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comedy news. NETFLX is announced we're getting season two of
Kevin Hart's Funny AF with Kevin Hart. I personally think
that's good news as comedy competitions go. That was a
good version of one. Kevin Hart will return as host,
which is good because it's called Funny AF with Kevin Hart.
Also good news for the crew. The show is up
for Outstanding Reality Competition Program in the Emmys. Hart is
also up for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality
Competition Program. You won't get season two until twenty twenty seven.
Chris Tucker wants us to know that he's been celibate.
I know you were like wondering. You woke up this morning.
You're like, I wonder if Chris Tucker's celibate. Well, the
answer is yes. During a recent stand up performance in
Las Vegas, Chris Tucker chose to tell the audience he's
been celibate from more than three years as he focuses
on finding lasting love and marriage. Tucker said, well, I'm celibate.
I've been celibate for three years, but I'm really trying
to get married. I give it to the love this time.
That got a big laugh. Tucker then said, I'm serious.
No one believes me. According to Tucker, even members of
his family didn't believe him. He said of his niece,
she believes in aliens, but she don't believe I did that.
Mark Marin said that Panic is the best special I've
ever done. The last three specials are really culmination of
the work that have done over the last forty years
in terms of craft, ideas and things I like to
talk about. There was a holistic approach to the material
that integrated nicely with me moving through things and kind
of repairing myself. The whole production was kind of built
around that idea, which is very poetic and I think
elevated the special a lot. We live in a time
when a lot of comedy specials aren't that special because
there are so many of them, but we were able
to bring it all together with this. There's definitely an
arc in there. Look, it took me two years to
really get that set up and together because I do
like to devi it through line and right up to
a day or two before recording. I decided to change
the tone of the opening bit because I didn't want
to come out with the vibe of being stride and
herself righteous. I wanted to bring everybody in, not alienate
them by posturing when I'm doing is special. I'm usually
working with ninety minutes material and I try to get
it down like seventy three minutes. That's my number, you know.
So I had two weeks to get panicked down to
seventy three minutes, and all of a sudden, I'm pulling
pieces out and fitting things together differently. You always shoot
two versions, and both shows I landed right at seventy
three minutes with no clock. Mark was asked by golderby
dot com if young comics ask him for advice. Mark said,
I don't feel like I'm being sought out for advice.
I think a lot of younger comics may have gleaned
a lot from the podcast. I know it did help
people because we talked about it. They're also up against
a different business than what I was up against. I
don't want to talk about how I feel about what's
necessary required to be a great comic, or trace how
you're on stage and build on that, but I really
can't speak to the business side of things. I think
the platform business is lowering the bar. It's about creating
viral moments for popularity, and that doesn't necessarily mean the
quality of what you're doing is great or that you're
fundamentally talented or charismatic. Also think it makes comedy less
special because it seems like everybody's going to take a
shot at it. If you're an old timer, you believe
it's a special type of art that starts a to
diminish in quality in that kind of environment. I mean,
the thought that I put into a special like Panicked
wouldn't be required anymore. And in that case, what do
we really have? Everything becomes disposable in an hour or two,
and I like doing specials at last with a certain degree.
Deadline caught up with Jeff Ross. They were curious how
roast culture has changed since Comedy Central got into the
roast game. Deadline said, ros have become a global phenomenon
now that Netflix has become the de facto home for them.
Ross said, I like that you say that they're the
home of roasting. That'll make them feel good because that's
something they've tried to make happen and have now made happen.
I like the size and scope of the roast. Yeah,
there's certain things from the old days that I missed,
but mostly that's nostalgia. It's sort of this niche thing
on Comedy Central. Deadline jumped in and said the Comedy
Central Rose certainly had a different feeling. Ross said, yeah,
I got that, but it was also pretty body and
a times controversial. I think it's a spectacle now because
we don't have the White House Correspondence Dinner anymore, where
comedians are roasting the presidents speaking truth to power, free speech.
The late night shows are getting dinged. I think the
Roast it's like the Purge once every year or two.
