Dave Chappelle new special New Year's Eve! PLUS Matt Rife says he's trying to be ugly

WEBVTT

1
00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:12.759
Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

2
00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:17.399
Dave Chappelle has announced a new Netflix
special New Year's Eve, which is good

3
00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:20.239
for old folks like me that usually
stay in that night and just watch TV.

4
00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:24.760
Perfect. Thank you Dave, who
use The special is currently untitled.

5
00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:27.320
It was announced via a short teaser. In the teaser, you see his

6
00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.760
C logo let up with neon lighting, and in the background you hear Chappelle

7
00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.479
thanking the crowd. The phrase Dave
is back then appears, followed by the

8
00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.920
release date of December thirty. First. This is good news for me because

9
00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.679
right after a Christmas in New Year's
is usually a slow news week. Dave

10
00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.560
often makes jokes that don't go over
well with everybody, and then everyone will

11
00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:49.280
debate it for two weeks. Perfect. Thank you Dave. Yesterday, when

12
00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:52.560
I was doing the Jason Cinnama New
York Times story, in his article,

13
00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:55.640
he had mentioned that Gary Golman special
would be out December twenty first. I

14
00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.560
wasn't sure we had actually heard that
before, and I thought maybe I just

15
00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:03.200
forgot, But now the official press
release is out. The Max Original comedy

16
00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.560
special Gary Goldman born on Third Base
debuts December twenty first on Max. There's

17
00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.159
a trailer and everything, and I
really laughed out loud at this. Let's

18
00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:18.480
listen. I grew up in an
oft ignored sector of Jewish people called poor.

19
00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.000
A heart surgeon will open up your
chest, replace a valve, save

20
00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:34.239
and extend your life. Forty five
dollars copeck a dentist, Phill's miniature potholes,

21
00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.519
cash only today. We'll work on
a payment plan like any other strip

22
00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.560
mall retailer, but you gotta pay. I said to my dad, I

23
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.159
really want to play hockey, said
son go grab the Sports Almanac. There

24
00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:51.000
was zero Jewish players in the Hockey
Hall of Fame. My dad said,

25
00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:57.159
just for a point of comparison,
more Jews have been the Messiah. Quality

26
00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.000
joke there, Gary Goleman the official
description. Gary goh Ohlman offers up his

27
00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:05.079
hilarious insights on a range of topics, from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes,

28
00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.520
all with a generous helping of his
inventive humor and absurdism. Looking forward

29
00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.759
to that one, Oh, back
me up to Chappelle. That's really going

30
00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.360
to screw up the end of the
year list. I guess My end of

31
00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:19.719
the year list will be through Ricky
Terve's December twenty fifth release, and I

32
00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:23.800
don't know if Chappelle makes it all
revise it. I guess maybe I can

33
00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:25.599
convince Netflix hook me up with a
screener. That would be kind of cool.

34
00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:30.120
Here's a terrible idea from Dan Ackroyd. He's working on a possible Trading

35
00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:35.159
Places sequel. Dude, it's been
forty something years. Don't do this,

36
00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.199
Dan said. Last year, I
generated a sequel for Eddie and I that

37
00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.639
I submitted to a paramount. It's
good, man, it's good. No

38
00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:46.039
one's asking for that. Dan.
Men's Journal noticed that Bert Krascher looks like

39
00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.319
he's lost some weight. Krascher posted
a social media before and after picks of

40
00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.560
his forty five pound weight loss,
captioned me at two seventy five versus me

41
00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.400
at two thirty. Men's Journal says, beyond dropping the pounds, it's clear

42
00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:01.599
from his defined abdominals, arms,
and shoulders that Bert the Conqueror Store has

43
00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:06.280
also been hitting the gym. The
Hollywood Reporter asked Wanda Sykes, how's it

44
00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.000
different to shoot a special as opposed
to doing a regular stand up show.

