Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media, Hello and Choennie Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Nate Perganzy spoke to The New York Post
Speaker 1: about building a new set and says, once you have
Speaker 1: one joke you think you could close with, that helps
Speaker 1: you build a new hour because you're like, worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: I have something that's actually good last night. I came
Speaker 1: up with some stuff on the spot. You stumble into
Speaker 1: some things. I don't do CrowdWork or anything, but you'll
Speaker 1: riff a couple things and if it's getting laughs, then
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, then you say a couple of other things.
Speaker 1: To me, it's always you got to know how to
Speaker 1: get out of the jokes. You can riff. You can
Speaker 1: riff stuff as long as you know the ending. As
Speaker 1: long as you start the joke, then you can play
Speaker 1: and have a dismount. I drew up a set list
Speaker 1: from a show last night, so at least I have
Speaker 1: a direction of where I want to go. If I
Speaker 1: do that, I can get work done. I go out
Speaker 1: there and just mess around. He appreciates the freedom of
Speaker 1: smaller clubs. When you do arenas and these big shows,
Speaker 1: those are intense. It's not as easy to throw in
Speaker 1: a new idea. When there's twenty thousand people, you're like,
Speaker 1: this all needs to be ready to go. He's been
Speaker 1: doing theaters in the round, but kind of likes not
Speaker 1: doing that. He says, there's a relief when you're like, well,
Speaker 1: no one's behind me. It's a break when everyone's in
Speaker 1: front of you. Nashville Scenes spoke to James Austin Johnson,
Speaker 1: who said there were a lot of things to fear
Speaker 1: about my college environment related to stand up. So I
Speaker 1: didn't really tell people that I was doing stand up.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell my parents, I didn't tell my friends.
Speaker 1: I would just kind of disappear. There were bars. I
Speaker 1: learned to sneak in the back door and hope not
Speaker 1: to get carted. I did that a lot. I did
Speaker 1: a lot of sneaking in through the patio, ordering a
Speaker 1: pepsi and just hoping not to get kicked out before
Speaker 1: my set. It took me time to learn how to
Speaker 1: perform at a place. It took living life, it took
Speaker 1: moving away, and I think having loved, having lost love, etc.
Speaker 1: And my act is talking about how where the culture
Speaker 1: I come from looks to me. You have children and
Speaker 1: you just to look at your own life differently, You
Speaker 1: look at how you were raised differently. Your relationship to
Speaker 1: your grandparents, your parents, your great grandparents at all changes
Speaker 1: because you think about the good things you got from
Speaker 1: a place that maybe you spent your whole adolescence resenting.
Speaker 1: Your relationship to all that changes. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: be somebody who's a vessel of love. As corny as
Speaker 1: that is. I'm trying to make people laugh. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to help people fall asleep. That's my job as a
Speaker 1: late night sketch comedian. I'm trying to help you fall
Speaker 1: asleep in a spicy world. Kelsey Cook talked about her
Speaker 1: comedy influences. I loved Amy Schumer, Dimitri Martin, Mike Berbiglia,
Speaker 1: and Brian Reagan, but I don't know that I was
Speaker 1: influenced by anybody's style. I moved to la idded one
Speaker 1: of those weird, serendipitous experiences. Jim Norton was trying to
Speaker 1: promote a special We went a long way from Dimitri
Speaker 1: Martin to Jim Norton. Jim Norton was trying to promote
Speaker 1: a special that was coming out, and he tweeted, Hey,
Speaker 1: what podcasts so I go on. I had a little
Speaker 1: podcast at the time, nothing bigger, great, and I thought,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know me, He's not gonna do this, but
Speaker 1: he had this business email, so I sent him an email,
Speaker 1: got a response, Yeah, sure, love to do podcast had
Speaker 1: him on and I knew that he had female comics
Speaker 1: opened frohim on tour in the past. I know Amy
Speaker 1: had opened for him for a while, and I just said,
Speaker 1: if she ever needs somebody, I'd love to work with you,
Speaker 1: and he gave me a shot. That's great. Norton's a
Speaker 1: good guy man. I opened for him one weekend and
Speaker 1: then went back to my day job. The next week,
Speaker 1: I got an email from his manager with the rest
Speaker 1: of the tour eights for the year, and I cried
Speaker 1: at my receptionist desk because he changed my life. Jim
Speaker 1: Norton was like my comedy fairy godmother. You know. Hasham
Speaker 1: caught up with Slate. They were curious how she records
Speaker 1: her ideas when they come to her, and she says,
Speaker 1: I'm full iPhone notes pad, Like I can never switch
Speaker 1: phones because I'm addicted to the notes pad. I know
Speaker 1: comics is still write things down with their hands, and
Speaker 1: it's like I forgot how to write and really dependent
Speaker 1: on it. But there's zero organizations. So it's actually a
Speaker 1: terrible process because I have like two different notes and
Speaker 1: they're just like can you scroll infinitely? And I never scroll,
Speaker 1: so they're just ideas sitting there that I'll probably never
Speaker 1: get back to. She talked about developing her SATs and says,
Speaker 1: you know, part of the problem is when you're doing comedy.
Speaker 1: When you start, you're just full of ideas and you're like,
Speaker 1: everything's funny, and you're just like flush withled ideas, and
Speaker 1: your sense of humor becomes more fine, and then things
Speaker 1: you think are funny become less and less, and so
Speaker 1: I'm at the point where I think almost nothing is funny,
Speaker 1: and so it's so much harder to come up with
Speaker 1: now something where I'm like, eh, that's good enough. Greg
Speaker 1: Ferguson told the story on his podcast towards the end
Speaker 1: of his run hosting The Late Late Show on CBS.
