Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Matt Reiche tells Formes his overnight success was
Speaker 1: a decade in the making. He was fifteen when he
Speaker 1: landed on Wild and Out, remember that on MTV. He
Speaker 1: was in sixteen episodes. He said, I got Wilding Out
Speaker 1: and that was a phenomenal launching platform from my career,
Speaker 1: but it's not what I want to do forever, which
Speaker 1: is why I left the show. Trying to make his
Speaker 1: name in comedy, he said he was getting a few
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a show and paying for his own flights,
Speaker 1: while sensing that he was capable of a much more
Speaker 1: Raife says, nobody wants to pay any attention. How am
Speaker 1: I to get in front of people? If nobody wants
Speaker 1: to give me a chance. I'm not asking you for
Speaker 1: anything drastic, just an opportunity to get in front of people.
Speaker 1: My friend was like, want you to do yourself. You're
Speaker 1: sitting here complaining about how nobody will give you an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Why don't you create your own opportunity. Man, You have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a following and comedians are starting
Speaker 1: to put their stuff out on YouTube. Wyann't you just
Speaker 1: do that? That was the advice that led him to
Speaker 1: call his first YouTube special OnlyFans. That was a playful
Speaker 1: response to fans frequently asking if he had an only
Speaker 1: fans page. People kept checking to see if I had
Speaker 1: an only fans page, and I was getting tweets all
Speaker 1: the time asking about it. That's when the adult theme
Speaker 1: platform exploded, and I thought if I named the special OnlyFans,
Speaker 1: it'd be a number one Google. He funded the special
Speaker 1: through a go Fundme. He raised close to thirty grand
Speaker 1: and says, I think fifteen or twenty thousand was what
Speaker 1: I was really praying for, And for some reason, people
Speaker 1: were so supportive. People really believed in me and wanted
Speaker 1: this product. Only forty people attended that taping. Only Fans
Speaker 1: now boast thirteen million views on YouTube. His second special,
Speaker 1: Matthew steven Rife has twenty one million views. His third,
Speaker 1: Walking Red Flag is thirteen million. You may recall he
Speaker 1: sold out two hundred and sixty dates in forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: He said, I remember lying in bed his tickets went
Speaker 1: on sale. My phone blew up with a message from
Speaker 1: my agent. This sold out, This sold out, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: didn't go on sale five minutes ago blew my mind.
Speaker 1: Adding Ford my passions in film and television, acting and development.
Speaker 1: That's really where I want my career to go. There
Speaker 1: might be a day where I'm only doing movies. I
Speaker 1: don't have the time to do stand up anymore, at
Speaker 1: least tour the way I'm doing now. Touring has been
Speaker 1: my life for thirteen years now, and it's all I've
Speaker 1: ever done. But it might not always be that way.
Speaker 1: Interesting Whilston Magazine asked Dane Cook about TV shows about
Speaker 1: comedians like Has or Missus Mazel. Dane said, I think
Speaker 1: Ax is wonderful. I had the real privilege of sharing
Speaker 1: the stage a couple times with Hannah Einbinder. She was like,
Speaker 1: I'm such a huge fan. That made me feel great.
Speaker 1: I forget that I had been around for a minute.
Speaker 1: We had this fun back and forth talking each other up.
Speaker 1: With Mazel, I'm so far behind, but I love it.
Speaker 1: I grew up loving films like The King of Comedy
Speaker 1: Anything I kind of pulled back the curtain of funny
Speaker 1: people in the world of show business I was infatuated with.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm developing something now that's kind of similar
Speaker 1: and I've never had so much fun failing miserably trying
Speaker 1: to get something off the ground. They asked Dane, what's
Speaker 1: your process? And Dane said, this is my favorite question
Speaker 1: because I wish you could get me and ten other
Speaker 1: comics on a call and say how do you write?
Speaker 1: Because it's so different. I found it in ninety seven.
Speaker 1: If I wrote something down, when I looked at it again,
Speaker 1: I'd say, I'm unfunny, I stink. I realized that when
Speaker 1: I wrote something down, I hated it and thought it
Speaker 1: was terrible. But if I went on stage and just
Speaker 1: tried it on a dead Monday night, somewhere there was hope.
Speaker 1: If I organically talk about the first thought I have,
Speaker 1: instead of trying to write things that I don't even
Speaker 1: know if they're funny or not, it's better. Had his
Speaker 1: Dane deal with hecklers, He said, I had a Heckler
Speaker 1: moment a few weeks ago and she said something about
Speaker 1: my wife, something about my relationship, and I got really angry.
Speaker 1: But I learned something in therapy years ago. When someone
Speaker 1: makes you angry, respond with honesty. So I enjoy that
Speaker 1: process instead of just hammering them, I'm gonna invite them
Speaker 1: to the table, so to speak. I shoot the hecker,
Speaker 1: like I know you need to get something off your chest.
Speaker 1: I'll invite them, We'll go back and forth, and at
Speaker 1: the end of that, I'll hit them with some final zinger.
Speaker 1: But if you're talking about people who are just disruptive
Speaker 1: and rude, they're ruining the show for people around them.
Speaker 1: I get emails from people ten years later saying, we
Speaker 1: still think about the night Jonathan I got drunk at
Speaker 1: your show and you just scarlet letter to him Dane Cook,
Speaker 1: who's the funniest person you know? Dane says, it remains
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle. He makes me laugh. I had the luxury
Speaker 1: of doing TD Garden with him back in October. He
Speaker 1: asked me to be a surprise guest, and I hadn't
Speaker 1: been on stage in the Garden since I did Vicious Circle.
Speaker 1: I do my twenty minutes and I killed. Honestly, turned
Speaker 1: to my wife and said, no way, Dave's gonna be better,
Speaker 1: but he comes out. My wife and I were wiping
Speaker 1: tears away. I was giving him a standing ovation mid set.
Speaker 1: Who's the comedian that you weren't four but he'd most
Speaker 1: like to meet? He said, Oh Man, George Carlin. At
Speaker 1: times in my career when there was pushback against me
Speaker 1: and people were not happy to see you succeeding, he
Speaker 1: inspired me. I remember Carlin doing the hippie dippy weather Man,
Speaker 1: and then the day he went on TV and killed it.
Speaker 1: He brought the cardboard cut out and threw it out
Speaker 1: of the frame and said he's dead. I'm not this guy,
Speaker 1: and he literally kind of killed his career and allowed
Speaker 1: himself to say I'm changing, and if you don't like it,
Speaker 1: I don't give a rat's ass. Worst moment on stage ever, Dane,
Speaker 1: He said, I was in a comedy group and we
Speaker 1: did The Garden in nineteen ninety two as part of
Speaker 1: wbcn's Rock of Boston show. Fish was the closing act.
Speaker 1: This is a good show. They put us on, not
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show, but two plus hours anyway,
Speaker 1: right after the spin Doctors and before Fish. Being huge
Speaker 1: Fish fans, he'd sig here crowd through lighters and sandals.
Speaker 1: I got a welt on my neck. I got hit
Speaker 1: so hard with the lighter. I swear to you, if
Speaker 1: it hit me in the I would have lost my sight.
Speaker 1: When I describe it, I say, you ever see the
Speaker 1: opening of Saving Private Ryan you picture of that but
Speaker 1: with sandals and lighters. Dane All liked this question. For
Speaker 1: a Sebastian Maniscalco, who was asked how do he put
Speaker 1: the material together for a new tour, Said've probably been
Speaker 1: working on it for two years. It's not like I
Speaker 1: go in some room and start writing down funny things.
Speaker 1: It's more of living my life, extracting the humor in
Speaker 1: everyday occurrences, whether it be hang out with my kids
Speaker 1: or my take on Amazon. He tells a story. I
Speaker 1: got two kids, five and seven. We don't bring the
Speaker 1: iPads to dinner. But that being said, if you don't
Speaker 1: bring out iPads, you basically become the iPad and or
Speaker 1: just doing whatever you can at the dinner table to
Speaker 1: entertain your kids, like I'm doing things from the eighties
Speaker 1: to try and entertain my kids. That's a little morsel
Speaker 1: of something that I might be working on. And what
Speaker 1: you're seeing now is not where you're going to see
Speaker 1: at the end of the tour in April. Because as
Speaker 1: I live life, material kind of comes. And I've noticed
Speaker 1: as a comedian it seems that people really enjoy crowd work.
Speaker 1: I'm like you know what let me lean into the
Speaker 1: crowd work a little bit. I think it personalizes the
Speaker 1: show a bit more. You got to know where to
Speaker 1: put it. I not, it's just from trial and error.
Speaker 1: If you put it too early during the set, people
Speaker 1: all of a sudden think they're part of the show
Speaker 1: and they might yell stuff at you. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of science. Were we drop it in? The Texas Chronicle
Speaker 1: asked Shang Wang, if you hadn't discovered comedy, or if
Speaker 1: comedy hadn't discovered you, what you'd be doing today. Shang
Speaker 1: Wang said, I don't really know. I don't think I
Speaker 1: would have been happy if I'd fall through with the
Speaker 1: business track. I was in a poetry and photography and
Speaker 1: maybe i'd be some kind of a photographer perhaps, So
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. I still like to dabble in that.
Speaker 1: I'll still shoot pictures all the time, and sometime in
Speaker 1: the future I might try to combine the two. One time,
Speaker 1: Scheng was asked best and worst comedy advice, and his
Speaker 1: answer to worst advice was that he should do more
Speaker 1: Asian jokes. I don't know if things have changed or
Speaker 1: things are changing, but I think something you come against
Speaker 1: when you perform for the general public. I feel like,
Speaker 1: especially if you're somewhat of an ethnic minority or just
Speaker 1: some kind of minority in general, in our society, you
Speaker 1: feel pressure to do certain jokes, to dress certain issues,
Speaker 1: to be a certain way, and I think that advice
Speaker 1: comes from that phenomenon. Like people when they see an
Speaker 1: Asian person go on stage, they assume that these are
Speaker 1: the type of jokes they should be saying. And I
Speaker 1: think whoever gave me that advice at that mentality, I
Speaker 1: think it's terrible advice because it's not my nature to
Speaker 1: do those type of jokes, and I grew up hearing jokes,
Speaker 1: stereotypes and stuff like that that I find to be
Speaker 1: very limiting because it doesn't allow to be who you
Speaker 1: really are, to be a whole person. I think it's
Speaker 1: much more free to do the jokes you really want
Speaker 1: to do, and I think it's bad advice to limit
Speaker 1: yourself in such a way. Nico Karney is one of
Speaker 1: Vulture's comedians you should and will know. Nico says, the
Speaker 1: first stand ups I love growing up where Tig Nataro,
Speaker 1: Mike Berbiglia, John Mulaney, Brian Reagan, and Jim Gaffigan. All right,
Speaker 1: we see the lame there. I love comedians who use
Speaker 1: language and cadence that is very specific to them. I
Speaker 1: love Greer Barns. He makes it look effortless. I'm also
Speaker 1: a big fan of Julio Torres. Worst show Ever. I've
Speaker 1: done plenty of shows at restaurants where the audience was
Speaker 1: expecting a meal in surprise, there's a comedy show. Now,
Speaker 1: they could prepare you for doing anecdotal material about coming
Speaker 1: out as trans to a room full of people who
Speaker 1: just wanted to eat their burritos in peace. One time,
Speaker 1: he did a bar show where the mic was so
Speaker 1: close to the end of the bar and the only
Speaker 1: audience members were all seated at the bar, so it
Speaker 1: was kind of like giving a toast group of strangers.
Speaker 1: If I had to pick one worst show ever, it
Speaker 1: was probably a college gig. They put me in a
Speaker 1: massive auditorium. I performed to silence for less than a
Speaker 1: dozen students, most of whom left. How many times have
Speaker 1: we heard how horrible these college shows are. The faculty
Speaker 1: member who organized it wanted me to stand in the
Speaker 1: elevator before the show to promote it. The only thing
Speaker 1: more humiliating than doing stand up for a group of
Speaker 1: uninterested college students. Is barking for audience members and an elevator? Yikes?
Speaker 1: Interesting answer here. Biggest financial hurdle you've ever encountered since
Speaker 1: being a comedian travel in taxes. I'd just shown Ohio,
Speaker 1: and even booking three months in advance, it was going
Speaker 1: to cost nine hundred dollars to fly from New York
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. No offense to the good people of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: but who's going there for nine hundred dollars? The Cincinnati
Speaker 1: airport isn't even in Cincinnati, It's in Kentucky. The airlines
Speaker 1: need to get a grip. Taxes were also higher than
Speaker 1: I expected. I didn't realize the government needed so much
Speaker 1: money from an up and coming artist, but I guess
Speaker 1: we have to fund this failing nation somehow. Best comedy advice,
Speaker 1: worst comedy of ice, best not to do crowd work
Speaker 1: for the first few years of comic I think we're
Speaker 1: on the come down from the crowd work trend thanks
Speaker 1: to a very successful comedian who special maybe didn't quite
Speaker 1: live up to the hype. Hmmm, is that a slam
Speaker 1: at Matt Rife? But Matt Rife's special is pretty good.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's slamming there. That's interesting. Hit me
Speaker 1: in the Facebook group if I forgetting somebody, But that's
Speaker 1: got to be a rife dig right, Yes, No, Facebook
Speaker 1: group is daily comedy news podcast group. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of young comics. He isn't a quick way to
Speaker 1: go viral online. But starting out, it's so much more
Speaker 1: important to find your material in your voice than it
Speaker 1: is to learn how to do crowd work. Worst advice
Speaker 1: I've received was to talk less about being trans. I
Speaker 1: could make myself more palatable for larger audiences. From what
Speaker 1: I can tell. The man who told me this has
Speaker 1: never played a large audience. I'm not sure where he
Speaker 1: was coming from. I hope his open mics are going. Well,
Speaker 1: that's your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program,
Speaker 1: tell a friend about it. They might like it too,
Speaker 1: And I'll see tomorrow.