Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Dave Chappelle was speaking to PBS News
Speaker 1: and said, I was talking to a friend of mine
Speaker 1: the other day and we were laughing about how no
Speaker 1: one would really know what to teach a kid now.
Speaker 1: What skill sets are going to matter ten to twenty
Speaker 1: years from now. Is the world becomes automated and everything's
Speaker 1: just changing. I don't know if anyone needs to think anymore.
Speaker 1: The machines are doing all the work for us. It's AI,
Speaker 1: it's quantum computing. Just seems like thinkings for poor people.
Speaker 1: He quickly added, it's a joke, by the way, but
Speaker 1: he did get a little more serious and said, no
Speaker 1: one reads books anymore. It's just so different from when
Speaker 1: I grew up. Amen. Michelle Wolf told her origin story.
Speaker 1: I got a job at bear Stearns in the summer
Speaker 1: of two thousand and seven, a couple weeks after two
Speaker 1: of their hedge funds failed. I was not there at
Speaker 1: the start of the financial crisis. I jumped on the
Speaker 1: sinking ship and it's sink too big to fail, not
Speaker 1: bear Stearns, just the right size. It was more two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, all the banks were failing. Some friends
Speaker 1: of mine came to visit. We went to a taping
Speaker 1: of SNL. I've always been a big fan. I was like,
Speaker 1: out of the people do this? How do you get here?
Speaker 1: She found out the entire cast had started an improv
Speaker 1: so she signed up for a class. I'd work at
Speaker 1: the bank during the day and then go to an
Speaker 1: improv literally in my heels and skirtsuit. I would do
Speaker 1: improv looking like a business lady. She and some comedy
Speaker 1: minded friends started writing and sharing five jokes a day
Speaker 1: with each other. Posted some of them on Twitter in
Speaker 1: case you're looking for them. She says they were atrocious
Speaker 1: and long since deleted. She started doing open micers and
Speaker 1: then shifted to a part time job, and then her plan.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I'm gonna slowly do less
Speaker 1: and less work until I get fired and I left
Speaker 1: my financial career in the dust. By twenty fourteen, she
Speaker 1: was writing jokes for Late Night with Seth Myers and
Speaker 1: for comics like Hannibal Burs. Hannibal recommended her to Chris Rock.
Speaker 1: She wrote for Rock for some of the stuff at
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen Oscars, her first comedy special Nice Lady
Speaker 1: was for HBO in twenty seventeen, The White House Correspondents
Speaker 1: Dinner in twenty eighteen. Is there anything she considers off
Speaker 1: the table? Quoting Michelle Wolf, she said, I think there
Speaker 1: were jokes where the level of difficulties a lot higher,
Speaker 1: Like if a white person's going to the nword on stage,
Speaker 1: you better have a joke that's so good that everyone's like,
Speaker 1: all right. The level of difficulty for that is extraordinary.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are like, I'm gonna try it,
Speaker 1: and it's like, why, why do you want to try
Speaker 1: it so bad? People think they're being edgy when they're
Speaker 1: just being stupid. Start trek carew in your pat As
Speaker 1: Walt said, you really have to fight for the space
Speaker 1: to observe and withdraw and watch both other people's behavior
Speaker 1: and pay attention to your own. Because it's entertainers especially
Speaker 1: now have less and less non performing time. It feels
Speaker 1: like in order to be an entertainment of the arts,
Speaker 1: you got to be shooting content for your insta, shooting
Speaker 1: stuff for your TikTok. You're performing authenticity. So now authenticity
Speaker 1: is becoming something that drains you. It's gonna be really
Speaker 1: interesting to see how that affects not just comedy, but
Speaker 1: anything where you have to observe life and then reflect
Speaker 1: it back in a unique way when so much of
Speaker 1: your energy is now being taken towards promoting yourself so
Speaker 1: that people look at the stuff when you're saying that
Speaker 1: you're observing reality. He works with a notebook. I'm very
Speaker 1: old school. I have a notebook. I use the classic
Speaker 1: composition notebook with a speckled black and white cover. My
Speaker 1: notebooks are a combination of me writing the beginnings of
Speaker 1: jokes as best I can. I can't sit and write jokes,
Speaker 1: he says, something I'm going to try to do for
Speaker 1: the next album. What I do is I have an idea.
Speaker 1: I just kind of work it out on stage over
Speaker 1: successive nights, and then it becomes a joke. My notebooks
Speaker 1: are all jotted down ideas and clippings of things like
Speaker 1: a picture from a magazine or name I've heard I
Speaker 1: think artists call them a morgue, where you collect pictures
Speaker 1: and images of things that might inspire you or something later.
Speaker 1: So he just collected altogether. It's a weird combination. David
Speaker 1: Cross says, I do not sit down and write jokes.
Speaker 1: I'm just not good at that. I do all my
Speaker 1: writing on stage. Cross says, I've done plenty of stuff
Speaker 1: that is, for lack of a better word, button pushing.
Speaker 1: He was asked if that's fun for him. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it if it wasn't if it makes
Speaker 1: a set that night memorable and interesting and potentially dangerous.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's live. That's part of the fun of
Speaker 1: doing a live show. During one show, he let the
Speaker 1: audience know that his routine was a work in progress
Speaker 1: and said, by some miracle, all this will turn into
Speaker 1: a good set, a really good set. Once the set
Speaker 1: is together, he'll take it outside of a basement of
Speaker 1: cool people in Brooklyn and bring it to maybe a
Speaker 1: less discerning audience in Kansas or whatever. There's a difference
Speaker 1: between Kansas and Brooklyn, which I think we can all
Speaker 1: agree on. On this particular night, Brooklyn liked an extended
Speaker 1: bit about Charlie Kirk. He got groans for a Holocaust
Speaker 1: joke involving the Nazis co opting Santa Claus. We are
Speaker 1: told another joke quote, boy was I mistaken about what
Speaker 1: a rape kid is? Unquote got a healthy, delayed laugh
Speaker 1: but one about Beast Reality elicited only a middling response.
Speaker 1: Pete Holmes had a conversation with Vulture about his seven
Speaker 1: year old daughter. He said, it's like talking to someone
Speaker 1: who owns a horse, if you're going to talk about
Speaker 1: your horse for five hours, and make sure the other
Speaker 1: person that you're talking to also owns a horse. Meeting
Speaker 1: people without kids typically don't want to hear about kids.
Speaker 1: Pete Holmes says, why would someone need to swashbuckle and
Speaker 1: keep private hours. I'm more in the camp of if
Speaker 1: I could do this job at noon, I'd love that.
Speaker 1: I briefly did It's talk show after conon O'Brien on CBS,
Speaker 1: and I loved it because the shows were always at
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the afternoon. That was proof positive that
Speaker 1: some people visiting Burbank will still laugh at stand up
Speaker 1: comedy even if it's being delivered at two in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'd be done at four o'clock, go home, have an
Speaker 1: early dinner, and being bet by nine. It was the
Speaker 1: best on Gossip Corner in Touch magazine reports that podcaster
Speaker 1: Sam Harris has purchased David Spade's former Beverly Hills estate
Speaker 1: worth thirty two point three million dollars, David Spade had money?
Speaker 1: What does Spade have money from? Like? SNL doesn't pay
Speaker 1: that well? Call up Spades, IMDb? Where does he have
Speaker 1: money from? Polis Academy four an appearance in Coneheads. He
Speaker 1: played Scuzz in the animated movie Racing Stripes. How does
Speaker 1: this guy have money? I gotta ask Ai? Hold on hey,
Speaker 1: I says, movies like Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Jodurt, and
Speaker 1: The Emperor's New Groove paid well and some generate residuals.
Speaker 1: TV was probably his biggest paid a On Just Shoot Me,
Speaker 1: he reportedly earned up to three hundred thousand dollars per
Speaker 1: episode in later seasons, How Long did Just Shoot Me? Run?
Speaker 1: And On Rules of Engagement he reportedly earned about one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand per episode, but that didn't run long. Podcasting,
Speaker 1: he has co hosted the successful Fly on the Wall
Speaker 1: podcast with Tana Carvey. Sure, and the podcast is doing well.
Speaker 1: And believe me, he lives well. But that's not like
Speaker 1: crazy money. All Right, Just Shoot Me ran on NBC
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand and three. All Right,
Speaker 1: I guess he's got Just Shoot Me money ran for
Speaker 1: seven seasons and produced one hundred and forty eight episodes.
Speaker 1: All right, so if he was making three hundred grand,
Speaker 1: so he's making a million every three episodes towards the
Speaker 1: end there. Okay, just shoot me if you need something
Speaker 1: to watch today on YouTube, it's Tamson Kelly's Hot Tity
Speaker 1: Bungalow comedy special. You can ask her about. The title
Speaker 1: also Outsiday Brendan ayres a debut comedy special alive and
Speaker 1: well you'll find that on the eight hundred pound guerrilla
Speaker 1: streaming service Guerrilla Comedy Plus told you about that one
Speaker 1: on Friday. I like the name of this company, Joke zero.
Speaker 1: It is a distribution company. They've announced they've acquired Isabel Higgins.
Speaker 1: On a String and On a String will be in
Speaker 1: theaters starting on the eleventh of September. Boasting a ninety
Speaker 1: one percent critics score in Rotten Tomatoes stemming from a
Speaker 1: successful festival run. It'll get a week long theatrical run
Speaker 1: exclusively at the Quad Cinema, New York City before expanding
Speaker 1: into other markets. On a String follows a Juilliard training
Speaker 1: violist as she navigates the New York City freelance classical
Speaker 1: musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the
Speaker 1: personal lives of strangers, all while living with her oddball
Speaker 1: family's NYC apartment. Nice job by Comedy Versus Cancer, They've
Speaker 1: raised two point seven million dollars for blood cancer research.
Speaker 1: The event was held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in
Speaker 1: New York City. New York City is having quite the
Speaker 1: summer huh. This year's show featured appearances from Britt Goldstein,
Speaker 1: Hassan Minhaj, Zoner garg, Nick Krohle, and others, and from
Speaker 1: The Toronto Guardian. They have their series where they check
Speaker 1: in with local comedians, Let's Check In with Brea Habert.
Speaker 1: Bret describes her comedy as confessional things you'd only tell
Speaker 1: a priest to your doctor, but instead I'm saying them
Speaker 1: in front of a group of strangers in a dimly
Speaker 1: lit basement and getting paid and drink tickets and chicken
Speaker 1: wings if I'm lucky. Influences interesting. Listen here, Christopher Guest,
Speaker 1: Monty Python, Bernie Mack. See you didn't think I was
Speaker 1: gonna say Bernie Mack After Christopher gust and Monty Python,
Speaker 1: Bernie mac Kilda Radner, Norm MacDonald, Beth Stelling, Michelle Wolf,
Speaker 1: Tina Fey. Favorite comedian growing up. I loved Amanda Bines
Speaker 1: growing up. Favorite comedian right now. I'm really enjoying great
Speaker 1: list here. Josh Johnson, Chris Fleming, Llowe, Radcliffe, Jeffrey Asthmas
Speaker 1: and Maddi Wiener pre show ritual a crisp diet Coke
Speaker 1: with a lime wedge, Scroll my notes app and question
Speaker 1: why I didn't just go to law school. She's promoting
Speaker 1: her debut album, Big Naturals. You'll find that on Comedy Records,
Speaker 1: and she also hosts a late night stand up show
Speaker 1: at Comedy Bar called ghost Orgy. You'll find her at
Speaker 1: at Uncle Brea on Instagram and TikTok. And that is
Speaker 1: your comedy news coming off a holiday weekend. You know
Speaker 1: how the show works. I'm not trying to kid you now.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this week we'll have some controversies. I'm keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on this whole office thing with Gervaise and the others.
Speaker 1: I told you about that last Thursday. Hopefully they mix
Speaker 1: it up and we'll have something to talk about. We
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Speaker 1: or so to get through the pipes. I've published it
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