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the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the
comedy industry. It's WrestleMania weekend and Tony Hinchcliff is bringing
Kill Tony to WrestleMania. That's right. Tonight's following the conclusion
of Night one of WrestleMania forty two. Tony Hinchcliff will
have a lineup consisting of Tony Hinchcliff, current WWE superstars,
WWE legends, well known comedians, and surprise guests. It's Killed
Tony WrestleMania, nine pm Pacific at Dolby Live at Park MGM.
It's the second year in a row Tony has been
part of WrestleMania. Last year's underwhelming the Roast of WrestleMania
featuring Tony Hinchcliff and Friends that featured comedy performances by
WWE stars like Paul Hayman, Our Truth the Miz and others.
I don't I think they kind of buried that, if
I'm remembering correctly. I feel like that was underwhelming, and
I'm not even sure they even shared any clips on that.
So this is a reboot. Just go down the middle
and do kill Tony should be a lot of fun.
Esquire caught up with Bow and Yang, who said, most
of my time on SNL, I never thought of myself
as a star, even after the Emmy nominations, because my
point of origin in SNL was this national story on
cancel culture. That's right. Remember he was kind of paired
up in the news with one Sheen Gillis there for
a while, Lauren. Michael said to me, the last thing
I want you to do is be the poster child
for racial harmony. It was a wonderful thing to imparton me,
but I think I also took it too far. He said.
I love Weekend Update. It's my favorite place on the show.
The other thing SNL taught me, if it bombs, that's okay.
We're gonna move on to the next one. If you
get it this time, there's another chance at bat. The
la Times caught up with Sheang Wang. His new special
is called Purple. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it,
but I didn't love it as much as I thought
I was gonna love it. But for Sheng Wang, purple
is more than a color. It's a way of being
Ali Wong, longtime friend, director of both his specials, and
kind of his comment guru here till The La Times
comics universally adore Sheng because he's a true artist. He's
all about finding the perfect wording for a joke. He's
all about the process and the work, and does not
have a single thirsty bone in his body. I honestly
can't believe he's even doing this La Times profile peace
because outside of stand up, he just wants to spend
his time exploring botanical gardens and eating great food with
the people he loves. He's my best friend in comedy
and the godfather to my children. My daughter wants through
away her and visil line by accident because it was
wrapped at a tissue and Shang spent about an hour
digging it out of the trash. The La Times said
to Shang, a lot of people got introduced to you
in twenty twenty two when your first special, Sweet and
Juicy premiered. How's it going, I paraphrase their question a
little bit. Shang said, It's been very exciting. It's been
a fun ride. I think when you first retire an
acta after the special comes out and then the act
is done. There's a sense of like, there's no way
I'm going to write another one. I'm feeling that now
after Purple came out, there's supposed to be another one
after this at some point, and I feel so daunting
and big to me. But I just love doing the craft.
It's kind of a natural thing for me to notice
things and then eventually things fall into place. But it's
been a really fun journey from the first one of
the second one, because after the first one, all of
a sudden, there's people wanted to come out to the shows.
I'm selling tickets. That's all pretty new to me in
the scale of people coming out. So it's my first
major tour and I go around the country, all around
the world. I'm playing these theaters, I'm playing shows where
people come out to see me specifically. So that's all
quite new, and it's very exciting because it kind of
makes you feel safer and for you to be more yourself.
So that's kind of been the last two and a
half years for me. Good instincts here by Shang. He said,
one thing I wanted to steer a clear way from
or just be wary of, is getting too like especially
with the outfit and the hair too. Culty and purple.
As far as the name goes, it was just a
fun name. I mean, I love the color. There's a
joke on the special that references a purple toothbrush, and
there's a reference to my aura based on the fact
that I'm cooking with shallots. There's just sort of a
big purplish themes throughout the special, and it also represents
strength and royalty, and to me, the second special, I
feel like there's ability of growth and leveling up. But
I thought purple would be a fun way to go
with the title. Chelsea Handler said, I'm here for women,
and I'm here for myself. I've never been very thirsty
for a man or a partner. You got to really
kind of get my attention to me, to pay attention
in a serious way, because otherwise it's a bunch of
casual and care, you know what I mean. I like that,
I like traveling a lot, I like cooking up with guys.
I don't like to get too serious. I don't want
someone in my space all the time. I'm just not
interested in that right now. She doesn't view marriage as
something she needs to or aspires too, adds at some
point I might go, Okay, I'm fifty years old, I
might as well go get married. What could go wrong
at this point? I don't care about marriage. I don't
care about that. I feel like that's a very patriarchal thing. Anyway,
You're kind of like a property a little bit. Former
Daily Show head writer and Colbert Rapport co creator Ben
Carlin predicts how Stephen Colbert the Star trek Ruiner will
end his late night run. Carlin said, he gets to
go off, justifiably, not as a martyr, but certainly as
someone who kind of stood his ground and stay true
to who he was. The fact that there's this built
in sunset for him, to me, it's kind of a
dream come true. But I don't know if he would
necessarily see it that way. Obviously, it's a little icky.
The way things are shifting right now doesn't feel good
in terms of comedy and the political environment of where
these worlds used to feel somewhat a little more separated.
I think Steven's capable of killing it with kindness. I
think what he doesn't say is sometimes better than what
could be said. At the end of the day, they
paid him a ton of money, he got to do
a version of the show that he wanted to do
for a long time. Carlan said he prefers the host
older work, explaining I have a soft spot for The
Cold Bert Report, not just because I was there at
the beginning, because it felt like it was really trying
to do something different in the late night space. When
you go to these big institutional shows. Yeah, there's some
runa kind of fussed with the details a little bit,
but ultimately you're kind of a slave to the format.
Carlan recalled Comedy Central, saying of the Report, we don't
know if this thing is going to work long term.
We think it's really funny, but is that character of
staying power? Are people just gonna get sick of it?
He's such a good man that he was allowed to
be bat crazy and say horrible things. The success of
that show existed in the tension between the absurdity of
the character and the reality of his radiating decency. There
was so much about it that felt kind of ahead
of its time. The moonstow Our Comedy Festival wrapping up today.
If you're down in Austin, some of the shows you
can consider Carolyn Ray six thirty at the Sunset Strip.
I like six thirty. That's great. I can go to
a show and go to bed kind of early. Can
I tell you last week on Saturday Now, I was
up at six in the morning and and my daughter
had a soccer game which was streaming from the West Coast,
So I watched two soccer games, a bunch of TV,
and then by like ten forty five, I had been
sitting in front of the TV for like seven hours,
including the soccer games, and I was just like, I'm
just going to bed. I felt so old. It wasn't
even eleven o'clock on a Saturday. Nish Kumar is at
the State Theater tonight at seven. That's stelling at Caps
City at seven, Sarah Sherman and Meg Statler at the
Paramount at nine thirty. Looks like the Big show tonight.
Jay Jorden at ten thirty at Sunset Strip. Ben if
you want to head it over to Antone's for the
closing night party, that's at eleven o'clock. And that's a
rap on this year's Moontwer Comedy Festival. And let's check
in one last time with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival,
which wraps up on the nineteenth, which is tomorrow, but
probably today. If you are in Melbourne, and if you're
not on your way to Melbourne, you're not going to
make either of these shows. Let me play some clips
for you. Daniel Connell's the show is called Prairie Dog.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about a serious relationship on him in
at the moment. Give us a chiev you in a
serious relationship, A five papal cool. I'm in a serious
fun with my wife at the moment. That's taken a
long right, We've been together for thirteen years. My wife
and I, well, at the point of our relationship, we're
starting to lose the spice in the bedroom, to be honest. Yeah,
anybody else doing that? Yeah? I never believed it when
I was a kid. It does happen. I never believed
it when I was a kid. My AUNTI used to
tell me that. But it's true. It does happen. It happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Get a couple of West Coast callers into it and
she tell us everything in your kids, my wife and
I ever resorted to doing the role play in the bedroom.
Anybody else doing the role play?
Speaker 2: Give us a cheer?
Speaker 1: All right? No, worries we're doing the role play. Look,
sometimes I'll get my wife to dress up as a
famous Australian sporting hero gets me going. Sometimes she'll get
me to play the role of a man who moves
into a motel for a month.
Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun. And one more. Jeff
Green's show was called Jeff Jokes.
Speaker 3: Lovely to be in the beautiful city of Melbourne with
your trams and your pole the weather because I love
the anonymis anomalies of Australia, because Australia's are dichotomy. Yeah,
I don't know what that means, but it sounds impressive
when you say it. Australia's a dichotomy. What do you mean,
I'm leaving now, No tell us what you mean. Because
you're lovely, warm hearted, kind people. Then you get into.
Speaker 2: Your cars, you become fire.
Speaker 3: Breathing, psychopathic maniacs. Then you I'm terrified driving in Australia.
My friend says, in Germany they drive as fast as
they want on the Autobahn. We should have that in Australia.
Speaker 2: Said no, no, it shouldn't.
Speaker 3: You see, the Germans drive very expensive cars with robotic precision.
That's how it works. In Australia, You're descending from Anglows
and Celts with a few Asians and Mediterraneans thrown in
the consequences of which the roads are a cauldron of chaos.
You've got trainers on the inside doing one hundred k's
an hour, drug hand old truckies on the outside. Some
nearly dead grain nomad in the middle at thirds with
his face center weaving through all this is a pea
plater that's fitted a McClaren exhaust to his Toyota Starlet.
He's got five friends in the back, mooning people and
shouting homophobic slurs behind him as a teenage princess in
the dad's BMWX five to want to show that women
can multitask by driving, texting, put an ellipstick on in
the rearview mirror, and crashing the car all of the
same time. On the inside is some toothless battler whose
cars held together with gaffer tape and hope. Say to
that lot, go as fast as you want.
Speaker 2: Everybody that'll put a rap on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Meanwhile in Philadelphia this weekend for four to twenty weekend.
If that's your thing. Weeding Out the Stone is a
Sidequest Theater in Center City. The live show blends stand up,
improv and game show elements. Eight comedians competing while the
audience tries to spot the one person who's not high.
Host Alex Grubberd puts performers through a mix of quick
thinking challenges, strange prompts, and intentionally chaotic games. Design exposed
who's clearheaded? I love it? Some hits test memory and focus,
Others leaned into improv. A few are ridiculous on purpose.
Weeding Out the Stone to seven o'clock at the side
Quest Theater in Philadelphia tonight sounds like fun. Twenty bucks
at the door. You should go. And that is your
comedy news for today. Catch you tomorrow.