Anything goes that. If you don't like a joke, there's
another one coming in twenty seconds. The jokes permitted at
the roast is like no other ship. Oh and the
fact that it's up there now. Last year we got
nominated at the Emmys, with the Oscars, the Tony's, the Grammys,
and the Super Bowl halftime show. So the Roast now,
you can't argue about the cultural relevance. Tens of millions
people watched it, so it's providing a service. Deadline said
that the roasts are becoming an engine for minting comedy stores.
They mentioned specifically Nicky Glazer. Has that been cool to see?
Jeff Ros said, it's the best. It just delights me
to no end. To note that the roast is like
this launching pad. Everybody who did this Kevin Hart roast
is selling out now wherever they go. Everyone's doing each
other's podcasts, and seeing how Nicky is soaring. It just
fills me with joy. It really does. And this is
an interesting note. Deadline is a fan of bumping mics
with David tell could we get more episodes? Jeff Ross said,
it's funny you said that. I have to be careful
because Dave is so grumpy. But last night we stopped
by the comedy seller and went up together for twenty
minutes and he had me laughing so hard I was
falling on the floor. So I want to do it. It's
up to Dave. Robbie Hoffman tells people that Robbie Hoffman
has not always been known as Robbie Hoffman. Someone in
show biziness changed their name, says Johnny Mack, whose real
name is John McDermott, but it's easier to say Johnny Meck.
No way. Apparently, Robbie was on the god Works podcast
and explained, I'm born the name Rifka Sarah, so obviously
when I got into comedy, Rifk is a very difficult
name for comedians and people to bring me up, is it?
I mean, it's not my name, but I don't know.
But uh, all right, we're having a great show here.
Let's keep things moving. Give it up for Rifka Sarah.
I mean, no, you can't just do that. I mean,
I don't care. Robbie Hoffman said, I'm just trying to
do open mic. So when I look for a stage name,
I wanted something familial. I just didn't want to change
my r initial and I went with Robbie. It just
felt like a family name. But my mother was horrified.
My mother called me and she goes, it's a beautiful
Jewish name, Rifka. I'm not calling you, Robbie. Rifke is
such a beautiful name. What are you ashamed? I said, Ma,
you think with three seconds of me being on stage,
they're gonna be like, I wonder if she's Catholic. That
is hilarious. Janelle James is developing a new comedy series
at Hulu. It's titled Rock City. In Rock City, we
would follow a woman, presumably Janelle James, who returns to
her hometown in the Virgin Islands after she inherits a
local tourist trap from her estranged father. According to the
log line, she quickly realizes that she's been left much
more than a simple beachfront bar and grill. Isn't that
kind of the first act of the Margueritaville Musical? Alrighty?
Remember in the finale of The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert by the way, do you miss the show? Do
you do? You? No? Really do you? You don't? You
moved on? But anyway, I remember when he played the
Linus and Lucy composition and made a joke that CBS
was going to have to pay for it. Well, apparently
CBS is going to pay for it, but the Lee
Mendelssohn Film Productions Company said they will donate the proceeds
to Chef jose Andre's World Central Kitchen, which is a
nonprofit organization that provides meals throughout the globe during various crisses.
In the case of the Late Show incident, Lee Mendelssohn
Film's production chairman, Jason Mendelssohn noted LMFP found the music's
use on the Late Show funny and entertaining, and is
proud to support World Central Kitchen's mission. A principal goal
of our enforcement actions is to educate individuals, businesses, and
government entities about the needs to obtain written license agreements
to use music in a commercial setting. And from The
Toronto Guardian, they caught up with comedian Beta Judaki Bita.
How would you describe your comedy style? She said, people
have told me my style is playful, silly, surprising, dark
and maybe too honest. Favorite shows growing up Seinfeld, The
Simpson and Friends. Did I say friends? I did? Didn't
I now I could edit that out, but I said friends?
What's friends? Friends? Is? That's not even a queen's accent? Friends?
I don't know. Her favorite shows were Seinfeld, The Simpsons
and Friends. Beta says, I think I based a lot
of my personality slash early comedic choices on Lisa Kudro.
Favorite comedian now she listed Tignisaro, Devergi, Giovanni, Robin Tran
and Kate Burlant. Pre show ritual nervously drink too much
water at pea a lot. I'll try to watch the
comics before me, so I understand the inside jokes that
have already been made with the audience. That's smart. That
is your comedy news on a summer Sunday. You can
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