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Speaker 2: Another busy and weird one today. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack
with your daily comedy News, A daily briefing on stand
up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A center is
the Algorithm loves toms Agora returning to Minneapolis. Now, I
thought this was interesting. He's playing in the ACME Comedy
Club three nights August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth.
I wonder why Tom Sikora is doing club shows. I
don't have a theory. I just find it interesting. Maybe
he's work shopping, maybe he's going to record something. But
if you're in Minneapolis, a nice small room to see Segora.
Industry insider establishment comedian Nicki Glazer was on Karras Swisher's podcast,
There's a Sentence, regular role comedian just like you. Nicki
Glazer says, I don't live like I see a lot
of people living. Also for fear of like if you
crash in a private plane, no one feels sorry for you.
That's my biggest fear. Now wherever I'm in one, she joked,
if I'm on Southwest, people would be like, oh my god,
what a woman. Of the people. What a hero. She
died so young. Nicky said, people hate people flying on
private this elitist b word. She deserved it. I do
feel like it's a huge waste of money. I don't
mind flying. I'm not famous enough that it's really a
hindrance to me. I'm sure Kara Swisher, totally related to
Flying Coach Kevin Hart went on Alex Cooper's podcast. He
got in a little trouble. He was describing Timothy Schallomey,
and he described Timothy Shallamey as having the body of
a German woman. That did not go over well with
the Timothy Shallomey fans. It was a little kerfluffel over
the weekend. He also made fun of Elon Musk and
Nick Cannon. They discussed Bruno Mars. Kevin said Bruno was
born in the wrong time. He probably yells at his parents.
Why didn't you have me even in the sixties and seventies.
I should have been back there with those guys. He
then made fun of machine Gun Kelly, saying the product
of a wrong tattoo choice. There's nothing you can do now,
there's nothing you can do about it, can't cover it up.
He can't do what anything. It is what it is.
He has a full flooded shirt tattooed on him, dark
green shirt. Nobody could say anything. Everybody's got accepted. The
roast of Kevin Hart airs on Netflix Mother's Day Night.
Who scheduled that at least the Knixt Games at three
point thirty, which also gets the comment who scheduled that
at least for me? I can watch both? The roast
of Kevin Hart Sunday, May tenth, eight East five West.
Kevin said, have at it, say what you want, because
I'm gonna say what I want. Kevin discussed his career, saying,
I've been doing this for so long that the brand
of Kevin Hart sorry to go third person has become
pretty big, so because the brand aspect attached to me
in business opportunity. I got commercial in places where I
had to because that's the direction I was going, and
rightfully so very happy with the decisions I made. Is
excited to return her roasting, saying this is what I do.
This is where I started. Ground zero was snapping and
jonesing and hitting people below the belt. That's the good stuff.
And I think doing that and giving the world an
opportunity to see that and laugh at it. I don't
give an f say what you want laugh. More from
that Variety interview with the Netflix is a joke at
Comedy Festival, Folks, Variety was excited about the more Solo
Hernandez show. Yeah, their premise, The Marcelo Hernando Shows a
huge showcase for Spanish language comedy. What does the global
marketplace for comedy look like right now? Good question. Robbie
pro who runs Netflix Comedy, says, what we're seeing is
not necessarily emerging markets, but more stand ups who are
successful in the US can now sell everywhere in the world.
If you look at people's tour schedules, it's a wide
array of where they're able to sell because there's a
pocket of mega fans everywhere. Comedy has become a real
export around the world, mostly through Netflix. Marcelo may be
talking about his mom, but he's talking about my mom too,
and someone's mom in Japan. Some of those themes are
super universal. I just threw up in my mouth. Bob
Odenkirk predicts the end of Manisphere comedy. He told The
New York Times it is low hanging fruit. It's like
literally on the ground. It's fruit that's on the ground rotting.
See I disagree. Comedy is not actually a fruit, thus
it cannot be literally low hanging fruit. Odenkirk said Manisphere
comedy was the reactionary comedy movement of the last five years.
I don't think it has a lot of depth to it.
It's a movement that I'm happy to see transforming int
his something else and disappearing or dissipating. Odenkirk made a
good point. He argues that audiences often mistake performance for sincerity.
Bob said, if you want to say something honest, then
you should get off a comedy stage. Everything you say
is of construct everything. Let us use the stage to
be as crude as we can be, and as clumsy
and oafish as we can be. You're not you. You're
pretending to be a person named you. Really smart there,
that's insightful. Some reason Dave Chappelle has popped into my head.
