Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media have a new year. I'm Joenni Mack
Speaker 1: with your daily comedy news, a daily briefing on stand
Speaker 1: up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Which is a
Speaker 1: sentence you would say if you were goosing the spot
Speaker 1: on fy Algorithm. But I don't have time for that
Speaker 1: right now, because I want to share with you deadlines
Speaker 1: twenty stand ups to keep an eye on in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. Yes, we have made it to twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: and we must keep an eye on these twenty stand
Speaker 1: ups according to Deadline. Now, before I look at the list,
Speaker 1: just want to point out Deadline is an industry trade.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that because along the way I noticed
Speaker 1: that they wanted to let you know which agent represented
Speaker 1: which comedian, which I don't care about at all, like zero,
Speaker 1: no interest in that. But this is an industry trade.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying the list is bad, but I
Speaker 1: am saying it is possible, perhaps maybe that it could
Speaker 1: be possible hypothetically that Deadline has a relationship with these agencies,
Speaker 1: and you know, agents were on the phone be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know who somebody you should keep an eye on
Speaker 1: is Joe schmoe like, it's possible if you understand an
Speaker 1: infinite universe, right, there's just an infinite combination of things
Speaker 1: that could happen, And if you understand how infinity works,
Speaker 1: in one of the multiverses, that could have happened, and
Speaker 1: we might be in that multiverse. Now, mathematically, this is
Speaker 1: a straight up list where the agents didn't influence the
Speaker 1: list at all. But mathematically, if you understand infinity, there
Speaker 1: is a statistical chance that we are in the one
Speaker 1: multiverse where that took place. I'm just saying now that
Speaker 1: we've established this deadline rights. As was the case last year,
Speaker 1: our focus was on strong joke writers with original voices.
Speaker 1: Well that's good at a time where there are plenty
Speaker 1: of incredibly successful digital creators in comedy who also do
Speaker 1: stand up. We chose to focus on artists who are
Speaker 1: stand ups before all else, all right, I like it.
Speaker 1: We considered neither comedy groups nor comics who have had
Speaker 1: the benefit of a game changing opportunity like Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: We also tried to avoid stand ups who have featured
Speaker 1: repeatedly on other lists, because what's the point of regurgitating?
Speaker 1: All right? In alphabetical order, they list Vittorio Angeloni. I'm
Speaker 1: going to say, great pick. He is one of two
Speaker 1: killer Irish comics who have made the list. I have
Speaker 1: cn him with my own eyes. Now, I've been keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on him because I'm of Irish descent, so
Speaker 1: I always find Irish comedians interesting. Plus he's Irish and
Speaker 1: his name is Vittorio Angeloni, not exactly Seamus. O'Reilly, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So he's been on my radar.
Speaker 1: Plus I saw him up at Montreal last August last year.
Speaker 1: As they say, Now that's twenty twenty six, a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five JFL new face Angeloni. He grew up in
Speaker 1: Belfast and began working as a stand up after moving
Speaker 1: to London after a period training as a classical musician.
Speaker 1: He's really good. You should check him out. Mary Beth Barone,
Speaker 1: all right, she's been on our radar. We talk about
Speaker 1: Mary Beth Barone sometimes. Deadline says a multi hyphenate on
Speaker 1: the rise. If you understand how infinity works statistically, in
Speaker 1: one of the multiverses, an agent would have said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should call her a multi hyphenate because she is
Speaker 1: a multi hyphenate on the rise. Mary Beth Barone ain't
Speaker 1: a deal for Netflix to release her first hour long
Speaker 1: comedy special, Galaxy Brain, which she'll tape in New York
Speaker 1: City on March nineteenth, happens to be ripped by the
Speaker 1: same agency as Vittorio Angeloni. That's weird, all right. Raffi Bastos,
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with Raffi, a Brazilian American stand up
Speaker 1: considered a pioneer of his home country's modern comedy movement.
Speaker 1: Raffi Bostos is ready for his breakout state side after
Speaker 1: hitting YouTube with unfamiliar territory. Actually, I think we did
Speaker 1: talk about him, but it was twelve months ago. I
Speaker 1: can barely remember what I had for breakfast. Once recognized
Speaker 1: as the most influential person on Twitter by the independent
Speaker 1: research film Twittaalizer currently has a follow up nearly eighteen
Speaker 1: million across social platforms. I have to look that up
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna guess that the President of the United
Speaker 1: States is pretty influential and is on Twitter. But let
Speaker 1: me say oh interesting. In twenty eleven, the New York
Speaker 1: Times named him the most influential person on Twitter. That's
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Has he been on the part of
Speaker 1: Twitter that I never see because I'm on the part
Speaker 1: where we're talking about the Mets and the Knicks. It's
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. All right, whatever, move on, John. He
Speaker 1: has a different agency than the first two comedians. Ryan
Speaker 1: Davis is a Charlotte native who debuted his latest stand
Speaker 1: up special, under Rated, on the YouTube channel of comedian
Speaker 1: Ali Sadiq in October, racked up two point three million views.
Speaker 1: Bo Johnson, I know, Bo, I tell you a secret.
Speaker 1: I recorded a whole interview with Bo and the audio
Speaker 1: was bad and I couldn't fix it, and I really tried.
Speaker 1: I used every trick I know. I felt so bad.
Speaker 1: I just called up here. I see the file, Bo
Speaker 1: dash Johnson, nine eleven, twenty four dot wave, I still
Speaker 1: have it here. You want to hear a little, or
Speaker 1: I'll pull a little for you. When I was starting,
Speaker 1: or even found stand up was like everyday life humor
Speaker 1: and Mitch Hedber is first comic. That's Bo Johnson. Wish
Speaker 1: the audio was better to play the whole interview. He
Speaker 1: was really cool. I really liked him a lot. Alright,
Speaker 1: Who is he John? He's the Seattle native with a
Speaker 1: compellingly low key delivery. Yeah, I watched a bunch of
Speaker 1: his sets. In prep for the interview, I thought he
Speaker 1: was fantastic. Deadline said they were gonna mention different comedians
Speaker 1: that haven't been on every list. Jay Jorden, He's been
Speaker 1: on lists. This is not an unknown person. Jay recently
Speaker 1: released a strong debut special and Yes Ma'am, a fast paged,
Speaker 1: punchline filled love letter to what it means to be black, Southern,
Speaker 1: and queer. Produced by Comedy Dynamics. It premiered on Hulu
Speaker 1: on November seventh. Next up, we have Oriyan Levine named
Speaker 1: a new face It Just for Laughs comedy in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. I can't remember if I went that year,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember if I saw Oriyan in his
Speaker 1: Friday night live show Read the Room, Levin and a
Speaker 1: Tarot card reader help answer life's burning questions from audience
Speaker 1: members and celebrity guests. Who has sold out audience? Oh,
Speaker 1: he's got that same agency that a lot of the
Speaker 1: others have him. Interesting. Yesmeil Loofti, we've definitely talked about him.
Speaker 1: He's got two Don't Tell comedy sets, a lot of
Speaker 1: don't tell comedy on this list. That's interesting. He was
Speaker 1: a writer on After Midnight Rami Yusef's animated series Number one,
Speaker 1: Happy Family USA. Remember that happened? Because I forgot that happened.
Speaker 1: You remember that happened? And Netflix's Patriotic Act with Hassan
Speaker 1: Minhaj named a new face in twenty sixteen. Wow, Laura
Speaker 1: Peak has emerged from Nashville's comedy scene was named a
Speaker 1: new face for twenty twenty two. Now I'm convinced I
Speaker 1: didn't go in twenty twenty two. I love this. I
Speaker 1: love this phrasing again. If you understand how the multiverse works,
Speaker 1: this may have been fed to them by an agency.
Speaker 1: Here's the line. She has been seen on the road
Speaker 1: with Taylor, Tomlinson, Fortune Fibster, and Theo Vaughn. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you my credits. I've been seen on the
Speaker 1: road with Jeff fox Worthy, Bill angvil Learry the Cable Guy,
Speaker 1: Ron White, Jamie Fox, Jim Brewer, Pee Corielli. Let's see
Speaker 1: Master Bronni been seen on the road with him. Weird phrasing,
Speaker 1: all right, Mike Rice. The other Irish comic on the
Speaker 1: list is Mike Rice, roommate and collaborator of Vittorio Angeloni.
Speaker 1: Apparently they host a podcast Together, Mike Invitorio's Guide to Parenting,
Speaker 1: his first special in twenty twenty three in Irish Disgrace
Speaker 1: and what do you know? He's got the same agency.
Speaker 1: That's weird. How far down this list? Am I? I
Speaker 1: lost track? Looks like there's a lot left. Let's see
Speaker 1: how four we get all right? Red Richardson is an
Speaker 1: English stand up writer and actor with a looking style
Speaker 1: not quite like any comedian Deadline has come across. He's
Speaker 1: also from Don't Tell Comedy HMM, a regular performer at
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervais's live shows under the banner of Ricky Gervas
Speaker 1: and Friends. Richardson has also appeared in numerous comedy sketches
Speaker 1: with Ricky Gervas and is affiliated with Ricky's vodka company,
Speaker 1: Dutch Born. See That's what Jim Gaffigan needs to do
Speaker 1: the Jim Gaffigan Bourbon Tour where Jim gets a bunch
Speaker 1: of other guys to do stuff and then Jim shows
Speaker 1: up and does like five minutes and tricks of bourbon.
Speaker 1: There's money in that, Jim do it. Erica Rhodes, Deadline
Speaker 1: says Erica Rhodes is one of those comics who's been
Speaker 1: working for a long time, but never gets enough credit
Speaker 1: for how good she is. Currently, she's on her Call
Speaker 1: Me Crazy tour, also has a Don't Tell comedy set.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a trend here. She was a finalist on
Speaker 1: NBC's Bring the Funny, where Jeff Foxworthy praised her is
Speaker 1: the best defined comic voice of the competition. When was
Speaker 1: NBC's Bring the Funny? When was that? Did I erase
Speaker 1: that from my brain? I remember last comic Stanning because
Speaker 1: I hated that. Because I was running the comedy channels
Speaker 1: at Series sexem at the time. People will be like,
Speaker 1: how can we not playing so and so. I'm like,
Speaker 1: because so and so has eight seconds of material, which
Speaker 1: you saw at NBC last night. That's why Bring the
Speaker 1: Funny aired July ninth is September seventeenth, twenty nineteen. That's
Speaker 1: just when I had started the podcast too. Huh. You
Speaker 1: learned something new every day hosting the show. Next up,
Speaker 1: Leah Rudick A right, we're up to the RS. I
Speaker 1: guess that's one way I could tell how far I
Speaker 1: am down the list. She began her comedy career in
Speaker 1: New York with her sketch duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting
Speaker 1: That's a Great Name, and co wrote and co starred
Speaker 1: in both web series Made to Order and Sweet Parents.
Speaker 1: We Are to keep an eye on Leah Rudik in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Rachel Scanlon, LA based stand up host, writer,
Speaker 1: and podcaster Originally from Minnesota. She regularly opens for the
Speaker 1: likes of Eliza Selessinger and Fortune Fimster. She's appeared on
Speaker 1: After Midnight, Eliza's Locals and Comics Unleashed, which is what's
Speaker 1: gonna pass for late night shows pretty soon? Owen, what
Speaker 1: do you know? She's got the same reps as a
Speaker 1: lot of other people in the list, Britney Schmidt. She's
Speaker 1: been seen opening for the likes of Feo, Vonna Chris Read.
Speaker 1: Schmid's rise has been fueled not only by the strength
Speaker 1: of her comedy, but also by the spacisivity of her voice.
Speaker 1: In her act, she speaks scantily about sobriety, relationships, womanhood, sexuality,
Speaker 1: the strange, darkly funny corners of personal transformation, and more.
Speaker 1: She's got different representation interesting. Usama Sidiki a Bengali American
Speaker 1: stand up writer and actor based out of New York City.
Speaker 1: Usama's jokes ranged from growing up Muslim in Texas, to
Speaker 1: dating misadventures and even a story of getting kicked off.
Speaker 1: America's Got Talent has opened for the likes of Hassan
Speaker 1: Minaj and Morgan Jay, winner of the Laughing Devil Cup
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival, the Yonkers Comedy Festival, and the Make Me
Speaker 1: Laugh Albay Comedy Festival. A massive force in the areas
Speaker 1: near New York City, but not within. Carolyn Hurst shouted
Speaker 1: him out as a comic to watch at the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five New York Comedy Festival. Jenny Tian a regular
Speaker 1: on the comedy circuit in Sydney, Australia. Jenny recently relocated
Speaker 1: to New York and completed her first tour of the
Speaker 1: States scene opening for Hannah Gatsby, Nish Kumar and Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 1: I feel like we checked out some of her clips
Speaker 1: during one of the Sydney comedy festivals on this very
Speaker 1: podcast at some point. Next up TJA stand Up. Born
Speaker 1: and Raised Dan Haiti. TJ learned English by watching George
Speaker 1: Carlin stand up and John Stewart on the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: After the devastating Haitian earthquake in twenty ten, TJ realized
Speaker 1: life was too short not to pursue his passion and
Speaker 1: did his first open mic in a basement in the
Speaker 1: Lower East Side of Manhattan. TJ has opened for Colin Quinn,
Speaker 1: Janelle James, Maria Bamford, and Sean Patton. Aaron Weber fixture
Speaker 1: of the Nashville comedy scene, regular performer at the Grand
Speaker 1: Ole Opry, one of the co hosts of the Nateland Podcast.
Speaker 1: You may know some of the other names on the
Speaker 1: Nateland Podcast. They include Brian Bates, Dusty Sleigh, and Nate Berghetzi.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you're hanging out with Nate all the time,
Speaker 1: you're definitely somebody keep an eye on. We might as
Speaker 1: well add Brian Bates to this list too, and we
Speaker 1: already know about Dusty Slay. Aaron Weber released his first
Speaker 1: half hour special signature dish with the eight hundred Pound Gorilla.
Speaker 1: But we have more ws Brent Weinbach. Brent's been around
Speaker 1: no deadline rights. While Brent Weinbach is a veteran of
Speaker 1: the all comedy world, he nonetheless needs to be looked
Speaker 1: at much more closely by the town. I assume the
Speaker 1: town is Los Angeles. He's someone you could see breaking
Speaker 1: out not only as a stand up but also in
Speaker 1: film and TV with the right vehicle. Known for his
Speaker 1: absurdist style, experimental delivery, meticulous joke writing, and highly original impressions,
Speaker 1: Brent Weinbach was described by The New York Times Jason Zenniman,
Speaker 1: we know him as akin to the nation Fielder of
Speaker 1: the stand up world, all right. Also recipients of the
Speaker 1: Andy Kaufman Award. And those are your stand ups to
Speaker 1: watch in twenty twenty six, according to Deadline. And that
Speaker 1: is your comedy news for today. Happy New Year. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: on this program some thing. Hopefully someone will make some
Speaker 1: comedy news otherwise, Mike Chizen, where are you? I gotta
Speaker 1: have a conversation to fill some time. Let's record something
Speaker 1: I don't know. There'll be a podcast tomorrow, there always is.
Speaker 1: Don't worry to see you then,