Gianmarco Soresi is WRONG about reclining PLUS Marcello Hernandez’s Soccer-to-SNL Path,

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. You're excited for the World Cup final today. I'll be in the backyard watching it on the laptop. It's summer. I can't go inside. Three in the afternoon. I'm sorry. Guys. Love the World Cup though. USA Today caught up with Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing and does one thing well, maybe possibly he does two things. Well, is the second thing being funny? No, no, it's playing soccer. Morselo Hernandez was recently spotted at a World Cup game, specifically Columbia versus Portugal. He was photographed in a suite with John Leguizamo and Matt Damon. Pretty fancy. Marcelo said he introduced Matt Damon to both his mother and younger cousin. He says, of hanging with the actor, You're next to Matt Damon for long enough that you like. If I don't say something, I'm an idiot. So I asked questions and I try to get some game from him. When I played soccer, if I was ever with somebody was playing on a better team or older than me, you try to ask them questions. USA Today tells us hernand has played soccer right up through college at John Carroll University, he quit three years into his sophomore year to pursue comedy. Boy, we could have had one of the great soccer players of all time. Instead, we have a guy who does one thing on Saturday Night Live, According to the university, after a day of classes in soccer practice at night, Hernandez would uber to comedy clubs to work on his set.

1:21 Eventually he realized he had to choose whose Wisely he did not. Hernandez recalls, I had to tell the team with tears in my eyes that I'm quitting. That drove me to work hard because I was like, if I'm gonna quit something that I'm kind of good at, I should get really good at this new thing. Unfortunately, Marcelo's plan failed, and he got kind of good at the new thing, but not really good at it. He does one thing pretty well. Hernandez believes he's probably better now at comedy than he ever was at soccer. Oh, he must have been a terrible soccer player then. Despite playing Division IREE in college and earning an All first team honors in Miami as a high school senior must have been a pretty crappy league. Marseillo says soccer is a full time job because you're taking care of your body, and I think that SNL is a full time job because of the schedule. You're also taking care of your mind.

2:04 You're trying to write stuff. It's a much more mental game than a physical game. But pretty demanding for sure. I'm curious about that trying to write stuff part, because I haven't seen it. Establishing comedian John Marco Siraisi continuing to do mainstream press. He talked to Wirecutter and had some travel tips for us. Hi. I'm John Marco Siaisi, and I'm a stand up comedian and host of The Downside podcast. I travel a lot. I would say, at least on average, two flights a week. It gets constant. It's crazy. I am here today with advice for how to be the perfect airplane seat mate. Is it annoying if they lean the seat in front of you all the way back? It's what it's there for, that's the function. It can be annoying. I think, like if it's brutal, you could ask, but that's just what you sign up for.

3:01 John Marco I'm a big fan. He's the Community of the Year twenty twenty six. He of course is wrong about reclining. Reclining should be permanently banned on all planes. You don't need to recline. You just do it because the button's there. Same as when everybody first got free minutes and everybody was on their cell phone all the time on trains and planes and being annoying. You were just doing it because you had the minutes. He didn't have anything to say. Same thing the reclining button. If we take the button away from you, you'll be mad for like two seconds one time, and you will get over it. No more reclining. Let's keep it technical. Wired had caught up with Pete Holmes. Remember we did this a little bit last Sunday while I saved some of it Beach Friday. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Pete Holmes sells us he has eighty unread texts. He says, the thing I do most so often when I read a text is market is unread.

3:45 That was the greatest achievement of tech in the past ten years. If my wife texts me, it's different, but a lot of times I feel people just bugging you. It's like, do I work for you? When did we start? Somehow, all of life feels like we work at an office. Even your friendships are like, I gotta get back to Jennifer. I think a change might be coming. AI is going to lead to so much disinformation in your inbox, even in your text, that we're all going to slowly walk away. We're just going to be like amish. We're going to be hanging out in person and talking again. We're going to be meeting up and having coffees way more. How many unread emails does he have? Fifty five, four hundred and twenty six. He says, If you reply to an email more than three times, you have to start a fresh thread. I'm not going to dig through. I'm getting better at being like you don't have to do that. I don't think it's a show business thing. I just think I'm forty seven years old. What computer does Peede Holmes have? He says, a MacBook Air with the M two chip. I had a slightly thin, kind of fun one that snapped in my backpacks. I just bought this pretty thoughtlessly, which kind of a shame. This was my I just need a laptop. Laptop. There have been other laptops I've had far more feelings about. There was a MacBook era eleven inch that I still think about. It was the smallest thing I've ever seen in my life.

