Joe Rogan suggests Robin Williams was a joke thief

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Did you see the NYPD is taking
away Trump's gun permit? Stephen Colbert said

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that he's gonna have to change one
of his signature brags. Tell you what,

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I could still stand in the middle
of Fifth Avenue and I don't know,

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give somewhat a purple nurple. Seth
Meyers talking about Trump accepting the GOP

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nomination from potentially behind bars. If
he wins, they won't be able to

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swear him in on the Bible until
that one inmate comes around with the book

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cart while Seth again. According to
a new poll, fifty eight percent of

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Republican voters believe that convicted felons should
be allowed to become president if they're elected,

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which is up fifty eight percent from
last week. Joe Rogan making the

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headlines accusing Robin Williams of being a
joke fief. I've heard this many times.

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I believe it has been established by
others. Perhaps maybe my lawyers are

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passing me a note. Allegedly,
some have said, I I've heard that

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Harlan Williams told Rogan I'm sure he
could do anything on his own volition.

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But I always heard stories that Robin
Williams was that guy. Did you ever

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hear anything about that? Rogan said, yeah, I heard a lot of

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stories that he was that guy.
I think Robin Williams was like part of

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that manic sort of style. It's
like a constant needs have this bit about

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anything that you're talking about. Ever, killing, I think was more important,

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and filling that hole inside of him
was more important than anything. So

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he would just do other people's stuff
if he didn't have anything to say.

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Rogan said that Sam Kinnison got mad
at Williams. Rogan added, He's still

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from everybody. He still from a
lot of people. If you ask any

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of those comics from back then,
there's always instances of Robin going on a

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talk show and doing your biddor going
on this and doing your bid at a

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club. Harlan said, maybe he
was just so spontaneous he would just puke

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it out. Rogan said, that's
not real. There's no way I think

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he wanted to kill more than he
wanted to be ethical at any cost,

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and especially back then when nobody was
really watching you other than other comedians.

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In a biography, Robin there's a
story that takes place at the Comedy Store

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in nineteen seventy nine when an unnamed
former was heads of their own Robin Williams

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against a wall and ordered Robin to
pay him three hundred dollars for the parts

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of his routine he had believed had
been lifted, a shakedown that Robin supposedly

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agreed to. Rogan said, the
thing about these people, and they always

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get caught, and when they get
caught, everything after that sucks. This

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is how you know a thief is
legitimately a thief. If they're being unjustly

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accused, they're always going to come
up with new material. They're always going

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to be creative. They're always gonna
have new great jokes because they're actually writing

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and working on it. But if
it's true what you see as an initial

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special or something, or a few
things they do that are really funny,

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and then you see this massive drop
off and like the concepts that they talk

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about, the irony they discover,
they don't have any legitimate points. When

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you're like, wow, this is
crazy. There's none of that. It

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all goes away and it almost becomes
like a person doing an impression of the

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original successful person because they have no
creativity. With every thief, you see

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a couple big early specials or something, and then you see that massive drop

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off and terrible performances after that.
It's because they're not real. They're parasites.

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It's what they are. They're vampires. I have nothing to add.

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I think Rogan just absolutely nailed that. But yes, I have heard accusations

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against Robin Williams in the past.
Dana White was on Andrew Schultz a Flagrant

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podcast, and Dana let us know
who wrote his roast jokes at the roast

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of Tom Brady. The answer Bill
Burr. Now that you know that,

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I can hear the Burr in it. Let me see if I can channel

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a Burr like Cadence. Anyway,
Tom, you played for the Patriots so

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long. I was actually starting to
believe you were from Boston. Then I

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saw you run and I was like, nah, he's definitely from San Francisco.

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Right, you can hear it.
Dana said, stand up is the

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most underrated thing of all time.
If you're public speaking and you f up,

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you can recover. You f up
telling a joke, It's a downward

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spiral. You'll never be able to
pull yourself out of because you're not a

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professional comedian. F that stuff.
I've done it twice. Remember I said

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it here. You'll never see me
do any of that stuff again. We'll

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see. Neil Brennan talked about some
of his peers being elevated to oracle status

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and said, when I see them
being elevated to oracle status, there's probably

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a protective part of me. That's
probably a grateful part of me, And

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there's also part of me that's like, what those guys are idiots? What

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him? Sam Morrel will have a
new special on Amazon on Prime Video,

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this one called You've Changed, taped
at the Wilberth Theater in Boston. Sam

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Riff's on the worst person he's ever
dated, the complications of getting older,

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and his perspective on everything from cable
news to the parils of social media.

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There is a clip, and it's
a good clip. Let's listen. I

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was on the subway the other day
in New York. I accidentally made eye

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contact with a crazy person. That's
a terrible moment as a man. That

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is the closest you come to feeling
like a woman in a bar. They're

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like, oh no, we locked
eyes and now he's coming toward me,

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which is not what I wanted.
He sits next to me on the train,

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puts his hand to my leg.
There's nothing you can say. You

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can't be like, oh, I
don't like that when people do that.

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I don't feel safe right now,
so I have to get up. I

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walk away. I put my hand
the pull. He follows, and he

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puts his hand right above mine,
so it's touching. He's just staring at

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me. Everyone in the train's watching, but they're not watching like they're gonna

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help. They're watching like, thank
god he chose you. That could have

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been a problem. Vendor's special is
out this week. The La Times did

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a big profile of her. If
you Hannah's publicist, you deserve your money.

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This week, Esther Zuckerman wrote the
article and wrote, when I told

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Hannah at the start of our interview
I'd seen her new comedy special, a

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look between terror and elation crossed her
face. Hannah says, it feels like

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the most intimate extension of myself being
in soul that I'm sharing. But hear

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you say you've seen it is the
first time I've heard someone say they've seen

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it. It filled me with joy
and excitement and anticipation at a little shock.

