Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Good lineup tonight for Comics for Kamala. Mark
Speaker 1: Marin Already it's a great show, right, Kevin Neilan, Lori
Speaker 1: kil Martin, Danny Zucker, Mas Jabroni, Dana Gould, Cristella Alonso
Speaker 1: and Tom Arnold tonight at seven thirty at the Comedy
Speaker 1: Store in a, Los Angeles. Let's see general admission of
Speaker 1: forty six dollars and forty cents. I'll tell you though,
Speaker 1: Comics for Kamala needs a better website. I hope the
Speaker 1: administration runs a little better than that. All right, another
Speaker 1: show if you want to turn against all your favorite
Speaker 1: comedians get mad at their politics. Gary Goleman doesn't care.
Speaker 1: He's doing Comics for Kamala on Monday in New York City,
Speaker 1: Gary Goleman and Friends. The friends are Zach Zimmerman and
Speaker 1: Britney Carney. That's at Stand Up New York, the new
Speaker 1: location at two twenty one West forty sixth Street. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: there's another show on Tuesday in Miami. This one's at
Speaker 1: the Miami Improv in Esther Coo Larry Dog of Freddy Stebbens,
Speaker 1: Larry fish More, Christopher Sharon Pfeiffer, and Bear Clarker Webb
Speaker 1: not exactly the name brands that are performing tonight. That's
Speaker 1: Tuesday Night and Miami. So I want to keep things
Speaker 1: fair here. I don't see any sort of Trump comedy festival.
Speaker 1: If I see what I will tell you about it.
Speaker 1: I try to think to myself, who would even be
Speaker 1: in it? I googled comedians who support Trump. Roseanne came up,
Speaker 1: and no one else came up, And I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: from memory, who could be on comedians for Trump? I
Speaker 1: guess we could get Nick Depollo and Jim Brewer, Rob Schneider, Guttfeld.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Gutfeld would love to come. I mean, google
Speaker 1: conservative comedians. See what comes up? Really, nothing other than
Speaker 1: the headline. Rob Schneider's comedy is so bad it's even
Speaker 1: offending Republicans. Somebody put together a tourist I can talk
Speaker 1: about it. Paul Starr did a big giant article about
Speaker 1: kill Tony Tony Hinchcliffe said, I want our audience to
Speaker 1: be able to hear these different perspectives from everybody where
Speaker 1: they're from, how they grew up, what they do, what
Speaker 1: makes them different. It's all critical to the flow of
Speaker 1: the show. I got to remember to watch those kill
Speaker 1: Tony MSG shows. They're up on YouTube. We're all different,
Speaker 1: but we all laugh at a lot of the same stuff,
Speaker 1: and it brings us together. The show's so raw, so organic,
Speaker 1: so live. There's never been anything like that before, and
Speaker 1: I can't believe that I'm the one that did it.
Speaker 1: A little white trash Italian kid from an all black
Speaker 1: neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio. It's just the America dream and
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more ecstatic about it all. Tony told
Speaker 1: Theo Vaughn on the This Past Weekend podcast about when
Speaker 1: Tony made his comedy debutt for months and then blanked
Speaker 1: out on stage. He was honest. He turned into his
Speaker 1: own forgetfulness and turned that into a three minute improvised set.
Speaker 1: He bombed in the weeks after with the jokes he'd rehearsed.
Speaker 1: To this day, Tony is more comfortable off script. As
Speaker 1: for his recent performance at the Tom Brady Roast, Tony
Speaker 1: Hinchcliffe said, I was adapting it until the very last second.
Speaker 1: Everything was changing. I was making edits, adding things, cutting
Speaker 1: things out, repositioning things, I've ppared a lot of those
Speaker 1: jokes for the roast, but I didn't know how and
Speaker 1: when I was going to do it. I decided very
Speaker 1: early on when I got there that I was going
Speaker 1: to do them from left to right and be the
Speaker 1: only one who moves around. I was trying to figure
Speaker 1: out where the main camera was seeing so they could
Speaker 1: see me and also the person I was roasting, so
Speaker 1: I was directing that while performing. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of work and a lot of adrenaline, a real blur,
Speaker 1: but also an absolute blast in one of the highlights
Speaker 1: of my life. Tony's one of those fifteen year overnight successes,
Speaker 1: and said, fifteen years of writing on ROAs and performing
Speaker 1: stand up led me to this position. To be able
Speaker 1: to just execute up there. It wasn't a magical moment.
Speaker 1: It was almost two decades of continuous practice. The kid
Speaker 1: that used to roast everybody in school fully grown forty
Speaker 1: years old up there doing what I was built to do.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady deserves all the credit in the world for
Speaker 1: even letting me have that position and giving a young
Speaker 1: buck a chance like that. The first episode of Kill
Speaker 1: Tony was shot back in twenty thirteen in the belly
Speaker 1: room of LA's Comedy Store in front of fifteen people
Speaker 1: with four sign ups. Hinchcliff's manager Alex Murray. I know
Speaker 1: Alex a little bit from way back in the day.
Speaker 1: Alex said, the Netflix Comedy Festival made us a low offer,
Speaker 1: not necessarily financially, but in terms of venue capacity. We
Speaker 1: told the booker, you're really underestimating the power of this audience.
Speaker 1: We just kept passing and passing, and only they made
Speaker 1: us an offer for the YouTube theater, which is six
Speaker 1: thousand seats. We sold out in ten minutes on the
Speaker 1: pre sale. The booker called and was like, what is
Speaker 1: this and we were like, I told you. The second
Speaker 1: show we had it was at the Kia Forum that
Speaker 1: sold out within days. We're being careful of how many
Speaker 1: of these live shows we do because Tony goes out
Speaker 1: of pocket for production. Sometimes we want to make them
Speaker 1: special and unique. Madison Square Garden, same thing. The first
Speaker 1: show sold out in a day, then we added the
Speaker 1: second show, which ended up selling out. Not a single
Speaker 1: dollar in advertising was used to achieve this. The Kill
Speaker 1: Tony YouTube channel has one point six million subscribers. They
Speaker 1: only got to a million back in April, so that'll
Speaker 1: show you how fast it's growing. Alex Murray said, I
Speaker 1: represent other big ax. Yes he does, and we got
Speaker 1: to promote those shows. But when it comes to spending
Speaker 1: money on promotion, Tony's like, nah, trust me, I got this.
Speaker 1: We listened and he's right. He's been right one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of the time. Tony said, in my mind, we're
Speaker 1: at times absolutely eating Saturday Night Lives lunch she and
Speaker 1: gillis doing. Is Donald Trump amen on that it's so
Speaker 1: much fun when Chane shows up on Kill Tony, it
Speaker 1: is so much fun. Adam Ray, Is, Joe Biden, doctor
Speaker 1: Phil and many more they could have had. That these
Speaker 1: are the new stars, the backbone of modern day comedy,
Speaker 1: and having work with these guys forever and finally putting
Speaker 1: them in positions to be seen in their finest light
Speaker 1: doing their funnies stuff, watching on the break character because
Speaker 1: they're cracking each other up. It's just priceless. It's not
Speaker 1: written now, it's not rehearsed. Everything is improvised and that's
Speaker 1: the secret sauce of Killed Tony. Tony moved the show
Speaker 1: from la to Austin during the pandemic and says it's
Speaker 1: made me a happier person. The people are nicer, the
Speaker 1: artists better, the food is better. My spirit is filled,
Speaker 1: which makes me a better host who makes better decisions
Speaker 1: for the show. Normally go to New York or LA
Speaker 1: to make it and try to take things to the
Speaker 1: next level. You don't go anywhere else to thrive. But
Speaker 1: that's what we did, and there's nowhere I'd rather be
Speaker 1: that at home here in Austin, Texas. It fills in
Speaker 1: my heart with so much joy and it's my favorite
Speaker 1: place in the world. Joe Rogan said, it's a better
Speaker 1: place for comedy, and you don't have the traffic. It's
Speaker 1: not a grind. The club situation is amazing. There's cap City,
Speaker 1: there's the Creek in the Cave, There's the Vulcan, There's
Speaker 1: the Sunset Strip, the Mothership, the Black Rabbit, the Velveta Room,
Speaker 1: Shakespeare's You realize you don't have to be stuck in
Speaker 1: this crazy city of insane traffic and crime. Hinchcliff added
Speaker 1: having Shane Gillis here as a death blow to the
Speaker 1: other cities. Even the few people that we really want
Speaker 1: that I haven't moved here. They're all coming here all
Speaker 1: the time. It's like a Vegas residency. I apologize here
Speaker 1: to mister Dorfman, who works for Outback and is quoted here.
Speaker 1: Somewhere in my collection of the notes, I lost mister
Speaker 1: Dorfmann's first name, and I keep googling out Back Dorfman,
Speaker 1: and all that comes up is a hat you would
Speaker 1: wear in the Australian desert. But mister Dorfman said, it's
Speaker 1: easy to say Austin. But the truth of Mather is
Speaker 1: over the years, La or New York were the gatekeepers,
Speaker 1: and now there are no gatekeepers. You're watching the best
Speaker 1: at a craft just put their stuff out there and
Speaker 1: let the people decide. Before, in order to get the
Speaker 1: word out, there had to be somebody who tell you
Speaker 1: who was good and not well, the people have decided.
Speaker 1: We did twenty six thousand people in Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: This is the greatest moment comedy's ever seen, and it's
Speaker 1: because the comedians are running this. Alex Murray agrees and
Speaker 1: said Comedy Central made a lot of comedy shows that
Speaker 1: people watched. It launched comedy stars and created new careers.
Speaker 1: It was a whole thing. But viewing habits changed during COVID.
Speaker 1: People started migrating the YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, watching on their
Speaker 1: phones and Tony show. It was literally the only comedy
Speaker 1: show that was meaningful, original, fun and cool that exists.
Speaker 1: Did The audience felt like they discovered the show organically.
Speaker 1: It wasn't ever promoted or marketed to them. I can't
Speaker 1: even remember how I discovered Kill Tony. And I think
Speaker 1: Alex Murray brings up a good point. Comedy Central boy,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I helped launch Comedy Central Radio, that
Speaker 1: brand you know in the aughts, super strong. What Happened
Speaker 1: The next Killed Tony live stream is at Resorts World
Speaker 1: Arena in Las Vegas at September twenty fifth. They're also
Speaker 1: working on a New Year's Eve show. I could see
Speaker 1: a pay per view coming, can't you. Yeah, Now that
Speaker 1: the show's popular, the big streamers are coming. And Tony said,
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to have complete creative control and not
Speaker 1: have to deal with network notes from some executive or director.
Speaker 1: Everybody's listening to me, and that's why I think it works.
Speaker 1: It's not watered down by a bunch of other people's
Speaker 1: opinions or any old school stuff that's going to drag
Speaker 1: it down, make it to safe, or make it resemble
Speaker 1: anything else. It's brutally original, even though it's technically a
Speaker 1: talent show slash open mic. It's so raw because truly
Speaker 1: anything can happen, and everything is improvised. It maintains its loose, dangerous,
Speaker 1: live feel, and it's too late for anybody to catch up.
Speaker 1: Nobody can even do a rip off of the show
Speaker 1: because they have to play. It's safe. If you look
Speaker 1: at your American idols, and your America got talent, and
Speaker 1: it's made for grandmas and grandpa's. It's meant to be
Speaker 1: on the TV at nursing homes. No cool eighteen year
Speaker 1: olds want to watch that. Meanwhile, you got eighteen year
Speaker 1: olds watching kill Tony with their parents, watching with their grandparents,
Speaker 1: and everybody's entertained. Man, that kill Tony article is longer
Speaker 1: than I thought. All right, let's bounce a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of things. How about this from the Express News from
Speaker 1: Maria Bamford. Whenever Maria Bamford wants to try out new material,
Speaker 1: she asks her fans for help, She'll put out a
Speaker 1: call on Twitter offering a T shirt to anybody who's
Speaker 1: time to meet for a cup of coffee or over
Speaker 1: zoom and listen to her to go through her act.
