Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: Taylor Tomlinson has a dream guest for her show After Midnight.
Speaker 1: The dream guest is Conan O'Brien. Taylor told CBS Mornings.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the funniest people on and
Speaker 1: off stage and screen. I'd love to get him on
Speaker 1: the show. Taylor says she has a lot of freedom
Speaker 1: working that show. You're able to try new things and
Speaker 1: be weird, and our shows very weird. She explains. They
Speaker 1: have a team of writers who prepare jokes for the guests,
Speaker 1: but the format also allows for plenty of improvised moments.
Speaker 1: Taylor says, I think people go in feeling so prepared
Speaker 1: that they feel ready to riff and do stuff off
Speaker 1: the cuff as well. Taylor was trying to explain the
Speaker 1: point system on the show. Gail King was confused until Taylor.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the scoring system, Taylor said, and you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: It's absolute nonsense. I'm giving away the points. If the
Speaker 1: points meant to anything, they wouldn't trust me with them.
Speaker 1: It's just me with a button. Her current tour is
Speaker 1: called Say and explains I grew up at a church,
Speaker 1: and so I have a lot to say about that,
Speaker 1: both positive and the challenges of growing up that way.
Speaker 1: I had a lot to work through and deconstruct over
Speaker 1: the years, and I wanted people coming to other live
Speaker 1: shows to know that it was a lot about that
Speaker 1: election day Around the corner what happens with John Stewart
Speaker 1: on the other side of the election Late Night Er
Speaker 1: thinks John will stick around, pointing out that de Look
Speaker 1: is very happy behind the desk and totally in command.
Speaker 1: As they call it. The once a week arrangement seems
Speaker 1: to be working for everybody. John's taken all this well.
Speaker 1: My feeling is this election will never end, So why
Speaker 1: would I leave? How could I leave? I won't be
Speaker 1: allowed to leave until we're all ground to some sort
Speaker 1: of calcified nubs. The one thing I will say is
Speaker 1: I walked away nine years ago because I was burnt out,
Speaker 1: and I don't feel that right now. I feel reinvigorated. Deal.
Speaker 1: Hughlee finds that political jokes are low hanging fruit, but
Speaker 1: he had something to say about Elon musk Dl says,
Speaker 1: when you're really, really rich, what do you buy media?
Speaker 1: And why do you buy it? Because you want to
Speaker 1: control the narrative. You want to be so rich that
Speaker 1: you tell people what to think. As for Toyter, he says,
Speaker 1: instead of X should be three ks. Hughglee talked about
Speaker 1: reports that ex is struggling to make money. Even that
Speaker 1: tells you how much money you have and how important
Speaker 1: it is. I'll lose money to shape a narrative. I'll
Speaker 1: lose money to shape minds, to tell people what to think.
Speaker 1: Like he's literally the chief of dispensing misinformation, the chief
Speaker 1: of it. He's ai all these kinds of things, he said,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But that's how valuable having
Speaker 1: information is, the access to information. Tim Meadows has gotten
Speaker 1: a little more political and said it started when he
Speaker 1: sold his Tesla. Tim explains, I love that car. It
Speaker 1: was not an easy decision to go, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get rid of the best car I've ever driven? Why
Speaker 1: do he sell it? Tesla? Ceo Elon Musk and his
Speaker 1: donations to Trump's campaign, Tim says, I just thought it's
Speaker 1: wild that this guy can donate that much money. But
Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, he only has one vote,
Speaker 1: just like me. We're equal in that way, so I
Speaker 1: can't give forty million dollars or whatever it is. But
Speaker 1: I can give something, I'm gonna try to do more
Speaker 1: than just give my limited donor amount. So he sold
Speaker 1: the car. He used that money to fund a comedy
Speaker 1: Caucus event. These days, Tim is driving my old beat
Speaker 1: up Mercedes, which both my kids drove through high school.
Speaker 1: It's a two thousand and seven two thirty Tim As
Speaker 1: the political rhetorica's so ugly now, I was just thinking
Speaker 1: it'd be fun to have a political night where it's
Speaker 1: just comedy. Donald Rawling spoke to The Chicago Defender. Donnelle
Speaker 1: explained why his tour is called the Black and Mild
Speaker 1: Tour and says it was inspired by a bit of
Speaker 1: conflict with the Chicago comedian who said my comedy wasn't hot,
Speaker 1: calling it mild. It got me thinking, I don't even
Speaker 1: like hot sauce as much as I used to, thanks
Speaker 1: to some digestive issues. But really it's more about making
Speaker 1: comedy digestible. My style is sharp, but it's something everyone
Speaker 1: can enjoy. I'm not here to be disgusting or insulting,
Speaker 1: so I took what was meant as an insult and
Speaker 1: turned it into something that works for me. You'll get
Speaker 1: a loud, fun performance with a diverse crowd at my shows.
Speaker 1: Gang members, regular folks, everybody. It's become a brand that
Speaker 1: reflects my style and people love it. Donell talked about
Speaker 1: growing up in DC and said I wasn't the biggest
Speaker 1: or most athletic kid. Growing up, I had to find
Speaker 1: my way in other areas, and being funny became a
Speaker 1: defense mechanism. You're out in the schoolyard. If you don't
Speaker 1: know how to roast people, they had roast you. It
Speaker 1: was survival in a way. But honestly, I never thought
Speaker 1: about pursuing comedy as a career. Wasn't something I set
Speaker 1: out to do. I was a military police officer in
Speaker 1: the Air Force, and when I got out, I was
Speaker 1: waiting to become a DC police officer. I was a
Speaker 1: security guard at a grocery store when this guy who
Speaker 1: worked for a promotions company gave us free comedy show tickets.
