Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media. If you host a podcast seven days
Speaker 1: a week and you can't hear yourself, the answer might
Speaker 1: be maybe you should plug the headphones in Hello, I'm
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Hassan Minhaj's bubblicist.
Speaker 1: You get a raise for the wax job a new
Speaker 1: cover story in Esquire magazine. Minaj confirmed to Esquire that, yep,
Speaker 1: the daily show job was his. Hassan says, we were
Speaker 1: in talks and I had the gig, and we were
Speaker 1: pretty much good to go. Then there was that infamous
Speaker 1: profile of Hassan and The New Yorker that fact checked
Speaker 1: some of his jokes. It was revealed that Hassan Minhaj
Speaker 1: had embellished several stories for stand up as and because
Speaker 1: of that, no daily show for you, he said, that's
Speaker 1: part of show biz. Esquire says. In the aftermath of
Speaker 1: the story, Hassan minhajh spoke with other comedians were friends
Speaker 1: and mentors. Mike bur Bigley and Rama Yusef reached out,
Speaker 1: so did John mulaney and John Stewart. He spent hours
Speaker 1: on the phone with them. Hassan says, I remember John
Speaker 1: Stewart called and he said, why the f are they
Speaker 1: doing this and who does this benefit? Well benefits John Stewart,
Speaker 1: He's back on Mondays. It was painful, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. It was the first time I saw the speed
Speaker 1: velocity of the Internet and how quickly a story can
Speaker 1: take off. That part of it was new to me
Speaker 1: and disorienting. The most painful thing is my wife and parents,
Speaker 1: to see them hurt, to see them engage with so
Speaker 1: I'm reading this on the internet. That's so painful. I'm
Speaker 1: the eldest. I feel really, really sad that I let
Speaker 1: my parents down. I'm very lucky they got to see
Speaker 1: many beautiful highs of my career. Watching them experience a
Speaker 1: painful moment and embarrassing moment in your career, I wish
Speaker 1: I didn't put them through that, And that's the tough part.
Speaker 1: After the Big kerfluffle, Hassan told Variety, all my stand
Speaker 1: up stories are based on events that happened to me.
Speaker 1: I use the tools of stand up comedy hyperbole, changing
Speaker 1: names and locations, and compressing timelines to tell entertaining stories.
Speaker 1: That's inherent to the art form. You wouldn't go to
Speaker 1: a haunted house and say, why are these people lying
Speaker 1: to me? The point is the ride stand up is
Speaker 1: the same. You know, all that is really fair. But
Speaker 1: I also I'll understand why the Daily Show was like, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't do this. At the time Hassan spoke to
Speaker 1: Ronnie Chang Ching's reaction, I didn't think it was as
Speaker 1: serious as it was, and in some ways I still
Speaker 1: don't think it's so serious as it was. The cultural
Speaker 1: gatekeepers loved him. I found it surprising that the cultural
Speaker 1: gatekeepers would turn on him so quickly and not give
Speaker 1: him the benefit of the doubt. Nikki Glazer told Indy
Speaker 1: Wire popping down on the couch after that set, the
Speaker 1: Brady Roast was maybe the greatest feeling I'll ever have
Speaker 1: in my life, the amount of relief of nailing it
Speaker 1: when it's live, when you're on your period and you
Speaker 1: thought it ended, but it just started again right before
Speaker 1: you walked on stage. And there were no tampons in
Speaker 1: the key of form, so you had to use a
Speaker 1: folded up napkin and make yourself a pad which was
Speaker 1: only being hung in plaze by a tiny strip of
Speaker 1: spandex on your thong that could fall out at any second.
Speaker 1: There were so many things that could have gone wrong
Speaker 1: on live TV in that moment. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'll ever have a moment in my career like that again.
Speaker 1: And I'm totally okay if I don't, because I felt
Speaker 1: it once and that was enough. The Daily Mail spoke
Speaker 1: to Matt friend. Friend says, while studying at NYU, he
Speaker 1: took any chance he could get to immerse himself in
Speaker 1: the world of comedy. Matt says, I was very obsessed
Speaker 1: and focused. It became my extracurricular activity. I'd go to
Speaker 1: class and I I'd go an open mic, and I
Speaker 1: was getting a name for myself. I was getting paid
Speaker 1: spots in the comedy club while I was still in school,
Speaker 1: and I was feeling the momentum build. And then the
Speaker 1: pandemic hit. I'm sitting in home with my parents and
Speaker 1: my sister, and I was like, what do I do?
Speaker 1: He created a mini late night talk show he called Quarantine.
Speaker 1: He produced more than fifty episodes of the sketch Show.
Speaker 1: He wrote a topical monologue and conducted interviews. He did Now,
Speaker 1: I don't claim to know everything, Okay, I really don't,
Speaker 1: but I've been hosting this particular podcast since twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: pre pandemic. And believe me, during the pandemic, I was
Speaker 1: looking for things to talk about. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: like everybody was on tour. It's not like any of
Speaker 1: us were leaving the house every single day. I minimum
Speaker 1: prep will google the word comedy, and I will google
Speaker 1: the word comedian. I don't recall ever hearing one thing
Speaker 1: until just now about quarantine. Really, this exists. I gotta
Speaker 1: google this, Okay, it exists. One video from four years ago,
Speaker 1: Quarantine with Matt Friends. He's in two premiere has six
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven views. That's not a lot anyway.
Speaker 1: He produced more than fifty episodes of the Sketch Show.
Speaker 1: He wrote a topic called monologue, and conducted interviews. Really,
Speaker 1: but it was pivoting the social media that really changes
Speaker 1: his life. During the pandemic, Jimmy Kimmel started talking about
Speaker 1: Friends Impressions, which triggered a wave of media interest, including
Speaker 1: getting a spot on Hoda and Jenna. Matt says they
Speaker 1: did a bit with them, and then all these media
Speaker 1: appearances started to happen, and my following was starting to build.
Speaker 1: As for working on the Impressions, he says, it just
Speaker 1: kind of happens. I watch a lot of the movies,
Speaker 1: I read a lot of the books, I watch a
Speaker 1: lot of shows. I'm very up to date with what's
Speaker 1: happening in pop culture and politics. And as a result
Speaker 1: of that, I just kind of hear the voices of
Speaker 1: the character and then I start doing it. I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you it's a process. I don't sit down in practice.
Speaker 1: It just starts. It just sort of happens. When Howard
Speaker 1: Stern got wind of the impression he had friend on
Speaker 1: his show, yeah, I mean, I guess my opinion is
Speaker 1: coming true here right. Howard is okay? But like Howard
Speaker 1: hasn't been relevant in twenty years. Like yeah, and we
Speaker 1: all do, Jimmy Stuart, we all do Ronald Reagan. So
Speaker 1: let me move on Cracked. Talk to Jay Farrow. He
Speaker 1: does some impressions. I personally, you may disagree. I think
Speaker 1: Jay Farrow's impressions are way better than mad friends. Jay
Speaker 1: Farrow said, I remember the first time I made a
Speaker 1: crowd laugh. I was five years old. I pressed through
Speaker 1: security to get to my pastor. He had security like
Speaker 1: the club. I just pushed. I don't know how I
Speaker 1: did it. I know how I was allowed to do it.
Speaker 1: I pushed through everybody. They said, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 1: A little five year old and I'm talking to him
Speaker 1: and he asked me, hey, man, can you fight? And
Speaker 1: I'm like yeah, I'm like Muhammad Ali, you want to
Speaker 1: see and everybody starts laughing. I would always say slick
Speaker 1: stuff as a kid. Uncle Patrick he would pay attention.
Speaker 1: He was keen to it. I was really shy around
Speaker 1: my parents. Everybody else knew, but they didn't because I
Speaker 1: was shy around them. My parents are hilarious. They're really funny.
Speaker 1: So my measure of comedy will always come from them.
Speaker 1: Are they laughing even when they come to a show
Speaker 1: or something. I don't give a damn about anybody else
Speaker 1: in the room. I'm looking at them. My first impression
Speaker 1: was Gilbert Godfried. There was this thing called the Virginia
Speaker 1: Idol Talent Search where I got up at a comedy
Speaker 1: club three hundred people. I got fifth place. The only
Speaker 1: people in front of me were four singers. I'm good
Speaker 1: with that. I'm not going to beat Beyonce. I was
Speaker 1: sixteen years old. To be that young and get that
Speaker 1: was a boost of confidence. Other impressions, he says, will
Speaker 1: Smith was one at first, but then a lot of
Speaker 1: mini mes were born. They started doing him. People have
Speaker 1: it down like seventy five percent, but they're not one hundred.
Speaker 1: Will Smith finally commented on the video I did, and
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, next time I got to do
Speaker 1: some ADR, I'm definitely calling you Shannon Sharp. He didn't
Speaker 1: like it at first, then I refine it. Now he
Speaker 1: likes it. Looking back at it. It wasn't as good
Speaker 1: as it is now. When I first did it, it was
Speaker 1: like I was mocking him and not really doing the impression.
Speaker 1: Once I dialed into it, it became one of the
Speaker 1: good ones. And then Kanye, but you know that doesn't
Speaker 1: count because he just has a problem with life. And
Speaker 1: he talked about Saturday Night Live because I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this, SNL's turning fifty. We were going
Speaker 1: to talk about SNL every day for the next nine months.
Speaker 1: He said, come on, man, it's SNL. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm getting old, but I feel good to be part
Speaker 1: of such a prestige institution. You're not going to get
Speaker 1: higher than that. As far as sketch comedy goes, it's
Speaker 1: literally the NFL of sketch comedy. I feel good to
Speaker 1: be part of that history and actually be invited back
Speaker 1: for the fiftieth. You know, everybody I can get the
Speaker 1: invite really interesting. I wonder who didn't get the invite,
Speaker 1: So the fact that I got sent three of them,
Speaker 1: I thought one was spam. Then I'd show up, but
Speaker 1: it would just be a check. I won't talk about
Speaker 1: the SNL premiere tomorrow. I had to record this one
Speaker 1: rather early to accommodate my schedule. Because I recorded a
Speaker 1: few episodes early to accommodate for said schedule. I haven't
Speaker 1: had a chance to tell you about Ellen DeGeneres a
Speaker 1: special which I watched. I like it. I've added it
Speaker 1: to my list of things that I will mention at
Speaker 1: the end of the year when I do an episode
Speaker 1: or two of best specials of the year. It's not
Speaker 1: in the top group. My takeaway is twofold. I like
Speaker 1: Ellen's stand up comedy. Some of you are going to
Speaker 1: throw your phone through the window as I remind you
Speaker 1: for the million time that I used to program serious
Speaker 1: XM comedy and I currently program the comedy on the
Speaker 1: Live one app. By the way, sidebar, I should probably
Speaker 1: remember to promote the weekly comedy thing. It is a
Speaker 1: weekly show I host on the Live one app, So
Speaker 1: it's like this, except I can actually play the bits,
Speaker 1: so I talk a lot less. For example, the Jay
Speaker 1: Farrell story, I'll tell the fifteen second version of that
Speaker 1: and then play Jay Farrow. I'll tell you fifteen seconds
Speaker 1: about Ellen and then play Ellen. So it's called the
Speaker 1: weekly comedy thing. The app is called Live one. The
Speaker 1: app is free, the show is free. You should do it.
Speaker 1: Having program comedy for who is it twenty five? You
Speaker 1: know it's twenty to twenty something like that twenty something years.
Speaker 1: I have always been a fan of Ellen DeGeneres's stand
Speaker 1: up work, and in her current special you see bits
Speaker 1: and pieces of it. She has a wonderful bit about
Speaker 1: a pigeon that I don't want to spoil. What I
Speaker 1: didn't like about the special is it's such a victory lap,
Speaker 1: like that review I shared with you about the standing Oh,
Speaker 1: they weren't kidding. The standing oh goes on and on
Speaker 1: and on and on, and there's a couple of points
Speaker 1: in the special it's not even clapped. It's just Ellen
Speaker 1: says a sentence and the audience just claps. It's like
Speaker 1: an athlete's final game. I know it's positioned as her
Speaker 1: final special. The whole thing is just weird. Somewhere in
Speaker 1: there is some really good material, but the pacing is
Speaker 1: just off. Not because of Ellen, but because of the crowd.
Speaker 1: Though she did stand there for four minutes and soak
Speaker 1: in the standing ovation, she could have easily put up
Speaker 1: her hand and told the audience to shut the hell
Speaker 1: up so I can get back to stand up. She didn't.
Speaker 1: In Soviet Union podcast downloads You, Yakhov's Smirn Office launched
Speaker 1: his first ever podcast, The Comedy Couch. In the new show,
Speaker 1: Yakov combines his comedic genius with his psychology degree to
Speaker 1: analyze what makes the world's top comedience tick. That. Isn't
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Speaker 1: you're a hater today, am I? I guess? Ben Stiller
Speaker 1: is working on a pickleball movie called The Dink. Jake
Speaker 1: Johnson will lead. He plays a washed up tennis pro
Speaker 1: in order to save a club in crisis. Does the
Speaker 1: one thing he swore it never do, play pickleball. Ed
Speaker 1: Harris will be in this movie. That's great. How old's ed? Now?
Speaker 1: Though Ed's seventy three, all right, I can see him
Speaker 1: playing some pickleball. Ben Stiller and former tennis champion Andy
Speaker 1: Roddick will have supporting roles. And let me clear this
Speaker 1: one out. I've been sitting on this one for a while,
Speaker 1: and I think I can get my half assed impression
Speaker 1: of work today. Matt Barry spoke to The New York Times.
Speaker 1: They were curious, what can we learn from your character Laslow?
Speaker 1: Matt Barry said, he attacks and grabs life. I suppose
Speaker 1: to letting things happen. He has no interest in technology
Speaker 1: or any kind of science. He thinks it's mostly nonsense,
Speaker 1: and I quietly envy that. What's the fun of playing Laslow?
Speaker 1: Matt Berry said improvising was obviously encouraged and expected. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm happiest to sit and trade insults with the
Speaker 1: others in character. It's such good fun as ever a
Speaker 1: bit of scene so outlantish that you've resisted it. No,
Speaker 1: because I'm in favor of things being highly ridiculous and
Speaker 1: hopefully memorable, I would encourage it. Are there any vampire
Speaker 1: powers that you would enjoy? I don't think so. Other
Speaker 1: than advance hearing, there isn't anything that I be interested in.
Speaker 1: I mean, I suppose the flying bat thing, but you've
Speaker 1: got to turn into a bat. That's your comedy news
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