Speaker 1: Bamford said, the great thing about human beings is that
Speaker 1: if you give people an opportunity to be delightful, they
Speaker 1: often are delightful. So anytime I've met with somebody, it's
Speaker 1: been really fun. Also, it's a public form, so they've
Speaker 1: said in some way, I'd like to do this, and
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. It's not like it's pushed upon them,
Speaker 1: which is my least favorite kind of comedy, which is
Speaker 1: ambush comedy. She notes that some might be misled by
Speaker 1: her looks. She says, I'm a white cis heater, a
Speaker 1: woman in my fifties. They might think they might be
Speaker 1: able to relate to her point of view. She said,
Speaker 1: maybe not. You might want to google it. I'm the
Speaker 1: used bookstore of comedy. I probably won't have what you want,
Speaker 1: but I'm pleasant and I try to find you who
Speaker 1: you might want, and I bet it's someone else, and
Speaker 1: I've been sitting on this one from the av Club,
Speaker 1: Rosalind Chow talked about her time on Mash and After Mash.
Speaker 1: Remember she was on the last few seasons of Mash
Speaker 1: and then both seasons of After Mash, and then later
Speaker 1: she was on Star Trek the Next Generation. Rosalind said, Mash,
Speaker 1: that's kind of one of my first real things, And
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons people on the internet.
Speaker 1: I think I'm like eighty years old because I got
Speaker 1: hired and then I got fired. Unbeknownst to me. When
Speaker 1: my paperwork came in, they basically said I needed to
Speaker 1: be ten years older than I actually was to be
Speaker 1: able to keep the part, and I obviously wanted a job,
Speaker 1: so I said whatever they needed me to say to
Speaker 1: be able to regain the role. So that's why I'm
Speaker 1: eighty or wherever old people think I am. My lawyer
Speaker 1: just asked if I want to have a change. I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, well, they have considered me for
Speaker 1: three body problem if they knew I'm not really an
Speaker 1: old lady, so I don't want to jinx it. You know,
Speaker 1: how old is she? Actually? I didn't think she was eighty.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let me do loose math before I look
Speaker 1: it up. All right, Mash ended in nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 1: So if I make her, I'm doing lazy math here
Speaker 1: from I make her twenty in nineteen eighty two, she's sixty.
Speaker 1: If I make her twenty five, she's like sixty seven.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess she's like sixty seven. Is seventy sixty six?
Speaker 1: Not bad? Johnny Mack born September twenty third, nineteen fifty seven,
Speaker 1: about to be sixty seven. Johnny Mack nailed that one
Speaker 1: high five everyone. So if you want to be like,
Speaker 1: she's only sixty six, you listen to this podcast tomorrow.
Speaker 1: She's like sixty seven, is what I said. She's sixty
Speaker 1: six and three sixty four, three sixty fifths close enough. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I slipped that in today. I see that
Speaker 1: was fun, accidental whatever the Evy Club said. Hey with
Speaker 1: After Mash, I heard it was being pitched as a
Speaker 1: series with a tone resentling the film of the best
Speaker 1: years of our lives. See, I thought it was pitched
Speaker 1: as boy. I wish Allan Aaldo would have kept doing Mash.
Speaker 1: What do we do now? That's what I think the
Speaker 1: pitch was. Roslind said, oh yeah, I didn't know what
Speaker 1: that meant then, but yeah it was. Look. I had
Speaker 1: fun on it. I learned how to drive while we're
Speaker 1: doing it. And my biggest memory was that nobody wanted
Speaker 1: the parking spot next to me on the twentieth century
Speaker 1: Fox a lot, so they kept moving me. First, I
Speaker 1: was parked next to Harry Morgan. Remember his face when
Speaker 1: I got there and said, Oh, I'm parking next to you,
Speaker 1: and look I did a really good parking job. His
Speaker 1: face was just like horror. Lee day, I got a
Speaker 1: note saying you're parking next to Jeanie for tomorrow and
Speaker 1: Jamie last like a week and the next thing I knew,
Speaker 1: I was parked next to somebody I didn't know at all.
Speaker 1: That is your comedy news today. Happy birthday, Rosalind Show
Speaker 1: also tomorrow. Happy birthday, Bruce Springsteen. That's your comedy news
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