Jim Norton finds love

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Callaroga Shark Media. You know who's
an idiot? Me, Hi, Johnnie

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Mac idiot with your daily comedy news. If you listened last week, you

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heard me a couple of times saying
I was siphoning off stories, sleeping some

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stories, making the podcast a little
bit shorter to make sure I had enough

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for the holiday weekend. So on
Friday, I sat down to record the

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entire weekend, gave myself the weekend
off, and I finished recording Sunday.

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And then I scrolled up in my
little document. I used that as all

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the news stories, and I found
a second complete file with a script for

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Sunday. I had two full shows
Sunday, so now I have it's out

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of leftovers. I guess a good
problem to having a holiday weekend, right,

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yes. Hi. Jim Norton spoke
to Forbes about his marriage to Nicki.

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Nicki is a twenty six year old
trans woman from Norway. Jim Norton

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is fifty five, and they get
along just great. They recently launched a

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YouTube channel called Nicky and Jim and
Ikki. They upload content that captures moments

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to their life. Jim told Forbes
the most important thing is that people actually

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like it for what it is,
which is just two people showing you the

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piece of their lives. I'm not
trying to convince people politically to do this,

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do that. We don't care.
We just want them to judge us

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on watching us and whether they like
it or not, and just what they're

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seeing. I know Norton in real
life. He's pretty soft spoken, thoughtful.

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You know, he could turn it
on and do the Norton Act in

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a second. And he's naturally funny. But you know, if you see

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him in the hallway and say,
hey, Jim, hey this easy going

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guy. Do Jim and Nicky see
kids in their future? Jim says,

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we're working on a dog. Nicky
shares that she wants children, especially a

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daughter. You can see the chemistry
here. She says, I think it's

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weird if I picture myself being fifty
with no kids, that's very weird.

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But then you're gonna be eighty.
Jim laugh said her joke and says he'd

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get a dog if NICKI will walk
in. Nicky says, I'll walk in.

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I'm so ready for a dog because
I don't have a job. If

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anything, the dog's gonna be my
purpose. Jim says, She makes me

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laugh, even if she's cranky.
I definitely marry the right person. You

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don't see married couples like us where
one partner is transgender and the other is

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not. It's the same. We
fight about the same, It's not this

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earth shattering different thing. Nickcky has
read her DMS and says, I don't

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feel as offended as I thought it
would be. Most people like, you're

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a man. You're not gonna tell
me I look ugly. I think they

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know that I look on and not
to be on my high horse. That's

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reality, and they don't have a
lot to attack me on. They were

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on vacation in Vancouver. Vancouver is
awesome if you've never been, Like,

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I love Vancouver. I wanted to
move there and buy. There's this bike

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shop right across from Stanley Park.
He's it called, Yes Stanley Park.

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There's this bike stopped there. I
rented a bike out of there. I'm

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like, I just want to come
and buy this business and just make this

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my life. Rent bikes to Taurus
is so beautiful. Jim got down on

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one knee with a ring. Norton
said, I wanted to be more traditional

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because so much about our life is
untraditional. If you want to understand Jim

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Norton in real life, that sentence
right there, that's Jim Norton. Also

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Jim Norton in real life. This
next second, then I have a photo

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of her two hours later vomiting into
a bucket. She's got food poisoning or

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something. You realize who you just
said yes to and you threw up.

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Joe Coy he released a trailer for
his upcoming special. I can't blame it

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for you because he doesn't more than
two words without an F bomb. I

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got into this a little bit late
last week, the whole working clean thing,

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like I got no problem with you
working naughty. I got no problem

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with you working square words. But
if you play this Joecoy trailer, and

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again, I can't play it for
you because it's like, uh yeah,

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So I went to the bleeping store
and I talked to the bleeping store clerk

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about the bleepin potato chips, And
he doesn't need to do it. It

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doesn't add to the material at all. It's just during in F bombs for

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no reason. You know those people
that just throw them in like left and

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right. Unbelieve me in real life
when I'm not doing this, I swear

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like a sailor, especially while driving
a car. If you want to know

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what it's like to be if you
want to know what it's like to be

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in the car with me, should
I just pull the audio one of my

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favorite clips. This is Dennis Reynolds
from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia driving one

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hundred percent me. Let's listen.
Oh, merge, merge, come on,

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you seize the goddamn get. People
are so goddamn it efficient. We

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got a damn it. I caurf
you're all, says the gap, You

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all fat bretch not letting you intag. Wanta shot to work? Be like,

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where is the foot all of you? Because I have just stud the

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night flo who causes all that happen? Come on, what's your plan?

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Huh? Two miles an hour?
There you go? Oh god it,

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here's your secondal you cow. So
yeah, that's me, including all the

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gds, uh, including screaming at
the top of my voice, except I

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throw in more F bombs. All
right, So Joe cooy, I get

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it. But you know, I
somehow figure out how to do this podcast

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without dropping in an F bomb.
That'll be on Netflix. It's June fourth,

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you don't know who Joe Cooy is. He's uh. Some call him

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an insult comic because he listen to
this. He went after Taylor Swift ones.

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This was vicious. As you know. We came on after a football

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doubleheader. H the big difference between
the Golden Globes and the NFL. On

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the Golden Globes, we have fewer
shots of Taylor Swift. I swear Taylor

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did not deserve that. Joe Cooy
Jim Jefferies, this is one of the

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stories I tell you always holding on
to before I realized, oh, you

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have one podcast script, too many, too many stories. He was talking

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to The Daily Mail about being heckled. He's been punched twice by heckler's.

