Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news at daily briefing on stand up comedy
Speaker 1: comedians in the comedy industry. And you might be like, John,
Speaker 1: does that actually goosey Spotify algorithms saying that phrase? It does?
Speaker 1: But I don't have time for that because Ricky Gervais
Speaker 1: is surrounding himself with a security ring of steel. We're
Speaker 1: told as Ricky has been trying out quote unquote offensive
Speaker 1: gags for his next stand up special, including a joke
Speaker 1: about quote unquote mongols. Sources tell Radar Online that Ricky
Speaker 1: Gervais described as a quote spineless stand up that Ricky
Speaker 1: is petrified of getting a Will Smith style smack from
Speaker 1: an outraged audience member. Oh no, Ricky was flanked by
Speaker 1: You'll never guess how many security guards. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a second to guess by x amount of security guards
Speaker 1: as he tried out some new material at a small
Speaker 1: theater in London. Are you ready for the number? You
Speaker 1: guessed too low? Whatever you guessed you gets too low.
Speaker 1: One audience member said there were five security on both
Speaker 1: sides of the theater, and you're like, okay, John, I
Speaker 1: guess five, no, no, no, no, no no. There were five
Speaker 1: security on both sides of the theater, plus more at
Speaker 1: the bar and at the front. There were about fifteen
Speaker 1: bodyguards in there. It looked ridiculous. And the place is
Speaker 1: known as the Comedian's Comedy Theater and there's usually no
Speaker 1: security there no matter how big the act. It was
Speaker 1: all just a bit ridiculous, as this place caters for
Speaker 1: hardcore comedy fans who see all sorts of extreme stand up,
Speaker 1: and there's virtually no chance of him being attacked there
Speaker 1: for an edgy joke. Another source said that the security
Speaker 1: was constantly scanning the audience for signs that they were
Speaker 1: using their phones to record. That person said it was
Speaker 1: like being at some kind of paranoid a list evin.
Speaker 1: These heavies kept looking at everyone and looked ready to
Speaker 1: grab any phones that were out. Ricky should be embarrassed
Speaker 1: over bringing this level of security of this type of gig,
Speaker 1: a source said. Ricky Gervais struggled to get laughs at
Speaker 1: his first gig and filled the show with boasts about
Speaker 1: his career, adding he did a long bit about a
Speaker 1: dwarf woman coming up to him after another of his
Speaker 1: gigs Ricky said that she told me it offended her
Speaker 1: by using the M word. He said, all I could
Speaker 1: think was that I had called her amongoloid when she
Speaker 1: was actually referring to his use of the term. I
Speaker 1: won't use it. The M word that has fallen out
Speaker 1: of fashion. They added, Ricky was basically making fun of
Speaker 1: those people and what he'd joke as spastics, but a
Speaker 1: lot of it wasn't getting laughs. It wasn't funny or clever.
Speaker 1: The crowd here more fans that likes of Stewart Lee
Speaker 1: in comedy with some nuance. Ricky just came across like
Speaker 1: a pratt with his deliberately anti woke material in his
Speaker 1: Hollywood style security that all sounds awful, Like I think, Ricky,
Speaker 1: you need to move on from that just being the
Speaker 1: entire act every time, like you're not really good about
Speaker 1: it on another Netflix special and the whole thing's going
Speaker 1: to be Like I said this, I can't believe people
Speaker 1: are offended. Like it's tired. You gotta do something else now, dude,
Speaker 1: Sore said. Ricky also bragged to the audience he had
Speaker 1: barely prepared for the gig and they were getting cheap tickets.
Speaker 1: Around twenty five dollars to pop in to see him
Speaker 1: try out and material. All right, that's just having fun
Speaker 1: with the whole stitch. Meanwhile, from Fox News, Chris Deliah
Speaker 1: is blasting the comedy world that he says deserted him.
Speaker 1: Chris apparently was on the Trying Not to Die Pop
Speaker 1: podcast and said he was blindsided by how quickly people
Speaker 1: he'd known for years distanced themselves after a scandal in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. In an article from May sixteenth, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: The La Times said multiple women came ford Tuesday to
Speaker 1: accuse Chris Daalia of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, three
Speaker 1: years after the comedian and podcast host was hit with
Speaker 1: a wave of misconduct allegations. The twenty twenty three article
Speaker 1: rights in interviews with Rolling Stone, ten women accused de
Speaker 1: Leia of predatory behavior, and four of the women claimed
Speaker 1: they were teenagers when the comic allegedly preyed on them.
Speaker 1: Skipping down. The La Times in twenty twenty three wrote
Speaker 1: de Lea faced allegations of sexual misconduct in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: when a number of women accused the comedian of making
Speaker 1: sexual demands online. In the immediate aftermath, Delia was dropped
Speaker 1: by his talent agents. Some of his famous friends and
Speaker 1: colleagues publicly turned against him. Chris said, it blew my
Speaker 1: mind kind of because like, comedians are so community. I
Speaker 1: thought what was mattered, But comedians are just so Most
Speaker 1: comedians are just pretty spineless, you know, their whole life,
Speaker 1: they've been the outcast and they finally get some recognition
Speaker 1: because of laughter. And it's like, I'm not letting go
Speaker 1: of that and f that I'm not. If that's what
Speaker 1: a comedian is, then I'll do something else. I'll be
Speaker 1: something else. I'll be on stage making people leaf. But
Speaker 1: don't call me that, because that's weird to me. Just
Speaker 1: reading the transcript here, I was surprised by a few people.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's interesting because you really realize that
Speaker 1: people can't effing wait to hate you. It blew my
Speaker 1: mind and it still kind of blows my mind. And
Speaker 1: that's how people are, and particularly you know, I can
Speaker 1: say people at least that I know, like in comedians
Speaker 1: and in the arts, but like you know, everyone else,
Speaker 1: they're cool, Osborne said. And other addictions, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: gambling or whatever. In sex, you're considered the worst of
Speaker 1: the worst of the worst Deliah said, yeah, it's weird. Look,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty was the craziest time period when it all
Speaker 1: started with COVID and then George Floyd and then everything,
Speaker 1: and then people were afraid to say anything wrong, and
Speaker 1: that's when the whole thing went down, and then everyone's
Speaker 1: afraid to say anything wrong. I was an effing liar
Speaker 1: and I would use sex. Looking back now, I think
Speaker 1: also age has a lot to do with it. Now
Speaker 1: that I'm forty five, thinkuring about how I didn't think
Speaker 1: the other shoe was going to drop. Now that I
Speaker 1: think about that, I'm like, oh, I was crazy. I
Speaker 1: was delusional. What the f why would that not happen? So,
Speaker 1: as you know, yeah, I take my Star Trek very seriously.
Speaker 1: Did you watch this Starfleet Academy show. I had to
Speaker 1: watch it because I need to know about it so
Speaker 1: that I can hate on it appropriately. I just want
Speaker 1: the audience to know I've been radicalized against Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 1: He is complicit in the destruction of Star Trek, along
Speaker 1: with Tig Nataro, Patton Oswald, Genius Year. You're all guilty
Speaker 1: of destroying Star Trek. Stephen Colbert plays like the PA
Speaker 1: announcer he's making witty announcements during Starfleet Academy. So I
Speaker 1: stand with the President when it is time for the
Speaker 1: Late Show with Stephen Colbert to come to an end,
Speaker 1: if for no other reason for destroying Star Trek. Now,
Speaker 1: the President and I don't agree on all the issues,
Speaker 1: you know, but for this one, I think we do.
Speaker 1: John Stewart was asked if he would run for president.
Speaker 1: This happened during a Q and A with the Daily
Speaker 1: Show audience. The clip was posted to YouTube on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Stewart said, I think you should be president as the
Speaker 1: line that comes right after Effitt, because most people go like,
Speaker 1: I'm watching this and doing this. These guys aren't doing that.
Speaker 1: You know what ef it? That guy should he's on TV.
Speaker 1: Stuart added, this is a question that comes up a lot,
Speaker 1: and I think it speaks to if I may and
Speaker 1: I don't, or the motivation. It speaks to this desperation
Speaker 1: and dissatisfaction that we have with the status quo. Stuart said,
Speaker 1: it's because you see somebody on television who's saying some
Speaker 1: of the things that resonate with you. It's almost like
Speaker 1: you're cursing me with like a twilight zone, like make him.
Speaker 1: I so understand the feeling. I think what's happening right
Speaker 1: now with all of us, myself included, because having the
Speaker 1: ability to have a Catharsis or talk about it or
Speaker 1: work with people every day is emotionally sustaining. Some people
Speaker 1: observed none of that was a no no. I previously
Speaker 1: had supported the candidacy of Stephen Colbert, but I can
Speaker 1: no longer do that in good conscious. I cannot have
Speaker 1: a president of the United States who would destroy Star Trek.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is where I draw the line. But
Speaker 1: to John Stuart candidacy, I'll hear you out. Stuart said,
Speaker 1: Trump's policies ain't flying. In a lot of places where
Speaker 1: you might think it might be flying. People keep saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: this guy's Hitler. No he's not. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why he's not. Hitler was popular. This guy's not. Wow wow,
Speaker 1: wow wow. Send your letters to John Stuart. I may
Speaker 1: have to send a letter to Jason Zenniman in front
Speaker 1: of the show writer for the New York Times. Tell
Speaker 1: you why in a second a late night er, let
Speaker 1: us know that Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing and
Speaker 1: one thing well, has now been in guess how many
Speaker 1: sketches on Saturday Night Live? Take a guess? Did you guess?
Speaker 1: The answer is two hundred? What Marcelo Hernandez has been
Speaker 1: in two hundred sketches? So what four Domingos and one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety six where he played guy on the
Speaker 1: couch in the background. There's no way he's been in
Speaker 1: two hundred sketches doing what here? And there was just
Speaker 1: an episode this weekend. Name a sketch other than Domingo
Speaker 1: that Marcelo Hernandez has been in. I'll wait, Should I
Speaker 1: just leave, like an eighteen minute pause here in the file?
Speaker 1: Two hundred? What has he done? Meanwhile? Friend of the
Speaker 1: Show Jason Zinneman in The New York Times, he wrote
Speaker 1: a piece titled SNL hasn't produced a superstar in a while?
Speaker 1: Could it be Marcelo Hernandez. I'll answer Jason no, But
Speaker 1: I respect Jason. Jason's one of other people that knows
Speaker 1: a lot more about comedy than I do. And I
Speaker 1: just sit in the basement all day and pop off
Speaker 1: where he actually goes to shows. So we should trust
Speaker 1: Jason Zinnim in Front of the Show from the New
Speaker 1: York Times, he writes the comics. New special American Boy
Speaker 1: shows that he is the leading man charisma and hunger.
Speaker 1: His career will be interesting to watch. The guy definitely
Speaker 1: has charisma, Definitely, definitely, Jason writes, you can see a
Speaker 1: fierceness underneath the megawatts smile. Hernandez has just started his
Speaker 1: career outside SNL, and he's flexing different muscles. I've seen
Speaker 1: him perform stand up in New York. That suggests he
Speaker 1: ruthless in getting heart laughs as he is making you
Speaker 1: like him. Will he follow in the footsteps of SNL
Speaker 1: stars like Murphy, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey. Tap the brakes, Jason, Jason,
Speaker 1: Jason love you tap the breaks with that sentence, I
Speaker 1: could see it. But that kind of success requires luck
Speaker 1: as well as talent and drive. One thing I'm sure
Speaker 1: of this, he will be back again. I'm a guy
Speaker 1: in a basement. Jason actually goes and sees the shows,
Speaker 1: so respect him over me. Maybe Marcello Hernandez is a
Speaker 1: great dramatic actor. Now, now that could be if you
Speaker 1: want to make an Adam Sandler comp there, If Marcello
Speaker 1: wants to just stop doing the Domingo thing and be
Speaker 1: a charismatic good looking dramatic actor. I would support that.
Speaker 1: Got another opinion piece for you from Emma Camp and
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. Emma Rights never apologized to the
Speaker 1: mob this about the whole Bowen Yang backlash? Was that
Speaker 1: only a week ago? I guess it's two weeks at
Speaker 1: this point. I was worried there. I thought just times
Speaker 1: were getting insane, or it's two weeks ago at this point.
Speaker 1: You may recall the culturistas had some opinions on donating
Speaker 1: to Jasmin Crockett's campaign. People on the internets did not
Speaker 1: like that. Emma Camp Rights, they should have waited for
Speaker 1: the online charter to pass. It isn't twenty twenty anymore,
Speaker 1: and nonsensical claims of racism no longer have unchecked power
Speaker 1: to unravel reputations. More than a few online progressives even
Speaker 1: defended the pair by pointing out their observations were on
Speaker 1: the mark, skipping ahead. Unsurprisingly, rather than calm the outrage,
Speaker 1: the apologies have driven another cycle of criticism also from
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. They remember last week I said
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan had a cronk Heite moment. The Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal has a whole article on that premise, and they
Speaker 1: even mentioned the Kronkite piece of the Joe Rogan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal they led with in February nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight, p sident Lynda B. Johnson famously lost Walt
Speaker 1: to Cronkite et cetera, et cetera and a Joe Rogan piece.
Speaker 1: You don't suppose somebody at the Wall Street Journal listens
Speaker 1: to the show, do you? I know somebody at the
Speaker 1: New York Times used to until about two minutes ago. Haha,
Speaker 1: he won't get mad at me. Another opinion piece from
Speaker 1: giant Freaking Robot, Robert Scucci writes New thomsigor Netflix special
Speaker 1: is complete trash. I'll come up with an appropriate headline
Speaker 1: once I calm down, But that's my kind of headline.
Speaker 1: I like that. I think Robert's right here he talks
Speaker 1: with the special. He says it points to a larger
Speaker 1: problem and stand up comedy designed for mass consumption through streaming.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like a new hour. The most common
Speaker 1: complaint about Teacher That's the Special is that many of
Speaker 1: the anecdotes can be traced back to interviews in podcast episodes.
Speaker 1: That's become standard practice now that most high profile comedians
Speaker 1: rely on podcasting to stay visible and generat income when
Speaker 1: they're not touring. The unintentional side effect is that when
Speaker 1: comedians spend hours casually talking shop with other comedians, they're
Speaker 1: essentially workshopping their next hour in front of millions of listeners.
Speaker 1: By the time those jokes are fined tour and eventually
Speaker 1: filmed for a special, it doesn't feel like fresh material.
Speaker 1: Robert adds, my biggest issue with Teacher is that the
Speaker 1: storytelling element that originally drew me Sigora a stand up
Speaker 1: is almost completely gone. Instead, the special plays like a
Speaker 1: loose collection of unrelated anecdotes, bouncing from family life to
Speaker 1: documentaries about Hitler's stimulant abuse. Teacher feels like an obligation
Speaker 1: rather than a passion project. I don't think any of
Speaker 1: that is crazy, but let me throw out another notion
Speaker 1: to everyone. At some point, a lot of comedians hit
Speaker 1: the wall, and you're like, been there, done that, seen this.
Speaker 1: I think we're about to see Bert Krascher's wall. His
Speaker 1: sitcom is out this week and then he's got the
Speaker 1: Daytona thing. But I feel like Chrayser fatigue is about
Speaker 1: to set in. Maybe Sigourrea fatigue is about to set in.
Speaker 1: I think Burrh's a little past prime, starting to worry
Speaker 1: if we gaff again. We were at the okay, got
Speaker 1: it stage. You get deeper into these careers and it's
Speaker 1: like okay, yep, And like I talked about on the
Speaker 1: Issue Show, then you've got a George Carlin who reinvented
Speaker 1: himself a few times, including that final Act which I
Speaker 1: hate at the time, And as I said yesterday, he's
Speaker 1: the true prof of the twenty first century. So who knows,
Speaker 1: but I don't think this is crazy talk about Tom Sagura.
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Speaker 1: to listen to. Trevor Noah is a podcast episode with
Speaker 1: John Oliver, very very very good. It's long and it's
Speaker 1: very good. Also Joe Rogan with Matt Damon and Ben
Speaker 1: Affleck that got a lot of pick up over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the movie on Netflix with Matt and Ben?
Speaker 1: What's it called? The Rip? The Rip was very good.
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with The Pit, which is a
Speaker 1: TV show on HBO Max. Also very good. Forty nine
Speaker 1: ers came this weekend. Not very good anyway, Listen to
Speaker 1: check out Rogan, check out Trevor Noah. Voting is open
Speaker 1: for Week three of Comedy Survivor. A couple early votes
Speaker 1: for Joe Coy there. He could be in trouble. You know.
Speaker 1: Joe Cooy hosts the Golden Globes before Nicki Glazer, But
Speaker 1: don't have time for that today. Feel eight Nighter. Chris
Speaker 1: Redd has cleaned up some statements. Remember he kind of
Speaker 1: sore to imply that he was maybe dealing at SNL.
Speaker 1: Chris Red had in a six minute video said, while
Speaker 1: I was at SNL, I had some pill issues. I
Speaker 1: had some pill problems. I was even selling some to
Speaker 1: some of my cast mates. Seems pretty clear. While TMZ
Speaker 1: caught up with Chris Red Who's like, oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. He cleared it up and said, I was
Speaker 1: on adderall on xen X, and I was getting it
Speaker 1: the illegal way because I was scared to go to
Speaker 1: the doctor and have them sam crazy. I was being
Speaker 1: facetious about the drug dealing thing. I wasn't drug dealing
Speaker 1: to my cast I wasn't Walter Whiting. I was trying
Speaker 1: to make light of it because I felt super vulnerable
Speaker 1: and raw at the time. I was not selling. I
Speaker 1: had a full time job as a comic. Okay, So
Speaker 1: when he said I was even selling some to some
Speaker 1: of my cast mates, he was not. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you got confused there and thought he was. We're
Speaker 1: long today. I thought I had nothing. All right, good
Speaker 1: fun show out today on the eight hundred pound Gerriilla
Speaker 1: Michael Blaustein's Silly Goose Eugene Merman, who claims to star
Speaker 1: in something called Bob's Burger's two quick questions. Have you
Speaker 1: ever seen bobs Burgers? No, of course not. Have you
Speaker 1: ever met anyone who's seen bobs Burgers? Of course not
Speaker 1: one of the great hoaxes of our time. And prankster
Speaker 1: Eugene Merman will release his sixth comedy album, Here Comes
Speaker 1: the Whimsy, on February fifth. That same day premiere as
Speaker 1: a special on VEEPS. Recorded live in Somerville, Massachusetts, Eugene
Speaker 1: Merman took the stage with his trademark Playful Spirit to
Speaker 1: reveal a series of mild grievances through anecdotes from fatherhood,
Speaker 1: insights from travel, dress code trauma, rental car disputes, and more.
Speaker 1: Can also catch Eugene Memerman its sketch fest on the
Speaker 1: twenty third and twenty fourth comedy debate show Abolish Everything
Speaker 1: got a season two. The trailers out in the new
Speaker 1: season will be available on the twenty ninth. New York
Speaker 1: Times called it the silliest verbal sporing you'll likely ever hear.
Speaker 1: Unabolish Everything, comedian abolitionists roast a pet peeve they want
Speaker 1: banned from society, while hilarious panel dubbed the political establishment
Speaker 1: improvides counter arguments on behalf of the status quo. That's fun.
Speaker 1: The audience crowns and abolitionists. The champion of each episode,
Speaker 1: Chandler Dean is your ringleader here and the season two
Speaker 1: will premiere on Nebula. I was unfamiliar with Nebula. Good
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Speaker 1: is fun. Oh, the riff tracks guys are on here.
Speaker 1: You know, rifftracks, Mystery Science Theater three thousand, kind disorder.
Speaker 1: And we got some news coming out of the Milan
Speaker 1: Courtina Winter Olympics. If you are a fan of Italian
Speaker 1: comedian Massimo Boldie, well, Masimo has been removed from the
Speaker 1: list of torch bearers. The Milano Quartino twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: organizing committee decided to ban Massimo Boldie after he boasted
Speaker 1: being a champion of I can't even say it, a
Speaker 1: vulgar Italian slang term for female Genitalia. He's the champion
Speaker 1: of that, at least he says he is. The organizing
Speaker 1: committee deemed Boldie's remarks incompatible with Olympic values, noting that
Speaker 1: carrying the Olympic flame represents a privilege and a responsibility,
Speaker 1: and requires that those selected embody and promote the values
Speaker 1: of respect, unity and inclusion. Boldie has apologized and said
Speaker 1: I made a joke that was meant to be lighthearted
Speaker 1: and ironic, but it turned out to be inappropriate and
Speaker 1: offensive towards women and not in line with the principles
Speaker 1: of respect and inclusion that inspire the Olympic movement. Extended
Speaker 1: an apology to the organizing committee and to all those
Speaker 1: who felt hurt. And that is your comedy news for today.
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow.