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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
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comedy news. Busy one today, busy few days coming up.
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I'll talk you through all that after the break, Let's
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get to the news. Andrew Schultz has taped a new
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pregnancy themed special called Life that will premiere on Netflix
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on March fourth. Filmed at New York's Beacon Theater, it
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is Andrew's second for Netflix. The specialists billed as the
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comics most personally yet, he offers a look at the
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hilarious and humbling journey of trying to start a family.
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Breaking down the cast of IVF from pumping out samples,
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I appreciate you keeping that clean, a dodging emotional land mines.
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It's raw, real, and will make you grateful. Your swimmers
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probably work. Apparently the producers of Night of Too Many
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Stars must listen to this program because I told you
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the guest lineup I don't know earlier this week, late
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last week, and I commented that they released the news
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on a very busy news day and it was going
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to get lost. And they must have heard me and
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done another kick, because on Wednesday, both Variety and The
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Hollywood Reporter announced this as if it hadn't already been
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announced less I'm clairvoyant. I don't know where I originally
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got the story from, but anyway, we're pretending this is news.
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Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and Moore will perform
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at the Night of Too Many Stars comedy events on Monday,
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March thirty first at the Beacon Theater in New York City.
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John Stewart is your host, as previously reported by Daily
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Comedy News, Other performers include Ronnie Chang, Alex Edelman, Susie Esmond,
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Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Sherman, Max Weinberg's Jukebox, James Austin Johnson,
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and Sam Morrell. The event will include a live auction
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to support initiatives for artistic adults. Event creators Michelle and
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Robert Smigel said in a statement, we created Night of
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Too Many Stars with our friends of the comedy world
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at a time when most organizations focused only on research
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for a cure for autism. Seeing so many parents struggle
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to find appropriate services and schools for their children inspired
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us to create an event to support the vital programs
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and services that individuals with autism need right now. The
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Night of Too Many Stars was created by Michelle and
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Robert in two thousand and three after struggling to find
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effective education for their artistic son. The organization is dedicated
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to helping the five point four million autistic adults living
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in the US achieve their dreams. Dave Chappelle will be
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honored with the NAACP's President's Award at the fifty sixth
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n DOUBACP Image Awards in Pasadena later this month. The
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President's Award honors individuals for special achievement and distinguished public service.
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President CEO Derek Johnson said in statement, the President's Award
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honors an unwavering dedication to community, and throughout his distinguished career,
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Dave Chappelle has consistently been recognized as a powerful voice
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for social consciousness. Through his unique ability to transform complex
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political issues into thought provoking humor, Dave has solidified his
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place as one of the most impactful voices of our time.
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The NAACP Image Awards will air live February twenty second
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from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on be Et and CBS.
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It's been a busy week, and you get to talk
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much about Felipe Asparza, who had a special come out
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on Netflix on Tuesday. The folks of the Facebook group
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have watched it. I haven't watched it yet. They're calling
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it mid Icon versus Icon did just a fantastic, really
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great interview with Felipe. I'll pick at it over the
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next maybe not even the next few days because it's
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really busy. I'll explain that after the break, but I'm
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definitely gonna pick at it. But they asked really good questions.
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But we'll start at the beginning. Felipe says, when I
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started doing stand up comedy, there was no social media yet,
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so I had to go to a library to look
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for books on how to do stand up comedy and
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write jokes. So I read a couple of those and
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checked out a couple of comedy DVDs and CDs that
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I took with me, with stuff like George carl and
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Paul Rodriguez and Rodney Dangerfield. Remember Paul Rodriguez was pretty big.
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He's become forgotten and I think some other later generation
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comedians stole his corner. But Paul was really big. He
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had a sitcom called Aka Pablo on ABC that I
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really liked. Anyway, it was stuff like George carl and
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Paul Rodriguez and Rodney Dangerfield. I just went and consumed
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all that commed. That's where I started learning how to
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write jokes. First time on stage was an open mic,
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and just like every other comic out there, I thought
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I did really well. I thought I did great, but
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it was just okay. Since I'd never done it before.
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I didn't know about timing, which is very important. I
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didn't know that and was just talking through my jokes.
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I didn't know where to do the punchline. However, after
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the first open mic, I went to a couple of
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stand up comedy classes that were very expensive even back then.
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They were like five hundred dollars. They promised you a
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set at the ice House plus a five minute tape
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of your set, but I didn't have five hundred bucks.
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I also didn't have anybody who believed in me enough
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to give me five hundred bucks to join the class.
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So I went there anyway, and I sat in on
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the free one hour introductory class and they started teaching
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me how to write jokes on that first class. After that,
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I went to another one called Greg Dean, a stand
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up comedy course, and learn more stuff from there. That
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was it. Then I hit my second open mic. It
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took a long time to figure out who Felipe was.
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There was a lot of trial and error starting out.
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A lot of people emulate a comic they love. For example,
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if someone in New York grew up watching Todd Berry,
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they might sound a lot like him. On the West Coast,
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the people who grew up here might start sounding like
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Paul Rodriguez, George Lopez, or Carlo Smith Cia for a while.
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So they initially start finding their own voice depending on
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where they grew up. Man, I sounded like nine different
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comedians when I first started out. Look at me now,
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I have long hair and a trench coat. I'm in
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my Sam Kittison stage. That's great. Listen to this. When
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I started off, I was deadpad. I was like Steven
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writer Mitch Hedberg, just a deadpan comic. I would sit
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there and tell jokes with no personality or facial expression.
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Then I try to be a political comedian. I'd get
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the newspaper, I write a bunch of jokes about the
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Middle East. There was bombing and throwing rocks at each other,
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so I wrote this joke was totally bad. The joke
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there was piece in the Middle East this week. There
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were no rocks to throw. I was also performing in
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very loud rooms where nobody paid attention. You really had
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a fight to do stand up comedy because those pieces
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were not suitable for stand up, but was suitable for
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picking up a girl and taking her home, getting stabbed,
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or getting your Harley Davidson stolen outside. This is a
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great stuff Icon versus Icon and I have shared it
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in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. The
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La Times has a fantastic comedy reporter anyway, like twice
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a week they'll write a really good piece about comedy.
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They caught up with friend of the show, John Marco
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Cirezi and the topic was social issues in comedy, and
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John Marco said, you can lose your fan base who
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might be influenced by your work by harping on social
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issues too much. There's a good comedian whose thesis is
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in a show was men, we need to do better.
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We don't deserve points for being right. I don't need
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to pay money and you don't need to be lit
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and micd for an hour on that thesis. I was
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in South Carolina when I said Britney Griner was released
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from the Russian prison today. As a setup to a joke,
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some guy booed instead of being funny, I said, I
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should think it's good when Americans are released from foreign prisons.
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But why do that? I was preaching. I didn't convince
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that guy to challenge his notions of who he doesn't
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respect because of internal biases. You could achieve things with
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what you say, but if funny is not at the front,
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audiences are going to feel betrayed. Sometimes I want to
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come at the joke from the bad point of view
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or the good point of view for the wrong reasons.
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I had one joke about how I ran into my
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old college roommate and found that they'd recently transitioned, and
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I was thrilled because I'd forgotten their name. I like
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that because you wonder, is that a pro trans joke?
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The La Times asked Joen Marco was he wary of
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doing his bit about Israel and Gaza. Jenmarco said, I
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saw people who were not speaking honestly or looking through
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a black and white lens about what was happening there,
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and that fueled my desire to write that. But there's
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a safety in being Jewish. When I make that jokes,
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I won't be accused of anti Semitism. I could be righteous,
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but the punchline has to be subversive. I'm proud of
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those jokes because I felt like, even though I'm expressing
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a point of view, I think the joke itself supersedes it.
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Reuters is reporting that's Russell Brand is being sued over
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sexual abuse allegations, in the first known lawsuit brought against
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him in Britain, after several women accused him of sexual
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assaults and inappropriate behavior. New topic. Don't read anything into
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my sequencing here. I'll share with you how I prepped
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the show big stories. First, the Russell Brand thing is
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a newsy thing, and this final story of the first
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half has a fun end. So that's why it goes
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last on the first half. So don't read anything into
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why I went from that topic to this topic. Okay, okay.
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The funny headline from the Times Tribune comedian Louis c.
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K to headline Holiday inn Scrantonese done more but you
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can't go? All right? That was good clickbait. I clicked
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on it. I was like, Oh, why can't I go?
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Is he doing a private show? Nope? It was just
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that the show in the six hundred and fifty seat
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room sold out. The general manager of the hotel is Corey,
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who said, it's gonna be a great show. It's gonna
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be awesome for Done Moore, especially someone coming to our
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local area who's well known, very famous. Now I could
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have kicked that story, but what interested me is that
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Louis has been playing small rooms. He played there's a
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room kind of close to where I live that honestly
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is like not a good comedy room. They get good comedy,
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but in terms of the physical structure, I don't think
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it's a good room. I think it's the second floor
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of a local restaurant that I had dinner with my
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daughter about three weeks ago. I was shocked that Louis
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was playing there was sold out before I knew it existed,
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and I don't like to leave the house, like I
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probably could have somehow gotten in there, but I was like, eh, whatever. Anyway,
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the room in question, we learned rental fees vary depending
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on the date, the season, and what you're doing, but
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the room generally cost around three thousand dollars to host
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an event. Tickets to CK's show were cap at around
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four hundred. Let's do some math here. The prices were
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thirty five to forty five, so let's do lazy math.
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Four hundred times forty is how much? Somebody help me
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sixteen thousand. You got to rent the room for three thousand,
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So it's Louis making ten thirteen grand on the night
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to work out some material, presumably in a small room
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like that, because the same article tells us he's playing
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mccurtiy's in Sarasota that holds two fifty the Off the
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Hook Comedy Club in Naples, where Louis's opening for Robert Kelly.
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Interesting that holds three point thirty. Cek's playing Youngstown, Ohio
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at the Funny Farm Comedy Club for one hundred people,
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and then the Funny Bone in Columbus for less than
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three hundred people. The Times Tribune caught up with Rich Voss,
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who seems to like this club Fas says, I have
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a good time there. It's a good audience, it's fun.
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I don't have to get on a plane, he says.
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The show's producer, who is local comedian Kevin Lepka, rents
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the ballroom from the Holiday Inn to produce shows under
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the name Scranton Comedy Club. He calls that guy a
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hustler in the good sense he promotes. Well, he does
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all the promotion. You gotta be thankful to have somebody
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that's promoting wants to see it go well. They asked
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Vas about Louis c K and Vas said, Louis who.
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Here is the plan for the upcoming shows. Tomorrow is
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my preview of SNL fifty. I decided to do it tomorrow.
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So the big TV show is on Sunday, but the
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musical show is Tomorrow night, plus four seo reasons. I
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like people to actually hear the material I write. I
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wanted to give it some life, so I figured out,
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let me put it out on Friday. So Tomorrow's episode,
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which I've already recorded, I deliberately recorded tomorrow before today
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because I wanted to do this presell. Here is a
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preview of what to expect on the various SNL specials
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this weekend. I will comment on an article that discusses
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the top fifty sketches of the twenty first century, and
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I kind of lost my mind at the article. And
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then the USA today had the top fifty SNL performers
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of all time and I'm starting the hashtag justice for Piscopo,
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who's not on the life, which is just stunning to me.
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So that's tomorrow show. If you don't like Saturday Night Live,
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take a day off. But if you need something to
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listen to on Friday, I'm the guest on the Letterman Pod.
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You may recall earlier in the week David Letterman went
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on Jimmy Fallon. I got all excited, so i reached
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out to Mike from the Letterman Pod. I'm like, hey,
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can we talk about this for ten minutes? Well we
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wound up talking for an hour, So Mike has that
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as his Friday episode on the Letterman Pod. That's also