Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Nikki Glazer spoke to you WGDH about
Speaker 1: her current level of fame. It's cooled off a little bit,
Speaker 1: she said. She'll explain. It seemed to be like a
Speaker 1: super Bowl kind of event where everybody was watching meeting
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady Roast, and I was very famous for
Speaker 1: like four days. I couldn't go anywhere. People were stopping
Speaker 1: me anytime I walked up and down the street. Then
Speaker 1: the attention dissipated and it went back to normal. It
Speaker 1: was really lovely. I really love the level of fame
Speaker 1: I'm at where it's like people recognize me and they're
Speaker 1: really tickled by it. Funny line here, my spray tanner
Speaker 1: girl will be spray tanning me and I'm fully naked
Speaker 1: in front of her, you know, bent over and she's
Speaker 1: like spring my butt cheeks and she's like my boyfriend
Speaker 1: and I are such huge fans. Like that's a cool
Speaker 1: thing that I get to give you. What a nice
Speaker 1: little gift. Interesting here too, she talked about the order
Speaker 1: of the roast. I don't even know who I am
Speaker 1: at roast. I don't really relate to that person. I've
Speaker 1: become like possessed and lose all sense of decency. I
Speaker 1: think I disassociate I really did I have a job
Speaker 1: to do. I feel a little bit like an assassin,
Speaker 1: like I can't have empathy. Kelsey Cook tells Fox News.
Speaker 1: I think people are starting to get more of their
Speaker 1: political information from podcasts because I think people want to
Speaker 1: feel like they can trust the interviewer more, and oftentimes
Speaker 1: podcasters are people who present it's just like I'm one
Speaker 1: of you. Especially if it's a comedian, it feels very
Speaker 1: like this is a person who's just like us. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: yes and no. I guess they're presenting that they're just
Speaker 1: like us. Do a little research. A lot of these comedian,
Speaker 1: especially the ones with the bigger podcasts, are living quite
Speaker 1: large anyway, Kelsey says. This podcaster isn't another politician or
Speaker 1: maybe a news anchor that we don't necessarily relate to
Speaker 1: as much, and so I think that's kind of why
Speaker 1: people have turned more to podcasts for not just feeling
Speaker 1: like they trust the host more, but also it's like
Speaker 1: a very different interview environment. I think the things that
Speaker 1: are being talked about are's just a little more laid back,
Speaker 1: feels like potentially a more authentic interview than on a
Speaker 1: major news source. I do think the comedies become more
Speaker 1: free medium. I think more than ever, people have been
Speaker 1: able to find their own fan base and it doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to be like you don't have to be
Speaker 1: everyone's cup of tea. I think it's becoming very free
Speaker 1: where people can kind of do what they want, want,
Speaker 1: say what they want, and their fans will find them.
Speaker 1: John Appatow was working on a documentary about Norm McDonald.
Speaker 1: He's looking for unique photos or videos of Norm. If
Speaker 1: you've got anything, they want you to send it to them.
Speaker 1: I'll give you the email address in a second. I
Speaker 1: know normally you don't listen to the podcast with a
Speaker 1: pen and paper. You could hit pause, you know, that
Speaker 1: is the thing you could do, Or you could hit rewind. John,
Speaker 1: why don't you just tell them the email address? Now,
Speaker 1: now that you're talking out loud and you realize they
Speaker 1: could just hit pause, you don't have to give them time.
Speaker 1: This isn't radio. You're right, listener, Okay. That email address
Speaker 1: is one word, Norm McDonald doc at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Don't forget it's Norm MacDonald. You know people like me
Speaker 1: say Nor McDonald, but it's Norm MacDonald N O R
Speaker 1: M M A C D O N A L D
Speaker 1: d oc at gmail dot com. Appatow on Instagram said,
Speaker 1: we need your photos and videos of Norm McDonald for
Speaker 1: a documentary we're creating for Netflix. So if you happen
Speaker 1: to have anything you think might be helpful, please email
Speaker 1: us at Norm McDonald doc at gmail dot com, or
Speaker 1: just tell us your favorite Nor moments. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. John Lovett's told Fox Business he likes what
Speaker 1: Douge is up to, not the coin the government thing
Speaker 1: Elon's doing. Lovett said, I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Here's the money coming in, and here's the money going out,
Speaker 1: and if the money going out is astronomical and way
Speaker 1: above what's coming in, like crazy. And if everybody would
Speaker 1: look at this, if you haven't seen it, you'd be shocked.
