are blaming Governor Knwsom. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make a difference that was gonna happen the matter
Speaker 1: who was governor. They were saying the fire was coming forever.
Speaker 1: The right set of circumstances, there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 1: Burr's gonna have a big march. He's got that Hulu
Speaker 1: special and he will make his Broadway debut and Glengarry
Speaker 1: Glenn Ross opposide Kieran Kulkan and Bob Odenkirk. Bur said,
Speaker 1: rehearsal starts in February, but I did have lunch with
Speaker 1: a few of the guys from the cast, and the
Speaker 1: ball breaking has already started, so I know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun, right, he said, The idea to put you
Speaker 1: three together's genius. Bur said, If it was a genius idea,
Speaker 1: you know it didn't come for me. I got in
Speaker 1: because Nathan Lane put in a word for me. Mass
Speaker 1: Live talk to Kathy Griffin. They ask Kathy how she
Speaker 1: feels as a female comedian about the second Trump. Kathy's
Speaker 1: answer quote, somebody's going to shoot me. Some lunatics are
Speaker 1: gonna get in there and shoot me on stage. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a mortar, which is my real dream.
Speaker 1: So you know, if I get shot, first of all,
Speaker 1: don't shoot my face off, like shoot me in the arm.
Speaker 1: Then I want a long mortar period where they write
Speaker 1: a DOCU series about me, and then young comedians are
Speaker 1: seen crying at my bedside, and then you know, since
Speaker 1: he says we're not gonna have elections anymore, just take
Speaker 1: me out at that point. Unquote. That's an interesting quote there,
Speaker 1: Kathy continued, let me tell you something, JD Vance isn't
Speaker 1: going to be any better, so we need to be
Speaker 1: worried about the whole line of succession. In fact, it
Speaker 1: would feel safer with the cast of the series Succession
Speaker 1: than our actual line of succession. Sorry, that's an obscure
Speaker 1: reference of a now canceled series. But your readers will
Speaker 1: get it if they're good in over sixty, which is
Speaker 1: what I hope. Kathy then went on to praise newspaper
Speaker 1: readers and said, let me tell you something, traditional media
Speaker 1: still sells tickets. I can do fifty thousand fing podcasts,
Speaker 1: and those criminals have me sit there interviewing me for
Speaker 1: two hours, and then you never know who's gonna see it.
Speaker 1: You never know when it's gonna air. Good old newspapers.
Speaker 1: I still do drivetime radio, morning radio, afternoon radio. Some
Speaker 1: markets even have local TV. But look, I want a
Speaker 1: little credit because I was literally on the no fly lists,
Speaker 1: which is the international version of the No Fly List,
Speaker 1: and the Five Eyes List, which is the terror watch list.
Speaker 1: No comedian in history has ever been on those lists.
Speaker 1: They were held so a different standard. I'm not putting
Speaker 1: myself in the class of the great George Carlin or
Speaker 1: the great Lenny Bruce, but even those guys were only
Speaker 1: hassled by local PDE. I have the FEDS knocking at
Speaker 1: my door multiple times a week, the Feds, and they
Speaker 1: don't f around. They were dying to arrest me. They
Speaker 1: were looking. They wanted to know if I had weapons.
Speaker 1: They wanted to know if I had made travel plans,
Speaker 1: like if I'm gonna fly to DC, waste that money,
Speaker 1: climb over the fence of the White House with a machete,
Speaker 1: look like Kathy Griffin, which unfortunately I still do, or
Speaker 1: maybe you convince a few people it was Reba, but
Speaker 1: I'd hate to do that to Riba because I just
Speaker 1: love her. And then they're supposed to believe that it's
Speaker 1: broken to the White House and chopped his head off.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that picture lives on is half
Speaker 1: comical and half tragic. And that's where PTSD comes in.
