March 8, 2025 • 11 mins
Light and Fun: Johnny Mac switches gears to deliver a lighthearted and fun episode of his Daily Comedy News. Featuring a run-down of comedy events at South by Southwest, including recordings and live shows with notable names like Scott Aukerman, Stuart Goldsmith, and James Adomian. Johnny shares trailers and details of upcoming comedy specials from Trey Crowder and Nimesh Patel, and dives into Gossip Corner with updates on Joe Coy, Dave Chappelle, and other comedians' recent activities. The episode highlights Rachel Pegram's new album and insights from Brad Williams on his comedy career. The show maintains a “no angst” vibe, steering clear of politics for an entertaining listen.
00:27 South by Southwest Comedy Lineup
02:29 Trey Crowder's Upcoming Special
03:32 Nimish Patel's New Stand-Up Special
04:13 Gossip Corner: Comedians and Celebrities
06:38 Comedy Albums and New Releases
07:55 Andrew Schulz on Fatherhood and Comedy
10:45 Brad Williams on His Comedy Journey
11:41 Conclusion and Sign-Off
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00:27 South by Southwest Comedy Lineup
02:29 Trey Crowder's Upcoming Special
03:32 Nimish Patel's New Stand-Up Special
04:13 Gossip Corner: Comedians and Celebrities
06:38 Comedy Albums and New Releases
07:55 Andrew Schulz on Fatherhood and Comedy
10:45 Brad Williams on His Comedy Journey
11:41 Conclusion and Sign-Off
Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNITERRUPTED LISTENING. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed! You also get 20+ other shows on the network ad-free!
This podcast supports Podcasting 2.0 if you’d like to support the show via value for value and stream some sats!
https://linktr.ee/dailycomedynews
Contact John at john@thesharkdeck dot com
John’s free substack about the media: Media Thoughts is mcdpod.substack.com
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You can also support the show at www.buymeacoffee.com/dailycomedynews
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Now,
if you listened yesterday, you heard that I was just
kind of bothered by how serious the show was yesterday.
So I'm gonna just make today comedy comedy, comedy, comedy comedy,
and I'm even gonna flip the order. If you listen
all the time, you know there's a rhythm to how
I do things. I'm throwing that out the window today.
So let's start with south By Southwest and see who's
(00:30):
playing tonight. At four o'clock, a recording of Comedy Bang
Bang in the history of my career, the only show
that I ever walked out of, but I understand a
lot of people enjoy Scott Ackerman. We're told to expect
special guests and plenty of surprises and maybe a few
familiar places. So that's at four o'clock for fans of
Comedy Bang Bang. Another live podcast at five o'clock today,
(00:50):
it's The Comedians Comedian with a Parna Nurla. I enjoy
a partner a lot at The Comedians. Comedian is Stuart Goldsmith.
This is a popular British pod. More My Alley at
six o'clock, The Upright Citizens Brigade, ass Cat for Us
is an as Cat, Anthony Nasamnuwick, Scott Ackerman, Matt Besser,
Lisa Gilroy, Lauren Lapkis. I met some other people in
(01:11):
town drop in on that one. That one is at
six Nice Show, ninety minute show. There seven o'clock Creek
Side Comedy, Parentheses Live Comedy. It's at the Creek in
the Cave. James Adomian, Oh, I guess he won't be
dropping by the CV show. That was my guess, right,
James Adomia, Nico Karney, Megan Gaily, Stuart Goldsmith, Lynn Copletz.
