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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
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comedy news. My hat is off to whoever handles the
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press for the Top Secret Comedy Club in the UK.
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They got worldwide pickup on this one, the headline from
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The Guardian. One of the UK's leading comedy clubs has
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banned guests with botox. Yeah, this made worldwide news. Good job.
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The Top Secret Comedy Club has hosted some of the
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biggest names in comedy, with star acts Jack Whitehall, Amy
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Schumer and Dave Chappelle gracing the stage. In a drastic move,
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those with botox will be unable to see similar stars
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live at the London venues. After stand up, acts shared
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concerns that audience members with frozen faces are not reacting
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to their jokes. Is this a real thing? Comedians? I
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might have to reach out to some comedians and ask them,
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is this a real thing that the people have so
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much botox that they're not laughing at your jokes and
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it's affecting your performance? You see? As The Guardian explains,
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botox is a neuromodulator, which is a type of injectable
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that temporarily disrupts the nerve signals to the muscles that
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prevents them from contracting and producing the appearance of wrinkles.
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The Guardian further explains the rising tweakments, particularly among twenty somethings,
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has risen sharply in recent years. Will then estimated one
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million botox injections carried out in the UK each year.
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Mark Rothman, the owner of the Top Secret Comedy Club
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who has just an amazing pr team kudos to you guys, explained,
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our incredibly salented comedians are fed up with performing to
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reactionless faces. I've had numerous complaints from performers who find
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it increasingly challenging to gauge audience engagement and bounce off
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their reactions. Comedy thrives on connections, and facial expressions play
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a huge part. We want people to laugh, cry, frown sneer,
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but frozen faces from botox impact the entire atmosphere. We
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hope try laying this band will help move the needle
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and get fit reactions back into the room for the
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benefit our comedians and the audience. I had to check
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to make sure it wasn't the beginning of April. Nope,
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this came out in March. One of the venues. Regular
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stand up acts is Andrew Mensa, and he said performing
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to an audience with frozen faces can be incredibly tough.
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Comedy is a two way street. We feed off the
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energy and reactions to the crowd. Mark and the team
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are always devising new ideas to support as comedians. This
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might be his best one yet. Paul Chowdrey, who's going
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to perform at the club in March, says, my face
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barely moves on stage. I wouldn't want to see the
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same thing staring back at me so effective. Immediately, audience
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members will be vetted by the door staff, and now
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the door staff has been trained to carry out ID
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checks and expression texts. Rothmun warned, we're dead serious about
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the band and if you're surprised, we need to see that.
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We're looking forward to welcoming faces all the new that
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can still move in our venue soon. Well done, pr team.
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This next item, I didn't react well too, and then
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I thought about it and I calmed the heck down.
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My initial take was all good things get ruined, and
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then I thought about it more. Let me tell you
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what it is, John Mulaney's talk show, which is back
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on Netflix on Wednesday is now going to include commercial
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breaks for all Netflix subscribers, whether you're subscribed to one
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of the platforms, AD supported, tears or not. Following the
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live stream, the ad breaks will be removed for AD
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free subscribers. So this is even more of an incentive
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for me to not stay up late on Wednesday night
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and just watch it Thursday. The show premieres this Wednesday
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at ten pm Eastern seven West. But I thought about
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this commercials annoying, et cetera. However, I've produced a lot
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of talk radio in my day, and I remember when
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I was at Sirius and we were commercial free music.
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The talk stations had commercials. And among the reasons you
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have commercials on a talk show, sure, money's great, we
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like money. I like commercials. I have commercials in this show.
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So I'm not going to be hypocrite on that standpoint.
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But you do you when doing a talk show, it
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is convenient to have time outs so you can connect
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with the host, or regroup or stop talking for a second,
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like right now. Honestly, this is the third straight podcast
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that I'm recording, and my voice is already starting to go.
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But I'm not live, so I have the luxury. I
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can go get vitamin water or something, or take a
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break or finish this up an hour from now. So
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when you're live, you know, there's that maybe a segment
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go sideways, maybe the producer wants to get in your ear.