Speaker 1: There's tremendous waste and they're finding it, and I think
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Eli Times asked Russell Peters if
Speaker 1: he still enjoys touring and playing arenas. He says, it's
Speaker 1: what I do. I also still love it, and I'm
Speaker 1: really lucky let's be honest. The industry doesn't pay attention
Speaker 1: to me. They've never been there for me. But every
Speaker 1: show I'm doing sells out, whether it was the Beacon
Speaker 1: Theater in New York or where I am in Texas
Speaker 1: or coming back to Los Angeles. I wonder why I
Speaker 1: even cared about the industry, But that's your ego. That
Speaker 1: is true. He has quietly been a huge worldwide act
Speaker 1: for twenty years now. But you don't really hear about
Speaker 1: Russell Peters. I always sat with him in a show
Speaker 1: in was it Montreal? China? Is one of the jfls.
Speaker 1: It was a Frank Calando show, and he was cool.
Speaker 1: I met him other times when I know that night
Speaker 1: he was totally chill. Anyway, the La Times ass Russell
Speaker 1: has his work evolved over the years, and he would
Speaker 1: redo any jokes he wants told. He said, I'd probably
Speaker 1: articulate them better and choose different angles. When you start
Speaker 1: off you take the obvious road, then you need to
Speaker 1: start finding alternate roots. You become your own ways, determining
Speaker 1: don't want to go this way or that way to
Speaker 1: get here? You figure out what wordying makes this joke concise?
Speaker 1: How to economize with words instead of over talking like
Speaker 1: I'm doing right now. And I don't focus as much
Speaker 1: now on my parents and their immigrant culture clash, because
Speaker 1: as you get older and life happens, you start getting
Speaker 1: other things to deal with. When I was younger, I
Speaker 1: had no other life experience other than dealing with racism
Speaker 1: and different cultures and all that stuff. Then you get
Speaker 1: married a couple times and you have a couple of kids,
Speaker 1: and your views on everything start to change. You also
Speaker 1: develop an ability to get more honest about who you were.
Speaker 1: It'd be more vulnerable on stage and take more chances.
Speaker 1: Years ago, I said I'd never touch on religion or politics,
Speaker 1: But I have some religion and politics in my act
Speaker 1: now because it needs to be spoken about now. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to be vocal about their beliefs, and everybody wants
Speaker 1: to be right. But nobody's right with religion. They're all wrong.
Speaker 1: All your imaginary friends are wrong. This imaginary doesn't like
Speaker 1: this imaginary friend, and the book told them that this
Speaker 1: is theirs, and that book told these other people that
Speaker 1: it's there. So they're killing each other over something they
Speaker 1: have no proof of. None of it is real. Somebody
Speaker 1: needs to tell you your face. You're out of your
Speaker 1: effing minds. There's not an ounce of proof involved in
Speaker 1: any of this stuff. But when I do international shows,
Speaker 1: this is interesting. I can't always talk about being atheist.
Speaker 1: In some places it's illegal and you get killed for that,
Speaker 1: so I've got to be cognizant of that. We have
Speaker 1: a date for Matteo Lane's special on Hulu. It is
Speaker 1: called the Aldente Special. It'll be on Hulu Friday, May sixteenth.
Speaker 1: That is the seventh original special in Hulu's Hilarious Comedy slate.
Speaker 1: One of the great mysteries of the world is how
Speaker 1: you get in touch with a Hulu publicist and get
Speaker 1: them to come back to you. You can go to
Speaker 1: the Hulu website and make a perfectly nice request. They
Speaker 1: won't get back to you. You can hit them up
Speaker 1: on LinkedIn and go like, hey, I'm a nice guy,
Speaker 1: have a comedy podcast, and they won't get back to you.
Speaker 1: So occasionally you see something of the news and you
Speaker 1: report on it and help Hulu promote Hilarious anyway we're told,
Speaker 1: but tal Lane's comedy is like catching up with your
Speaker 1: old friend at brunch. In his latest special, he shares
Speaker 1: a glimpse into his travels, unique family background and friendships.
Speaker 1: He also has a comedy cookbook coming out on April first.
