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Callaroga Shark Media from the basement where it's literally fifty degrees.
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My boilers are not working. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with
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your daily comedy news. I am all discombobulated. It is
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freezing in the house like cauld as. I have this
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space heater and can kind of heat up one room.
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It's just it's awful. There's supposedly coming on Sunday. Yikes,
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So I'm a little messed up here. Billboard did release
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the top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century,
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if you want to check that out on Billboard dot com.
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I was hoping that today I would be able to
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record my thoughts on it and put it out as
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a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, and it would
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be in the regular feet at the end of December.
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But not going to get to that today. Johnny Mack
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is running late. And you know I mentioned I had
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the wedding last night, so as I record this, it's
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before the wedding. But I have to shower, shave, and
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put on real clothes. It's one thing to sit here
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dressed like Adam Sandler recording a podcast. It's another to
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look like an adult and then people like, hey, is
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that George Clooney, And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
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I get that all the time. I did record the
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Comedy Survivor Selection Show that'll come out as a bonus
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feed in the middle of the day Monday. So Monday,
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I'll give you a regular episode which I haven't recorded yet.
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And the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that came out really
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well and put a lot of work into that. One
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had fun with that, all right. Today's news, Kevin Hart
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was on Diary of a CEO, and Kevin said, if
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life ended today, I could cross my legs comfortably and
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be okay. I made sure I applied myself to the
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best of my ability. I tried my best to put
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those I loved in a better position so that they
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could see more and do more. My last name and
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my family name is much stronger today than it was yesterday.
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The idea of the world is that something I was
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able to live and understand better because I was blessed
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and fortunate enough to travel in meat. I was an
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energy and source of good to bring people closer together
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through all the things I've done, so it all connects
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and I'm okay. I'm okay. If it stopped, it stopped.
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What I'm not okay with is w well. I have
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the bandwidth of good health, great mind. I can go,
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I can do it. I can get there. I'm not
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okay with wasting that time. Those are good smart words
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by card If you haven't watched his special, it'll probably
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unless something surprises me this week wind up as my
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number two special of the year, Very very funny. Gary
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Golman was asked what's the worst and most illogical state
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abbreviation and why is it MO for Missouri. Gary said
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they must have gone in alphabetical order and got to
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Michigan and Mississippi before Missouri. Then they got to Missouri
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and the next non s letter was Oh, that must
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be how they did it. It's not intuitive at all.
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They should have based it on population. Gary was asked
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to talk about the Chicago comedy scene. He says, I've
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been really impressed over the years. There were a lot
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of good comedians in the eighties, white guys from Chicago
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who reminded me of Boston comedians, but with a different accent.
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The thing I noticed in Chicago's on the top five
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for this The closer city is to university. I couldn't
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have gotten into the better my act does. It never
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fails the further I go from a good college the
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harder I bomb Chicago has a Northwestern University of Chicago
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and others. It's not about me being smart. It's about
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how I try to sound smart, and it's appreciated there.
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I found there were more comedians trying to sound dumb.
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You spend five minutes watching them and you think that
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person's not dumb. Those jokes that you clever, you're insulting
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my intelligence. Billboard asked Josh Johnson if there were any
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challenges making the transition from writer to correspondent to anchor.
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Josh shedd it's probably hitting refresh after each show. It's
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not a bad thing, but you could be on cloud
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nine after you do a show. Right after the rap,
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there's an element of okay, but do we have to
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come back tomorrow and start again. At the end of
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a week, you get to enjoy everything that you did
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and be like, wow, that's a great experience. Day to day,
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hitting refresh is sometimes a challenge, although I'm used to
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it from doing so much stand up on the road.
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You're in West Palm Beach one day, Jacksonville the next day,
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and maybe Tallahassee the next I feel the same way
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about my YouTube channel, where I post every Tuesday. Variety
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was focused on Morgan Jay, and they wrote, Morgan Jay
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is not your typical stand up comedian. Variety rights. Armed
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with an acoustic guitar and autotune drench microphone, Morgan Jay
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sprints down the ass of the theaters in which he performs,
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bantering with his fans and leading them in song. He
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pours tequila shots into women's mouth straight from the bottle,
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convinces his couples on first dates to give each other
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a smooch, and push his wheelchair bound audience members across
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the venues, recruiting bad ease to sit on their laps.
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All the while he stairs directly into the lens of
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a roaming camera that follows him around and projects his
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face onto a JumboTron. He's got a health and fitness
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regiment equipped for a pop star. That regiment running every
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other day, jim every other day, yoga, twenty minutes of
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stretching a day, vocal exercises every day while I'm touring.
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No alcohol, no weed, no smoking whatsoever, and no meals
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after eight PM. Now. I love that because right when
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I was reading vocal exercises every day, my voice cracked
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and I'm leaving it in. And I worked out five
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days in a row, and then I had to teach
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Thursday morning, and then Friday I had to record this
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and go to a wedding and not watch Adam Sailor
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Jay Kelly and Today's Saturday. I'm not going to get
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to work out either, because I didn't do the weekend
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shows yet. Uh, this is how you wind up fat
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well that in the seven thirty Am cheeseburgers I ate
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when I was twenty four years old producing morning radio
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in New York City. That's a story for another day.
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Morgan Jay says, it's an investment for people come to
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the show. I'd hate not to be able to give
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my fans the best show I can give them. Variety
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did some math. Ticket plus parking plus merch plus two
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drinks plus hotel can easily tell them more than five
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hundred dollars, so you don't need a hotel go home.
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Jay sett of minds two things that comedy purist might
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scoff at, music and crowd work. People get so upset
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about the crowd work. Did you watch Matt Raife special?
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It's funny Variety really waxed his car, They wrote, Just
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as Bo Burnham might be the quintessential comic to rise
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from YouTube, Morgan Jay embodies comedy's TikTok era. He posts
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about one crowd work clip per day to his nine
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point four million followers, asking people where they're from, who
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they're with, and whether they will sleep together after the show,
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all while talk Singing into a pitch corrected mic, he says,
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crowd work, It's only the first twenty minutes of his set.
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The rest of his show follows a more rigid structure,
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with pre written songs and interludes, a traditional stand up comedy,
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and no, the autotune is not always on. Interestingly, after college,
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Morgan Jay was an intern on NBC's Tonight Show when
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it was hosted by Conan O'Brien. He explained Conan would
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have three or four pages of jokes for the opening monologue,
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and the interns were asked to come down and watching
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rehearse so he could get a live reaction. He'd read
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the jokes immediately go no, no, no, yes no. He
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wasn't precious with the material. After the Tonight show Mortgage
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Jay was a bike to our guide plugging his own
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show to tourist cycling around Central Park. Then he got
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a job hawking iPhones. He said ninety percent of working
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at the Apple stores resetting passwords. That's funny. He started
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doing the autotude crowd work during the pandemic, but says
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they did do a grind. When I started going viral
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on TikTok, I had ten years of experience and a
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backlog of material. Or people will blow up on TikTok
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who don't have twenty minutes of material. People see me
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as this TikTok comedian. There are a lot of other
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sizes of myself. I'd like to show. These. Glar brothers
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talked about being twins and said being twins, even from
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an early age, was an attention getter. Back when we
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were born in the seventies, it was rare to see twins.
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You rarely saw a double wide stroller. I think as
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we got older, there was a lot of attention on us.
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We love getting laughs and being connected to people. When
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we started out, it was hard to live in Saint
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Louis and give yourself a lot of opportunities in the
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Comedy World. We went to the University of Michigan for
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college and really started to develop our comedy chops. Then
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we had a choice either go to New York or
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la if you really wanted to try and make a
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run at this business. So we chose New York because
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we love New York and the energy there. I worked
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with those guys a little bit. They are cool guys.
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Gave them a show on serious as most of the
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stories I tell you. I couldn't get anyone to give
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me any budget for it, and it was not a
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lot of money, but you know, you got to give
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people some money. So many missed opportunities. We tried to
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give Amy Schumer a show before she super popped, but
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no money. Chang Wang caught up with Cincinnati dot Com
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sincey dot Com wrote, that's understandable in a club where
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there's fifty one hundred people, but if a thousand people
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are in the line, you'd be in the lobby twice.
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As long as you're on stage, Shang said, I try
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to keep it moving. It's quick, photo quick. Hello. Charging
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feels weird to me to just say hello to people.
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It feels so nice that people will express how excited
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and happy they are for the show, the topic they
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are charging for meet and greets. A lot of comics
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do that. Shang said, I love seeing generations of a
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family have a reason to spend time together. Someone in
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Milwaukee thank me because they get to spend an hour
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and a half with their mom and they rarely get
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to laugh and spend time together like that. I might
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not hang after shows forever, but right now it's touching
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and sweet to me. Fun interview here Cincinnati dot Com
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doing their research said I ran across a wedding page
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that said you're marrying Rachel Rowlands next summer in Oh Yeah.
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I don't know how many Sheng Wang's are out there,
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but it seems like a singular name. Comedian Shengwan said,
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you know, I saw that recently. I don't know what
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that is, but it feels like a scam. There's no
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photos of who they are. Since he said, it says
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please send presents to Rachel Shen Wing said, exactly, that's
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such a good scam. At the University of Southern California,
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you can minor in comedy. You can take classes in
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stand up improv, magic, and medical clowning. About fifteen to
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twenty undergrads complete the minor each academic year. The La
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Times took a look at this program. I found this interesting.
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Launched in the fall of twenty fifteen by the School
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of Dramatic Arts. Some of the students are seeking careers
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as actors. Others are just in careers in medicine, science
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and engineering. For them, comedy offers a chance to develop
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skills that could be useful in their hope for professions
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and their daily lives. There's an intro to stand up
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class that's also the medical clowning one, in that students
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learn how to interact with hospital patients. Along the way,
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they're taught how to juggle and perform magic tricks. The
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professor of the said, some of the students have gone
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on and graduate from medical school. That's fun. One of
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the students, Malaya, who wants to be a doctor, said,
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at first, my dad was like, why am I paying
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tuition for this? I have a college aged daughter. I
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encourage her to take fun elective. She actually took a
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sailing class, which was really great. Paris Sachet is on
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Vulture's list of comedians You should Know and Will Know
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and ask two questions Best comed advice worst comedy advice.
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I always enjoy these answers. Worst women aren't normally funny,
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so be grateful. Every time you get booked on a show,
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make sure you stand out because they didn't have to
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book a woman. Best comedy advice was if you're nervous,
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and no matter how big the room is, if you
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look straight to the back, it'll look like you're looking
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at the entire room. It'll give off that you're making
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eye contact with the entire crowd. That is a great tip. Also,
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be funny on stage, but'd be likable off stage. Roy
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Wood Junior advised her don't leave any meat on the
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bone when it comes to a topic. He said, rather
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than talking about ten different topics, you can literally talk
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about one topic until you get everything out of that
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one topic that you can also on that list. Ismail
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Lufti Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best when I
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was starting out in Florida and older comics on me
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performing one night and said, you give a hoot, Keep
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giving a hoot. Worst. I once wrote for CBS's After Midnight.
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Other than writing games and stuff, one of the duties
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of the writers was to serve as a Shirpa for
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the different comedian. Guess who'd come on One day, I