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Speaker 2: Hello, Jenny Mack with your daily company news. Michael Ian
Speaker 2: Black wrote a piece for the Daily Beast and said,
Speaker 2: last January, I got into a fight with Andrew Dice Clay.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm already interested.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Last January, I got a fight with Dice at a
Speaker 2: stand up comedy club in Naples, Florida. The details of
Speaker 2: the altercation are unimportant, but at one point Clay threatened
Speaker 2: me with violence and said, I'm going to show you
Speaker 2: who I really am. Said in his welcome Back Cutter
Speaker 2: brooklyn Nes, I was like, I know who you are.
Speaker 2: You used to be a popular comedian. Love it. Andrew
Speaker 2: was booked to do the Early show me the Late.
Speaker 2: Although I was never a fan. I decided to arrive
Speaker 2: at the club early to watch the second half of
Speaker 2: a set, thinking maybe I'd gotten them all wrong and
Speaker 2: the bullying jerk face he played on stage was just
Speaker 2: an act. Turns out no, he really is a bullying
Speaker 2: jerk face. Worse, his act sucked. It was unfocused, unfunny,
Speaker 2: and ended with him performing the same profane nursery Rhymes
Speaker 2: had been doing for thirty years. Lest you think of
Speaker 2: just being a petty bitch, which I definitely am. I'm
Speaker 2: doing so in service of a larger point. Right seeing
Speaker 2: Michael Ian Black, there's another bullying, a jerk face out there,
Speaker 2: repeating the same stick he's been doing for years, Like Clay.
Speaker 2: A lot of people think he's a misogynistic jerk. Like Clay,
Speaker 2: he wears the same stupid costume he's had for decades.
Speaker 2: Like Clay, his actors grown stale, and his crowd size
Speaker 2: is depleted, and like Clay, he seems angry as hell
Speaker 2: about it. Who's he talking about? Donald Trump? I'm not
Speaker 2: here for the politics of this. This is Jenny Max speaking.
Speaker 2: I'm here for the comedy of it. And Michael leean
Speaker 2: black comedian, says, I was surprised to realize that Trump
Speaker 2: is essentially just another road comic trotting out all his
Speaker 2: tired bits from yesteryear. Jerry Seinfeld once said in the
Speaker 2: documentary Comedian that even if you're famous, the audience won't
Speaker 2: want to give you a few minutes grace before they
Speaker 2: turn on you if you're not funny. Trump recently said, hello, Montana,
Speaker 2: I've been all over your state. Everything's two hours. When
Speaker 2: are we going to be there? Two hours? Sir, two hours,
Speaker 2: Michael ian Black writes, says an observation, it's mundane as
Speaker 2: a joke, it's non existent, but the audience love him
Speaker 2: and they eat it up, despite the fact that he's
Speaker 2: no longer running against Joe Biden. Trump cannelp but pull
Speaker 2: the audience about which nickname for the president. They prefer
Speaker 2: Sleepy Joe or crook at Joe. It's the equivalent of
Speaker 2: a comedian doing a Michael Jackson joke. I always thought
Speaker 2: the comparisons between Trump and stand up comedians were insulting
Speaker 2: to comedians. A comedian works at their craft, honing jokes,
Speaker 2: cutting fat, trying to create a coherent and satisfying hour,
Speaker 2: material that entertains the audience and at times might even
Speaker 2: make them think. Trumps none of the discipline, none of
Speaker 2: the thoughtfulness, none of the material. We have a word
Speaker 2: for comics like that hacks. Andrew dice Clay is now
Speaker 2: a hack, so increasingly is Donald Trump. Samuel letters to
Speaker 2: Michael ian Black. Now there must be a theme. And
Speaker 2: speaking of hacks, the Daily Beast has the headline Hannah
Speaker 2: Einbinder is sick and tired of hack comedians. Both these
Speaker 2: beasts from the Daily Beast. Hannah was on the Last
Speaker 2: Laugh podcast. She said, I think my stand up persona
Speaker 2: was kind of born out of aspiration. This persona is
Speaker 2: everything that I could ever want to be. People often
Speaker 2: say that doing stand up is brave, and I disagree.
Speaker 2: I think it's desperate. I needed to do it because
Speaker 2: they felt bad all the time, and I was like,
Speaker 2: maybe this will fix it. Now, Thank God, I feel
Speaker 2: much better being myself and in my life that stand
Speaker 2: up is just additive and not a survival mechanism. Now
Speaker 2: that her A Special has come and gone, Hannah says,
Speaker 2: I'm very, very proud of it. But you know, some
Speaker 2: of those jokes have been doing for years and years
Speaker 2: and every night on stage. So while I love the
Speaker 2: material and I'm proud of it, I'm never going to
Speaker 2: say those words again. And I'm so fine with it.
Speaker 2: There's no greater feeling for me as a stand up
Speaker 2: comedian than feeling excited about a new chunk, new section,
Speaker 2: new line. Than newness is what makes feel love for
Speaker 2: the art form. They then discussed Jerry Seinfeld's comments about
Speaker 2: the extreme left running comedy. It's ridiculous. You just have
Speaker 2: to be smart when marginalized groups have heard every joke
Speaker 2: under the sun at their expense. It's not that they
Speaker 2: can't tell jokes, it's that they're sick and tired of
Speaker 2: hearing the hack. If you will, we're done in crap.
Speaker 2: That's easy and low hanging fruit. I get to speak
Speaker 2: to my experience of being queer and being a woman
Speaker 2: and being Jewish. I actually I don't have any problem
Speaker 2: with jokes at my expense, with the expense of any
Speaker 2: groups I may belong to, if the joke is smart,
Speaker 2: I really don't. I think everybody, especially people from marginalized groups,
Speaker 2: have to laugh to keep from crying and have to
Speaker 2: laugh at themselves, and we do. We're just asking for
Speaker 2: better material. And I think a lot of stand up
Speaker 2: comedians are really hardened in their perspective. There's an inherent
Speaker 2: personality trait of a being like, this is what I think,
Speaker 2: and everybody pays to listen to me say what I think.
Speaker 2: So I'm the arbiter of what's what. So they don't
Speaker 2: want to be told they're wrong, and they don't want
Speaker 2: to have to waver and change when their work is
Speaker 2: built around having a staunch perspective on something. When you
Speaker 2: call someone out on something and they get defensive. It
Speaker 2: just shows sort of a lack of evolution people who
Speaker 2: self reflect and go, I wonder if they're right, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm wrong. I can learn from that. That's actually more
Speaker 2: impressive to me. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Matt Riife.
Speaker 2: I know, all right. Cracked said, you got to hand
Speaker 2: it to Matt Rife. Only a few years ago he
Speaker 2: was self funding YouTube specials. Riife said, people kept checking
Speaker 2: you see if I had an only fans page, and
Speaker 2: I was getting tweets all the time being asked about it.
Speaker 2: That's when the adult theme platform exploded, and I thought
Speaker 2: that if I named the special OnlyFans, it would be
Speaker 2: a number one Google. Krack says, for the record, a
Speaker 2: peerce Matt Riife does have an only fans page. His
Speaker 2: last post earned him more than ninety one dollars in tips.
Speaker 2: A go fundme campaign raised thirty thousand dollars for the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one special despite only forty people attending the taping.
Speaker 2: Only Fans now boasts thirteen million views on YouTube. Riife says,
Speaker 2: I have a very dark sense you that it's not
Speaker 2: going to be for everybody, but millions of people love
Speaker 2: that special. Including the tens of thousands of people I
Speaker 2: ran that set by in preparation for that special. It
Speaker 2: helped me find an audience that's going to be with
Speaker 2: me for a longer period of time. The only thing
Speaker 2: I regret for my last special was not putting in
Speaker 2: any crowd work. I didn't want to do any of
Speaker 2: that because crowd work was what because I've become known for,
Speaker 2: which is fantastic, but it can also pigeonhole you. His
Speaker 2: current special is all crowd work. What I love about
Speaker 2: crowd work is it doesn't burn anything. It's new for
Speaker 2: every single show. It's exciting for me, and I take
Speaker 2: great pride in that because so many comedians don't switch
Speaker 2: up their set at all. Jim Gaffigan tweeted the question
Speaker 2: is there a twelve step program for gardening? Only half joking.
Speaker 2: Jim then shared this clip. It's a little long and
Speaker 2: not all that funny, and he's showing some vegetables on
Speaker 2: what appears to be his kitchen counter. Let's listen to
Speaker 2: Jim Gaffigan for a minute. Don't hit skip. You got
Speaker 2: to sit through this.
Speaker 3: I did, Hey, how are you hey?
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan here, and I wanted to just check in.
Speaker 1: I love gardening. It's very rewarding. I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, but the harvest, like this is just bananas.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not bananas. That would be great. I
Speaker 3: would like bananas. But let me just show you some
Speaker 3: of what I got here. So like, look, I like
Speaker 3: banana peppers, but like, has anyone I mean, no, one's
Speaker 3: that much squash. I've never even seen someone eat this,
Speaker 3: you know. I guess you could make those nasty noodles
Speaker 3: green peppers. I've made chapska salad three times and my
Speaker 3: family threatened to kick me out of the house. But
Speaker 3: the eggplants, who's ever? I don't know if grocery stores
Speaker 3: have these many eggplants. And then tomatoes. You know, by
Speaker 3: the way, none of my tomatoes look like tomatoes. They
Speaker 3: look like someone beat up a tomato.
Speaker 2: From the BBC. Telling hilarious or embarrassing stories from your
Speaker 2: personal life is something many stand up comedians do. What
Speaker 2: about turning your periods into a laughing matter. That's what
Speaker 2: Bella Humphries has done for her show at Fringe. After
Speaker 2: being diagnosed with pre menstrual dysphoric disorder PMDD. Symptoms of
Speaker 2: the condition can include extreme mood swings, depression, and anxiety.
Speaker 2: One of Bella's jokes has already been named among the
Speaker 2: festival's best. She says sharing her experiences of PMDD on
Speaker 2: stage has been very empowering because she's been able to
Speaker 2: find the funny and some dark times. It's very personal.
Speaker 2: It's very honest, a bit rot times, but still very funny,
Speaker 2: I think, and I've been told that by lots of
Speaker 2: other people. All Right, the joke in question, I'm sure
Speaker 2: she tells it better. There are times that I feel
Speaker 2: so low I think the only way out is to
Speaker 2: get in my car and drive as fast as a
Speaker 2: canon into a tree. But I'd never be able to
Speaker 2: go through with it because I'm a feminist. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want that legacy for female drivers. Charter All reviewed a
Speaker 2: few shows at the Fringe. Let's take a look Rose
Speaker 2: Matta Fayo's on and On and On. They gave four
Speaker 2: stars out of five. The story of her involuntary singletom
Speaker 2: is so much more than a catalog of ex boyfriends
Speaker 2: and bad dates. Instead, it's a more personal look at
Speaker 2: her place in the universe, what drives her and why
Speaker 2: she hasn't coupled up taking in some astute observations about
Speaker 2: the wider world rolled along the way. She has an
Speaker 2: arm's length relationship with self analysis, adopting a silly voice
Speaker 2: when she mentions healing herself as she's not really at
Speaker 2: ease with such concepts. We learn of her first encounters
Speaker 2: with posh people they are not native to her New
Speaker 2: Zealand homeland, the dumpster Fire thoughts she's committed to her
Speaker 2: iPhone notes app, and how googling and incognito mode reveals
Speaker 2: your true self. She fears for the state of the
Speaker 2: self absorbed gen Z and bashist Taylor Swift fans for
Speaker 2: being basic. Lewis Katz's show is called Bountiful. Chortle gave
Speaker 2: it three stares out of five. Obviously an intelligent guy,
Speaker 2: lewis Katz's fringe debut is a pushback against dumbing down,
Speaker 2: primarily in the reduction of every complex issue to a
Speaker 2: US versus them binary We're the good guys, they're the Nazis,
Speaker 2: with the boundary conveniently movable. Essentially, Bountyful is a plea
Speaker 2: for more nuance, at least just the basic acknowledgment that
Speaker 2: life is not so black and white. That's true of
Speaker 2: his own stand up, which often makes smart connections to
Speaker 2: produce a rewarding punch lines, but is just as likely
Speaker 2: to feature a low brow penis joke. And there's no
Speaker 2: surprise in which land better with audiences embracing gags with
Speaker 2: the least complexity, so underlining his central complaints, love it.
Speaker 2: He has no time for the shortcuts of winning fans
Speaker 2: by posting crowd work clips, being offensive for getting angry
Speaker 2: over some fake trivial issue. That said, he does become
Speaker 2: arranged by the semi colon. He thinks it's unworthy of
Speaker 2: its prime place on the keyboard. He expresses in a
Speaker 2: rant hilarious for its overreaction. I'm looking here. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: right next to the L, isn't it? And the full
Speaker 2: colon is the shift. Yeah, that does seem weird. Counter
Speaker 2: in two of thinking yields the best rewards, such as
Speaker 2: his bid on the one sex act where consent makes
Speaker 2: it worse, A routine that started with what the other
Speaker 2: Lewis in comedy got up to. Other close to the
Speaker 2: edge of materials, such as jokes about his wife's weight,
Speaker 2: have a trickier passage. Sounds like a fun show. That's
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