What comedy specials to watch this weekend

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Callaroga Shark Media. Maybe fourth of
July. I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily

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Comedy News. Eddie Murphy was on
the New York Times conversation. I saw

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the Facebook group, which is Daily
Comedy News podcast group, talking about this

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one. I held on to it
so i'd have something in the late off

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position on July fourth. Pretty interesting
interview. I did share it in the

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Facebook group again, Daily Comedy News
podcast Group. Now I didn't share it.

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That's a lie, that's a conflation. I didn't share it. I

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was going to share it, but
Dylan shared it. Thank you Dylan,

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And they remind us that at one
point, Saturday Night Live was cud on

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the thin ropes, and Eddie Murphy
helped bring it back through sheer force of

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charisma rights the Times, as well
as instantly iconic, hilariously unpredictable recurring characters

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like Gumby and mister Robinson. Eddie
brought the show back to life. A

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highly plausible argument can be made that
without him, SNL may not have made

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it to a tenth anniversary, let
alone the fiftieth. I agree it would

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have been really easy to put on
Saturday Night Videos. I was watching Friday

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Night Videos on. It was a
YouTube, a full episode with bumpers and

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everything. The first song was the
Police Synchronicity two, and then it went

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into Paul McCartney No More Lonely Nights. There was Lionel Richie, and I'm

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like, this is wonderfully terrible,
but I love that show. I lived

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in Queen's We didn't get cable till
nineteen eighty seven, and not because my

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parents were cheap queens in New York
City was not wired for cable television until

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nineteen eighty seven. You couldn't get
it, So Friday Night Videos and a

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channel Nick called You sixty eight was
all we had if here from the New

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York City metro area. You know
what I'm talking about anyway, Eddie,

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back when the first Beverly Hills Cop
came out, did you feel you understood

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what it was about you that met
the moment so perfectly? Eddie Murphy said

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no, not even in retrospect.
I was twenty two when I got to

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do cop and twenty years old when
I started doing forty eight hours. Now

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I look back at those times and
I trip about how young I was back

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then. I kind of took it
for granted one thing that led to another,

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and I wound up on a movie
set. Then when stuff worked and

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became hit movies, I was like, Okay, that's what it's supposed to

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be. Will Eddie Murphy go back
to stand up? Eddie says, I

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used to have little periods where I'd
be like, I'm going to do it

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again. The closest I got to
do it again was right before the pandemic,

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because I had done Saturday Night Live, and I was like, let

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me go to do one stand up
special and bring it all full circle.

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Then the pandemic hit, and when
you're stuck in the house for two years,

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I wasn't going. When I got
out of here, I want to

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do stand up again. Here's a
good analogy. It's like somebody was in

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the military. They were on the
front line in Vietnam, and they got

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all these metals because they did all
this amazing stuff. Then they moved up

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and became in general. So it's
like going to the general and saying,

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hey, you ever think about going
back to the front line. You want

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to bullets whizz past your ear again. No, Eddie was Elvis the influence

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behind some of the on stage stuff. You wore when doing stand up.

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I'll jump in there. I think
Richard Pryor was definitely an influence there.

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Watch Sunset strip and then watch Eddie
stuff a similar outfit. Eddie said,

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Elvis had a huge influence on me, though other suits and raw I come

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out, I have a scarf.
I was rolling like Elvis too. I

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didn't have the Memphis Mafia, but
I had my little crew of dudes in

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the same way you see me dressed
in Delirious and in RAW. I used

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to dress like that in the streets. Totally in my Elvis trip. When

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I got older, I was like, oh my god, Elvis wasn't cool

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at all. Elvis was going through
some stuff now Michael Jackson, that whole

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red jacket thing and thriller thrillers after
Delirious. When I own the red suit.

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I'm not saying he was influenced,
but I had on the red jacket

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before, Eddie. Do you understand
what you mean? The comedians like Kevin

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Hart and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock
and Chris Tucker. Eddie said, well,

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I didn't lay down a path.
They took their own path. The

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comic used to be the sidekick,
the comic was the opening act, and

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I changed it to where the comic
can be the main attraction. That's fair.

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They thought of comics one way,
and I was like, no,

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a comic could sell out the arena
and a comic could be inn one hundred

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million dollar movie. All that changed
with black actors was like, the black

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guy could be the star of the
movie, and it doesn't have to be

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a black exploitation movie. It could
be a movie that's accessible to everyone all

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around the world. The Hollirod Reporter
did a comedy round table. Taylor Thomlinson

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was on it. The questioned,
Taylor, you said that audiences weren't as

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interested in hearing you tackle darker subject
material like your mother dying when you were

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younger. I did you gauge that
and when did a shift? Taylor said,

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I just started really young, So
watching a nineteen year old do stand

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up at all is uncomfortable. People
are already scared for you and nervous about

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the show. So I don't think
I had the maturity as a performer to

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pull those jokes off. It took
a few years of performing anywhere and everywhere

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you could. How do you know
when something's not working Taylor Tumlinson. She

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says, people aren't laughing and it's
devastating. It's what you would call a

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bad show for other people. It's
when people are laughing too much and you're

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like, none of this is new. No, It's when people are sad

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and uncomfortable and looking at you like
are you almost done? What's so great

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about stand up is that you know
pretty quickly if something does or doesn't work.

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Jackie Novak was on the round table
and she feels that the question one

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of their subjects that the rest of
you have felt audiences wouldn't go with you,

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and Jackie said yeah, but for
Biglia said something to me like,

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there's your agenda, and there's the
audience's agenda or the booker's agenda. Work

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your agenda for me. That meant
I'm gonna put my show up in New

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York, but I need to work
it out first, and so I'm doing

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it at the jukebox in Peoria,
so I know it's gonna land. Well.

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I mean, some people might find
it interesting, but I'm planning my

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feet and saying the words, and
maybe I'm burning my chance in the room

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where I did it. The punchline
in Philly and my boyfriend we talk about

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it now and he's like, yeah, the way you want up in Philly

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just bombed was great. You had
to do the thing you did. And

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I was like, I bombed.
I was always like, what do you

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mean? I stood up there doing
my art. It was almost delusion,

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required delusion. But this phrase my
agenda, really helped me almost not listen

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to the crowd, and it was
huge for me. My agenda doesn't matter

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tonight. Everyone in this room might
hate me, this club will never hire

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me again. And I had a
lot of bad nights before the run at

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the Cherry Lane Theater, nights where
I just had to stand there and say

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my words and get them in my
head. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla put

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together a list of the best comedy
specials of twenty twenty four so far next

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weekend, Like on the thirteenth,
I talked to to the executives at the

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eight hundred Pound Gorilla website. So
that'll be the Saturday Interview in about ten

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days. This Saturday, Alex Bennett, longtime radio personality with ties to the

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comedy scene, is the Saturday Summer
Interview. Anyway, The Gorilla has the

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ten best comedy specials of twenty twenty
four. And I like this list because

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it doesn't match mine at all,
and it reminded me of a bunch of

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specials I need to catch up on
and this will be a good weekend for

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that, right and plus itagely fourth, I have to watch Jaws tonight on

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Thest Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen Don
l Rawlings a New Day. I can't

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remember if I clicked on that one
or not. Dusty Slate Working Man,

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I love that one. I didn't
drop the G there. That's not a

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queen's accent. The title is called
working with No g Man Keith Robinson's Different

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Strokes on Netflix. Haven't gotten to
that one yet. I was shotgunning the

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Bear. I wanted to watch the
entire Bear before I got spoiled. I

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have completed it now I won't spoil
it for you. And I'm also trying

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to keep up on the boys,
and I can only watch about ninety minutes

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of TV in one sitting and then
I fall asleep. Rommy Us have some

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more Feelings. I didn't like the
direction on that one, even though I

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really like Rommy. Alex Edelman's Just
for Us I keep forgetting to watch that

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one. That one is on Proper
HBO. Dan Locatta's for the Boys.

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I'm hearing great stuff about that that's
on YouTube. Neil Brennan's Crazy Good.

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Like Neil, I feel like perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow someone added some

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accidental crowd noise. I'm sure nobody
meant to do it, but the mix

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just sounded suspicious to Johnny Mack and
I punched out on it. Sal Volcano's

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terrified. Hearing good things about that
one that was on YouTube, but Taylor

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Tomlinson's Have It All. That's on
my list. And I know I do

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this frequently, but let me just
skim my list really quickly for you in

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case you're looking for something to watch
this weekend. My list rost of Tom

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Brady, David Tel Hot Cross Buns
on Netflix, Triumph You Lucky Bastards YouTube,

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David Cross, Worst Daddy in the
World YouTube, Dusty Slay, Kyle

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Kinane YouTube, Dirt nap As an
all time fifteen minute chunk about Fast and

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the Furious. Dmet You Martin on
Netflix, Jimmy Carr Netflix, Kat Williams,

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Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agendas on Netflix.
Brian Simpson tig Nataro Taylor, Tomlinson,

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Rachel Feinstein also unfrosted the Jerry Seinfeld
movie and John Marcos Siresi's recent fifteen

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minutes that he dropped on YouTube.
But last week or this week all highly

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recommended. And this is reminding me
too. Vulture had a list. There's

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a couple of things I want to
catch up on this weekend. So let

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me just remind myself. Oh,
I need to add Nathan McIntosh down with

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Tech to my list. That's on
YouTube as well. I'll do that now.

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One of the ones I want to
check out that Vulture recommends Christina Catherine

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Martinez is how to Bake a Cake
in the Digital Age. That's on YouTube.

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I just want to check out.
And Natasha Vain Blonde World Dads here

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on YouTube. And let's keep the
podcast tight today so we can all hit

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the beach or do whatever it is
you do on July fourth. That's your

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comedy news for today. Back tomorrow
with a normal episode. See then,