WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:11.919 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny mag with your 2 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:14.519 daily comedy news, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, 3 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:17.199 comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence that I can't 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:19.760 memorize for the life of me. But also the algorithm 5 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:23.000 loves I'll keep saying it. Mark Maron once performed a 6 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.000 comedy show so terrible that it cost him three weeks 7 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.600 of work and forced him to fly on a twenty 8 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.440 two hour flight around the globe. That's the headline from 9 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.640 Entertainment weekly I love It. Maren was on Eric Andre's 10 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:36.880 podcast and said I was sent home from Australia because 11 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.399 I bombed so hard it was the worst. Apparently, Maren 12 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:43.159 was booked to headline three weeks of shows plus one 13 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.960 week of previews at a club in Australia in the 14 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.799 early nineties, but the problem was Maren only had thirty 15 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.439 minutes of decent material when he took the job, so 16 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.960 he says, So I flied Australia, I get there, this 17 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.000 is billboard of me, like a painted billboard of me, 18 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:58.799 with a fake quote about my act, like this guy's 19 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:00.840 a star. So right away that's not true, and I 20 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:02.439 knew I was gonna have to stretch, but I thought 21 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:04.760 I could handle it. I don't even like being away. 22 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:06.959 I was springing out on all levels. Didn't have the confidence, 23 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:09.920 didn't have the act. Do not like to travel. Maren 24 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:13.200 said he wasn't used to shows that have intermissions, explaining 25 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:14.519 the first time you deal with it, you're like, what 26 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.560 are you doing? You're stopping the whole flow. So I'm 27 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.319 just sitting there watching the show going. I'm eft and 28 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:21.280 I go out there the first night and struggled. It's okay. 29 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.640 I stretched at the end, but it's okay. And I 30 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:25.159 got through a whole week of previews where it's just 31 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.920 getting worse and worse. I get out there, I'm the 32 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.319 headliner and I'm smoking. You could smoke. Then some guy yells, 33 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.319 where'd you get that jacket? And it was an America dude? 34 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.519 And I was so effed up in my head confidence wise, 35 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.000 that just shut me down. There was a point where 36 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.120 all I could hear in a room full of four 37 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.120 hundred was the embers of my cigarette burning. It's not 38 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:41.959 just a silence, it was like a suction to it, 39 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.359 and I felt myself leave my body. It was literally 40 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:45.799 like I'm gonna go watch from over there. And then 41 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:47.120 I got off stage and the owner comes up to 42 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:48.319 me and he's that look of someone who just saw 43 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:50.680 an accident, and he's like, are you okay, And I'm like, yeah, 44 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.319 I guess I'm okay. This is weekend. I'm supposed to 45 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:55.159 do three more weeks. And he goes, I don't think 46 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.519 this is working out, and I'm like, okay. He goes, 47 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:02.799 I think maybe you should just go home. Wow. Andre 48 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.599 asked if Maren got paid. Maren said, I don't even know. 49 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.959 I don't even think I cared. I knew I had 50 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:09.599 to play along and be like, oh, really, I think 51 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:11.719 it'll get better. So I said that on my mind, 52 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.360 I'm like, thank god, less funny. I had been sober 53 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:16.080 for about a year, and on that plane ride back 54 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:19.159 got totally s face, totally relapsed. I just drank the 55 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.080 whole way home. Dan Soda recalled having his confidence shattered 56 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.800 during a twenty fourteen set, and the person who turned 57 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:29.520 his night around was Conan O'Brien. Soda said of Conan, 58 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.199 he did one of the coolest things that I've seen 59 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.120 in the business. The second time I did Conan, I did, 60 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:34.719 like my set didn't feel like it went well. He 61 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:36.120 called me to the couch to say good night. He 62 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:37.759 did something cool where at the end of the show 63 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.479 he went, all right, that's all my time. He thanks 64 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.759 the guest. He's like, Dan, Soda, thank you guys, good night. 65 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.159 Conan turns to Soda. How do you think you did? 66 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.280 Soda said, I hated that set, And as Soda remembers it, 67 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:50.680 ConA looks at the crowd and goes, day effing sucked. 68 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.840 Soda says, it made me feel so much better instantly. 