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Jim says he's not the best at
dealing with them. Jim tells us if

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you google Jim Jeffries punched, you'll
see what people do with me when they

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heckle. I've actually been punched on
stage twice, but it's only been caught

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on film once. One of the
ways you can pot the show is you

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got to buy me a coffee.
Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I'm

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actually shaking my cup here, but
you can't hear it. Let me tap

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the mic with it, because that's
not a coffee, that's a smoothie.

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I like this smoothie chain, right. What is this one here? Beach

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bum with dark chocolate. My daughter
just picked this up for me. So

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if you go to buy me a
coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and

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you throw a couple bucks in the
tip jar, you gotta drive right past

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the National Donut Chain and hit the
smoothie place, and boy, these are

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yummy. David Letterman announce the next
two guests on what is his show called?

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My Next Guess is right? Isn't
that what it's called? Whatever?

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The Netflix thing? Miley Cyrus and
Charles Barkley. David Letterman's show on Netflix

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returns June twelfth. The Guardian spoke
to Toronto comedian Chris Moose and they said

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Chris Moose is a comedic force to
be reckoned with. Moose blends personal anecdotes

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with sharp wit to create humor that
resonates with audiences far and wide. So

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he tells anecdotes with wit that connects
with audiences. So that's both Dave Chappelle

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and Jim Gaffigan and Dimitri Martin and
me. Drawing inspiration from the quirks of

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everyday life. He brings laughter the
Forefront Guardian. You're gonna have to try

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harder, Chris. How would you
describe your comedy style? All right,

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Chris says, I guess I'd say
that I'm funny. I try to model

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my jokes after my lived experiences so
that they're more relatable to people. I

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like to acknowledge the weirdness of my
life and experiences and then embellish on that.

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Wait, I'm not here to bash
on, Chris Moose. I didn't

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read this in advance. If you
listen, you know I never read these

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in advance. I just kind of
put them there so I can react to

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them. Wait, so, Chris
Moose, you get up on stage and

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you tell a story based in truth
and you exaggerate it for humor. Is

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that what it is? Let me
guess. Then you joke about some other

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things, and then you know,
unexpectedly a few minutes later, you'll go

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back to the first thing. Right, is that it? I could graft

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this for you. I've seen this. I like technology, the weirdness of

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my life and experiences, then embellish
on that. I think by finding faults

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and weirdness in my own life and
telling stories and jokes about that makes it

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easier for the audience to connect and
laugh at me. Who are your influences?

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He says, his family, my
dad, my uncle. But it's

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only until I was in university that
I figured out the easiest way to make

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people laugh was talking about lived experiences
and embellishing them, which I picked up

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from watching Kevin Hart and John Mulaney. Who's your favorite comedian right now?

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I've taken a lot of inspiration from
Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Sebastian Maniscalco,

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John Mulaney, and I've been watching
Angelo Shirukas, Trevor Wallace, and

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Jeff Rcurrie. If I had to
pick a favorite, I'd have to say

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Dave Chappelle, what's your pre show
ritual? I question everything before I go

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on stage. Then when I get
up there, I hit the autopilot button.

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I feel like a different person I'm
on stage. It's one of the

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best feelings I've ever experienced, but
I still get nervous every time. I

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also drink a coke sometimes. I
love this article all right, This next

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one will be my last story of
the day, it is major spoilers for

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the new season of Hacks, So
if you don't want to be spoiled,

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bail okay spoilers for Hacks in three
two one, it was inevitable spoiler that

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Debora Vance was going to flirt with
cancelation, so when it finally happened in

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season three, it is not surprising
you were warned. Executive producer Jan Statsky

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told the rap the stand up comedy
part of the show has always been something

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that we work on really hard.
It's a group effort. It's something we

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think about and loose some sleep.
In one of the episodes this season,

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again at major spoilers, a video
starts the surface of Deborah's more controversial material

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over the decades. She was supposed
to be going to Berkeley to accept an

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honorary doctorate. The college students start
protesting. Wow, good timing by the

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writers on this. Executive producer Paul
W. Downs tells the rap was really

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complicated because we wanted to both show
jokes that in the context of their time,

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would have happened and would have potentially
worked, but also didn't age well.

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We were really conscientious of not trying
any material that was really inflammatory or

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really offensive. Some of the jokes
include spoilers, including a Spanish to English

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dictionary at the US Mexico border,
calling dyslexia lystexia, and saying that Anita

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Hill should be drinking diet coke.
Google that one. If you don't get

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that one, let me just read
it here. Back in the nineteen nineties,

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Hill publicly accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas of sexually assaulting her. A

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buzzy point of the hearing was Hill
were counting a time when Thomas asked her

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who put a pubic hair in his
coke. Downs noted the joke was very

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specific and about the time it was
a very very delicate needled thread. This

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is well thought out by the writers. I like that show a lot.

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Another one of the staffers said,
if a scene calls for a broad joke,

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anything goes as long as in Deborah's
voice, and it largely respects Ava's

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view that comedy should never punch down. They say, let's just generate a

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ton of jokes and go with what's
the funniest. Other times, a scene

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calls for a specific joke, and
just because a Debora joke makes its way

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into the script. It doesn't mean
it's going to make the final cut downs,

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says, we see how Gene takes
it on. We try and adjust

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the punch line or take a couple
words out to try a whole new thing.

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Those are the things we have to
evolve constantly. This is really good

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stuff. The season thirty finale of
Hacks Thursday, May thirtieth. That's this

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week, and that is your comedy
news for today. I'm going to join

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my smoothie here again. I'm shaking
it for some reason. You'll just have

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to believe me that I am here. I'll top the mic again. It's

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in my hand, you hear it. But smoothies don't make sound. See

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you tomorrow.