Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedys
Speaker 1: holiday weekend. I hope you had a great fourth of July.
Speaker 1: Am now well into my mission to make it to
Speaker 1: the tri Centennial. Need medicine help me a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'll have to be one hundred and seven years old,
Speaker 1: but that is my goal to be there July fourth,
Speaker 1: twenty seventy six. So let's put our feet up today
Speaker 1: and take a look at the best comedy specials of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six so far. And I'm going up to
Speaker 1: bottom best special of the year, and I don't imagine
Speaker 1: anything passing this Chris Flemings Live at the Palace from
Speaker 1: HBO in February. This is the one that made everybody
Speaker 1: feel like they discovered a secret, even though the secret
Speaker 1: had been hiding in plain sight on YouTube for years.
Speaker 1: Chris Fleming filmed his HBO debut with the Cadillac Palace
Speaker 1: Theater in Chicago in a purple velvet gemsuit with ruby
Speaker 1: red Dorothy slippers. He then prance, scuttled and belly flopped
Speaker 1: his way through an hour about Trader Joe's, Doug Breed's, NPR,
Speaker 1: and Conga lines. Mark Maron called him a marvel to behold,
Speaker 1: a true artist. If you've seen this thing, Fleming isn't
Speaker 1: doing joke jokes. He's doing art, except the art is
Speaker 1: pretty funny and has a lot of physical comedy. And
Speaker 1: let me flip over a card here. I used AI
Speaker 1: to help me script out today's episode off my scratch notes,
Speaker 1: and the AI came up with this one. Chris Fleming
Speaker 1: looks like he may have studied under a mime who
Speaker 1: was also a Golden retriever. That's pretty good. Number two
Speaker 1: special of the year, Ryan Hamilton. This just hit me.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I'll see a comedian on the up
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, I can't wait for this person's
Speaker 1: next special, and they kind of disappoint. And you know,
Speaker 1: it'd been a minute for Ryan Hamilton because he got
Speaker 1: hit by a bus, which he made very clear. So
Speaker 1: I was very happy at how funny this special was,
Speaker 1: and it seemed to everybody in the Facebook group Daily
Speaker 1: Comedy News podcast group was with the program. In case
Speaker 1: you missed it, Ryan Hamilton got hit by a bus
Speaker 1: and then he made a comedy special about it. The
Speaker 1: special was directed by mega comedian Aperghezzi. One time attended
Speaker 1: a UFC show who that guy? But much like the
Speaker 1: Nate brand, the energy is clean, warm, observational. Nobody's getting
Speaker 1: their feelings hurt. And as far as I know, Ryan
Speaker 1: Hamilton did not attend any UFC events recently. I'm going
Speaker 1: to google it just to check. Oh, this is fun.
Speaker 1: There's an MMA fighter named Ryan Hamilton who goes by
Speaker 1: the nickname Hollywood Ryan Hamilton. He has a professional MMA
Speaker 1: record of zero and one. His last fight was July seventeenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, in whatever FCS is. He is currently
Speaker 1: on a one loss MMA streak. He apparently lost to
Speaker 1: Johann Rubio by a rear naked choke two minutes and
Speaker 1: eleven seconds into round two. This is the kind of
Speaker 1: thing Nate bergets he would find very interesting. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're like, shut up, John and get back to
Speaker 1: the comedy part. I will. That's a good suggestion. Listener
Speaker 1: Hamilton works in the Jim Gaffigan Brian Reagan Lane, Nah,
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think I think Ryan Hamilton would call
Speaker 1: me back had I helped him early in his career.
Speaker 1: Now I haven't helped him in his career at all,
Speaker 1: but had I helped him early in his career, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Hey, Ryan, do you want to come
Speaker 1: on the radio show. I'm pretty sure Ryan would have
Speaker 1: called me back and said yes, sir or I said no,
Speaker 1: I'd love to, but you know, I'm busy. I'm touring,
Speaker 1: which is perfectly fine, and I have no problem to no.
Speaker 1: I digress, Holliay weekend having a little fun here. Ryan
Speaker 1: Habilinson works on the Jim Gaffick and Brian Reagan Lan
Speaker 1: Family Friendly, Never a curse word, the kind of special
Speaker 1: you can watch with your parents and feel good about yourself.
Speaker 1: Number three Trevor Noah Joy in the Trenches. I really
Speaker 1: like Trevor Noah's comedy. This was on Netflix in April.
