WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:11.560 Caalaroga Shark Media, Heidley Ho Johnny Mack with Your Daily 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:15.240 Comedy News. Nate Forgatzy said, when I was younger, someone 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.679 said you always reminded me of Bob Newhart, and I 4 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:21.719 thought about that and like, I can totally see it 5 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.480 delivery wise, the low keenness of it all. Nate said, 6 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:27.760 they meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence. 7 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.519 But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved 8 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.079 his albums in sitcom, so I like that. I was 9 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:33.960 way more deadband at the beginning, and I didn't move 10 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.799 around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South 11 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:38.159 and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded 12 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.520 pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So 13 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:42.640 I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel 14 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.240 like I'm getting more in my voice now. I'm still 15 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.439 not convinced Nate is the greatest actor. But if you 16 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:51.479 told me the new Heart sitcom where Bob owned the inn, 17 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.560 if you for some reason remade that and you had 18 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.240 Nate as the straight man in that, I could totally 19 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:00.719 see him crushing in that. Kelsey Cook told Fox News Digital. 20 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:02.880 I think the thing that probably helped comedy explode. The 21 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:05.319 most was the pandemic. You know, everybody was inside on 22 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.159 their phones, watching TV, watching their phone, and that became 23 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.120 a time for comics to make as much content as 24 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:11.959 you could because there was such a demand for it. 25 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.400 I think you saw people finding their new favorite comics 26 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.439 over the pandemic. And then once things open back up 27 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:18.439 and people could start touring again, people were like, great, 28 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:20.719 this person's coming into my city. I've been cooped up 29 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.359 inside forever long. Now I want to go out and 30 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.359 do stuff. And I think a lot of us saw 31 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.879 a big touring boom, especially once people could go out 32 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.640 and kind of resume normal life again. Yeah, there was 33 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:33.159 Initially it was hard to get an arena because everybody 34 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:35.640 was booking dates and everybody was out, so some big 35 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.239 comedians had to play smaller rooms. I think now a 36 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.640 few years later, we're seeing it cool off a little bit. 37 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:43.239 Tom Papa has talked about that on his podcast, and 38 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.359 Jim Gaffigan didn't agree with him. We'll see. I think 39 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.000 comedy is hot now, but maybe we're starting to step 40 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.760 down from everybody playing huge places. Russell Peters talked to 41 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.079 the LA Daily News about social media elevating comedians at 42 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.519 a rapid piece. This one comes up a lot, Russell said, 43 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.959 it's a double It's great for the kids that get 44 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:04.079 to be seen sooner than they normally would have. The 45 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:06.000 bad part is they're not really getting to put the 46 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:07.959 time in, so they don't have the chops they need 47 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.759 when it happens. There's definitely an incubation period that needs 48 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.240 to happen. Think of comedy like a baby. Each year 49 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:15.080 is a month in baby years, and in about the 50 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.400 nine to ten year mark, you should be comfortable with 51 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:18.919 who you are and what you're doing and have a 52 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.560 much more stable way of navigating through this game. When 53 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:23.280 these kids come in after a year or two because 54 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.360 they've been successful because of popular clips on TikTok and Instagram, congrats, 55 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.319 but that's not sustainable. The News said you were one 56 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:32.639 of the first comedians to go viral on YouTube early 57 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.159 in the platforms start. This must be a young ling 58 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:37.039 who asked this question. I saw a lot of comedians 59 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.439 there for the first time, including George Carlin. I know 60 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:41.159 you met him and worked well them. What was that like? 61 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:43.719 Russell said, he was my everything. I met him in 62 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.000 ninety two and I've only done stand up three years. 63 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.919 At this time. At the end of the meeting, I said, hey, George, 64 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:49.680 maybe we'll work together, and he said, you never know 65 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.759 a kid, it's crazy business. And there we were working 66 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.439 together ten months before he passed away. Was a great 67 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.400 way to book end that story. He was extremely nice 68 00:02:57.400 --> 00:02:59.759 and so gracious with his time. He gave me some 69 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:01.919 real good advice. He could have pulled rank or done 70 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.800 anything he wanted to, but he didn't. From when I 71 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:05.639 hear from everybody else who met him knew him, he 72 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.479 was always that guy. That's probably why he stayed in 73 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.759 stand up and avoided the Hollywood we're at race to. 74 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:11.439 People who were always survive in the long run are 75 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.599 the ones that keep it real. George was able to 76 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.439 cut through the bs. He was always on the side 77 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.240 of John Q every man. That's something that politicians can't 78 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:19.960 do because they may try to make it sound like 79 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.599 they're there for the people, but really they're there for themselves. 