Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 2: Bert Krasher shocked about how he writes his material down.
Speaker 2: He told Variety, I'm an old school pen to paper guy.
Speaker 2: I love being on a plane, getting a cocktail and
Speaker 2: writing during takeoff. I have a certain kind of book
Speaker 2: I use, and a certain kind of pen I use.
Speaker 2: The jelly roll oh Age is my favorite pen. Back
Speaker 2: in the day, i'd carry the book on me all
Speaker 2: the time. Now I just have my phone. I have
Speaker 2: a note section that says new material, and it's probably
Speaker 2: twenty pages long. It's everything I find funny. Like I
Speaker 2: talked to a guy the other day who said he
Speaker 2: and his wife went to Paris, and I asked what
Speaker 2: they did, and he goes Disneyland in Paris was so awesome,
Speaker 2: and I was like, what, who goes to Disneyland in Paris?
Speaker 1: I write that down? Then, when a building an hour,
Speaker 1: I might pepper those observations into a story to make
Speaker 1: it a little richer. I collect them. It's almost like
Speaker 1: a spice rack. Bert, do you ever do corporate gigs? Never?
Speaker 1: You can't get me to do one. I have no
Speaker 1: interest in that. I don't like being told what to do.
Speaker 1: I have what my wife would acknowledge as bad behaviors,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a good employee. I'm not good with
Speaker 1: a bunch of millionaires telling me what to do. I
Speaker 1: did a corporate gig in Aspen. That's when I really
Speaker 1: needed the money. I got paid twenty five grand, which
Speaker 1: is still a lot of money, but back then it
Speaker 1: was take care of us for a couple of months money.
Speaker 1: It was for a hedge fun and I got up
Speaker 1: there and they're like, well, kind of watch you wearing.
Speaker 1: I tried doing some material on my watch, and then
Speaker 1: one guy in the front row goes, dude, do the machine,
Speaker 1: let's barty. So I did twelve minutes, I told the
Speaker 1: machine and we went to a bar and got wasted.
Speaker 1: Having said that, I did do a gig for a
Speaker 1: company called Planeter back when they were just a startup.
Speaker 1: They gave me five grand. I just came in and
Speaker 1: rost with them for an hour. Broady said you should
Speaker 1: ask for equity when you do these gigs. Bert, I
Speaker 1: almost guarantee you they offered me equity, and I had
Speaker 1: no idea what planet or was these two dudes. We
Speaker 1: smoked cigars drink whiskey and talked about securities or something.
Speaker 1: Bert what about international gigs. He said, there's one gig
Speaker 1: I'm toying with an Abu Dhabi, but the rule is
Speaker 1: you can't take a shirt off. I don't trust myself.
Speaker 1: I think every comic has this weird anti authority behavior.
Speaker 1: If you tell me not to, I'm gonna it'd be
Speaker 1: weird to see Bert with a shirt on at this point, right,
Speaker 1: that's kind of like his image. Or I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: so close to it that the Hall monitor is gonna
Speaker 1: get a little upset. But every other international gig Dublin
Speaker 1: is probably the best show I've ever had. It's so
Speaker 1: funny how small the world has gotten. Netflix has changed
Speaker 1: the game with comedy because people come out to hear
Speaker 1: your show in Dublin and they look like a dude
Speaker 1: from Omaha. They just sound different. Greece was a little weird.
Speaker 1: I was getting ready for my Razzle Dazzle special and
Speaker 1: I had this joke it wasn't working about getting some
Speaker 1: manscaping done. Let me leave it there, and it's quite
Speaker 1: aggressive man escaping, but it said I did it in Greece,
Speaker 1: and it was like I was reading the Bible. They
Speaker 1: were losing their minds. It made the joke better because
Speaker 1: they really experienced it. Patton Oswall talked about touring the country.
Speaker 1: He tries to separate people from politics and welcomes almost
Speaker 1: everyone to his shows. He says, I never go to
Speaker 1: a place in dreadite like Ugh, I'm in Mississippi now.
Speaker 1: There's always pockets of coolness and resistance everywhere in the
Speaker 1: red estates. Also, five minutes outside of LA you're basically
Speaker 1: in a red state. Then you can be an Asheville,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, which is one of the most left wing
Speaker 1: progressive places on Earth. So it depends where you are,
Speaker 1: and now you treat the people you meet. Brian Possayin
Speaker 1: spoke to the Sonoma's Sun. Brian was excited about returning
Speaker 1: to Sonoma, where he grew up. He said it was
Speaker 1: a big gig for me. Usually when I have performances
Speaker 1: coming up, I'm not thinking about what to do because
Speaker 1: I already have an act. But to be performing in
Speaker 1: the theater where I first saw Jaws is next level.
Speaker 1: My mom used to drop me off at the theater
Speaker 1: with movie money and be gone all day here. I
Speaker 1: remember that kids from these seventies and eighties. The Sebastiani
Speaker 1: Theater was a big part of forming who I've become.
Speaker 1: The first time I performed comedy in Sonoma was ninety
Speaker 1: one on the stage at the Plaza. The last time
Speaker 1: was in ninety two. I had to do it at
Speaker 1: the theater where I may or may not have written
Speaker 1: George Washington's slept here on the seat in front of
Speaker 1: me during a Clint Eastwood matinee. Is pretty cool and
Speaker 1: kind of a full circle moment from me from the
Speaker 1: Coin Telegraph, your home for comedy news. Explain why TJ.
Speaker 1: Miller wants to be a trustworthy face for bitcoin. And
Speaker 1: if you can't trust TJ Miller, who can you trust?
Speaker 1: He explained. It all started with a casual coffee run
Speaker 1: in Manhattan. While in town for a Bitcoin investor week,
Speaker 1: Gareth stopped by the Romeo and Juliet Cafe where his
Speaker 1: bitcoiner Radar went off. Tells us the Coin Telegraph sitting
Speaker 1: nearby in that cafe TJ. Miller, who it turns out,
Speaker 1: was happy to dive into an impromptu conversation about all
Speaker 1: things bitcoin. TJ explains, you can tell that I'm passionate
Speaker 1: about it, and so That's what I'd like to do
Speaker 1: is sort of be able to be somebody that brings
Speaker 1: cultural awareness, spread awareness, and just be a trusting name
Speaker 1: and face in the bitcoin community that hopefully will bring
Speaker 1: more people to it. Because it's important for people to
Speaker 1: buy bitcoin, but it's all important for people to understand
Speaker 1: why and not just buy bitcoin, but why bitcoin. Rosebud
Speaker 1: Baker spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her decision to
Speaker 1: work her miscarriages into her material. Her recent special shows
Speaker 1: her both pregnant and then after delivering a healthy child.
Speaker 1: Rosebud explained, Look, I'll be honest with you, I didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of faith that she was going to
Speaker 1: make it. I've never had a superstition about it where
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, if I talk about this, something bad
Speaker 1: could happen. It was more like, if I talk about
Speaker 1: it and then something bad happens, how do I address that.
Speaker 1: I really sat on my original material and then the
Speaker 1: jokes that were in it, so I could talk about
Speaker 1: what this feels now asposed to what I thought it
Speaker 1: would feel like when I was pregnant. The special something
Speaker 1: I would have really appreciated when I was battling with
Speaker 1: whether or not I wanted to have kids. I made
Speaker 1: something for my former self. I joked about my miscarriage
Speaker 1: the week hand happen. I was going on stage and
Speaker 1: doing those jokes. That being said, after about three weeks
Speaker 1: of running those jokes, I realized I hadn't processed enough
Speaker 1: to be telling them. It went for being excited to
Speaker 1: I need a second with this alone before I can
Speaker 1: bring the topic back up. So even though I can
Speaker 1: write a joke about something sad right away, until I've
Speaker 1: actually dealt with it, it's not fun. Audiences need to
Speaker 1: feel safe to laugh at this stuff, and if I
Speaker 1: don't feel truly cool about laughing at it, they don't
Speaker 1: have a shot. At the beginning of my tour, when
Speaker 1: I was pregnant, I knew I was going to tape
Speaker 1: that hour because I didn't think i'd have a lot
Speaker 1: of time afterried the baby. It's not a good enough
Speaker 1: reason to actually put a tape out there. But then
Speaker 1: I was talking to my comic friend Ryan Hamilton, and
Speaker 1: he suggested holding onto it and revisiting it after the
Speaker 1: baby whenever I got to it. So then I filmed
Speaker 1: a whole news special with the updated material and decided
Speaker 1: to just send both tapes to my incredible editor Killie
Speaker 1: and told her pit whatever works and just airr on
Speaker 1: the side of funny, So it became a combination of
Speaker 1: the two specials. Andrew Schultz talked about one man shows
Speaker 1: and said, I have respect for the one man show people,
Speaker 1: but sometimes I feel like you're asking the audience to
Speaker 1: lower their comedic expectations. And that's okay because there's another
Speaker 1: component that might fill that void. But for me, it
Speaker 1: was like, what could I do to make you laugh
Speaker 1: as loud as you've always laughed when you come to
Speaker 1: my shows? And one of the most rewarding things that
Speaker 1: I get these dms to this day. People come to
Speaker 1: the show. They had no clue because I didn't promote
Speaker 1: it like this. They probably saw the Life tour and
Speaker 1: they thought I was bragging like I'm living a life.
Speaker 1: So they come to the show expecting one thing, and
Speaker 1: then they leave and they'll DM me like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we just started our IVF journey. Then they'll message to
Speaker 1: me months later like here's a picture of our baby.
Speaker 1: We just got pregnant, where some people were struggling and
Speaker 1: they say this gave him a little more hope. And
Speaker 1: again that's not what you go in expecting. I just
Speaker 1: wanted people to come laugh, but have that kind of
Speaker 1: connection with people on top of it. It's been awesome.
Speaker 1: Bill Burr was talking about his special drop dead years,
Speaker 1: and he said, sometimes late at night, I put the
Speaker 1: kids to bed and I can't go to sleep. I
Speaker 1: think about them and I get sad. But I don't
Speaker 1: look at death as something to be feared. And I
Speaker 1: don't think there's this angry, invisible guy that's gonna be upset.
Speaker 1: Who has the time to watch the tapes of my life.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be up there just pointing my
Speaker 1: finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows I
Speaker 1: was guilty of that early in my career, but that's
Speaker 1: just where I was as a young man. I was
Speaker 1: lashing out at everything. As you get older, hopefully you
Speaker 1: realize that you're bring some of the problems to the
Speaker 1: table and maybe the way you handle things isn't the
Speaker 1: best way. Much like Schultz, Burr has heard from fans.
Speaker 1: He says, I hear it in the way they're laughing,
Speaker 1: and it's good for women here. That's understand there's perception
Speaker 1: that men are just dimensional. Get man sandwich a man happy.
Speaker 1: There's a little more nuanced to guys than perhaps they thought.
Speaker 1: One of the fun things about getting older is your
Speaker 1: perception changes on things. For me, we was starting to
Speaker 1: understand women a little bit, which is crazy something I
Speaker 1: never thought I would do. I thought forever they'd be
Speaker 1: confusing to me. Maybe it's because I can communicate better,
Speaker 1: or the women in my life communicate better with me. Still,
Speaker 1: God knows, it's Alwa's going to be our fault. Spoiler
Speaker 1: for the new special. He talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine, and Bill explains, if you listen to
Speaker 1: that bit, it's apolitical. I'm just saying we need to
Speaker 1: come up with a way to solve our differences without
Speaker 1: dropping bombs on children. I don't think anybody would have
Speaker 1: a problem with that. The great thing about travel, if
Speaker 1: you travel with your ears open, is you see way
Speaker 1: more similarities than differences. Everybody kind of wants the same thing,
Speaker 1: to chill out with people they love, to have enough
Speaker 1: money for food and clothing and shelter, and to be
Speaker 1: able ex hail and not worry about what's coming around
Speaker 1: the corner. What really bothers me when I travel is
Speaker 1: the level of angst and worry out there from hardworking people.
Speaker 1: That's why when I tour, go to the twenty five
Speaker 1: cities you're supposed to go to after you make it.
Speaker 1: I just did a whole tour of the Central Valley,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell them my perspective on things,
Speaker 1: and I got to listen to theirs. I learned a
Speaker 1: lot more about California than I ever knew. I've been
Speaker 1: out here for seventeen years. It's interesting seeing what they
Speaker 1: find funny and what they don't. Bill has asked what's
Speaker 1: the worst trend in comedy right now? He says, I
Speaker 1: don't tell people how to do things. What I feel
Speaker 1: like I should be doing is making fun of both sides.
Speaker 1: My job's not to pick a side. You come to
Speaker 1: see me because you want to forget about your problems.
Speaker 1: Even if I do make fun of a politician, I
Speaker 1: always make sure I get them both. If I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make fun of CNN, I gotta make fun of Fox
Speaker 1: and make fun of the whole thing, because I don't
Speaker 1: feel like politicians work for us. They work for the
Speaker 1: super rich, and they're grossly underpaid, so they're open up.
Speaker 1: Bribery gives regular people something to get mad at. And
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