Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media, Hello Jenny Mack On Your Daily Comedy News.
Speaker 1: John mulaney told GQ, I can really be setting my
Speaker 1: ways in some ways, but I'm very good at major transformations.
Speaker 1: At Georgetown, he joined an improv group with Nick Kroll
Speaker 1: and Mike Probiglia, but said I had erratic work habits.
Speaker 1: I was very disorganized in a sense. I was always ambitious,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't like I'm going to direct every play
Speaker 1: in high school. I wasn't all over it in any way.
Speaker 1: He got to New York at age twenty three and
Speaker 1: said I hit the ground running. It was all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this total focus and drive to do as
Speaker 1: much stand up as possible. I didn't drink alcohol anymore.
Speaker 1: I didn't take any drugs. I was just totally dedicated
Speaker 1: to one thing, kind of monastically, and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: GQ analyzed his style and they nailed it here. They wrote,
Speaker 1: He's expert at landing an audience deep into the thicket
Speaker 1: of a joke set up and then pausing just long
Speaker 1: enough to allow them to arrive at the punchline right
Speaker 1: before he does. When it works best, a single word
Speaker 1: detonates like a bomb. Seth Meyer says sense to the audience,
Speaker 1: I'm in control. I'm not particularly interested in which of
Speaker 1: these jokes you like and which you don't. No matter
Speaker 1: what happens, I'm going to be having a very good time.
Speaker 1: Jim Jefferies told review dot Com. When I moved over
Speaker 1: to America, there was this sort of myth that I
Speaker 1: was only funny because I said the C word and
Speaker 1: because of my accent. But I sold more tickets in
Speaker 1: Australia where they weren't fascinated by my accent and the slightest.
Speaker 1: So it's just good to see you can entertain people
Speaker 1: all over the world. It used to be to go
Speaker 1: to a country several times to try and break a country.
Speaker 1: When I came to America, arguably they'd only been a
Speaker 1: handful of comedians from overseas that ever broke America before that.
Speaker 1: Now you know about a whole heap of different comics
Speaker 1: from all over the world because you've seen their specials.
Speaker 1: I'm not on TikTok, so I'm a bit of dinosaur
Speaker 1: in that regard. I don't think my comedy plays out
Speaker 1: well on TikTok. I think part of the problem with
Speaker 1: TikTok is that we're seeing comedy in short form. Amen,
Speaker 1: So the long winded stories are the things that loop
Speaker 1: around in the callbacks and the shows being a show,
Speaker 1: we're sort of losing that nuance yep. In the same
Speaker 1: way that people don't listen to albums anymore, they're just
Speaker 1: listening to individual songs. They don't listen to albums as
Speaker 1: they're meant to be played out as the artists set
Speaker 1: it up to be heard. And I think that sort
Speaker 1: of happened to comedy as well. Yep. High five standing
Speaker 1: oh for me On that comment, crack dot Com asked
Speaker 1: Anthony Jelsink about being an actor. He said, I would
Speaker 1: enjoy it because I enjoy the camaraderie. Stand up's all
Speaker 1: on your own. With acting, you're working with people. I
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just not asked to do it very often,
Speaker 1: and frankly, I'm surprised I'm not asked. I'm a good
Speaker 1: looking guy. I have a very distinctive voice that I
Speaker 1: think they would use me in voice stuff. But I
Speaker 1: think at some point people will start asking me. But
Speaker 1: I'm spoiler. As a comic, I see comics who are
Speaker 1: making huge movies and I talked to them afterwards, and
Speaker 1: they're like, I lost money. If I just toured the
Speaker 1: whole time I was doing this movie, I would have
Speaker 1: done much better. It's not something I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: missing out on and I'm not that good. The interesting
Speaker 1: character is I wouldn't be able to play. I'd be thinking, Oh,
Speaker 1: someone else should be doing this, and that's a bad
Speaker 1: thing for an actor to be thinking. Cracked asked about
Speaker 1: Anthony's current hair style, Cracks observation, the older spike eer
Speaker 1: haircut seemed more in keeping with a villain. Now your
Speaker 1: hair is a little softer, not as threatening. I assume
Speaker 1: you think about how the character looks on stage. What
Speaker 1: prompted the change? Je Nic said, It's something I don't
Speaker 1: think about on stage, but it was something that I
Speaker 1: became very aware of after the last special when there
Speaker 1: was this huge debate about beard versus non beard and
Speaker 1: which is better for the character. The character seems more
Speaker 1: like a psychopath clean shaven, but I'm like, no, I
Speaker 1: like the beard. I decided to grow my hair a
Speaker 1: little bit longer on tour. I just thought, what would
Speaker 1: this do? Does this make me more of an a
Speaker 1: hole or less of an a hole? And let's be honest,
Speaker 1: I think having more of a styled haircut seems a
Speaker 1: little bit scarier. This is fascinating. It's more like we're
Speaker 1: putting on a show. Whereas the spiky haircut was easy
Speaker 1: to do. Anyone could do that. It just seemed like
Speaker 1: I'm walking out here doing this. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: gotten more famous in the past couple of years because
Speaker 1: of clips, and the clips are short. Here with longer hair,
Speaker 1: he feels it can be a little more anonymous in public.
