Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. It must be nice to be Sebastian Maniscalco.
Speaker 1: He caught up with Billboard, who points out that in
Speaker 1: the first six months of the year he grossed thirty
Speaker 1: five and a half million, sold three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: one thousand tickets over thirty shows. None of that includes
Speaker 1: five nights at Madison Square Garden. Last September, Sebastian was
Speaker 1: number twenty five among all genres of live performers, just
Speaker 1: below Dua Lipa. Sebastian told Billboard that's nice to hear.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of competition out there, so I didn't
Speaker 1: think I would have been the number one guy, but
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. It's nice to be on top.
Speaker 1: Why does he think his comedy appeals to such a
Speaker 1: wide range of people. Sebastian said, well, the observation material
Speaker 1: I do hits a lot of different notes for people.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about one specific thing. Although I'm Italian American,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of my comedy resonated with the
Speaker 1: Italian American community. At first, that was never really my intention.
Speaker 1: I've always done material like hey, I went to Chipotle
Speaker 1: or ever notice when your doorbell rings. Those are very
Speaker 1: broad topics that anybody can enjoy. Then I honed in
Speaker 1: on my Italian upbringing and my Italian father, which resonated
Speaker 1: not only with people with Italian immigrant backgrounds, but Spanish, Greek,
Speaker 1: wherever you come from. You know what, I feel like,
Speaker 1: there's more when I look into the audience. I feel
Speaker 1: like I haven't tapped into a mainstream vibe. I like
Speaker 1: to look into the audience and see more Chinese people,
Speaker 1: more Black people, more any people, because I feel like
Speaker 1: the comedy speaks to a lot of different people and
Speaker 1: I haven't felt like I've tapped into it yet. I
Speaker 1: just feel like there's more out there for me. Here's
Speaker 1: my thought. And again, the guy is super popular doesn't
Speaker 1: need my help. I think the reason there would be
Speaker 1: because of he does do a stylized delivery that I
Speaker 1: think if he backed it down a little, it may
Speaker 1: open it up a little. But again, clearly does not
Speaker 1: need my help as I record a podcast into the basement.
Speaker 1: But yes, the question that would be my one. Cent
Speaker 1: Leslie Jones was wearing a full length gold lumm a
Speaker 1: ball gown, said it makes her look skinny. I'm six
Speaker 1: feet tall. I can't cut my feet off. I can't
Speaker 1: being a scary mf or. This is who I am.
Speaker 1: Let me work with who I am. I'm the type
Speaker 1: of person who if I'm happy, everybody in the room's
Speaker 1: going to be happy, and if I'm sad, it's going
Speaker 1: to be very quiet and tense. I'm a temperature guider
Speaker 1: in the room. She discussed current events and said we're
Speaker 1: repeating the worst part of history right now, but maybe
Speaker 1: it's for the lesson that we didn't learn the last time.
Speaker 1: She talked about a dark period of her comedy in
Speaker 1: the aughts after her brother died. She said, I was evil,
Speaker 1: not evil, just angry, performing and angry. My routine was raw.
Speaker 1: Started getting where I thought, I don't give an f
Speaker 1: whethy you all laugh. I was destroying it. That's when
Speaker 1: I started wearing a mohawk. People thought I did it
Speaker 1: for fashion. Nah, I just didn't want to comb my hair.
Speaker 1: I was bare minimum getting out of bed. She was
Speaker 1: taking drugs and says she doesn't mean weed, I mean drugs. Drugs.
Speaker 1: She got SNL in twenty thirteen, at age forty seven.
Speaker 1: She was the oldest new Hire the show had ever made.
Speaker 1: People don't understand that first year, maybe the first two seasons,
Speaker 1: I was really in love with Colin Jost. I didn't
Speaker 1: know how it was going to happen, whether we just
Speaker 1: work late together and make out in his office and
Speaker 1: drink whiskey. I had all the visions. He was so
Speaker 1: cute and funny, and he was just so white, such
Speaker 1: a white nerd for app boy that I was like,
Speaker 1: I want him. Every time I'd see him in the corridor,
Speaker 1: I'd shout, I love you, Colin, you beautiful white stud.
Speaker 1: Leslie will be touring the US from September nineteenth through November. Yeahoo,
Speaker 1: Canada talks to you. Friend of the show, John Marco Saraisi.
