Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media from the basement where it's literally fifty degrees.
Speaker 1: My boilers are not working. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with
Speaker 1: your daily comedy news. I am all discombobulated. It is
Speaker 1: freezing in the house like cauld as. I have this
Speaker 1: space heater and can kind of heat up one room.
Speaker 1: It's just it's awful. There's supposedly coming on Sunday. Yikes,
Speaker 1: So I'm a little messed up here. Billboard did release
Speaker 1: the top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century,
Speaker 1: if you want to check that out on Billboard dot com.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that today I would be able to
Speaker 1: record my thoughts on it and put it out as
Speaker 1: a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, and it would
Speaker 1: be in the regular feet at the end of December.
Speaker 1: But not going to get to that today. Johnny Mack
Speaker 1: is running late. And you know I mentioned I had
Speaker 1: the wedding last night, so as I record this, it's
Speaker 1: before the wedding. But I have to shower, shave, and
Speaker 1: put on real clothes. It's one thing to sit here
Speaker 1: dressed like Adam Sandler recording a podcast. It's another to
Speaker 1: look like an adult and then people like, hey, is
Speaker 1: that George Clooney, And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I get that all the time. I did record the
Speaker 1: Comedy Survivor Selection Show that'll come out as a bonus
Speaker 1: feed in the middle of the day Monday. So Monday,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a regular episode which I haven't recorded yet.
Speaker 1: And the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that came out really
Speaker 1: well and put a lot of work into that. One
Speaker 1: had fun with that, all right. Today's news, Kevin Hart
Speaker 1: was on Diary of a CEO, and Kevin said, if
Speaker 1: life ended today, I could cross my legs comfortably and
Speaker 1: be okay. I made sure I applied myself to the
Speaker 1: best of my ability. I tried my best to put
Speaker 1: those I loved in a better position so that they
Speaker 1: could see more and do more. My last name and
Speaker 1: my family name is much stronger today than it was yesterday.
Speaker 1: The idea of the world is that something I was
Speaker 1: able to live and understand better because I was blessed
Speaker 1: and fortunate enough to travel in meat. I was an
Speaker 1: energy and source of good to bring people closer together
Speaker 1: through all the things I've done, so it all connects
Speaker 1: and I'm okay. I'm okay. If it stopped, it stopped.
Speaker 1: What I'm not okay with is w well. I have
Speaker 1: the bandwidth of good health, great mind. I can go,
Speaker 1: I can do it. I can get there. I'm not
Speaker 1: okay with wasting that time. Those are good smart words
Speaker 1: by card If you haven't watched his special, it'll probably
Speaker 1: unless something surprises me this week wind up as my
Speaker 1: number two special of the year, Very very funny. Gary
Speaker 1: Golman was asked what's the worst and most illogical state
Speaker 1: abbreviation and why is it MO for Missouri. Gary said
Speaker 1: they must have gone in alphabetical order and got to
Speaker 1: Michigan and Mississippi before Missouri. Then they got to Missouri
Speaker 1: and the next non s letter was Oh, that must
Speaker 1: be how they did it. It's not intuitive at all.
Speaker 1: They should have based it on population. Gary was asked
Speaker 1: to talk about the Chicago comedy scene. He says, I've
Speaker 1: been really impressed over the years. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of good comedians in the eighties, white guys from Chicago
Speaker 1: who reminded me of Boston comedians, but with a different accent.
Speaker 1: The thing I noticed in Chicago's on the top five
Speaker 1: for this The closer city is to university. I couldn't
Speaker 1: have gotten into the better my act does. It never
Speaker 1: fails the further I go from a good college the
Speaker 1: harder I bomb Chicago has a Northwestern University of Chicago
Speaker 1: and others. It's not about me being smart. It's about
Speaker 1: how I try to sound smart, and it's appreciated there.
Speaker 1: I found there were more comedians trying to sound dumb.
Speaker 1: You spend five minutes watching them and you think that
Speaker 1: person's not dumb. Those jokes that you clever, you're insulting
Speaker 1: my intelligence. Billboard asked Josh Johnson if there were any
Speaker 1: challenges making the transition from writer to correspondent to anchor.