Speaker 1: The intersection of comedy and tragedy. Josh Wolff told the
Speaker 1: Minneapolis Star Tribune how he was introduced to comedy. I
Speaker 1: remember one of my brother's buddies had a cassette tap
Speaker 1: of Vettie Murphy. We would hide in the basement and listening,
Speaker 1: laughing uncontrollably. I didn't get all the jokes, but the
Speaker 1: cadences were funny. One day, the Civics teacher had come
Speaker 1: Park High School. Must have had a hangover, so he
Speaker 1: just played Bill Cosby himself in class. I know Cosby's
Speaker 1: name is tainted now, but back then I was an
Speaker 1: au of his stand up. It was weird though even
Speaker 1: as a kid, I thought I could do that. I
Speaker 1: just knew this gift. I just didn't know as a
Speaker 1: viable job. The Missoulian asked David Cross what it's been
Speaker 1: like watching comedy evolve. Cross said, like all change everywhere,
Speaker 1: some of it's for the better, some for the worse.
Speaker 1: I'm glad there are more opportunities for comedians to get
Speaker 1: the work out there, but at the same time, I
Speaker 1: think there's kind of a craft involved that's missing. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna learn your craft by doing stuff on TikTok
Speaker 1: and then blowing up and then selling out arena. It's
Speaker 1: just different. There's always gonna be that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But I certainly don't subscribe to the cancel culture. Bs
Speaker 1: of all those millionaires wandering about how they can't say
Speaker 1: things anymore, it's laughable. David Cross, what comics should we
Speaker 1: be on the lookout for? Cross said, well, Sean Patton,
Speaker 1: My opener is a brilliant comment, is great, fearless, clever,
Speaker 1: Shane tour is, Robbie Hoffman. There's this kind of clown.
Speaker 1: Natalie Palominez. Her shows are amazing and brilliant. Yes, I
Speaker 1: highly agree. Jacqueline Novak and this girl Curly Marouli people
Speaker 1: you might not have heard of, but they're all worth
Speaker 1: checking out. New Citystage dot Com caught up with Jake Johanson,
Speaker 1: who's been doing this for forty years now. He won
Speaker 1: the eleventh annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition back in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six. That spotlight got Bob Newhart to name
Speaker 1: him as one of his favorite young comedians. That endorsement
Speaker 1: got the attention of David Letterman's producers, and soon Johansson
Speaker 1: was on Letterman. Jake remembers I think it was just
Speaker 1: lucky because right from the beginning Dave enjoyed my stand
Speaker 1: up and for me that era, Dave was the new
Speaker 1: late night host. So the first time I was on
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven was just such a big deal
Speaker 1: to be on it, you know, nineteen eighty seven Letterman.
Speaker 1: Now I get to check with Mike, who hosts the
Speaker 1: Letterman Pod. Mike for listening, hit me on the side.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, if we like really graph
Speaker 1: out Letterman. I feel like the peak of Letterman was
Speaker 1: before nineteen eighty seven. Peak Letterman to me is the
Speaker 1: original ish, the very low key intro with all the
Speaker 1: neon signs turning off. And I feel like by nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven we were onto the more show, busy open,
Speaker 1: and it was already starting to become the earliest days
Speaker 1: of estab Letterman, and we had left behind that early
Speaker 1: early period of its twelve thirty nobody's watching I Digress.
Speaker 1: Johanson said. I was on at least once a year,
Speaker 1: sometimes three times a year, all the way till he
Speaker 1: stopped doing the show in twenty fourteen. It was an
Speaker 1: amazing connection for me, and I was lucky to have
Speaker 1: such a supportive fan in such a powerful position and
Speaker 1: sometimes have me on for his birthday week because he
Speaker 1: liked me. But one of my favorite Letterman appearances was
Speaker 1: and I got to be on the show with Bob Newhart.
Speaker 1: I got to meet him in person and thank him
Speaker 1: for promoting me all those years ago. Chloe Hilliard was
Speaker 1: on Vulture's list of comedians you should Know. They asked
Speaker 1: her what comedy hill should die on, and she said,
Speaker 1: stop what all the viral crowd work moments? It's giving harassment.
Speaker 1: Setting up cameras and pointing at the audience sets off
Speaker 1: a domino effect of bad behaviors in the comedy club.
Speaker 1: The comedian isn't bringing their a game and is relying
Speaker 1: on the audience to do the heavy lifting. The audience
Speaker 1: gets entitled and expects to be the center of attention.
Speaker 1: At the end of the experience, there's a one joker moment.
Speaker 1: You walk away with the feeling of Wow, that was
Speaker 1: an amazing experience. No one is retelling your crowd work
Speaker 1: rift to their friends. Stop being lazy. Love it. I
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