Speaker 1: Preacher loss and has been out on the road doing
Speaker 1: the Funny as Bleep tour. And that's not me bleeping it,
Speaker 1: that's the name of the tour. Preacher said, I was
Speaker 1: very quiet, unless everybody in the class was quiet. Then
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, some people just really want attention.
Speaker 1: First off, everyone does. Let's just put that out there.
Speaker 1: No one wants to be ignored, but some people just
Speaker 1: wanted a little more. His tips for comedians get on
Speaker 1: stage immediately and just do comedy a lot. I think
Speaker 1: humor is like athleticism. Some people are born a little
Speaker 1: more than other people. Then there's some people that are
Speaker 1: just born a little funnier. But I don't care how
Speaker 1: athletic you are, you still have to learn how to
Speaker 1: shoot a basketball or dribble. You need to learn technique
Speaker 1: for comedy right every day, like it's your morning coffee.
Speaker 1: You should do it anyway for your mental health. It's
Speaker 1: not supposed to be fun. It's a job. You're not
Speaker 1: supposed to like jobs because they're working, and that's the
Speaker 1: trade off. Lawson says, I think I have the perfect
Speaker 1: amount of fame where if I go outside, there's people
Speaker 1: that recognize me. But it's not like I just want
Speaker 1: to eat with my family. I don't like when people
Speaker 1: take pictures or videos of me without my permission. I
Speaker 1: think that feels uncomfortable. It's like I never said I
Speaker 1: wanted to be recorded. As for controversial topics, Lawson says,
Speaker 1: anyone's going to get upset, but if it's a large
Speaker 1: group of people that are upset, I think it's usually
Speaker 1: because the comedian did a bad job of conveying the joke. Comedians,
Speaker 1: we're just storytellers. We're the same as you. When you
Speaker 1: go to the movies, you lose yourself for an hour
Speaker 1: and thirty minutes. You know you'd leave the theater feeling refreshed,
Speaker 1: like that was a good time. If you go to
Speaker 1: the movie theater you don't like the movie, you probably
Speaker 1: should have looked up the director. There's this narrative that
Speaker 1: you shouldn't apologize, which I think is stupid. I think
Speaker 1: there are times when the comedians should apologize and then
Speaker 1: they don't do it because they're like, no, I'm a
Speaker 1: comedi and it's like, no, actually you should apologize. But
Speaker 1: he adds, I really believe anyone could talk about anything,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you say dumb things like my bad, that
Speaker 1: was dumb. Sarah Silverman says, I don't really come from
Speaker 1: a place of fear that I'm gonna get canceled. I
Speaker 1: talk about stuff that I think is important or funny.
Speaker 1: I'm never looking upset people are offend people. Comedy is
Speaker 1: not ever green. If you're a comedian, you look at
Speaker 1: things you did ten years ago and don't cringe. You're
Speaker 1: not growing ideally, you're growing and changing and can't relate
Speaker 1: to the person you were. People get mad at me
Speaker 1: because I've apologized for things in the past. I think
Speaker 1: it's important to apologize when you're sorry and not apologize
Speaker 1: when you're not sorry. Everybody wins. Friend of the Show
Speaker 1: John Marco Sirizi is on Vulture's list of the comedians
Speaker 1: you should know and Will Know. They asked him, if
Speaker 1: you were immortalized as a cartoon character, what would your
Speaker 1: outfit be A very John Marco answer. Five inch shorts,
Speaker 1: a T shirt I got on Etsy for a high
Speaker 1: school musical production that I wasn't in that's also a
Speaker 1: little too short, a jean jacket that doesn't really make
Speaker 1: sense given the shorts, and high top nikes where one
Speaker 1: of the colors matches the color of the shirts text.
Speaker 1: Let's also throw in a thin gold Forever bracelet with
Speaker 1: a tea chirm that I got my girlfriend at a
Speaker 1: casino's tattoo convention, some Warpbey Parker glasses, and a brown
Speaker 1: leather watch, the two hands of which read Memento and Maury.
Speaker 1: Which musical nobody asked? Ideally it would be Falsetto's Company
Speaker 1: or Wild Party, just to be pretentious. Also, if I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about this as a cartoon for a wide audience,
Speaker 1: I'd probably go with fan of the Opera, even though
Speaker 1: I've never been much of an Andrew Lloyd Weberstan proudest
Speaker 1: achievement of your career so far? My jfl New Faces
Speaker 1: set is probably the only important set I've ever done
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't do over. I was at that show,
Speaker 1: he crushed. He was the best of the night. I
Speaker 1: wrote that down. I told you about it on the
Speaker 1: podcast the next day. I've told that to his face.
Speaker 1: That was a great set, he said. Generally, I found
Speaker 1: all these career milestones are fraught and stressful and imperfect.
Speaker 1: So in terms of feeling proud a panel in comparison
Speaker 1: to a new joke working, or even better, an old
Speaker 1: joke finally working. I did a pilot last year for
Speaker 1: a roast based panel show hosted by Anthony Jesselnik Interesting,
Speaker 1: and he anonymously mentioned me on his podcast the next week.
Speaker 1: I know this because I've been listening to that podcast
Speaker 1: to fall asleep to for years. I was already asleep,
Speaker 1: but my girlfriend heard it, shook me awake and was like,
Speaker 1: go back, go back now, it's pretty cool. I've been
Speaker 1: procrastlading filming an hour. Which comedian's career would you like
Speaker 1: to follow? John Mulaney, But just in terms of his
Speaker 1: personal life, his favorite worst show was getting hired to
Speaker 1: feature in a corporate gig in Santa Barbara. I think
Speaker 1: I was getting paid forty five hundred dollars to do
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes, which was hands down the most I'd
Speaker 1: ever made off a night of comedy. My mom drove
Speaker 1: me to the casino from LA and on the drive
Speaker 1: I looked at what company I was performing for. What
Speaker 1: I learned was it was less of a company and
Speaker 1: more of a union of sorts for West Coast electrical
Speaker 1: companies with a very intense ideological bent. Their newsletter had
Speaker 1: articles like has woke this Roob? And travel and COVID
Speaker 1: climate change and other lines Democrats want you to believe.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you I thought about not
Speaker 1: going through with the gig, but it would be a
Speaker 1: lie forty five hundred dollars. When I got there, my
Speaker 1: mom and I found ourselves surrounded by mostly men in
Speaker 1: their sixties thousands, all wearing full cowboy garb without looking
Speaker 1: like that ever been on a horse. So I met
Speaker 1: the other comedian, a kind and talented comic who nevertheless
Speaker 1: sold merch shirts that said who done farted? Hmm, I
Speaker 1: wonder who that was? Marco said. The comedy show started
Speaker 1: as all comedy shows should, with the singing of the
Speaker 1: national anthem. Then the auction, of course, which consisted of
Speaker 1: small guns, guns that were intended for warfare training packages,
Speaker 1: and you know, five friends to learn how to use
Speaker 1: those guns before or hopefully not after a wine tasting.
Speaker 1: Right as they were wrapping up the auction with the
Speaker 1: AK forty seven's, I looked through the playbill to ensure
Speaker 1: there wasn't going to be some kind of cross burning
Speaker 1: at the end, and that's when I saw the part
Speaker 1: with my name, which stipulated in big bold letters that
Speaker 1: the comedy portion of the evening was only possible thanks
Speaker 1: to a generous donation by Exon Mobile, you know, the
Speaker 1: evil company. I started freaking out, taking stupid comedian thoughts
Speaker 1: like well would George Carlin do? But I didn't have
Speaker 1: any cocaine, so I tried to think of a joke
Speaker 1: that in some way Abzombia the sin. So I got
Speaker 1: on stage and preceded a bomb for twenty three minutes.
Speaker 1: I wish I could say that was on purpose, despite
Speaker 1: the crowd, but it was more a mix of my
Speaker 1: lack of practice sticking to clean jokes plus second guessing
Speaker 1: jokes in the moment that I figured wouldn't play well
Speaker 1: with men old enough to have served in the Confederacy. Then,
Speaker 1: with two minutes left and no momentum to speak of,
Speaker 1: I went for it. At the time, I was closing
Speaker 1: with a joke about Titanic two, a recreation of the
Speaker 1: Titanic built by some billionaire who hopefully was on the
Speaker 1: recent submarine trip. Yikes. Normally I'd note that Titanic's voyage
Speaker 1: was much safer nowadays thanks to global warming, but this
Speaker 1: time I said it was because of the Iceberg's got
Speaker 1: a lot smaller thanks to my sponsor Exon Mobil. Wasn't
Speaker 1: a boo right away. First was just noise, a unified,
Speaker 1: confused groan, but then one old man was able to
Speaker 1: close his mouth long enough to produce a bee. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was like an Apollo level boo. It
Speaker 1: was nothing like the Apollo in more ways than one.
Speaker 1: But it was my first real boo. And whenever I
Speaker 1: have an extremely crappy gig now I try to remind
Speaker 1: myself it's worth it for the story. That is amazing,
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