Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny mag with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news, A daily briefing on stand up comedy,
Speaker 1: comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence that I can't
Speaker 1: memorize for the life of me. But also the algorithm
Speaker 1: loves I'll keep saying it. Mark Maron once performed a
Speaker 1: comedy show so terrible that it cost him three weeks
Speaker 1: of work and forced him to fly on a twenty
Speaker 1: two hour flight around the globe. That's the headline from
Speaker 1: Entertainment weekly I love It. Maren was on Eric Andre's
Speaker 1: podcast and said I was sent home from Australia because
Speaker 1: I bombed so hard it was the worst. Apparently, Maren
Speaker 1: was booked to headline three weeks of shows plus one
Speaker 1: week of previews at a club in Australia in the
Speaker 1: early nineties, but the problem was Maren only had thirty
Speaker 1: minutes of decent material when he took the job, so
Speaker 1: he says, So I flied Australia, I get there, this
Speaker 1: is billboard of me, like a painted billboard of me,
Speaker 1: with a fake quote about my act, like this guy's
Speaker 1: a star. So right away that's not true, and I
Speaker 1: knew I was gonna have to stretch, but I thought
Speaker 1: I could handle it. I don't even like being away.
Speaker 1: I was springing out on all levels. Didn't have the confidence,
Speaker 1: didn't have the act. Do not like to travel. Maren
Speaker 1: said he wasn't used to shows that have intermissions, explaining
Speaker 1: the first time you deal with it, you're like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You're stopping the whole flow. So I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting there watching the show going. I'm eft and
Speaker 1: I go out there the first night and struggled. It's okay.
Speaker 1: I stretched at the end, but it's okay. And I
Speaker 1: got through a whole week of previews where it's just
Speaker 1: getting worse and worse. I get out there, I'm the
Speaker 1: headliner and I'm smoking. You could smoke. Then some guy yells,
Speaker 1: where'd you get that jacket? And it was an America dude?
Speaker 1: And I was so effed up in my head confidence wise,
Speaker 1: that just shut me down. There was a point where
Speaker 1: all I could hear in a room full of four
Speaker 1: hundred was the embers of my cigarette burning. It's not
Speaker 1: just a silence, it was like a suction to it,
Speaker 1: and I felt myself leave my body. It was literally
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna go watch from over there. And then
Speaker 1: I got off stage and the owner comes up to
Speaker 1: me and he's that look of someone who just saw
Speaker 1: an accident, and he's like, are you okay, And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm okay. This is weekend. I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: do three more weeks. And he goes, I don't think
Speaker 1: this is working out, and I'm like, okay. He goes,
Speaker 1: I think maybe you should just go home. Wow. Andre
Speaker 1: asked if Maren got paid. Maren said, I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't even think I cared. I knew I had
Speaker 1: to play along and be like, oh, really, I think
Speaker 1: it'll get better. So I said that on my mind,
Speaker 1: I'm like, thank god, less funny. I had been sober
Speaker 1: for about a year, and on that plane ride back
Speaker 1: got totally s face, totally relapsed. I just drank the
Speaker 1: whole way home. Dan Soda recalled having his confidence shattered
Speaker 1: during a twenty fourteen set, and the person who turned
Speaker 1: his night around was Conan O'Brien. Soda said of Conan,
Speaker 1: he did one of the coolest things that I've seen
Speaker 1: in the business. The second time I did Conan, I did,
Speaker 1: like my set didn't feel like it went well. He
Speaker 1: called me to the couch to say good night. He
Speaker 1: did something cool where at the end of the show
Speaker 1: he went, all right, that's all my time. He thanks
Speaker 1: the guest. He's like, Dan, Soda, thank you guys, good night.
Speaker 1: Conan turns to Soda. How do you think you did?
Speaker 1: Soda said, I hated that set, And as Soda remembers it,
Speaker 1: ConA looks at the crowd and goes, day effing sucked.
Speaker 1: Soda says, it made me feel so much better instantly.
Speaker 1: Nate Bergatzi explained to you people why he moved back
Speaker 1: to Tennessee ten years ago. He wanted his daughter, who's
Speaker 1: now thirteen, to have a grounded, average upbringing. Got to
Speaker 1: keep getting average in there. That's the whole brand, apparently,
Speaker 1: got to keep working that word in. Nate said, we
Speaker 1: live in a great neighborhood. We're in a cul de sac.
Speaker 1: No one who's really an entertainment lives there. It's people
Speaker 1: have regular jobs or friends. So everything that she's around
Speaker 1: now she's not around this, meaning the entertainment business. She
Speaker 1: knows I do it, and I have her introduced me
Speaker 1: in my specials. So she sees sights of it, but
Speaker 1: overall she's going to school and living a normal life.
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack, you never talk about Chris Fleming. I know,
Speaker 1: did you guys watch the special yet? Did you stick
Speaker 1: with it? Did you trust me? Did you go through
Speaker 1: the whole? Hey, this is weird. Johnny Mack must be
Speaker 1: on crack. Why is he telling us to watch this thing?
Speaker 1: And an hour lady, We're like, oh, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: really good. Have you done that yet? Rolling Stone profiled
Speaker 1: Chris Fleming. Chris Fleming would like to make one thing clear.
Speaker 1: He's not weird, he said over zoom. I'm very normal.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm insane, because I don't think I'm insane, but
Speaker 1: I don't see my work as weird. I like to
Speaker 1: keep things surprising, and I like to surprise myself in
Speaker 1: my writing. That's how I would view it as a
Speaker 1: surprise party. I would describe it as weird, but very
Speaker 1: very funny. Fleming tells Rolling Stone, my comedy is like
Speaker 1: hear me out, it's too frantic to describe. I had
Speaker 1: a locksmith who I made the mistake of telling I
Speaker 1: was a comedian, and then he was watching my clips
Speaker 1: on his phone silently for the entirety of trying to
Speaker 1: fix my locks. In Live at the Palace, there's no
Speaker 1: thematic through line, rolling Stone writes. In fact, many times
Speaker 1: in the show it feels like Fleming is just hearing
Speaker 1: his own material for the first time. Sometimes he pauses
Speaker 1: in the middle of the act, noting punch lines that
Speaker 1: the audience doesn't laugh at, and redoing the joke with
Speaker 1: a pointed aim. Other Times he abandons a tangent altogether
Speaker 1: to point out and audience members laugh. The end result
Speaker 1: is a charming, surprisingly intimate look into fleming stream of consciousness.
Speaker 1: Fleming's not worried about the numbers, he said, we're focusing
Speaker 1: too much on numbers. Virality whatever, people can go viral
Speaker 1: and then they can't sell out one hundred seed venue.
Speaker 1: You could have one million followers and not be able
Speaker 1: to get twenty people to show up to a show.
Speaker 1: So if you can land in people's hearts, it's way
Speaker 1: more important f awards, f numbers, f viral. If there's
Speaker 1: something that I've done that you think about a feel
Speaker 1: later down the road, that's the key. That's what art
Speaker 1: should be. The Guardian went to see Maria Bamford. They
Speaker 1: gave Maria four stars out of five and describe Maria
Speaker 1: Bamford as an unflinching comedian in complete command of every
Speaker 1: joke and every step. Maria Bamford asks the audience why
Speaker 1: did Americans decide to elect a dictator for a second time?
Speaker 1: The answer money. She sounds like she's teaching my college classes.
Speaker 1: I tell them. No matter what question I ask you, guys, ever,
Speaker 1: the answer is always money. We are till Despite inheriting
Speaker 1: what she calls generational wealth after the early deaths of
Speaker 1: both her parents, Bamford still approaches the world with a
Speaker 1: fundamentally economic mindset. That's the idea on paper. In practice,
Speaker 1: Bamford has never been one for clean narrative arcs. Instead,
Speaker 1: she draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression.
Speaker 1: She runs in tiptoed circles before dropping fully outstretched to
Speaker 1: the floor, all while holding the mic. Bamford is a
Speaker 1: comedian in complete command of every joke, every step. Is
Speaker 1: this her most focused work? Probably not, but she remains
Speaker 1: a gloriously absurd and rapid fire presence. She tells the
Speaker 1: audience about being a comedian, this is a job. The
Speaker 1: New York Post caught up with Charlie Barns, who says
Speaker 1: there's enough polarization going on right now to or I
Speaker 1: don't have much interest in that. I have interest in
Speaker 1: finding ways to bring us together, like out to a
Speaker 1: club or to a theater or whatever. I think when
Speaker 1: you get people in the same room, and you get
Speaker 1: people who may not connect on other things, connecting over
Speaker 1: something just gives more touch points to know. They'd even
Speaker 1: have someone has an opposite view to you. They're not
Speaker 1: the devil, you know. You gotta have common ground. Barns
Speaker 1: was raised in Wisconsin and has eleven siblings. He explains,
Speaker 1: my first special was sort of about the Midwest. The
Speaker 1: new one, Neighborly, is more about the world from a
Speaker 1: Midwest guys perspective. It also goes deeper to my family.
Speaker 1: I love gambling with my grandma, I love fishing with
Speaker 1: my family. It's just kind of a lot of stories
Speaker 1: about growing up. I'm one of twelve kids, so I'm
Speaker 1: mass produced. I got that going for me. In Minnesota,
Speaker 1: comedians have been responding to the presence of ice up there.
Speaker 1: Ben Kantzener is one of three Minneapolis comedians who hosted
Speaker 1: a roast of ice. He had seen some videos of
Speaker 1: ice agents and Cassner said that could easily be me.
Speaker 1: There's no reason it wouldn't because all the indiscriminate nature
Speaker 1: of how our government and our police and our agencies
Speaker 1: all out towards people of color and people in the community.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's fear all the time. Another Minneapolis comedian,
Speaker 1: Comrade Tripp, said, when you're going down swinging, you're always
Speaker 1: punching up. It's the elephant in the room, it's the
Speaker 1: donkey on our necks. Jenny's a Greenow talk to the
Speaker 1: Minneapolis Post and she said, I would have loved to
Speaker 1: have been a political comedian in a world where your
Speaker 1: politics aren't your sole identity. F ice can I say that?
Speaker 1: Don't forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. What you do
Speaker 1: is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News
Speaker 1: Podcast Group. There you will find a picture of me
Speaker 1: extinguishing the torch of Kevin Hart. Write down the name
Speaker 1: of the comedian he would like voted off Comedy Island
Speaker 1: this week. No Knicks game tonight after two nights. Tracy
Speaker 1: Morgan is a big Knicks fan. He explained how he
Speaker 1: got Daniel Radcliffe, who also become a Knicks fan. They've
Speaker 1: been attending games together, and Tracy gave some tips to
Speaker 1: Daniel Redcliff and said, Daniel, chill out. He's yelling clean
Speaker 1: that glass eye raf as soon as the referees missed
Speaker 1: a call, clean that glass eye, and I gave him
Speaker 1: that to yell out. DJ Miller is dropping hints that
Speaker 1: he could get back into these Deadpool movies, said he
Speaker 1: had recently spoke to Ryan Reynolds, the guy's at WRIF Radio.
Speaker 1: Asked TJ Miller, all right, to you back in or
Speaker 1: is that chip sailed? TJ Miller said it has not sailed.
Speaker 1: And that's all I'm going to say about that. Okay,
Speaker 1: Marvel gets so weird about this stuff. They're just like,
Speaker 1: don't talk about it, don't talk about it. Mike Epps
Speaker 1: is tired of apologizing. He was on Dion Cole's Funny
Speaker 1: Knowing You podcast. Mike said, look, I'm exhausted. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of apologizing. I'm a comedian, a crack jokes. Everything I
Speaker 1: say is not to be analyzed and put on blogs
Speaker 1: like I'm a bad person at crack jokes. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian. The stuff is exhausting. F off Man,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a real story. It was a joke. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't leave a homeless family on the street. Did
Speaker 1: I meet a homeless family help them? Hell yeah, I
Speaker 1: help them. Did I crack a joke and make a
Speaker 1: joke of it at the end? Yeah, I made it funny.
Speaker 1: Damn I'm a comedian. TMZ reported some SNL staffers were
Speaker 1: scared after a musical guest, Cardi B, had a meltdown
Speaker 1: over joke during weekend Update. The joke was about Nicki
Speaker 1: Minaj aligning herself with the President of the United States
Speaker 1: after hearing the Maga manage joke. Sources at SNL alleged
Speaker 1: that Gardi B destroyed equipment, punching a screen in the
Speaker 1: producer's office until it was broken. They also claimed that
Speaker 1: the rapper threw her phone at a TV backstage after
Speaker 1: threatening to leave the show and not perform during the
Speaker 1: episode Wow. TMZ says the joke was then taken out
Speaker 1: of the show. That is your comedy news for today.
Speaker 1: All right, go vote for Comedy Survivor and meets you
Speaker 1: back here tomorrow.