Speaker 1: Kaloroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Jenny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news, A daily briefing on stand up comedians in
Speaker 1: the comedy industry, a freeze that will boost your Spotify
Speaker 1: numbers by twenty percent. But I can't bog down on
Speaker 1: that right now, because the folks at the Hollywood Reporter
Speaker 1: they watched Free Bert on Netflix, and uh yeah, sounds
Speaker 1: like pretty much what I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: their headline. Bert Kraser strips away the shirtless party boy persona,
Speaker 1: but also the laughs. Uh oh. They have compared this
Speaker 1: to his often partner Tom Sagora, The Hollywood Reporter, right,
Speaker 1: Sigora used his opportunity to deliver twenty twenty five's Bad Thoughts,
Speaker 1: a vig yet driven sketch show that steered into everything
Speaker 1: that is amiably off putting and in your face about
Speaker 1: sigora stand up slash podcast persona. Bad Thoughts might be
Speaker 1: a show primarily for established Toom Sagora fans, but man,
Speaker 1: if you're a Tompsagora fan, it's on brand. On the surface,
Speaker 1: it appears that Krasier's Free Bird aspires to something more
Speaker 1: like what Dave did for Dave Little Dicky Bird or
Speaker 1: buck Gist did for Pete Davidson? Did bub GISs do
Speaker 1: anything for Pete Davidson? Pete Walked Away Man, wherein it
Speaker 1: takes a comic with a specific and established persona and says,
Speaker 1: what if we show you the human behind the stick?
Speaker 1: Or perhaps what Krascher is doing with free Bert is
Speaker 1: almost a parody of that genre. It's hard to tell
Speaker 1: for sure, because although Free Bird is successful on some level,
Speaker 1: it's not especially funny, and when free Bert is funny,
Speaker 1: it's actually funny because of the three teenage girls who
Speaker 1: were Krascher's co stars. The article that then gets into
Speaker 1: plot spoilers and they tag it with free Bert proves
Speaker 1: there's more to Bird. Krascher. I'm just not sure this
Speaker 1: is the best vehicle for it, so I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet as I record this Thursday at three pm
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. It's on my list of things to
Speaker 1: watch last night in your Universe. But this was the
Speaker 1: question I had off the trailer. Who is this for?
Speaker 1: It seems dumbed down for the Bird audience, but too
Speaker 1: naughty for the non Bird audience, so I don't know
Speaker 1: who the show is for. Bert also got the Big
Speaker 1: Wax Job interview from The Hollywood Reporter. They're curious how
Speaker 1: did this project come to be? Bert Kreischer said, here's genesis.
Speaker 1: I was fired from the Travel Channel. Everything was going
Speaker 1: away for me and I had to refigure out who
Speaker 1: I was, and I was having an identity crisis. At
Speaker 1: the same time, we were at a school for my
Speaker 1: daughters where it felt like everyone I had money, everyone
Speaker 1: had nice cars, everyone had big houses. Our house was
Speaker 1: eleven hundred square feet and it was right by Jack
Speaker 1: in the Box. We felt like we were the Beverly Hillbillies.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to encapsulate that time, and the
Speaker 1: quickest way to get to the identity crisis was pulled
Speaker 1: for my life. And the comments I get, which are like, oh,
Speaker 1: well he is is the fat guy that takes his
Speaker 1: shirt off. Bert says, I got hired for a private party.
Speaker 1: One time I tried doing material on. The guy goes, hey, man,
Speaker 1: put the shirt on and take it off again and
Speaker 1: just tell the machine. I was like what, and he goes,
Speaker 1: we don't want to hear the other stuff. Just do
Speaker 1: the shirt rip off one more time, tell the machine.
Speaker 1: Then let's go party. Bert says it was twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and I did it. Yikes. Lying in bed
Speaker 1: that night in Vale, Colorado, I thought to myself, I
Speaker 1: just got paid twenty five thousand dollars to take my
Speaker 1: shirt off and tell one story twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I was like, what if that's my life? So we
Speaker 1: had that scene in the show, and then we infuse
Speaker 1: the identity crisis that happens when you go to a
Speaker 1: new school and you're trying to fit in. And just
Speaker 1: did Netflix go to bird It? Did Bert go to Netflix?