Speaker 1: He says social media has made his material accessible to
Speaker 1: those around the world, saying, I think there was a
Speaker 1: time when I wouldn't be able to do what I
Speaker 1: do internationally until I was like a megastar, until it
Speaker 1: was big theaters. But it's definitely at a scale where
Speaker 1: I can go to a comedy club in Europe and
Speaker 1: enough people know me from the Internet they're excited to
Speaker 1: see me. But in another way, it allows me to
Speaker 1: feed into my ADHD where if there's something I really
Speaker 1: want to talk about right now, or something super topical,
Speaker 1: it's going to go way tomorrow. I can make that
Speaker 1: joke and put it out there in my own capacity
Speaker 1: in a way that if I were recurring guests on
Speaker 1: the Daily Show I could have. That's when I could
Speaker 1: have made my jokes about Rock and Elon Musk. But
Speaker 1: especially these days, the new cycle moves so quickly. So
Speaker 1: does comedy have to do in building a platform? Lets
Speaker 1: me get all those thoughts out, and in a business sense,
Speaker 1: it gives me more product to sell Christ to Stefano
Speaker 1: talked to Yahoo about making fun of his father, saying,
Speaker 1: I love poking fun at him because I know he
Speaker 1: can take it. My whole life, he showed me what
Speaker 1: love means through comedy. It always meant make fun of me,
Speaker 1: but that was basically him and his brother or uncle
Speaker 1: saying I love you. That's why I make fun of
Speaker 1: him so much, because I feel like it's really me
Speaker 1: saying to my dad, hey, I love you. His fiancee
Speaker 1: is cool about the jokes. She says. I think she's like,
Speaker 1: go be as funnies you need to be. We got
Speaker 1: to pay off this mortgage. He praised Hulu and said
Speaker 1: Netflix is great. All these places are great, but Hulu
Speaker 1: they don't have that many comedy specials. So I had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to really stand out and not get lost
Speaker 1: in the shuffle, and to be part of the inaugural
Speaker 1: Hulu Comedy Specials class with Jim Gaffickin and Bill Burr
Speaker 1: Comedy Greats. It was really cool. He discussed the tiktokization
Speaker 1: of comedy and said, initially I'd get recognized in the
Speaker 1: street and someone would be like, oh, you're the comedian
Speaker 1: from TikTok. I'd almost get offended by it. I'm not TikToker.
Speaker 1: I have comedy specials. And then all that went away,
Speaker 1: where I was like, Hey, whatever medium people see me in,
Speaker 1: just be grateful and feel blessed that they're watching you
Speaker 1: and they're even acknowledging you. It's not about getting recognized,
Speaker 1: that's all ego. It's about my work and it was
Speaker 1: memorable enough for them to be like, oh I remember you.
Speaker 1: Especially with the mindless scrolling wheel do every day, we're
Speaker 1: taking in thousands of videos and images every day. If
Speaker 1: I could stick out to a person, I feel really
Speaker 1: blessed by that. Cinema Bland talk to Pete Davidson. He's
Speaker 1: going to be separate from the Amazon movie with Eddie Murphy,
Speaker 1: a horror movie called The Home. Pete will play a
Speaker 1: broken man who takes a job at a retirement home,
Speaker 1: only to discover the sinister plot of the film. Pete says,
Speaker 1: acting is just so embarrassing because I'm a stand up,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's very ridiculous. So in order for
Speaker 1: me to get there and be like, oh, I can
Speaker 1: only do that two or three times before we start laughing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. SGA Magazine caught up with
Speaker 1: Monty Python or Michael Paymin. His wife Helen passed away
Speaker 1: two years ago, and Michael says, we spend so much
Speaker 1: time together in this place, just the two of us,
Speaker 1: that she's always here. Her pictures are everywhere, the chairs
Speaker 1: we used to sit in, the book she used to read,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. They've become reassuring. I'm pleased to
Speaker 1: be able to say this now, because at one time
Speaker 1: I thought those traces of her would be a source
Speaker 1: of continuing grief. It's much better than that. I feel
Speaker 1: we coexist as well. I can see why people say
Speaker 1: it takes two years or so before we response gradually changes.
Speaker 1: It becomes less about loss and more about the spirit
Speaker 1: of that person being around. So that's nice. I feel
Speaker 1: less grief now and more than I got to keep
Speaker 1: doing things, looking after the children we made together. I'll
Speaker 1: talk to her as if she's still there. I'll show
Speaker 1: some spectacular bit of incompetence that I know she would
Speaker 1: have found funny. Then I'll hear myself saying something in
Speaker 1: the way she would have said it and laugh. Even
Speaker 1: though I'm the only one there, Imagining her being there
Speaker 1: makes me laugh. You have to adapt. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be dependent on the family to come around every day.
Speaker 1: I don't cook. Unfortunately, there were various areas where I
Speaker 1: thought I might be vulnerable, but it turns out quite
Speaker 1: good at being on my own. Michael has a new book,
Speaker 1: or There and Back Diaries nineteen ninety nine to two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine. It's out in paperback. His Python cast
Speaker 1: mate Eric Idol spoke to The Guardian. He used to
Speaker 1: get annoyed when people would try and take pictures this
Speaker 1: back in the day before Selfie's, he said, I used
Speaker 1: to be really unpleasant. Then Robin Williams taught me that
Speaker 1: that sort of encounter is very important to people, So
Speaker 1: be nice, not brusque, because they'll never forget it. But
Speaker 1: you don't want to spend twenty minutes with them. So
Speaker 1: when they come up, I'll say I'm Eric, what's your name.
