Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. For some reason, the Tribeca Festival locked Jim
Speaker 1: Gaffigan and Michael ian Black in a room together to
Speaker 1: talk to the audience about parenting. Okay, Michael was curious
Speaker 1: how Jim's perception of being a father has changed over time.
Speaker 1: Gaffigan said, I would say twenty years ago, I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a twenty one year old, but I was
Speaker 1: much more of the view that I'm kind of befuddled
Speaker 1: by parenting and I'm not equipped for it. And my
Speaker 1: viewpoint now is that children are evil. I joke around
Speaker 1: and say parenting is the most important thing I'll fell out,
Speaker 1: and there is something to that. But I think if
Speaker 1: human beings remembered how difficult and complicated and impossible teenagers are,
Speaker 1: the species would cease to exist. I think we forget
Speaker 1: that parenting is similar to the entertainment industry. Wait, by that,
Speaker 1: does he mean that, like, if you help somebody around
Speaker 1: their career, you stop calling them back. Does Jim not
Speaker 1: call his kids back? Is that what Jim is saying there,
Speaker 1: that as twenty years goes by, he doesn't call back people. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I digress there you could figure it out between the lines.
Speaker 1: Jim said, I think that we forget that parenting is
Speaker 1: similar to the entertainment industry, filled with enormous amounts of
Speaker 1: humiliation and you're biting your tongue a lot. When kids
Speaker 1: are younger, there's a cuteness to it, and when your
Speaker 1: kids are teenagers, they're not conscious of it, but there's
Speaker 1: a cruelty that you're exposed to. The Houston Press wrote
Speaker 1: about Matt Rice's crowd work. Rice said, there's just something
Speaker 1: kind of unique. It's either unique or not language snob
Speaker 1: and special to my show that I just do for fun.
Speaker 1: On top of the prepared material. I've been so lucky
Speaker 1: it'd be so many people's introduction a comedy, view the
Speaker 1: success I've out online and the people who have found it.
Speaker 1: But it's easy for people to think that's all it is.
Speaker 1: But there's so much work that goes into the preparation
Speaker 1: and the crafting of material, and they should in no
Speaker 1: way expect that from every comedian, honestly, not even myself.
Speaker 1: I don't force situations. I can't guarantee a certain amount
Speaker 1: of the show will be crowd work, but it is
Speaker 1: something I personally like to do. The sponsoredaity of it
Speaker 1: makes it new and re freshing to me. That does
Speaker 1: rife find time to write new material, he said, that's
Speaker 1: the hardest part, especially over the last year and a half.
Speaker 1: We're doing forty to almost fifty shows a month, sometimes NonStop.
Speaker 1: You have to find some time for your life. When
Speaker 1: life happens, that's when material happens. But I don't really
Speaker 1: have time to sit at a desk for six hours
Speaker 1: a day and go, hmm, pin to Pat, how do
Speaker 1: I read a joke about this? Let's write a joke, premise,
Speaker 1: set up, punchline. That's not my creative style. Things happen,
Speaker 1: something will happen in my life that sparks humor in me,
Speaker 1: makes me laugh. Then I think, now we're onto something,
Speaker 1: We've got the foundation of something, and now I can
Speaker 1: take pen and paper to etch this out. My brain
Speaker 1: has locked on the almost fifty shows a month, all right,
Speaker 1: So a typical month has say thirty days. Let's assume
Speaker 1: he takes one day off a week, so those are
Speaker 1: six day weeks, so that would be twenty six days
Speaker 1: of work. So is he doing two a days Friday Saturday?
Speaker 1: So I could do the math here, right, So if
Speaker 1: there's twenty six days, and then if you did two
Speaker 1: shows on the Friday, that'd be four more, so it'd
Speaker 1: be thirty And if you did two shows on Saturday,
Speaker 1: that'd be thirty four. If you did two shows on
Speaker 1: the Thursday, thirty eight. I can get to forty. I
Speaker 1: can't get to fifty. I'm sorry, Matt Rife. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask Chatchpt to help me out here. Let me look
Speaker 1: at Matt Riffe's actual touring schedule and see what I
Speaker 1: come up with. Sorry, I am digressing here, but my
Speaker 1: brain is totally locked on this. Does Matt Rife not
Speaker 1: have a website? Matt Rife Official Shows here? We go? Okay,
Speaker 1: So he's got a show June twenty first in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: There's a wait list. There are tickets available for June
Speaker 1: twenty second, there's one show. Then July fifth in Hawaii
Speaker 1: there's one show and tickets still available. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this. I don't know how you get
Speaker 1: to fifty. Let me ask chat Shept to help me out.
Speaker 1: I have typed in. Comedian Matt Rife says he plays
Speaker 1: forty shows a month. What would a schedule like that
Speaker 1: look like For a typical comedian, Chat says, forty shows
Speaker 1: a month is an ambitious schedule that would involve a
Speaker 1: high level of travel and consistent performance. Here's an example
Speaker 1: of what it might look like. If Riife does forty
Speaker 1: shows month, that averages out to ten shows per week.
Speaker 1: That would mean two to three shows per day for
Speaker 1: three to four days a week. Here's a sample itinerary. Again,
Speaker 1: this is all made up by the AI, but I'm
Speaker 1: obsessed here. Monday would be a travel day and then
Speaker 1: a show at seven and nine thirty. Tuesday you do
Speaker 1: shows at seven and nine thirty, then travel to the
Speaker 1: next city. Wednesday do seven and nine thirty, have some
Speaker 1: free time, get up. Thursday, travel to the next city,
Speaker 1: do two shows, then do two shows on Friday and
Speaker 1: maybe a third show at eleven thirty pm on the Friday.
Speaker 1: Also three shows on Saturday and then a show on
Speaker 1: Sunday and then travel. So that's no days off. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. That seems a little high. But I'm
Speaker 1: not a touring comedian. I'm an idiot in the basement
Speaker 1: with a podcast. I digress. Let's get back to it, right,
Speaker 1: said I. Forget every single day that I have the
Speaker 1: recognizability I have Now, I'll wake up and think no
Speaker 1: one knows me at all, thinking I'm right back where
Speaker 1: I was five years ago. I can't go at any
Speaker 1: restaurant or store without someone giving me a compment or
Speaker 1: giving thanks to the videos I post online from the
Speaker 1: laugh at It's very surreal, man. I'm very lucky in
Speaker 1: I'm very blessed for people to find what I do
Speaker 1: funny and find me at whatever time they need to
Speaker 1: find me in their life. It's a very giving job.
Speaker 1: Brad Williams told Macon dot com he started making jokes
Speaker 1: as a defense mechanism, realizing he could never be the quarterback,
Speaker 1: but I could be the funny guy. At age nineteen,
Speaker 1: and Brad was brought on stage by Carlos Mencia after
Speaker 1: Carlos made a joke about people with dwarfism. Mencia had
Speaker 1: noticed that most of the crowd laugh with the people
Speaker 1: sitting near Brad didn't laugh, and then he saw Williams.
Speaker 1: Mencia wanted to ask him questions. Brad answered questions honestly,
Speaker 1: not meaning to be funny, but the crowd laughed. He
Speaker 1: asked me what I did for a living at the time,
Speaker 1: and Williams said, not a joke. I just said, I
Speaker 1: work at Disneyland, and I heard some people chuckle and
Speaker 1: I said, shut up, I'm not one of the seven,
Speaker 1: and that made them laugh again. That's when I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe this comedy thing could be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: There's no greater compliment than someone who comes in is
Speaker 1: kind of unfamiliar with the work and then enjoys it.
Speaker 1: Zanagar got a big profile in The New York Times.
Speaker 1: In it, she shared that I have a complicated relationship
Speaker 1: with self care. If you're a South Asian woman, you're
Speaker 1: taught that self care is be ye, it's selfish. If
Speaker 1: you want to look good, why you're already married, It's
Speaker 1: about your kids. Now. As her entertainment career took off,
Speaker 1: she grew motivated to take better care of her appearance
Speaker 1: and said it's not helping anybody for me to stand
Speaker 1: up on stage and not look put together. It's just distracting.
Speaker 1: Kevin Pollack spoke to the Pitch k C. Kevin says
Speaker 1: he doesn't get nervous about anything. Yeah, it might be
Speaker 1: signs of a sociopath, but nothing's ever made me nervous.
