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Kalaroka, Shock Media, Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily
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Company News. Mark Norman talked about cancel culture with al
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dot com and said, obviously, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill
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Cosby and Jeffrey Epstein and or Kelly and list goes on,
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these are people that should have been taken down years ago,
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and these are criminals. He should be in jail. So
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I get all that, But some people, no one ever
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brings us up. Some people were using cancel culture like
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get their way. It wasn't about justice or doing what
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was right. Was about, oh, I can use this and
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call this person a racist, then they'll get fired and
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I could take their job or whatever. People started using
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it for their own benefit and it wasn't about doing
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what was morally. Just was about, hey, let me spind this,
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I get what I want. That's really when it got ugly.
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And I know a lot of examples of that, But
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to me, I think we're kind of pasted it, we're
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kind of over it, and you just ignored. Tends to
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kind of be okay, But yeah, that was a dark time.
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I mean then we did that weird thing we were like,
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look at Shane Gillis, he got canceled. Now he's huge.
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I'm like, yeah, but he's also talented. Let's not act
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like him getting canceled was the best thing that ever
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happened to him. That's like saying, hey, your mom got
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stabs and now you're all over the news. So yeah,
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I don't worry about it. I think just as long
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as you tell jokes, you're fine. If you're going up
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there to saying the N word and yeah, maybe that's
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a problem, but maybe you don't have an act. You're
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just trying to be edgy. Yeah, but I talk about everything.
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I have dicey topics and quote unquote edgy stuff, you know,
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but it's all jokes, and it's all in jest. Mark
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Norman's best to come back to a heckler. Mark said,
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one of my best counterpunches was a big fat lady
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who for some reason hated me, and she just yelled
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out boo, and I said, are you saying boo or moo?
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And the place went nuts and she hated me more
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than she left, So that was a real wind. Shang
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Wang with Cleveland Scene. They were curious about his hair.
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What made you grow out your hair? Shang said, it
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wasn't really a choice. I canceled my haircut appointment on
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More to thirteenth, twenty twenty. Was the pandemic. At one
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point my currey I tried to grow it out. When
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it was between short and long, I cut it and
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never gave it a chance. People started complimenting me on
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my hair. I thought it might not make sense of
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cut it now it matches the vibe of the comedy
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and writing. For now it really works. It's all an accident.
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Remember that, did you cut your own hair? Or the pandemic?
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At one point I had to take out the I
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let this hop grow out, but the sides just my
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hair gets really wide. I had to take out the
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razor and just be like, all right, let's hope for
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the best. Here. It was okay, you know, it was
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like pandemic. Okay. I wasn't leaving the house anyway. Shane
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jokes the best part of an office job is being
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able to print for free. Did he ever actually have
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an office job? Oh yeah, I still have to have
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different jobs. I had some temp jobs and was always
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so blown away by how much printing and trash comes out,
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going from printing at home to printing out an office.
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I remember the warmth of fresh printed paper that's stuck
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with me. It's based on real life office experience as
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a comedian. You going to an office with fresh eyes,
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and everything feels so alienating and interesting next to I
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have asked Brian Reagan about performing clean. That seems to
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be like, if you ever meet Brian Reagan, you have
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to be like, hello, you're Brian Reagan. Yes I am.
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You were clean? I mean it's every interview, but okay,
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it's the weekend. Brian said, Well, I was always mostly
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clean even when I started, just because that's how my
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brain works, at least comedically. When I'm with my friends
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hanging out, I could be as filthy as anyone else
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on stage. Hey, just the kind of stuff I like
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to do is conceptual and doesn't normally go in that
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four letter word direction. But it wasn't completely clean when
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I first started. Maybe about five percent was dirty. When
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I first went out on the road, AD a handful
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of jokes that were attention getters. When you're playing a
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rough room like a bar that does a comedy, it's
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aequila night out of jokes that would hopefully get their attention,
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and I try to slide to stuff that I like,
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but then I got to the point where it's more
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about being meticulous than wholesome. You know, people got the
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wrong idea of why I like to work clean. I
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like to work clean just because I like the idea
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of seeing if I could be one hundred percent of something.
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I see this a personal challenge. How well can I
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do how hard can I get people laughing without hitting
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certain buzzwords or topics that can disproportionately work in front
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of audiences. I started going one hundred percent clean just
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for the challenge of it, and along the way I
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found there's a following for that. I didn't do it
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for that reason. I did it for my own reasons.
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IPM Newsroom asked Bob Odenkirk about the role of the
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Midwest in his comedy. Bob said, the Second City is
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the name for a theater, and it's a name that
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was borrowed from a name for Chicago. The Second City.
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It's like you're the underdog, and as a result, you
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have a suspicious chip on your shoulder towards all that
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whatever's happening, whatever's hype and happening. That's good for comedy
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because that's what comedy does. Comedy undermines. Growing up here
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lends itself to that perspective on the world that wants
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to poke with the world and doesn't take things seriously.
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As long as there are irritating things in the world,
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there's comedy, So please keep irritating us. You know, nobody
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quits show business. Stavros Halki has spoke with GQ about
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his current views on wellness and said, early on in
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my career was like, oh, this is fun. Let me
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get as messed up as possible. Let me get good
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at something so I get attention from women, and let
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me get drunk and have sex with any girl that
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will let me, and eat like garbage to reward myself.