Speaker 1: That one, titled Your Pasta Sucks. Your Pasta Sucks, features
Speaker 1: recipes rooted in serious pasta knowledge but presented with his
Speaker 1: signature snirky and sassy wit. Indy Wire caught up with
Speaker 1: Seth Green Robot Chicken turning twenty. Seth said, we didn't
Speaker 1: set out to make a show, and especially weren't intending
Speaker 1: to make a show that was going to last a
Speaker 1: long time. My partner Matt and I were trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to just make animated sketch comedy shorts
Speaker 1: using toys. Though that was really fun. We've been lucky
Speaker 1: enough to do the show for over such a length
Speaker 1: of time that we've been able to figure out a
Speaker 1: lot of things. Technology has improved in terms of the
Speaker 1: camera we can use, the computers we can use. We
Speaker 1: figured out how to make our puppets easier, and how
Speaker 1: to build sets that we could reuse over time. We're
Speaker 1: able to just build new systems or take advantage of
Speaker 1: new technology to be able to make something at the
Speaker 1: rate and pace for the price that they were giving
Speaker 1: us that we needed to. As for modern times, Seth says,
Speaker 1: we're definitely aware of the fact that a lot of
Speaker 1: people could beat us to air with a joke. Our
Speaker 1: show takes about a year to really get it from
Speaker 1: script to screen, and somebody can just shoot something on
Speaker 1: their iPhone, So we really have to make sure that
Speaker 1: our jokes are not the joke that everybody else is. Thinking.
Speaker 1: Of the last new episodes of Robot Chicken we're in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Seth says, I could say with a
Speaker 1: bit of certainty that I don't think we'll ever do
Speaker 1: a whole season of Robot Chicken. I don't think we'll
Speaker 1: ever do another twenty quarter hour episodes. What I do
Speaker 1: expect we'll do is continue to make half hour specials
Speaker 1: that are dedicated to a specific property. And a big
Speaker 1: reason of that, Seth says, Adult Swim has become less
Speaker 1: and less important to the business Daddy, and in medical news,
Speaker 1: doctors are experimenting with prescribing comedy over antidepressants. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a tech company. They're titled crack Health. I got a
Speaker 1: comment on that. Hey, crack Health, you're gonna need another
Speaker 1: name if you're gonna do business in the States. So
Speaker 1: cr C is Irish slang for we had good fun.
Speaker 1: So you know that makes sense. But when you come
Speaker 1: over here to New York City and you'd be like, hey,
Speaker 1: crack health, you are implying a whole other thing, my friend. Anyway,
Speaker 1: crack health, which is just fun to say. They've secured
Speaker 1: funding from the National Health Service to work with doctors
Speaker 1: to begin prescribing comedy and stand up shows instead of antidepressants.
Speaker 1: Doctor Simon Offer is also a member of Parliament. Doctor
Speaker 1: Opher says, I've particularly specialized. I'm laughing at the Opher
Speaker 1: because now I'm thinking of Captain Over in the Airplane
Speaker 1: movie and my mind is going over under Roger Roger Roger.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you like movies about gladi eaters?
Speaker 1: Doctor Opher says, I don't make myself laugh. That wasn't
Speaker 1: even funny. YouTube comments are gonna kill me it for
Speaker 1: that one, all right. Anyway. I've particularly specialized in using
Speaker 1: the arts to make people better, so that could be poetry,
Speaker 1: visual arts, where sometimes even drama, and I've also used
Speaker 1: things like gardening. I've prescribed allotments to people and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. But this is the first time that
Speaker 1: we've tried comedy. That's what's exciting about this. The founder
Speaker 1: of Crack Health is Lou Jackson, and Lou said that
Speaker 1: comedy is a cortisol decreaser, dopamine producer, potent releaser of serotonin,
Speaker 1: dorphins and good neuropeptides. You know that front part there
Speaker 1: almost reads like a musical lyric, right, get a little
Speaker 1: beat behind and go Cortisol decreaser, mean producer, saratonin releaser.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe somebody with some rhythm could execute that.
Speaker 1: Doctor Lou Jackson says, going to one comedy workshop, or
Speaker 1: going to one stand up comedy event, or having a
Speaker 1: comedian come in and teach kids how to improvise and
Speaker 1: giggle themselves. It's got an effect for twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: And surely that's better than prescribing antidepressants. And that, my friends,
Speaker 1: is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow