Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. He me there, I'm shunning back with
Speaker 1: your Daily Comedy News. So I did watch Ronnie Ching
Speaker 1: special and it's really good. Now let me tell you
Speaker 1: what I liked it. Ronnie is a great storyteller and
Speaker 1: top of mine. So right before I recorded this, I
Speaker 1: just recorded my end of the year rankings. So let
Speaker 1: me double sidebar here. First of all, I've been having
Speaker 1: a lot of voice problems lately. As you've been listening today,
Speaker 1: my voice seems strong. This is the fourth straight episode
Speaker 1: of Daily comed News I'm recording and the voice is
Speaker 1: holding up thanks to the help of a large iced
Speaker 1: coffee with caramel and milk. And you get support the
Speaker 1: show and buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily
Speaker 1: Comedy News. Well, that's not why I bring it up.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that I have the voice to record
Speaker 1: all these things. So I have Ronnie up on my list.
Speaker 1: I have him way up on the list. But I
Speaker 1: don't agree with Jason's In a Minute is not the
Speaker 1: number one special of the year. That said, I don't
Speaker 1: think Jason and is crazy. So tune in on December
Speaker 1: twenty seventh for my complete list. But as I recorded
Speaker 1: those lists, I was talking about specifically al name names,
Speaker 1: Adrian Applelucci Special, and my problem with Adrian Special is
Speaker 1: I don't believe any of the underlying premises at all.
Speaker 1: They're funny stories, but I need a little bit of reality.
Speaker 1: Like she's telling these stories, and I don't believe anything
Speaker 1: she said actually happened. I could be wrong, but personally
Speaker 1: I didn't believe it. Now, as I'm watching Ronnie and
Speaker 1: he does that big opening chunk about freezing his wife's eggs,
Speaker 1: and it's a long chunk, I believe the underlying story
Speaker 1: actually happened or the details exaggerated for comedic effect. Sure,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel like he sat at a desk
Speaker 1: and said, Okay, let me just totally make up a
Speaker 1: half hour story and tell it. Well, perhaps he did,
Speaker 1: but I believe the underlying story. So he's a great storyteller.
Speaker 1: And as he tells the stories, he will drop in tags.
Speaker 1: So that's like, you know, after a joke, you just say,
Speaker 1: like one more short thing. And I never saw his
Speaker 1: tags coming, and they're all really funny. I've talked about
Speaker 1: on this podcast how I have Emperor of Rome syndrome,
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, oh yeah, that's really funny, but
Speaker 1: I don't actually laugh. I laughed at Ronnie Chang special,
Speaker 1: so I like that one a lot. I recommend, but
Speaker 1: I won't tell you how far up the list. You'll
Speaker 1: have to listen on the twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and
Speaker 1: twenty ninth for the breakdowns of those. Do you like
Speaker 1: Nate Burgetzi, because if you don't, you might as well
Speaker 1: check out today. Nate's PR team should play Nicki Glazer's
Speaker 1: PR team in the PR Team super Bowl this weekend
Speaker 1: because they are both absolutely flooring it. I don't recall
Speaker 1: seeing a push to this effect. On Tuesday, Nate got
Speaker 1: a New York Times article, a Washington Post article, and
Speaker 1: a Hollywood Reporter article, all this to promote his Netflix
Speaker 1: special on Christmas Eve, and also tonight is Nate Burghetzi's
Speaker 1: Nashville Christmas on CBS nine o'clock. So one thing we
Speaker 1: know about the special is, you know the George Washington
Speaker 1: bit he's done on the two episodes of SNL. He's
Speaker 1: doing a version of that, but he's dressed as an angel.
Speaker 1: One of the jokes we see in the trailers he says,
Speaker 1: let this be called Christmas, and let it be celebrated
Speaker 1: each year by gathering with family, by doing goodwill in
Speaker 1: his name, and by putting a big pine tree in
Speaker 1: your house. God commands the pine tree shall be decorated
Speaker 1: with glittering glass ornaments of incredible beauty, also with garbage
Speaker 1: that your children make at school. Now, before you feel
Speaker 1: bad for the SNL people being ripped off, Lorne Michaels
Speaker 1: is producing this special even though it's on CBS, which
Speaker 1: is interesting that it's on CBS right. SNL cast members
Speaker 1: Ashley Padia and mikey Day appear in the sketches Mary
Speaker 1: and Joseph, so it's not like Nate's thieving from SNL.
Speaker 1: Naperghetzi's Nashville Christmas will feature a mix of stand up comedy,
Speaker 1: pre taped comedy shorts, sketches, and musical performances. CBS says
Speaker 1: the special spots lights the heart and spirit of Nashville
Speaker 1: during the holiday season and highlighting family fun and feel
Speaker 1: good moments. In a statement, Nate said, and I want
Speaker 1: to make a great show for families to gather around
Speaker 1: and watch together. And I couldn't be in better hands
Speaker 1: with this team. Some of his press, he said he
Speaker 1: met his wife Laura, while waiting tables at Applebee's in Nashville,
Speaker 1: to her sense of humor and laugh. We married in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six on Friday the thirteenth. His favorite
Speaker 1: spot at home, I have a golf simulator room that
Speaker 1: I added onto the house. His goal for stand up
Speaker 1: is to be funny on stage without saying things that
Speaker 1: will embarrass or upset his parents. In his pre stage mantra,
Speaker 1: I remind myself that the knight's not about me, It's
Speaker 1: about the audience. Then I go out to determine and
Speaker 1: make them have fun. All right. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of ate today. So if you're not
Speaker 1: in anate, you should just bail. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: Washington Post. On the headline, Nate Brighetzi wants to be
Speaker 1: the Walmart of comedy. They write, Nate loves fast food.
Speaker 1: He loves big box stores and the suburbs and TNT
Speaker 1: marathons of Diehard. He finds felicity in the familiar, comfort
Speaker 1: in the caloric originality. Any ordinary somebody worked hard on
Speaker 1: that opener. The first quote we get from Nate is
Speaker 1: I had McDonald's last night. They caught up with Nate
Speaker 1: playing golf, when we learned that he loves the pit
Speaker 1: stop around the Troubadour's fifth hole. A cottage filled with
Speaker 1: every temptation you can imagine, jars of candy, topshelf liquor,
Speaker 1: and a drawer of fried chicken sandwiches with pimento cheese.
Speaker 1: He points to the soft serve board and seems disappointed
Speaker 1: when no one makes a homemade version of a blizzard.
Speaker 1: He really loves blizzards, he tells the post. No one
Speaker 1: wants to be Walmart. I want to be Walmart. When
Speaker 1: George Carland was around, you needed George Carlin, you needed
Speaker 1: Lenny Bruce. Now he thinks we need something else, so
Speaker 1: he doesn't to push the envelope. He pulls it in.
Speaker 1: He loved comedy ever since childhood. When he heard Sinbad
Speaker 1: do a bit about McDonald's and people not knowing what
Speaker 1: to order, Sinbad's punch line was that they got the
Speaker 1: same menu. The article then talks about Nate going and
Speaker 1: up to Chicago, and we've talked about that in the past.
Speaker 1: Then he hits New York City, where he loaded FedEx
Speaker 1: trucks from five to ten am after being on stage
Speaker 1: every night. Boy, that's rough. Pete Holmes said the landscape
Speaker 1: of comedy was that nine out of ten comedians were
Speaker 1: going to be kind of rough. The styles you shock
Speaker 1: them and then you kick them in the place you
Speaker 1: kick people. Pete Holmes supposed to wear clean, Pete Holmes.
Speaker 1: Pete said Canadians and college kids always loved me and Nate.
Speaker 1: Home says the audience grew weary about jokes about finding
Speaker 1: the g spot and thatvent he and Nate were a
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air at a gearshift. Mikey Day talked
Speaker 1: about how the George Washington sketch has accelerated Nate's career
Speaker 1: and said, I truly only think that would have worked
Speaker 1: so well with Nate. The dead eyes stare that he
Speaker 1: did is just so perfect a for George Washington b
Speaker 1: just stating these dumb facts. It was just kismet. Nate
Speaker 1: says the sketch shot his career into another world. I
Speaker 1: actually enjoy politics. I don't talk about them, but I
Speaker 1: enjoy them. I don't think it's what people are coming
Speaker 1: to me for the battle isn't with other people but myself.
Speaker 1: I've got to fight myself. It's easy to feel self important.
Speaker 1: I don't have a crazy take ever, so I don't
Speaker 1: get the quick hits, a lot of comic sketch. He's
Speaker 1: got his company, Nate Land, and the guideposts for Nateland content.
Speaker 1: We're starting at PG, but you can talk to me
Speaker 1: into PG thirteen. That's a good rule. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what I try to do here. His production company has
Speaker 1: ambitions beyond comedy. Why not apply clean and different movie genres?
Speaker 1: For example, horror, let's not show someone's bones, says Nate.
Speaker 1: Romantic comedy. He says, we've had a lot of sex
Speaker 1: scenes in movies. There's not much left on the table.
Speaker 1: He has some taglines good clean, scary, good clean, dramatic,
Speaker 1: good clean. Bill Burth said, there's people who work clean.
Speaker 1: There are absolute cornballs that sound like they're doing comedy
Speaker 1: for forty years ago. Then this guy's like Nate, whose
Speaker 1: jokes are so good you don't even realize he's working clean.
Speaker 1: Nate says of his own comedy, it's just going to
Speaker 1: be me being dumb, and you can laugh with me
Speaker 1: or laugh at me. My specials are rated PG. One
Speaker 1: of them was rated G. I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: it's a little embarrassing. The New York Times had an
Speaker 1: article that was just one of the articles, and check
Speaker 1: your watch. We are deep into this podcast already today.
Speaker 1: Right the second one, Nate Bergetzi wants your family to
Speaker 1: stop fighting for an hour maybe two. They cover the
Speaker 1: same beats, including the George Washington sketch. Nate says, I
Speaker 1: don't want your family fighting. There's plenty of times you're
Speaker 1: gonna be fighting. So if I can be your one
Speaker 1: hour you don't fight, we get the sindbad story again,
Speaker 1: then we get I remember when my dad brought Brian
Speaker 1: Reagan's CD at a truck stop. He said, I'll pull
Speaker 1: over because he was laughing so hard. My Dad's just
Speaker 1: driving in the middle of the night on the interstate
Speaker 1: and he's like, I can't even drive because I have
Speaker 1: to get this out of my system. Then I listened
Speaker 1: to it and it was that funny. To this day
Speaker 1: in my head, I want someone to laugh so hard,
Speaker 1: to just have that experience. When I was younger, someone
Speaker 1: said he always wrote me a Bob Newhart That meant
Speaker 1: not a lot of energy, not a big presence. But
Speaker 1: I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved his albums.
Speaker 1: In a sitcoms, I like that I was gonna be
Speaker 1: more of that person. I was way more deadpan at
Speaker 1: the beginning, and I did move around a lot. I
Speaker 1: never moved. Being from the South and having this accent
Speaker 1: and talking slower, I always sounded pretty different, especially when
Speaker 1: I was in New York. So I learned how to
Speaker 1: write jokes first, and I feel like I'm getting more
Speaker 1: in my voice now. I auditioned for the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: It was down to me and Jordan Klepper. Jordan was better.
Speaker 1: I did so bad. It was a quick no. I
Speaker 1: was gonna meet my buddy for lunch. I didn't make
Speaker 1: it to the restaurant before they called and said, you're fine,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I mean, look, I wanted it,
Speaker 1: but if you look back, it's like, man, it's really
Speaker 1: good that I didn't get that, because I clearly wasn't
Speaker 1: ready for it, and I could have really shot my
Speaker 1: career in another direction. Ah, this is interesting. I didn't
Speaker 1: know the scene. There's always connections in Hollywood. And this
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Nate is bad, but just you gotta understand
Speaker 1: how show business works, and it's who you know. Nate
Speaker 1: tells the Times. My management company does a lot with SNL.
Speaker 1: They have Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, David Spade. I knew
Speaker 1: my name had been thrown around, think it was anything
Speaker 1: too serious. They were just letting its sit there. Then
Speaker 1: they came to one of my shows in Vegas, and
Speaker 1: they came when I was in Radio City. The actor
Speaker 1: strike was going on and comedians weren't our own void.
Speaker 1: We didn't have anything all that, and then it was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, we have a hosting spot in two weeks.
Speaker 1: And I went from I didn't really know what was
Speaker 1: going to happen, now this is happening. My career felt
Speaker 1: like a steady climb s and I was a big leap.
Speaker 1: I'm glad my career before it was a slow build.
Speaker 1: So you're a bit of a hand a little better.
Speaker 1: You know, it's all slow until it's as fast as
Speaker 1: it can be. Some philosophy from Nate Television is chasing
Speaker 1: social media, and I don't think it should. My company's
Speaker 1: done very well on social media, but I don't make
Speaker 1: it for that. You need to make your thing in
Speaker 1: the full way. And then I hope that the clips
Speaker 1: go wherever they go. There's not a lot because they're
Speaker 1: on to watch as a family That's why Friends in
Speaker 1: Seinfeld and Ray are still some of the most watched shows.
Speaker 1: It's not because people don't want it. They do want it,
Speaker 1: they're just not being given it. The goal with the
Speaker 1: variety shows to be able to have people come together
Speaker 1: and sit in their house and watch something dumb and silly.
Speaker 1: If you ever see a donkey perform a high diving act,
Speaker 1: put it in your set. All right, I got another one.
