Dave Chappelle : Dreamer special is out today

WEBVTT

1
00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:12.119
Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news for

2
00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:15.839
your New Year's Eve plans. If
you're gonna watch Ryan Seacrest, a couple

3
00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:20.640
comedians and beyond gab Iglacias, Sebastian
Maniscalco, and Miss Pat We're told each

4
00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:25.120
comedian will appear throughout the show,
discussing different topics. Gab Iglesias will discuss

5
00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:30.359
his favorite fashion trends of twenty twenty
three, Sebastian will touch upon pop culture

6
00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:34.280
moments in twenty twenty three that ain't
right, and Miss Patt will discuss projects

7
00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:38.280
that went on strike this year.
Dave Chappelle specials out on Netflix Today,

8
00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.039
Dave Chappelle The Dreamer. We'll see
what comes out of that one. I'll

9
00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:45.479
talk about that one during the week, The Wall Street Journal profiled Dave Chappelle

10
00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:49.119
a little bit, and they were
talking about his attempts to open a comedy

11
00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:53.560
club and Yellow Springs. The Journal
tells us the comedy and music club bears

12
00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.039
his logo a white sea on a
field of red, black and green.

13
00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:59.560
Outside on a video screen, there's
still construction fencing around the brick building.

14
00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.159
Restaurant one open for months and the
venue's current name, which is why s

15
00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.400
Firehouse could change. But Dave is
already breaking in a performance room designed for

16
00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.040
less than two hundred people. He's
performed there three times over a recent weekend

17
00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.280
for audiences including locals and family,
according to one attendees. As the Journal,

18
00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.120
Chappelle said the club was one of
his proudest achievements and linked to the

19
00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.560
village's history as a haven for artists, freethinkers, and the liberal politics of

20
00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.799
Antioch College, where Chappelle's late father
taught. The Journal's article then gets into

21
00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.239
the various controversies Dave finds himself in. They write. Chappelle's critics say he's

22
00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.760
been using the global platform of Netflix
to hammer on vulnerable groups, harping on

23
00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:40.599
their supposed sensitivities and social ranking.
Former fans call it a fixation that damages

24
00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:45.439
his legacy. Chappelle defends such material. Mark Gomez attended a Chappelle's show in

25
00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:48.480
San Antonio. Mark said I just
respect him and the way he isn't caught

26
00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.079
up in the machine of the industry. It then gestured to all the ninety

27
00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:53.879
dollars Chappelle hoodies that were for sale, said this is all money, but

28
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:59.239
it doesn't seem like money is driving
all his decisions. Meredith intended to show

29
00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.560
in Mississippi be and said that she's
hyper sensitive to Chappelle's bits about LGBTQ people

30
00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:07.280
because one of her two adult sons
is gay. Mereth said they hadn't informed

31
00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.240
her son about seeing a comic that
he can't stand. Meredith's husband, Brent,

32
00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:14.840
said he's in immedia bubble just like
the rest of us. He'll give

33
00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:16.719
us hell, but he'll understand.
I can laugh at what Chappelle says,

34
00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.800
or I can dismiss it, or
I can be offended, but that's fine

35
00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.800
because the next thing he says will
probably be funny. Nineteen year old Arlow

36
00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.120
found the show funny. Arlow has
cerebral palsy. In that show, Chappelle

37
00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:32.039
began with his mock promise of doing
all handicapped jokes, and then Chappelle pretended

38
00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:36.000
to be a disabled person in the
audience annoyed because they wanted jokes about the

39
00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.919
expensive trans people. Nineteen year old
Arlow said that was the funniest part of

40
00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:44.080
the set because I could totally relate. In The Daily Beast, Sean McCarthy

41
00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:47.479
writes, that this was the year
that TikTok ruined comedy thinks Matt Rife.

42
00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:53.199
Sean recaps Matt Rife's year back in
January, and Matt re released his debut

43
00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:58.400
special titled OnlyFans on the eight hundred
Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. Then in February,

44
00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.879
Ryfe put out his second special,
Matthew Stephen Wright on the Platform Moment.

45
00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.599
He re released that hour on his
YouTube channel in April that has gotten

46
00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:13.000
more than eighteen million views. Then
the Netflix special Natural Selection, Rife's third

47
00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.840
comedy special in less than a year. Maybe that's why the material wasn't good.

48
00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.120
I mean, how much do you
have? McCarthy wrote, Because TikTok

49
00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.000
broke Matt Rife big time. His
example somehow broke the brains of many other,

50
00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:27.919
mostly older comedians in the industry who
suddenly believed they needed their own crowd

51
00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.319
work clips to replicate Rife's rise to
fame. Sam Morrel included captioning and reaction

52
00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.960
shots with the crowd work portions of
his special. Joe List made a running

53
00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.680
joke of hoping to generate clips in
his latest special. Even Joe Parra got

54
00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.159
in on the action. A flood
of crowd work only specials hit YouTube,

55
00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.439
Matteo Lane, Big, Jay Stavros, Jessica Kerson, t J Miller.

56
00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:51.520
Kyle Kanade mocked the trend on his
social media and told Sean earlier in the

57
00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:53.439
year, I hate bad crowd work
and the fact that people will perceive it

58
00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.719
as this easy bounce towards a viral
clip. And so everybody's putting out clips

59
00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.240
where I'm like, I would delete
this from my phone if I took at

60
00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:02.240
a show, you put it online. There's this mentality of like, just

61
00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.400
as long as there's content out there, Kyle says, I'm like, Wow,

62
00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.439
what a sea of cramp we've created. McCarthy wright, So what's the

63
00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:12.479
problem. Gary Goleman lays it out
in the opening minutes of his special.

64
00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.479
Gary says, I just want to
let the people in the front rows know

65
00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:17.040
they're safe for me asking what they
do for work. I remember going to

66
00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.399
comedy shows when I was in high
school and later, and the comedian will

67
00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.399
ask somebody what they did for work
and then proceeds to ridicule their profession.

68
00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.720
And I just remember thinking, if
I'm Emverer in the front row a comedy

69
00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.000
show and a comedian and asked me
what I do for work? I'll stand

70
00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:30.680
up and say, what do you
do for work? I didn't come here

71
00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:35.759
to be forcibly cast in your TikTok
video, you lazy hack. Sewan adds

72
00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.399
the dirtiest little secret about crowd work, it's not actually stand up comedy.

73
00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:44.199
It instead transforms the stand up comedians
to the thing they claim to hate the

74
00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.759
most and respect the least. Improvisers
Canaine says, if anything, I feel

75
00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.040
bad for the TikTok stores, like, all right, well you have a

76
00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:53.240
lot of followers. How you going
to monetize that, Well, we'll putting

77
00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.680
you in a comedy club. But
they're not stand ups. They're TikTok folks,

78
00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.079
and they go and sell hundreds of
tickets and people get there and are

79
00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.319
like, oh yeah, yeah,
ten minutes of material. Now you're stage

80
00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.600
for an hour. I don't even
blame them. I blame the managers.

81
00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.920
Whoever gets a hold of them just
puts them out there to make that quick

82
00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:08.000
percentage of follow them before they burn
out and realize they're not stand ups.

83
00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:15.879
Man. Late stage capitalism affects us
all. Rolling Stone dusted off what they

84
00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:20.800
called a previously unpublished interview with Tom
Smothers from twenty fifteen under the headline Tom

85
00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:25.240
Smothers made the Variety Show cool,
quoting Tom, I didn't want to do

86
00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.759
the standard bs. I've shared this
article in the Facebook group which is Daily

87
00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.680
Comedy News podcast group. Some mothers
talked about fighting with the network and he

88
00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.000
had this theme song they wanted to
do, and the network was like,

89
00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.199
no, no, no, you
gotta have something like Bob Open thanks for

90
00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.839
the memories, something memorable. His
mother said. We thought, oh Christ,

91
00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.959
that was the first argument we had. Rolling Stone asked about booking rock

92
00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.120
bands like the Who did you get
grief for that? No, none at

93
00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.879
all. Occasionally something would come up, like when Sonny and Share were on

94
00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.759
and there was this big controversy they
could see her nipples through her duress.

95
00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.920
They wanted to put bandages over them. Jefferson Airplane came out and Grace Slick

96
00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.040
did Crown of Creation in blackface.
I don't know why no one said a

97
00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:04.600
thing. Some mothers also talked about
doing pot jokes. Did the censors flag

98
00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:08.399
it? Yeah. We kept making
up things for it, like Mary Jane

99
00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.759
and a couple of different names I've
forgotten. And we had Goldie Keith who

100
00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.360
did the weather report. She said, if you have unslightly roaches around the

101
00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:16.800
office, send them in. We'll
take care of them. And then we

102
00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:20.319
got rolled up joints in the mail
from the kids. Brian Reagan is playing

103
00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:24.680
Minneapolis tonight for New Year's Eve?
Does he always work New Year's Eve?

104
00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.000
Brian said, I used to like
to take it off and host a party,

105
00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.560
but I'm changing my tune on that. It's good for audiences because they

106
00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:31.399
can go and see my show and
still go out afterwards and party as long

107
00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.439
as we don't have to be on
stage at midnight. I used to ring

108
00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.319
in the New Year at comedy clubs
and the staff on hand out noisemakers.

109
00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.079
Adults think they're adults, but they
act like children when they're given something that

110
00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.959
makes noise. Reagan talked about where
he likes to film his specials, specifically

111
00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.120
theaters. Brian says, as much
as I like comedy clubs, they often

112
00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.720
have people at tables. That means
people of drinks and are looking at each

113
00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.399
other and they start talking to each
other. Becomes less of a show and

114
00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.720
more of a party. In a
theater, the audience is more focused when

115
00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.120
people are in a place that's cool
and fun and comfortable. It puts them

116
00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:00.839
in a good mood. One less
hurdle you have to jump over. If

117
00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.800
I'm not funny, at least there's
some beautiful stuff to look at. And

118
00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.240
that is your comedy news for the
year. Huh, See what I did

119
00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.160
there. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They

120
00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:11.879
might like it too. If you
want to support the show, you can

121
00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.399
go to buy me at coffee dot
com, slash Daily Comedy News, or

122
00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.759
if you're hip to podcasting two point
zero, you can use the Fountain app

123
00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.920
and stream some SATs in my direction. You can click on the show notes

124
00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.879
if you want to learn more about
that Happy New Year, See you tomorrow.