Speaker 1: Josh shedd it's probably hitting refresh after each show. It's
Speaker 1: not a bad thing, but you could be on cloud
Speaker 1: nine after you do a show. Right after the rap,
Speaker 1: there's an element of okay, but do we have to
Speaker 1: come back tomorrow and start again. At the end of
Speaker 1: a week, you get to enjoy everything that you did
Speaker 1: and be like, wow, that's a great experience. Day to day,
Speaker 1: hitting refresh is sometimes a challenge, although I'm used to
Speaker 1: it from doing so much stand up on the road.
Speaker 1: You're in West Palm Beach one day, Jacksonville the next day,
Speaker 1: and maybe Tallahassee the next I feel the same way
Speaker 1: about my YouTube channel, where I post every Tuesday. Variety
Speaker 1: was focused on Morgan Jay, and they wrote, Morgan Jay
Speaker 1: is not your typical stand up comedian. Variety rights. Armed
Speaker 1: with an acoustic guitar and autotune drench microphone, Morgan Jay
Speaker 1: sprints down the ass of the theaters in which he performs,
Speaker 1: bantering with his fans and leading them in song. He
Speaker 1: pours tequila shots into women's mouth straight from the bottle,
Speaker 1: convinces his couples on first dates to give each other
Speaker 1: a smooch, and push his wheelchair bound audience members across
Speaker 1: the venues, recruiting bad ease to sit on their laps.
Speaker 1: All the while he stairs directly into the lens of
Speaker 1: a roaming camera that follows him around and projects his
Speaker 1: face onto a JumboTron. He's got a health and fitness
Speaker 1: regiment equipped for a pop star. That regiment running every
Speaker 1: other day, jim every other day, yoga, twenty minutes of
Speaker 1: stretching a day, vocal exercises every day while I'm touring.
Speaker 1: No alcohol, no weed, no smoking whatsoever, and no meals
Speaker 1: after eight PM. Now. I love that because right when
Speaker 1: I was reading vocal exercises every day, my voice cracked
Speaker 1: and I'm leaving it in. And I worked out five
Speaker 1: days in a row, and then I had to teach
Speaker 1: Thursday morning, and then Friday I had to record this
Speaker 1: and go to a wedding and not watch Adam Sailor
Speaker 1: Jay Kelly and Today's Saturday. I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: to work out either, because I didn't do the weekend
Speaker 1: shows yet. Uh, this is how you wind up fat
Speaker 1: well that in the seven thirty Am cheeseburgers I ate
Speaker 1: when I was twenty four years old producing morning radio
Speaker 1: in New York City. That's a story for another day.
Speaker 1: Morgan Jay says, it's an investment for people come to
Speaker 1: the show. I'd hate not to be able to give
Speaker 1: my fans the best show I can give them. Variety
Speaker 1: did some math. Ticket plus parking plus merch plus two
Speaker 1: drinks plus hotel can easily tell them more than five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, so you don't need a hotel go home.
Speaker 1: Jay sett of minds two things that comedy purist might
Speaker 1: scoff at, music and crowd work. People get so upset
Speaker 1: about the crowd work. Did you watch Matt Raife special?
Speaker 1: It's funny Variety really waxed his car, They wrote, Just
Speaker 1: as Bo Burnham might be the quintessential comic to rise
Speaker 1: from YouTube, Morgan Jay embodies comedy's TikTok era. He posts
Speaker 1: about one crowd work clip per day to his nine
Speaker 1: point four million followers, asking people where they're from, who
Speaker 1: they're with, and whether they will sleep together after the show,
Speaker 1: all while talk Singing into a pitch corrected mic, he says,
Speaker 1: crowd work, It's only the first twenty minutes of his set.