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Clean that up a little. There's also a little bit
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of nihilism, like living like nothing matters around the path
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to a coward suicide, where it's like, I don't want
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to take care of myself. Who cares? I'm not going
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to be around forever. And then my life's gone pretty good.
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I got a nephew, My best friends have been kids,
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and I'm like, oh, I've gotten successful. There's people that
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care about I guess I want to live. So I've
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been trying over these last five years to lose a
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little weight. I did really well during the pandemic, and
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then I started working got fat as f again. I
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just do whatever takes the stick around with the ultimate
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goal of being I never want to get skinny, but
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I want to be strong. On the road, especially on tour,
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I just start walking. I like to call myself the
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twenty thousand step bastard. Every day on the road, i'd
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walk like eight miles. I'd walk into my feet hurt,
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and then over time my feet stopped hurting. I could walk.
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The thing that's helped me is to be completely honest
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with yourself and slowly build from there. The theme of
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this interview is masculinity. I think this is an interesting answer.
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I definitely see myself in a lineage of those fat
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guys that are really up to even as a kid.
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We're talking Farley, John Candy, Jack Black. I don't think
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anybody would look at me and say that guy's feminine.
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I don't think I'm getting that, but I guess I'm
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just trying to say for people who feel like they're
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not masculine, there's a version of them that is. You
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could be a mix of masculine and feminine. If you
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want to be masculine, you don't feel it, there's a
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path for you to project that. I think for me
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it was when I unlocked, Oh, women don't actually care
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that much if they like you as a person, if
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you can show what's good about you. A lot of
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my body in security kind of stem from just general
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insecurity about relationships and getting attention from girls. But I
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think for me it was when I unlocked Ouh, women
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actually don't care that much if they like you as
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a person, if you could show what's good about you.
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When I was confident myself in all these other ways,
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when I felt like I'm doing what I need to do.
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I have a nice life plan, I feel confident in
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my abilities. That inner confidence sort of projected. I've been
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enjoying these He's really in touch with himself. This is
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good stuff. What does he look for in a relationship,
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he said, I've been thinking about this a lot. I
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think it's cool to be a provider or whatever. But
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I'm also very attracted to ambition. I like somebody who's
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doing their own thing. I like talking to somebody about
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their long term goals. I have to think strategically about
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my career. I like having those long discussions with somebody.
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As much as I love stand up, essentially I'm running
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my own business. I've been overdoing it because once you
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get a shot in entertainment, you kind of have to
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take it. I remember thinking, oh, I'm so tired to
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be cool. If I got home and the place was
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clean and maybe there was food, I don't want to
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order food. I was like, what if I was dating
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somebody would just be here. It'd be cool if she
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lived here and then took care of stuff. I'm doing
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so well, she wouldn't even need a job. I backwards
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invented the concept of a traditional housewife. A little more
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from that Gutfeld thing I told you about yesterday, he
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talked about the whole King of Late Night thing and explained,
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I think I'm trying to think where the King came from,
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and I think after credit Dave Rubin. I think Rubin
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was on dur in the first week of the show
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and said something like, you're gonna be the King of
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Late Night. You're gonna be number one. I don't like
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saying stuff like that because then it'll just be thrown
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back in your face, but he was right. Then, of
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course I had to put it on my book cover.
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I don't even have that I happened, but putting it
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on the cover of my book was like this audacious
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and ridiculous thing. He was asked what late night even
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means anymore? Like whatever you watch, you're choosing a side.
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Greg Guttfeld said, yeah, it kind of became defined as
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maybe a person who wanted to go to bed angry
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with somebody who wanted to go to bed happy. One
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thing I always want to do is not send people
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to bed and reached. Sure, maybe you're sad that Biden lost,
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but we're gonna have so much fun. This is gonna
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be great. And then Trump wins, this is gonna be
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so much fun. It's gonna be great. So we're gonna
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have fun and things are gonna be great no matter
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who wins or loses. I'm not gonna let that impact
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the time that we have. I think doing a late
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night show that makes everyone feel bad is a disservice.
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I don't understand that. That's when you have people switching
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the channel to come to us. They didn't even know
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he existed until then again, we're comparing red apples and
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yellow apples. Gutfeld is on at ten Eastern, but he's
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on at seven Pacific and eleven thirty five pm Pacific,
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or not at all the same thing. Greg said, there
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was literally free money on the table, and so I
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took it, and I showed mainstream media that they don't
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own the culture. I think it's not just about late night,
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it's about all of culture. It's about the ability to
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tell people you aren't the cool kids at the table anymore.
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You'd took people for granted, you insulted everybody else. We're
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the ones now we're having fun for your OZ told Variety.
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I don't think comedians speak truth to power, you know.
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I think journalists speak to power ideally, but I think
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comedians speak to a tiny voice in the back of
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your head, and perhaps over time we've forgotten how powerful
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that voice is. I also don't think you can predict
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whatever is going to get you into trouble. It's the
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thing you really thought of, this thing. You never imagine
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that it's going to be the complaint that gets filed,
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and it's a thing you thought that, oh, this is
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going to hurt people. It never hurts people at all.
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So your best bet is just to say it and
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deal with it. When the time comes, and that is
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your company news for today, see tomorrow.