Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media Happy Monday, I'm the Johnny Macbot with
Speaker 1: today's daily comedy news. Cracked asked Anthony Jesselnick what makes
Speaker 1: you better than your peers. Anthony said, I would say,
Speaker 1: as politically as I can, that I have a higher bar.
Speaker 1: I write more jokes, and I fail with more jokes
Speaker 1: in order to get to that great one where some
Speaker 1: people just say that's good enough. Like some people are like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go up there and talk and they
Speaker 1: get a laugh, and you know that's okay. Lest I
Speaker 1: think some comics they say something backstage and their friends
Speaker 1: laugh and they're like, oh great, and they go out
Speaker 1: and they say it on stage and the audience doesn't laugh,
Speaker 1: and they're like, huh, it's still a good joke. That's
Speaker 1: not the way it works. I don't think I'm more talented.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'm smarter. I just think I have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a higher bar. That's why it
Speaker 1: takes longer in between specials. I choose fewer projects because
Speaker 1: I really want to make every little bit of it great.
Speaker 1: But I think some people are like, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's just make that wall look good and we'll ignore
Speaker 1: the rest of the room. There's a subculture on YouTube
Speaker 1: where they collect clips and then put them together, and
Speaker 1: they're making just as much money as everybody else. There
Speaker 1: was one where I was making fun of Bert Kreischer
Speaker 1: and Tom Segura for a lot of the stuff they
Speaker 1: were doing, but it was very subtle. Then I run
Speaker 1: into Bert Kreischer at the comedy store and he's acting
Speaker 1: a little weird and he's just not as gregarious as normal.
Speaker 1: And I get home and I see they put together
Speaker 1: all of these clips into one thing, and when you
Speaker 1: put it in without context, it looks like I'm trying
Speaker 1: to bury the guy. And it's like, no, I'm just
Speaker 1: messing around. I think I'm just too well versed in
Speaker 1: what's going on in comedy. I shouldn't know anything about
Speaker 1: what Tim Dillon did last month, and I know so
Speaker 1: so much. If I didn't, would I be angry? Would
Speaker 1: I ever think about it again? They also asked him
Speaker 1: about the shade he throws in Chappelle's general direction in
Speaker 1: the new special. Jesselnick said, it's more powerful to not
Speaker 1: use his name, but I can't imagine you watch that
Speaker 1: bit without thinking that's exactly who I'm talking about He's
Speaker 1: considered the greatest stand up comic alive right now, and
Speaker 1: he's been riding this wave of bull crap for so
Speaker 1: so long that I think it would have done the
Speaker 1: bit a disservice to actually say his name, But I
Speaker 1: don't know how you could watch that without understanding it.
Speaker 1: I hope that, in the same way that I think
Speaker 1: that thoughts and prayers stop people from saying thoughts and prayers,
Speaker 1: I would hope that my trans bit squashes ninety nine
Speaker 1: percent of trans material. I think obviously make fun of
Speaker 1: these people, but you can make jokes about race without
Speaker 1: the racial slurs. That's something that I will never condone
Speaker 1: in comedy. I'm hoping that maybe people will up their
Speaker 1: game a little bit, especially in terms of trans material.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be this lightning rod. It can
Speaker 1: just be a subject. Jim Gaffigan and Conan O'Brien recently
Speaker 1: praised Martin Short as comedy's most devastating roaster, surpassing even
Speaker 1: Don Rickles. Wow. Gaffigan was on Conan and said Short
Speaker 1: is beyond a doubt, the quickest, the meanest, and so funny.
Speaker 1: That's pretty high praise. Wow, Jim said at a recent
Speaker 1: show at the Beacon, he literally walked out and stole
Speaker 1: the whole show, just dressing us down for five minutes,
Speaker 1: and he left. He's seventy five years old. He walked out,
Speaker 1: ripped into us left, and everyone's like, well, that's the
Speaker 1: best part of the show. Cohen In said, the writing
Speaker 1: is so sharp. He can do it ad lib, but
Speaker 1: I think he as so has some jokes prepared ahead
Speaker 1: of time. He can hide in the fat suit and
Speaker 1: say things like, you know, your career never quite took off,
Speaker 1: now did it. The Pitch KC caught up with Matt Bronger.
Speaker 1: Matt said, when I was a kid, I did a
Speaker 1: lot of plays in musicals. I figured that was it.
Speaker 1: I'd watch the oscars and say that I want to
Speaker 1: do those things. Now that I've been in this world
Speaker 1: for so long, the goal is to make as much
Speaker 1: cool stuff as you can while you're here. It's not
Speaker 1: about this massive achievement. I've learned that you're better off
Speaker 1: if you just keep honing your craft, but be open
Speaker 1: to things. I wish I hadn't been so judgmental about
Speaker 1: stuff that I didn't want to do or didn't want
Speaker 1: to do when I was younger. I know my position
Speaker 1: in this strange universe is to be the silly one.