Speaker 1: The rest of his show follows a more rigid structure,
Speaker 1: with pre written songs and interludes, a traditional stand up comedy,
Speaker 1: and no, the autotune is not always on. Interestingly, after college,
Speaker 1: Morgan Jay was an intern on NBC's Tonight Show when
Speaker 1: it was hosted by Conan O'Brien. He explained Conan would
Speaker 1: have three or four pages of jokes for the opening monologue,
Speaker 1: and the interns were asked to come down and watching
Speaker 1: rehearse so he could get a live reaction. He'd read
Speaker 1: the jokes immediately go no, no, no, yes no. He
Speaker 1: wasn't precious with the material. After the Tonight show Mortgage
Speaker 1: Jay was a bike to our guide plugging his own
Speaker 1: show to tourist cycling around Central Park. Then he got
Speaker 1: a job hawking iPhones. He said ninety percent of working
Speaker 1: at the Apple stores resetting passwords. That's funny. He started
Speaker 1: doing the autotude crowd work during the pandemic, but says
Speaker 1: they did do a grind. When I started going viral
Speaker 1: on TikTok, I had ten years of experience and a
Speaker 1: backlog of material. Or people will blow up on TikTok
Speaker 1: who don't have twenty minutes of material. People see me
Speaker 1: as this TikTok comedian. There are a lot of other
Speaker 1: sizes of myself. I'd like to show. These. Glar brothers
Speaker 1: talked about being twins and said being twins, even from
Speaker 1: an early age, was an attention getter. Back when we
Speaker 1: were born in the seventies, it was rare to see twins.
Speaker 1: You rarely saw a double wide stroller. I think as
Speaker 1: we got older, there was a lot of attention on us.
Speaker 1: We love getting laughs and being connected to people. When
Speaker 1: we started out, it was hard to live in Saint
Speaker 1: Louis and give yourself a lot of opportunities in the
Speaker 1: Comedy World. We went to the University of Michigan for
Speaker 1: college and really started to develop our comedy chops. Then
Speaker 1: we had a choice either go to New York or
Speaker 1: la if you really wanted to try and make a
Speaker 1: run at this business. So we chose New York because
Speaker 1: we love New York and the energy there. I worked
Speaker 1: with those guys a little bit. They are cool guys.
Speaker 1: Gave them a show on serious as most of the
Speaker 1: stories I tell you. I couldn't get anyone to give
Speaker 1: me any budget for it, and it was not a
Speaker 1: lot of money, but you know, you got to give
Speaker 1: people some money. So many missed opportunities. We tried to
Speaker 1: give Amy Schumer a show before she super popped, but
Speaker 1: no money. Chang Wang caught up with Cincinnati dot Com
Speaker 1: sincey dot Com wrote, that's understandable in a club where
Speaker 1: there's fifty one hundred people, but if a thousand people
Speaker 1: are in the line, you'd be in the lobby twice.
Speaker 1: As long as you're on stage, Shang said, I try
Speaker 1: to keep it moving. It's quick, photo quick. Hello. Charging
Speaker 1: feels weird to me to just say hello to people.
Speaker 1: It feels so nice that people will express how excited
Speaker 1: and happy they are for the show, the topic they
Speaker 1: are charging for meet and greets. A lot of comics
Speaker 1: do that. Shang said, I love seeing generations of a
Speaker 1: family have a reason to spend time together. Someone in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee thank me because they get to spend an hour
Speaker 1: and a half with their mom and they rarely get
Speaker 1: to laugh and spend time together like that. I might
Speaker 1: not hang after shows forever, but right now it's touching
Speaker 1: and sweet to me. Fun interview here Cincinnati dot Com
Speaker 1: doing their research said I ran across a wedding page
Speaker 1: that said you're marrying Rachel Rowlands next summer in Oh Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many Sheng Wang's are out there,
Speaker 1: but it seems like a singular name. Comedian Shengwan said,
Speaker 1: you know, I saw that recently. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that is, but it feels like a scam. There's no
Speaker 1: photos of who they are. Since he said, it says
Speaker 1: please send presents to Rachel Shen Wing said, exactly, that's
Speaker 1: such a good scam. At the University of Southern California,
Speaker 1: you can minor in comedy. You can take classes in
Speaker 1: stand up improv, magic, and medical clowning. About fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty undergrads complete the minor each academic year. The La
Speaker 1: Times took a look at this program. I found this interesting.
Speaker 1: Launched in the fall of twenty fifteen by the School
Speaker 1: of Dramatic Arts. Some of the students are seeking careers
Speaker 1: as actors. Others are just in careers in medicine, science
Speaker 1: and engineering. For them, comedy offers a chance to develop
Speaker 1: skills that could be useful in their hope for professions
Speaker 1: and their daily lives. There's an intro to stand up
Speaker 1: class that's also the medical clowning one, in that students
Speaker 1: learn how to interact with hospital patients. Along the way,
Speaker 1: they're taught how to juggle and perform magic tricks. The
Speaker 1: professor of the said, some of the students have gone
Speaker 1: on and graduate from medical school. That's fun. One of
Speaker 1: the students, Malaya, who wants to be a doctor, said,
Speaker 1: at first, my dad was like, why am I paying
Speaker 1: tuition for this? I have a college aged daughter. I
Speaker 1: encourage her to take fun elective. She actually took a
Speaker 1: sailing class, which was really great. Paris Sachet is on
Speaker 1: Vulture's list of comedians You should Know and Will Know
Speaker 1: and ask two questions Best comed advice worst comedy advice.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy these answers. Worst women aren't normally funny,
Speaker 1: so be grateful. Every time you get booked on a show,
Speaker 1: make sure you stand out because they didn't have to
Speaker 1: book a woman. Best comedy advice was if you're nervous,
Speaker 1: and no matter how big the room is, if you
Speaker 1: look straight to the back, it'll look like you're looking
Speaker 1: at the entire room. It'll give off that you're making
Speaker 1: eye contact with the entire crowd. That is a great tip. Also,
Speaker 1: be funny on stage, but'd be likable off stage. Roy
Speaker 1: Wood Junior advised her don't leave any meat on the
Speaker 1: bone when it comes to a topic. He said, rather
Speaker 1: than talking about ten different topics, you can literally talk
Speaker 1: about one topic until you get everything out of that
Speaker 1: one topic that you can also on that list. Ismail
Speaker 1: Lufti Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best when I
Speaker 1: was starting out in Florida and older comics on me
Speaker 1: performing one night and said, you give a hoot, Keep
Speaker 1: giving a hoot. Worst. I once wrote for CBS's After Midnight.
Speaker 1: Other than writing games and stuff, one of the duties
Speaker 1: of the writers was to serve as a Shirpa for
Speaker 1: the different comedian. Guess who'd come on One day, I
Speaker 1: was working with a pretty huge comic. He came in
Speaker 1: Stone out of his mind and refused to wear shoes.
Speaker 1: Eventually we sort of bonded away, look me dead in
Speaker 1: the eye and said, if I can give you any advice,
Speaker 1: Islam not my name, it's this be undeniable. Then he
Speaker 1: stared at me completely serious, as if he just blew
Speaker 1: my mind. Then he won on TV and took off
Speaker 1: his shirt. It was the stupidest moment of my life.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a barely sentient, half naked blob who's
Speaker 1: parroting something Jim Gaffigan famously said earlier, as if he
Speaker 1: came up with it himself. Who do you think that is? So?
Speaker 1: Who would show up at after midnight? So it can't
Speaker 1: be a huge comedian if they during after midnight and
Speaker 1: the person took off their shirts. So we're all thinking
Speaker 1: Burt Krescher, But it's not gonna be Burt Krescher here.
Speaker 1: So who showed up Stone and did a poor man's
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffick? And that is a good question. Let me
Speaker 1: know what you think about that. In the Facebook group
Speaker 1: Daily Company news podcast group Ishmael, do you have any
Speaker 1: advice to others? None of us deserve success selling out tours,
Speaker 1: writing jobs, pilots, Netflix specials. I've held insurance through the
Speaker 1: writer skills. Am I so good at writing that I
Speaker 1: deserve to go to the doctor while other comics don't?
Speaker 1: Of course not. It's a brutal, unfair, unsustainable scam. If
Speaker 1: you're experiencing success, you'd better be humble. If you're struggling,
Speaker 1: take solace in the fact the rich shall not enter
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. That is your comedy news on
Speaker 1: a Saturday. Have a great day.