1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy News, 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,080 the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,519 comedy industry. It's WrestleMania weekend and Tony Hinchcliff is bringing 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,559 Kill Tony to WrestleMania. That's right. Tonight's following the conclusion 6 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:27,800 of Night one of WrestleMania forty two. Tony Hinchcliff will 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,079 have a lineup consisting of Tony Hinchcliff, current WWE superstars, 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,679 WWE legends, well known comedians, and surprise guests. It's Killed 9 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:41,840 Tony WrestleMania, nine pm Pacific at Dolby Live at Park MGM. 10 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:44,799 It's the second year in a row Tony has been 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,079 part of WrestleMania. Last year's underwhelming the Roast of WrestleMania 12 00:00:48,119 --> 00:00:52,079 featuring Tony Hinchcliff and Friends that featured comedy performances by 13 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,119 WWE stars like Paul Hayman, Our Truth the Miz and others. 14 00:00:56,159 --> 00:00:58,000 I don't I think they kind of buried that, if 15 00:00:58,039 --> 00:01:02,000 I'm remembering correctly. I feel like that was underwhelming, and 16 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,480 I'm not even sure they even shared any clips on that. 17 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,640 So this is a reboot. Just go down the middle 18 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,239 and do kill Tony should be a lot of fun. 19 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,560 Esquire caught up with Bow and Yang, who said, most 20 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,599 of my time on SNL, I never thought of myself 21 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,680 as a star, even after the Emmy nominations, because my 22 00:01:16,719 --> 00:01:19,000 point of origin in SNL was this national story on 23 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,000 cancel culture. That's right. Remember he was kind of paired 24 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,480 up in the news with one Sheen Gillis there for 25 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,840 a while, Lauren. Michael said to me, the last thing 26 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,439 I want you to do is be the poster child 27 00:01:28,439 --> 00:01:31,079 for racial harmony. It was a wonderful thing to imparton me, 28 00:01:31,159 --> 00:01:33,760 but I think I also took it too far. He said. 29 00:01:33,799 --> 00:01:36,239 I love Weekend Update. It's my favorite place on the show. 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,760 The other thing SNL taught me, if it bombs, that's okay. 31 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,280 We're gonna move on to the next one. If you 32 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,159 get it this time, there's another chance at bat. The 33 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,719 la Times caught up with Sheang Wang. His new special 34 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,560 is called Purple. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it, 35 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:50,760 but I didn't love it as much as I thought 36 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:53,079 I was gonna love it. But for Sheng Wang, purple 37 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:54,959 is more than a color. It's a way of being 38 00:01:55,519 --> 00:01:58,799 Ali Wong, longtime friend, director of both his specials, and 39 00:01:58,879 --> 00:02:02,079 kind of his comment guru here till The La Times 40 00:02:02,239 --> 00:02:05,840 comics universally adore Sheng because he's a true artist. He's 41 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:08,520 all about finding the perfect wording for a joke. He's 42 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,280 all about the process and the work, and does not 43 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:12,439 have a single thirsty bone in his body. I honestly 44 00:02:12,439 --> 00:02:14,879 can't believe he's even doing this La Times profile peace 45 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:16,960 because outside of stand up, he just wants to spend 46 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,400 his time exploring botanical gardens and eating great food with 47 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:22,080 the people he loves. He's my best friend in comedy 48 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,199 and the godfather to my children. My daughter wants through 49 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,080 away her and visil line by accident because it was 50 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,360 wrapped at a tissue and Shang spent about an hour 51 00:02:29,439 --> 00:02:32,199 digging it out of the trash. The La Times said 52 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,159 to Shang, a lot of people got introduced to you 53 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:36,479 in twenty twenty two when your first special, Sweet and 54 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,840 Juicy premiered. How's it going, I paraphrase their question a 55 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:41,719 little bit. Shang said, It's been very exciting. It's been 56 00:02:41,719 --> 00:02:43,960 a fun ride. I think when you first retire an 57 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,639 acta after the special comes out and then the act 58 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,039 is done. There's a sense of like, there's no way 59 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:49,000 I'm going to write another one. I'm feeling that now 60 00:02:49,039 --> 00:02:50,960 after Purple came out, there's supposed to be another one 61 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,400 after this at some point, and I feel so daunting 62 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,240 and big to me. But I just love doing the craft. 