Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: Jenny Mack, you never give any attention to Roywood Junior's
Speaker 1: news show. Have I got news for you on CNN?
Speaker 1: I know, and the CNN publicists put out so many
Speaker 1: articles about it, and I've barely talked about it. The
Speaker 1: La Times spoke to Roywood Junior. They talked about his
Speaker 1: time playing sports in high school. He warmed the bench.
Speaker 1: Roy said, your job as a bench of warmer is
Speaker 1: to come up with the heckles against the other team.
Speaker 1: I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other
Speaker 1: fifteen year olds. If I could get the umpire to laugh,
Speaker 1: that was like an applause break. If I got the
Speaker 1: parents to laugh, that was the standing. Oh. Roy says,
Speaker 1: We're a very interesting piece of real estate with this
Speaker 1: new show. In between say a Jimmy Fallon and a
Speaker 1: daily show, it's an opportunity to talk about the news,
Speaker 1: but we get to season it for taste in terms
Speaker 1: of the depth in which we want to go on
Speaker 1: a particular topic. A sidebar here. The La Times writes,
Speaker 1: as roy Wood said that sentence, he was alternating tips
Speaker 1: of two smoothie. Is one a fruity pink, the other
Speaker 1: a healthy green, fascinating. I might head over to the
Speaker 1: smoothie place after I record this. They have this new
Speaker 1: cinnamon smoothie that's so good. I might have to go
Speaker 1: get one. Where he says, the burden of making the
Speaker 1: argument every single time is not on my shoulders anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a chance to live within the jokes first, the opinions. Second.
Speaker 1: The conversation turned to his time at The Daily Show,
Speaker 1: and he said, the biggest thing I learned from watching
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah's not to let anger pollute your sense of humor.
Speaker 1: It's infuriating what's happening in America, But the moment you
Speaker 1: allow yourself to be consumed by the anger, you lose
Speaker 1: your ability to make fun of everything. I remember Trevor
Speaker 1: allowing not anger, but compassion to drive his segment about
Speaker 1: a police shooting. As I recall, there wasn't a single
Speaker 1: joke in the first act. He just spoke sincerely to
Speaker 1: the camera about where we are as a country. There
Speaker 1: were so many moments where Trevor could have used the
Speaker 1: pulpit to cuss America out, and he never did it,
Speaker 1: but instead he used calmness as a more precise scalpel. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm going to use the word spin here. This isn't
Speaker 1: the way I remember it, But the La Times rites.
Speaker 1: When it became clear that one time front runner Hassan
Speaker 1: Minhaj wasn't going to get the Daily Show job, Wood
Speaker 1: started to worry that there was no plan for the
Speaker 1: Daily Show as it headed into an election year. Roy says,
Speaker 1: at that point, John Stewart coming back was not in
Speaker 1: the conversation. For me, it felt like, well, what is
Speaker 1: life going to be for me after the Daily Show?
Speaker 1: If they picked somebody that doesn't want me it as
Speaker 1: a correspondent, then what am I gonna do next year?
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna have to eventually find a place to land,
Speaker 1: I should just start that process now, all right? That
Speaker 1: is fair. I think my point is that the La
Speaker 1: Times left out the part where they weren't obviously not
Speaker 1: considering Roy for the desk either. Amber Ruffin said, Roy
Speaker 1: knows every current news story but also the history of them,
Speaker 1: which is amazing to me. Even when you think, oh,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna have the backstory on this, he does.
Speaker 1: Roy has a kind of gravitas. He feels like he
Speaker 1: belongs in the chair. He just feels like a dude
Speaker 1: you might be hanging with around the grill at a barbecue,
Speaker 1: Whereas on the jerkvase, who's gonna be like, do you
Speaker 1: have impossible burgers? Roy Wood has been preparing for the
Speaker 1: show by watching Steve Harvey host Family Feud. Why because
Speaker 1: he's the king of hearing something ridiculous, pausing and reacting
Speaker 1: to it, and then getting the game back on track.
Speaker 1: He's keeping in open mind about the future and said
Speaker 1: if the Daily Show called, I'm not gonna send them
Speaker 1: a voicemail, but I am dating someone. The CNN press
Speaker 1: team got Vulture to write about the show, Hey, Amber ruffin,
Speaker 1: how did you wind up getting hired as one of
Speaker 1: the team captains? Amber said, they had a bunch of
Speaker 1: us tests for it, and it was just the most
Speaker 1: fun little reunion. It was everybody who's kind of in
Speaker 1: this space, was all the late night people, the funny
Speaker 1: news podcasters, the people who had late night shows. Well,
Speaker 1: should be asking her pals to be on her team.
Speaker 1: No one's asking me who should be on the show.
Speaker 1: I don't have any control of who's on the show
Speaker 1: or not, or else it'd be all my friends, which
Speaker 1: I guess it would be fine. I don't even know
Speaker 1: who's going to be on this Friday. They tape Friday
Speaker 1: and at air Saturday. How's the show different than the
Speaker 1: UK version? It's a little more game show. Esk gets
Speaker 1: overflowing with punchlines, the goals to give your fastest answered
Speaker 1: many times that's wrong or silly, and because we're all comedians,
Speaker 1: it's very much like an improvised late night show that's
Speaker 1: out behaves. We're spitting out punch lines at a teams
Speaker 1: and sat down and thought through, which makes it more
Speaker 1: fun and truer than your regular show. It'll be different
Speaker 1: that the segments are way tighter than your run of
Speaker 1: the mill British panel show. I think it's very segment
Speaker 1: heavy and bit heavy, whereas the other panel shows can
Speaker 1: get to yepping. How do you decide who wins? Roy
Speaker 1: is deciding who gets points and he can be bought
Speaker 1: before every show. It's on the whims of Roy. It's
Speaker 1: how he's feeling. So yeah, I'm gonna bring him presents.
Speaker 1: I want to win. Let's stay political for a second.
Speaker 1: The Daily Beast spoke to Samuel Wiles. He does stand
Speaker 1: up comedy in La and resembles jd Vance, and he
Speaker 1: has started doing a jd Vance impression. Wile said, I'm
Speaker 1: always kind of clocking guys with big round heads and
Speaker 1: beards and media, the fact that we both have light
Speaker 1: eyes and kind of high school teacher speaking voices. With
Speaker 1: a bonus coincidence. He started doing his Vance impression on
Speaker 1: TikTok on August seventh, while channeling jd Vance In a
Speaker 1: recent video, he had Vance reading letters from constituents and said,
Speaker 1: dear future VP Van s, a Haitian illegal broke into
Speaker 1: my house and ate my dog between two slices of wonderbread.
Speaker 1: He was wearing nothing but a cape and a sinister
Speaker 1: top hat. He escaped on a skateboard powered by dark magic.
Speaker 1: How does he come up with ideas? He thought about
Speaker 1: how much I don't like JD Vance, but also how
Speaker 1: awful would be to be him. I started writing down
Speaker 1: stuff I thought he would say, because I thought I
Speaker 1: could talk about it as stand up. But then I
Speaker 1: wrote for like ninety minutes straight. It was so easy.
Speaker 1: I read Hillbilly Eligi when it came out. I remember
Speaker 1: liking it while I was reading it, then putting it
Speaker 1: down and going, oh wait, what an a hole. Then
Speaker 1: when he became an outright conservative media figure that it
Speaker 1: seemed really logical. It'll never not be funny to me
Speaker 1: that he's a huge fraud. No one likes him. He
Speaker 1: doesn't even get the benefit of this weird lying. His
Speaker 1: life would be so much easier if he could be honest,
Speaker 1: but there's so many layers that he can't have an
Speaker 1: honest moment. Now part of what makes a good advance
Speaker 1: impression mascara, He says, My fiance works in beauty and
Speaker 1: did my eyeliner for the first round of videos, and
Speaker 1: we both kind of realized it needed to look worse.
Speaker 1: So now I just get the three dollars wet and
Speaker 1: wild from Walgreens and mash it into my eyes on
Speaker 1: my own. Shout out to Walgreens. Nick Swartzon spoke to
Speaker 1: the eight hundred pound Gorilla, and he said, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite stories is I did a performance arts center
Speaker 1: and I show up backstage. It's about two thousand seats.
Speaker 1: I look up the walls and big murals of the
Speaker 1: Lion King and Phantom and Wicked, and I go to
Speaker 1: the manager and I go, do you guys have comedy?
Speaker 1: Here and he goes, oh, yeah, I have comedy. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we had Lewis Black and I go, oh, no, do
Speaker 1: you have security here? And he goes no, but we
Speaker 1: have ushers. And I'm like, you don't understand. There's going
Speaker 1: to be a crapstorm coming in here. My fans are
Speaker 1: gonna be rowdy. And he's like, we'll be fine. And
Speaker 1: it's like, now you don't understand what I'm saying to you.
Speaker 1: The Nick Schwartz and crowd's gonna come in hot. And
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm not worried about it. Okay, whatever we go.
Speaker 1: I do my show. It's chaos. Girls got in a
Speaker 1: fight in a balcony. This brawl. People are being insane.
Speaker 1: It's super fun. I had a blast. And after the show,
Speaker 1: I got back to my green room and the manager goes,
Speaker 1: what the f And I'm like, yeah, I told you.
Speaker 1: People are doing cocaine in the crowd. There's vomit everywhere.
Speaker 1: Usher just didn't know what to do and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I told you. Literally said that. I called
Speaker 1: my agent. I was like, maybe let's take a break
Speaker 1: from the Performing Arts Center. Like what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: After the ballet slates has a big article on the
Speaker 1: arts of clowning, a little too deep for me to
Speaker 1: cover on this podcast, but a good read on Slate.
Speaker 1: The part I'll highlight here is they spoke to Natalie Palomides,
Speaker 1: who I think is fantastic, and the setup here was
Speaker 1: about how clown performers dress, and they said Natalie, by contrast,
Speaker 1: often isn't dressed in anything. In one of her more
Speaker 1: shocking Bitsmedies takes the stage dressed like the little mermaid
Speaker 1: looking for her true love. An audience member of volunzear
Speaker 1: is to fill that role. Natalie locks them in an
Speaker 1: aggressive tongue and make out, pulling their shirt over their
Speaker 1: head with passionate post nuptial Gusto, writes Slates. Later, Balamedes
Speaker 1: strips down completely and discovers that with the wonders of
Speaker 1: m enjoying yourself, maybe she doesn't need true love after all.
Speaker 1: She says, so much of the clowning in the modern
Speaker 1: scene is naked and horny, and that's not part of
Speaker 1: being a clown. Traditional clowning is supposed to be innocent, childlike,
Speaker 1: and playful, and I'm frustrated that I've become an example
Speaker 1: of this. It's become a creature people. If you're going
Speaker 1: to do nudity, you have to earn it. She's anxious
Speaker 1: that she might be bastardizing the form. She would rather
Speaker 1: say that I was a physical character comedian. I think
Speaker 1: more people on the outside started to refer to me
Speaker 1: as a clown before I called myself one. One of
Speaker 1: her friends made the case that clowning, just like any
Speaker 1: form of art, is subject to reinvention and deconstruction. Deal
Speaker 1: and went electric, Natalie, it might ditch your clothes in
Speaker 1: the middle of a show. Leslie Lao is one of
Speaker 1: Vulture's comedians you should know and will know. Oh. When
Speaker 1: they asked her if she were immortalized as a cartoon character,
Speaker 1: what would her outfit be? Interesting question? Stylish ath leisure,
Speaker 1: high waisted sweatpants, sports brawn a cool baggy vintage jacket,
Speaker 1: sexy clean sneakers. Sounds like, uh, Pouci from The Simpsons,
Speaker 1: didn't Pooci dress like that? What comedian's career trajectory would
Speaker 1: you like to follow? Bill Burr? I want to do
Speaker 1: stand up forever if you known for that first, and
Speaker 1: be competitive with myself and see if it can be
Speaker 1: better than it was there before. I want everything I
Speaker 1: do outside of stand up writing, acting, podcasting, directing, voice over,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Tolign with my voice in comedic style. Worst
Speaker 1: show ever. I recently did a show to college, so
Speaker 1: beforehand I assumed it was for college students. That is
Speaker 1: a good assumption. When I arrived, it was for a
Speaker 1: summer camp of high school students touring the college decide
Speaker 1: whether or not they wanted to apply. The average age
Speaker 1: had to be sixteen. They spent the entire day doing
Speaker 1: activities and were restless. All of them were on their
Speaker 1: phones and either talking to each other, shouting at questions
Speaker 1: that the comics, or trying to make each other laugh.
Speaker 1: The sound was awful. They were too young to grasp
Speaker 1: the concepts of my jokes, loneliness, isolation, agonizing over whether
Speaker 1: or not to have children, et cetera. They were not
Speaker 1: listening or laughing at anything I said, so I started
Speaker 1: doing Q and A. Questions range from what's your favorite movie? Too?
Speaker 1: Does life get worse? To what's your Snapchat? The lineup
Speaker 1: was stacked with amazing and talented comics, and one by
Speaker 1: one we were demolished emotionally by these children, and I
Speaker 1: hated it and it was amazing. All right, what's your
Speaker 1: joke writing process? She says, trying to be funny can
Speaker 1: backfire on me. When I first started, I naturally thought
Speaker 1: of what would make an audience laugh, and work backwards
Speaker 1: and tailoring the premise to it. Now I realize if
Speaker 1: I try to be funny first, my truth will get lost.
Speaker 1: If I start with the truth first, and I rant
Speaker 1: about my honest feelings and experience off in the humor
Speaker 1: On Once he relies on its own organically all right,
Speaker 1: comedy opinion hill that you'll die on, Leslie says, let's
Speaker 1: experiment with earlier show times. Shows that start past nine
Speaker 1: pm are challenge to us all. Everyone's pushing their limits
Speaker 1: to be awake and full of energy when reality we're
Speaker 1: all fighting there to doze off. Amen, preach Johnny Maco's
Speaker 1: to bed at nine point thirty half the time. Let
Speaker 1: me take a crack at a four pm show. We
Speaker 1: can all have a laugh at dinner at a reasonable
Speaker 1: hour and tuck ourselves in by nine pm. Oh, I
Speaker 1: think that's awesome, She says. I also love the no
Speaker 1: phones and shows policy. A stand up show is not
Speaker 1: a concert. It's a time to listen and laugh. When
Speaker 1: you're holding up your phone in front of your face
Speaker 1: and block other people's view and filming our sets, you're
Speaker 1: neither listening or laughing. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best,
Speaker 1: don't try to lead with being relatable. Just focus on
Speaker 1: what's true for yourself and hope that connects with people. Worst.
Speaker 1: When I had my day job at Netflix, a few
Speaker 1: comics would find out and tell me that I was
Speaker 1: already in. All I had to do is get acquainted
Speaker 1: with someone on the stand up team and pitch myself
Speaker 1: and get a special that way, I'm well aware that's
Speaker 1: a backward, awkward and unprofessional strategy. These industry people have
Speaker 1: to come to you. If the comics approach them, they'd
Speaker 1: be a line of comics of the Netflix lobby waiting
Speaker 1: to pitch themselves to creative executives every day. Just be
Speaker 1: so good, funny, professional and special that someone who can
Speaker 1: change your life will notice you and come to you.
Speaker 1: And that is your comedy news for today. If you
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