At eight pm, the show called an Evening at the
(01:33):
Hollywood Improv. This one at Estra's Folly's, which is not
the Hollywood Improv, but they're celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
LA's legendary Hollywood Improv. Your lineup, Doug Benson, Jay Jorden,
Opiolig Baju, Melissa Vi and Signor. They tell us, while
our stage at south By may not boast the iconic
brick wall, it's still part of our legacy and we're
excited to feature some of our favorite comedians bringing down
(01:55):
the House, nine o'clock at the Creek in the Cave
comedy for cave dwellers. Rear Born's been hearing his name
a lot. Catherine Blandford or Riggie Conquest of Punky Johnson,
Caitlin Palufo, a lot of buzz on her lately. Good
sets at ten o'clock Alex English, Todd Glass, Aparna, Kristen
Toomey eleven o'clock Southwest skang Fest brought this up the
(02:16):
other day. You live long enough, you find yourself doing
south By Southwest. Welcome to the establishment, skang Fest, Joe Rosa,
Sam Jay, Bonnie McFarland and Eddie peppotone on that lineup. Hey,
it pays the bills. I don't judge. Tree Crowder has
a special coming out next week on the eight hundred
Pound Grilla YouTube channel. In trash Daddy, tree Crowder tackles
(02:37):
everything from the absurdity of cultural and social stereotypes to
his unusual and hilarious childhood upbringing as he reflects on
his ultimate parntal role as a trash daddy. There is
a trailer. Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I try to make myself feel better by telling myself
it's not a Southern accent thing. It's an American accent thing,
like the idea that any thick regional American accent can
sound kind of dumb, not just this one. You know,
like if you go to the doctor to get some
test results back, Yeah, you don't want this accent from
the doctor.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I know you don't, right, you don't. But you also
don't want some mate ball from the Bronx, you know, Like, listen,
it is what it is. You got stage four cancer.
What are you gonna do? No, no, no, what are
you gonna do? I'll tell you what you're gonna do.
You're gonna take emo, You're gonna take you righty a shit,
You're gonna kick cancers. Actually, I don't want a Bronx doctor.
I take that by ills. Sounds sounds pretty inspiring. Actually.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Nimish Pzil will premiere his new stand up social instant
Karma Tuesday, April, first good day for comedy. I don't
think there's a statement there. I think it's just a
Netflix special and those come out on Tuesday, and this
year one April is a Tuesday. Instakarma is Nimishpatel's first
hour Netflix in insta Karma Nimess dives deep into the
experience of growing up as a first generation Indian American. Nimesh,
(03:53):
the lovable outlaw of his family, breaks down his relationship
with his traditional parents, the mischief he causes a kid,
and whether or not he's become a better person now
that he's an adults. For Reade the Seas, he hasn't
no trailer yet. One of the jokes we're told, and
he obviously tells it better than I do. My parents
spent two hundred thousand dollars for me to get a
degree in finance. Zero return on that investment. That's good.
(04:13):
Let's do gossip Corner because we're trying to keep it
light and fun after yesterday's podcast. Normally Gossip Corner goes
on the second half, but we'll do it here. You
know who's on gossip Corner again. Joe Coy. He was
in Green Bay and hung out with some Green Bay Packers.
They are football players. The Joe Cooy concert was date
night for Packers head coach Matt Lafleur and wife and
(04:34):
for incoming Packers president CEO ed Policy the Policies and
the Laflor's post For a selfie with Joe Cooy and
signed a cheesehead football for Joekoy. Now, Joe Koy, you
may know the name. You're like, how do I know
that name? Johnny Mack, I've heard of Joekoy before. He's
the guy remember the Golden Globes. He hosted the Golden
Globes and he told a joke about Taylor Swift. Here,
let's listen.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.
The big difference between the Golden Globe the NFL. On
the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I'm sorry, never gets old. And I'm picturing a friend
of the show, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast. He
likes this kind of humor. This is the Letterman influence
on me, where you just beat a joke forever. It's funny.
Scott Beckett's throwing things. More gossip Corner, More football gossip Corner.
You know who was at Shane Gillis's SNL. George Kittle,
(05:26):
Christian McCaffrey, and Kyle Chusk. They were all at SNL
and they're like, who are those guys? They sound familiar.
They are san Francisco forty nine Ers, also a football team.
Kittle went on inster and posted pictures of himself and
his forty nine Ers team m It's on set. Kittle
also took a picture with Mike Myers. More gossip corner.