Speaker 1: Would go just for fun. But one day people started
Speaker 1: saying I should get on stage. The club owner challenged
Speaker 1: me to perform. Next thing, you know, I'm up there.
Speaker 1: Thirty three years later, I haven't looked back. I never
Speaker 1: gave myself a plan b or C. I just stuck
Speaker 1: with it, stand up of all for me. Over time,
Speaker 1: I realized it was more than just telling jokes. It
Speaker 1: was about bringing characters to life and showing different size
Speaker 1: of myself that eventually led me to acting. So no,
Speaker 1: I wasn't one of those comedians who always dreamed of
Speaker 1: doing this. Opportunities came my way. I recognized them and
Speaker 1: went after them. If you want a good listen, check
Speaker 1: out Stavros Hawgaiz on Neil Brennan's Blocks podcast. I thought
Speaker 1: Stavros was really honest about what his career and money
Speaker 1: and what motivated him. A really thoughtful. He'd clearly done
Speaker 1: some soul searching. He told Neil. I kind of was
Speaker 1: always working towards the Netflix special because I was an
Speaker 1: Internet guy. From first. It was just like was podcast guy,
Speaker 1: then became a clips guy, and then it was like
Speaker 1: I need one. My first TV credit is an hour
Speaker 1: long Netflix special. I never had anything else, so I
Speaker 1: was like, I need that, And once I got that,
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, you did it. It's funny
Speaker 1: how these things that don't help you that much get you,
Speaker 1: like industry attention, like some list that I was well
Speaker 1: past getting my agents were like, let's just get you
Speaker 1: on this. I was like, I'm so beyond that, but
Speaker 1: you get that, and then some executives are like, oh,
Speaker 1: I saw him on Vulture and it's like, I'm on
Speaker 1: a list. I've been selling out theaters and I'm on
Speaker 1: a list like people who just started doing comedy. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carr will host Last One Laughing at UK. It'll be
Speaker 1: on Amazon in twenty twenty five six episodes. Jimmy Carr says,
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be making Last One Laughing UK with
Speaker 1: Prime Video Shorty deliver and if it doesn't, it will
Speaker 1: leave the fun with your neighbors. Usually when I make
Speaker 1: a TV show with ten brilliant comics, I'm expecting everyone
Speaker 1: have a bloody good laugh. But not in this series.
Speaker 1: The Last One Laughing wins. It's a great format and
Speaker 1: it's been a huge hit around the world. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see who cracks up first. When Matteo Lane
Speaker 1: isn't doing comedy, he's eating pasta. He self describes as
Speaker 1: an Italian, Irish Mexican homosexual, and he brings all that
Speaker 1: experience to his new cookbook, Your Pasta Sucks. Matteo says,
Speaker 1: I started making things I knew how to make and
Speaker 1: just chatting while I would cook on camera. Then people
Speaker 1: started making my recipes. They were sending me pictures and
Speaker 1: really letting me know that they were into it. Your
Speaker 1: Pasta Sucks is part cookbook, part autobiography. Mateo explains, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to let somebody know that if they don't know
Speaker 1: how to do pasta, and then they're in the cookbook section,
Speaker 1: it probably implies that their pasta sucks. And two, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make a joke that this is a quote
Speaker 1: unquote cookbook because I'm a comedian and the book is
Speaker 1: a mix of stories and genuine recipes. It's not Martha
Speaker 1: Stewart with eight hundred and seventy recipes, including three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty recipes for Christini. It's fewer recipes, but the
Speaker 1: ones I've chosen are authentic to my family, both in
Speaker 1: Italy and the United States. Mateo explains the main component
Speaker 1: for eating a perfect bowl of pasta is to be
Speaker 1: eating that pasta in Rome. But if that's not an option,
Speaker 1: it's really about taking pasta more seriously. Pasta's been sort
Speaker 1: of watered down as it's traveled around the world, it's
Speaker 1: seen as more of a fun sponge and everybody's obsessed
Speaker 1: with the sauce. But when you go to Italy, the
Speaker 1: pasta itself is the star. The shape of the pasta matters.
Speaker 1: You have to care about flavoring it. You want to
Speaker 1: treat cooking pasta almost like you would cooking a steak.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of little things sitting under your
Speaker 1: nose when it comes to cooking pasta that most people overlook. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: The Vernon Morning Star cut up with Brent but he
Speaker 1: has become a celebrity burger judge. He was at a
Speaker 1: celebrity burger tasting event at the Vernon Lodge and said,
Speaker 1: I was pretty keen. I'm a big burger guy. He
Speaker 1: tried five of the twelve burgers in this year's challenge,
Speaker 1: cutting each burger placed in front of him in half
Speaker 1: to share with a local businessman. He tried the rest
Speaker 1: of the burgers the next day before a stand up
Speaker 1: comedy show. This was all for the Golden Burger Challenge,
Speaker 1: where Vernon restaurants create a special burger with five dollars
Speaker 1: from every burger sould donated to a local charity. Between bites,
Speaker 1: But said they're all really good burgers, no overlap between them. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: when they're given a lot of freedom to be creative,
Speaker 1: they can almost step outside the bounds of what a
Speaker 1: burger's supposed to be. But these are all burgers, but
Speaker 1: they're all very different from each other, and very And
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