69 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.639 Nate Bergatzi explained to you people why he moved back 70 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.759 to Tennessee ten years ago. He wanted his daughter, who's 71 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.560 now thirteen, to have a grounded, average upbringing. Got to 72 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:06.879 keep getting average in there. That's the whole brand, apparently, 73 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.719 got to keep working that word in. Nate said, we 74 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.520 live in a great neighborhood. We're in a cul de sac. 75 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.719 No one who's really an entertainment lives there. It's people 76 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.919 have regular jobs or friends. So everything that she's around 77 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.800 now she's not around this, meaning the entertainment business. She 78 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:22.240 knows I do it, and I have her introduced me 79 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.759 in my specials. So she sees sights of it, but 80 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.080 overall she's going to school and living a normal life. 81 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.840 Johnny Mack, you never talk about Chris Fleming. I know, 82 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.719 did you guys watch the special yet? Did you stick 83 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.000 with it? Did you trust me? Did you go through 84 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.159 the whole? Hey, this is weird. Johnny Mack must be 85 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.319 on crack. Why is he telling us to watch this thing? 86 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:41.039 And an hour lady, We're like, oh, yeah, that was 87 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.479 really good. Have you done that yet? Rolling Stone profiled 88 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.479 Chris Fleming. Chris Fleming would like to make one thing clear. 89 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.520 He's not weird, he said over zoom. I'm very normal. 90 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:54.639 Maybe I'm insane, because I don't think I'm insane, but 91 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:56.840 I don't see my work as weird. I like to 92 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:59.080 keep things surprising, and I like to surprise myself in 93 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:00.719 my writing. That's how I would view it as a 94 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.039 surprise party. I would describe it as weird, but very 95 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:07.280 very funny. Fleming tells Rolling Stone, my comedy is like 96 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.080 hear me out, it's too frantic to describe. I had 97 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.800 a locksmith who I made the mistake of telling I 98 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:13.439 was a comedian, and then he was watching my clips 99 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.719 on his phone silently for the entirety of trying to 100 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.560 fix my locks. In Live at the Palace, there's no 101 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.800 thematic through line, rolling Stone writes. In fact, many times 102 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:23.519 in the show it feels like Fleming is just hearing 103 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.560 his own material for the first time. Sometimes he pauses 104 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.120 in the middle of the act, noting punch lines that 105 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.000 the audience doesn't laugh at, and redoing the joke with 106 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.360 a pointed aim. Other Times he abandons a tangent altogether 107 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:35.519 to point out and audience members laugh. The end result 108 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:39.240 is a charming, surprisingly intimate look into fleming stream of consciousness. 109 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.600 Fleming's not worried about the numbers, he said, we're focusing 110 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.480 too much on numbers. Virality whatever, people can go viral 111 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:47.279 and then they can't sell out one hundred seed venue. 112 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:48.839 You could have one million followers and not be able 113 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:50.399 to get twenty people to show up to a show. 114 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:52.480 So if you can land in people's hearts, it's way 115 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.639 more important f awards, f numbers, f viral. If there's 116 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:57.319 something that I've done that you think about a feel 117 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.519 later down the road, that's the key. That's what art 118 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.920 should be. The Guardian went to see Maria Bamford. They 119 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.199 gave Maria four stars out of five and describe Maria 120 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.759 Bamford as an unflinching comedian in complete command of every 121 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.519 joke and every step. Maria Bamford asks the audience why 122 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.680 did Americans decide to elect a dictator for a second time? 123 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:20.480 The answer money. She sounds like she's teaching my college classes. 124 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.439 I tell them. No matter what question I ask you, guys, ever, 125 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:26.800 the answer is always money. We are till Despite inheriting 126 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.360 what she calls generational wealth after the early deaths of 127 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.360 both her parents, Bamford still approaches the world with a 128 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.879 fundamentally economic mindset. That's the idea on paper. In practice, 129 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.759 Bamford has never been one for clean narrative arcs. Instead, 130 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.480 she draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression. 131 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.360 She runs in tiptoed circles before dropping fully outstretched to 132 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.680 the floor, all while holding the mic. Bamford is a 133 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.120 comedian in complete command of every joke, every step. Is 134 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.600 this her most focused work? Probably not, but she remains 135 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:56.680 a gloriously absurd and rapid fire presence. She tells the 136 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.120 audience about being a comedian, this is a job. The 137 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.600 New York Post caught up with Charlie Barns, who says 138 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:05.040 there's enough polarization going on right now to or I 139 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.519 don't have much interest in that. I have interest in 140 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:09.519 finding ways to bring us together, like out to a 141 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.319 club or to a theater or whatever. I think when 142 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:13.680 you get people in the same room, and you get 143 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.199 people who may not connect on other things, connecting over 144 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.279 something just gives more touch points to know. They'd even 145 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.120 have someone has an opposite view to you. They're not 146 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:23.199 the devil, you know. You gotta have common ground. Barns 147 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:27.279 was raised in Wisconsin and has eleven siblings. He explains, 148 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:29.160 my first special was sort of about the Midwest. The 149 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.680 new one, Neighborly, is more about the world from a 150 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.240 Midwest guys perspective. It also goes deeper to my family. 