Speaker 1: He said, I brought it to them. They were obviously
Speaker 1: up for hearing a pitch. But My White Whal has
Speaker 1: always been a sitcom, a TV show about my family.
Speaker 1: There was an Artie Lang sighting from the National Inquirer.
Speaker 1: A new photo suggests that Artie Lang is doing well.
Speaker 1: He's now fifty eight. He was spotted in a photo
Speaker 1: taken at Davittel's birthday dinner. We're told in the photo,
Speaker 1: Arti Lang is wearing a backwards baseball cap, sporting a
Speaker 1: mustache and beard, and had his right hand in the air,
Speaker 1: acknowledging the camera. A tell caps on the post, what
Speaker 1: a birthday? Thank you? For all things of me see
Speaker 1: down the road at a club sometime soon. I worked
Speaker 1: with Lady several times during my years. It's serious, good guy,
Speaker 1: exactly who you think. He is. Friendly as heck. If
Speaker 1: we invited him to come down the hall to the
Speaker 1: comedy stations to do some sort of stunt, he always did,
Speaker 1: very very friendly. I wish him the best. But I
Speaker 1: can also tell you I've been in the audience. I
Speaker 1: remember one night at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival watching
Speaker 1: Already on stage, and I said to one of my coworkers,
Speaker 1: if we wake up tomorrow and he's dead, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be shocked. I didn't say that dismissively. You
Speaker 1: could just tell that Already had demons. He's quite open
Speaker 1: about his demons, and they were on stage that night.
Speaker 1: So I'm really glad already Lang appears to be doing well.
Speaker 1: Good guy. I wish the best. Forum Jimmy Kimmel on
Speaker 1: Wednesday Night suggested that the FCC has him and his crosshairs.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, the FCC clarified its guidance on the equal
Speaker 1: time rule. That rule suggests that broadcast stations must afford
Speaker 1: equal airtime to competing politicians. Talk shows have been exempt
Speaker 1: from the rule since jay Leno fought against it in
Speaker 1: one in nineteen ninety six. Jay Leno's team argued that
Speaker 1: he was conducting interviews that qualified for the same carve
Speaker 1: out granted to news programming. The FCC, in a ruling, said, importantly,
Speaker 1: the FCC has not been presented with any evidence that
Speaker 1: the interview portion of any late night or daytime television
Speaker 1: talk show program on air presently would qualify for the
Speaker 1: bonafide news exemption. Moreover, a program that is motivated by
Speaker 1: partisan purposes, for example, would not be entitled to an
Speaker 1: exemption under long standing FCC President. Kimmel said, we're once
Speaker 1: again threatened by the FCC. I might need your help again.
Speaker 1: So I'm not expert in this. So say Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 1: had on Gavin Newsom, He has Gavin neusim on? Does
Speaker 1: kim all? Then now have to have someone else? And
Speaker 1: what's the equivalent of Gavin Ussom? So you have to
Speaker 1: have the Republican gubernatorial candidate on? Like, how does this
Speaker 1: even work? And like I get what it's trying to do,
Speaker 1: and part of me, I'm I rolling that because I
Speaker 1: get what it's trying to do. But putting my cynicism away,
Speaker 1: if you're like, oh, I wouldn't it be good to
Speaker 1: have both sides on things? Because there are some things
Speaker 1: you can't both side. All right, I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: political here. Let me just use a ridiculous example. Say
Speaker 1: I talked about Adam Sandler comedies. There's no both siding that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to have a guest on telling us
Speaker 1: that Adam Sandler movies are funny, right, that would be ridiculous,
Speaker 1: and that's not how this show goes. This show makes
Speaker 1: fun of Adam Sandler comedies. So if you told me
Speaker 1: I had to have somebody on to be pro Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler comedy, I just wouldn't do the Adam Sandler segment.
Speaker 1: Now I'm being very facetious here, But now apply that
Speaker 1: to politics. So now you look at it and go, eh,
Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't have Gavin Usiman, We'll have nobody on.
