Speaker 1: Calaroga Shark Media Johnny Max got a bad cold. The
Speaker 1: COVID test was negative, but as you can hear, my
Speaker 1: voice does not exist. I think if I talk from
Speaker 1: the front of my mouth, I'll be able to make
Speaker 1: it through here. Anthony jessel Nick is in a little
Speaker 1: bit of a war now with Joe Rogan and the
Speaker 1: Newest Special. Jessel Nick has a joke that says, I
Speaker 1: like Joe, but if you listen to his podcast, you're
Speaker 1: an effing loser. Rogan retweeted a clip with Jeslnick telling
Speaker 1: the joke and wrote, hands up if you're a loser.
Speaker 1: I watched the special. I made it seven minutes in
Speaker 1: and I just thought it was I don't want use
Speaker 1: the word bad. I just didn't care. It wasn't doing
Speaker 1: anything for me. It's just like, you know, here's a premise,
Speaker 1: and now I say something twisted and dark, over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over, like I get
Speaker 1: that's what the act is, but it's tired. Seven minutes
Speaker 1: I made it into that one. The Daily Beast dusted
Speaker 1: off some background on the Rogan versus Anthony battle here.
Speaker 1: Jessinnick was on THEO Vaughn's podcast back In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: The Daily Beast writes, Jessinic pushes back on comedians who
Speaker 1: believe they should be able to say whatever they want.
Speaker 1: He said, that's wrong as far as I'm concerned. People
Speaker 1: think as a comic, their job is to get in trouble,
Speaker 1: but they don't want to get yelled at. It's okay
Speaker 1: to make people mad, but they don't want any pushback.
Speaker 1: If you put out a special and everyone's ticked, he
Speaker 1: didn't get away with it. You need to make everyone laugh,
Speaker 1: that's right, otherwise you're just a troll. In the special,
Speaker 1: Justlinnick addresses cancel culture and said comedians are supposed to
Speaker 1: be on parallel badasses. I know this because I have
Speaker 1: an effing mirror. Towards the end of the hour spoilers,
Speaker 1: Jesslinnick says, guys. Don't get me wrong. I like Joe.
Speaker 1: Joe's my friend. Joe's a good guy, but if you
Speaker 1: listen to his podcast, you're an effing loser. Back in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, justin Nik til the Last Laugh podcast. I
Speaker 1: want to be the type of villain that the other
Speaker 1: villains are afraid of. We live in a world now
Speaker 1: where there are very real villains. I'm a comedian. People
Speaker 1: get mad at me, but I make people laugh for
Speaker 1: a living. There are way worse people out there that
Speaker 1: you should be upset with, and I like that I
Speaker 1: might make those people a freed. Krackt asked Jessinic about
Speaker 1: Tony Hinchcliff. They were curious, say, Anthony, did you watch
Speaker 1: that joke and say I know how to make that
Speaker 1: joke work. Jessinix said, I never would have put myself
Speaker 1: in that position. Firstly, on either side of political rally
Speaker 1: at MSG was the wrong joke to tell. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with to joke and listen. I love
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. I've given money to Puerto Rico for earthquakes
Speaker 1: and hurricanes. I didn't find it distasteful. It was like,
Speaker 1: I get what you're doing, but their constituents, you're trying
Speaker 1: to get them to vote for you. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: And that was my big takeaway, You're roasting the wrong things.
Speaker 1: If I had been hired by Donald Trump to do that,
Speaker 1: I would have roasted his opponents. I would have roasted
Speaker 1: states who's definitely gonna lose that we could all laugh at.
Speaker 1: This is not crazy talk by Jessini at all. I
Speaker 1: think he just misjudged his audience and that was his
Speaker 1: greatest sin. I think the joke is fine. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a good joke, but I'm not as upset
Speaker 1: about it as some people were, unless you put it in
Speaker 1: the context of the opening of the last minute political rally,
Speaker 1: that of course didn't change anything. Cracked. If your audience
Speaker 1: is more conservative, do you worry that they're enjoying your
Speaker 1: jokes but not in the way you intend? Jeslinix. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter to me. I have one joke
Speaker 1: where I say I'm against cancel culture. In the audience cheers,
Speaker 1: I think they're playing along. I think they know that
Speaker 1: I'm making fun of people who say that they're going
Speaker 1: to cheer because that's what a hack comedy the audience
Speaker 1: would cheer for. Sometimes I think they're cheering because they
Speaker 1: know what's about to happen. I rarely think they're cheering because, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's on our side. Because they know I'm gonna pull
Speaker 1: out the rug from them if they're coming to buy
Speaker 1: a ticket, They're like, I'm happy to have the rug
Speaker 1: pulled out from underneath me. My audience is smart enough
Speaker 1: not to have to agree with everything I say to
Speaker 1: themselves and then ay of you lost and I showed
Speaker 1: his jobs because being material. Justin Ix said, I was
Speaker 1: always sprised that I was able to get on TV
Speaker 1: at all. What the five minutes jokes that I'd tell
Speaker 1: I was doing my actor try to audition? I have
Speaker 1: somebody hire me to write for them. I never thought
Speaker 1: I'd be a stand up of this magnitude, just because
Speaker 1: I thought they're not gonna let me on TV with this.
Speaker 1: And this was before Netflix. It was like, could you
Speaker 1: get on Conan? Can you get on premium Blend? And
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure in the beginning. I also watched James
Speaker 1: Acaster's special, and by watched, I mean stared at it
Speaker 1: for eight minutes wondering, what are you even trying to
Speaker 1: do here? I'm just bewildered. I got the premise that
Speaker 1: people were allowed to heckle him, but maybe then, if
Speaker 1: that's the premisure selling, maybe have somebody heckle in those
Speaker 1: first eight minutes. Uh wow. I mean I didn't like
Speaker 1: Justin k special at all, but at least like I
Speaker 1: get it Acast I didn't get it all, neither one
Speaker 1: of them. We'll make my end of the Year list.