Dave Chappelle hit a basketball game. He was court sided
(05:48):
a the UD Arena watching the Dayton Flyers rally from
a fourteen point deficit in the second half and the
Dayton Flyers beats Saint Louis seventy five sixty seven in
the final home game of the season. Chappelle took seats
in the opening minutes of the second half. Where was
Dave the first half? Was he in a skybox as
he'd come to college basketball games late. Who knows, but
we're told. Dave Chappelle posts for photos with the fans
(06:10):
during timeouts. He received applause from the sellout crowd later
in the second half when he was shown on the scoreboard.
After the game, Dave walked into the tunnel and waited
for the University of Dayton players. He posts for photos
with the Flyers and then with Dayton coach Anthony Grant.
Chappelle said, I'll be back too. Coach Grant said, we
appreciate you. In the postgame press conference, coach Grant said,
(06:32):
it's not every day you get Dave Chappelle in the house.
Let's keep it light, stuff that normally goes on the
second half. Comedy albums. You like comedy albums. These I
didn't get to yesterday because it was all angsty. In
case you missed it, Rachel Pegram's new album, Silly, Loud
and Delightful is out on a Special Thing Records. It
was recorded live in front of a late night crowd
and Rachel settled everyone in with a neighborly INTROI before
(06:53):
getting right to it with her hot takes on top
of his including bagfoot and white people. Now, is that
two topics are one? I think it's one, including bigfoot
and white people, and there's no comma. Probably one topic,
but anyway, Bigfoot and white people, her personal history of
being a late comer to art, garfunkle, discovering porn, losing
her virginity, and a whole lot more so I think
the topic is bigfoot and white people, one big topic.
(07:15):
One way to find out. Check out her album Silly Loud,
Delightful out now on a Special Thing Records also out
a new album by Somalia. Born in California, raised in Minneapolis,
based comic a med Kaloff, a men's album is called
Hobby d Hoy. On it, he shares how to beat
tough odds, like being born in a Somali refugee camp,
but growing up to out white the wife of a
(07:37):
brewery owner, and learning how to walk again after breaking
his leg at thirty. Oh no, wehe there you go.
We got through the first half of the podcast, no angst.
It was all light and fun and silly and no
politics and you know, none of the stuff we talked
by yesterday. So oho got that done. To take the break,
we'll come back. We'll do stuff that normally would be
in the first half. New Dad Andrew Schultz till the
(07:59):
l eight times. When I can end my day by
five forty five pm, I'm good because that means I
get to spend time with my daughter and just be
a dad for a while. It's the greatest feeling on earth,
Schultz said. The second you have a kid, every feeling
you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever they laugh,
it's the best laugh in the world. When they smile,
you melt you'd do anything for them. LA Times is curious, Hey, Andrew,
is becoming a parent helped you write new comedy, and
he said, I haven't written a single joke since I
(08:20):
had my daughter, or since the tour stopped, so now
it's all focused on trying to make her laugh. The
world gets really small and has made me reflect on
comedy material about kids a lot, because when I was
growing up, my favorite comedians would do this comedy about
how they kind of hated their kids. And when you
first have a kid, you're gonna be shocked at how
cloche all your feelings are. The second you have a kid,
every feeling you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever
they laugh, it's the best laugh in the world. When
they smile, you melt, you'd do anything for them. Good
(08:42):
job by the La Times, who asked, we're in this
new era of comedy where more comedians are talking about
being parents in today's world and being open and honest
about not only raising them, but the conceiving process, which
is the heart of your special What's it like being
so vulnerable, Andrew said, cathartic. It was nice in the beginning.
It was nice because there are stages. When I first
started writing it, I wasn't even like writing an hour.
I was just kind of I was talking about what
was going through. It was just getting back on stage
and taking some time off from the last special. And
(09:04):
then my wife and I were trying to get pregnant.
I remember coming back from Burning Man, I was going
to a big birthday party for her mom. But I
remember that was when we first started trying. I remember
doing it and afterwards being like, it's probably okay if
we don't get pregnant this time, just because I didn't
know it was in my bloodstream at that point. I mean,
I was at Burning Man for a week and then
I'm gonna go make a baby. So it didn't happen
that time, and then another month went by, didn't happen.