4:44 And there was a MacBook that was seventeen inches. It was huge. I still think about those computers like their old friends. Favorite news source of Pete Holmes none zero. I get my news from people. This is my unreliable, biased news source, and there's nothing more fun than watching them fumble through the mismatch. They can't even remember why. They're angry and scared. Favorite subreddit none. The folks over at McCalls asked Jeff Foxworthy what inspired the you who might be a redneck one lighters. Jeff said, back when I was starting out, would go to places like New York and LA. Guys would go, look, Jeff, I don't hurt your feelings, but you got to take voice lessons and lose that stupid accent you got. It was all good natured fun, but they were always saying I was an old redneck from Georgia. One night, I was in Michigan and I was telling them about how I wish I could be sitting at a tree in the morning because it was deer season. They were laughing and calling me a redneck. I said, if you don't think you have rednecks in Michigan. The club we're at now is attached to a bowling alley that is valley parking. That night, when I got back to the hotel, I decided to write ten ways you know if you're a redneck. The next night, not only do people laugh, they were pointing each other. That's when I thought, if I could have ten, can I ride thirty? And if I can ride thirty, can I rate one hundred? Jeff? Of all the highlights in your career, what's the most memorable? Jeff said, If I had to pick one, it would be the first time doing Johnny Courson. Back then, there were only three channels.

5:53 That if Johnny like you long enough to call you over the couch, that made your career. So I was out there doing five hundred shows a year, grinding. When I finally got the Tonight Show and could do my six minutes, they pulled me aside and tell me, if Johnny doesn't like you, he'll just clap. If he likes you, he'll give you the big OK sign, and if he loves you, he'll call you over to the couch. At the end of my six minutes, I was scared to look because it was like Caesar deciding whether I live or die. But it looked over and there's Johnny waving me over to the couch. My only plan when I started doing comedy was to be on Johnny Carson. I remember going home that night after the show, just laying there in the dark. I stared at the ceiling and couldn't stop thinking about how I'd made Johnny laugh. That's all I wanted to do. Isn't that fantastic? The Laconia Daily Sun caught up with my former coworker, Jim Brewer. Jim told the story about the time Jie Peshe, he was a guest on the show. Brewer used to do a Peeshe impression. Jim meets Pesche and says he'll never forget it. After about ten minutes, he didn't know if he had disrespected the actor. Jim said, he confronts me.

6:44 He gives me the whole Good Fellows Tommy seen scared the living snot out of me. I was like, I'll never do the sketch again, but then he said, ah, busted you, chops. I thought I was gonna have to pay him. Commission star trek Ruiner Pat Oswald talked about how he dresses for different occasions. He told Forbes, I have a travel suit, which is a nicely pair of jeans, really good walking shoes, and then this short sleeved hoodie with a pocket in front that I could shove stuff in when I'm in the airport. Then I have my wheeled two me suitcase there is a very specific one that fits in the overheads, and then my two me briefcase that slides onto it perfectly. When I'm on stage, it's always a T shirt and a button up shirt. Nothing crazy, but I dress nice for the stage. It's same clothing during the days I have to travel. Keep it really simple. I don't like to have too much stuff, especially on a travel day when I have enough anxiety because the airports have gotten so insane. Now I make the preparation for travel just no brain or stuff. Here's his travel ritual. Pat Noswald tells Forbes, this is gonna sound kind of insane. I bring a ziplock bag of PG tips, tea bags and When I land, I buy some honey, and I always asked for an electric tea kettle in the hotel room so I can make myself that specific cup of tea, two bags honey. That's a reset for me and helps me calm down. And The Toronto Guardian as a series where they speak with local comedians.

7:52 How about comedian Nick Burden. Nick practices what he calls beautiful nonsense or freestyle yelling, a crowd heavy and prophesyational style shape more by people watching as a self described social butterfly than by any specific comedic influences. That's very complicated there, Nick Burton. He explains, although I do have a lot of material, everyone has a story. Because I do a lot of international shows, I enjoy hearing about different people's lives, perspectives, et CETERA. Favorite comedian growing up Dave Chappelle, because literally every millennial group on the Spell Show. Favorite comedian right now sounds basic in mainstream, but honestly, there's nobody more effortlessly funny than Shane Gillis. Dude's an animal. Favorite place you've performed comedy Budapest, amazing city with a vibrant nightlife scene and super cool venues. So many people from all over the world go there to party. So every time I've done a show there, you always get like fifteen plus nationalities in the audience. Super cool. He was asked to tell them a joke about Toronto, and he said, nah, I'm off the clock. That's your comedy news for today. At a summer Sunday, enjoy the World Cup.

8:52 I'll see you tomorrow.