Speaker 1: We won't talk about issues at all. And they get
Speaker 1: back to me, eye rolling, going, I see what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do here. Now who do you side with here?
Speaker 1: Bill Maher has detested Stephen Colbert for years now. If
Speaker 1: I had to weigh in, if you said, Johnny Mack,
Speaker 1: you got to pick here because Bill Maher is fighting
Speaker 1: with Stephen Colbert? Which side you pick? I'd be like,
Speaker 1: has Bill Maher been on Kurtzman Star Trek? And you
Speaker 1: would say no, And I'd go, I'm picking Bill Maher.
Speaker 1: I'll hold my nose and pick team mar because he
Speaker 1: hasn't ruined Star Trek. All right, what's the issue here?
Speaker 1: Bill Maher was on The Late Show in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: During the interview, Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic and Star
Speaker 1: Trek ruiner, challenged Bill Maher on his atheism. The conversation
Speaker 1: got tense. During the interview, Colbert referred to Mar as dull.
Speaker 1: Mar fired back and called the host Steve. Colbert said,
Speaker 1: who the f is? Steve? Are you my third grade teacher? Right? Relaxed, dude, relax.
Speaker 1: Apparently there's still a source, says Steven thinks Bill is pumped,
Speaker 1: and Bill thinks he's a smart alec people that gets
Speaker 1: an act. But these guys really don't like each other.
Speaker 1: Even a little more has explained. Yeah, but the good
Speaker 1: part is we don't hide it, like he doesn't like
Speaker 1: me and I don't like him, and we don't deny it.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll become friends one day, said Bill Moore. I've
Speaker 1: had that happen before with people. You know, you get
Speaker 1: off on the wrong foot. I mean, there's no reason
Speaker 1: why two comics we have a lot of common. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'll say it now. I think I did
Speaker 1: the show twice. You could tell it's on screen. It's okay.
Speaker 1: It's not like we effing fought each other. Craig ferguson
Speaker 1: not coming back to late night. Craig told Variety, this
Speaker 1: is the truth of me and late night television. I
Speaker 1: didn't really watch late night television before I did it,
Speaker 1: and then I certainly didn't watch it while I was
Speaker 1: doing it, and then afterwards I don't really watch it.
Speaker 1: So it's not something I feel qualified to really either
Speaker 1: predict or coming on to be honest. I mean, I
Speaker 1: did my thing, but I don't know that my thing
Speaker 1: was ever really part of that thing, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Craig hosted The Late Late Show from two
Speaker 1: thousand and five to the end of twenty fourteen, back
Speaker 1: when twelve thirty was great again again. I encourage the
Speaker 1: president to make late night great again. We've got Seth
Speaker 1: Myers I don't know what's going on there at twelve thirty.
Speaker 1: At eleven thirty, we've got Stephen Colbert helping to ruin
Speaker 1: Star Trek. That show has to go with the news
Speaker 1: that Colbert Show was ending. Some people were like, bring
Speaker 1: back Craig Ferguson, who says, that's not something I'm into.
Speaker 1: You only do it two days in shawshank Right, first
Speaker 1: day and last day. I'm very proud of that talk
Speaker 1: show I did. I'm really glad I did it. I
Speaker 1: think we hit the ball more often than we missed,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel I need to do it again.
Speaker 1: It would almost make it not as valuable to me
Speaker 1: if I started doing it again. Variety points out Ferguson's
Speaker 1: late Late show clips live on via bootleg Clips. Creig
Speaker 1: explains it's weird because I think I'm probably less connected
Speaker 1: to that old show than people who watched it. A
Speaker 1: lot that was then and now is now. I'm glad
Speaker 1: I did it. I'm very proud of it, but I
Speaker 1: haven't lived with it on a day to day basis
Speaker 1: for a long time. Craig is now hosting Scrabble. He says,
Speaker 1: I've been playing scrabble since I was a kid. I
Speaker 1: suspect it's the reason I can actually read, given the
Speaker 1: way that my education went. So it's very keen that
Speaker 1: we got a TV version of Scrabble that I thought
Speaker 1: did justice of the game. What I did notice is
Speaker 1: how competitive scrabble players are. I used to think I
Speaker 1: was good at scrabble, but these people are great at Scrabble.