Another one went by, didn't happen. I was like, ooh,
is it hard to get pregnant. I couldn't fathom it
(09:26):
was hard. You know, my whole life's been trying about
not get women pregnant. The amount of stress that'd go
through and plan bees and all the other crap. Dallycommercial
dot Com caught up with Lewis Black, who I thought
was retiring at the end of last year, but he's
still out there on tour. Oh wait, now I could
edit this. He he got political here. I'm not doing
that today. You get bounced to tomorrow Lewis Black John,
(09:48):
why don't you edit this out because I want you
guys to know what's going on here. I'm bouncing the
wid black story Tomorrow. I'm not doing it. Moving on,
bounce the throwing a Guark talked about her weight loss.
She up up about using weight loss medications and the
Internet being the Internet got mad at her. She thanked
her supporters and told her haters she doesn't owe an
explanation to anybody. Zarna said, anything else is just exhausting.
(10:11):
I talked about this recently on a Zarnaguard Family podcast episode,
not realizing the impact it would have an offering relief
to so many. I see you, I am you. Proceed
with proper medical advice and live your best life. Hater's
gonna hate. We don't engage in the debate. She revealed
she received hundreds of dms for opening up about the
use of weight loss meds and wrote in twenty twenty five,
can we stop the bs of pretending we're perfect? Take
(10:33):
the meds. Don't take the meds, do your thing with
kindness around you, and keep it moving. Zarna shared before
taking the weight loss medicine, she constantly thought about food,
even when having a meal. She didn't realize that was
a habit until she started taking the drugs. Brad Williams
was offered a choice write a five minute bit or
anything else. He picked five minute bit. He said, it's
the greatest feeling in the world writing a new joke
and having it work. He first considered a comedy career
(10:55):
when he was nineteen. He was at a comedian show
and tells the story the comedian called me up on stage,
just asked me questions and answer the questions honestly. I
didn't try and make jokes. Well, my answers got laughs,
and that was the first adrenaline needle where I was like, ah,
this feels awesome. I just started going to open mic nights,
driving as little as five minutes and as much as
six hours to do three minutes in front of No One,
Drunks and other open my comics whoever. He finds that
(11:16):
the stage is almost like meditation. It's where my focus is,
it's where all my intention is. I'm only worried about
what's happening on stage, and that's a wonderful, beautiful, simplistic feeling.
Brad says, I don't cover politics because I'm not smart
enough to do it. So if anyone's worried about coming
to my show and hearing a rally that's either four
against whatever side they're on, they're not going to hear that.
But he tells us, I am going to make you
go through a whole cavalcade of emotions in the course
of an hour and a half, but ultimately I'm gonna
(11:37):
make you leave feeling good. And that's what I want.
I want people to go that was worth a babysitter,
and that is your Strey free, happy daily comedy news
for today. All Right, we got through.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
One, uh no for me.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I recorded these back to back, so that's why I'm
still feeling the Friday episode. But anyway, see tomor
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Now,
if you listened yesterday, you heard that I was just
kind of bothered by how serious the show was yesterday.
So I'm gonna just make today comedy comedy, comedy, comedy comedy,
and I'm even gonna flip the order. If you listen
all the time, you know there's a rhythm to how
I do things. I'm throwing that out the window today.
So let's start with south By Southwest and see who's
(00:30):
playing tonight. At four o'clock, a recording of Comedy Bang
Bang in the history of my career, the only show
that I ever walked out of, but I understand a
lot of people enjoy Scott Ackerman. We're told to expect
special guests and plenty of surprises and maybe a few
familiar places. So that's at four o'clock for fans of
Comedy Bang Bang. Another live podcast at five o'clock today,
(00:50):
it's The Comedians Comedian with a Parna Nurla. I enjoy
a partner a lot at The Comedians. Comedian is Stuart Goldsmith.
This is a popular British pod. More My Alley at
six o'clock, The Upright Citizens Brigade, ass Cat for Us
is an as Cat, Anthony Nasamnuwick, Scott Ackerman, Matt Besser,
Lisa Gilroy, Lauren Lapkis. I met some other people in
(01:11):
town drop in on that one. That one is at
six Nice Show, ninety minute show. There seven o'clock Creek
Side Comedy, Parentheses Live Comedy. It's at the Creek in
the Cave. James Adomian, Oh, I guess he won't be
dropping by the CV show. That was my guess, right,
James Adomia, Nico Karney, Megan Gaily, Stuart Goldsmith, Lynn Copletz.
At eight pm, the show called an Evening at the
(01:33):
Hollywood Improv. This one at Estra's Folly's, which is not
the Hollywood Improv, but they're celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
LA's legendary Hollywood Improv. Your lineup, Doug Benson, Jay Jorden,
Opiolig Baju, Melissa Vi and Signor. They tell us, while
our stage at south By may not boast the iconic
brick wall, it's still part of our legacy and we're
excited to feature some of our favorite comedians bringing down
(01:55):
the House, nine o'clock at the Creek in the Cave
comedy for cave dwellers. Rear Born's been hearing his name
a lot. Catherine Blandford or Riggie Conquest of Punky Johnson,
Caitlin Palufo, a lot of buzz on her lately. Good
sets at ten o'clock Alex English, Todd Glass, Aparna, Kristen
Toomey eleven o'clock Southwest skang Fest brought this up the
(02:16):
other day. You live long enough, you find yourself doing
south By Southwest. Welcome to the establishment, skang Fest, Joe Rosa,
Sam Jay, Bonnie McFarland and Eddie peppotone on that lineup. Hey,
it pays the bills. I don't judge. Tree Crowder has
a special coming out next week on the eight hundred
Pound Grilla YouTube channel. In trash Daddy, tree Crowder tackles
(02:37):
everything from the absurdity of cultural and social stereotypes to
his unusual and hilarious childhood upbringing as he reflects on
his ultimate parntal role as a trash daddy. There is
a trailer. Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I try to make myself feel better by telling myself
it's not a Southern accent thing. It's an American accent thing,
like the idea that any thick regional American accent can
sound kind of dumb, not just this one. You know,
like if you go to the doctor to get some
test results back, Yeah, you don't want this accent from
the doctor.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I know you don't, right, you don't. But you also
don't want some mate ball from the Bronx, you know, Like, listen,
it is what it is. You got stage four cancer.
What are you gonna do? No, no, no, what are
you gonna do? I'll tell you what you're gonna do.
You're gonna take emo, You're gonna take you righty a shit,
You're gonna kick cancers. Actually, I don't want a Bronx doctor.
I take that by ills. Sounds sounds pretty inspiring. Actually.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Nimish Pzil will premiere his new stand up social instant
Karma Tuesday, April, first good day for comedy. I don't
think there's a statement there. I think it's just a
Netflix special and those come out on Tuesday, and this
year one April is a Tuesday. Instakarma is Nimishpatel's first
hour Netflix in insta Karma Nimess dives deep into the
experience of growing up as a first generation Indian American. Nimesh,
(03:53):
the lovable outlaw of his family, breaks down his relationship
with his traditional parents, the mischief he causes a kid,
and whether or not he's become a better person now
that he's an adults. For Reade the Seas, he hasn't
no trailer yet. One of the jokes we're told, and
he obviously tells it better than I do. My parents
spent two hundred thousand dollars for me to get a
degree in finance. Zero return on that investment. That's good.
(04:13):
Let's do gossip Corner because we're trying to keep it
light and fun after yesterday's podcast. Normally Gossip Corner goes
on the second half, but we'll do it here. You
know who's on gossip Corner again. Joe Coy. He was
in Green Bay and hung out with some Green Bay Packers.
They are football players. The Joe Cooy concert was date
night for Packers head coach Matt Lafleur and wife and
(04:34):
for incoming Packers president CEO ed Policy the Policies and
the Laflor's post For a selfie with Joe Cooy and
signed a cheesehead football for Joekoy. Now, Joe Koy, you
may know the name. You're like, how do I know
that name? Johnny Mack, I've heard of Joekoy before. He's
the guy remember the Golden Globes. He hosted the Golden
Globes and he told a joke about Taylor Swift. Here,
let's listen.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.
The big difference between the Golden Globe the NFL. On
the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I'm sorry, never gets old. And I'm picturing a friend
of the show, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast. He
likes this kind of humor. This is the Letterman influence
on me, where you just beat a joke forever. It's funny.
Scott Beckett's throwing things. More gossip Corner, More football gossip Corner.
You know who was at Shane Gillis's SNL. George Kittle,
(05:26):
Christian McCaffrey, and Kyle Chusk. They were all at SNL
and they're like, who are those guys? They sound familiar.
They are san Francisco forty nine Ers, also a football team.
Kittle went on inster and posted pictures of himself and
his forty nine Ers team m It's on set. Kittle
also took a picture with Mike Myers. More gossip corner.
Dave Chappelle hit a basketball game. He was court sided
(05:48):
a the UD Arena watching the Dayton Flyers rally from
a fourteen point deficit in the second half and the
Dayton Flyers beats Saint Louis seventy five sixty seven in
the final home game of the season. Chappelle took seats
in the opening minutes of the second half. Where was
Dave the first half? Was he in a skybox as
he'd come to college basketball games late. Who knows, but
we're told. Dave Chappelle posts for photos with the fans
(06:10):
during timeouts. He received applause from the sellout crowd later
in the second half when he was shown on the scoreboard.
After the game, Dave walked into the tunnel and waited
for the University of Dayton players. He posts for photos
with the Flyers and then with Dayton coach Anthony Grant.
Chappelle said, I'll be back too. Coach Grant said, we
appreciate you. In the postgame press conference, coach Grant said,
(06:32):
it's not every day you get Dave Chappelle in the house.
Let's keep it light, stuff that normally goes on the
second half. Comedy albums. You like comedy albums. These I
didn't get to yesterday because it was all angsty. In
case you missed it, Rachel Pegram's new album, Silly, Loud
and Delightful is out on a Special Thing Records. It
was recorded live in front of a late night crowd
and Rachel settled everyone in with a neighborly INTROI before
(06:53):
getting right to it with her hot takes on top
of his including bagfoot and white people. Now, is that
two topics are one? I think it's one, including bigfoot
and white people, and there's no comma. Probably one topic,
but anyway, Bigfoot and white people, her personal history of
being a late comer to art, garfunkle, discovering porn, losing
her virginity, and a whole lot more so I think
the topic is bigfoot and white people, one big topic.
(07:15):
One way to find out. Check out her album Silly Loud,
Delightful out now on a Special Thing Records also out
a new album by Somalia. Born in California, raised in Minneapolis,
based comic a med Kaloff, a men's album is called
Hobby d Hoy. On it, he shares how to beat
tough odds, like being born in a Somali refugee camp,
but growing up to out white the wife of a
(07:37):
brewery owner, and learning how to walk again after breaking
his leg at thirty. Oh no, wehe there you go.
We got through the first half of the podcast, no angst.
It was all light and fun and silly and no
politics and you know, none of the stuff we talked
by yesterday. So oho got that done. To take the break,
we'll come back. We'll do stuff that normally would be
in the first half. New Dad Andrew Schultz till the
(07:59):
l eight times. When I can end my day by
five forty five pm, I'm good because that means I
get to spend time with my daughter and just be
a dad for a while. It's the greatest feeling on earth,
Schultz said. The second you have a kid, every feeling
you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever they laugh,
it's the best laugh in the world. When they smile,
you melt you'd do anything for them. LA Times is curious, Hey, Andrew,
is becoming a parent helped you write new comedy, and
he said, I haven't written a single joke since I
(08:20):
had my daughter, or since the tour stopped, so now
it's all focused on trying to make her laugh. The
world gets really small and has made me reflect on
comedy material about kids a lot, because when I was
growing up, my favorite comedians would do this comedy about
how they kind of hated their kids. And when you
first have a kid, you're gonna be shocked at how
cloche all your feelings are. The second you have a kid,
every feeling you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever
they laugh, it's the best laugh in the world. When
they smile, you melt, you'd do anything for them. Good
(08:42):
job by the La Times, who asked, we're in this
new era of comedy where more comedians are talking about
being parents in today's world and being open and honest
about not only raising them, but the conceiving process, which
is the heart of your special What's it like being
so vulnerable, Andrew said, cathartic. It was nice in the beginning.