Speaker 1: Including sitting on Johnny Carson's couch the televised one. Ever
Speaker 1: since I was ten years old and started being a
Speaker 1: natural born ham in front of an audience, I've always
Speaker 1: felt excited. It's like Christmas Morning. Kevin's going to be
Speaker 1: in Tulsa King. He said, yeah. Drops in September, I'm
Speaker 1: a new series regular. The next couple of seasons came
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and I was shocked at how much
Speaker 1: fun it was. Sometimes they make it fiscally irresponsible to
Speaker 1: stay on the couch and it doesn't really matter if
Speaker 1: it's quote unquote fun. But every now and then it's
Speaker 1: incredibly fun, and then this ridiculous bonus. And that's what
Speaker 1: Tulsa King has been. That's a good show. Jennif Fisher
Speaker 1: told The Fly on the Wall podcast that it was
Speaker 1: Molly shann And who changed her life. She said, I'm
Speaker 1: a huge SNL nerd. The greatest part about being on
Speaker 1: the Office and being on NBC was that I got
Speaker 1: to breathe the same air as SNL people. I was
Speaker 1: a total groupie, Fisher explained. Before being cast as Pam
Speaker 1: on the Office, she worked as a typist. She'd attend
Speaker 1: TV critics Association events. As a transcriber, she heard about
Speaker 1: an upcoming event dedicated to SNL and said, I wanted
Speaker 1: it more than my little new heart in La could stand.
Speaker 1: I started pretending like I didn't feel good because I
Speaker 1: was going to make an excuse that I was sick
Speaker 1: so I could get off work on time, and then
Speaker 1: sneak into this party. She sneaks in. I can't even
Speaker 1: tell you. It was amazing Norm MacDonald. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: him in the flesh. I can't My mind has blown.
Speaker 1: Then I see Molly Shannon. I think I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say hi to Molly Shannon. She looked
Speaker 1: at me, took me by the shoulders, looked me deep
Speaker 1: in the eyes, and said, don't give up. Whatever you do,
Speaker 1: don't give up. It took me ten years to get
Speaker 1: on SNL, and my best advice to you is just no,
Speaker 1: it'll hop and eventually if you stick with it. Sticking
Speaker 1: Office Ish Donald Gleeson is the lead in the paper,
Speaker 1: which is the office spin off of Sorts. Gleason hopes
Speaker 1: people will find a reason to love his character. He
Speaker 1: told people, I don't think my character is like Michael
Speaker 1: Scott at all. I think if you're trying to compete
Speaker 1: with what Steve did, with what Ricky Gervais did, I
Speaker 1: think that'd be a massive mistake. We made a whole
Speaker 1: new character and it's a whole new sort of setup.
Speaker 1: But I hope people will find a reason to love
Speaker 1: him as well, just in a different way than they
Speaker 1: did the guys before and long the heads of the
Speaker 1: Fall the Columbus Comedy Festival, They've got a pretty decent lineup.
Speaker 1: Heear September fourth through the seventh. This year's festival features
Speaker 1: Polly Shore, The Second City, Sam Talent, Mo Welch, and
Speaker 1: some others. The lineup will include a mix of stand
Speaker 1: up comedy, improv, sketch comedy, live podcast recording, variety, slash,
Speaker 1: alternative shows, game shows, industry mixers, and more. Several fan
Speaker 1: favorite shows that were turned including Female af and All
Speaker 1: Woman stand Up Lineup, Drunk power Point, You Can Figure
Speaker 1: Out What That Is? And Chicago Showcase five Chicago Comedians
Speaker 1: hosted by viral sensation Chad the Bird. I'm not familiar
Speaker 1: with Chad the Bird. Back to Google. Chaddbird dot Com
Speaker 1: luckily has a link that says what's a Chad Bird?
Speaker 1: Chad The Bird has been Chicago's laziest journalist and only
Speaker 1: avian op ed columnists for fifteen years until I got
Speaker 1: drunk and joined TikTok when viral traveling get up early.
Speaker 1: He's even got a podcast, The Bird Cast. I'll have
Speaker 1: to check that out, all right, cool, I'm going to
Speaker 1: check out the May tenth episode called We're Not going
Speaker 1: to Talk about Star Wars. The description is in which
Speaker 1: I discuss new details that have emerged about the birthplace
Speaker 1: of Plato and totally not Star Wars. I'm in now
Speaker 1: in the next episode is about Pinball City. This is
Speaker 1: right up my alley. All right, that's your comedy news
Speaker 1: for today. See tomorrow.