45
00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.639
Wanda Sykes said, when you're filming
it, you're definitely in your head a

46
00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:13.560
little bit. I shoot two shows, so the first one was like,

47
00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.639
Okay, let me get something in
the can. Let me just make sure

48
00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.280
we got it structurally and technically.
In the second show, I just let

49
00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:22.080
loose, have fun, actually improv
some stuff sometimes and I stumble on stuff

50
00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.000
because I already have the safety of
knowing I have one. We always end

51
00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:28.240
up using the second show wander how
much thought did you put know what you

52
00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:30.879
wear? She said. We were
in Paris for Christmas. My wife is

53
00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:31.719
French and we were there for the
holidays, and I knew we were going

54
00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.759
to shoot special in February, so
I was like, man, I had

55
00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:36.560
to go figure out what I want
to wear. And I knew I wanted

56
00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.919
something different. I didn't want to
go in a suit. I wanted to

57
00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:40.319
be a little bit more casual and
have a bit more fun. Because I'm

58
00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:43.599
rolling around on the ground. I'm
much more physical in this one. And

59
00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:45.800
we're shopping and I saw this jacket. It's red, white and blue,

60
00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:46.800
it's denim, and I was like, that's it. This is what I'm

61
00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:51.039
going to do in Philadelphia. The
pitch KC caught up with Chris Tucker.

62
00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.719
He's been doing stand up for thirty
years, and the pitch said, what

63
00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:55.000
are the audiences like these days?
Tucker said, oh, man, you

64
00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:58.080
know what, They're hungry. You
know, people are hungry they laugh.

65
00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:00.080
It's one of the reasons I want
to do this because people are saying they

66
00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:01.680
want to laugh, they want to
get out and have some fun, and

67
00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:04.159
they're just hungry. Man. I
love it. They're more intelligent, they're

68
00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:08.199
smarter these days because there's so much
entertainment out there and you got to come

69
00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.159
with your game, which I love. The energy's great these days. He's

70
00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.439
working clean ish and said it just
made me better. I'm just better,

71
00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.040
able to expand on things more.
It's just who I am. It may

72
00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.639
it's definitely it may be still definitely
edgy, but it's just much better when

73
00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:21.439
I was younger, because when I
was younger, all I had to talk

74
00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:26.360
about was when I was younger.
But now I've had many different experiences,

75
00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.480
grown out of a man. Now, I've got so much to talk about,

76
00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:30.480
my point of view in the world. People are really getting a lot

77
00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.639
when they come to my show.
Vogue spoke with Matt Rife and they said,

78
00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.120
a lot of your audience goes wild, specifically for you. One woman

79
00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:41.199
proposition to you during your set.
Does it ever make you uncomfortable? Matt

80
00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.199
Riife said, every single time,
because like I just want to do jokes.

81
00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.360
I just want to go on stage, tell jokes, maybe talk to

82
00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.839
a person or too, see if
anything funny happens, and that's it.

83
00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.879
It's uncomfortable because there's a lot of
double standards, Like I've had my nipple

84
00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.600
bit at a meet and greet before. Can you imagine if a female comic

85
00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.439
was getting treated like this by guys
it would never fly right. But of

86
00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.279
course there's zero empathy or sympathy for
guying because I'm not in physical danger.

87
00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.000
So it's a bit strange. Flattering
that they care that much, but it's

88
00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.959
a bit strange. How does he
feel about being a heart throb? He

89
00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.879
says, it's got pros and cons. I suppose the pros being you get

90
00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.439
such a massively passionate fan base,
But the flip side is people take you

91
00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:15.839
less seriously as a comic, so
it's a weird thing. I have to

92
00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.519
personally choose how you want to balance
that. If people think I'm a heart

93
00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:20.720
throb cool. As long as you
respect my comedy and like to laugh,

94
00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.800
you can think whatever you want about
me. I don't care, but I

95
00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.120
think it creates a lot more hate
that it does positive effects. Besides getting

96
00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.160
my teeth done, I've never done
anything to enhance my looks. That and

97
00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.800
going to the gym, which I
do more for than just aesthetic reason.

98
00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:34.959
So if anyone has a problem with
that, that's their problem. I'm like

99
00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.959
not doing anything. He laughs and
says, I'm trying so hard to be

100
00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.120
as ugly as possible. I promise
you. It's one of those things.