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The Hour comes out Thursday on Max. She called it her very short

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life's work, so no bresh,
it's casual. In Everything Must Go,

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Hannah discusses her bisexuality, her judaism, her passion for the environment, and

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her period, in addition to different
areas of her life from her stone days

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to her time as a competitive cheerleader. Now the article bugged me a little

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bit. They just casually threw in
there that Hannah grew up in Westwood,

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California. Okay, what it didn't
mention at all is her mom is Lorraine

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Newman. Now why is that relevant? Johnny Mack, You've probably heard the

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word nipple baby, And I'm not
here to say Hannah's not talented. Many

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things can be true. One,
you can be talented while someone in your

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family has some connections. For example, dear listener, do you know how

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to get an agent? Are you
on any auditions today? You know why

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you're not on any auditions today because
you don't know they exist. The world

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works on relationships. If somebody could
make a phone call and be like,

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hey, do you mind if my
kid reads for this thing? Or Hay,

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do you know anybody who or you're
just at a party and you hear

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of something. Information can help you. If you're just sitting in your basement,

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you don't know. This an audition
today. So and this isn't a

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Bashan Hannah. This is just in
general. Anyone with famous parents in the

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industry. At some point it helped. I'll switch to sports. Joe Buck

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at some point, it helped that
his dad was Jack Buck, who did

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Saint Louis Cardinals games. At some
point that helped. No Eegle the sportscaster.

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At some point, it kind of
helps that your dad is on an

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eagle. If nothing else, there's
an agent or I know somebody at the

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Lakers and talks to them for you. You know, stuff like that goes

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on. Move on, John,
before everybody hates you. Chris Fleming is

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llying Pittsburgh this weekend. Spoke to
the Pittsburgh City Paper. Chris used to

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be better known as Gail, a
character he played in the twenty tens in

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online videos parodying anxious suburban mothers.
Fleming told these city paper people strive for

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relatability, and I don't. I
think the fun is the challenge is doing

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something incredibly specific and making them see
it and having them feel what I'm feeling

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and then relate to it. I
really love that mass communication, the thrill

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of it. I love that,
and also the body goes into a state

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that's so unnatural. There's nothing like
it. It's so unnatural, That's how

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I describe it. Fleming says he's
never been to Pittsburgh for these shows.

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He plans on using newer material,
no older than eight months or so.

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Fleming says, I can't do something
for too long. It gets really stale

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on my head. The shelf life
is I want to shoot it pretty fast,

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and recently I've been doing bits.
I just put three bits out online

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that I was doing for the first
time, first or second time, because

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sometimes I can get glazed over and
dead in the eyes if I'm doing material

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I've been doing for too long.
But in Pittsburgh, I'm anticipating being able

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to mess around a little bit.
As they say, in a big theater,

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he didn't say mess in a big
theater, you kind of have to

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make saying a sense of structure,
otherwise people get really freaked out. In

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the balcony. The further people get
from you and the louse of the show

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is the more uneasy people get,
whereas in a little room it could feel

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more like a party or a train
that's breaking down in fun ways. After

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his recent Peacock special, Fleming doesn't
wrestle with wondering if he's weird enough,

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writes The Gazette, Fleming says,
I feel like I was able to lean

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into the esoteric on a mainstream platform
that has now freed me to feeling like

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I'm not afraid anymore not being odd
enough. And when I say odd enough,

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I mean hack. I don't want
to be hacked. I even allowed

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myself to do a bit about the
difference between a male doctor and a female

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doctor and stuff like that. I
don't think I would have felt free enough

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to do because I came from this
club. It's a burden that's been lifted.

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Alex Edelman, you know him from
the recent Just for Us a Comedy

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special, the one where he attended
a meeting of neo Nazis. Edelman sells

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Variety he was recently walking in New
York City when he thought he recognized someone

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from the white nationalist meeting, and
Edmund says, I wasn't gonna go Upstille

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and be like, excuse me,
do I know you from a meeting of

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neo Nazis and queens? Because you
look exact like this person. The Washington

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Post has been profiling DC comedians.
Hey, Maddie Brennan, what's your pre

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show routine? Maddy says, I
always brush my teeth right before leaving the

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house for an important show. All
right, tell us about the time you

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bombed. One time, I was
visiting some friends from college in San Francisco,

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not long after I started doing stand
up. I booked a show to

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do when I was visiting so that
my friends could see me to perform for

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the first time. When I got
to the venue, it was a pack

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small theater. It was pretty excited, but it turned out that was the

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show. Before the show I was
on, the show let out and everyone

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left. My friends got there and
they were the only audience members I've performed

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to, just them. That's awful. When we left, I forgot my

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credit card at the bar. I
was so embarrassed by the whole experience that

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my friend had to go back in
and ask for my card. That's the

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last time I asked friends to watch
me perform. Jeff Cirrouley's debut comedy special

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Live at the Bomb Shelter out today
on Comedy Dynamics, we have a clip.

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Let's listen. These Tuecome podcasts are
so popular. There's one called My

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Favorite Murder that's like the most popular
one. I'm like, they're ranking murders,

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they have favorites. Imagine like your
cousin died and you're just like trying

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to get some info and you come
across two women having a great time.

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You're just trying to get some info
and they're basically like, look, I

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know, it's like really sad that
your cousin like got stabbed and left on

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the side of the highway. But
listen, it was our favorite murder.

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I mean, we loved it,
and it was just you're not topping it

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this year. I mean, our
three favorite murders all time Jeffrey Dahmer's second

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victim, Ted Bundy's third victim,
and your cousin. I mean, that's

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just far money. Top three favorite
murders. And that is your comedy news

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for today. See you tomorrow.