63 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:56,919 It's kind of a natural thing for me to notice 64 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,080 things and then eventually things fall into place. But it's 65 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:00,680 been a really fun journey from the first one of 66 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:02,240 the second one, because after the first one, all of 67 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,120 a sudden, there's people wanted to come out to the shows. 68 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:05,840 I'm selling tickets. That's all pretty new to me in 69 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:07,840 the scale of people coming out. So it's my first 70 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:09,960 major tour and I go around the country, all around 71 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,800 the world. I'm playing these theaters, I'm playing shows where 72 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,520 people come out to see me specifically. So that's all 73 00:03:14,599 --> 00:03:16,360 quite new, and it's very exciting because it kind of 74 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,240 makes you feel safer and for you to be more yourself. 75 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:19,479 So that's kind of been the last two and a 76 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,240 half years for me. Good instincts here by Shang. He said, 77 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,800 one thing I wanted to steer a clear way from 78 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:26,159 or just be wary of, is getting too like especially 79 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:28,840 with the outfit and the hair too. Culty and purple. 80 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:30,319 As far as the name goes, it was just a 81 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:31,879 fun name. I mean, I love the color. There's a 82 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,599 joke on the special that references a purple toothbrush, and 83 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:36,479 there's a reference to my aura based on the fact 84 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,759 that I'm cooking with shallots. There's just sort of a 85 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,199 big purplish themes throughout the special, and it also represents 86 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,039 strength and royalty, and to me, the second special, I 87 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,039 feel like there's ability of growth and leveling up. But 88 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,840 I thought purple would be a fun way to go 89 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:51,360 with the title. Chelsea Handler said, I'm here for women, 90 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,639 and I'm here for myself. I've never been very thirsty 91 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,280 for a man or a partner. You got to really 92 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,960 kind of get my attention to me, to pay attention 93 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,360 in a serious way, because otherwise it's a bunch of 94 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,319 casual and care, you know what I mean. I like that, 95 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,080 I like traveling a lot, I like cooking up with guys. 96 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:04,919 I don't like to get too serious. I don't want 97 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:06,520 someone in my space all the time. I'm just not 98 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,319 interested in that right now. She doesn't view marriage as 99 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,159 something she needs to or aspires too, adds at some 100 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:14,240 point I might go, Okay, I'm fifty years old, I 101 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:15,919 might as well go get married. What could go wrong 102 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,519 at this point? I don't care about marriage. I don't 103 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:20,639 care about that. I feel like that's a very patriarchal thing. Anyway, 104 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,920 You're kind of like a property a little bit. Former 105 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,839 Daily Show head writer and Colbert Rapport co creator Ben 106 00:04:25,959 --> 00:04:29,600 Carlin predicts how Stephen Colbert the Star trek Ruiner will 107 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,639 end his late night run. Carlin said, he gets to 108 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:35,519 go off, justifiably, not as a martyr, but certainly as 109 00:04:35,519 --> 00:04:37,319 someone who kind of stood his ground and stay true 110 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:39,439 to who he was. The fact that there's this built 111 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:41,160 in sunset for him, to me, it's kind of a 112 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:42,839 dream come true. But I don't know if he would 113 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:45,720 necessarily see it that way. Obviously, it's a little icky. 114 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,639 The way things are shifting right now doesn't feel good 115 00:04:47,639 --> 00:04:49,600 in terms of comedy and the political environment of where 116 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:52,120 these worlds used to feel somewhat a little more separated. 