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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, JIMG with your daily comedy news.
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Ricky Gervase gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of
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Fame today. It is the twenty and thirteenth star on
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the Hollywood Walk of Fame sixteen twenty eight Vine Street.
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If you want to go, if you're in LA, won't
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you head on over. It's today at eleven to thirty Pacific.
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If you're not in LA, or maybe you're in LA,
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just don't feel like leaving the house. I understand it'll
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be stream live on Walk of Fame dot Com. The
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La Times caught up with Ricky gervas. He also is
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playing the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday. Cool place to see Ricky.
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His last appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in twenty twenty
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three earned him the Guinness World Record for highest grossing
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single stand up performance. The La Times asked Ricky, Hey,
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you've spent your career pushing comedy boundaries as there have
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been a moment where we thought, oh, I'm gonna have
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to defend this one. Ricky said, no, it all comes
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and goes. It's cyclic. People get nervous and that's just
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always been there from day one. People get worried, and
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I say, well, this is why it's okay. Sometimes it's
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an executive producer or a broadcaster just want some ammunition
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to defend it. But sometimes they don't know whether it's
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okay or not. They just don't want to get complaints.
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If I can go okay, listen, this is why it's okay,
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then they often trust me because I can defend it.
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It's not me sitting in the room going what's the
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most offensive thing I could say to get the BBC
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burned down? There's always a point to it. Offence comes
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from people mistaking the subject of a joke with the
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actual target, and they're not usually the same real smart
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by Ricky there. We're human, so we react to buzzwords
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and we're cautious of taboo subjects. That's why they're still taboo,
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because we're cautious of them. I do that on purpose
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as well, particularly with my stand up where we talk
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about contentious issues and taboo subjects, because I do want
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to take the audience to place they haven't been before.
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I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it,
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think about it, and then I've got to misdirect them.
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It's like I take them by the hand through a
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scary forest. But it's okay because they always laugh. If
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we're going out there and saying things that were really
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offensive and no one was laughing, well that would be odd.
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That's what politicians do. Politicians say awful things and they
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mean it and no one laughs. Comedians say things they
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don't mean. Everyone laughs, and they get the same treatment.
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I don't go out there to try and ruin the
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audience's evening. I go out there and I make a
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joke and it's crafted. We're human, though, and we take
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things personally. But you shouldn't because I think comedy is
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at best in intellectual pursuit. You should go well, that's
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a bad subject and I don't agree with the punchline,
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But does it work comedically? It's a magic trick, it's formula.
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You can't argue with chemistry. No one goes well, I know,
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I laugh, but I don't agree with it. Well, it
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did what it does. That's the joke, and I'm not
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going to change the joke or the meeting. I think
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the only form of censorship as an audience is your
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right not to listen. You just don't have to watch.
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You could leave, not buy my stuff, not buy my tickets,
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and that's absolutely fine. You can turn your TV off,
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but what you can't do is make other people turn
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their TV off. That's the difference. And then people complain
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about something you're doing in the privacy of your own home,
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even though if they had to go up to their
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attic and stand out a step ladder and look through
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binoculars to see it, they'll find it. People sometimes seek
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out the offense, and that's actually where people can get
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addicted to being offended. They like it, it makes them
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feel live. The news even picks it up. They say, oh,
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fans weren't happy. Three fans weren't happy. Good stuff. Maybe
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a little more from that. Tomorrow. Nick Kroll was on
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Armchair Expert with Jack Sheppard. Kroll explained the process of
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trying to organize John Mulaney's intervention. Kroll said it was
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so scary and brutal to go through because he was
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in New York. I was in la who was at
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the height of the pandemic, So it was incredibly stressful
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to be in the midst of the pandemic trying to
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literally coordinate and produce an intervention, bringing a bunch of
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different people together friends from college. Kroll's wife was about
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to give birth, and I was shooting don't worry Darling,
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which there was no stress there. That was a very
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controversial filming that I don't have time to get into.
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You can google it. Krol said. Then John was running
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around New York City like a true madman. I was
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so deeply scared that he was going to die, and
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I was trying to orchestrate all this, combining all the elements,
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the going of these things, like the intervention person, where
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he was going to go, who was going to be
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at it. You're all of a sudden going back to
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being like, oh, that's why I've been an inconsistent friend
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for the last X amount of time. This explains that,
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And so it gives you both empathy for them an
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also tremendous amount of anger because they've been lying to you.
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Kroll talked about being on the film with Malaney and said,
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both of us crying, me just being like, I'm so
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scared you're going to die. And so I felt him
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feeling the same way, but also just like yay New
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York Streets blogs, Doug Gordon is mad at John Mulaney.
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He was commenting on the Millennie episode from ten days ago,
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and said if that one was the only episode you'd
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ever seen, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the show
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was shot live at a community board meeting in New
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York City. After all, the conversation, which featured some of
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the most accomplished people in entertainment, quickly to send it
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into a competition to see who could most gratuitously equate
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Big Apple bonafides with complaints about all the ways in
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which bicycles have ruined New York. I'm gonna jump in
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before I get more into this. Okay, I'm from New
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York City. I'm also very, very very pro bike lane.
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Understand that I'm very pro bike lane. If you want
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to see bike lanes work, go to Chicago, where bike
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lanes work. If you want to see where bike lanes work,
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go to Montreal where bike lanes work. If you want
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to see how bike lanes work, go to Vancouver, which
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even has side streets that are biicles only. It is fantastic.
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Love a good bike lane. New York City bike lanes
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it don't work at all, especially in Manhattan. Too much
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chaos doesn't work. They're not really They're more often than
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not not protected bike lanes, and when they are protected
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bike lanes, it pushes out the on street parking so
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that if you're driving a car, you have to like
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creep out through the bike lane and then passed where
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the cars are parked and you can't even see the
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oncoming traffic. And then add in Manhattan pedestrians like me
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who jaywalkt will it's complete chaos. Bike lanes Manhattan do
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not work. The Gordon writes. The stated theme of the
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program was is uber good? Setting aside that The Evening's
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question has been known for more than a decade, it's
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a resounding no, at least for people who care about congestion,
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carbon emissions and public transit ridership. Only an he barely
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bothered engage with the Walker. The editor of torched a
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new site focused on the infrastructure changes and policy choices
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being pursued by Los Angeles as it preps for the
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twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. Yeah, I don't know if
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you know this, Sir Mlanie's talk show is just chaos
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and he can't focus on it doesn't work. Respectfully disagree
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with the friend of the show and the Great New
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York Times writer Jason Zinnemann Millenie show does not work.
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I'm sorry, does not work. The topics do work. I
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don't know why we are the least bit surprised. John
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Mulani could not hold a meaningful conversation about Uber, so
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Gordon Wright's after Walker offered one reason why Uber is
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not good because of the congestion and the undermining of
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public transit. Mullenie asked Walker how she got to the studio.
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When she answered that she took the bus on the train,
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Mullaney seemed positively shocked. This is a dystopian nightmare, he explained.
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Walker never got a chance to defend the La Metro.
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I went downhill from there. From the perspective of public transit,
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Amy Sidis and Sigourney Weaver offered pure windshield perspectives, so
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Daris By mentioning that she takes ubers to visit her
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godchildren in New Jersey transit accessible Maplewood, New Jersey, and
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Sigourney Weaver emphasizing that she prefers yellow cabs fine enough.
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Natasha Leone joined the panel. Mulaney asked her about Uber,
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but Leon turned to the conversation of where it was
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perhaps always destined to go plastering her classic New York
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accent so thick that she should be forced to go
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before the city's Landmark Preservation Commission. Leon stated, but I
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don't like his bicycles in New York. I think we
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need to shut down the bike lanes that allows Sigourney
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Weaver to knock cyclists who don't use the bike lanes anyway.
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Richard Kind chimed in and said, and get rid of
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the electric bicycles. They're the worst. They're killers. Fact check
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from Doug Gordon, they are not killers. Comedy show guys.
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Comedy show Walker suggested the bus should have a lane,
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the bike should have its own very wide lane, and
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there should be a wider sidewalk. Natasha Leone said, that's insane.
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It's Manhattan. We don't have the space. Doug Gordon writ's
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classic windshield perspective. Leon clearly was not able to see.
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It's all the uber black Axls and Cadillac escalades, faring
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celebrities and other wealthy New Yorkers that are taking up
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all the space. Walker gets it until Doug Gordon it's
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a comedy show. I'm not even sure this is truly
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what these people believe and again if you want to
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hit rewind Johnny Max said he's very pro bike lane.
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They work great in Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, other places they
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don't work him in Httan. You want my real solution,
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I have suggested this. Let's take Park Avenue away from
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the cars and make Park Avenue. And if you've never
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been to New York Park Avenue, it has a park
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down the mill. Very nice. Let's make that bike lanes
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and more. John mulaney, he was at an event hosted
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by PAP. He was asked if he would like to
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replace Lorne Michaels once Lorne Michael steps away from SNL.
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The question if someday Laurna is hit by a bus
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and they say, you know, John Mlaney, you have to
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take over the show, no excuses. What's the first thing
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you change mulane? He deflected and said he's lived in
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New York for fifty years. You don't think he knows
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that to dodge a bus. Hng Wing talk to twenty
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seven East and said, there's a future of stand up
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that you might not have an other forms of creative expression.
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There's an audience there in the moment giving you an
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immediate or direct response. If you're a painter or a photographer,
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you might have a gallery show, but unless you're there
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with whoever's looking at it, you don't really know how
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they're responding to it. Would stand up. They's sort of
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an advantage that levels the playing field, and it's based
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on some sort of meritocracy. It's a very binary thing.
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Do they laugh or not. It's an everyday thing. You
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look at your notes, you try to sit down and
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write some new ideas. You tinker. It's kraft and you
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hone it habitually. Then you got open mics and test
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things out. It's like you're working the lab, making things better.
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He says growing up, he didn't want to be a comedian.
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He was doing things like hanging outside playing basketball friends
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or hanging out of the bayou catching tadpoles. No one
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was ever like he's the funniest guy in class. I
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was never seeking attention in group settings. I was more
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of a one on one friendships kind of guy. He says.
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The most joyful thing is writing a new joke. And
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from the Hartford Current. Bob gil wrote the screenplay for
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the original Back to the Future films and was a
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producer of Back to the Future the animated series in
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the nineties, plotted the stories for the Back to the
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Future comic book series, and now works on the Back
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to the Future musical, which I saw and loved, and
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it's coming to Hartford and you should go see it.
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All right, How did it come about? Gail said, we
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start the process by saying, there are certain things we
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can do with this material in the theater, and there's
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certain things we can't do, like we can't have the
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terrorist chase, But what else could we do? The problem
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we're solving there is that doc dyeing motivates Marty to
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go back in time. It could be something else, so
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we made it spoiler radiation poisoning. I didn't just ruin
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the musical for you, trust me. The musical does not
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contain the film skateboard Chase. Having seen the musical, I
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didn't even notice. Gail said, it's just too dangerous. Marty
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already has to sing, dance and be funny. We're gonna
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make him do skateboard stunts too, and staid we've got
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to chase through the school lunch room, which accomplishes the
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same thing. Gale things, changing it up a little makes
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it more fun. I don't want people to say I
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should have stayed home watched the movie. Some of the
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show's completely nuts. He insisted on keeping four songs Johnny
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Be Good, Earth, Angel, Powerful Love, and Back in Time.
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You can't go see Back to the Future Without those
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four songs. People would tear up the seats. Back to
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the Future the musical at the Bushnell one sixty six
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Capitol Avenue, Hartford performances June fourth through va. If you
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should go, It's a lot of fun. And then that's
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your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program,
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please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.