Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm in a good mood. I'm
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news, A daily briefing
Speaker 1: on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A
Speaker 1: sentence to the algorithm. Just loves why in a good mood,
Speaker 1: John Well. Pete Holmes I thought was fantastic. If you
Speaker 1: missed yesterday's episode, I just loved talking to Pete Holmes.
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking about it three days later by the
Speaker 1: time you hear this. Pete was just so gracious with
Speaker 1: his time and just what a cool guy to hang
Speaker 1: out with. I also just recorded Comedy Survivor, which will
Speaker 1: come out tomorrow at noon Eastern, and the results are
Speaker 1: incredible and the AI analysis even better. I can't wait
Speaker 1: for you to hear Comedy Survivor. And it was actually
Speaker 1: fifty degrees out yesterday, not fifty below zero, and actual
Speaker 1: fifty like you could go outside and leave your house.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? The Washington Post profiled Robbie Hoffman. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of us came away was that December
Speaker 1: really impressed with Robbie Hoffman's John Mlaney produced a special.
Speaker 1: The Post writes, Robbie Hoffman is not on TikTok, which
Speaker 1: is surprising for comedian these days until you meet her
Speaker 1: and realize she might be the oldest thirty six year
Speaker 1: old on the planet. Robbie says, my friends, go, are
Speaker 1: you mental? Why don't you do this clip and post
Speaker 1: it on TikTok? I said, I have one of the
Speaker 1: apps I have Instagram. I was born as seventy three
Speaker 1: year old man her origin story. She left accounting for
Speaker 1: a writing gig on the Chris Getherd Ship. For that show,
Speaker 1: she moved back to New York City despite having been
Speaker 1: born in the city. She told the Post, I felt
Speaker 1: like a tourist in many ways. She had only known
Speaker 1: the four square blocks of her religious enclav up until
Speaker 1: that point. She said, this was my first time seeing
Speaker 1: New York too. During the pandemic, she crossed paths with
Speaker 1: Paul W. Downs, the co creator and star of the
Speaker 1: TV show hacks Downs, remembered being struck by how unfiltered
Speaker 1: Robbie Hoffman could be. Robbie eventually guest starred on hacks Down. Said,
Speaker 1: the whole show's about people who are cast aside by
Speaker 1: the industry. We wanted Robbie to fit into that tapestry
Speaker 1: of people on the outside looking in. The post tells
Speaker 1: us though in real life the industry likes Hoffman, she'll
Speaker 1: be back on Hacks. She's also part of Rooster. Now.
Speaker 1: Rooster is interesting. It is a Bill Lawrence project. You
Speaker 1: know Bill Lawrence, the guy from Scrubbs and Ted Lasso.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. Rooster stars Steve Carell, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy from the Office. And the reason John C
Speaker 1: McGinley isn't in many of the Scrubs episodes is because
Speaker 1: he's working on Rooster. All right, So it's HBO, Bill Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Steve Carell and Robbie Hoffman and John C McGinley. That's
Speaker 1: gotta be good, right on paper, that's like amazing, right,
Speaker 1: better be good. I don't think Bill Lawrence is missed yet,
Speaker 1: so looking forward to that one. John mulaney is quoted
Speaker 1: in this article. He said of Robbie Hoffman has not
Speaker 1: taken into consideration any rules or accepted wisdom on show business.
Speaker 1: And to bring it back home, Hoffman said, I've never
Speaker 1: been the overnight success. I've always been the slow and
Speaker 1: stead he wins the race kind. We may have waited
Speaker 1: a little longer, we didn't do the TikTok pop off
Speaker 1: or whatever, but we did it in a way that
Speaker 1: felt good. Meanwhile, Chris Fleming, did you enjoy Chris Flaming
Speaker 1: Special on HBO on Friday Night? Chris Fleming got the
Speaker 1: fancy schmancy New York Times profile. Mike Birbiglia said, Chris
Speaker 1: is one of the most exciting comedians to watch right now,
Speaker 1: and interestingly didn't accuse Chris Fleming of ripping off John Mulaney.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would do that, but you
Speaker 1: know it's something Berbiglia sometimes does. I don't see it.
Speaker 1: We learned from the Times that Chris Fleming got his
Speaker 1: start doing stand up and finding his exaggerated style at
Speaker 1: a club above a Chinese restaurant in Harvard Square. He
Speaker 1: recalls being at a bookstore next door and looking over
Speaker 1: rockstar photos Mick Jagger, Prince Stevie Nicks, Freddie Mercury, Big
Speaker 1: pictures of these people rocking out, and I was like,
Speaker 1: how do I bring that to one hundred person cap room.
Speaker 1: Since wearing hoodies was out, I gotta wear bird armor.
Speaker 1: I love it. By the way, you caught on Friday's
Speaker 1: Comedy stock Market, we said buy some Chris Fleming. I
Speaker 1: hope you bought some Chris Fleming, because just minutes later
Speaker 1: the New York Times did a big profile here. I'm
Speaker 1: also sitting on the Chris Fleming press. People earn their
Speaker 1: money on Friday. I kicked it to in the middle
Speaker 1: of the week in case I have the jury duty.
Speaker 1: Have I mentioned that you never know when have to
Speaker 1: pre tape an episode at midnight so you can spend
Speaker 1: the day in Newark? I digress. Conan O'Brien and Chris
Speaker 1: Flemings did a whole interview. We'll get to that in time.
Speaker 1: So if you bought stock and Chris Fleming on Friday,
Speaker 1: per the Comedy Stock Market recommendation, you're doing quite well
Speaker 1: right now. Chris explains he sometimes choreographs his routines by
Speaker 1: drawing them, but doesn't watch himself. He finds the humor
Speaker 1: from the audience. He explains a lot of what I
Speaker 1: put out on social media, I'm doing it for the
Speaker 1: first time. In an improv dance class, he learned, don't
Speaker 1: do something unless you feel the impulse to do it.
Speaker 1: It has to be organic. Good description. Here. Fleming's routines
Speaker 1: are densely layered confections of references, space movies, college life,
Speaker 1: animal encounters, the economy confetied with digressions, and Bonker's turns
Speaker 1: a phrase. One song at dance Routine is about why
Speaker 1: a young professional had a tasteful made well sweater was
Speaker 1: the most terrorizing thing at a haunted house at a
Speaker 1: skyward rechion. People are always laughing. What a great paragraph
Speaker 1: there in New York Times. Fleming also has a competitive
Speaker 1: body fearlessness. We learn from The Times. Fleming said, I
Speaker 1: love putting as much weight as I can on the stool.
Speaker 1: I love drop kicking and flanling different ways. To this day,
Speaker 1: I leave every performance completely bruised. Are you guys listening going?
Speaker 1: What's going on with the show? He's been in a
Speaker 1: good mood for like four days? Did Scrubs completely changed
Speaker 1: my life? Can I get back to being Curmudgeonty? More
Speaker 1: wonderful writing here in the Times? Chris is somewhere between
Speaker 1: six foot one and six foot three, with a long
Speaker 1: legged hips wivel that can make them appear even taller.
Speaker 1: When he frog leaps or tumbles over a chair, flieser
Speaker 1: laps around the stage, there's an element of controlled danger,
Speaker 1: a glam firecracker on the loose. Oh yeah. Vulture also
Speaker 1: profiled Chris Fleming. Let me bounce this as well, because
Speaker 1: we you know, I like to fix up the topics.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do ten minutes like Chris Fleming.
Speaker 1: I love Chris Fleming, but this thing's quite long here.
Speaker 1: It must have been comedian week in the big newspapers.
Speaker 1: Back to the Washington Post, they caught up with Hannah
Speaker 1: Gatsby and we learned that Hannah has broken up with
Speaker 1: the Netflix is. Hannah explains, Netflix was a launching pad
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm very thankful for it. But I'm
Speaker 1: creatively a risk taker, and I like to take things
Speaker 1: apart and rearrange them to do things differently. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go with the flow right now. The flow
Speaker 1: seems quite toxic. But Netflix, being an algorithmic first machine,
Speaker 1: they've worked out what comedy is. Now they've got the formula,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't actually give a lot of space. The
Speaker 1: Post said, Well, the formula is to pump out endless
Speaker 1: specials for which they've paid a lot of money. That's
Speaker 1: the formula you're talking about. Hannah said, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be there. I don't want to live there. It's
Speaker 1: not to say that I can't won't work with them again.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make a decision and take some
Speaker 1: creative risks, and also a lot of the subjects that
Speaker 1: I talk about in Wolf and the placement of myself,
Speaker 1: I wanted to put myself outside of that particular story.
Speaker 1: Hannah's out promoting Woof. The audio to woof is free
Speaker 1: online with a twenty minute video version that features hannagas
Speaker 1: By speaking through an animated sock puppet. They asked about
Speaker 1: the sock puppet thing. Hanna said, every decision is almost
Speaker 1: like what is the algorithm? Wan, I'll do the opposite. Now,
Speaker 1: this is an interesting show. Today. I've talked about three comedians,
Speaker 1: Hannah Gadsby, Chris Fleming, and Robbie Hoffman. And of the
Speaker 1: three comedians I've talked about, Robbie Hoffman is the most
Speaker 1: mainstream comedian. I like the alty stuff. The Washington Post
Speaker 1: was speaking on Zoom with Hannah Gatsby. Hannah was in Tasmania.
Speaker 1: I love details like that. We learned that Wolf was
Speaker 1: originally going to be about the death of Hannah's father.