Speaker 1: Craig likes hosting game shows because there's no prep. I
Speaker 1: go in, I play the game of the contestants, and
Speaker 1: that's the only information I have, the contestants' names and
Speaker 1: how to pronounce them correctly. He says. The tapings have
Speaker 1: been going long a TV hours, around forty four minutes
Speaker 1: before commercials, and it takes us easily double that with
Speaker 1: me talking smack and bs about this, that and the
Speaker 1: next thing. I just play and then whatever has to
Speaker 1: be taken out in order for the game it's ordered.
Speaker 1: I suspect there'll be a lot of b rolling out
Speaker 1: takes that will become available pretty soon once the show
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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot for you this week on
Speaker 1: the comedy stock market. I have zero buy recommendations. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody had an awesome week where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta buy that. I mean, I do want to
Speaker 1: suggest you buy the Netflix Comedy Festival, but you can
Speaker 1: actually buy stock in Netflix, so I don't want to
Speaker 1: start giving stock recommendations. You do what you want with
Speaker 1: an actual stock, so I'm not saying to do that.
Speaker 1: This is comedy stock market where you can't actually buy
Speaker 1: or sell stocking comedians. Well, you probably can on one
Speaker 1: of those. I'm sure you're watching the same TV im
Speaker 1: where it seems like you could bet on anything. Now
Speaker 1: there probably is a comedy stock market who knows, but
Speaker 1: I don't have any buys. I have two cells. First
Speaker 1: sell Burt Kreischer, same note as last week, same note
Speaker 1: as the first half of today's podcast. I don't know
Speaker 1: who the show's for, so let's seller Burt Krescher. The
Speaker 1: other sell is Michael Rapaport. Do you watch The Traders?
Speaker 1: I started to watch this season of The Traders, and
Speaker 1: I found Michael rapp reports so annoying. I decided I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna watch this season, and I'm on comedy threads
Speaker 1: and apparently I'm not the only one. Apparently people do
Speaker 1: not enjoy him, and not in like he's a good
Speaker 1: reality show villain kind of way. He's just annoying. And
Speaker 1: I've talked about this in the past. There are some
Speaker 1: people that anytime their name comes up, it's never like
Speaker 1: Michael Rappaport was outside eating an ice cream cone and
Speaker 1: he pad a Golden Retriever and had a nice day.
Speaker 1: That's never why Michael Rappaport comes up in the news.
Speaker 1: There's always something stupid, like you said he was running
Speaker 1: for mayor four years from now. A trader. He's just annoying.
Speaker 1: So if we had any Michael Rappaport stock Let's sell it. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't have a deep comedy stock market fee this week,
Speaker 1: but I don't at Jeff Foxworthy's gonna take a new
Speaker 1: comedy special at Gwynett's Gas South Theater April fifteenth and sixteenth.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to that. Jeff's a great guy. If you're
Speaker 1: in Cleveland tomorrow night, Justy Slay as at the Agora.
Speaker 1: Justy's recent special was called wet Heat, which is not
Speaker 1: at all what many of us east of Thessippi you're
Speaker 1: having this weekend. Burr again. That's why I interrupted the
Speaker 1: show the other day to get the boiler guy to
Speaker 1: come into My ass is nice and warm today, Thank you,
Speaker 1: boiler Guy. Dusty Slay says, my relationship with the heats
Speaker 1: always changes. I thought the heat was great. But if
Speaker 1: you're out in the yard trying to plant fruit trees
Speaker 1: like I like to do, write that down. Now we
Speaker 1: know something about Dusty Slay. He likes to plant fruit trees.
Speaker 1: He can really beat you down. I nearly gave myself
Speaker 1: a heat stroke last year. I just feel like my
Speaker 1: body's not reacting as well to heat these days. His
Speaker 1: current set is regular everyday stuff, but with a unique twist.
