Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello Chunny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: Happy Monday. Bill Maherr maybe a professional comedian, but he
Speaker 1: acknowledged that Malcolm McDowell is a better comic actor than
Speaker 1: he has. Mar said, great actors do great with comedy
Speaker 1: because they play the reality of the situation. If it's
Speaker 1: written well, that's enough to get the laugh. Mar says
Speaker 1: of himself, I was just a guy who knew how
Speaker 1: to get a laugh, as a comic does. I could
Speaker 1: do sitcoms and light comedy. McDowell got it. Mar says
Speaker 1: as an actor, Mar was like Seinfeld, noting that the
Speaker 1: show Seinfeld was brilliantly written. But as for Jerry's acting,
Speaker 1: he was even worse than me. He'd crack up in
Speaker 1: his own scenes and you could see it on his face.
Speaker 1: McDowell's that's why we loved him. Mars said. Part of
Speaker 1: the charm was the guy was like, I'm not even
Speaker 1: going to pretend to be an actor. They then talked
Speaker 1: about Gary Shanling said Gary was a great guy, but added, look,
Speaker 1: you can only get so close to Shandling. McDowell said,
Speaker 1: isn't it the same with you? Though? Bill maher the
Speaker 1: same with me, Mar said, not me. I let lots
Speaker 1: of people in as far as you go. Speaking of Seinfeld,
Speaker 1: Patton Oswald appeared in the nineteen ninety four Seinfeld episode
Speaker 1: of The Couch. He played an employee of the video
Speaker 1: store where George tries to rent the movie adaptation of
Speaker 1: Truman Capodi's Breakfast to Tiffany's Oswalt's character clerk informs George
Speaker 1: the tape has been rented and refuses George's request to
Speaker 1: call up the renter and ask them to return it.
Speaker 1: Patton explains it was his first acting gig ever. Larry
Speaker 1: David later told him why he was cast on the show. Apparently,
Speaker 1: during his audition, Patten's customer service instincts kicked in. He
Speaker 1: tells the story. I didn't realize he did this, but
Speaker 1: I subconsciously started looking around for what other employee can
Speaker 1: I pass this guy on to? Because I'd worked in
Speaker 1: retail for so many years, and that's what you do
Speaker 1: when you have a bad customer, You say, who do
Speaker 1: I give this guy to? And Larry David thought, oh,
Speaker 1: I love that he didn't get rich off a Seinfeld.
Speaker 1: He says, it got me my after membership, but then
Speaker 1: the money I made went right in to pay my
Speaker 1: after fee. It had no impact financially or theme wise.
Speaker 1: The Montreal Cozette spoke to Dane Cook. A lot of
Speaker 1: people from the Dane Cook generation have gotten out of comedy.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who were new when
Speaker 1: I started at Serius XM are no longer doing it.
Speaker 1: It's so weird to me. Dane says, don't ever believe
Speaker 1: a comedian who says they're leaving because they want to.
Speaker 1: I don't believe any comic is ever happy about putting
Speaker 1: down their mic. I think there's something about a comedian
Speaker 1: always wanting to observe and a report and a lash
Speaker 1: out and say the thing that everyone else is scared
Speaker 1: to say. I always want to see a comedian keep
Speaker 1: that spike in their hands. That's what I want to
Speaker 1: continue doing for the next phase of my comedy career.
Speaker 1: Comedy has gotten easier in the last year or two,
Speaker 1: especially in the States. Comedy went around the corner from
Speaker 1: utter cancelation for saying something'sposedly out of bounds to audiences
Speaker 1: deciding they don't want homogenized crap anymore, they want a
Speaker 1: little danger. I actually think we're in a comedy resurgence.
Speaker 1: Now I'm hearing comic saying anything and everything and pushing
Speaker 1: the limits a little bit more. It's not about trying
Speaker 1: to break the law. It's about bringing that little ding boy.
Speaker 1: I hope we get the danisance here. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. Pete Corielly, friend of mine. He spoke to
Speaker 1: the digital colonel. No, there's no digital kernel. Again. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I choose not to make the edit. What would the
Speaker 1: digital colonel be? It's the digital journal, to which Pete
Speaker 1: Corioley had advice for aspiring young comics and said, do
Speaker 1: I have a I do have a half, asked Pete Corioley,
Speaker 1: But I don't feel like doing it. I basically have
Speaker 1: to get down and say man like, hey, what's up man?