117 00:04:52,639 --> 00:04:55,439 I think Steven's capable of killing it with kindness. I 118 00:04:55,439 --> 00:04:57,240 think what he doesn't say is sometimes better than what 119 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:58,519 could be said. At the end of the day, they 120 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,160 paid him a ton of money, he got to do 121 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,600 a version of the show that he wanted to do 122 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,839 for a long time. Carlan said he prefers the host 123 00:05:04,879 --> 00:05:06,959 older work, explaining I have a soft spot for The 124 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,639 Cold Bert Report, not just because I was there at 125 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,519 the beginning, because it felt like it was really trying 126 00:05:10,519 --> 00:05:12,680 to do something different in the late night space. When 127 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,800 you go to these big institutional shows. Yeah, there's some 128 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:16,639 runa kind of fussed with the details a little bit, 129 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:18,680 but ultimately you're kind of a slave to the format. 130 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:22,560 Carlan recalled Comedy Central, saying of the Report, we don't 131 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,519 know if this thing is going to work long term. 132 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,399 We think it's really funny, but is that character of 133 00:05:26,399 --> 00:05:28,399 staying power? Are people just gonna get sick of it? 134 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,399 He's such a good man that he was allowed to 135 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:33,720 be bat crazy and say horrible things. The success of 136 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:35,959 that show existed in the tension between the absurdity of 137 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 the character and the reality of his radiating decency. There 138 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:41,759 was so much about it that felt kind of ahead 139 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,879 of its time. The moonstow Our Comedy Festival wrapping up today. 140 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,079 If you're down in Austin, some of the shows you 141 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:51,120 can consider Carolyn Ray six thirty at the Sunset Strip. 142 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:53,160 I like six thirty. That's great. I can go to 143 00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:55,639 a show and go to bed kind of early. Can 144 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:57,680 I tell you last week on Saturday Now, I was 145 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,040 up at six in the morning and and my daughter 146 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,319 had a soccer game which was streaming from the West Coast, 147 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,399 So I watched two soccer games, a bunch of TV, 148 00:06:08,079 --> 00:06:10,519 and then by like ten forty five, I had been 149 00:06:10,519 --> 00:06:12,240 sitting in front of the TV for like seven hours, 150 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,000 including the soccer games, and I was just like, I'm 151 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,480 just going to bed. I felt so old. It wasn't 152 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,279 even eleven o'clock on a Saturday. Nish Kumar is at 153 00:06:18,319 --> 00:06:21,600 the State Theater tonight at seven. That's stelling at Caps 154 00:06:21,639 --> 00:06:25,079 City at seven, Sarah Sherman and Meg Statler at the 155 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:27,480 Paramount at nine thirty. Looks like the Big show tonight. 156 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,759 Jay Jorden at ten thirty at Sunset Strip. Ben if 157 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:32,800 you want to head it over to Antone's for the 158 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,040 closing night party, that's at eleven o'clock. And that's a 159 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,920 rap on this year's Moontwer Comedy Festival. And let's check 160 00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:41,879 in one last time with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 161 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:44,480 which wraps up on the nineteenth, which is tomorrow, but 162 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,399 probably today. If you are in Melbourne, and if you're 163 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:48,839 not on your way to Melbourne, you're not going to 164 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,800 make either of these shows. Let me play some clips 165 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,759 for you. Daniel Connell's the show is called Prairie Dog. 166 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: I'll tell you about a serious relationship on him in 167 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:57,040 at the moment. Give us a chiev you in a 168 00:06:57,079 --> 00:07:00,759 serious relationship, A five papal cool. I'm in a serious 169 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:03,160 fun with my wife at the moment. That's taken a 170 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,399 long right, We've been together for thirteen years. My wife 171 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:08,639 and I, well, at the point of our relationship, we're 172 00:07:08,639 --> 00:07:12,079 starting to lose the spice in the bedroom, to be honest. Yeah, 173 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:14,560 anybody else doing that? Yeah? I never believed it when 174 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,040 I was a kid. It does happen. I never believed 175 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,199 it when I was a kid. My AUNTI used to 176 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:21,519 tell me that. But it's true. It does happen. It happens. 