Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron' Joenni Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. It continues to be a very suspiciously slow
Speaker 1: time of the year, and as I'm looking at it,
Speaker 1: I think a big part of that is because Netflix
Speaker 1: seems to be in a gap between doing comedy specials.
Speaker 1: A lot of times they have one every week, and
Speaker 1: they seem to be taking a month off here. The
Speaker 1: last Netflix major release was Tim Dillon on April fifteenth,
Speaker 1: and we only really had two other specials other than
Speaker 1: you know, there's a YouTube special every five minutes. But
Speaker 1: Hulu had Curson on the twenty fifth and Brett Goldstein
Speaker 1: on the twenty sixth, and nobody's out really doing press
Speaker 1: looking Ahead on Amazon May sixth, so that's Tuesday, right,
Speaker 1: David Spade's Dandelion is out, Then another ten day gap
Speaker 1: Matteo Lane on Hulu on the sixteenth. Finally Netflix gets
Speaker 1: back into the game on the twentieth with Sarah Silverman
Speaker 1: hbo Is, Jerrod Carmichael on the twenty fourth, and then
Speaker 1: Mike Birbigley on Netflix on the twenty six So it's
Speaker 1: a slow month coming up here. Fortunately, Netflix gave us
Speaker 1: something to watch Today in the Mark Twain Prize for Humor.
Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien had accepted the prize on March twenty third,
Speaker 1: and they filmed it. It's funny who gets spotlighted and
Speaker 1: who doesn't. On the Netflix page, it says cast Conan O'Brien,
Speaker 1: John Mulaney, Will Ferrell, Bill Burr, Camille On Jeohnny, Paul Rudd,
Speaker 1: Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Tracy Morgan, Reggie Watts. I personally
Speaker 1: would have mentioned David Letterman, but that's just me anyway,
Speaker 1: that's out on Netflix today. Speaking of Letterman, Jay Leno
Speaker 1: was talking about Dave recently. Leno had that big interview
Speaker 1: on the Graham Benzinger podcast, and Jay told a story
Speaker 1: about being out on a motorcycle with comic Will Schreiner.
Speaker 1: They decided to drop by Letterman's house. Leno recalled, thinking, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's stop in Malibu and see Letterman. Let's just surprise
Speaker 1: him at his house. Letterman was apparently thrown by the visit.
Speaker 1: Leno says it was the most awkward thing. Dave was like, huh, okay,
Speaker 1: come on in. Leno said, We're like, oh, this was
Speaker 1: a mistake. It was just so awkward because you have
Speaker 1: nothing else in common other than comedy. Really, I'm assuming
Speaker 1: this took place in the eighties, when Leno was a
Speaker 1: frequent guest on David's show, and not in the post
Speaker 1: Tonight Show era. Benjader was curious what would it take
Speaker 1: to see Leno and Letterman reunited. Jay said, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. Dave's a quirky guy, and I don't mean
Speaker 1: that in a bad way. Believe me. If Dave wanted
Speaker 1: to do something, I would do it. But I tend
Speaker 1: to get my hand bitten when I instigate these kinds
Speaker 1: of things. Yes, you do, Jay, I can't get a
Speaker 1: sense of is Jay a really good guy or is
Speaker 1: he a bad guy? I know there's the whole cone
Speaker 1: of thing. I get it. And when NBC went to
Speaker 1: Jay and said, hey, you want eleven thirty back, he
Speaker 1: could have said no, absolutely. So there's that. But going
Speaker 1: back to the eighties, you know, Jay was the Monday
Speaker 1: guest host for the Tonight Show. Somebody offers you the
Speaker 1: Tonight Show, you're gonna say yes. There's all the stuff
Speaker 1: with his wife that I think I have a story
Speaker 1: for that. In tomorrow's script. He seems like a good dude,
Speaker 1: I don't know, never met him. Comedians don't seem to
Speaker 1: like him. The guy was on the Tonight Show for
Speaker 1: years and at the number one show. Somebody likes the guy,
Speaker 1: you know. But I do agree with Leno when he says,
Speaker 1: but I tend to get my handbitten when I instigate
Speaker 1: these kinds of things. I don't mistrust Dave. I like Dave.
Speaker 1: I think he's great. He still makes me laugh more
Speaker 1: than anyone else. The Sag After Foundations shared an Instagram
Speaker 1: video featuring Caitlin Olsen explaining improv. When you're doing improv,
Speaker 1: just listen, listen, listen, listen. You don't have to talk much,
Speaker 1: especially if you're in a scene with a bunch of
Speaker 1: people who know what they're doing. Listen, let them be funny.
Speaker 1: And when you have something to say, go ahead and
Speaker 1: go for it, and don't be afraid to fail because
Speaker 1: not everything that comes out of your mouth is going
Speaker 1: to be home run. And that's okay, it's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be. Shang Wang was on the Where We Live podcast.
Speaker 1: Shang says, as a comedian, you're not writing eight hours
Speaker 1: a day. You just have to sit down once a day.
Speaker 1: It could be ten minutes could be two hours. But
Speaker 1: the idea is make it habitual and make it a
Speaker 1: daily part of your life, just like anything else that
Speaker 1: you want to pursue. Seriously, you can't cram it all
Speaker 1: in a one day, right, so it's helpful to come
Speaker 1: back over and over to your ideas and to give
Speaker 1: yourself time to think of new things. Josh Jones spoke
Speaker 1: to The Pink News you'r home for Comedy News. Josh's
Speaker 1: new tour is called I Haven't Won the Lottery, Here's
Speaker 1: another tour. But what if he did win the lottery?
Speaker 1: Josh says, I want new paving. I've been deweeding. It's
Speaker 1: getting very boring. He currently lives in the city but
Speaker 1: would like somewhere with a garden. He doesn't do current
Speaker 1: affairs in his act because people are paying for a
Speaker 1: night out and I just want to entertain them, so
Speaker 1: I try and keep it light. I just want them
Speaker 1: to have the best night, not the best night, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I'm not abba, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good night out. Josh was picked on in school growing up,
Speaker 1: and he tells the story I remember telling my mom
Speaker 1: I was getting picked on instead of being like all right,
Speaker 1: I'll speak to their mom. My mom taught me how
Speaker 1: to uppercut properly. She was like, if you uppercut them,
Speaker 1: they lose their balance, and then while they've lost their balance,
Speaker 1: to start hitting them. So I did that and it worked.
Speaker 1: People kind of stop picking on me, because no one
Speaker 1: wants to get battered by the gay guy. I'm going
Speaker 1: to take the break here and when we come back,
Speaker 1: adults situations. If you're listening with kids, hit stop, hit
Speaker 1: a checked, be right back, okay. As I mentioned before
Speaker 1: the break, serious topic here. If children are listening, hit
Speaker 1: stop please. Russell Brand appeared in court on Friday. Russell
Speaker 1: is facing multiple charges of sexual assault, including two counts
Speaker 1: of rape. He was in court for fourteen minutes. This
Speaker 1: one month after British prosecutors had charged Brand with one
Speaker 1: count of rape, one of oral rape, two counts of
Speaker 1: sexual assaults and another of indecent assaults. Brand stood inside
Speaker 1: a plexiglass box in the courtroom, wearing a shirt opened
Speaker 1: to show his chest and holding a pair of gold
Speaker 1: rimmed sunglasses. I'm going to just refrain from editorializing there
Speaker 1: and I will just continue. Mister Brand confirmed his name,
Speaker 1: date of birth, and British address, then listened without showing
Speaker 1: any visible emotion. Brand has denied all of the charges.
Speaker 1: He was granted bail. The judge of the actor was
Speaker 1: free to go. Mister Brand said thank you and left
Speaker 1: the courthouse without speaking to reporters and jumped in a
Speaker 1: black Mercedes Benz. The judge referred the case to a
Speaker 1: higher court called a Crown Court. That hearing is scheduled
Speaker 1: for May thirtieth. Any trial might be like a year
Speaker 1: from now because of a backlog of cases in Britain's
Speaker 1: judicial system. Switching gears. Anticipating a slow news day, I
Speaker 1: asked the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group,
Speaker 1: you got any topics, guys? Dylan jumped in and floated,
Speaker 1: what was the last truly great special, meaning one that
Speaker 1: people still talk about a few years later. There hasn't
Speaker 1: been one in the last two years. Dylan floats Shane
Speaker 1: Gillis live from Austin in twenty twenty one, Tompsigora's Ballhog,
Speaker 1: Bo Burnham's Inside and Dave Chappelle's eight forty six the
Speaker 1: last great special. Now, I am an admitted comedy snob.
Speaker 1: I gotta think about that. My brain is already going
Speaker 1: back to like Chris Rock from like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Let me just google here all time comedy specials. I'm
Speaker 1: doing that and anything that I find comes from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, So that doesn't answer Dylan's question. Let me
Speaker 1: go back. I actually have my list. Let me see
Speaker 1: my Best of twenty twenty three. That year I gave
Speaker 1: number one to Gary Goleman. I don't think we're still
Speaker 1: talking about that one. Tod Barry, we're not talking about
Speaker 1: I do have Shane Gillis at three and Sigur at
Speaker 1: four and Canane at five for Best of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: the Roast of Tom Brady. We are still talking about that.
Speaker 1: That might be the answer, Dylan. I know that's not
Speaker 1: really a stand up special. I also had a tell
Speaker 1: triumph Onnie Chang David Cross a Doomian. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been a minute. If I have to pick, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pick something from twenty years ago, I
Speaker 1: think I'd have to go with maybe one of those Chappelles.
Speaker 1: It's been a minute, though, you are right now, Erin.
Speaker 1: I sent a link to Vogues twenty of the Funniest
Speaker 1: Female Comedians of All Time, and she couldn't remember if
Speaker 1: I've done this one or not. And I couldn't remember
Speaker 1: if I've done this or not, but hey, let's do it.
Speaker 1: I'm doing this cold now as I scroll down here,
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen the list, but there's a picture
Speaker 1: of Gilda Radner, and Gilda is a great choice for
Speaker 1: this list. And you know, other than the obvious, you
Speaker 1: wish Gilda were still around. Had she been part of
Speaker 1: SNL fifty, she would be up there in the pan antheon.
Speaker 1: But because she has passed, she's not visible, and I
Speaker 1: don't think she gets talked about, and she would have
Speaker 1: had a very visible year in twenty twenty five with
Speaker 1: SNL fifty. All right, I'm gonna fly through here now.
Speaker 1: The first name is Moms Maybley, which wants me to editorialize.
Speaker 1: If I don't have something to say, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to move along. I'm not really familiar with Moms Maybley's comedy.
Speaker 1: I back in the day programmed some of her records
Speaker 1: a few times, but it's just from another era, so
Speaker 1: they didn't play well on the radio, and then we
Speaker 1: stopped playing them. So I don't really have anything to
Speaker 1: say about Moms Maybley. But sure, why not Gilda. Joan Rivers.
Speaker 1: I've talked about it many times. I knew Joan worked
Speaker 1: with Joan, was in Joan's apartment, one of the greats.
Speaker 1: Definitely still talked about Wanda Sikes. I guess Margaret Show now.
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack admittedly oversteers against Margaret Show. Here's why. When
Speaker 1: I first started It's serious, a person representing Margaret Show
Speaker 1: called me an idiot for not hiring Margaret. And that's
Speaker 1: not a good way to get me to do a
Speaker 1: deal with you. That's not how to come at me.
Speaker 1: So I did not hire Margaret. And you know I've
Speaker 1: got a little buyas there. Melissa McCarthy, Okay, Sure, Tiffany Hattish.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know who else is on this
Speaker 1: list or not. That seems a little high. Jenny Slats.
Speaker 1: People really dig Jenny's slate. Sure, Patty Harrison. I'd like
Speaker 1: to think I know a lot about comedy. Maybe I don't.
Speaker 1: Vogue wrote, I don't think there's a comedian working today
Speaker 1: who makes me as consistently sick to my stomach as
Speaker 1: Patti Harrison, whether she's guest starring on I think you
Speaker 1: should leave. Getting banned from Twitter for impersonating Nila Wafer's
Speaker 1: singing nonsense songs in her stand up back or delivering
Speaker 1: a perfectly improvised line in theater camp Hey, Netflix, when
Speaker 1: is her special dropping? Leslie Jones? I think Leslie is
Speaker 1: more fun than funny, more attitude than material. Tig Nataro, Sure, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like Tig Nataro? Nicole Bayer? I hear Nicole
Speaker 1: every day as I listen back to this podcast. She
Speaker 1: voices a commercial and I hear her every day. Michelle
Speaker 1: buttell Yeah, Michelle's a lot of fun. Absolutely. Ali Wong
Speaker 1: has a couple great specials. Sarah Sherman one of my
Speaker 1: current favorites. Interesting pick on the list here, Maria Bamford. Sure,
Speaker 1: I think Maria works better in person than in clips.
Speaker 1: If Maria comes to your town, definitely go see Maria
Speaker 1: Eightye Bryant, Amber Ruffin, Catherine Cohen, let's go at Cotska
Speaker 1: one of my favorites as well. She's just squirky and fun.
Speaker 1: I like her specials a lot. And then the list
Speaker 1: abruptly ends. Okay, what do you guys think erin? Who
Speaker 1: do you think should be on the list? I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you daily Common News Facebook group erin
Speaker 1: already knows that, and we'll leave on a downer. We
Speaker 1: found out on Friday that Ruth Buzzy had passed away
Speaker 1: at age eighty eight, best known for her time on
Speaker 1: laugh In playing a matron who wields her purse. The
Speaker 1: cause was complications from Alzheimer's disease. Yikes. Oh yeah, Ruth
Speaker 1: was on Sesame Street. That's kind of how I know
Speaker 1: her from. Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, I remember Ruth.
Speaker 1: Old people like remember her on Sesame Street. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: totally forgot that was the thing, all right. She also
Speaker 1: appeared in Freaky Friday, the Real One from nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 1: the famous movie The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine. I'm not making fun of the movie. If
Speaker 1: you're of my age, you remember that movie. You know
Speaker 1: that list I just read Ruth Buzzy should be on it.
Speaker 1: And that is your comedy news for today. I'll see tomorrow.