Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media, Heidley Ho Johnny Mack with Your Daily
Speaker 1: Comedy News. Nate Forgatzy said, when I was younger, someone
Speaker 1: said you always reminded me of Bob Newhart, and I
Speaker 1: thought about that and like, I can totally see it
Speaker 1: delivery wise, the low keenness of it all. Nate said,
Speaker 1: they meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence.
Speaker 1: But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved
Speaker 1: his albums in sitcom, so I like that. I was
Speaker 1: way more deadband at the beginning, and I didn't move
Speaker 1: around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South
Speaker 1: and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded
Speaker 1: pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So
Speaker 1: I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm getting more in my voice now. I'm still
Speaker 1: not convinced Nate is the greatest actor. But if you
Speaker 1: told me the new Heart sitcom where Bob owned the inn,
Speaker 1: if you for some reason remade that and you had
Speaker 1: Nate as the straight man in that, I could totally
Speaker 1: see him crushing in that. Kelsey Cook told Fox News Digital.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that probably helped comedy explode. The
Speaker 1: most was the pandemic. You know, everybody was inside on
Speaker 1: their phones, watching TV, watching their phone, and that became
Speaker 1: a time for comics to make as much content as
Speaker 1: you could because there was such a demand for it.
Speaker 1: I think you saw people finding their new favorite comics
Speaker 1: over the pandemic. And then once things open back up
Speaker 1: and people could start touring again, people were like, great,
Speaker 1: this person's coming into my city. I've been cooped up
Speaker 1: inside forever long. Now I want to go out and
Speaker 1: do stuff. And I think a lot of us saw
Speaker 1: a big touring boom, especially once people could go out
Speaker 1: and kind of resume normal life again. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: Initially it was hard to get an arena because everybody
Speaker 1: was booking dates and everybody was out, so some big
Speaker 1: comedians had to play smaller rooms. I think now a
Speaker 1: few years later, we're seeing it cool off a little bit.
Speaker 1: Tom Papa has talked about that on his podcast, and
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan didn't agree with him. We'll see. I think
Speaker 1: comedy is hot now, but maybe we're starting to step
Speaker 1: down from everybody playing huge places. Russell Peters talked to
Speaker 1: the LA Daily News about social media elevating comedians at
Speaker 1: a rapid piece. This one comes up a lot, Russell said,
Speaker 1: it's a double It's great for the kids that get
Speaker 1: to be seen sooner than they normally would have. The
Speaker 1: bad part is they're not really getting to put the
Speaker 1: time in, so they don't have the chops they need
Speaker 1: when it happens. There's definitely an incubation period that needs
Speaker 1: to happen. Think of comedy like a baby. Each year
Speaker 1: is a month in baby years, and in about the
Speaker 1: nine to ten year mark, you should be comfortable with
Speaker 1: who you are and what you're doing and have a
Speaker 1: much more stable way of navigating through this game. When
Speaker 1: these kids come in after a year or two because
Speaker 1: they've been successful because of popular clips on TikTok and Instagram, congrats,
Speaker 1: but that's not sustainable. The News said you were one
Speaker 1: of the first comedians to go viral on YouTube early
Speaker 1: in the platforms start. This must be a young ling
Speaker 1: who asked this question. I saw a lot of comedians
Speaker 1: there for the first time, including George Carlin. I know
Speaker 1: you met him and worked well them. What was that like?
Speaker 1: Russell said, he was my everything. I met him in
Speaker 1: ninety two and I've only done stand up three years.
Speaker 1: At this time. At the end of the meeting, I said, hey, George,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll work together, and he said, you never know
Speaker 1: a kid, it's crazy business. And there we were working
Speaker 1: together ten months before he passed away. Was a great
Speaker 1: way to book end that story. He was extremely nice
Speaker 1: and so gracious with his time. He gave me some
Speaker 1: real good advice. He could have pulled rank or done
Speaker 1: anything he wanted to, but he didn't. From when I
Speaker 1: hear from everybody else who met him knew him, he
Speaker 1: was always that guy. That's probably why he stayed in
Speaker 1: stand up and avoided the Hollywood we're at race to.
Speaker 1: People who were always survive in the long run are
Speaker 1: the ones that keep it real. George was able to
Speaker 1: cut through the bs. He was always on the side
Speaker 1: of John Q every man. That's something that politicians can't
Speaker 1: do because they may try to make it sound like
Speaker 1: they're there for the people, but really they're there for themselves.
Speaker 1: George was definitely not. He was literally there for us.
Speaker 1: He was our voice. Chappelle is great at doing a
Speaker 1: similar thing, but Chappelle is also skewed. You know which
Speaker 1: side he's on. George is definitely anti establishment. NPR and
Speaker 1: talked to Ronnie Chang about death and how his feelings
Speaker 1: about death have changed over time. Ronnie said, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's become more real. It used to be this kind
Speaker 1: of conceptual, abstract, right, and then it's become very real
Speaker 1: the last couple of years seeing it up close it
Speaker 1: becoming more real was kind of frightening. I was studying
Speaker 1: Buddhism recently, and there was this very interesting concept that
Speaker 1: I'm going to butcher because I'm gonna give you the
Speaker 1: ciff Notes version of it in like five seconds. But
Speaker 1: the idea was something like, we're a different person in
Speaker 1: every moment anyway. Our thoughts are different, our cellular makeup
Speaker 1: is different in every second moment, meaning we're different people
Speaker 1: in every second of every moment anyway. So the concept
Speaker 1: of me doesn't really exist because I'm constantly changing anyway,
Speaker 1: and so when I die, it doesn't matter because I
Speaker 1: never really existed. That's kind of like the Buddhist dancer,
Speaker 1: one of the Buddhist dancers to that. In Sebastian Man
Speaker 1: of Scalgoes reason special is at me. He wore a tucks.
Speaker 1: The Minneapolis Star Tribune asked Sebastian what happened to the
Speaker 1: day is when standard comics dressed up. Sebastian said, I
Speaker 1: grew up in the eighties looking at the showmanship of
Speaker 1: it all, Eddie Murphy with that full leather suit or Prince. Today,
Speaker 1: the guy on stage could be a guy in the crowd.
Speaker 1: He can't distinguish the two. I try to pay homage
Speaker 1: to the rat pack in the sixties. He didn't see
Speaker 1: a guy gambling in Vegas wearing flip flops in a swimsuit.
Speaker 1: You dressed up, and I hope that comes back. Sebastian
Speaker 1: talked about the physicality of his act. I'm very conscious
Speaker 1: of the way I'm moving proud across the stage. People
Speaker 1: today have no attention span, so you have to be
Speaker 1: active out there. I need room to run around. Clubs
Speaker 1: are the best place to do comedy. But when I
Speaker 1: do that, I often look at the stage and think, geez,
Speaker 1: that's all the space they're giving me. I've always expressed
Speaker 1: myself through body language. Even as a kid at the
Speaker 1: dinner table, I'd stand up to ask someone to pass
Speaker 1: me in the mash potatoes. I don't see a lot
Speaker 1: of other commit using their body this way. Brian Reagan does,
Speaker 1: but I think other comics want to look cool, cool
Speaker 1: us to go out the window. We're not musicians. Philippea
Speaker 1: Sparza talked about life on the road and said, it's
Speaker 1: a young comic. You're like a baby out in this world,
Speaker 1: you know. But it's different from being a singer, actor
Speaker 1: or a Broadway performer. When you perform as a comedian
Speaker 1: in a small town, you're usually there for five days,
Speaker 1: two or three hundred people see you every night, so
Speaker 1: you're pretty famous in that town. For that week. Everything's
Speaker 1: new and exciting. I remember being on the road in
Speaker 1: al Paso and Paul Rodriguez was headlining somewhere nearby. He
Speaker 1: was doing a corporate gig or something like that where
Speaker 1: he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we're
Speaker 1: performing at a regular club where they're paying us chicos tacos.
Speaker 1: Paul Rodriguez kidnapped us. Bro He kidnapped us and took
Speaker 1: us to Jures. He didn't even ask if we had
Speaker 1: passports to grab. One random guy said a man, you
Speaker 1: want to go to Juarez and nev tacos. The guy said,
Speaker 1: are you Paul Rodriguez? Oh yeah, let's all go. So
Speaker 1: Paul Rodriguez made me and the other comedians go in
Speaker 1: a van. He had picked up two girls and he
Speaker 1: took those two girls and us to Juarez def Tagos.
Speaker 1: When we got to the border, though, there were already
Speaker 1: too many people in the van and nobody had luggage,
Speaker 1: and of course we're only there for about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. The border patrol us over and they
Speaker 1: were searching us and stuff, and they were just busting
Speaker 1: our chops. They wanted autographs and photos. And there's a
Speaker 1: picture of us, you can look it up. It's Palward, Vegus,
Speaker 1: Gabriel I Glacias, Armando Cossios and me in front of
Speaker 1: the border with our hands on the hood. I remember
Speaker 1: when we made it back and he was changing his clothes.