Speaker 1: I had someone say the other night I have an
Speaker 1: ability to make things relatable even when they're not, like
Speaker 1: planting fruit trees. Anyone who knows me knows I have
Speaker 1: a difficult relationship with dogs. I talk about dogs all
Speaker 1: the time on my podcast, and some people have gotten
Speaker 1: really mad at me. But other people have some emails
Speaker 1: with similar stories. It's like people are afraid to say
Speaker 1: that they're not into dogs. It's kind of my thing.
Speaker 1: I grew up in the country with a lot of dogs.
Speaker 1: If you go stay with a relative with a dog
Speaker 1: and you're not used to having indoor pets, then you
Speaker 1: can't breathe the next day. I think that's what's wrong
Speaker 1: with everybody's sinned us is they're all sleeping with dogs
Speaker 1: out there. Dusty says, people are loving the dog bit.
Speaker 1: I found a good way to do these dog jokes
Speaker 1: without offending anyone. I really try to work on finding
Speaker 1: material that anybody can enjoy. You just gotta come in
Speaker 1: and sit down, laugh for an hour and a half
Speaker 1: without having to think. I don't want people worried about stuff.
Speaker 1: I want them to be relaxed during the show. Go
Speaker 1: see Dusty Slay. If you're in Cleveland, seven o'clock at
Speaker 1: the Agora five thousand and one Prospect Avenue, thirty five
Speaker 1: bucks to get you in. TBS for some reason, has
Speaker 1: greenlit sixteen half hour episodes of hidden camera comedy series
Speaker 1: Foul Play with Anthony Davis. That's right, Anthony Davis from
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks has a hidden camera show for some reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. We're told the unscripted series pairs
Speaker 1: elite athletes with elaborate pranks, giving them one chance to
Speaker 1: pull off their mischievous plans or foul out. Trying see
Speaker 1: Basketball is see and it goes. The show debuted as
Speaker 1: a half hour special last winter. Guest stars included Mookie Betts,
Speaker 1: He's from the Dodgers, and TBS is making sixteen of
Speaker 1: these Foul Play with Anthony Davis. TBS president Jason Salernis
Speaker 1: said in a prepared statement, Anthony Davis brings the same
Speaker 1: position in swagger to comedy that he does to the court.
Speaker 1: At TBS, we love a show that knows how to
Speaker 1: have fun and foul plays exactly that. We're excited for
Speaker 1: our viewers to have as much fun watching it as
Speaker 1: Anthony and the other athletes had filming it. Now, as
Speaker 1: much as I'm making fun of this thing, the premiere
Speaker 1: got over three million viewers. That's a lot, So get
Speaker 1: out your calendar, write this down. The first batch of
Speaker 1: episodes will premiere Monday, April sixth, immediately following the NCAA
Speaker 1: National Championship basketball game, and then it'll be on every
Speaker 1: Monday at eight o'clock. So that means when you're watching
Speaker 1: the basketball tournament, they're gonna have you ever seen TBS
Speaker 1: promote something? TBS promoting something during sports? They are relentless.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be sick of this thing before it even airs.
Speaker 1: Foul play with Anthony Davis. Stay warm this weekend, and
Speaker 1: depending where you live, you're getting between two and two
Speaker 1: thousand inches of snow. I don't know if you've been
Speaker 1: following the weather reports, big snow or no snow. Who knows.
Speaker 1: You might get snow and you might get a lot
Speaker 1: of snow. So when you're stuck in the house, what
Speaker 1: you want to do before the power goes out, is
Speaker 1: you want to download Daily Comedy News Tomorrow on the
Speaker 1: program a longer episode. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast,
Speaker 1: and I we tape some stuff in early January, maybe
Speaker 1: was still late December, and we kind of bs about
Speaker 1: comedy for like a half an hour or so. So
Speaker 1: that'll keep you entertained until the lights come back on.
Speaker 1: Then Sunday, on this very program, a normal show, I've
Speaker 1: got some industry stuff through a couple deeper dives on
Speaker 1: the comedy industry and how it all works. So we'll
Speaker 1: do that in the second half of Sunday's podcast, normal
Speaker 1: episode Monday morning, and then Monday at noon Comedy Survivor
Speaker 1: Week three results. Okay, have an awesome weekend. Appreciate you all.
Speaker 1: New listeners, welcome aboard. See you all tomorrow.