101
00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.519
Though at a certain point I'm gonna
stop talking about it because I know I'm

102
00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.519
more than that. And the more
people only look at me for like that

103
00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.199
one aspect of myself, the less
they care about my comedy and my entertainment

104
00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:49.839
and things I want to create.
So it's like, yeah, can we

105
00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:53.720
reference these things now? But eventually
I'm gonna be like, can we just

106
00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:57.759
focus on the work. I just
bought a new phone during the break.

107
00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.560
My wife would call me lately.
Every time I go to use it,

108
00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.279
I push the button and it's like, hang on, man, I Getsina

109
00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.839
sag. It's not like I don't
use my phone. I am a professional

110
00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.879
podcaster and I need it. That's
what I did during the break. What

111
00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.800
did you do? By the way, phones not cheap these days. I

112
00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.720
paid for it outright, and I
got myself the newest, greatest phone in

113
00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.199
my family. As we went into
the break, I had the oldest phone

114
00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:24.319
in the family. Now I have
the best one. On Wednesday, the

115
00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:29.040
broadcast networks will come together to honor
Norman Lear. They'll run a title card

116
00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:33.319
at eight pm Eastern on ABC,
NBC, Fox, the CWNCBS Nice Job.

117
00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:38.560
On January first, Fox will celebrate
Mash, the comedy of the Change

118
00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:43.120
Television, in a new two hour
special That's random, right, Like why

119
00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.399
Mash? I'd Mash one of my
favorite things of all time, believe me?

120
00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.079
But why that now? The special
centers around previously on aired interviews with

121
00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:56.000
original cast members Alan Alda, Gary
Bergoff, William Christopher, Jammie Farr,

122
00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.639
Mike Farrell, Wayne Rodgers, and
Loretta Switt. Wayne Rodgers dead and I

123
00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.040
believe William Christopher is dead. Interesting, I guess these have been sitting around,

124
00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.319
Fox says in these intimate, highly
personal remembrances, the creation and evolution

125
00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.720
of the show's iconic characters are revealed, alongside rare and never before seen behind

126
00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.959
the scenes footage, photos and stories. Wayne Rodgers passed away in twenty seventeen.

127
00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.480
I didn't make that up. William
Christopher passed away in twenty sixteen.

128
00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:23.839
I didn't make that up either.
Now what's weird is the press release says

129
00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:27.680
series stars Larry Lynnville dead, Harry
Morgan dead. They're not saying dead,

130
00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:31.199
I'm saying dead. Mcclaan Stevenson dead
and David Ogden Stiers, who's also dead,

131
00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.920
are remembered through a collection of clips
from the series as well. So

132
00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:41.000
are they Why are they separate than
Wayne Rodgers and William Christopher. This thing

133
00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.839
must have been sitting in the can
for a few years and nobody checked the

134
00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.680
press release. Very very strange.
I'm going to ask this question on the

135
00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:53.319
mash Reddit. Kelsey Grammer spoke to
The Hollywood Reporter about new freezer. Kelsey

136
00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:55.959
says, I believe we have a
home at Paramount Plus for several years to

137
00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.120
come. If there's a Paramount Plus, Kelsey and we certainly have several ideas

138
00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:01.879
for it, it's just what's flushing
out. We're not sure yet. Because

139
00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.720
the writers went on strike and the
actor stayed on strike and everything just sort

140
00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:07.120
of stalled. At least we got
the episodes in Under the Wire before we

141
00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.879
had a lockdown. Where our future
is. Of course, we're going to

142
00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.560
explore the relationship between the father and
the son, and that's natural then involve

143
00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.920
the other characters as well. The
first few episodes of any new TV show

144
00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.720
needs to be sort of dedicated to
the idea of allowing the audience to fall

145
00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.759
in love with the new characters.
I believe that's finally started to take shape.