It was nice because there are stages. When I first
started writing it, I wasn't even like writing an hour.
I was just kind of I was talking about what
was going through. It was just getting back on stage
and taking some time off from the last special. And
(09:04):
then my wife and I were trying to get pregnant.
I remember coming back from Burning Man, I was going
to a big birthday party for her mom. But I
remember that was when we first started trying. I remember
doing it and afterwards being like, it's probably okay if
we don't get pregnant this time, just because I didn't
know it was in my bloodstream at that point. I mean,
I was at Burning Man for a week and then
I'm gonna go make a baby. So it didn't happen
that time, and then another month went by, didn't happen.
Another one went by, didn't happen. I was like, ooh,
is it hard to get pregnant. I couldn't fathom it
(09:26):
was hard. You know, my whole life's been trying about
not get women pregnant. The amount of stress that'd go
through and plan bees and all the other crap. Dallycommercial
dot Com caught up with Lewis Black, who I thought
was retiring at the end of last year, but he's
still out there on tour. Oh wait, now I could
edit this. He he got political here. I'm not doing
that today. You get bounced to tomorrow Lewis Black John,
(09:48):
why don't you edit this out because I want you
guys to know what's going on here. I'm bouncing the
wid black story Tomorrow. I'm not doing it. Moving on,
bounce the throwing a Guark talked about her weight loss.
She up up about using weight loss medications and the
Internet being the Internet got mad at her. She thanked
her supporters and told her haters she doesn't owe an
explanation to anybody. Zarna said, anything else is just exhausting.
(10:11):
I talked about this recently on a Zarnaguard Family podcast episode,
not realizing the impact it would have an offering relief
to so many. I see you, I am you. Proceed
with proper medical advice and live your best life. Hater's
gonna hate. We don't engage in the debate. She revealed
she received hundreds of dms for opening up about the
use of weight loss meds and wrote in twenty twenty five,
can we stop the bs of pretending we're perfect? Take
(10:33):
the meds. Don't take the meds, do your thing with
kindness around you, and keep it moving. Zarna shared before
taking the weight loss medicine, she constantly thought about food,
even when having a meal. She didn't realize that was
a habit until she started taking the drugs. Brad Williams
was offered a choice write a five minute bit or
anything else. He picked five minute bit. He said, it's
the greatest feeling in the world writing a new joke
and having it work. He first considered a comedy career
(10:55):
when he was nineteen. He was at a comedian show
and tells the story the comedian called me up on stage,
just asked me questions and answer the questions honestly. I
didn't try and make jokes. Well, my answers got laughs,
and that was the first adrenaline needle where I was like, ah,
this feels awesome. I just started going to open mic nights,
driving as little as five minutes and as much as
six hours to do three minutes in front of No One,
Drunks and other open my comics whoever. He finds that
(11:16):
the stage is almost like meditation. It's where my focus is,
it's where all my intention is. I'm only worried about
what's happening on stage, and that's a wonderful, beautiful, simplistic feeling.
Brad says, I don't cover politics because I'm not smart
enough to do it. So if anyone's worried about coming
to my show and hearing a rally that's either four
against whatever side they're on, they're not going to hear that.
But he tells us, I am going to make you
go through a whole cavalcade of emotions in the course
of an hour and a half, but ultimately I'm gonna
(11:37):
make you leave feeling good. And that's what I want.
I want people to go that was worth a babysitter,
and that is your Strey free, happy daily comedy news
for today. All Right, we got through.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
One, uh no for me.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I recorded these back to back, so that's why I'm
still feeling the Friday episode. But anyway, see tomor
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