151 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.240 I love gambling with my grandma, I love fishing with 152 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.040 my family. It's just kind of a lot of stories 153 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:40.800 about growing up. I'm one of twelve kids, so I'm 154 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.240 mass produced. I got that going for me. In Minnesota, 155 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.800 comedians have been responding to the presence of ice up there. 156 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.519 Ben Kantzener is one of three Minneapolis comedians who hosted 157 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.480 a roast of ice. He had seen some videos of 158 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:56.759 ice agents and Cassner said that could easily be me. 159 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.360 There's no reason it wouldn't because all the indiscriminate nature 160 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.240 of how our government and our police and our agencies 161 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:03.360 all out towards people of color and people in the community. 162 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:06.680 So yeah, it's fear all the time. Another Minneapolis comedian, 163 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.439 Comrade Tripp, said, when you're going down swinging, you're always 164 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:11.279 punching up. It's the elephant in the room, it's the 165 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:13.600 donkey on our necks. Jenny's a Greenow talk to the 166 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.439 Minneapolis Post and she said, I would have loved to 167 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.079 have been a political comedian in a world where your 168 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:21.240 politics aren't your sole identity. F ice can I say that? 169 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.439 Don't forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. What you do 170 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:27.240 is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News 171 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:29.319 Podcast Group. There you will find a picture of me 172 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.399 extinguishing the torch of Kevin Hart. Write down the name 173 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.759 of the comedian he would like voted off Comedy Island 174 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.199 this week. No Knicks game tonight after two nights. Tracy 175 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.519 Morgan is a big Knicks fan. He explained how he 176 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.800 got Daniel Radcliffe, who also become a Knicks fan. They've 177 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.920 been attending games together, and Tracy gave some tips to 178 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.839 Daniel Redcliff and said, Daniel, chill out. He's yelling clean 179 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.800 that glass eye raf as soon as the referees missed 180 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.439 a call, clean that glass eye, and I gave him 181 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:57.720 that to yell out. DJ Miller is dropping hints that 182 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.240 he could get back into these Deadpool movies, said he 183 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:04.399 had recently spoke to Ryan Reynolds, the guy's at WRIF Radio. 184 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:06.360 Asked TJ Miller, all right, to you back in or 185 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.360 is that chip sailed? TJ Miller said it has not sailed. 186 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:10.920 And that's all I'm going to say about that. Okay, 187 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:12.720 Marvel gets so weird about this stuff. They're just like, 188 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.279 don't talk about it, don't talk about it. Mike Epps 189 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.240 is tired of apologizing. He was on Dion Cole's Funny 190 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.759 Knowing You podcast. Mike said, look, I'm exhausted. I'm tired 191 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.120 of apologizing. I'm a comedian, a crack jokes. Everything I 192 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:25.959 say is not to be analyzed and put on blogs 193 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:27.959 like I'm a bad person at crack jokes. It's funny. 194 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.319 I'm a comedian. The stuff is exhausting. F off Man, 195 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.679 it wasn't even a real story. It was a joke. No, 196 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:36.519 I didn't leave a homeless family on the street. Did 197 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:38.559 I meet a homeless family help them? Hell yeah, I 198 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:40.000 help them. Did I crack a joke and make a 199 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:41.639 joke of it at the end? Yeah, I made it funny. 200 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.720 Damn I'm a comedian. TMZ reported some SNL staffers were 201 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.879 scared after a musical guest, Cardi B, had a meltdown 202 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.399 over joke during weekend Update. The joke was about Nicki 203 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:55.639 Minaj aligning herself with the President of the United States 204 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.559 after hearing the Maga manage joke. Sources at SNL alleged 205 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.679 that Gardi B destroyed equipment, punching a screen in the 206 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:06.840 producer's office until it was broken. They also claimed that 207 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.840 the rapper threw her phone at a TV backstage after 208 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:11.879 threatening to leave the show and not perform during the 209 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.320 episode Wow. TMZ says the joke was then taken out 210 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.600 of the show. That is your comedy news for today. 211 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:20.679 All right, go vote for Comedy Survivor and meets you 212 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:21.440 back here tomorrow.