Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Wirecutter caught up with Conan O'Brien about
Speaker 1: how he packs when he travels. I just found this fascinating.
Speaker 1: A conin opened up with a joke, telling Maria Adammant,
Speaker 1: who writes for Wirecutter, that he does travel with fake beard's,
Speaker 1: fake mustaches and a weird don Keyxote costume. Those are
Speaker 1: props that gets sent ahead. But more seriously, when Conan
Speaker 1: travels alone, it's carry on or bust my kind of guy.
Speaker 1: Conan pro tips from Conan O'Brien underpack, bring versatile and comfortable,
Speaker 1: multipurpose clothes, stick to a singer color palette. Pretend you're
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs. He suggests two pairs of jeans, one blue,
Speaker 1: one black, that takes care of ninety five percent of
Speaker 1: the situations you'd be in. According to Conan, his favorite
Speaker 1: brand makes stretchy pants with a dash of krag. Conan says,
Speaker 1: you could do yog in these, but they look just
Speaker 1: like regular jeans and they're incredibly comfortable. That's a good tip.
Speaker 1: Conan was even wearing one during the interview. He pairs
Speaker 1: his jeans with a classic T like his favorite dark
Speaker 1: blue T shirt from sun Spell. He explains it's not
Speaker 1: a cheap T shirt, but they hold up pretty well
Speaker 1: over time and they don't start to look ratty. They
Speaker 1: actually look kind of nice. Conan also brings a dark
Speaker 1: blue cashmere Brunello zip up hoodie, which he's had for
Speaker 1: years and explains, I've noticed you can wear that with anything.
Speaker 1: It can go to almost any climate. You can just
Speaker 1: wear it. You can wear that and be a chill,
Speaker 1: relaxed dude headed down to the gym, or you can
Speaker 1: wear it underneath an overcoat. You know, you look like Sting.
Speaker 1: On his way to the Grammys, Conan says, though you
Speaker 1: don't need a luxury version, literally could get something similar
Speaker 1: at Banana Republic. Also in the bag a versatile dark
Speaker 1: blue suit from State and Liberty. He likes it because
Speaker 1: it's made with a light stretching material and says he
Speaker 1: can attend a funeral, we're under a jiu jitsu tournament,
Speaker 1: and neither way you're set. He always travels with a
Speaker 1: good pair of black running sneakers. If you're squinting, it
Speaker 1: kind of looks like a shoe. That's my go too
Speaker 1: as well. I'm actually you hear that. I'm wearing black
Speaker 1: sneakers that kind of look like a shoe right now.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're wearing dark pants, it's cone and
Speaker 1: no one's really banging attention. You can also walk for
Speaker 1: like twenty miles. You can go to the gym if
Speaker 1: you're crazy enough to go to the gym while traveling. Also,
Speaker 1: you're Conan O'Brien's and nobody's gonna be like, eh, I
Speaker 1: don't know it was going to give him the Oscar's job,
Speaker 1: but he showed up in sneakers. You know, It's not
Speaker 1: like he's going for a job at the bank. He
Speaker 1: wears glycerin GCS twenties from Brooks. I have a pair
Speaker 1: of those, not in black. My black ones i'm wearing
Speaker 1: are Nikes, but my current running sneakers are Brooks. Wow,
Speaker 1: all right, Conan, get it done. I like this next
Speaker 1: part about his toilet trees. He says, I always make
Speaker 1: sure the containers are approved by the Heathrow Airport website,
Speaker 1: but as even so, the bottles will still be thrown
Speaker 1: out in front of me by a delighted TSA employee
Speaker 1: from Manchester. I followed every single rule that he throw has,
Speaker 1: and they still hold it up in front of me
Speaker 1: like it's rat feces and dispose of it. They then
Speaker 1: get into there's a lot of Aaron wirecutter, if you
Speaker 1: want to read it. They get into which razor he brings.
Speaker 1: He talks about adapters, has been here, done that. I
Speaker 1: always like to bring the wrong adapter for the country
Speaker 1: I'm going to. It's the correct adapter for the country
Speaker 1: I previously went to. And that's true every time, and
Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding. Don't cover your passport, Conan said,
Speaker 1: I used to think it was cool to have a
Speaker 1: little cover for your passport. Don't do it. Everybody in
Speaker 1: every country treats it with disdain. They make you remove
Speaker 1: your passport for a little cover. They had the cover
Speaker 1: back to you like, here's your affectation. He uses an
Speaker 1: air tag and his luggage. It tells you that your
Speaker 1: luggage is in these zories, but no way helps the
Speaker 1: situation other than that. The air tag is just a
Speaker 1: way of laughing at you, mocking you. It's like a
Speaker 1: kidnapper who says we have your relative and you're never
Speaker 1: getting him back. You'll find that in the New York
Speaker 1: Times wire Cutter, that's pretty good. During a recent episode
Speaker 1: of the Town with Matthew Beloney, matt asked John Mullaney
Speaker 1: what cities he thought were best for playing stand up.
Speaker 1: Mulaney said Dublin and then switched to Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham
Speaker 1: was just great. I just walked around. My son was
Speaker 1: probably twelve months old. I was pushing him around the
Speaker 1: city and a stroller, and Everybody's like, we're coming to
Speaker 1: the show tonight, And then everybody was at the show.
Speaker 1: It was that kind of town. Golderby dot com, you're
Speaker 1: home for comedy News asked Eliza Selessinger. What's some great
Speaker 1: comedy advice should pass on? She said, honestly none. I
Speaker 1: hear about comics have mentors when they start, but I
Speaker 1: never had that. After take years, I thought I knew everything,
Speaker 1: but then you realize how much you don't know. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing is that comedy, and really any career was
Speaker 1: a marathon, not a sprint. You have to keep working,
Speaker 1: keep evolving, and be grateful for the chance to create
Speaker 1: a body of work over time. I want to look
Speaker 1: back and see my audience growing with me and not
Speaker 1: be a flash in the pan who in the comedy
Speaker 1: world inspired you, Eliza Selessener her answer, Adam Sandler was
Speaker 1: huge for me growing up. I always loved sketch comedy,
Speaker 1: which shaped my storytelling style. Wasn't until much later I
Speaker 1: realized how much that influenced me. Often on the weekends,
Speaker 1: I'll do international stuff, and I've got a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of international for you here. And if none of that
Speaker 1: interests you, you are dismissed. I understand. I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Mark Watson gets a lot of buzz. He was recently
Speaker 1: enjoying the Prague Fringe and spoke to English radio dot CZ,
Speaker 1: which normally would get tagged with your home for comedy news,
Speaker 1: but I already used that joke. He liked Prague. Two
Speaker 1: of my kids have been to Prague separately. They both
Speaker 1: loved it too. Mark Watson said, there's a kind of
Speaker 1: owe the architecture in the history and how relatively unspoiled
Speaker 1: it feels. There's a real grandeur. Two I've been too,
Speaker 1: slightly similar central European cities like Vienna, and it even
Speaker 1: reminds you Munich. There's certainly a joy for a British
Speaker 1: person with the space, with the big city squares, and
Speaker 1: also all the colors. It's lovely to look out the
Speaker 1: window and feel so far from home. It's a very
Speaker 1: nice city. Mark's show is called Before It Overtakes Us.
Speaker 1: What's it about? He says, I suppose it's a little
Speaker 1: bit ominous. The show's inspired by a conversation I had
Speaker 1: with what was supposedly a customer service person but proved
Speaker 1: to be a chatbot in AI. That was last year.
Speaker 1: The first time I'd ever been successfully condonent as you're
Speaker 1: talking to a non human believing it was human. Made
Speaker 1: me think a little bit about the changing face of
Speaker 1: humanity faced by all this technology. I'm forty five. I've
Speaker 1: seen twenty years of relentless technological change. For most of
Speaker 1: it I felt slightly behind the pace, but not in
Speaker 1: a way that's too much of a problem. Now it
Speaker 1: does feel as if it's getting away from me, and
Speaker 1: I can feel the next generation is starting to do
Speaker 1: things I don't understand. Welcome to Old Man Mountain, Mark Watson.
Speaker 1: Interesting topic here performing in English, where that's many people's
Speaker 1: second language. Mark says, it's a British person. You get
Speaker 1: complacent about that. I've performed in the Netherlands and Denmark,
Speaker 1: and yesterday I had performed a late night's show after
Speaker 1: my show and there were people on the bill from India, Russia, Romania,
Speaker 1: all them performing to each other in English. Were really spoiled.
Speaker 1: As anglophones, you can pretty much take it anywhere. Of course,
Speaker 1: in other countries, I can and would try to speak
Speaker 1: a little bit of German and Germany and French in France.
Speaker 1: Now I've tried to do snatches in those languages. Here,
Speaker 1: I've had very little time to adapt to the local language,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to once again rely on any checks
Speaker 1: there to be fluent or fluent enough. Meanwhile, an Australian
Speaker 1: disability campaigner has hit out at an English comedian over
Speaker 1: a joke about diabetes. Carmen is a Type one diabetic
Speaker 1: and was appalled when comedian Paul Foot went into a
Speaker 1: ten minute stretch on diabetes at his show at the
Speaker 1: Moth Club in East London about ten days ago. In
Speaker 1: the chunk, Foot quote made fun of people unquote who
Speaker 1: wear continuous glucose monitors. That's a device that diabetics used
Speaker 1: to keep track of their blood glucose levels. He then
Speaker 1: apparently mimiced a diabetic having in an episode shaking on
Speaker 1: stage before were suggesting that the person in the sketch
Speaker 1: died after suffering a heart attack. Carman shared footage on
Speaker 1: TikTok where she could be heard booing and calling out
Speaker 1: the comedian. She yelled out, that was a crap joke.
Speaker 1: I have Type one diabetes. That was extremely insensitive and misinformative.
Speaker 1: Foot shot back and said he didn't think he was
Speaker 1: being insensitive, continued to set Carman yelled back, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's up to you to decide if it's insensitive
Speaker 1: or not. I'll remind everyone this was happening at a
Speaker 1: comedy show. Foot said, due to the failure of you
Speaker 1: to grasp with that civil intellectual point, then went on
Speaker 1: to argue that comedy is subjective, and due to the
Speaker 1: failure of you to grasp that simple intellectual point, the
Speaker 1: show's ending in an awkward way. Congratulations to Sean Patrick,
Speaker 1: who won the Not So New Comedian of the Year award.
Speaker 1: Kind of like this. This award is aimed at ax
Speaker 1: who've been doing it for a while but of yet
Speaker 1: to have a big break. Was previously known as the
Speaker 1: Old Comedian of the Year, but they switched that around
Speaker 1: Julia Rayside wrote an opinion piece that I found on MSN.
Speaker 1: Julia is upset that the BBC's new comedy lineup is
Speaker 1: full of white men and says we've gone back in time.
Speaker 1: Julia writes, the latest late of BBC comedy commissions announced
Speaker 1: recently features almost entirely programs by white men. A great
Speaker 1: white side of testosterone is set to wash over our screens.
Speaker 1: I had read to you some of these shows, how
Speaker 1: about a week ago. Remember Mackenzie Crooks in One and
Speaker 1: Michael Palin's in one. Julia Wrights. Women writers have been
Speaker 1: almost entirely sidelined. The one exception is Diane Morgan's Android.
Speaker 1: They said, come about a humanoid robot design to keep
Speaker 1: the elderly company. But we're back to the days of
Speaker 1: one woman on the bill. A single female is on
Speaker 1: one side of the seesaw while the football team of
Speaker 1: white men weighs down the other end. The Christmas one
Speaker 1: off Stuffed Dust are the only non white man Guz Cohn,
Speaker 1: but it's written by Andy Milligan, another white guy. And
Speaker 1: Crackt wrote about the biggest gatekeeper in comedy, which is
Speaker 1: a piece of computer code. Eli Youwdon writes, AI has
Speaker 1: already taken over comedy, but just from the booker's office,
Speaker 1: Eli writes. At the current moment in AI has a
Speaker 1: massive influence over the world of stand up comedy. It's
Speaker 1: not writing material and it's obviously not performing it. What
Speaker 1: it is controlling, and heavily is if you ever see
Speaker 1: the material. I'm not looking to really togate for the
Speaker 1: thousand times how Instagram is effected the quality of comedy.
Speaker 1: For Instagram to exist and for the comics well suited
Speaker 1: to get famous off it more power too than when
Speaker 1: I can't stomach is success or failure on a singular
Speaker 1: platform being used to gatekeep the entire pursuit. What set
Speaker 1: me off was a post on Instagram by comedian Charles Gould.
Speaker 1: The post was a bit resulting from a meeting with
Speaker 1: an agent where he was told in plane terms that
Speaker 1: until he had at least one hundred thousand followers, the
Speaker 1: door was closed. It irked me, especially because the job
Speaker 1: of agents and managers and maybe my childish mind is
Speaker 1: to find talent and then help that talent find an audience.
Speaker 1: That's a good point, and that's your comedy news for today.
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