Speaker 1: Gaby Glacias and I were still in the room. He
Speaker 1: never told us to get out, so he finally closed
Speaker 1: the door on us. Our friend was standing outside waiting
Speaker 1: for us and said, bro, I thought you guys were
Speaker 1: going to go with the shower with a pall. Riser
Speaker 1: described his act to the oc registered and said, let's
Speaker 1: just say on the opposite of circ dosilat, no jumping,
Speaker 1: no acrobatics, no singing or dancing, nothing out of the ordinary,
Speaker 1: just straight up comedy. I do nothing out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1: People have seen comedians before. I have a good filter system.
Speaker 1: I sorted out what makes me laugh in private and
Speaker 1: what I want to share. And I've always avoided politics
Speaker 1: or social commentary. It's not the way my brain works.
Speaker 1: Some are good at poking sticks and the sacred cows.
Speaker 1: That's not my personality. I'm not smart enough to make
Speaker 1: things up. I tell people what happens in my house
Speaker 1: stuff that happens at everyone else's house. We look at
Speaker 1: people as friends. People enjoy knowing they're not alone. I
Speaker 1: talk about my life, my marriage. It's all very cathartic.
Speaker 1: I tell people about an argument with my wife. I
Speaker 1: convent and hope the audience my side. How does he
Speaker 1: dress on stage? I dress on stage the way I
Speaker 1: dress in life. Jean's rolled up at the hem, he says.
Speaker 1: I like to cut out as many decisions as possible. Paul,
Speaker 1: you're going to retire. Sometimes I'm tempted to stay home
Speaker 1: and take it easy, but I do stand up every
Speaker 1: other weekend, and it invigorates me. Really, I've been very lucky.
Speaker 1: It's true what they say. I work for free. And
Speaker 1: only get paid for the trip to the airport. And
Speaker 1: Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glenn ross Odinkirk told Playbill, I've
Speaker 1: wanted to do this play for years. I wrote to
Speaker 1: David Mammot twenty years ago and I said I have
Speaker 1: two requests. One can we do an all comedy version.
Speaker 1: Two can we change it from land at they're selling
Speaker 1: the pots and pans. I never got a response. He's
Speaker 1: very excited. He said, I can't effing wait, and then
Speaker 1: smiled and said, feel free to use the word f
Speaker 1: in Playbill. It's certainly in the effing play. Andy Haynes
Speaker 1: was down in New Orleans. He had been there before
Speaker 1: and said that time it was from Mark Norman's wedding.
Speaker 1: He rented out Tippettinas. It was all comics who were
Speaker 1: guess at the wedding, so everybody was there. Haines also
Speaker 1: spent a year in England with a weird job. He
Speaker 1: had created an animated show The Champions for the sports
Speaker 1: platform bleacher Report. The show was based on the teams
Speaker 1: and players in the European Champions League. When a bunch
Speaker 1: of crypto investors bought a British soccer club, they wanted
Speaker 1: a comedian to generate online content for it. Haines got
Speaker 1: the gig, but he explains they hired me to be
Speaker 1: their in house comedian. I made content for them, but
Speaker 1: the team was so bad and the fans hated the owners.
Speaker 1: Everything I made never got released. His Instagram, Brio says
Speaker 1: he's a libtart, but says that's a misunderstood joke. For
Speaker 1: the longest time it said Patriot as a joke, and
Speaker 1: people were like, you guy, call yourself a Patriot, so
Speaker 1: I changed it. I'm from Seattle. The second he leave Seattle,
Speaker 1: it's the wilderness. Most of Washington is rural, conservative, gun
Speaker 1: and all that cowboy stuff. In Seattle, I had a
Speaker 1: rowdy adolescence, would go to the woods and shoot stuff.
Speaker 1: We shot up a porta potty. There was a husk
Speaker 1: of a burnt out van that we used to go shoot.
Speaker 1: He left Seattle for la and staid being unemployed in
Speaker 1: La is how cults start. Everyone's looking for spiritual guidance
Speaker 1: to get their next audition. I was gonnahit, pause on
Speaker 1: everything and go back to Seattle. I went to New
Speaker 1: York on a whim and had an amazing experience. He's
Speaker 1: got a podcast with Mike Cannon called Beautiful Boys Chevyhardcore
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Speaker 1: What they created was a true work of restomad art,
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Speaker 1: news for today. See you tomorrow.