80 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.120 George was definitely not. He was literally there for us. 81 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.360 He was our voice. Chappelle is great at doing a 82 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:29.840 similar thing, but Chappelle is also skewed. You know which 83 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:34.280 side he's on. George is definitely anti establishment. NPR and 84 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.520 talked to Ronnie Chang about death and how his feelings 85 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.919 about death have changed over time. Ronnie said, Oh, yeah, 86 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:41.599 it's become more real. It used to be this kind 87 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.479 of conceptual, abstract, right, and then it's become very real 88 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.360 the last couple of years seeing it up close it 89 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:48.439 becoming more real was kind of frightening. I was studying 90 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.000 Buddhism recently, and there was this very interesting concept that 91 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:52.479 I'm going to butcher because I'm gonna give you the 92 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:54.360 ciff Notes version of it in like five seconds. But 93 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:56.240 the idea was something like, we're a different person in 94 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.840 every moment anyway. Our thoughts are different, our cellular makeup 95 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.800 is different in every second moment, meaning we're different people 96 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:03.800 in every second of every moment anyway. So the concept 97 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.840 of me doesn't really exist because I'm constantly changing anyway, 98 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:09.479 and so when I die, it doesn't matter because I 99 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.319 never really existed. That's kind of like the Buddhist dancer, 100 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.840 one of the Buddhist dancers to that. In Sebastian Man 101 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.560 of Scalgoes reason special is at me. He wore a tucks. 102 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.399 The Minneapolis Star Tribune asked Sebastian what happened to the 103 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.600 day is when standard comics dressed up. Sebastian said, I 104 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:24.439 grew up in the eighties looking at the showmanship of 105 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.000 it all, Eddie Murphy with that full leather suit or Prince. Today, 106 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:29.800 the guy on stage could be a guy in the crowd. 107 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.160 He can't distinguish the two. I try to pay homage 108 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:33.879 to the rat pack in the sixties. He didn't see 109 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.560 a guy gambling in Vegas wearing flip flops in a swimsuit. 110 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.519 You dressed up, and I hope that comes back. Sebastian 111 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.480 talked about the physicality of his act. I'm very conscious 112 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:44.480 of the way I'm moving proud across the stage. People 113 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:46.240 today have no attention span, so you have to be 114 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.519 active out there. I need room to run around. Clubs 115 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:50.040 are the best place to do comedy. But when I 116 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:51.720 do that, I often look at the stage and think, geez, 117 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.040 that's all the space they're giving me. I've always expressed 118 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:55.959 myself through body language. Even as a kid at the 119 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.000 dinner table, I'd stand up to ask someone to pass 120 00:04:58.040 --> 00:04:59.519 me in the mash potatoes. I don't see a lot 121 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.199 of other commit using their body this way. Brian Reagan does, 122 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:04.360 but I think other comics want to look cool, cool 123 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.879 us to go out the window. We're not musicians. Philippea 124 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:09.680 Sparza talked about life on the road and said, it's 125 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.879 a young comic. You're like a baby out in this world, 126 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:13.839 you know. But it's different from being a singer, actor 127 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.920 or a Broadway performer. When you perform as a comedian 128 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.279 in a small town, you're usually there for five days, 129 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:20.240 two or three hundred people see you every night, so 130 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.319 you're pretty famous in that town. For that week. Everything's 131 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.079 new and exciting. I remember being on the road in 132 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:27.439 al Paso and Paul Rodriguez was headlining somewhere nearby. He 133 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.319 was doing a corporate gig or something like that where 134 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.399 he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we're 135 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.920 performing at a regular club where they're paying us chicos tacos. 136 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.600 Paul Rodriguez kidnapped us. Bro He kidnapped us and took 137 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.560 us to Jures. He didn't even ask if we had 138 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:42.519 passports to grab. One random guy said a man, you 139 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.680 want to go to Juarez and nev tacos. The guy said, 140 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:46.959 are you Paul Rodriguez? Oh yeah, let's all go. So 141 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.240 Paul Rodriguez made me and the other comedians go in 142 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:50.959 a van. He had picked up two girls and he 143 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:53.879 took those two girls and us to Juarez def Tagos. 144 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:55.839 When we got to the border, though, there were already 145 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:57.720 too many people in the van and nobody had luggage, 146 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.040 and of course we're only there for about an hour 147 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:00.639 and a half. The border patrol us over and they 148 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.959 were searching us and stuff, and they were just busting 149 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:05.120 our chops. They wanted autographs and photos. And there's a 150 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:06.920 picture of us, you can look it up. It's Palward, Vegus, 151 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:10.360 Gabriel I Glacias, Armando Cossios and me in front of 152 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.560 the border with our hands on the hood. I remember 153 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.439 when we made it back and he was changing his clothes. 154 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.160 Gaby Glacias and I were still in the room. He 155 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:18.959 never told us to get out, so he finally closed 156 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:20.800 the door on us. Our friend was standing outside waiting 157 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.079 for us and said, bro, I thought you guys were 158 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:23.920 going to go with the shower with a pall. Riser 159 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.759 described his act to the oc registered and said, let's 160 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:29.279 just say on the opposite of circ dosilat, no jumping, 161 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:32.160 no acrobatics, no singing or dancing, nothing out of the ordinary, 162 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.720 just straight up comedy. I do nothing out of the ordinary. 163 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:37.079 People have seen comedians before. I have a good filter system. 164 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.199 I sorted out what makes me laugh in private and 165 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:41.279 what I want to share. And I've always avoided politics 166 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:43.839 or social commentary. It's not the way my brain works. 