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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy news. It is a summer Sunday, one weekend
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left after this. I'm getting depressed anyway. Summer Sundays are
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a good time to catch up on articles that I
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hadn't gotten to. Here's one from the Hollywood Reporter. It is,
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of course, the forty four most powerful players in podcasting
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in twenty twenty five. Let's just skim down this and
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see what they say about the comedians. Do we count
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the SmartLess guys? I don't think so. I believe these
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are in alphabetical order by last name, which brings us
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to Tony Hinchcliff, The Hother Reporter tells us. A former
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staffer on the Comedy Central Roast series, Hinchcliff helped usher
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in America's post woke era when at a trip rally
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he told that joke, you remember that one about the
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floating island of garbage. That one. The next day, on
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his popular Kill Tony show, he said, I apologize to
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absolutely no. Tony was asked what his current favorite podcast is.
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He said mine, not Johnny Max. He meant Kill Tony.
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I thought I had missed something here they have on
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the list Michelle Obama with Craig Robinson. I was like, wait,
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Craig Robinson is doing a podcast with Michelle Obama. Well,
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a man named Craig Robinson is. But it's not that
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Craig Robinson, not the guy that quit comedy as part
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of a stunt, not him, a different guy. That would
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have been very interesting had I missed that one. I'm
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going to pay attention to that. Amy Poehler on the list.
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Joe Rogan listened as talent on The Joe Rogan Experience.
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The Holland Reporter says in the past year, the long
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time self proclaimed centrist waded deeper into partisan politics and
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demonstrated the influence of the medium over which he reigned
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Supreme Rogan's three hours sit down with then candidate Donald
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Trump last October and his subsequent endorsement were credited with
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boosting Trump's re election campaign. Matt Rodgers and Bowen Yang
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run lists for Las Culturistas. THEO Vaughn listed as talent
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this past weekend with THEO Vaughan. We are till at
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Vaughan's podcast has risen to third on Spotify's chart. That's
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a random pull whych you pull Spotify' chart on the
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strength of the host every man blend of humor, vulnerability,
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and straight talk, which makes disaffected dudes see him as
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there Mark Twain and powerful men across the ideological spectrum. Trump,
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Van Sanders, Zuckerberg want to sit with him. The born
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and bred Louisiana and a touring stand up comic and
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sometime actor, recently garnered headlines for his commentary about the
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humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which he's called a genocide. That
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paragraph was all kinds of loaded. Wow. Conan O'Brien on
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the list. A lot of this list is not perform with.
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It's a lot of executives and suits and friends of
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the Hollywood Reporter, et cetera about under Conan were told
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In May, Conan o'briany's friend began to release full video episodes.
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It worked. Team Coco's views increased seventeen percent from the
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prior year. Andrew Schultz listed as talent the mustached, fast
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talking comedian who yaps opposite Charlomage the god on the
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Brilliant Idiots, hosted Donald Trump on his ascended cultural commentary
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showcase Flagrant just before the election for a talk that
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went among Schultz's key demo of postpartisan young men. But
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by July he'd had his Howard Beale on air moment.
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You do you younger sisters even know what that means?
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I know what it means, but I'm ancient. Howard Beal
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is the guy in the movie Network that yells, I'm
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mad as hell. I'm not going to take it anymore.
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Do you even know what that is? He may have
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seen it as a meme anyway, breaking with the President
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about a variety of grievances, from policy issues to the
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Jeffrey Epstein betrayal, mirroring an apparent broader shift in the
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president's coalition. They asked Andrew which podcast completely changed how
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you think about the medium? His answer, Joe Rogan experience
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that has defined and redefined the genre over and over again. Honestly,
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I don't even think it gets enough credit. That's it.
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In terms of comedians on the list, Deadline had done
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a lengthy article about social media these days, starting with
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Matt Rife. Matt has often asked what advice he'd give
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to those looking to make a mark online. Matt Rife
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says he has no idea. He says, my only advice
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is you're so eft, there's nothing you could do whatsoever.
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It's so one million percent sent out it for your control.
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Now the algorithm changes so much. You can build a
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fan base on social media. It's great, but it's getting
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harder and harder and harder to do, and you can't
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just rely on it. Rife admits he was super lucky
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to have been discovered broken through found my audience before
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doing so became harder. I'm not sure if this article
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was a paid piece or a partnership. Why I'm confused
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is they had a big logo that'said powered by punch
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Up Live, So I don't know if it was a
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paid piece. But in the piece regardless, they quote Danny Frinkel,
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the CEO of punch Up Live. He says ticket sales
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by way of Instagram have increased nearly fifteen percent as
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punch up has expanded to host more and more comics.