Speaker 1: Then they become a person and see you as a
Speaker 1: person too. There's a human connection, not some stupid story thing.
Speaker 1: It becomes more normal and easier to leave. Now that's interesting.
Speaker 1: When I met the captain of the Yankees, he walked
Speaker 1: up to me and I was at his place of business.
Speaker 1: I was in his office, so it's not like I
Speaker 1: ran into him at the mall. I was there to
Speaker 1: see him. But he walked in, look me in the eye,
Speaker 1: stuck out his hand and go, hi, I am Derek.
Speaker 1: And I'm like thinking, like, yeah, I know, but you know, okay,
Speaker 1: I got it. Eric Idol talked about how George Harrison
Speaker 1: agreed to fund the Life of Brian film because George
Speaker 1: wanted to see it. Eric said, he changed my life.
Speaker 1: We were very close. I was there at his deathbed.
Speaker 1: He wasn't frightened of death. He thought he'd escape rebirth.
Speaker 1: I said, I'd give anything to be reborn. Only thing
Speaker 1: we ever disagreed on he still laughed when I said it.
Speaker 1: At George's funeral, I said I'd like to thank Marlborough,
Speaker 1: without whom he wouldn't be here this morning. Got a
Speaker 1: huge laugh. It's not really the right thing to say,
Speaker 1: but also, let's name the names of people responsible. With
Speaker 1: season eight of Rick and Morty wrapping up, Dan Hormon,
Speaker 1: the creator, spoke to The Holly Reporter and said he's
Speaker 1: already written season ten episodes. He gets confused when everything's airing.
Speaker 1: I understand that I often record a head on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Then I'll be like, wait, did I share that with
Speaker 1: the audience ent or the future that happens? Arma says,
Speaker 1: I'm really bad at keeping track these days, because we're
Speaker 1: so on schedule that we're ahead of schedule. I was
Speaker 1: told last night at ComicCon will be doing a table
Speaker 1: read of the two Bets episode, which was season eight
Speaker 1: to sixth episode. My response was, maybe I should punch
Speaker 1: that script up, and my producer said it already aired
Speaker 1: on television. He's not used to being ahead of schedule.
Speaker 1: I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat, going how
Speaker 1: do I destroy everything? How do I slow it down?
Speaker 1: The answer is I can't wyant't you go work on
Speaker 1: the community movie? Buddy? Show runner Scott Marterer has already
Speaker 1: started doing voice work for season nine. The writing team
Speaker 1: has started working on season ten. Harmon said, there's episodes
Speaker 1: of season ten that I'm already so excited about. That's
Speaker 1: the frustrating thing of being on schedule animation. Can we
Speaker 1: fast forward times so people can get a look at
Speaker 1: the bad Boy? I don't know if it's sad for
Speaker 1: the listeners to hear they're like, why are three minutes ahead?
Speaker 1: That means you're not going to have an amazing Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Epstein episode. All right, let's take a look at the
Speaker 1: fringe from voicemag dot e UK. They caught up with
Speaker 1: Thomas Kntor. He gave some naughty answers. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if I can clean this up. The question was
Speaker 1: what are you most excited to share with an audience.
Speaker 1: Tom Lost said, no spoilers, but maybe when he does
Speaker 1: something with a cello that I can't clean up, or
Speaker 1: when I lap dance in the first row or make
Speaker 1: out with an inflatable doll. I think you get the idea.
Speaker 1: What kind of show this is? To maas says, I
Speaker 1: think what's so fab about fringe is that it's a
Speaker 1: massive equalizer. No one knows me, but that's scary but thrilling.
Speaker 1: I have to win people over every night before my
Speaker 1: best leave it all on stage. Make my mark. Who's
Speaker 1: asked about his fringe survival kit? What are the three
Speaker 1: most essential non eyevious items in yours? His answer? Headphones, lubricant,
Speaker 1: and hutzba. Who has shaped your artistic influence? The answer,
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, She's my temple. It's the closest thing I
Speaker 1: have to religion. Theater meets pop meets camp meets passion
Speaker 1: meets therapy meets mayhem meets nostalgia meets Italy, he meets
Speaker 1: poetry meets culture. It's genius. She's genius. She's the blueprint. Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular,
Speaker 1: never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before.
Speaker 1: I'mafraid to reference, not reference. Putting a blender, grap on it,
Speaker 1: vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it. Social
Speaker 1: media Instagram at Tom cantor Tom Show Sugar with the
Speaker 1: assembly checkpoint at four twenty pm through August twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: That sounds like fun. That is your comedy news for today,
Speaker 1: see tomorrow