Speaker 1: He said, towards the end, things were getting a little
Speaker 1: nutty and Rob Burnette was running worldwide pants. I think
Speaker 1: I was reupping for the last two years or something,
Speaker 1: and Rob said, what do you want? And I said,
Speaker 1: I want ten thousand dollars at a shoe box with
Speaker 1: used bills and he sent it to me. Wasn't he
Speaker 1: even fresh? It was like used bad money. I think
Speaker 1: for the next two years, instead of going to the ATM,
Speaker 1: I'd just go to the shoe box. Hey, don't forget.
Speaker 1: I also host the podcast five Good News Stories Number
Speaker 1: five Good News Stories. What happens on five Good News
Speaker 1: Stories Johnny Mackwell, I tell you five stories and they're
Speaker 1: all good news, hence the name five Good News Stories
Speaker 1: Number five Good New Stories. Wherever you get your shows?
Speaker 1: The Toronto Guardian profiled comedian Sarah Bennett. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I said comedia Sarah Bennett. You think I gotta
Speaker 1: come on here and be like The Toronto Guardian profiled
Speaker 1: Vice president of Finance Sarah Bennett. Why would I do that?
Speaker 1: Sarah Bennett and Thrall's audiences with a unique blend of earnest,
Speaker 1: mischievous humor and theatrical flair. Drawing inspirations from the likes
Speaker 1: of Patty Harrison, Sophia Budle and Amy Sedaris, she thrives
Speaker 1: on portraying the quirky and the bizarre. Sarah, how would
Speaker 1: you describe your comedy style. She says, I'm very earnest, ironic,
Speaker 1: and mischievous. My stand up is a lot more like
Speaker 1: sketch comedy if anything, because it's very theatrical. I like
Speaker 1: to make up stuff and lie. I'd never lie in
Speaker 1: real life. By the way, can we believe her if
Speaker 1: if any of my family or potential lovers are reading.
Speaker 1: I always try to be true to myself and honor
Speaker 1: what I think is true and funny about the world.
Speaker 1: My agent says, it feels as though there's something I'm
Speaker 1: not telling the audience, like I'm keeping secrets, which is
Speaker 1: also true about my style. I'm a charming, little delinquent.
Speaker 1: Her favorite comedian growing up probably Dana Carvey. I used
Speaker 1: to go to elementary school and ask people what's your
Speaker 1: favorite episode of the Dana Carvey Show? And they wouldn't
Speaker 1: know what the hell I was talking about. All Right,
Speaker 1: who's your favorite comedian now? Jackie Perico. God, I love
Speaker 1: her so much. She's every comedian's favorite comedian. Johnny Mack
Speaker 1: is unfamiliar with Jackie. She does her own thing, and
Speaker 1: she's genuinely one of the best people in comedy. All right.
Speaker 1: Sarah Bennett what is your pre show ritual? She says,
Speaker 1: smoke a Cuban cigar and jump into traffic. It makes
Speaker 1: me feel alive. Just kidding. I don't think I have one.
Speaker 1: I just go in and hope everybody thinks I'm chillin normal.
Speaker 1: And I think I have done a version of this story,
Speaker 1: but if I did, it was a shorter version. I'll
Speaker 1: do the long version here from lad Bible, a comedian
Speaker 1: and got mad at the audience because he didn't get
Speaker 1: a single laugh. Louis Spears was performing materially. He'd done
Speaker 1: you know a bunch of times and didn't get a
Speaker 1: single laugh out of the audience at the Kings of
Speaker 1: Comedy Club in Australia, not a single chuckle. He opened
Speaker 1: up his set and my name's Louis Spears, and I'm
Speaker 1: frequently tall. I'm six feet eight, which is exactly two
Speaker 1: meters tall. No laugh. I get two questions, and you
Speaker 1: know what. The first question is, you're so tall? He
Speaker 1: played basketball? And want to look at these people and
Speaker 1: go do I look like an athlete to you? No laugh?
Speaker 1: I got the lower half of a wounded flamingo. No laugh.
Speaker 1: He quickly picked up on the vibe and said, this
Speaker 1: is very strange. He switched gears started to talk about
Speaker 1: the last performance he had done in Perth, which he
Speaker 1: explained resulted in him being protested against as he had
Speaker 1: joked about the Dalai Lama. Still nothing, he said to
Speaker 1: the crowd. I don't know what the f happened, but
Speaker 1: I got up here and I feel like everyone agreed.
Speaker 1: All right, let's just sit in silence. What the F
Speaker 1: is going on? You know what's really effed up is
Speaker 1: after the set, I somehow off to summon up the
Speaker 1: courage to invoice the guy running the gig. A heckler
Speaker 1: shout it out, you should lower your expectations to just
Speaker 1: a free drink. Spears said, that's a good one. I'll
Speaker 1: just get a coke and nick myself. All right, you
Speaker 1: guys have been lovely. I've been Lewis Spears. I've tried
Speaker 1: my best. Have a good night. Well here's the twist.
Speaker 1: YouTubers Misfit Minds had actually staged a prank on Spears.
Speaker 1: They instructed the crowd not to laugh no matter what,
Speaker 1: so he left the stage. The crowd erupted it into applause.
Speaker 1: They got Spears back off a stage revealed themselves, and
Speaker 1: he said, did you do that on purpose? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so upset. You know what's bad about this? My
Speaker 1: last night in Perth, I actually did bomb. So I
Speaker 1: was doing the same jokes and it was actual silence
Speaker 1: that I felt awful. Got off stage and no one
Speaker 1: came out. Some of the folks in the crowd once
Speaker 1: said he took it like a champ, and another said
Speaker 1: gotta give him credit for keeping going. Someone else said
Speaker 1: that's how super villains are born, and that chick comedy
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