177 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:22,199 Speaker 2: Yeah. 178 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: Get a couple of West Coast callers into it and 179 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:29,879 she tell us everything in your kids, my wife and 180 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,800 I ever resorted to doing the role play in the bedroom. 181 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:32,839 Anybody else doing the role play? 182 00:07:32,879 --> 00:07:33,439 Speaker 2: Give us a cheer? 183 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: All right? No, worries we're doing the role play. Look, 184 00:07:37,759 --> 00:07:39,279 sometimes I'll get my wife to dress up as a 185 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:44,800 famous Australian sporting hero gets me going. Sometimes she'll get 186 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,519 me to play the role of a man who moves 187 00:07:46,519 --> 00:07:47,600 into a motel for a month. 188 00:07:51,199 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun. And one more. Jeff 189 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,759 Green's show was called Jeff Jokes. 190 00:07:55,839 --> 00:07:58,759 Speaker 3: Lovely to be in the beautiful city of Melbourne with 191 00:07:58,879 --> 00:08:03,199 your trams and your pole the weather because I love 192 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,839 the anonymis anomalies of Australia, because Australia's are dichotomy. Yeah, 193 00:08:07,839 --> 00:08:09,600 I don't know what that means, but it sounds impressive 194 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,680 when you say it. Australia's a dichotomy. What do you mean, 195 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,319 I'm leaving now, No tell us what you mean. Because 196 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,240 you're lovely, warm hearted, kind people. Then you get into. 197 00:08:19,079 --> 00:08:20,639 Speaker 2: Your cars, you become fire. 198 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 3: Breathing, psychopathic maniacs. Then you I'm terrified driving in Australia. 199 00:08:25,199 --> 00:08:27,600 My friend says, in Germany they drive as fast as 200 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,439 they want on the Autobahn. We should have that in Australia. 201 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 2: Said no, no, it shouldn't. 202 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 3: You see, the Germans drive very expensive cars with robotic precision. 203 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:42,879 That's how it works. In Australia, You're descending from Anglows 204 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:46,759 and Celts with a few Asians and Mediterraneans thrown in 205 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,320 the consequences of which the roads are a cauldron of chaos. 206 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,919 You've got trainers on the inside doing one hundred k's 207 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,200 an hour, drug hand old truckies on the outside. Some 208 00:08:57,399 --> 00:09:01,320 nearly dead grain nomad in the middle at thirds with 209 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:06,480 his face center weaving through all this is a pea 210 00:09:06,519 --> 00:09:10,120 plater that's fitted a McClaren exhaust to his Toyota Starlet. 211 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,039 He's got five friends in the back, mooning people and 212 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:20,879 shouting homophobic slurs behind him as a teenage princess in 213 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:23,600 the dad's BMWX five to want to show that women 214 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:27,320 can multitask by driving, texting, put an ellipstick on in 215 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,840 the rearview mirror, and crashing the car all of the 216 00:09:29,879 --> 00:09:34,519 same time. On the inside is some toothless battler whose 217 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,120 cars held together with gaffer tape and hope. Say to 218 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,399 that lot, go as fast as you want. 219 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 2: Everybody that'll put a rap on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 220 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,200 Meanwhile in Philadelphia this weekend for four to twenty weekend. 221 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,480 If that's your thing. Weeding Out the Stone is a 222 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,480 Sidequest Theater in Center City. The live show blends stand up, 223 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,600 improv and game show elements. Eight comedians competing while the 224 00:09:59,639 --> 00:10:02,399 audience tries to spot the one person who's not high. 225 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,840 Host Alex Grubberd puts performers through a mix of quick 226 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:10,360 thinking challenges, strange prompts, and intentionally chaotic games. Design exposed 227 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,399 who's clearheaded? I love it? Some hits test memory and focus, 228 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:16,679 Others leaned into improv. A few are ridiculous on purpose. 229 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,639 Weeding Out the Stone to seven o'clock at the side 230 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,919 Quest Theater in Philadelphia tonight sounds like fun. Twenty bucks 231 00:10:22,919 --> 00:10:24,679 at the door. You should go. And that is your 232 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,080 comedy news for today. Catch you tomorrow.