Speaker 1: I told you. It was any Burghazzy Day, the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Porternybergatzi conquered Comedy. Hollywood is Next. We learned that in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, Nate was making a Jimmy Fallon Produce sitcom pilot.
Speaker 1: Nate said, when it was happening, I remember my buddy
Speaker 1: was like, this is your shot, So if it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: that's it. I was kind of annoyed by that at
Speaker 1: the time, but I think it helped me. It'd put
Speaker 1: a little chip on my shoulder. I thought for sure
Speaker 1: it would go. When I look back, I'm very glad
Speaker 1: it didn't because I have a lot more of control
Speaker 1: of where I want to go now, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I would have had that then. I would have
Speaker 1: been too young and not a good enough comedian or performer.
Speaker 1: Yet I look back on a lot of stuff like that,
Speaker 1: had I gotten it, my career could have gone in
Speaker 1: a different direction. And he tells the Daily Show anecdote,
Speaker 1: OLLI reporter, he almost had sitcoms at NBC, Fox, ABC, Netflix.
Speaker 1: Was there any kind of threw line other feedback? No,
Speaker 1: but I don't think there was a lot of entertainment
Speaker 1: made for people not on the coast during that period.
Speaker 1: They'd tell you they wanted multicams and stuff that's designed
Speaker 1: for co viewing. Then you'd pitch one of people who
Speaker 1: aren't watching multicams. They want them because it looks good
Speaker 1: in their budget, but then they're like, well, this show's
Speaker 1: not fun, yeah, because the show's not made for you.
Speaker 1: So it was like there's a lot of that for
Speaker 1: a long time, but now shifting and everybody seems to
Speaker 1: want broader again. We have a comic Derek Strup, who
Speaker 1: was on my Christmas special that he comes on the
Speaker 1: road with me a lot, and he's someone I was
Speaker 1: telling CBS like, this is Kevin James. Make that show again.
Speaker 1: Just have it be something fun that everybody can watch
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes and then you can go back to
Speaker 1: your murder show. He says, the Christmas Show is the
Speaker 1: most exciting thing I've done. If it does well, that's
Speaker 1: the one thing I could see doing for an extended
Speaker 1: period of time that would be fun. Right if this
Speaker 1: became an annual tradition, Olli reporter, you worry about alienating
Speaker 1: an audience a lot. What drives that? Nate's I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody to feel better or uncomfortable. Would break my
Speaker 1: heart if somebody thought that I thought I'm better than them.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be for everybody. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the goal. I grew up eating a chain restaurant and
Speaker 1: I'm going to Walmart. I'm on board with selling everything
Speaker 1: to everybody. A lot of times people be like, my
Speaker 1: comedy isn't for everybody, and there's a pride in that,
Speaker 1: but never click for me. I was always like, why
Speaker 1: would you not want everybody to come to your show?
Speaker 1: A little more about the Daily Show port Nate says,
Speaker 1: I was not good. I auditioned with John Stewart and
Speaker 1: I'd heard that they'd like my audition, at least that's
Speaker 1: what Hassan told me. Then I go to the Daily
Speaker 1: Show and I'm with John at the desk. That was good,
Speaker 1: and then I had to read to John Oliver part
Speaker 1: John Oliver uses a lot of words that I don't
Speaker 1: really know what they mean or how to say them.
Speaker 1: It was bad and I had the suit on didn't fit.
Speaker 1: I look like I was going to divorce court to
Speaker 1: get my daughter back or something. They called me before
Speaker 1: I even was back in my hotel. Right, I've heard
Speaker 1: that part already and there's like six more paragraphs, but
Speaker 1: I am nate it out and I have to take
Speaker 1: a commercial break. So behind the scenes, if I don't
Speaker 1: take a commercial break before the twenty minute mark, the
Speaker 1: automation will force one. So let me put one by
Speaker 1: design and then we'll come back and maybe we'll do
Speaker 1: three sections today. You got an your money's worth today,
Speaker 1: be right back. Rose Matta Fayo has a special out
Speaker 1: on Max Today. The La Times caught up with Rosen.
Speaker 1: We learned that she started doing comedy workshops at age fifteen.
Speaker 1: She's now thirty two, which means she's been doing stand
Speaker 1: up for more than half her life, a fact she
Speaker 1: says makes her feel a panic slightly rising in my chest.