Speaker 1: I'd rather watch an Adam Sailor comedy and be honest.
Speaker 1: Vulture spoke to Acastor their question, if you could conceive
Speaker 1: of a version of stand up where there was no audience,
Speaker 1: what would yours look like? Acaster said, when bo Burnham
Speaker 1: did Inside, I think every stand up had the thought of, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: he's done the thing a lot of us have been
Speaker 1: thinking throughout a career. Wouldn't be great if I could
Speaker 1: do this without them here. But then you're like, at
Speaker 1: what point is that not stand up anymore? I love
Speaker 1: that special. I think it's an incredible achievement and we'll
Speaker 1: be remembered for generations. It's such an amazing time capsule
Speaker 1: and it was the perfect thing to do during lockdown.
Speaker 1: But in many ways it's the first ever YouTuber comedy special.
Speaker 1: That was his origin and he utilized that, and that's
Speaker 1: what I thought. He was so amazing at I think
Speaker 1: the answer I've landed on and someone will do this
Speaker 1: at some point is the other way around. There's no comedian,
Speaker 1: but there's an audience, so you go to the Abba
Speaker 1: voyage route of having a hologram. I went to see
Speaker 1: Abba and I got a jacket there and originally in
Speaker 1: the show and wear it on stage and not reference it.
Speaker 1: Someone will do it someday. I'll be very jealous of
Speaker 1: that person. If I'm not the one who's done it,
Speaker 1: I probably won't be because the admin alone seems like
Speaker 1: a nightmare. But you'd be able to do multiple shows
Speaker 1: a day, sitting at home somewhere and get on with
Speaker 1: your life. That sounds pretty pretty sweet, and that is
Speaker 1: gonna be my inspiration for what we're gonna do. Here.
Speaker 1: You hear my voice, it's gone. I have a new
Speaker 1: tool that I haven't taken out of the toolbox yet.
Speaker 1: So in the spirit of what James A Caster just did,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the break and I'll deal you straight.
Speaker 1: When we come back from the break, it's going to
Speaker 1: be AI Johnny Mack. I will write the words, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to have my new AI avatar voice it
Speaker 1: because I sound like crap. Okay, So I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to trick you. I'm not trying to lie to you.
Speaker 1: I will write the words, the AI will voice everything.
Speaker 1: After the commercial break, and it's a holiday weekend. What
Speaker 1: better time to experiment than right now? When I have
Speaker 1: the excuse of I sound like crap and my voice hurts,
Speaker 1: and I've got the technology, and it's a holiday weekend,
Speaker 1: so when we come back AI Johnny Mack with more.
Speaker 1: Joel Kim Booster opened up to the eight hundred Pound
Speaker 1: Gorilla about crafting his new special. He's focused on creating
Speaker 1: a cohesive through line to elevate it beyond just an
Speaker 1: hour of jokes. He's currently working with directors to refine
Speaker 1: the show's structure. He prefers smaller venues that allowed direct
Speaker 1: audience connection and crowd work, saying he'd rather look the
Speaker 1: audience in the eye than perform in three thousand seat theaters.
Speaker 1: While respecting peers who thrive in larger venues like the
Speaker 1: Greek Theater, Booster maintains he's really content exactly where I am.
Speaker 1: Patton Oswalt's comic book series Minor Threats is expanding with
Speaker 1: a new anthology, Welcome to Twilight City. We'll bring in
Speaker 1: major creators including Matt Fraction, Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Alred,
Speaker 1: and Gene Haw for a four issue Dark Horse series
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. This next one is fun Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Cat Cafes, Monthly Zoomies comedy show features adoptable cats roaming
Speaker 1: free and occasionally heckling during stand up sets. At a
Speaker 1: recent show, a grey kitten named Pebbles became the breakout star,
Speaker 1: interrupting comics with sassy mews from the back of the room.
Speaker 1: Comics quickly learned cats make unpredictable audience members. The lineup,
Speaker 1: including host Marty Cunney and comedians like Alison Leeby and
Speaker 1: Natasha vain Blatt, had to dodge cat storming the stage,
Speaker 1: starting fights, crash into audience members, and attacking the mic cord.
Speaker 1: The best sets embraced the chaos, making Pebbles's antics a
Speaker 1: running bit. While lacking traditional comedy club amenities, the scrappy
Speaker 1: show delivers laughs along with the chance to meet adoptable pets.
Speaker 1: Attendees are encouraged to pet and play with cats during
Speaker 1: the show, though may have done again. Told the Dodo,
Speaker 1: the experience may leave you feeling satisfied and covered in
Speaker 1: cat hair. The show runs first Fridays at Brooklyn Cat Cafe.
Speaker 1: Pebbles is still seeking her forever home. Adopted on chap
Speaker 1: Wayne Knight, you know him as Newman from Seinfeld, reports
Speaker 1: his one hundred and ten pound weight loss has hurt
Speaker 1: his acting career, He told TMZ. It takes time for
Speaker 1: people to accept you as you are, and then they
Speaker 1: find out whether or not you can still do things
Speaker 1: without being fat. Knight shed the weight since his nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three Jurassic Park role through various methods including therapy,
Speaker 1: drug surgery, exercise, and radiation. When asked if he lost
Speaker 1: weight the old fashioned way, he said, what do you
Speaker 1: mean like not eating? Yes, that does work, and that
Speaker 1: is your comedy news for today. If you're a human
Speaker 1: with no voice, feel better and remember resistance is futile.
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow,