Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media and there I'm Johnny Mack with you know,
Speaker 1: Today's Dalley Comedy News. I'm honest with you guys, it
Speaker 1: is a slow news day. It was like nobody announced anything. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan in the headlines on a slow news day.
Speaker 1: He was recently on We Might Be Drunk with Samuerel
Speaker 1: and Mark Norman and Jim started talking about different audiences
Speaker 1: around the world, joking that Europeans are often a bit condescending,
Speaker 1: but Canadians were always there and had the US's back,
Speaker 1: but things have changed recently, according to gaff Again, the
Speaker 1: Canadians were always like, we know, it's not you, it's
Speaker 1: your government. Now the Canadians are like, we hate you.
Speaker 1: They're furious. Jim told a story he went out to
Speaker 1: get some bourbon out of Vancouver whiskey bar. Jim explains,
Speaker 1: I like bourbon, and so I'm like, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: going to get a bourbon. They tell him, no bourbon.
Speaker 1: I go, this is a world whiskey bar and they're like, nope,
Speaker 1: we're not selling any American whiskey. And I go, so
Speaker 1: did you get rid of it? And they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's back there. We're just not selling it. Gaff again
Speaker 1: added when he returned to his hotel, which was owned
Speaker 1: by an American company, he was able to drink some
Speaker 1: bourbon there. While we're being political, Tim Dillon was on CNN.
Speaker 1: He had some advice for the Democrats, saying, you can't
Speaker 1: go to war with straight white men for four years
Speaker 1: and then ask why they didn't vote for you. That
Speaker 1: seems crazy. I've made fun of Megan Markle a lot.
Speaker 1: I can't then go, why don't you think Megan Markle's
Speaker 1: watching my special? I think you just have to pick
Speaker 1: your fights in a better way. Dylan talked about having
Speaker 1: JD Vance on his podcast. Dylan joked it was actually
Speaker 1: the goal and why I started comedy. JD. Vans I
Speaker 1: knew about him when I started out in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: and I had it all plotted out like a beautiful
Speaker 1: mind on the wall. Then he got more serious and
Speaker 1: said it was kind of fortuitous. We just have this
Speaker 1: podcast that's big and people listen to it. Trump understands
Speaker 1: the two cultural forces that I've seen in my lifetime
Speaker 1: have changed the way people behaved reality television and social media.
Speaker 1: He understands social media and using it to communicate. Now
Speaker 1: that we have phones, we're all starring in our own
Speaker 1: reality TV shows. He understands that, and he was able
Speaker 1: to utilize that understanding to connect with people in a
Speaker 1: way that Kamala didn't seem to understand. It felt like
Speaker 1: he just had the upper hand. W come Bell likes
Speaker 1: not having a boss and says, basically, nobody can fire me,
Speaker 1: so I feel free to say what I want to now.
Speaker 1: Having said that, maybe I won't get hired by anybody again.
Speaker 1: But there's two things that are important. One making sure
Speaker 1: my family eats every day and has a place to sleep,
Speaker 1: and two make you sure I'm clear about which side
Speaker 1: of history I'm on. Send your letters to w cam
Speaker 1: Al Bell, Tim Dillon, and Jim Gaffigan. Digital Spy caught
Speaker 1: up with Jimmy Carr. Jimmy said pornography is to sex
Speaker 1: with clips of comedy, or to seeing a show. You
Speaker 1: can watch something on TikTok and go no, that's not
Speaker 1: very good, but he watched it with the sound down,
Speaker 1: reading subtitles while going to the bathroom, paraphrasing, you didn't
Speaker 1: get the full effect Jimmy's comedy inspirations. I always like
Speaker 1: wordplaying clever stuff. Culture lags behind technology. VHS was a
Speaker 1: huge thing for me. In the early eighties. Would start
Speaker 1: to see tapes of Robin Williams, who'd be thin on
Speaker 1: more comitty. Suddenly he could see him live talking about
Speaker 1: his cocaine addiction, and as a kid, you'd go, who
Speaker 1: the f is this guy? Who does Jimmy Carr think
Speaker 1: is the goat of comedy? Think about it for a second.
Speaker 1: Interesting pick here, Jimmy Carr says, Chris Rock for me
Speaker 1: is the goat because if you look bigger and blacker,
Speaker 1: it all stands up. Those routines don't just stand up.
Speaker 1: They're still edgy. Now it's extraordinary. Most comedy rots. It
Speaker 1: goes back to the pot and that's great, But every
Speaker 1: now and then someone just comes along and nails it. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: what made you want to be a comic? I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people who suffer little from depressions self
Speaker 1: medicate with comedy. I was using it and decided to
Speaker 1: become a dealer. I like that, that's funny. I often
Speaker 1: think of myself like a drug dealer. You're dealing in
Speaker 1: serotonin and dopamine. You experience it most when you're in
Speaker 1: a group of other people. You're laughing together, you laugh
Speaker 1: I think thirty times more. Jimmy talked about growing up.
Speaker 1: I look back at school and everyone was hilarious. I
Speaker 1: didn't stand out as being the funny kid. I could
Speaker 1: definitely hold my own, but everyone was fun Why else
Speaker 1: would you be friends with someone if they weren't a
Speaker 1: laugh That was the currency, certainly in my home. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of mysticism around comedy, like he's just funny,
Speaker 1: he just gets up there and does it. No. When
Speaker 1: I watch Chris Rock do a special, I see one
Speaker 1: hundred jokes that work brilliantly. But what I don't see
Speaker 1: is the two thousand jokes that didn't work that got
Speaker 1: him to those that did. He had to put the
Speaker 1: work in. You don't have this in music. The Beatles
Speaker 1: aren't any less magicable because you can write down the
Speaker 1: tunes and analyze the notes. I think we should teach
Speaker 1: comedy like we teach music. A digital spy at a
Speaker 1: good follow up here, you do get musical prodigies. You
Speaker 1: could teach people to write songs, but you can't teach
Speaker 1: them to be Paul McCartney. Jimmy Carr said that's true,
Speaker 1: but he makes my point. He wasn't a covers band
Speaker 1: with his friends the Quarrymen. They were fine. Then he
Speaker 1: did ten thousand hours work in Hamburg and suddenly his
Speaker 1: facility with melody was revealed. And what joke do you
Speaker 1: wish you had written? Jimmy Carr said. Anthony Jesselnik has
Speaker 1: a routine about modern day slavery that I don't think
Speaker 1: you should print, but it's a remarkable piece of work.
Speaker 1: I'd really encourage people to check him out. Shane Gillis
Speaker 1: is everyone's discovery of the last twelve months. An extraordinary
Speaker 1: talented sketch and stand up Beth Stelling. I absolutely love
Speaker 1: and check out Neil Brennan special. Neil makes me want
Speaker 1: to be a better comic. Wow. High praise from Jimmy Carr,
Speaker 1: who's one of the top comedians out there today. Colin
Speaker 1: Jost was at Brown University. They had a panel and
Speaker 1: asked Jost about comedy, and Colin said, I hope it's
Speaker 1: something you can improve that you get better at. I
Speaker 1: hope I get funnier. I don't know. Maybe we can
Speaker 1: all agree to meet here in ten years and I
Speaker 1: can report back on whether I feel like I'm funnier
Speaker 1: than I am now. Steve Martin and Martin Short had
Speaker 1: some of the best comedy careers in history. There's some
Speaker 1: of the funniest people I've ever met, and they're still
Speaker 1: worried about Am I still funny? Am I still making
Speaker 1: good work? If you're a certain kind of person, whatever
Speaker 1: field you work in, that feeling never leaves you all right.
Speaker 1: Some quick notes. The New York Times did a It's
Speaker 1: not a profile of Theovon. They did an article about
Speaker 1: Theovon explaining to people who don't know who Theovan is,
Speaker 1: who Theovon is. I don't think THEO participated in it,
Speaker 1: but it's a lengthy piece, so THEO will be on
Speaker 1: people's rad art. Jimmy Kimmel will get a fourth season
Speaker 1: of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It is the
Speaker 1: second time kim ol will host the show in front
Speaker 1: of a live studio audience. The first two seasons of
Speaker 1: the reboot were during COVID protocols. If you missed it.
Speaker 1: Andrew Santino has a new golf podcast. It's called No
Speaker 1: Bad Lies. That's a good title. It includes encurse conversations
Speaker 1: and in studio interviews with professional golfers. Athletes, entertainers, and influencers.
Speaker 1: Santino said, I'm beyond excited to dive into all aspects
Speaker 1: of the game with no bad lies, from Live to
Speaker 1: the PGA and everything in between. There's so much happening
Speaker 1: golf right now. I can't wait to explore the sport
Speaker 1: from every with the people who love this game as
Speaker 1: much as I do. Damon Walliams is one of the
Speaker 1: latest people to accuse Robin Williams of being a joke thief.
Speaker 1: I think that's reasonably well known. Damon had been on
Speaker 1: Shannon Sharp's podcast before the recent Shannon Sharp controversy. Can
Speaker 1: google that one on your own. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go there, and said Robin Williams was a notorious thief.
Speaker 1: I ain't lying. His manager used to walk around with
Speaker 1: a check book and Robin would come off stage and
Speaker 1: a comedian be like, hey, he just took me, and
Speaker 1: he'd write him a check for seventy five dollars because
Speaker 1: he knew Robin was all stream of consciousness and he'd
Speaker 1: steal material. It was known. Comedians would go, I'm not
Speaker 1: going on because Robin's here. It happens. But I was
Speaker 1: look at comedy like this If this is not the
Speaker 1: last joke I'm ever going to tell, then I'm not
Speaker 1: going to treat it like that. Just a joke means
Speaker 1: I got to think of something else. For people to
Speaker 1: be up in arms about a joke, Really, what is
Speaker 1: the joke? Last year, Joe Rogan commented on Robin Williams
Speaker 1: and said, I think Robin wanted to kill more than
Speaker 1: he wanted to be ethical at any cost. Part of
Speaker 1: that manic sort of style is this constant need have
Speaker 1: a bit about anything that you're talking about. Ever, killing
Speaker 1: was more important. Feeling that hole inside of him was
Speaker 1: more important than anything. If you ask any of those
Speaker 1: comics were back then, there were always instances of Robin
Speaker 1: going on a talk show and doing your bit, speaking
Speaker 1: of joke thieves, stay with me. Sarah Silverman spoke to
Speaker 1: The Guardian and she tells the story. My parents were dying.
Speaker 1: I was living in their apartment and taking care of them.
Speaker 1: So when I went back to stand up, the first
Speaker 1: material I tried out was stolen from my eulogy at
Speaker 1: my dad's funeral. I thought there's funny stuff in here.
Speaker 1: In her new material, she is working through the death
Speaker 1: of her parents and explains There was one night when
Speaker 1: I hit notes for myself all over the stage. I'm
Speaker 1: a stoner, I don't know have to remember what happens next,
Speaker 1: and I was in a pretty heavy part of the
Speaker 1: show looking down on my notes. It was taking a
Speaker 1: few seconds, so I said sorry to the audience, and
Speaker 1: they all started a plodding because they thought I was
Speaker 1: overcome with emotion and apologizing for it. I probably should
Speaker 1: have just gone with it, but I was like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm not crying. That's your slow news day comedy news
Speaker 1: for today, see you tomorrow.