146
00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.120
Now we have the luxury of saying, well, let's branch off into

147
00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.879
this area that area, go a
little heavier on this storyline, focus a

148
00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.639
little bit more on this member of
the cast. The basis of the show

149
00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.519
is that father son relationship, but
also Frazer's new friendship. Fraser's new life

150
00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:37.879
is third or fourth act. Arguably, that's what we're discovering. We've discovered

151
00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:41.759
that he's probably a bit more mature, maybe still a little bit the same

152
00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.080
sort of nut, but he's grown
some. For him to have been static

153
00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.679
for us to have started right back
in the same show from thirty years ago,

154
00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:48.360
to jump right back into the same
story. It would have been ridiculous

155
00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:50.720
for a man who spent thirty years
of his life and not age would have

156
00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.639
been ridiculous and not grow wiser in
any way. We thought it was important

157
00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:56.279
to give him some sort of new
clothes. They asked him how he feels

158
00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.200
about the term reboot. Kelsey said, we really think of it as new

159
00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.159
Freezer. We don't really think of
it as a reboot because we haven't rebooted

160
00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:07.480
anything. It's just a character that
has not fallen from Grease. He's still

161
00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.440
loved and beloved character and one we
really love playing. I wasn't nervous about

162
00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.840
it necessarily, just that in a
new world we have a new set of

163
00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.919
viewing habits. I figured we'd promoted
it pretty well. I thought there were

164
00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.240
some loyal audience members around who were
really kind of hungry for revisiting the character,

165
00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.519
because we really haven't done comedy like
that in quite some time, and

166
00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:24.200
I think there's a hunger for it. Was he upset that a lot of

167
00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.679
the original cast didn't want to return, Kelsey said, I wasn't upset.

168
00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.360
I had tried to get everybody back
because that's what I thought was the right

169
00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:33.320
and faithful thing to do. I
wanted to remain faithful to them, but

170
00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.360
them not wanted to do it was
fine, certainly their choice. Actually it

171
00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:39.639
led us to some choices that we
wouldn't have done probably, and I was

172
00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:41.320
very happy we did them. I'm
happy we ended up back in Boston.

173
00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:45.679
That never would have happened had the
rest of the cast comeback. BBC Radio

174
00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:50.159
four has launched a podcast, Jokes. Jokes will combine brand new series with

175
00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.600
highlights from the archive quote, providing
comedy fans with an easy way to find

176
00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.200
the latest content from their favorite comedians. To start the feed off the full

177
00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:01.279
series of Nora Meadows Week of Wellness. Uh what caught my eye, They've

178
00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.679
uploaded the twenty nineteen comedy special Phil
Wang Wang's Plaining. I Like Phil.

179
00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.120
A lot new album out today from
Andy Awantsio. It is called Better Living

180
00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:13.519
Through Femistry. Andy is a transgal
comedian from Seattle by way of Baltimore.

181
00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.080
With her ten years of comedy,
she brings a witty, sardonic, and

182
00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.200
slightly profane style to her jokes that
navigate living with disability and a marriage founded,

183
00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:24.799
fueled and fortified by mad lib vows. Andy's open for some Pretty Good

184
00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:30.000
People Kyle Kinade, James Adomian,
Cameron Esposito. Better Living through Femistry out

185
00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:35.960
today on Kill rock Stars Records.
Hulu has shared a trailer for Self Romance,

186
00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.360
which features mac packer Andy Samberg.
The plot line when a middle aged

187
00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:45.159
man Jake Johnson is invited into a
limo by famous actor Andy Samberg, his

188
00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.960
adult life takes a thrilling turn.
Wait, so is Andy playing himself?

189
00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.279
Interesting? Johnson has offered a chance
to win a million dollars in a dark

190
00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.440
web reality TV show where assassins from
all over the world attempts to kill him

191
00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:00.360
for thirty days. The catch he
can't be killed if he's not entirely alone,

192
00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.120
leading him to recruit an unlikely team
to help him survive. His only

193
00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.120
problem, none of his friends or
family believe the game is real. Andy

194
00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.639
Samberg's in this, so is Wayne
Brady excited? It'll be out on January

195
00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:15.919
twelfth, And that's your comedy news
for today. If you like the show,

196
00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.039
tell a friend about it they might
like it too. And if you'd

197
00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:20.440
like to support the show, one
way to do that is go to buy

198
00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.440
me a coffee. Dot com slash
Daily Comedynews, Buy me a coffee dot

199
00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.720
Com Slash Daily Comedy News. There
are some bucks on the tip chair,

200
00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:26.799
and I'll get nice coffee. See
tomorrow.