Speaker 1: Hanna explains, Yeah, and the dead Dad's show is a
Speaker 1: universal show, particularly for people of a certain age when
Speaker 1: you start to think about your mortality. But as I
Speaker 1: realized as I was going through this, I'm the only
Speaker 1: person on earth who hasn't adapted to my fame. I
Speaker 1: was a creature of the Milbourn International Comedy Festival, in
Speaker 1: the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Every year I'd write a show,
Speaker 1: maybe it gets to tour a little bit, then the
Speaker 1: next year I'd set it down right another one. I'm
Speaker 1: pushing forty. I'm not thinking about cracking in the US
Speaker 1: market or having high powered agents in LA And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it was more than possible. And
Speaker 1: I was so ill equipped for that good follow up
Speaker 1: by the post who asked what was the biggest challenge
Speaker 1: of all that? And the answer the change in my audience.
Speaker 1: My audience beforehand were definitely people I was talking to
Speaker 1: in the room. I was a live performer that had
Speaker 1: slowly built a solid, sustainable fan base that'd bring a
Speaker 1: new piece of work to every year, maybe every two years.
Speaker 1: I was making a living. Was in the scheme of
Speaker 1: things modest, but I was successful. Then the net happens
Speaker 1: and my agents said, are we going to give up?
Speaker 1: For a stadium tour. I wouldn't survive that. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be in a crowd of thirty thousand people,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to talk to thirty thousand people.
Speaker 1: Music can work it well in a large crowd, but
Speaker 1: that's where comedy goes to die. When you get to
Speaker 1: those big venues. The last don't come back. They disappear
Speaker 1: out the back. I don't want to sell tickets to
Speaker 1: the Apocalypse, and that's what it feels like. It feels gross.
Speaker 1: I don't actually cast judgment, it's just what they're doing.
Speaker 1: They can do it. Power to them. If you want
Speaker 1: to be a court jester to the Saudi regime, go
Speaker 1: for it. Some news news on a Sunday, Jeff Ross
Speaker 1: is one man show. Take a Banana for the Ride.
Speaker 1: We'll be on Netflix. Hanna Gatsby's not gonna like that.
Speaker 1: On March twenty fourth. You can watch you Take a
Speaker 1: Banana for the Ride. We see Jeff Ross sharing personal
Speaker 1: stories about his upbringing, family, loss, resilience, and how humor
Speaker 1: has carried him through tough times. I just made a
Speaker 1: Hannahatsby joke, But isn't that pretty much what Hannah Gatsby does?
Speaker 1: Maybe Hannah and Jeff Ross could be friends. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was just riffing on the Netflix of it all.
Speaker 1: Hulu still into the Ralph Barbosa business. They announced a
Speaker 1: new project titled swamp Meat, a half hour series created
Speaker 1: by Ralph Barbosa and comedy animation writer Isaac Gonzalez. This
Speaker 1: will be a cartoon. Ralph Barbosa voice stars and serves
Speaker 1: as an executive producer. Swap Meet coming to Hulu. If
Speaker 1: you're in La, go check out the Henson Puppets. They
Speaker 1: are doing improv comedy in puppet Up Uncensored. Puppet Up
Speaker 1: Uncensored combines the style of puppetry originated by Jim Henson
Speaker 1: with improv comedy games fueled by audience prompts. It can
Speaker 1: get raunchy, he said, don't bring your kids. You know.
Speaker 1: There are no official muppets, but we're told the production
Speaker 1: includes recreations of several original Jim Henson puppets from early
Speaker 1: in his career. And it's Brian Henson that created this thing,
Speaker 1: so it's not like this is totally rogue. Brian Henson
Speaker 1: says of the recreations, they're really old. It's super fun
Speaker 1: to rebuild those puppets and actually perform those scenes in
Speaker 1: front of a live audience. That hasn't happened in forty
Speaker 1: to fifty years. Probably. We're told that Henson puppets are
Speaker 1: tailored for the camera, but in Puppet Up, uncensored audience
Speaker 1: members see both the stage for screen performance on video projection,
Speaker 1: and you also get to see the puppeteers work in
Speaker 1: a way that's usually hidden from view. Henson said, it's
Speaker 1: really fun to let people see how we do it
Speaker 1: because it's clever and it's chaotic. It also means our
Speaker 1: audience watches the show in a different kind of way.
Speaker 1: Hanson was asked about the Muppet Show. I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: around to that yet, but people seem to really liked that.
Speaker 1: That was back Henson's take. The AI craze has created
Speaker 1: a backlash of please let me see human craftsmanship, human artistry,
Speaker 1: where I know this is coming from a human artistic mind.
Speaker 1: So I think right now there's just this enormous appreciation
Speaker 1: for artistry that's not computer generated in any way. That'll
Speaker 1: benefit all sorts of arts, but it certainly benefits puppetry
Speaker 1: for sure. That your comedy news on a Sunday catch
Speaker 1: you back in the morning,