Rob Schneider was on the Doctor Phil podcast. You gotta
say one thing about Rob Schneider. He's interesting.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: You may not agree with Rob Schneider, but anytime I
mention him, it's always interesting. Schneider told Doctor Phil when
you stop the conversation. That's when violence starts. Doctor Phil said, well,
comedy isn't just punch lines at social math. In one sentence,
a comic can expose what we're afraid to say, what
we secretly believe, and what the culture's trip wires are.
Schneider said, it's liberating. I mean, if people come to
see comedy for any reason, it's to feel liberated standing
up for what's right in free speech. It's not going
to come without a cost. May cost you friends, may
cost you a job, a potential job, may cost you money,
and it certainly costs me money. A social media clip
from Jim Brewer is making the rounds. I played it,
I was like, what the hell is Jim talking about it?
And then I looked it up, so I let you
seequence the same way. Here's Jim Brewer talking about something
you forget.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, we were putting stickers on
gas pumps and said, I did that?
Speaker 2: Have you checked the gas prices lately?
Speaker 1: Where are the stickers? Where are the stickers? It works
for one person and not the other, but it is
amazing how much we will go to defend a same
scenario because you believe that's your profit and you believe
this one's taking the promised lab It's mind boggling.
Speaker 2: So I did some research, and here's what I think
Jim is talking about. People are putting stickers with the
face of the President of the United States saying I
did it. People are putting them or were putting them
on gas pumps. So it seems that that's what Jim
is talking about. Jim Brewer appears to be upset with
the price of gas. I think not sure. Fiera Eisenberg
has announced her new special I Used to Be Nicer,
produced by Lewis Black's company, will be on Veeps five
pm Pacific Friday May fifteenth. In I Used to Be Nicer, o,
Fira Eisenberg gives a Canadian middle finger to toxic positivity, parenting,
marriage maintenance, aging therapy, and the cost of eggs. She says,
I've been told my whole life that I'm so nice?
Is this the Canadian in me? The accommodating woman in me. Well,
thanks to parenthood, getting a little older and being told
to just be positive one too many times, I can
finally say I used to be nicer. Now I'm honest
and it's better for comedy. Yesterday we talked about Hulu
Comedy and if you listen to the show, I just
the Hulu Comedy brand. They've gotten some big names, but
it's everybody like a little past their prime. And now
I've gotta play a trailer for you. This is from
Lisa Ann Walter, who is releasing her first stand up
comedy special. It's called It Was an Accident. We're told
Lisa An Walter is sixty two years old and it's
been doing stand up comedy for years. And I'm gonna
play a trailer for you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I've clipped the beginning because the beginning of the trailer
she's yelling and it's so annoying. So I'm gonna lop
off the top and get you straight to a joke.
Here's Lisa and Walter.
Speaker 3: I'm thrilled to be here, honestly because I have twenty
teenage boys at home, so I'm just happy to be
in front of people who like me. All right, where's
my LGBTQ?
Speaker 2: Where are you?
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, thanks for coming out and also
coming to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey shut up.
Speaker 3: I mean I know what mindfulness is because my kids
told me. But I've seen the way I eat, and
I'm pretty sure I don't practice it. I don't know
why I can't find a fella. I'm pissed off so
often lately, guys. I swear because I'm a grown ass
woman in America and I'm paying attention to by known,
we were headed towards the Handmaid's tail, and I was
gonna be wearing that big red cake. I wouldn't have
cut out carps. I had a young boyfriend for a
while after the divorce. I didn't want to, but uh,
I was divorced in LA and that's the law.
Speaker 2: Now. Was that not awful? That was awful? Right? Like?
None of those jokes are good anyway. Lisa Ann Walter
was an accident part of Hilarious Celebrity Traders or Celebrity
Traders UK. Is there a Celebrity Traders USA? I don't
know if there is. Anyway, British Traders is a zillion
times better than US Traders because US Traders is people
playing reality TV. Oh, I gotta come back to that
in a second. But British Traders is like regular people
and it's just way more entertaining. But this time it's
celebrity Traders, and there are five comedians on it, James Acaster,
Joan McNally, joe Lycett, Rob Beckett, who if you watched
Last One Laughing, you will love and Romesha Wagon Nathan
who was also on Last One Laughing to reality TV.
My other daughter was over at the house and we
were looking for something to watch. I'm like, I kind
of want to watch Survivor season one. We watched three
episodes of Survivor season one. Oh my goodness, saw the
scene with Richard hash that he played last week. That
was one of the episodes. Saw the folks eat rats.
They were just mounting down on the rats. The challenges
were much better. Jeff showed up and made them eat
live grubs. Oh and Jeff. Now, we had nothing to
compare it to at the time, but watching Jeff Probes
twenty five years later, he's so much better at it now.
In those first episodes, he's not good even a tribal council.
You can tell he's just speaking words that he memorized
and it's not natural at all. Now season one, I
think it streams, but they've pulled a couple of the
episodes for reasons. You'd have to ask them I bought
the DVD. I found it's out of prints, but I
found a brand new Season one DVD of Survivor. Anyway,
let you know when I get back to that. If
you're at the Sydney Comedy Festival today, it's Ikea Wars.
Kieran Bullock takes his cult comedy festival favorite across the globe.
In ike Awards, Bullock turns host, referee and chaos maker,
pitting two contestants against each other in a battle royale.
Two people have to build Ikea furniture. Have you ever
done that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I would lose my mind. It's always a piece missing.
Maybe it's just me. I'm sure akia Furniture is wonderful
and this should sponsor the podcast. Let's be honest. But
if you think it's going to be a straight race,
think again. There will be added challenges forfeits and hurdles
of plenty, but at the end of each night, one
contestant will reign supreme as the Champion of Sweden asterisk.
We are told the title is not officially recognized by
the Swedish government. Kieran Bullock started the Ikea Show in
twenty nineteen at the Melbourne fringe turning through an assortment
of Sweden's flat packed finest while chatting casually with the audience.
On the last night, he decided to try a race format,
as suggested by a friend, and away we go. If
you are in Australia and I know we have Australian listeners,
hello Erin Thursday May seventh and Friday May eighth, at
the iconic Bondai Pavilion, I spent Was it a New
Year's Day? Was it a Christmas Day?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Christmas Day? I was up at the reef. I spent
in New Year's Day, Not Year's Eve, but New Year's
New Year's Eve day, That's what December thirty, first daytime
at Bondai Beach. I loved it. I gotta get back
there at some point. That sounds like a fun show.
You should go. And let's check in at the Netflix
is a Joe comedy festival. On this Wednesday, We've got
Nicks basketball tonight and volleyball. So I have to play
volleyball and then come back and watch Nick's playoff basketball
on tape. What does that have to do with the Netflix? John?
Why did you just randomly bring that up? I don't
know I'm leaving it in. I don't know why I
suddenly needed to tell you what I'm doing tonight. Well,
let's see who's doing shows. Michelle Buteau, Chelsea Handler or
Biglia Rod Carmichael, Craig Robinson, I thought you quit comedy
Craig Robinson, Matt Rice at the Comedy Store at seven,
Mark Norman at the Comedy Store at ten. Both are
sold out. Oh A just added this is new. This
is like new new Flight of the Concords. I'm learning this.
I'll see now. Guys. Now, if you have told me
Flight of the Concords had a show on Wednesday night,
I would have gone out and done the Diane Morgan
Monday Flight of the Concords Wednesday. Ah, I'm learning this
as I look at it. Just added Flight of the Concords.
Oh wait, they added they added Monday night, Tuesday night
and Wednesday. Oh I could have guys, you're killing me
told you Fly the Cord. I'm so upset at this
because then I would have gone out so annoying. Come on,
I'm not doing a bit. I'm genuinely annoyed because I
would have gone out for if I could have gone
out and done Diane Monday and Concords Tuesday or Wednesday,
and some other stuff I was out there. I would
all right, shut up John to host the show, Okay,
Taviny Atish, Sam, Jay Vittorio Angeloni at Dynasty Typewriter at
nine thirty. He's fantastic. Go see him if you can.
Drew Lynch, he was a guest on this program at
the ice House at seven thirty, and a bunch of
other things. But you know, last night there were a
lot of bigger names, but tonight the big show, Flight
of the Concords. Now, when I recorded, they must have
just just added this, because I'll tell you behind the scenes,
I'm recording this on Monday, and I recorded Tuesday and
Wednesday back to back to accommodate my schedule, and they
must have just just added this because it wasn't on
the it's still not on the Tuesday schedule. I know
that's in your past, it's in my future. So they
must have added this like five minutes ago. Anyway, I
have volleyball tonight at seven thirty and then at the
Knicks playoff game. And that's your comedy news for today.
I'll see tomorrow