Speaker 1: She talks on stage about relatability and the need for
Speaker 1: female comics to be self deprecating, but she says she
Speaker 1: does not come from a place of imposter syndrome. That's
Speaker 1: the one thing I don't think I have. I have
Speaker 1: everything else, low self esteem, terrible relationship with myself, all
Speaker 1: those things you're supposed to have in your thirties. In
Speaker 1: On and on and on, we check in with Rose
Speaker 1: after a real life breakup where everybody from her grandmother
Speaker 1: to her housekeepers like Garol, move on. You weren't together
Speaker 1: long enough to be this upset. She talks about chronicling
Speaker 1: her feelings in the notes app and this real experience
Speaker 1: of suddenly understanding her parents better. But she's now the
Speaker 1: age they were when she was a kid. She cut
Speaker 1: some jokes from her live performances. They were jokes about
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson. Tho was cut for time.
Speaker 1: One of the jokes is who has the time to
Speaker 1: get docks online by superfans, But a joke about the
Speaker 1: attractiveness of Wallougi from Mario Kart was obviously written and
Speaker 1: recorded before their real world arrest of Luigi, the guy
Speaker 1: accused of shooting the United Healthcare CEO. That one stayed
Speaker 1: in Ro says, in your twenties you almost think you
Speaker 1: kind of got it together and now I'm staring at
Speaker 1: this next bit where you're like, yeah, but you don't
Speaker 1: know anything. You kind of have to accept the randomness
Speaker 1: of life, where friends marrying, of kids and the generation
Speaker 1: above you get sick and dies. She says she's always
Speaker 1: had an interest in death. The first show she performed
Speaker 1: at Edinburgh Fringe was about her own funeral and involved
Speaker 1: her jumping out of a coffin in a jeweled tuxedo.
Speaker 1: Two Stories Out of the UK Today, One Happy One Sad,
Speaker 1: The Happy One Strictly Come Dancing in a Dancing with
Speaker 1: Star for the Brits they finish up their twentieth anniversary year.
Speaker 1: The winner blind comedian Chris McCausland. Chris paid tribute to
Speaker 1: the efforts of his professional partner Diane Buswell and using
Speaker 1: unconventional methods and teaching Chris how to dance. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: The Sad Story. Police have found the body of a
Speaker 1: missing Britain Got Talent star after he went missing. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, comedian Martin Crofts had made it to
Speaker 1: the semi finals. His act involved him placing a pan
Speaker 1: on his head, becoming known as the pan Man and
Speaker 1: singing a song while impersonating a Dalek from doctor who
Speaker 1: Police have found what they believed to be his body
Speaker 1: in the Winnie Gill Reservoir in North Yorkshire. Felippe Esparza
Speaker 1: announced a new special coming in Netflix in February, Raging Fool.
Speaker 1: In Raging Fool, Felipe explores the trials and tribulations of
Speaker 1: navigating complicated family dynamics, marriage, cultural divides, infidelity and more.
Speaker 1: And if you're in China, I gotta do this one
Speaker 1: today because of the way time zones work. But on
Speaker 1: Friday in China, the Beijinger tells us the comedy the
Speaker 1: Citadel was bringing the festive spirit to life with a
Speaker 1: hilarious live version of family Feud to celebrate the Dongji Festival,
Speaker 1: also known as the Winter Solstice. The don g Festival
Speaker 1: marks the longest night of the year, enough time for
Speaker 1: family gatherings, feasting and fun. So if you're listening in Beijing, hey,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Head on over to the Comedy Citadel.
Speaker 1: Their version will feature four teams or families and they
Speaker 1: will battle it out to answer survey questions, just like
Speaker 1: the TV show. However, there's a twist you the audience,
Speaker 1: Beijing listener, You'll be the one providing the answers. It
Speaker 1: means every response could turn into a hilarious surprise. And
Speaker 1: that is your comedy news for today. Before we go,
Speaker 1: I just want to get in front of something. So
Speaker 1: Holidays coming up, I will have an episode for you
Speaker 1: every single day, just like always. I'm not going anywhere,
Speaker 1: but I just want to be fair to myself and
Speaker 1: fair to you. Some of the episodes are pre tapes.
Speaker 1: For example, December twenty seventh, eighth and ninth pre tapes
Speaker 1: Top Comedy Specials of the Year. January first, I will
Speaker 1: air the interview I did on The Letterman Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: the guest on The Letterman Podcast tomorrow if you want
Speaker 1: to hear it then, but I'm using that as the
Speaker 1: January first episode. Christmas Day, I already pretaped it, so
Speaker 1: as part of that, I just want to get in
Speaker 1: front of it. So if you're like, hey, how come
Speaker 1: he's not talking about Nate Bergazzi special. Did he not
Speaker 1: watch it? I'm just on tape a little bit more
Speaker 1: than usual. You know. Through the end of the year.
Speaker 1: That's all that's going on here. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: deal you straight. I'm about to record Friday's episode, Johnny
Speaker 1: Max take it in some days off. I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. See you tomorrow.