Speaker 1: I liked it a lot, but some people said at
Speaker 1: times have felt like a ted talk that wandered into
Speaker 1: a comedy club by accident, and not sure I agree
Speaker 1: with that. Number four Count Williams The Last Report Netflix
Speaker 1: in February. Count Williams Fourth Netflix special. The Last Report
Speaker 1: leans heavily into conspiracy theorist, political commentary, and the vibe
Speaker 1: of a man who's looked at the world and concluded
Speaker 1: he was right about everything. If you love cat you'll
Speaker 1: love this one. If you thought his previous specialist wandered
Speaker 1: a little bit. You won't like this one in fifth place.
Speaker 1: Pete Holmes Silly Silly fun Boy. I've been listening to
Speaker 1: some pen Homes interviews. I just really like what the
Speaker 1: guy's about. And as the year goes on and I
Speaker 1: revise this even here on the Fly, I'm like, Eh,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't want to put Pete above Cat and
Speaker 1: above Trevor. I don't know, come to revise here in
Speaker 1: the fly. Maybe Pete Holmes is the third best special
Speaker 1: of the year. John, you host the show, you made
Speaker 1: the list. I know, all right, I have it at five.
Speaker 1: This showed up on YouTube in March. Silly Silly fun
Speaker 1: Boy has scorpion bites, elevator Superstitions. Harry Potter is a
Speaker 1: philosophical text parenting marriage and the general vibe of a
Speaker 1: guy who's found genuine peace and wants to tell you
Speaker 1: about Like, yeah, that's what I'm picking up on the interviews,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what I like about him. Pete
Speaker 1: Holmes said it's my favorite special two dates, which is nice,
Speaker 1: but doesn't every comedian, like you know, is somebody gonna
Speaker 1: come out and be like, you know this one's pretty good,
Speaker 1: but my last one was way better. Like, you're just
Speaker 1: not gonna do that right. Here's one that might be
Speaker 1: off your radar, Derek Stroop's Nostalgic. Now, by off your radar,
Speaker 1: I mean Netflix put it in front of you and
Speaker 1: you didn't click on it. This was on Netflix in March,
Speaker 1: also produced by mega comedian Aperghancys Andnateland Entertainment. Nate one
Speaker 1: time went to a UFC fight Boy, People Are Very
Speaker 1: Upset fifty seven minutes about a nineties kid from rural Alabama,
Speaker 1: thrown it back to pre internet lifeboard games and why
Speaker 1: cigarettes should make a comeback. Critics compared to him either
Speaker 1: to mega comedian Apraghassi or Brig Krascher. Next up, Ramy
Speaker 1: Yusef in Love HBO April. I always enjoy Ramy. He
Speaker 1: just he exudes charm and he's very smooth. And this
Speaker 1: one he covers dogs, his marriage, Ai, religion, and the
Speaker 1: ri Odd Comedy Festival. One review said, it's not trying
Speaker 1: to be the funniest special the year. It's trying to
Speaker 1: be the most meaningful, and I think that's a good
Speaker 1: way to describe Rami Usef. Next up, Jackie Kashin with
Speaker 1: the title altercation I See what You did there? This
Speaker 1: on YouTube in February, the specialist personal stories in rapid
Speaker 1: fire punchlines shaped by decades of experience. She described herself
Speaker 1: as entirely made of bees at this point. So here
Speaker 1: the roughly halfway mark of the year. Those are my
Speaker 1: top specials. Now, usually the back half of the year
Speaker 1: has more on the front end of the year, and
Speaker 1: we tend to get a lot of stuff like after Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: like really big names. So we'll see how the year develops.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the good pile. So I
Speaker 1: do these in three tiers. There's the best, the good
Speaker 1: that you should watch, and then famous people who drop
Speaker 1: specials that I'm not really into. So we've already done
Speaker 1: the best. Let's do the good. Shehang Wang's Purple on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I liked his previous special, Sweet and Juicy, and thought
Speaker 1: it was excellent. Purple not as good. It's a little repetitive,
Speaker 1: and at times I really was feeling the Mitch Hedberg
Speaker 1: cover act, which in the previous special I liked a lot,
Speaker 1: but this time I was like, Eh, the material didn't
Speaker 1: quite match the delivery. I like Shang a lot, but
Speaker 1: I'd actually recommend his previous special over this one. Ate
Speaker 1: pretty good specials. Aaron Chen's Life in Questions. Aaron Chan
Speaker 1: is Australian, surreal and underrated everywhere, kind of a low
Speaker 1: key style, an acquired taste. Perfectly fine special. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to put it in the elitch category, but pretty good.