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He said, I think going into this survey they did,
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you would have expected that YouTube would play a significantly
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larger role because everybody's putting all their company specials there,
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and you would have expected the TikTok would play a
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larger role because that is or was a bit of
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the talk of the town, and I think now everyone
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is unclear on exactly what's happening with the long term
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of TikTok and what's happening in the short terms, and
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are people still investing in it. Comedian Paul Elia said,
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I look at Instagram as the portfolio app where you
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put the best of your best. Facebook is where old
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people go, and that's where you just put all the
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whatever stuff. TikTok is for kids. You can have a
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massive TikTok following, but it doesn't translate to ticket sales
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because all your fans are thirteen, so no one is
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going snapchat same thing. Instagram is probably the most tried
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and true app for sure. If you're following on Instagram
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as strong, people know you, and those people on Instagram
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have money to buy a ticket Facebook, I'd say the
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same thing anyway. We'll find that in the Comedy Means
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Business newsletter, The Deadline has a very long piece. Hey,
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thanks to Adam for sending this over. Augie Smith had
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posted this on Facebook. Hey, comedians, I've spent much of
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the last week watching submissions to the Big Sky Comedy Festival.
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I love stand up comedy. So this is one of
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my favorite parts of the festival producing process. Here are
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a few tips for submitting to festivals. Okay, comedians, you're
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paying attention, Augie Smith says, try to keep your tape
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between four and six minutes. Remember that festivals are watching
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a lot of submissions, and sending something that's over fifteen
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minutes is completely and totally cuckoo bananas. Think of it
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as a late night set and hit as many punch
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lines as possible. Get to the first joke quickly unless
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it's your whole act. Don't do crowd work. There's no
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reason to use notes in a five minute set. I
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know it's always an easy thing to do, but the
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actual quality of the tape is important. If the sound
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is so hollow it's hard to hear you, it makes
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it difficult to judge your set fairly, let me jump in.
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I used to give similar recommendations in my radio career
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to people who wanted to be talk show hosts, and
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then to comedians who would send things in. So here's
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what happens as a media executive. I mean, well, I
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really want to get to stuff I would have back
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in the day. Depending on the year, A pile of
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cassette tapes, then CDs, then a folder with digital submissions. Anyway,
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I would intend to someday get to it, and then
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every now and then on a Friday, I'd be like, oh,
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it's the end of the week, all the work's done.
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Let me go into the pile. Once I hit play
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for talk shows, you have two seconds to get my attention,
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because I would do what's called distracted listening. So undistracted
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listening is, as a radio exec, you get in your
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car and you drive somewhere and you park like in
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a parking lot, and stare at trees and just focus
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on the audio, and you have your phone off. Distracted
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listening is you hit play in the office and then
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your coworkers coming and distract you and ask what we're
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ordering for lunch, and you and the phone rings, and
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you answer the phone, you get distracted by an email.
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That's distracted listening. I do distracted listening because that is
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how people consume media. So like, right now, are you
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sitting in the dark only concentrating on my voice? Maybe
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are maybe you're one going to sleep or are you
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driving a car in like kind of half listening? And
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that's fine. So that's distracted listening. So when you send
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a tape in, I'm gonna hit play and you got
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to be really good, really quickly. Also, I would tell
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people I don't want your best of tape. I'm glad
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you had on the President at one point. I want
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to hear Tuesday Hour two. I want to hear what
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you are on a normal, boring day. Oggie Smith writes,
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I know this sounds obvious, but send a set where
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you did well, even if the jokes are good. If
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the crowd is digging you, that affects my view of
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your act. All right. The fringe is wrapping up. The
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Guardian said the Edinburgh Fringe has almost four thousand shows.
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What does it take for a stand up to stand out?
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Alfie Peckham writes, the fringe is in full swing and
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I'm looking for my posters, which, given the function of
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a poster, doesn't bode well for the marketing of my
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stand up hour. Johnny Woolley is co founder of the
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clown Ensemble Stamptown. Wooly has some opinions on posters and
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said I've always had a pet pee for comedians doing
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funny faces on their posters. It's always been a turn
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off for me. Yes, I hate comedian headshots with the
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dopey face. Just take a nice picture. You don't have
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to make your wacky face face stop. Woly said. When
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I started making posters nearly a decade ago, no comedy
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posters look cool, and I was really influenced by album
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mart movie posters. There are so many posters of comedians
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sitting on the toilet. I'm interested in trying to make
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art for the posters. It feels like it could be
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a more long standing representation of that show. Jordan Gray said,
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I like having a stupid title and a picture that
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makes you think that I'm very, very serious about this.
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That lack of self awareness is quite funny. Adele Cliff
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was at the Fringe Voicemag caught up with a deal.
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What advice would you have for an artist considering bringing
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a show to the Fringe. Her advice, stay out of
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my way, nerds. I love it. If you had the
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power to change one thing about the Fringe, what would
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it be wrong? Finally a different answer, She says, I
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would make the Edinburgh Fringe artists pass universal so it's
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accepted at all venues. To fill empty seats artists get
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to see the shows and fill up the space. Two birds,
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one stone, everybody wins. Look at that, You thought she
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was going to complain about how much it cost us
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stay at the thing, and that is sure comedy news
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as it was on a summer Sunday. Let's get some
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beach in this week. Oh my goodness, I's just the
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worst day of the year is the Tuesday after Labor Day.
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That is absolutely my least favorite day of the year.
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My favorite day of the year is Friday afternoon. Well
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that's not a day, but Friday into Memorial the weekend.
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You have the whole summer in front of you, wide
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open skies for so much possibility. Once we get to
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Tuesday after Labor Day, it's just like, ah, winter is coming.
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I have to work more because they teach, can't go
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to the beach minside all the time. How depressing. See
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you tomorrow.