167 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:45.839 Some are good at poking sticks and the sacred cows. 168 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.199 That's not my personality. I'm not smart enough to make 169 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.120 things up. I tell people what happens in my house 170 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.240 stuff that happens at everyone else's house. We look at 171 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.399 people as friends. People enjoy knowing they're not alone. I 172 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.639 talk about my life, my marriage. It's all very cathartic. 173 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:58.920 I tell people about an argument with my wife. I 174 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.399 convent and hope the audience my side. How does he 175 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.600 dress on stage? I dress on stage the way I 176 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.279 dress in life. Jean's rolled up at the hem, he says. 177 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:10.199 I like to cut out as many decisions as possible. Paul, 178 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.680 you're going to retire. Sometimes I'm tempted to stay home 179 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:14.240 and take it easy, but I do stand up every 180 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.199 other weekend, and it invigorates me. Really, I've been very lucky. 181 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:18.879 It's true what they say. I work for free. And 182 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:20.839 only get paid for the trip to the airport. And 183 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:25.800 Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glenn ross Odinkirk told Playbill, I've 184 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.680 wanted to do this play for years. I wrote to 185 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.319 David Mammot twenty years ago and I said I have 186 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.279 two requests. One can we do an all comedy version. 187 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.240 Two can we change it from land at they're selling 188 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:36.480 the pots and pans. I never got a response. He's 189 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.639 very excited. He said, I can't effing wait, and then 190 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:41.639 smiled and said, feel free to use the word f 191 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.920 in Playbill. It's certainly in the effing play. Andy Haynes 192 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.800 was down in New Orleans. He had been there before 193 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.560 and said that time it was from Mark Norman's wedding. 194 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.439 He rented out Tippettinas. It was all comics who were 195 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.959 guess at the wedding, so everybody was there. Haines also 196 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.439 spent a year in England with a weird job. He 197 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.560 had created an animated show The Champions for the sports 198 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.279 platform bleacher Report. The show was based on the teams 199 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:07.079 and players in the European Champions League. When a bunch 200 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.160 of crypto investors bought a British soccer club, they wanted 201 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.560 a comedian to generate online content for it. Haines got 202 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:15.399 the gig, but he explains they hired me to be 203 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.480 their in house comedian. I made content for them, but 204 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.720 the team was so bad and the fans hated the owners. 205 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:22.879 Everything I made never got released. His Instagram, Brio says 206 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.560 he's a libtart, but says that's a misunderstood joke. For 207 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.240 the longest time it said Patriot as a joke, and 208 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.279 people were like, you guy, call yourself a Patriot, so 209 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.919 I changed it. I'm from Seattle. The second he leave Seattle, 210 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.200 it's the wilderness. Most of Washington is rural, conservative, gun 211 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:38.639 and all that cowboy stuff. In Seattle, I had a 212 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.120 rowdy adolescence, would go to the woods and shoot stuff. 213 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.480 We shot up a porta potty. There was a husk 214 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:45.279 of a burnt out van that we used to go shoot. 215 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.480 He left Seattle for la and staid being unemployed in 216 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:50.320 La is how cults start. Everyone's looking for spiritual guidance 217 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.440 to get their next audition. I was gonnahit, pause on 218 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:53.879 everything and go back to Seattle. I went to New 219 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.360 York on a whim and had an amazing experience. He's 220 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:01.039 got a podcast with Mike Cannon called Beautiful Boys Chevyhardcore 221 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.080 dot Com You're home for comedy News. They talked about 222 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.720 Kevin Hart's nineteen sixty six Chevy Chevelle and said it's 223 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.919 no joke. Chevy Hardcore tells us whether it's his nineteen 224 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:13.919 fifty nine corvetteor is nineteen eighty seven Buick Grand National. 225 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.279 Kevin Art seems to find the coolest cars and some 226 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.480 of the finest builders to shape them to his automotive desires. 227 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.919 Kevin sixty six Chevelle started as an original SS three 228 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.240 ninety six car. Work on the car, dubbed Darkness with 229 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:30.080 two capitals's at the end, was completed by Timeless Customs. 230 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.120 What they created was a true work of restomad art, 231 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.440 built upon an Art Morson chassis. The work involved keeping 232 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.559 the car relatively simple, but in the best kind of way. 233 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.639 Emblems were exchanged for Darkness in the same type face 234 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:44.759 as the original Chevelle, but the menacing side of Darkness 235 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:47.279 comes under the hood. The classic three ninety six was 236 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.240 replaced with an LSx four five four topped with an 237 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.039 LS nine blower. Can you tell I have no idea 238 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.679 what I'm talking about that's right. With seven pounds of boost, 239 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:56.840 the car makes six to twenty horsepower the wheels, but 240 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.559 it's capable much more. However, the Ideata was keep the 241 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.039 car drive and comfortable, makes plenty of power for cruising 242 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:05.240 the boulevard or the highway. The four Lady transmission adds 243 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.320 to the driftability. The engine bay of the Chavelle is 244 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.799 as clean as they come, with fabrication from Timeless that 245 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:13.039 truly highlights the power plant. And that is your comedy 246 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.120 news for today. See you tomorrow.