WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:11.880 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, JIMG with your daily comedy news. 2 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:14.839 Ricky Gervase gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of 3 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:18.879 Fame today. It is the twenty and thirteenth star on 4 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:21.760 the Hollywood Walk of Fame sixteen twenty eight Vine Street. 5 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:23.480 If you want to go, if you're in LA, won't 6 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.359 you head on over. It's today at eleven to thirty Pacific. 7 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.480 If you're not in LA, or maybe you're in LA, 8 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:30.760 just don't feel like leaving the house. I understand it'll 9 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.159 be stream live on Walk of Fame dot Com. The 10 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.039 La Times caught up with Ricky gervas. He also is 11 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.439 playing the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday. Cool place to see Ricky. 12 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.640 His last appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in twenty twenty 13 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:46.200 three earned him the Guinness World Record for highest grossing 14 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:50.039 single stand up performance. The La Times asked Ricky, Hey, 15 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:52.479 you've spent your career pushing comedy boundaries as there have 16 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:54.280 been a moment where we thought, oh, I'm gonna have 17 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.119 to defend this one. Ricky said, no, it all comes 18 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.600 and goes. It's cyclic. People get nervous and that's just 19 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:01.560 always been there from day one. People get worried, and 20 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.159 I say, well, this is why it's okay. Sometimes it's 21 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:06.719 an executive producer or a broadcaster just want some ammunition 22 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.159 to defend it. But sometimes they don't know whether it's 23 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:11.040 okay or not. They just don't want to get complaints. 24 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.079 If I can go okay, listen, this is why it's okay, 25 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:15.599 then they often trust me because I can defend it. 26 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.239 It's not me sitting in the room going what's the 27 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.040 most offensive thing I could say to get the BBC 28 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:22.120 burned down? There's always a point to it. Offence comes 29 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.120 from people mistaking the subject of a joke with the 30 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.439 actual target, and they're not usually the same real smart 31 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.400 by Ricky there. We're human, so we react to buzzwords 32 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.840 and we're cautious of taboo subjects. That's why they're still taboo, 33 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.519 because we're cautious of them. I do that on purpose 34 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.359 as well, particularly with my stand up where we talk 35 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:41.480 about contentious issues and taboo subjects, because I do want 36 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:43.359 to take the audience to place they haven't been before. 37 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:45.319 I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it, 38 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:47.400 think about it, and then I've got to misdirect them. 39 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:49.040 It's like I take them by the hand through a 40 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:51.480 scary forest. But it's okay because they always laugh. If 41 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.280 we're going out there and saying things that were really 42 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.840 offensive and no one was laughing, well that would be odd. 43 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.920 That's what politicians do. Politicians say awful things and they 44 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.640 mean it and no one laughs. Comedians say things they 45 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.719 don't mean. Everyone laughs, and they get the same treatment. 46 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.840 I don't go out there to try and ruin the 47 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:08.560 audience's evening. I go out there and I make a 48 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.000 joke and it's crafted. We're human, though, and we take 49 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:13.280 things personally. But you shouldn't because I think comedy is 50 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.639 at best in intellectual pursuit. You should go well, that's 51 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.759 a bad subject and I don't agree with the punchline, 52 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.280 But does it work comedically? It's a magic trick, it's formula. 53 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.400 You can't argue with chemistry. No one goes well, I know, 54 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:25.080 I laugh, but I don't agree with it. Well, it 55 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:26.759 did what it does. That's the joke, and I'm not 56 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:28.240 going to change the joke or the meeting. I think 57 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.800 the only form of censorship as an audience is your 58 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:32.599 right not to listen. You just don't have to watch. 59 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:34.759 You could leave, not buy my stuff, not buy my tickets, 60 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:36.919 and that's absolutely fine. You can turn your TV off, 61 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.199 but what you can't do is make other people turn 62 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:42.479 their TV off. That's the difference. And then people complain 63 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.400 about something you're doing in the privacy of your own home, 64 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:45.439 even though if they had to go up to their 65 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:47.120 attic and stand out a step ladder and look through 66 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.120 binoculars to see it, they'll find it. People sometimes seek 67 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:52.639 out the offense, and that's actually where people can get 68 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.639 addicted to being offended. They like it, it makes them 69 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.520 feel live. The news even picks it up. They say, oh, 70 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.479 fans weren't happy. Three fans weren't happy. Good stuff. Maybe 71 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:04.120 a little more from that. Tomorrow. Nick Kroll was on 72 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:08.280 Armchair Expert with Jack Sheppard. Kroll explained the process of 73 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:11.800 trying to organize John Mulaney's intervention. Kroll said it was 74 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:13.719 so scary and brutal to go through because he was 75 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:15.199 in New York. I was in la who was at 76 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.680 the height of the pandemic, So it was incredibly stressful 77 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:19.280 to be in the midst of the pandemic trying to 78 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.000 literally coordinate and produce an intervention, bringing a bunch of 79 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.400 different people together friends from college. Kroll's wife was about 80 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.520 to give birth, and I was shooting don't worry Darling, 81 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:30.400 which there was no stress there. That was a very 82 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:32.879 controversial filming that I don't have time to get into. 83 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:35.599 You can google it. Krol said. Then John was running 84 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.439 around New York City like a true madman. I was 85 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.439 so deeply scared that he was going to die, and 86 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:41.879 I was trying to orchestrate all this, combining all the elements, 87 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:44.159 the going of these things, like the intervention person, where 88 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:45.479 he was going to go, who was going to be 89 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.280 at it. You're all of a sudden going back to 90 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.719 being like, oh, that's why I've been an inconsistent friend 91 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:51.919 for the last X amount of time. This explains that, 92 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:53.879 And so it gives you both empathy for them an 93 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.000 also tremendous amount of anger because they've been lying to you. 94 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:59.919 Kroll talked about being on the film with Malaney and said, 95 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:01.639 both of us crying, me just being like, I'm so 96 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:03.479 scared you're going to die. And so I felt him 97 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:06.199 feeling the same way, but also just like yay New 98 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.639 York Streets blogs, Doug Gordon is mad at John Mulaney. 99 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.759 He was commenting on the Millennie episode from ten days ago, 100 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:15.120 and said if that one was the only episode you'd 101 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.720 ever seen, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the show 102 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.759 was shot live at a community board meeting in New 103 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:23.040 York City. After all, the conversation, which featured some of 104 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.000 the most accomplished people in entertainment, quickly to send it 105 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.000 into a competition to see who could most gratuitously equate 106 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.920 Big Apple bonafides with complaints about all the ways in 107 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.800 which bicycles have ruined New York. I'm gonna jump in 108 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:37.920 before I get more into this. Okay, I'm from New 109 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.000 York City. I'm also very, very very pro bike lane. 110 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:45.839 Understand that I'm very pro bike lane. If you want 111 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.360 to see bike lanes work, go to Chicago, where bike 112 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:52.000 lanes work. If you want to see where bike lanes work, 113 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.079 go to Montreal where bike lanes work. If you want 114 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.319 to see how bike lanes work, go to Vancouver, which 115 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.639 even has side streets that are biicles only. It is fantastic. 116 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.560 Love a good bike lane. New York City bike lanes 117 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:08.639 it don't work at all, especially in Manhattan. Too much 118 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.720 chaos doesn't work. They're not really They're more often than 119 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:14.720 not not protected bike lanes, and when they are protected 120 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.920 bike lanes, it pushes out the on street parking so 121 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.240 that if you're driving a car, you have to like 122 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.439 creep out through the bike lane and then passed where 123 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:24.000 the cars are parked and you can't even see the 124 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.800 oncoming traffic. And then add in Manhattan pedestrians like me 125 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.160 who jaywalkt will it's complete chaos. Bike lanes Manhattan do 126 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.480 not work. The Gordon writes. The stated theme of the 127 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.120 program was is uber good? Setting aside that The Evening's 128 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.399 question has been known for more than a decade, it's 129 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.279 a resounding no, at least for people who care about congestion, 130 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.720 carbon emissions and public transit ridership. Only an he barely 131 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.680 bothered engage with the Walker. The editor of torched a 132 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:54.160 new site focused on the infrastructure changes and policy choices 133 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.600 being pursued by Los Angeles as it preps for the 134 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:00.000 twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. Yeah, I don't know if 135 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.079 you know this, Sir Mlanie's talk show is just chaos 136 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.519 and he can't focus on it doesn't work. Respectfully disagree 137 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.439 with the friend of the show and the Great New 138 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.360 York Times writer Jason Zinnemann Millenie show does not work. 139 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.639 I'm sorry, does not work. The topics do work. I 140 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:17.839 don't know why we are the least bit surprised. John 141 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:21.480 Mulani could not hold a meaningful conversation about Uber, so 142 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.120 Gordon Wright's after Walker offered one reason why Uber is 143 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.920 not good because of the congestion and the undermining of 144 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:30.000 public transit. Mullenie asked Walker how she got to the studio. 145 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.319 When she answered that she took the bus on the train, 146 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.560 Mullaney seemed positively shocked. This is a dystopian nightmare, he explained. 147 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.160 Walker never got a chance to defend the La Metro. 148 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.600 I went downhill from there. From the perspective of public transit, 149 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:48.959 Amy Sidis and Sigourney Weaver offered pure windshield perspectives, so 150 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.040 Daris By mentioning that she takes ubers to visit her 151 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:56.079 godchildren in New Jersey transit accessible Maplewood, New Jersey, and 152 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.800 Sigourney Weaver emphasizing that she prefers yellow cabs fine enough. 153 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.879 Natasha Leone joined the panel. Mulaney asked her about Uber, 154 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:04.839 but Leon turned to the conversation of where it was 155 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:08.639 perhaps always destined to go plastering her classic New York 156 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.079 accent so thick that she should be forced to go 157 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:15.040 before the city's Landmark Preservation Commission. Leon stated, but I 158 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.519 don't like his bicycles in New York. I think we 159 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.639 need to shut down the bike lanes that allows Sigourney 160 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:23.079 Weaver to knock cyclists who don't use the bike lanes anyway. 161 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:26.040 Richard Kind chimed in and said, and get rid of 162 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.480 the electric bicycles. They're the worst. They're killers. Fact check 163 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.560 from Doug Gordon, they are not killers. Comedy show guys. 164 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.560 Comedy show Walker suggested the bus should have a lane, 165 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.439 the bike should have its own very wide lane, and 166 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:42.240 there should be a wider sidewalk. Natasha Leone said, that's insane. 167 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.480 It's Manhattan. We don't have the space. Doug Gordon writ's 168 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:49.639 classic windshield perspective. Leon clearly was not able to see. 169 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.680 It's all the uber black Axls and Cadillac escalades, faring 170 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.439 celebrities and other wealthy New Yorkers that are taking up 171 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.199 all the space. Walker gets it until Doug Gordon it's 172 00:07:58.199 --> 00:07:59.959 a comedy show. I'm not even sure this is truly 173 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:02.800 what these people believe and again if you want to 174 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.160 hit rewind Johnny Max said he's very pro bike lane. 175 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:08.360 They work great in Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, other places they 176 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.720 don't work him in Httan. You want my real solution, 177 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.639 I have suggested this. Let's take Park Avenue away from 178 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.040 the cars and make Park Avenue. And if you've never 179 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.120 been to New York Park Avenue, it has a park 180 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.120 down the mill. Very nice. Let's make that bike lanes 181 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.759 and more. John mulaney, he was at an event hosted 182 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:26.839 by PAP. He was asked if he would like to 183 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:29.879 replace Lorne Michaels once Lorne Michael steps away from SNL. 184 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:32.360 The question if someday Laurna is hit by a bus 185 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.120 and they say, you know, John Mlaney, you have to 186 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:36.200 take over the show, no excuses. What's the first thing 187 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.240 you change mulane? He deflected and said he's lived in 188 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.000 New York for fifty years. You don't think he knows 189 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.679 that to dodge a bus. Hng Wing talk to twenty 190 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.120 seven East and said, there's a future of stand up 191 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.399 that you might not have an other forms of creative expression. 