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Speaker 2: And Air, and Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News,
a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians on the
comedy industry. A sentence I can't remember unless I write
it down, but the algorithm loves it. David Cross as
a new special. It's called the End of the Beginning
of the End, and the La Times was like, what
does the end of the beginning of the End mean?
David Cross explains, Well, you could look at it a
couple different ways. To me, it signifies the beginning of
the end has occurred, and we're now at the end
of the beginning of the end. And from where you
go with that, that's up for you to decide. The
La Times likes that this special shot in a club.
Cross that I've shot specials in theaters and it's just different,
not that one's better than the other, they're just different.
You have a different relationship with the audience. When I
first started touring, I'd go to music venues and I'd
have a band open up for me. Then I'd just
go up and pretty much perform as long as I
could until I had to pee, sometimes out of a band,
playing sometimes two bands, then I'd go. I did that
a couple times and stopped doing that, and then did theaters,
and I decided for the last two specials, want to
shoot it, I'll go to a music venue. I was
at the forty Walk Club in Athens last time. I
was at the Metro in Chicago before that, both places
I played on earlier tours. And you know, it's not seated.
People are standing there at the stage, and I preferred
it's more fun. It's not as lucrative, but it's a
more fun show to do. Cross talked about his movie
roles and if his daughter has seen anything. He said,
I don't actively shield her, but I don't introduce her
to anything. So I was a little bummed out and
I got over it pretty quickly. But when I found
out she had seen a little bit of Alvin and
the Chipmunks, and only because I didn't want to spoil
the enjoyment of what movies are and what kids' movies
are and how things work, and I feel like that
would introduce an element of reality that I just want
her to be able to enjoy these things without. She's
seen Kung Fu Panda when she was younger, Like I
don't know three four, five times. That has no idea
that I'm in that my voice is there. She knows
how you stand up. She gets that now. When she
was younger, she'd say, daddy's silly for a living. I'm
just trying to ride the balance of letting her have
those childhood joys and experiences. I thought this was interesting.
Cross said, I still get excited to watch specials by
some of my favorite comics, but there's there's a quality
that's missing. And these are all stand ups I love,
and they're not that great. They're not bad, but they're
not special. You know, I don't know why that is.
I mean, there's still funny stuff, but I don't ever
want to get to that place where it just feels
a little phoned in a little bit. That's why these
last two specials were shot in the orient, mid setting
that feel special. As they said, the energy is different,
it's a little bit different, and it's less slick. You're
in the moment. You don't need a million dollars to
shoot a special. You don't need twenty eight camera angles.
It just bs and it takes something away. Independent Rhode
Island caught up with Hannibal burse Hannibal dabbles in music
when he's not doing comedy. As for music, Hannibal said,
it's really writing in another format. If you're a writer,
you can write stand up, you can write a sketch,
you can write for television, you can do copy for somebody,
you can ghost write for somebody else, or you can
write music. Music just another way to write stuff, and
it also necessarily it doesn't have to be funny at
every moment. It can be funny, but it can have
a range of emotions. So there's ideas that I've touched
on in my stand up that have also brought into
music and stories that I've told him both where I've
been able to approach it in a different way. In music,
you can focus on small details and things like that
in a story, but every moment doesn't necessarily have to
be funny, and stand up every moment doesn't have funny either,
with the setup and everything. But it's good to have
an arsenal of both formats where you can examine any
idea and see which format goes in best. Julio Tores
was in Interview magazine. He fielded some questions. One of
the questions was, hey, Julio, I think my apartment is haunted,
but the rent is super cheap. How can I expel
the ghosts? Great question, Juliosaur says, your rent is super
cheap because your apartment is haunted. You can't have your
cake and eat it too. Okay, if you expel the
ghost that means you're expelling the decease, are making your
rent cheaper because you're a subletter of the ghosts. Now,
how can you get rid of them? E victim Them's
not on the table. I think you have to learn
how to coexist and make this the best you can.
Or if it feels like it's untenable because they're eating
your food or whatever, I would just find a new apartment.
Charlie Day has been cast in the new film Golf Trip.
Golf Trip follows three longtime best friends who reunite for
their annual golf getaway. What begins as a relaxing escape
quickly unravels when they are unexpectedly paired with the universally
dreaded single golfer. As tensions rise and personalities clash, the
trip spirals into a series of increasing chaotic and comedic misadventures.
GQ caught up with Joel kim Booster. He's on the
current season of Scrubs, which I'm enjoying the heck out of.
We learned that Joel kim Booster is a no breakfast guy.
Joel tells GQ, I don't eat my first meal until
late in the afternoon. My body is incredibly used to it.
At this point, I find the most effective way for
me to eat what I want without necessarily tracking every
macro and stuff like that, and still maintaining some of
the ratio to body fat to muscle that I have. Joel,
do you have any go to snacks? He says. What
I try to do is only have available stuff in
the house that is reasonably good for you to some degree.
I'm big on fried chicken skin as a low carb chip.
Substitute fruit leather instead of candy, protein, ice cream, stuff
like that. So it tricks you into thinking you're being bad,
but in fact you're actually being bad in a more
contained way. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues. I pulled
some clips. Takashi Jagasuki's show is called Wabi Sabi Comedy. Now.
He's got a show tomorrow at three thirty in the afternoon.
So if you're in Melbourne on a Sunday afternoon comedy,
go see Takashi. As for the title Wabi Sabi Comedy,
we learned that wabi sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that
finds beauty and imperfection in permanence and incompleteness. Waka believes
the concept of wabi sabi is the great way to
make people happy, and he thinks it might connect and
adapt to his comedy. Here's a clip just to make
sure everybody gets the joke, plus or minus the accent
or the references the material here is talking about. In
Milbourne they have in like a super awesome trolley system
and you have to tap your card when you get
on and you have to tap your card and when
you get off. Okay, so he's talking about tapping your
fair card here. I'll let him take it from here.
Speaker 3: I have a question, Melboum. Do you know Mikey Cobb
like trans potation Melbourne? Right? The question is do you
top when you take Trump? Are you reasoning? Are you
no use? Shoot?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: But so many people don't rise? And I found there's
a ranking there Merrybourne and Trump happiness ranking. I found
that so you don't have to agree with me, but
just please listen. So number one to number four. So
number four worst Merlbourne and Trump trip is when you
didn't tap your card and inspector came to check. That's
the worst because you have to pay the fine so expensive.
You feel worse. That's number four right. Next number three,
number three is when you tapped your card and the
inspector didn't come to check. It sounds normal.
Speaker 1: It sounds normal, but you may think, oh, I didn't
have to tap.
Speaker 3: That could have been free. I could have saved money
for the coffee. You feel like you're wasting money, feeling
it's not happy? Number three right, And next number two,
Number two is when you didn't tap your card and
inspector didn't come to check. It's just normal, luckly free
tram right and you are happy. You are happy, but
you have to get scared all the time in the tram.
You have to check if inspector come or not from
the window. Because half happiness and how anxious. That's why
number two and then number one happiest Melbourne Trump trip
is when you top the card and inspector came to check.
It's the happiest. Do you think because you feel the
extra achievement ex distrugivement, and you proud yourself so much
because you know you just made the best decision in
your life, tapping card and then you are so confident.
You are so confident, and inspector came ask you can
I just get my key card and you said, well, yes, of.
Speaker 1: Course, yes you can check everything about me. You are
so cold because you top the car right, and I
know you can add extra happiness and industuation, extra bonus
happiness industuation.
Speaker 3: So you topped the car. Inspect that came. You're so
happy and confident, and then you saw someone have to
pay the fine in the truck. That's extra bonus happiness.
Speaker 2: Do you think I like him a lot. He's Takashi
Waga Sugi. And that is your comedy news for today
see tomorrow