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So having breaks does make sense totally to me from
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that standpoint. So I get it, and they're taking them
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out of the replace, so you know, it's not a
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ton of money grab so I don't think I have
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a problem with this. So you know the other things
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you could do is you could throw it to some
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pre recorded thing. I'll just point you towards. You know,
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on John Oliver Show, the opening segment always crushes and
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then they do the and now segment for like a
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minute in the two hole, ten years, in fourteen years,
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in whatever we're in with that show. I've yet to
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see one of those segments really fly. So could they
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pretape some stuff to John the timeout? They could. If
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you've ever listened to a streaming radio station that fills
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their commercial breaks with features, those are always lame, you know.
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Sometimes a professional broadcast where it just throws it to
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a Budweiser commercial, sometimes that actually is the best thing.
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So I don't really have a problem with this one.
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I'm excited. Mark Maren has announced a new stand up
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comedy special and to be on HBO later this year.
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Variety says it will consist of material from his All
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Into where it'll be filmed in New York City in May.
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It'll be Maren's sixth stand up special, two years after
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his latest for HBO, which was From Bleak to Dark,
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in which Maren discussed the death of his partner Lynn Shelton.
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No release date, no trailer yet, but looking forward to that.
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Chronogram spoke to Patton Oswalt Paton explain where he is
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right now in terms of working politics into the act.
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He says, I try to do my version of punching up,
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which is by focusing on Elon Trump, Bezos, whoever's letting
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this crap happen. I've kind of cranked up the absurdity.
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Things are so dark, it's such an enormous thing to
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expect a comedian to address. But it's certainly not the
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whole set. Our current situation is massive, but I also
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think there are things that they're even bigger there aren't
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being addressed, like the environment and AI. I'm obviously being
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affected by what's going on. But I also sometimes feel
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like the MC and Cabaret who's saying, what the hell
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am I supposed to be doing here? Elon is putting
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us through all this because he wants to be cool,
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and he's not cool. He's like the kid whose dad
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owns the laser tag place and thinks all the kids
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should like him, but he's obnoxious and means so no
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one wants to hang out with him. A few years ago,
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Patten got into a Twitter feud with a follower, which
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Patent resolved by contributing to the man's go fundme. Paige
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Patten explains, you could see how miserablely was. You're seeing
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similar things now with a lot of these Trump voters
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online going wait, my job is gone, or oh he
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took away my medicaid. They want someone else to be
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punished for their pain. They don't realize that the people
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they're voting for don't care about them. So a lot
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of times when you see someone being racist or transphobic,
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it's because they're in a lot of pain they can't
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articulate it. That'd rather take power over growth. Growth involves pain,
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just siding with the most popular and the most powerful
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saves you a lot of pain, and they're looking to
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avoid that. And I don't blame them. Everybody wants to
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avoid pain. No one's looking out for them. Trump voters
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are especially being exploited, abused, and used by the powers
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that be. Donald and Elon could care less about their supporters.
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They openly despise them, says Paton. And it's become very
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clear quickly that none of these billionaires give a hoot
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about these people. So of course they're going to lash out.
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Why wouldn't you, I would I get it? Send your
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letters to Paton. Oswalt from short Oal comedian Harreeth a
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Scander has been fine the equivalent of seventeen hundred and
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fifty British pounds after making a punt about the word
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ham was deemed to have mocked Islam. The Facebook post
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was pulled by Meta at the request of Malaysia's Communications watchdog.
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That watchdog also demanded that the account be shut down completely.
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The comedian had posted a joke on social media about
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an iced coffee drink called ham something ham sapping the
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Cantonese word for leude, as well as containing the name
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of a port product forbidden to Muslims. Harriest wrote, I'm
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so confused. My faith is at risk. This iced coffee
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drink will lead me down the wrong path in so
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many ways, not just tempting to me to become whatever
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the offensive term is here. I'm not here to offend,
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but I'll confusing me with the word ham in. It
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is Candor and a woman named Cecilia who made the
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same joke online where each find ten thousand Malaysian ringots,
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which is the equivalent of six weeks average salary in
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Malaysia is Candor was named the funniest person in the
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World in an international competition run by The Laugh Factory
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in America back in twenty sixteen. He released a Netflix
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comedy special called I Told You So in twenty eighteen
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and regularly tours Asia and Australia. Very interesting. Let's see
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what's happening at south By Southwest today, final day of
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comedy over there at four o'clock the street meet a
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comedic celebration of food trucks, grease pits and sandwich shops.
