Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey man, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. John Mulaney, in that Hollywood Reporter roundtable
Speaker 1: was asked what would a John Mulaney type be if
Speaker 1: someone were casting a John Mullini type. M'lanie said, when
Speaker 1: it has come up, it means like a gentle, lilliss,
Speaker 1: soulless wooden boy who's fast on his feet. John adds,
Speaker 1: I'm much less nerdy than people think. Whatever that means,
Speaker 1: I feel a little more weight in my feet when
Speaker 1: I walk around. Eliza Selessinger had her proverbial car waxed
Speaker 1: by Billboard. There is just a massive campaign going on
Speaker 1: trying to get her an Emmy. Billboard said, I was
Speaker 1: blown away when I learned you don't write out your
Speaker 1: jokes except for a few key words. Have you always
Speaker 1: had that ability, Eliza said, I guess so. I never
Speaker 1: questioned it or thought about it. It's only in the
Speaker 1: last few years that I've been asked about it. I
Speaker 1: figured everybody had a little list of words. I know,
Speaker 1: people like Joan Rivers had a whole card catalog, but
Speaker 1: what I do as ephemeral. I'll talk about Joe and
Speaker 1: I worked with her and her radio show in two
Speaker 1: thousand and one, sit there with two writers. There was
Speaker 1: like the young guy who would have the hip references
Speaker 1: and the older, more established guy. Joan was amazing because
Speaker 1: these guys would write down jokes on a card, pass
Speaker 1: them to Joan and she would deliver them in her style,
Speaker 1: in her voice. And you know, some of the younger references,
Speaker 1: she might not even have known what the reference meant,
Speaker 1: but she knew how to tell a joke and would
Speaker 1: nail it. It was really great she and you know
Speaker 1: every night there were a ton of index cards which
Speaker 1: we threw out, and here twenty five years later on
Speaker 1: the fly, I'm thinking, oh, I probably should have taken
Speaker 1: those out of the garbage. That would have been pretty valua.
Speaker 1: But I have now, twenty five years later, not that
Speaker 1: I'd sell them. I would just donate them to the
Speaker 1: Comedy Museum. But anyway, that was the thing that happened
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one. Eliza said, I'm only
Speaker 1: using the material for about a year, and anything that
Speaker 1: I don't use gets jotted down as a word or
Speaker 1: a sentence or two. I don't have a library, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's stupid. Maybe I forget punch lines that I
Speaker 1: could have used. I have a famous bit among my friends.
Speaker 1: It's about Las Vegas. I did it on the road
Speaker 1: for a year. I never wrote it down to this day.
Speaker 1: My husband's like, why don't you do your Vegas bit?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I can't I remember it. So after
Speaker 1: a lie on random friends and my husband to remind me,
Speaker 1: what was that I said about curly irons by the pool. Also,
Speaker 1: I write so much material. I believe the good things
Speaker 1: stick when I'm creating that hour. To me, that's the
Speaker 1: litmus test. It's also a great way to fight off Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: It's normal to do with joke two thousand times and
Speaker 1: then on the two thousand and first time, you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: what was the punchline? But for me, that's where the
Speaker 1: craft and practice come in. I go up a lot,
Speaker 1: and I love doing it. And I'm always running and
Speaker 1: rerunning and fine tuning. Because when I do my special
Speaker 1: or go out on the road and people spend a
Speaker 1: lot of money to see me, I want them to
Speaker 1: see a polished product, not me sifting through a notebook
Speaker 1: or being drunk on stage. More from the Emmy campaign
Speaker 1: billboard was like your production value is a polished and
Speaker 1: sophisticated Eliza said, I appreciate that Homi old school. I
Speaker 1: like a shiny floor. I like a high production value.
Speaker 1: Low fi production for sure has its place, and we'll
Speaker 1: live in a world where people are getting famous off
Speaker 1: at TikTok clip from the Giggle Hut. But there's something
Speaker 1: special about getting to create a special I agree there.
Speaker 1: I like the show business of it all. I want
Speaker 1: people to feel like they're watching something of quality, and
Speaker 1: I believe what I create is of quality. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: if you listen to this podcast, I don't have to
Speaker 1: tell you who the King of comedy is. You know
Speaker 1: who the King of comedy is. Obviously, the King of
Speaker 1: comedy is Jack Black, because he's going to receive the
Speaker 1: King of Comedy Award at the twenty twenty five Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: Kid's Choice Awards. Jack Black is the second person to
Speaker 1: receive the award King of Comedy. Now, obviously, who would
Speaker 1: be the other king of comedy if not Jack Black?
Speaker 1: Only one name comes to mind, the Great, hilarious, all
Speaker 1: his movies, fantastic, his act is, and stupid at all.
Speaker 1: The King of comedy Adam Sandler. Of course, given the
Speaker 1: honor back in twenty twenty three. Jack Black will accept
Speaker 1: the Silver Blimp on stage on June twenty first. I
Speaker 1: know you're looking forward to this. It'll be on Nickelodeon teen,
Speaker 1: Nick Nicktoons, Nick Junior, MTV two who apparently still exists,
Speaker 1: and CMT eight Eastern five Pacific. Put it on your calendar.
Speaker 1: So Jack Black the King of Comedy. But if you
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast every day, I don't have to
Speaker 1: tell you who the Queen of Comedy is, do I know?
Speaker 1: Of course not say it with me some more, of
Speaker 1: course him more the Queen of Comedy. I got this
Speaker 1: press release here from the upcoming because they're Funny DC
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival, and they included this paragraph. Hell does the
Speaker 1: Queen of Comedy some more? Celebrated for razor sharp wit,
Speaker 1: trailblazing stand up specials, and unforgettable roles in films such
Speaker 1: as Friday Afternext and Soul Playing. Anyway, the Queen of
Speaker 1: Comedy Samoora and Jay Farrow or the headlining acts at
Speaker 1: the third annual. Because they're Funny DC Comedy Festival. It
Speaker 1: is not until October, but they've had a pretty nice
Speaker 1: lineup the previous two years, so looking forward to that one.
Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan spoke a little more about her upcoming sitcom Leanne.
Speaker 1: In Leanne. Leanne Morgan plays Leanne, whose life is upended
Speaker 1: when her husband of thirty three years leaves her for
Speaker 1: another woman. Starting over when you're a grandmother and in
Speaker 1: menopause isn't exactly what she had in mind, but with
Speaker 1: the help of her family, she will navigate this new
Speaker 1: chapter with grace, dignity, and jello salad comedy writing rule
Speaker 1: of three. But she wants people to understand this is fiction.
Speaker 1: She explains, The premise is not based on my real life.
Speaker 1: It's based on my comedy, but it would be too
Speaker 1: weird to be about me and real life husband Chuck
Speaker 1: Morgan and my real children. It was Chucklriie that came
Speaker 1: up with the premise of my husband wants a divorce
Speaker 1: and does it over email and has had an affair
Speaker 1: with a younger woman. Here, I am a grandmother. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, I just did all that. Tim Daly plays
Speaker 1: her new love interest in the show, and she had
Speaker 1: to kiss him, something she asked her real life husband
Speaker 1: about beforehand. She explained, I had to say to you
Speaker 1: real life husband, Chuck Morgan. I'm kissing Tim daily in
Speaker 1: this episode, and I go, does that bother you? Leanne
Speaker 1: said it doesn't bother her husband because Chuck Morgan wants
Speaker 1: me to make money. Roseanne told Fox News Digital about
Speaker 1: having an accident with a tractor that left her with
Speaker 1: quote several injuries recently while working on her hill country ranch.
Speaker 1: I had this one tree, I guess it was two
Speaker 1: nights ago. I knocked at it and a big old
Speaker 1: branch fell right on my head and trapped me in
Speaker 1: my tractor. Roseanne said. It took an hour to move
Speaker 1: the tree branch, which she described as wingh one hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm seventy two years old, but
Speaker 1: I just said, my mighty prayers always work. I said,
Speaker 1: come on, God, I'm seventy two years old, and I
Speaker 1: just want to be able to harness all this strong
Speaker 1: Russian energy. And I know he's still having me if
Speaker 1: you're with me, And then I flipped it. She told
Speaker 1: Fox News. The one drawback from the artwork is I
Speaker 1: don't clear the trees as good as I should, and
Speaker 1: I'm always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and
Speaker 1: it always hits me on the head. Okay. Her son
Speaker 1: told US magazine that Roseanne splits her time between Sexist
Speaker 1: and Palm Beach, Florida. She's been busy writing scripts and
Speaker 1: that she may make a return to TV. The Television
Speaker 1: Academy has revealed the Hall of Fame class of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, many people getting in, including Macpacker, Henry Winkler,
Speaker 1: and Conan O'Brien. The twenty seventh Hall of Fame class
Speaker 1: will be inducted in LA on August sixteenth. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: those guys and the others. Brett Goldstein caught up with
Speaker 1: the rap and said he's been a comedian for like
Speaker 1: two decades, but I've done seventeen years of stand up
Speaker 1: and there's no proof I could be lying. I've always
Speaker 1: resisted filming. I never put stuff I did online. It's
Speaker 1: about the live experience, and I feel that quite strongly.