192 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.600 There's an audience there in the moment giving you an 193 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.120 immediate or direct response. If you're a painter or a photographer, 194 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:56.039 you might have a gallery show, but unless you're there 195 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.120 with whoever's looking at it, you don't really know how 196 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.559 they're responding to it. Would stand up. They's sort of 197 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:02.639 an advantage that levels the playing field, and it's based 198 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.279 on some sort of meritocracy. It's a very binary thing. 199 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.080 Do they laugh or not. It's an everyday thing. You 200 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:09.480 look at your notes, you try to sit down and 201 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:11.639 write some new ideas. You tinker. It's kraft and you 202 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:14.159 hone it habitually. Then you got open mics and test 203 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:16.480 things out. It's like you're working the lab, making things better. 204 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.200 He says growing up, he didn't want to be a comedian. 205 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.399 He was doing things like hanging outside playing basketball friends 206 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.759 or hanging out of the bayou catching tadpoles. No one 207 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:27.759 was ever like he's the funniest guy in class. I 208 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.840 was never seeking attention in group settings. I was more 209 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:32.360 of a one on one friendships kind of guy. He says. 210 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.519 The most joyful thing is writing a new joke. And 211 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:40.440 from the Hartford Current. Bob gil wrote the screenplay for 212 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.879 the original Back to the Future films and was a 213 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.159 producer of Back to the Future the animated series in 214 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.679 the nineties, plotted the stories for the Back to the 215 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.519 Future comic book series, and now works on the Back 216 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.840 to the Future musical, which I saw and loved, and 217 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:57.720 it's coming to Hartford and you should go see it. 218 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:59.720 All right, How did it come about? Gail said, we 219 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:01.759 start the process by saying, there are certain things we 220 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.320 can do with this material in the theater, and there's 221 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.440 certain things we can't do, like we can't have the 222 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:07.559 terrorist chase, But what else could we do? The problem 223 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.240 we're solving there is that doc dyeing motivates Marty to 224 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.360 go back in time. It could be something else, so 225 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.960 we made it spoiler radiation poisoning. I didn't just ruin 226 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.639 the musical for you, trust me. The musical does not 227 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.519 contain the film skateboard Chase. Having seen the musical, I 228 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:23.879 didn't even notice. Gail said, it's just too dangerous. Marty 229 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:25.799 already has to sing, dance and be funny. We're gonna 230 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.159 make him do skateboard stunts too, and staid we've got 231 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.399 to chase through the school lunch room, which accomplishes the 232 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.120 same thing. Gale things, changing it up a little makes 233 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:35.600 it more fun. I don't want people to say I 234 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:37.559 should have stayed home watched the movie. Some of the 235 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:42.679 show's completely nuts. He insisted on keeping four songs Johnny 236 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.000 Be Good, Earth, Angel, Powerful Love, and Back in Time. 237 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:46.960 You can't go see Back to the Future Without those 238 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.759 four songs. People would tear up the seats. Back to 239 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:53.440 the Future the musical at the Bushnell one sixty six 240 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:58.000 Capitol Avenue, Hartford performances June fourth through va. If you 241 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.120 should go, It's a lot of fun. And then that's 242 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.919 your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, 243 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.879 please tell a friend about it. 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