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This is Joe Deorosi's thing. I think this is so
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much fun. He'll be joined by Jeames Adiomian. I'll tell
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you one thing south by the talent that they flew
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down there. They're getting a lot of work out of them.
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It's the same people doing the same shows over and over.
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But it's like, hey, you can come, but you're doing
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six shows. Stuart Goldsmith tapes his Comedians Comedian podcast again,
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this time with Pete Lee. Feel like Stuart could have
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gotten better guests. They were a better guests. Nothing against
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Pete Lee, but your names to be gotten down there.
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Doug Love's Movies, they're taping their podcast six Stand Up
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at Clown Live Comedy at the Creek in the Cave
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at seven. So weird to be The Creek of the
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Cave is like the Brooklyn Dodgers of comedy, like they
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used to be at Astoria now they're in Austin Stand
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Up and Clown. James Adomian, Yeah, we're flying you down.
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You're doing every show, James, Chad Damiani, Megan Galli, Christina
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Catherine Martinez, Mary Neely, Opi Alagbaju, Nick Fune. You've heard
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me saying the same names over and over. Yeah, you
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can come, but you're gonna work eight o'clock. Pretty robust
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for a Monday night at a Comedy Festival. I said
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that about Sunday, but Mondays are usually deader than dead.
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Gotham Comedy presents Slynn Coppletz, Caitlin Polufo, Brian Simpson. No
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offense of those comedians. I feel like it's missing a
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bigger name there. Especially Gotham is a real good club
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and I know the owner. Something's missing there that just
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doesn't feel right to me. Nine o'clock stand up Downtown.
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It's got that AI I think generated image of what
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a comedy audience might look like. Greer Born seeing a
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lot of him all of a sudden, Drew Dunn, Alex English,
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Rich Voss, and our final show for the festival is
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called appropriately the Last Laugh. Also within probably possibly maybe
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perhaps AI generated image of what a mostly white comedy
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audience would look like, and by mostly I mean white.
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This lineup, Reggie Conquest. I don't think I've said his
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name right, all right, Reggie got in there at the
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last moment. Pete Lee, Kristin, Toomey and Godfrey. That is
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the south By Southwest Comedy Festival. Now we doing on time,
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all right? We can get one more in here today.
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The Trevor's City Comedy festival announced their twenty twenty five
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lineup with top comedians and diverse events. They Traverse City
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Comedy Festival will feature dozens of comedians from across the
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country and events from improv and roast battles to all
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star showcases and stand up sets April tenth through the twelfth,
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in of course, Traverse City. Pretty good lineup. You've heard
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of these people. I don't have to explain who Mark
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Maron is or Jay Farrow, Natasha Lazeiro, Gosh Blue. That's
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a pretty impressive top four there, Traverse City. Other shows
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include The Funny Women of a Certain Age Julius Scotti,
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Leanne Lord. They're not the funny Women of a Certain age,
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they are their own things. So Funny Women of a
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Certain Age full stop. Also performing Julia Scotti, Leanne Lord
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in I'm just skimming down here a good thirty forty names.
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N most of you won't know any of them, so
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I'm not gonna just read you a list of people
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you don't know. I'm not dumping on them. I'm just
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saying they're less famous than Mark Maron. And if you
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listen all the time, you know that. I encourage listeners.
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If you go to Comedy Festival. Go see the smaller shows.
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I love Mark Maren you know what he's gonna do.
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You can watch Mark Maron on HBO later this year.
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Go see the smaller shows. That's where the action is
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at the Comedy Festival. Events at the festival will include
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the Daily Dozen Showcase, featuring a dozen comedians on stage
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telling their best and funniest jokes. Well I hope they're
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their best and funniest jokes at a showcase. Roast Battle,
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a single elimination ross battle tournament featuring eight fearless comedians
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with judges in the audience determining the winners. Comedy Rubble
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a lineup of thirty hilarious comedians, each given a lightning
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fast ninety seconds to showcase their comedic talents. So that's
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interesting because there's a big difference between doing ninety seconds