Speaker 1: There's a pack to make with the audience, which I love.
Speaker 1: The exchange happens at a room with an audience, and
Speaker 1: when you take that out of context and stick it
Speaker 1: on the internet for people to weigh in on, I
Speaker 1: sort of think, yeah, this wasn't for you, It was
Speaker 1: for the room and where we did it. He had
Speaker 1: that pretty darn good HBO special recently, and he said
Speaker 1: it became a challenge of how do you make it
Speaker 1: work on screen? I know it worked in the room,
Speaker 1: but how do you edit stand up? How do you
Speaker 1: frame it? Where do you cut into a joke? Thank
Speaker 1: God I work with brilliant people who knew what they
Speaker 1: were doing, because I was constantly like, how do we
Speaker 1: make sure this is funny on screen? I don't know
Speaker 1: what people were expecting when they came to see me.
Speaker 1: It amazed me that they bought tickets not knowing me
Speaker 1: as a stand up. I think it probably worked in
Speaker 1: my favorite because their expectations must have been pretty low.
Speaker 1: Maybe they thought I was going to come out and
Speaker 1: kick a ball and say f off and leave and
Speaker 1: that would be enough. But instead I came out and
Speaker 1: did stand up as myself. In a way, it's helpful
Speaker 1: because I've promised them nothing and their expectations are low,
Speaker 1: so when I'm a competent stand up, it seem like
Speaker 1: I'm really good. Bob oden Kirk is starting to wrap
Speaker 1: up press for Nobody Too. He spoke with Esquire and
Speaker 1: said most movies don't work. They just don't. Out of
Speaker 1: one hundred movies, there's like two classics in there. There
Speaker 1: are twelve worth seeing. There's another fifteen that are fine,
Speaker 1: and then the rest are a mess. More advice from
Speaker 1: Bob Odenkirk. If you don't want to take risks is
Speaker 1: don't be in this business. You know people will make
Speaker 1: their work too precious and take too long to put
Speaker 1: it out. I always say, what do you think you're making?
Speaker 1: Last week I told you about the Stephen Colbert Book Club.
Speaker 1: Probably the coolest thing going well. Keenan Thompson is now
Speaker 1: putting out a book. What is going on? I guess
Speaker 1: he saw Jimmy fallon making children's book money. So Keenan
Speaker 1: Thompson is releasing his first children's book, this one called
Speaker 1: Unfunny Bunny. Unfunny Bunny follows Unfunny Bunny. As Unfunny Bunny
Speaker 1: embarks on his first day of school, determined to be
Speaker 1: the class cut up when his jokes fall flat, Unfunny
Speaker 1: Bunny learns about unexpected friendship and pursuing your dreams. The
Speaker 1: story contains thirty unfunny jokes throughout, with illustrations by Tony Neil.
Speaker 1: Margaret Show went on social media, listing the fillers, injections,
Speaker 1: and cosmetic proceidures she's had on her face. She said
Speaker 1: this is a fifty six year old woman. She revealed
Speaker 1: that her chin is fake, stating the whole chin is filler,
Speaker 1: and added she's indicted sculpture, which sounds like a science
Speaker 1: fiction villain, like, oh, we got to stop sculpture. Nope.
Speaker 1: Sculpture is an injectable that stimulates collagen production. She's injected
Speaker 1: the sculpture into much of her face, which sounds like
Speaker 1: something sculpture would do. Right. Sculpture wants to capture you
Speaker 1: and inject stuff in your face. That's what sculpture would do.
Speaker 1: Margaret Chose says her lips are natural, although she once
Speaker 1: had filler there but not recently. She also said she'll
Speaker 1: entertain the idea of a face lip, saying I'll lift whatever.
Speaker 1: And that is your comedy news for today. If you
Speaker 1: enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They
Speaker 1: might like it too. If you'd like the program without
Speaker 1: commercial interruption or fee drops, there's a link in the
Speaker 1: show notes, or go to calaruga dot com slash plus.
Speaker 1: If you're on Apple podcast, click the banner that says
Speaker 1: uninterrupted listening five bucks a month. All that stuff goes
Speaker 1: away and you get nothing but your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow.