March 15, 2025 • 12 mins
Johnny Mac delves into a packed weekend of comedy news, touching on insights from Bill Burr's recent NPR interview where he discusses his rage, therapy, and Psilocybin experiences. Burr also addresses early career jokes and his growth as a person and comedian. Additionally, Brad Paisley is organizing a comedy benefit for a free grocery store, and there's news on specials from George Lopez and Eliza Schlesinger. Gabe Iglesias achieves a milestone at the TCL Chinese Theatre, and Spinal Tap 2 is announced for September. The episode also features updates from the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and a candid segment about the financial aspects of podcasting.
00:27 Bill Burr's NPR Interview and Personal Insights
01:07 Reflections on Personal Growth and PR Campaigns
03:21 Brad Paisley's Comedy Benefit for Charity
04:31 Iliza Schlesinger's New Special and Comedy Style
07:49 Gabriel Iglesias' Hollywood Tribute
08:23 Jennifer Hudson's Kevin Hart Promo Controversy
08:44 John Mulaney's Emmy Story and Spinal Tap 2
09:43 New Zealand International Comedy Festival
10:29 Podcasting Journey and Listener Feedback
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00:27 Bill Burr's NPR Interview and Personal Insights
01:07 Reflections on Personal Growth and PR Campaigns
03:21 Brad Paisley's Comedy Benefit for Charity
04:31 Iliza Schlesinger's New Special and Comedy Style
07:49 Gabriel Iglesias' Hollywood Tribute
08:23 Jennifer Hudson's Kevin Hart Promo Controversy
08:44 John Mulaney's Emmy Story and Spinal Tap 2
09:43 New Zealand International Comedy Festival
10:29 Podcasting Journey and Listener Feedback
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 Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news
both today and tomorrow. Pretty robust for the weekend. Tons
of news. We're in this little comedy cycle now where
we've had Melaney Burr and coming up on Tuesday, Bird
Chrysler special. So plenty to talk about in the next
(00:25):
few days into all of next week. Actually, Bill Burr
caught up with NPR. I'll drop in and out of
a half assed Bill Burr impression here and not impression,
but I try and capture his bite. You know, he'll
speaking short said, it's this little bit at us, So
I'll do that. In and out Bill tails NPR. He
traces some of his rage and his dark humor to
the emotional abuse he experienced as a child in Massachusetts.
(00:46):
Bill said, every way that you can be abused as
what I'm talking about, I don't know if you can
ever undo things that were done to you. He realized
at an early age if he could make people laugh,
he was less likely to get hurt. Since then, he's
tried therapy and silo they've been aka magic mushrooms as
a way of dealing with the past. He says both
helps and lately has felt lighter on stage. Let me
(01:06):
jump in here there is clearly let me back up.
I posted this on the Facebook group Pretty Daily Comedy
News podcast group. A few things. As I've aged, I
have increasingly been using the phrase many things can be
true at once. For example, one, we should all try
to be a better person today than we were yesterday.
Absolutely true. Two, many things can be true at once.
(01:28):
There appears to be some sort of PR campaign right
now to let us know that Bill Burr is a
better man than he was yesterday, and that he softened
and he's changed or whatever, that he can dial the
rage on and off. That is in every messaging I've
seen for this current promotional cycle. And again go back
to point one. I think we should all try and
be better people. But I'm noticing the PR campaign is
(01:50):
what I'm saying. I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
I'm just telling you i'm noticing it. Bir said that
whole myth that you can't be happy and still be
funny's a myth. I'm a mess of a human being still,
this far into life. That is my existence to day,
week to week, month a month. It's just what it is.
But it makes for good comedy. If you want to
hear a good, solid hour bilburt Is on Terry Gross's
Fresh Air, you can grab that as a podcast. He
(02:11):
talked about the mushrooms and said, I started tripping and
it was goofy and I was laughing. I was like, Wow,
this is wild. And then all of a sudden, like
this feeling came over me and I couldn't really figure
out what it was. It was this profound sense of loneliness.
I think I asked the question, which really is a
cool thing to do when you're on mushrooms, to kind
of say, what are you trying to tell me? And
it's weird, like the answer just sort of comes. The
answer is basically, this is how you felt growing up.
It's the weirdest thing. For like a week after, I
(02:32):
was who I would have been if all this stuff
didn't happen to me. It was like this honeymoon phase.
This euphoria made me want to become a better person,
made me want to fix my life. So seven days
of that, oh my god, I'm not angry anymore. I
felt this lightness in my chest. But then after seven
days the anger came back tenfold, and then I had
to work through that. That was only like a three
week thing, because I kind of saw who I could be.
Bill has asked about some of his early career jokes
(02:52):
about women. Bill said, if you watched my earlier stand up,
all that crap that I said had nothing to do
with women. It had to the fact with it. I
didn't know how to get on with my life that
I wanted to get married, I wanted to be in love,
I wanted to have kids, and I didn't know how
to do it. I didn't understand what my problem was,
and I didn't know how to fix it. One of
my biggest fears when I was on her comic and
I looked at older comics and never got married, never
had kids. They were still doing shows and then hanging
out afterwards, trying to pick up chicks at the end
(03:13):
of it, and I was like, oh my god, I
don't ever want to be that guy. I wanted to
get married at twenty six and I have like five
or six kids, but I didn't know how to do it.
Good stuff there, We'll pick at that over the next
few days. Brad Paisley Country Music Store. He's doing a
comedy benefit at Zany's in Nashville on April thirteenth to
benefit a free grocery store he operates with his wife.
That store is called The Store. The show was called
(03:34):
Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. Brad says, it's such an
amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy for
charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything.
Most charity events are too long. Most of them are
asking a lot of people that attend. You're asking for money,
you're asking for time. You usually feed them a badly
catered meal. There's an auction that takes too long. None
of that is part of this. This is literally what
we call it. Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. The Store
(03:57):
is a nonprofit organization that offers a free referral based
grocery restored at Nasville Families with Food Insecurity. They open
up their first location in twenty twenty. Last fall, I
reveal plans for a second store. Brad said, we really
thought this would take off, and it's great to see
that it did. No details yet on who's appearing. The
date is April thirteenth. Doors open five point fifteen, show
starts at six. It said. Zani's in Nashville. Ticket price
(04:18):
two hundred fifty dollars general admission. Before you're like two
hundred and fifty dollars, please remember it's a fundraiser. I
don't know what's going on at Amazon. George Lopez's special
came and went, and I didn't see any press about it.
So as I was putting the show together, I saw, oh,
Eliza Slessenger spoke to the La Times because her special
came out last Tuesday. Now, aside from that, I suck
(04:40):
and I'm terrible at podcasting, and I don't know how
to put a show together. I do every single day,
type in the words even if I don't record, I
type in the words comedy and comedian into Google, and
I visit five six seven websites. And I didn't say
a thing about Eliza's special coming out, or I would
have mentioned it. Somehow fell off my radar. Also, what
I normally do is if I don't know if Joe
(05:01):
Comedian announces as special on June sixth, I work off
an app called agenda. And what I will do is
I will start a file labeled June sixth, and I
will put in there Joe Comedian Special out on surface today,
and that way, when the day rolls around, I know
it's there. Eliza came and went so Amazon, I don't
know what's going on. You make the Hulu publicists look awesome.
Haley Times asked Eliza the title of your special, which
(05:23):
apparently came out last Tuesday, A Different Animal is an
aggressive title, but it also seems like it's got a
bunch of layers to it. How do you think the
title relates to your comedy? Eliza said, I wanted to
do something that was very me, but also my comedy
is a little bit of force, that aggression built into it.
But I did want to sort of announce that I'm
on this new platform, Prime Video, and I think what
I bring as a performer is different. Every comic should
feel that they're bringing something unique. Otherwise, why are you
(05:44):
an artist? In a literal way? My comedy is a
different animal because I do these animal sounds during my show,
and I'm very theatrical, and what I do this is
different comedy than what you might get somewhere else. I
think I create a very special product. She then talks
about putting on a show and says somebody came up
with having Eliza and big letter behind me because the
ideas you're watching this and just in case you forget
who you're watching. We always wanted it to be on screen,
(06:05):
and I wanted to be fun and polished and visually appealing.
I thought about doing everything in white, and Amazon was like,
that's gonna be a little hard to watch the whole time.
They're like, you should be the whitest thing about your set.
She explains, I'm the first one to perform in leggings
and sneakers when I'm on tour, but for a special
it should be special. Ela Times said, having seen around
town in La you do multiple sets to night and
you're very focused, stressed down, and very inconspicuous. What's your
(06:25):
mentality when you're in that mode? Eliza said, I believe
in loving the work, so when I go out at night,
I'm there to get something out of it. Always do
the set, even if you don't feel well, even when
you're tired. If there's no real reason to stay home,
like if you have flu, maybe okay, stay home, don't
spread it around or due I think maybe COVID was
started by a bunch of male comics just breathing on
a microphone, but I'm there to do work, and I'm
there to find all the little weak points. I'm there
(06:46):
to find new things. I'm there to find tags. So
if I'm not on the road, I'll get up like
two three times a night. I don't do three sets
as often as I used to you because by the
third set, even if it's only a twenty minute set,
I'm still like, did I already say this to you?
Or was that the other club boy? I know that feeling,
especially when I record by out of sequence, I'm like,
did I say this one yet? I either can't remember
if I've told the story or if I've told the
(07:07):
story two days from now, if you know what I mean. Plus,
I also host the weekly comedy thing on the Live
one app and some stories get done here and there,
and it usually happens when I'm recording that show. I'm like,
did I say this already? I feel like I did
this one already. I try and keep good notes, Eliza said,
I try to get up a few times a night
because I don't write anything down, so it's all in
my head. And so for me, it's about retaining remembering
the muscle memory of what gonna laugh last time? The
(07:28):
only times thought it was crazy that she doesn't write
anything down. She said, I write down like a word,
like I'll say gello, and then that's my mental cue
to remember the entire bit. Even though my memory feel
shot since becoming a mom. I'm a big believer in
the repetition that is the workout. So I'll do a
lot of shows where I riff. If you come see
me in Hollywood, chances are I'm making up like a
third of what I'm saying there, and then I feel
like whatever's good sticks, and that's how we arrive at
the hour Gavie Igleacias got his hands in the cement
(07:51):
over at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Gabe said,
the emotions are going, It's very overwhelming. He paid tribute
to other Latino entertainers who came before him with a
shirt featuring photos of Vincente Fernandez, Chess Burrito, Desi, Ornez,
John Like Guizamo, George Lopez, and Freddie Prinz. Gabe said,
I thought, if I could find a way, how do
you say a lot without saying anything? So I had
this shirt made to showcase this. I love it. I
(08:13):
spent my childhood coming down here with my family. So
the fact that I'm here now means a lot, not
just me, but being Mexican. It's like, this guy can
do it, why can't I do it? Everybody is a dream?
What's your dream? And what are you doing to make
it happen? People are mad at Jennifer Huts and she
did a promo about her guest, Kevin Hart. They put
out picture out on social media. You see Jennifer's why
the queen's accent came out there? Uh drop the accent.
(08:33):
You see Jennifer smiling brightly in the frame where you
can only see Kevin Hart from the forehead and up.
One person on social media said, for the first time
in my life, I have felt secondhand disrespect. Johnny. You
never talk about John Mlanie. I know right. Late Nighter
had a cute story. David Letterman has given an Emmy
statue that Letterman won for him. My next guest needs
(08:54):
no introduction. He gave it to John m'laney's father, who
appeared in the episode that won the award. Lanie's father
recently got a package from Lenorman. Dave wrote a note,
I found this extra Ammy in a closet. I told
the kids. Let's give it to Chip, So here you go.
I hope you love it the way television people love it,
and it's solid gold. Spinal Tap two The End continues
a sequel to the nineteen eighty four This Is Spinal
(09:15):
Tap is heading to theaters this fall. September twelfth is
the date, once again, directed by Rob Reiner. Spinal Tap
two the n continues as Christopher Guest, Michael mckeinn and
Harry Shearer, all in their original roles as one of
England's loudest bands. The plot this time spoiler spinal Tap
is reuniting after fifteen years for one final concert. Reyner
(09:36):
returns as Marty de Bergie, the documentarian who folls them
on tour making Cameo Zelton, John Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks,
Trisha Yearwood and the New Zealand International Comedy Festival has
announced their lineup. The festival will take over Auckland and
Wellington throughout the month of May over one hundred and
fifty comedians, delivering more than six hundred live performances. Some
(09:56):
of the comedians Nish Kumar, whose name has been coming
up a lot lately, comedian and podcast host Olga Kach
Australia stand up and presenter, Becky Lucas, TV writer Adam Kaye,
also Jen Brister, Laura lex here Shaw, Sarah Keatworth and Moore,
UK comedians making their way to New Zealand. Lucas will
host the Best Comedy Show on Earth at the sky
(10:16):
City Theater, presenting an evening of hilarious comedy from a
selection of crowd favorites and rising stars. Closing out the
festival is Last Laughs, hosted by Eli Mathewson, also at
sky City Theater. And that is your comedy news for today.
Before we go, I just wanted to touch on one
thing that's been creeping up a little bit, specifically in
the Apple podcast reviews. Some people don't seem to enjoy
(10:38):
the feed drops that you get on Apple podcasts that
say you may also like and then you get an
episode of something. Let me just be transparent here. So
why did I start this podcast? A few reasons. One,
I was already hosting the Weekly Comedy Thing. That's a
weekly show I host on the Live One app. I'm
paid to host that show. I put the show together
and I was noticing increasingly as they put the show together,
(10:59):
I had all this extra material, and I'm like, Eh,
why don't I turn a podcast to that? So that's
one two emotionally, and I've talked about this when I
was serious. I built all these comedy channels. I put
my heart and soul and I build this thing. It's
super popular for ten years, and then I get tagged
out because I got a new boss who wanted to
hire his assistant from Philadelphia and I basically got fired
for no reason, so kind of annoying. So emotionally, this
(11:23):
show you're listening to right now, it's mine. It's not
for sale. You can't have it. I'm not going to
sell it to you. Maybe it sucks, maybe you hate it.
I don't think I hated if you're listening this far in,
but it's mine. So emotionally, this is mine, right And
then also I like to make money. Podcasting is my job.
I'm making money off this and the other shows on
Calaruga Shark Media, including Palace Intrigue and Five Good News Stories.
(11:45):
We put out the shows, we put commercials in the middle.
If you don't want the commercials, we have the premium subscription.
Totally get it. But you know, I put a couple
hours into this every day, specifically this one show, and
it's nice to turn a buck. So the feed drops
they pay really well, Like they pay really really well.
I wish you could see my face right now. I'm
looking at you in the ass going. It pays really well.
(12:06):
So I get it. I personally, I listen on podecasts
and I don't see those drops at all. They're specific
to the Apple Podcasts app and they go in as
bonus episodes. So if they're annoying you, Pockecast is a
pretty good app. But like, I totally get it, and
I hope you can understand where I'm coming from, all right,
see tomorrow
Callaroga Shark Media Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news
both today and tomorrow. Pretty robust for the weekend. Tons
of news. We're in this little comedy cycle now where
we've had Melaney Burr and coming up on Tuesday, Bird
Chrysler special. So plenty to talk about in the next
(00:25):
few days into all of next week. Actually, Bill Burr
caught up with NPR. I'll drop in and out of
a half assed Bill Burr impression here and not impression,
but I try and capture his bite. You know, he'll
speaking short said, it's this little bit at us, So
I'll do that. In and out Bill tails NPR. He
traces some of his rage and his dark humor to
the emotional abuse he experienced as a child in Massachusetts.
(00:46):
Bill said, every way that you can be abused as
what I'm talking about, I don't know if you can
ever undo things that were done to you. He realized
at an early age if he could make people laugh,
he was less likely to get hurt. Since then, he's
tried therapy and silo they've been aka magic mushrooms as
a way of dealing with the past. He says both
helps and lately has felt lighter on stage. Let me
(01:06):
jump in here there is clearly let me back up.
I posted this on the Facebook group Pretty Daily Comedy
News podcast group. A few things. As I've aged, I
have increasingly been using the phrase many things can be
true at once. For example, one, we should all try
to be a better person today than we were yesterday.
Absolutely true. Two, many things can be true at once.
(01:28):
There appears to be some sort of PR campaign right
now to let us know that Bill Burr is a
better man than he was yesterday, and that he softened
and he's changed or whatever, that he can dial the
rage on and off. That is in every messaging I've
seen for this current promotional cycle. And again go back
to point one. I think we should all try and
be better people. But I'm noticing the PR campaign is
(01:50):
what I'm saying. I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
I'm just telling you i'm noticing it. Bir said that
whole myth that you can't be happy and still be
funny's a myth. I'm a mess of a human being still,
this far into life. That is my existence to day,
week to week, month a month. It's just what it is.
But it makes for good comedy. If you want to
hear a good, solid hour bilburt Is on Terry Gross's
Fresh Air, you can grab that as a podcast. He
(02:11):
talked about the mushrooms and said, I started tripping and
it was goofy and I was laughing. I was like, Wow,
this is wild. And then all of a sudden, like
this feeling came over me and I couldn't really figure
out what it was. It was this profound sense of loneliness.
I think I asked the question, which really is a
cool thing to do when you're on mushrooms, to kind
of say, what are you trying to tell me? And
it's weird, like the answer just sort of comes. The
answer is basically, this is how you felt growing up.
It's the weirdest thing. For like a week after, I
(02:32):
was who I would have been if all this stuff
didn't happen to me. It was like this honeymoon phase.
This euphoria made me want to become a better person,
made me want to fix my life. So seven days
of that, oh my god, I'm not angry anymore. I
felt this lightness in my chest. But then after seven
days the anger came back tenfold, and then I had
to work through that. That was only like a three
week thing, because I kind of saw who I could be.
Bill has asked about some of his early career jokes
(02:52):
about women. Bill said, if you watched my earlier stand up,
all that crap that I said had nothing to do
with women. It had to the fact with it. I
didn't know how to get on with my life that
I wanted to get married, I wanted to be in love,
I wanted to have kids, and I didn't know how
to do it. I didn't understand what my problem was,
and I didn't know how to fix it. One of
my biggest fears when I was on her comic and
I looked at older comics and never got married, never
had kids. They were still doing shows and then hanging
out afterwards, trying to pick up chicks at the end
(03:13):
of it, and I was like, oh my god, I
don't ever want to be that guy. I wanted to
get married at twenty six and I have like five
or six kids, but I didn't know how to do it.
Good stuff there, We'll pick at that over the next
few days. Brad Paisley Country Music Store. He's doing a
comedy benefit at Zany's in Nashville on April thirteenth to
benefit a free grocery store he operates with his wife.
That store is called The Store. The show was called
(03:34):
Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. Brad says, it's such an
amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy for
charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything.
Most charity events are too long. Most of them are
asking a lot of people that attend. You're asking for money,
you're asking for time. You usually feed them a badly
catered meal. There's an auction that takes too long. None
of that is part of this. This is literally what
we call it. Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. The Store
(03:57):
is a nonprofit organization that offers a free referral based
grocery restored at Nasville Families with Food Insecurity. They open
up their first location in twenty twenty. Last fall, I
reveal plans for a second store. Brad said, we really
thought this would take off, and it's great to see
that it did. No details yet on who's appearing. The
date is April thirteenth. Doors open five point fifteen, show
starts at six. It said. Zani's in Nashville. Ticket price
(04:18):
two hundred fifty dollars general admission. Before you're like two
hundred and fifty dollars, please remember it's a fundraiser. I
don't know what's going on at Amazon. George Lopez's special
came and went, and I didn't see any press about it.
So as I was putting the show together, I saw, oh,
Eliza Slessenger spoke to the La Times because her special
came out last Tuesday. Now, aside from that, I suck
(04:40):
and I'm terrible at podcasting, and I don't know how
to put a show together. I do every single day,
type in the words even if I don't record, I
type in the words comedy and comedian into Google, and
I visit five six seven websites. And I didn't say
a thing about Eliza's special coming out, or I would
have mentioned it. Somehow fell off my radar. Also, what
I normally do is if I don't know if Joe
(05:01):
Comedian announces as special on June sixth, I work off
an app called agenda. And what I will do is
I will start a file labeled June sixth, and I
will put in there Joe Comedian Special out on surface today,
and that way, when the day rolls around, I know
it's there. Eliza came and went so Amazon, I don't
know what's going on. You make the Hulu publicists look awesome.
Haley Times asked Eliza the title of your special, which
(05:23):
apparently came out last Tuesday, A Different Animal is an
aggressive title, but it also seems like it's got a
bunch of layers to it. How do you think the
title relates to your comedy? Eliza said, I wanted to
do something that was very me, but also my comedy
is a little bit of force, that aggression built into it.
But I did want to sort of announce that I'm
on this new platform, Prime Video, and I think what
I bring as a performer is different. Every comic should
feel that they're bringing something unique. Otherwise, why are you
(05:44):
an artist? In a literal way? My comedy is a
different animal because I do these animal sounds during my show,
and I'm very theatrical, and what I do this is
different comedy than what you might get somewhere else. I
think I create a very special product. She then talks
about putting on a show and says somebody came up
with having Eliza and big letter behind me because the
ideas you're watching this and just in case you forget
who you're watching. We always wanted it to be on screen,
(06:05):
and I wanted to be fun and polished and visually appealing.
I thought about doing everything in white, and Amazon was like,
that's gonna be a little hard to watch the whole time.
They're like, you should be the whitest thing about your set.
She explains, I'm the first one to perform in leggings
and sneakers when I'm on tour, but for a special
it should be special. Ela Times said, having seen around
town in La you do multiple sets to night and
you're very focused, stressed down, and very inconspicuous. What's your
(06:25):
mentality when you're in that mode? Eliza said, I believe
in loving the work, so when I go out at night,
I'm there to get something out of it. Always do
the set, even if you don't feel well, even when
you're tired. If there's no real reason to stay home,
like if you have flu, maybe okay, stay home, don't
spread it around or due I think maybe COVID was
started by a bunch of male comics just breathing on
a microphone, but I'm there to do work, and I'm
there to find all the little weak points. I'm there
(06:46):
to find new things. I'm there to find tags. So
if I'm not on the road, I'll get up like
two three times a night. I don't do three sets
as often as I used to you because by the
third set, even if it's only a twenty minute set,
I'm still like, did I already say this to you?
Or was that the other club boy? I know that feeling,
especially when I record by out of sequence, I'm like,
did I say this one yet? I either can't remember
if I've told the story or if I've told the
(07:07):
story two days from now, if you know what I mean. Plus,
I also host the weekly comedy thing on the Live
one app and some stories get done here and there,
and it usually happens when I'm recording that show. I'm like,
did I say this already? I feel like I did
this one already. I try and keep good notes, Eliza said,
I try to get up a few times a night
because I don't write anything down, so it's all in
my head. And so for me, it's about retaining remembering
the muscle memory of what gonna laugh last time? The
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only times thought it was crazy that she doesn't write
anything down. She said, I write down like a word,
like I'll say gello, and then that's my mental cue
to remember the entire bit. Even though my memory feel
shot since becoming a mom. I'm a big believer in
the repetition that is the workout. So I'll do a
lot of shows where I riff. If you come see
me in Hollywood, chances are I'm making up like a
third of what I'm saying there, and then I feel
like whatever's good sticks, and that's how we arrive at
the hour Gavie Igleacias got his hands in the cement
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over at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Gabe said,
the emotions are going, It's very overwhelming. He paid tribute
to other Latino entertainers who came before him with a
shirt featuring photos of Vincente Fernandez, Chess Burrito, Desi, Ornez,
John Like Guizamo, George Lopez, and Freddie Prinz. Gabe said,
I thought, if I could find a way, how do
you say a lot without saying anything? So I had
this shirt made to showcase this. I love it. I
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spent my childhood coming down here with my family. So
the fact that I'm here now means a lot, not
just me, but being Mexican. It's like, this guy can
do it, why can't I do it? Everybody is a dream?
What's your dream? And what are you doing to make
it happen? People are mad at Jennifer Huts and she
did a promo about her guest, Kevin Hart. They put
out picture out on social media. You see Jennifer's why
the queen's accent came out there? Uh drop the accent.
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You see Jennifer smiling brightly in the frame where you
can only see Kevin Hart from the forehead and up.
One person on social media said, for the first time
in my life, I have felt secondhand disrespect. Johnny. You
never talk about John Mlanie. I know right. Late Nighter
had a cute story. David Letterman has given an Emmy
statue that Letterman won for him. My next guest needs
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no introduction. He gave it to John m'laney's father, who
appeared in the episode that won the award. Lanie's father
recently got a package from Lenorman. Dave wrote a note,
I found this extra Ammy in a closet. I told
the kids. Let's give it to Chip, So here you go.
I hope you love it the way television people love it,
and it's solid gold. Spinal Tap two The End continues
a sequel to the nineteen eighty four This Is Spinal
(09:15):
Tap is heading to theaters this fall. September twelfth is
the date, once again, directed by Rob Reiner. Spinal Tap
two the n continues as Christopher Guest, Michael mckeinn and
Harry Shearer, all in their original roles as one of
England's loudest bands. The plot this time spoiler spinal Tap
is reuniting after fifteen years for one final concert. Reyner
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returns as Marty de Bergie, the documentarian who folls them
on tour making Cameo Zelton, John Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks,
Trisha Yearwood and the New Zealand International Comedy Festival has
announced their lineup. The festival will take over Auckland and
Wellington throughout the month of May over one hundred and
fifty comedians, delivering more than six hundred live performances. Some
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of the comedians Nish Kumar, whose name has been coming
up a lot lately, comedian and podcast host Olga Kach
Australia stand up and presenter, Becky Lucas, TV writer Adam Kaye,
also Jen Brister, Laura lex here Shaw, Sarah Keatworth and Moore,
UK comedians making their way to New Zealand. Lucas will
host the Best Comedy Show on Earth at the sky
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City Theater, presenting an evening of hilarious comedy from a
selection of crowd favorites and rising stars. Closing out the
festival is Last Laughs, hosted by Eli Mathewson, also at
sky City Theater. And that is your comedy news for today.
Before we go, I just wanted to touch on one
thing that's been creeping up a little bit, specifically in
the Apple podcast reviews. Some people don't seem to enjoy
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the feed drops that you get on Apple podcasts that
say you may also like and then you get an
episode of something. Let me just be transparent here. So
why did I start this podcast? A few reasons. One,
I was already hosting the Weekly Comedy Thing. That's a
weekly show I host on the Live One app. I'm
paid to host that show. I put the show together
and I was noticing increasingly as they put the show together,
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I had all this extra material, and I'm like, Eh,
why don't I turn a podcast to that? So that's
one two emotionally, and I've talked about this when I
was serious. I built all these comedy channels. I put
my heart and soul and I build this thing. It's
super popular for ten years, and then I get tagged
out because I got a new boss who wanted to
hire his assistant from Philadelphia and I basically got fired
for no reason, so kind of annoying. So emotionally, this
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show you're listening to right now, it's mine. It's not
for sale. You can't have it. I'm not going to
sell it to you. Maybe it sucks, maybe you hate it.
I don't think I hated if you're listening this far in,
but it's mine. So emotionally, this is mine, right And
then also I like to make money. Podcasting is my job.
I'm making money off this and the other shows on
Calaruga Shark Media, including Palace Intrigue and Five Good News Stories.
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We put out the shows, we put commercials in the middle.
If you don't want the commercials, we have the premium subscription.
Totally get it. But you know, I put a couple
hours into this every day, specifically this one show, and
it's nice to turn a buck. So the feed drops
they pay really well, Like they pay really really well.
I wish you could see my face right now. I'm
looking at you in the ass going. It pays really well.
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So I get it. I personally, I listen on podecasts
and I don't see those drops at all. They're specific
to the Apple Podcasts app and they go in as
bonus episodes. So if they're annoying you, Pockecast is a
pretty good app. But like, I totally get it, and
I hope you can understand where I'm coming from, all right,
see tomorrow
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