Speaker 1: So I'll be the silly one and I'll look foolish
Speaker 1: if it works. There's so many ways to be creative
Speaker 1: and to express yourself other than how I saw it
Speaker 1: through the tunnel vision of a young actor's eyes. I've
Speaker 1: never really thought i'd be a stand up, and that's
Speaker 1: been my main meal ticket. I still love it after
Speaker 1: twenty plus years, and I've been an actor even longer.
Speaker 1: I find the more you practice your art, the more
Speaker 1: peace you have in your life. These days, we're always
Speaker 1: looking for quick fixes to this simple pain of existence.
Speaker 1: But if you find something that can be an outlet
Speaker 1: for what you need to express yourself in this world,
Speaker 1: and you can make a couple bucks at it, it's
Speaker 1: pretty incredible. Matt also loves being a dad. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things I never thought I would get a
Speaker 1: chance to do, and it takes over everything in my
Speaker 1: life in the best possible way and gives me an
Speaker 1: incredible perspective. It will beat the crap out of you,
Speaker 1: but it'll give you life and purpose like you've never imagined.
Speaker 1: Chloe Radcliffe has launched in Tandem, a new interview series
Speaker 1: filming comics biking through Central Park and La River. She
Speaker 1: says it's like comedians and cars for less successful people.
Speaker 1: The show premiered last week with Ralph Barbosa. There's something
Speaker 1: that happens to you when you ride a bike that
Speaker 1: makes everything a little lighter, more fun, and more care free.
Speaker 1: Because we aren't making eye contact, I think people can
Speaker 1: relax a little bit. Radcliffe says the show uses a
Speaker 1: go pro rigged tandem bike from her Bushwick shop. New
Speaker 1: episodes drop Wednesdays at nine am Eastern Time on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Virdaz finds American cancel culture debates amusing compared to his
Speaker 1: experience in India. He told The Hollywood Reporter, the American
Speaker 1: cancel culture archetype is cute. Every time an American comedian
Speaker 1: complains about getting canceled, I'm like, grab a flight to India.
Speaker 1: Just let me show you something. After facing serious threats
Speaker 1: in India, Doz took a strategic approach. I didn't really
Speaker 1: milk my controversy. I just shut up and wrote a show,
Speaker 1: put the show up, and then that show got some
Speaker 1: acclaim I wasn't doing the equivalent of crying on Oprah.
Speaker 1: After winning an International Emmy, Doz highlighted its significance for underdogs.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for an award ceremony that supports the
Speaker 1: underdog purely on the might of their content, the International
Speaker 1: Emmys are it. Mac Packer Andy Samberg revealed on his
Speaker 1: podcast that his shorts almost caused a wardrobe malfunction during
Speaker 1: SNL's Here I Go sketch with Charlie XCX. Samberg said
Speaker 1: there was a lot of debate about how high my
Speaker 1: shorts should be. After requesting even shorter shorts, he realized
Speaker 1: during dancing that I really almost flopped out. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, yikes. Brett Goldstein confirmedy fan theory that suggests
Speaker 1: Ted Lasso heavily references the Wizard of Oz. Brett told
Speaker 1: Entertainment Weekly Ted has to go home. There's no place
Speaker 1: like home. He mapped characters to their Oz counterparts. Ted
Speaker 1: is Dorothy Roy Kent is the tin Man, Rebecca is
Speaker 1: the Lion, and Jamie is the Scarecrow. While the show
Speaker 1: appeared to end after three seasons, a fourth could happen
Speaker 1: despite Joe Coy's rough reviews. In twenty twenty four, The
Speaker 1: Golden Globes saw ratings jump fifty percent to ten million viewers,
Speaker 1: their highest since twenty twenty. You may recall Joe Coy's
Speaker 1: appearance was controversial because of this joke he made about
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a
Speaker 1: football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and
Speaker 1: the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber
Speaker 1: shots of Taylor Swift. That's right, Scott Beckett. Even the
Speaker 1: AI can do the bit. Nicki Glazer will host in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, with over four months to prepare. She says,
Speaker 1: some of my favorite jokes have come from past Golden
Speaker 1: Globes opening monologues, when Tina Amy or Ricky have said
Speaker 1: exact bactly what we all didn't know we desperately needed
Speaker 1: to hear. It's live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood's
Speaker 1: biggest stars, who also might be getting wasted while seated
Speaker 1: next to their recent exes. Michelle Buteau will host the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Billboard Music Awards on December twelfth, just
Speaker 1: before her Netflix special A Buteaux Ful Mind, premieres at
Speaker 1: Radio City Music Hall. Michelle says music is just one
Speaker 1: of those magical devices that can bring people together. With
Speaker 1: me hosting, you can expect a fun party, a cute celebration,
Speaker 1: and a whole moment in a plus size sequence suit.
Speaker 1: Her special will be on Netflix on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: And that is your comedy news for today. Johnny Mack
Speaker 1: will be back tomorrow. Resistance is Futile. Portions of today's
Speaker 1: program were created with the help of AI. See you Then,