Speaker 1: Also pretty good and well talked about the roast of
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart from Netflix in May. If you listen to
Speaker 1: this program, we have well dissected that, and we'll even
Speaker 1: be dissecting it in the upcoming week. Was it the
Speaker 1: roast of Tom Brady? Not even close? Was itatchable? Sure?
Speaker 1: It was kind of long. I'd watched it across two
Speaker 1: or three nights. It's hit and miss. Might be more
Speaker 1: miss than hit, but it's washable. Definitely put your eyes
Speaker 1: on it. This one's gonna upset people. You know what's
Speaker 1: watchable Tony Hinchcliff's man, other people I know, people on
Speaker 1: Threads specifically, are mad that this even exists. Is it funny?
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's funny. It's just nice company.
Speaker 1: I had it on for an hour and a lot
Speaker 1: of times because I am a comedy snob. I don't
Speaker 1: make it all the way through specials and I just go, Eah,
Speaker 1: this isn't worth my time. And I just had this
Speaker 1: on and it was entertaining. I don't know if it's funny,
Speaker 1: but I was entertained. And our first mention of the
Speaker 1: Hulu brand hularious. Now they're a publicists might not get
Speaker 1: back to you, but you can still watch comedy on now.
Speaker 1: As you hear me say on the show, I feel
Speaker 1: like the Hulu brand's not up where the Netflix brand is,
Speaker 1: and Hulu's where you go when you're a little past peak.
Speaker 1: They recently dropped Dez Bishop's Bridge and Tunnel again, perfectly
Speaker 1: fine hour filmed at the Comedy Seller in New York.
Speaker 1: I like Dez's a previous special more than this one.
Speaker 1: But if you need something to watch, does Bishop Bridge
Speaker 1: and Tunnel on Hulu? And now onto the pass section.
Speaker 1: These are people you've heard of. I think it can pass.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Louis CK's Ridiculous Nope, didn't make the
Speaker 1: top of the list. Now let me tell you. I
Speaker 1: put this thing on the other night between soccer games,
Speaker 1: and the first ten minutes I was laughing out loud,
Speaker 1: like actual laughs. If you've listened to this program, you know.
Speaker 1: I have what I call Emperor of Rome syndrome, where
Speaker 1: my brain has just been fried from listening to comedy
Speaker 1: all these ears, and I do the thing the comedians
Speaker 1: do in the back of the room where they just go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's hilarious, very very funny, great callback, Oh that is
Speaker 1: so well written, but I don't actually laugh. K in
Speaker 1: the first ten minutes had me laughing, and I started thinking, Wow,
Speaker 1: is this going to be the number two special? Because
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to be Chris Fleming. I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this going to be number two? Did C Kate
Speaker 1: really bring it here? Because some of the reviews I
Speaker 1: saw said this wasn't that good. In the first ten
Speaker 1: minutes I loved. The next ten minutes I hated. He
Speaker 1: went into this bit about his father and I won't
Speaker 1: spoil the material, and there was just one joke that's aggressive,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I just don't like this. I
Speaker 1: don't want to spend time with this. And then that
Speaker 1: chunk ends like right at the nineteen minute mark with
Speaker 1: he's doing ten minute chunks, So that chunk ends around
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty minutes with clapter never a good sign, and
Speaker 1: then the next ten minutes, I was just kind of
Speaker 1: bored and I bailed. Life's too short, I've got soccer
Speaker 1: games to watch, I got stuff to do. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to watch a special I'm not enjoying. And I
Speaker 1: just wasn't enjoying it anymore, so I stopped. Variety calls
Speaker 1: it his return to the mainstream. Slate says he hasn't changed.
Speaker 1: Indy Wire says his misery becomes our own. All of
Speaker 1: those things are probably true at once, but passed on
Speaker 1: Louis c. K ridiculous. Pass on Taylor Thomason's Prodigal Daughter
Speaker 1: in Netflix February. Critics love it Thomasin's fourth Netflix special
Speaker 1: That's incredible, hit religious trauma, faith, the construction, sexuality, and
Speaker 1: fear of death, and I don't know, just kind of
Speaker 1: felt one note to me. I don't know, wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 1: Pass on Josh Johnson Symphony from HBO, and may I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know we're all supposed to be like
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson is the greatest ever and his output is incredible.
Speaker 1: He does a new material on YouTube every Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: the buzzes on him and he's charismatic, and I know
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to love it. I wanted to love it,
Speaker 1: but I zoned out. Material didn't grab me. People who
Speaker 1: love it seem to really love it, which means either
Speaker 1: it's brilliant, or it wasn't in the right head space,
Speaker 1: or I just suck at this. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but just wasn't feeling it. And I know
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to, but I didn't. No surprise that I
Speaker 1: didn't like Marcelo Hernandez American Boy from in Netflix in January.
Speaker 1: As you've heard me say, Marcelo Hernandez does one thing. Well,
Speaker 1: he does one thing, and he did one thing during
Speaker 1: American Boy on Netflix in January. Can also pass on
Speaker 1: Mark Norman's None Too Pleased Mark Norman doing Mark Norman things.
Speaker 1: What are the descriptions of this specialist? You already know
Speaker 1: what you're in for, And yeah, that's it. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you like Mark Norman, great, I don't dislike the
Speaker 1: special but again, I got soccer games to watch, video games,
Speaker 1: to play movies to watch, go outside, do something else,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pass on Mark Norman None Too Pleased,
Speaker 1: which again doesn't mean it sucks. It just means it's
Speaker 1: not gonna make the end of your best of list.
Speaker 1: Neither is Nicki Glazer's Good Girl from the Hilarious Brand.
Speaker 1: I am not the target audience. I'm aware of that,
Speaker 1: and I am also aware that I increasingly feel Nicki
Speaker 1: Glazer needs to tap the brakes and disappear for a
Speaker 1: little bit. It's been a little much, but the type
Speaker 1: of material she does just does not connect with me.
Speaker 1: It may connect with you. You'll find Nicki Glazer Good
Speaker 1: Girl on Hulu. While we're here into the holiday weekend,
Speaker 1: Vulture posted five new comedy specials you should definitely watch
Speaker 1: when you have a moment. Their list Real Quick, Louis
Speaker 1: c k Ridiculous on Netflix. They suggested Tom Cashman's The
Speaker 1: Formula for Happiness on YouTube. Don't want to spoil the
Speaker 1: jokes here, Vulture kind of did, but sounds like it
Speaker 1: might be pretty funny. They also recommend Ryan Hamilton, who
Speaker 1: you just heard me say is the number two of
Speaker 1: the year. Ali SADIQX my father. There's so much buzz
Speaker 1: on him. He's arguably the hottest comedian around right now.
Speaker 1: This special is released on Father's Day. I guess I
Speaker 1: should catch up on it, and Caitlyn Polufo's Pershudo Rose
Speaker 1: is on YouTube. Vulture writes, just as Paul Mooney pushed
Speaker 1: even their most progressive white audiences to discover their latent
Speaker 1: racism through long, relentless sets about race relations, Kaitlyn Pulufo
Speaker 1: does a similar thing with jokes about sex. Oh scroll
Speaker 1: down here. They have some previously featured specials. Horatio Gould's
Speaker 1: Space Cowboy on YouTube, Emmy Blotnik's What's Her Secret on
Speaker 1: Gorilla Comedy, plus Eugene Mermins here comes the Whimsy on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I need to get around to that one. Okay, good one,
Speaker 1: Bet Stellings. We're looking for people who do huge numbers
Speaker 1: on social media on YouTube. Julio Torre's Color Theory is
Speaker 1: on HBO. I actually did watch that. I should add
Speaker 1: that to the past list. And Janet McNamara is not
Speaker 1: smart enough on YouTube all right, though, I'll give you
Speaker 1: plenty to watch in between soccer games. And if you
Speaker 1: want even more of a list, join the Facebook group
Speaker 1: Daily Comedy News podcast group. Dylan is one of the
Speaker 1: power members of the group. And if you've put out
Speaker 1: a comedy special, he's watched it before The paint is
Speaker 1: dry on it, which doesn't make sense, but you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And he's got a very thorough list
Speaker 1: of his opinion on the top specials of the year.
Speaker 1: And again, this is just one idiot's list, a guy
Speaker 1: sitting in a basement recording extra episodes for holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: You can agree, disagree. It's just a list. Don't get
Speaker 1: too upset about it. Your list is just as valid
Speaker 1: as mine. And I will see you tomorrow.