Speaker 1: Pete said, you have to have such an incredible passion
Speaker 1: to do this. If you don't love doing it, don't
Speaker 1: look for success. The commitments through the roof and the
Speaker 1: rejection is heavy. The people that have made it, including myself,
Speaker 1: cannot see a life without doing it. If you don't
Speaker 1: feel that way about it, do something else. It's a calling. Also,
Speaker 1: talk about your life because nobody else can steal that.
Speaker 1: Don't curse because it handcuffs you, even though I curse
Speaker 1: all the time, And then Pete laughed at that he
Speaker 1: does curse all the time. Sebastian Maniscalco he does a
Speaker 1: podcast with the aforementioned Pete Corioley. He's on a forty
Speaker 1: seven city tour called it Ain't Right, and he's added
Speaker 1: bells and whistles for arena crowd. Sebastian says, I've always
Speaker 1: liked being a showman. I grew up with lots of
Speaker 1: bells and whistles when it came to going shows like
Speaker 1: Motley Crupser Michael Jackson, so I always loved the spectacle
Speaker 1: of it. Although this is not music, I not only
Speaker 1: wanted to give the people a night of laughter, but
Speaker 1: something to look at. Otsco at Kotska down in Australia.
Speaker 1: The Sydney Morning Harold to caught up with her. They write,
Speaker 1: She's known for a lot of things. An appearance. Her
Speaker 1: ink black razor sharp bowl cut, perfected in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: is a throwback to the hairstyle she had as a
Speaker 1: child in Japan. When she performs live, fans often turn
Speaker 1: up wearing bowlcut tribute weeks. She says, comedy really is
Speaker 1: a cult and then says I'm just kidding. The Sydney
Speaker 1: Morning Harold was curious, is it a wig? She says, no,
Speaker 1: I'm embracing the weirdo. That's what's happening. My main motivation
Speaker 1: in performing and doing comedy is for people to not
Speaker 1: feel alone anymore. A big part of it is to
Speaker 1: talk about things that are hard to talk about, like
Speaker 1: mental illness. It's also about making people laugh a lot.
Speaker 1: I was a very quiet kid. I was very shy
Speaker 1: for the most part, but I was learning at home
Speaker 1: the way people communicate comedically. It was very animated. I
Speaker 1: didn't dare try that at school, though at school you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be cool. Wasn't until years later, after i'd
Speaker 1: and practicing in the comfort and privacy in my home
Speaker 1: that I finally came out and try to be funny.
Speaker 1: At age seventeen, a fellow church goer gave her a
Speaker 1: DVD copy of Margaret Show's two thousand and two comedy
Speaker 1: special Margaret Show Notorious Show. Osco said, I've never heard
Speaker 1: of stand up comedy. I had no idea it was
Speaker 1: even a job. In college, a boyfriend suggested she try it.
Speaker 1: She did some open mics eventually got an HBO comedy special.
Speaker 1: She says, when you're trying to find your voice, you're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who you are, you should go
Speaker 1: for the thing that you've been trying to run away
Speaker 1: from the most, because it's possible you're in denial of
Speaker 1: who you really are. I was afraid to wear bright
Speaker 1: colors and stand out and rock this haircut that I
Speaker 1: think is actually very artful in chic and I love,
Speaker 1: but as a kid, you're made fun of for it.
Speaker 1: So now I'm finally embracing all the things that made
Speaker 1: me feel like fake or an outsider the things that
Speaker 1: actually make me feel good. It was during a pandemic
Speaker 1: I really embraced this aircut, my brand of comedy, the
Speaker 1: way a joke, and finally talking about my mom's mental illness.
Speaker 1: It took the world to shut down and being forced
Speaker 1: to look inward. I'm not academic, I'm not organized. I'm
Speaker 1: very unapologetically someone who makes mistakes and I have to
Speaker 1: fail to learn. Check out her a special. She is fantastic.
Speaker 1: She's one of my favorites. I like her a lot.
Speaker 1: Her new show Full Grown is about figuring out what
Speaker 1: being an adult is Otsko says it's sillier and funnier
Speaker 1: than The Intruder because it's exploring an even deeper side
Speaker 1: of me. It's talking about how you make friends as
Speaker 1: an adult. It's about me and my husband and my
Speaker 1: abilities as a human person. It's about realizing that maybe
Speaker 1: you'll never be fully grown. The more people talk, the
Speaker 1: more stories are out there, the more people feel seen.
Speaker 1: It's finding your community. We're all not normal. My fans
Speaker 1: are fellow weirdos, and I love them. Deadline asked Sam Morrel.
Speaker 1: Unlike many comics, you've had the backing of major distributors
Speaker 1: for most of your specials, first with Comedy Central, now
Speaker 1: Netflix and Amazon. Sam said, God bless Comedy Central for
Speaker 1: having interest in me, but I may as well have
Speaker 1: flushed my special down the toilet with how many people
Speaker 1: saw it. You do feel pretty discouraged when you work
Speaker 1: that hard in your first hour and it's like nowhere
Speaker 1: people couldn't even watch it. That drove me crazy. The
Speaker 1: first half hour I thought was really good, so I
Speaker 1: thought it was about time. In my mind, I wasn't like, Wow,
Speaker 1: they gave out a bunch and I thought I should
Speaker 1: have gotten one. Then for the second Hour. I only
Speaker 1: got it because Amy Schumer produced it. I don't think
Speaker 1: they would have given me an hour otherwise. And same
Speaker 1: goes for Mark Norman. I don't think they were particularly
Speaker 1: just sing us until we had that, and then the
Speaker 1: next one I put on their YouTube, so I don't
Speaker 1: feel like I had their support. As for Netflix, I
Speaker 1: was pretty damn late on Netflix too. I don't think
Speaker 1: I was on any of them early. With Amazon, they
Speaker 1: actually gave me a respectable money offer, and for me,
Speaker 1: I had made enough specials on a budget. I was like,
Speaker 1: I want this to look awesome. These things live forever,
Speaker 1: and I put so much work into them. I want
Speaker 1: the set design and the crew to really reflect that,
Speaker 1: and I thought they did a great job. Deadline followed
Speaker 1: up asking about the difference between that kind of thing
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Sam said, I couldn't spend what I spent
Speaker 1: on this on YouTube. It would have been too much money.
Speaker 1: My YouTube one is very minimalist and simplistic, and I
Speaker 1: think it works for it. But also I think now
Speaker 1: YouTube is oversaturated. Boy, we're hearing a lot of that lately, right.
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned a story like that yesterday and
Speaker 1: maybe one last week too. Sam says, I think YouTube
Speaker 1: is oversaturated. I think there's always going to be problems.
Speaker 1: Joe List got demonetized on YouTube. Really why Joe List
Speaker 1: said it? Fahim Onwar. I mean, it's pretty fed up
Speaker 1: that social media platform have this playbook that they keep changing.
Speaker 1: I can't say I believe he's saying the sea word here.
Speaker 1: I can't say the sea word question mark from Johnny Mack.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I want to, but I'm writing for
Speaker 1: the algorithm. You're now policing language, and I think it's
Speaker 1: really dangerous for comedy and comedy specials. That upsets me.
Speaker 1: That's the way we're going with social media. They're policing
Speaker 1: more and more language because that's where the ad sale
Speaker 1: dollars are, and before you know, it's going to be
Speaker 1: worse than bleeping fallon Wow, a dig at Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 1: The Toronto Guardian spoke to comedian Most CineMo. How would
Speaker 1: you describe your comedy style? Most said fierce, brave, smart, philosophical,
Speaker 1: intelligent and human. My bad. No, I'm still very much
Speaker 1: a newborn baby when it comes to all this. But
Speaker 1: if I had to describe my style right now, I'd
Speaker 1: say I try to be relatable, very personal for the
Speaker 1: most part, and happy vibes. I might start getting goofy
Speaker 1: and more confusing as the years go by. I feel
Speaker 1: it coming. You never know, though, I never want to
Speaker 1: force anything. Who are your influences, he says, Kevin Hart,
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle, Sheen Gillison, maybe even Chris Dalia. Be careful
Speaker 1: not loss on there. Don't get two influenced. Google it.
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite comedian? Growing up? Kevin Hart was the
Speaker 1: one who got me to know this. If Kevin Hart
Speaker 1: does not exist, then I don't know if i'd be
Speaker 1: here right now. I also love Dave Chappelle and Bill
Speaker 1: Burr pretty early on. Who's your favorite comedian now? Dave Chapelle,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, Louis ck, Tony Roberts, Sebastian, Manascalco. Those are
Speaker 1: my top five personal favorites of all time in that order. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's read it again. Chappelle, Hart, ck Tony, Roberts, Sebastian.
Speaker 1: But I love so many comedians. Joe List, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: is the best comedian on earth at this moment. Really,
Speaker 1: Joe List. A lot of Joe List mentions today. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was demonetized. I heard, and that's your comedy news
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