April 21, 2025 • 12 mins
Host Johnny Mac provides updates in the comedy world, including Nate Bargatze being chosen to host the 77th Emmy Awards, highlights from the upcoming National Comedy Center's Comedy Festival featuring Jon Stewart and Bill Murray, and details about the 'Office' spinoff with Oscar Nunez. Additionally, 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' celebrates its 20th anniversary with its 17th season, and Richard Pryor's albums get a new box set release. The episode also covers news about Craig Ferguson's new real estate purchase, Tim Dillon's comments on RFK, Tom Green's take on Canadian comedy, and the kickoff of the Sydney Comedy Festival.
00:43 Nate Bargatze to Host the Emmy Awards
01:38 National Comedy Center's Comedy Festival
03:08 The Office Spinoff: The Paper
04:30 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17
05:47 Tim Dillon on News Nation and Cancel Culture
06:39 Tom Green's Canadian Comedy
07:55 Gossip Corner: Craig Ferguson and Richard Pryor
10:27 Sydney Comedy Festival Kicks Off
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00:43 Nate Bargatze to Host the Emmy Awards
01:38 National Comedy Center's Comedy Festival
03:08 The Office Spinoff: The Paper
04:30 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17
05:47 Tim Dillon on News Nation and Cancel Culture
06:39 Tom Green's Canadian Comedy
07:55 Gossip Corner: Craig Ferguson and Richard Pryor
10:27 Sydney Comedy Festival Kicks 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!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Man with your daily
comedy news. If you missed yesterday's podcast, it was a
pretty good one. It was not Sunday filler. I had
some good meat in there yesterday and including story about
Shinge Gillis hitting up the Masters. If you listened yesterday,
you heard me kind of lose my voice a third
(00:25):
of the way through the podcast. I don't know what's
going on. I feel fine, but I am recording Sunday
and Monday back to back. So what I'm doing here
is I'm dialing it down a little. It reminds me
of when I run. You know, sometimes you get a
little tight and you have to slow up a little.
So I'm going to keep my energy a little more,
even more even keeled than usual. Nate Berghatzy is stebbing
(00:45):
up in class. He has been touted touted. Why did
I say touted? I could take that out. Nobody actually
says that, right, He's been touted. CBS has chosen, CBS
has hired. CBS has picked Nate Bergetzy to host the
seventy seventh ME Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in
Los Angeles on September fourteenth, Peacock Theater, CBS, That's going
(01:05):
to be awkward. Television Academy chair Chris Abrago sent a statement,
Nate with one of the hottest comics in the business,
with a remarkable and hilarious brand of comedy that deeply
resonates with multi generational audiences around the globe. We are
thrilled to be able to leverage his one of a
kind perspective to entertain TV fans watching this year's Emmy telecast.
In a statement, Nate said, it's a huge honour to
(01:27):
be asked to host such an iconic awards show, and
I'm beyond excited to work with CBS to create a
night that can be enjoyed by families around the world.
The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July fifteenth. The
National Comedy Center announced who's coming to the Comedy Festival
this year in August. I got to get up there.
I've been talking about it for a few years, and
I need an excuse for a long drive, and that's
(01:48):
a pretty part of the country. I think I might
go up this year. John Stewart, Bill Murray, Mikey Day,
Streeter Sidell, and Moore set to appear at the National
Comedy Center's Comedy Festival August seventh through the tenth, an
evening with John Stewart's Saturday August ninth on Sunday, a
stand up showcase to be followed by a rock and
blues concert featuring Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers. It's
(02:10):
an evening of comedy and music, a live blues and
classic rock performance along with stand up by some of
today's top talent from around the country. Former guest on
this podcast, Journey Gunderson said, John Stewart is one of
the most influential comedic voices of our time. That is true,
providing his signature a social commentary at a pace responsive
to the news cycle, while deeply thoughtful about our shared humanity.
(02:30):
All that is true. That is a good quote. John
Stewart said. I've said comedy is an iterative business and
a grind, and the best amongst us just keep at it.
I'm glad there's a museum, a national archive that drives
on or that, and I look forward to seeing how
the National Comedy Center tells the story of this great
art form that survives every moment. Also, the festival mighty day,
SNL head writer Streeter Sidell, they will join the National
(02:53):
Comedy Center for an on stage dialogue curated for Comedy's
National Archive, offering an inside look at their groundbreaking show
of the First Honors SNL's fiftieth. Their visit also commemorates
the Washington's dream Sketch Q cards being added to the museum.
That's fun. We found out a little bit more about
that Office spin off. Oscar Nuniez has confirmed that he
(03:13):
will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez on Office spin off.
This is called The Paper I Believe, which will follow
the same documentary crew that captured dunder Mifflin's antics as
they turned their focus to a Midwestern newspaper. Ricky Gervasa's
wallet probably says thank you. Nunia says, they're still editing
and stuff. It's very, very exciting. Oscar was talking with
Angela Kinsey, who asked him, isn't the understanding that you're
(03:37):
following the documentary crew to a new location and you
happen to be there. Oscar Nuniaz said, that's right. More
will be revealed, as my wife likes to say. Kinsey
said she visited this set of the new show, and
alongside Jenna Fisher, who you know as Pam. Jenna and
I stopped by the set. Greg Daniels, the creator had
invited us, and we showed up and not only was
(03:57):
Oscar there, but our crew somebody in these wonderful peop
Because the crew was our extended family. We're still really
close with them. That was really moving to see. Steve
Carell was asked about this show last year by The
Holloway Reporter. He said, we'll be watching, but I will
not be showing up. It's just a new thing and
there's really no reason for my character to show up
in something like that. But I'm excited about it. Sounds
like a great conceit. I love the idea. I guess
(04:18):
it's set in a newspaper company. And I've worked with
Domal Gleeson, who's the star of this one. I did
The Patient with him and he's an excellent actor and
a super nice guy. So I think it'll be great.
Good quote from Steve Carell. There handled that properly. Season
seventeen of its Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on
FXX July ninth and on Hulu the next day. The
(04:39):
premiere will be the second half of the crossover with
Abbott Elementary, there's a clip teasing the new season. We
see the Gang volunteering at the elementary school, stealing kids
brownies and auditioning them for a potential boy band. This
is season seventeen, but it celebrates the show's twentieth anniversary.
We're told season seventeen is dubbed The Gang Embraces the
(05:00):
Arp and tells the story of how greed and the
New American Dream have consumed Patty's Pub. They'll exploit cross
network promotion to increase market share. They'll scape goat one
of their own to avoid a pr backlash. They'll risk
everything for a handshake with the Saudi's. They'll bend the
laws with side housles to pad their pockets, and they'll
change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience.
According to the log line, and sure, like any corporate goon,
(05:21):
the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That's been
playing since two thousand and five, But they're also human
beings that crave love, respect, conditional freedom, constant adulation, histrionic
amounts of attention, NonStop gratification, and unfiltered slap happy eroticism.
There's a pres lease for you. I had to pause
there and take a sip of my large iced coffee
(05:41):
with pistachio. I don't know what is going on with
my voice. Maybe it's the pollen is coming out. I
feel fine. Tim Dillon was on News Nation the subject
Robert F. Kennedy. Now this interview took place before mister
Kennedy's comments on autism. We're not going to get into that.
Yllan had said he was all for Kennedy's attempts to
(06:02):
get Americans to eat healthier. News Nation rights. In fact,
he'd love to see Kennedy close fast food restaurants with
armed soldiers. Tim said, I think it should go in
too fast food restaurants with the military and shut them down.
I think it should take people off the line at
Chick fil at gunpoint. If we're going to go to
Taco Bell, but I knew that Rfka'd be there with
the military, I might think twice about it. Dylan also
(06:22):
talked about the Kevin Spacey thing. In case you missed it,
Kevin Spacey reprised his role as Frank Underwood to promote
Dylan's comedy special. Dylan says people are just tired of
banishing people. People are imperfect, they're flawed, they make mistakes,
and he hopes that the pendulum has swung away from
cancel culture. Tom Green told Vulture the number one thing
people say to me when they find out that I'm
Canadian is sorry about what's going on right now. This
(06:45):
isn't our choice. Green said, I don't do a lot
of political comedy, but I do have a joke I
tell because the situation when right now I live in Canada,
the fifty first state, the only state in the Union
where nobody in it wants to be American except for
Jordan Peterson, Wing Gretzky and the guy from Shirt Tank.
Got it confuse laugh. Half the audience actually understands the
full depth of the joke, and the other half is
realizing for the first time that not everybody from every
(07:05):
other country in the world dreams to being an American
after being told you the greatest country in the world
your entire life. Well, it's a completely shocking statement. I
haven't told the joke in Kennedy yet, but I guarantee
you when I tell it, people will be laughing. For
different reason. Canadians have always been a little more understated.
American comedy is much more aggressive and on the nose.
But our comedy is a silliness that's just woven naturally
into it, because there's something of an insecurity, there, a
(07:28):
humbleness that is masked in absurdity. We never say we're
the greatest country in the world. We're not screaming it
from the rafters because it's impolite. All right, my voice
is giving out. I'm going to bounce two stories to
tomorrow and take the break, but I will tell you here.
The short version is otsco at Costka has got a
special on Hulu and Tina Fey dodge some questions about
Lord Michael's job, but we'll talk about that tomorrow. All right,
(07:50):
Let's see if I can make to the end here,
so you get your money's worth. The show's free, you know.
On Gossip Corner. Craig Ferguson bought a new place two
bedrooms in the East eighties, a block from the Tripolitan
Museum of Arn't in New York City. Ferguson and wife
Megan have sold their castle in Scotland and picked up
a classic co op for one point seventy nine million dollars. Now,
I've never lived in a castle in Scotland, and I
(08:12):
don't know a condo in Manhattan. Even if you're overlooking
Central Park, I don't know. I think you traded down there.
Craig Craig said, we're very happy to be back in
New York. And there's a new box set with the
Richard Pryor albums. This is getting a lot of pickup.
The pr people did a good job here. I'm a
little confused because there have been at least two boxet
(08:33):
said the Richard Pryor comedy albums. There's definitely one, And
I remember because when I started at Sirius, my boss
asked me how come we didn't play Richard Pryor And
the answer was the records at that time sounded like
crap and when he played them on an actual radio,
you couldn't really understand what Richard was saying. And then
they remastered them. There was this red box set. I
remember the box set. So I don't know why we're
(08:56):
making a big deal out of this. Maybe because it's
been twenty years, John, I guess anyway. The new box
set is called I Hope I'm funny. The Warner Albums
nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty three, out now via Rhino.
The seven LP set features several albums. Now, I have
a challenge. I'll be honest here telling you in the story,
mister Pryor titled his albums in a way that totally
(09:16):
appropriated for mister Pryor to title his albums, but inappropriate
for Johnny Mack to tell you the names of these
albums here in twenty twenty five. So I'm gonna sub
in the word Fella. One of the albums, That Fella's Crazy,
was recently placed on Rolling Stone's list of the seventy
four best albums of nineteen seventy four. It was recorded
at Don Cornelius's Soul Trained nightclub in San Francisco. Chris
(09:40):
Rock had once told Rolling Stone whenever they have a
list of the one hundred greatest albums, Richard is never there.
He's not a musician, but Richard is one of the
greatest recording artists ever. I'll take that Fella's Crazy over.
Frampton comes alive any day. Also in the set, Is
It Something I Said nineteen seventy six is a bi
centennial Fella nineteen seventy eight the double album Wanted Slash
(10:00):
Richard Pryor Live in Concerts Live on the Sunset Strip, which,
by the way, take a look at Live on the
Sunset Strip and Richard Pryor's outfit and realize even more
than ever Eddie Murphy is a cover band. Not just
his cadences or the vocal impressions. He does the outfit
and I love Eddie Murphy. I'm fifty five years old.
Do the math we loved, delirious and raw. But it's
(10:22):
a cover act. Richard Pryor got there first and wore
the same red outfit. We're close enough. Opening today the
Sydney Comedy Festival, I know you got a month of
Melbourne and you got zero days in between. The Sydney
Comedy Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, featuring over three
hundred performers today through Bay eighteenth. Daniel Sloss stars on
(10:43):
the debut of the festival's One Night Stands series, a
Sydney exclusive performance April twenty fourth at the Sydney Opera House.
I Like this too. The Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl
attendees can explore the y C Cana I've been down there.
I'm trying to remember what that's stand for. I guess
it doesn't matter. The yck's precinct bars in the CBD
(11:04):
that Central Business District, each hosting unexpected lineups in various
surprise venues. The festival will also features a pioneering mentorship
initiative hosting four up and coming comedians. They are Alan Fang,
Frankie rous Thorne to be Barone, and Stella Wu to
develop their acts with seasoned industry professionals. Locals include star
(11:25):
of RuPaul's Drag Race down Under Rhys Nicholson. International stars
include Brazilian's Fabio Rabine. He'll be performing in Portuguese. Malaysia's
comedy Elites Cavin Jay, Roisel Van Gazel and Poppy Zach.
They are the Malaysian Comedy All Stars. The Theater Sports
All Stars blend improvisers with new talents, miniature for the arts,
(11:48):
jobs and tourism. John Graham said from Humble origins twenty
years ago, the Sydney Comedy Festival has become a big
highlight in our cities calendar, which is why we're now
backing it with event funding from Destination NSW New South Wales.
Our government has been working hard to rebuild our nightlife
after a decade of lockouts and lockdowns, which unfortunately were
no joke. I see what we had did their Minister Graham, Hey,
(12:09):
minister Graham, why don't you fly down like a world
renowned podcaster. Hope you promote this thing. You know, if
you've got funds, you should use them. All right, my
voice is gone. Tomorrow show will be good. I can
tell you that because it's already half written. Plus the
five stories I didn't do today. I try see tomorrow
Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Man with your daily
comedy news. If you missed yesterday's podcast, it was a
pretty good one. It was not Sunday filler. I had
some good meat in there yesterday and including story about
Shinge Gillis hitting up the Masters. If you listened yesterday,
you heard me kind of lose my voice a third
(00:25):
of the way through the podcast. I don't know what's
going on. I feel fine, but I am recording Sunday
and Monday back to back. So what I'm doing here
is I'm dialing it down a little. It reminds me
of when I run. You know, sometimes you get a
little tight and you have to slow up a little.
So I'm going to keep my energy a little more,
even more even keeled than usual. Nate Berghatzy is stebbing
(00:45):
up in class. He has been touted touted. Why did
I say touted? I could take that out. Nobody actually
says that, right, He's been touted. CBS has chosen, CBS
has hired. CBS has picked Nate Bergetzy to host the
seventy seventh ME Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in
Los Angeles on September fourteenth, Peacock Theater, CBS, That's going
(01:05):
to be awkward. Television Academy chair Chris Abrago sent a statement,
Nate with one of the hottest comics in the business,
with a remarkable and hilarious brand of comedy that deeply
resonates with multi generational audiences around the globe. We are
thrilled to be able to leverage his one of a
kind perspective to entertain TV fans watching this year's Emmy telecast.
In a statement, Nate said, it's a huge honour to
(01:27):
be asked to host such an iconic awards show, and
I'm beyond excited to work with CBS to create a
night that can be enjoyed by families around the world.
The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July fifteenth. The
National Comedy Center announced who's coming to the Comedy Festival
this year in August. I got to get up there.
I've been talking about it for a few years, and
I need an excuse for a long drive, and that's
(01:48):
a pretty part of the country. I think I might
go up this year. John Stewart, Bill Murray, Mikey Day,
Streeter Sidell, and Moore set to appear at the National
Comedy Center's Comedy Festival August seventh through the tenth, an
evening with John Stewart's Saturday August ninth on Sunday, a
stand up showcase to be followed by a rock and
blues concert featuring Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers. It's
(02:10):
an evening of comedy and music, a live blues and
classic rock performance along with stand up by some of
today's top talent from around the country. Former guest on
this podcast, Journey Gunderson said, John Stewart is one of
the most influential comedic voices of our time. That is true,
providing his signature a social commentary at a pace responsive
to the news cycle, while deeply thoughtful about our shared humanity.
(02:30):
All that is true. That is a good quote. John
Stewart said. I've said comedy is an iterative business and
a grind, and the best amongst us just keep at it.
I'm glad there's a museum, a national archive that drives
on or that, and I look forward to seeing how
the National Comedy Center tells the story of this great
art form that survives every moment. Also, the festival mighty day,
SNL head writer Streeter Sidell, they will join the National
(02:53):
Comedy Center for an on stage dialogue curated for Comedy's
National Archive, offering an inside look at their groundbreaking show
of the First Honors SNL's fiftieth. Their visit also commemorates
the Washington's dream Sketch Q cards being added to the museum.
That's fun. We found out a little bit more about
that Office spin off. Oscar Nuniez has confirmed that he
(03:13):
will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez on Office spin off.
This is called The Paper I Believe, which will follow
the same documentary crew that captured dunder Mifflin's antics as
they turned their focus to a Midwestern newspaper. Ricky Gervasa's
wallet probably says thank you. Nunia says, they're still editing
and stuff. It's very, very exciting. Oscar was talking with
Angela Kinsey, who asked him, isn't the understanding that you're
(03:37):
following the documentary crew to a new location and you
happen to be there. Oscar Nuniaz said, that's right. More
will be revealed, as my wife likes to say. Kinsey
said she visited this set of the new show, and
alongside Jenna Fisher, who you know as Pam. Jenna and
I stopped by the set. Greg Daniels, the creator had
invited us, and we showed up and not only was
(03:57):
Oscar there, but our crew somebody in these wonderful peop
Because the crew was our extended family. We're still really
close with them. That was really moving to see. Steve
Carell was asked about this show last year by The
Holloway Reporter. He said, we'll be watching, but I will
not be showing up. It's just a new thing and
there's really no reason for my character to show up
in something like that. But I'm excited about it. Sounds
like a great conceit. I love the idea. I guess
(04:18):
it's set in a newspaper company. And I've worked with
Domal Gleeson, who's the star of this one. I did
The Patient with him and he's an excellent actor and
a super nice guy. So I think it'll be great.
Good quote from Steve Carell. There handled that properly. Season
seventeen of its Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on
FXX July ninth and on Hulu the next day. The
(04:39):
premiere will be the second half of the crossover with
Abbott Elementary, there's a clip teasing the new season. We
see the Gang volunteering at the elementary school, stealing kids
brownies and auditioning them for a potential boy band. This
is season seventeen, but it celebrates the show's twentieth anniversary.
We're told season seventeen is dubbed The Gang Embraces the
(05:00):
Arp and tells the story of how greed and the
New American Dream have consumed Patty's Pub. They'll exploit cross
network promotion to increase market share. They'll scape goat one
of their own to avoid a pr backlash. They'll risk
everything for a handshake with the Saudi's. They'll bend the
laws with side housles to pad their pockets, and they'll
change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience.
According to the log line, and sure, like any corporate goon,
(05:21):
the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That's been
playing since two thousand and five, But they're also human
beings that crave love, respect, conditional freedom, constant adulation, histrionic
amounts of attention, NonStop gratification, and unfiltered slap happy eroticism.
There's a pres lease for you. I had to pause
there and take a sip of my large iced coffee
(05:41):
with pistachio. I don't know what is going on with
my voice. Maybe it's the pollen is coming out. I
feel fine. Tim Dillon was on News Nation the subject
Robert F. Kennedy. Now this interview took place before mister
Kennedy's comments on autism. We're not going to get into that.
Yllan had said he was all for Kennedy's attempts to
(06:02):
get Americans to eat healthier. News Nation rights. In fact,
he'd love to see Kennedy close fast food restaurants with
armed soldiers. Tim said, I think it should go in
too fast food restaurants with the military and shut them down.
I think it should take people off the line at
Chick fil at gunpoint. If we're going to go to
Taco Bell, but I knew that Rfka'd be there with
the military, I might think twice about it. Dylan also
(06:22):
talked about the Kevin Spacey thing. In case you missed it,
Kevin Spacey reprised his role as Frank Underwood to promote
Dylan's comedy special. Dylan says people are just tired of
banishing people. People are imperfect, they're flawed, they make mistakes,
and he hopes that the pendulum has swung away from
cancel culture. Tom Green told Vulture the number one thing
people say to me when they find out that I'm
Canadian is sorry about what's going on right now. This
(06:45):
isn't our choice. Green said, I don't do a lot
of political comedy, but I do have a joke I
tell because the situation when right now I live in Canada,
the fifty first state, the only state in the Union
where nobody in it wants to be American except for
Jordan Peterson, Wing Gretzky and the guy from Shirt Tank.
Got it confuse laugh. Half the audience actually understands the
full depth of the joke, and the other half is
realizing for the first time that not everybody from every
(07:05):
other country in the world dreams to being an American
after being told you the greatest country in the world
your entire life. Well, it's a completely shocking statement. I
haven't told the joke in Kennedy yet, but I guarantee
you when I tell it, people will be laughing. For
different reason. Canadians have always been a little more understated.
American comedy is much more aggressive and on the nose.
But our comedy is a silliness that's just woven naturally
into it, because there's something of an insecurity, there, a
(07:28):
humbleness that is masked in absurdity. We never say we're
the greatest country in the world. We're not screaming it
from the rafters because it's impolite. All right, my voice
is giving out. I'm going to bounce two stories to
tomorrow and take the break, but I will tell you here.
The short version is otsco at Costka has got a
special on Hulu and Tina Fey dodge some questions about
Lord Michael's job, but we'll talk about that tomorrow. All right,
(07:50):
Let's see if I can make to the end here,
so you get your money's worth. The show's free, you know.
On Gossip Corner. Craig Ferguson bought a new place two
bedrooms in the East eighties, a block from the Tripolitan
Museum of Arn't in New York City. Ferguson and wife
Megan have sold their castle in Scotland and picked up
a classic co op for one point seventy nine million dollars. Now,
I've never lived in a castle in Scotland, and I
(08:12):
don't know a condo in Manhattan. Even if you're overlooking
Central Park, I don't know. I think you traded down there.
Craig Craig said, we're very happy to be back in
New York. And there's a new box set with the
Richard Pryor albums. This is getting a lot of pickup.
The pr people did a good job here. I'm a
little confused because there have been at least two boxet
(08:33):
said the Richard Pryor comedy albums. There's definitely one, And
I remember because when I started at Sirius, my boss
asked me how come we didn't play Richard Pryor And
the answer was the records at that time sounded like
crap and when he played them on an actual radio,
you couldn't really understand what Richard was saying. And then
they remastered them. There was this red box set. I
remember the box set. So I don't know why we're
(08:56):
making a big deal out of this. Maybe because it's
been twenty years, John, I guess anyway. The new box
set is called I Hope I'm funny. The Warner Albums
nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty three, out now via Rhino.
The seven LP set features several albums. Now, I have
a challenge. I'll be honest here telling you in the story,
mister Pryor titled his albums in a way that totally
(09:16):
appropriated for mister Pryor to title his albums, but inappropriate
for Johnny Mack to tell you the names of these
albums here in twenty twenty five. So I'm gonna sub
in the word Fella. One of the albums, That Fella's Crazy,
was recently placed on Rolling Stone's list of the seventy
four best albums of nineteen seventy four. It was recorded
at Don Cornelius's Soul Trained nightclub in San Francisco. Chris
(09:40):
Rock had once told Rolling Stone whenever they have a
list of the one hundred greatest albums, Richard is never there.
He's not a musician, but Richard is one of the
greatest recording artists ever. I'll take that Fella's Crazy over.
Frampton comes alive any day. Also in the set, Is
It Something I Said nineteen seventy six is a bi
centennial Fella nineteen seventy eight the double album Wanted Slash
(10:00):
Richard Pryor Live in Concerts Live on the Sunset Strip, which,
by the way, take a look at Live on the
Sunset Strip and Richard Pryor's outfit and realize even more
than ever Eddie Murphy is a cover band. Not just
his cadences or the vocal impressions. He does the outfit
and I love Eddie Murphy. I'm fifty five years old.
Do the math we loved, delirious and raw. But it's
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a cover act. Richard Pryor got there first and wore
the same red outfit. We're close enough. Opening today the
Sydney Comedy Festival, I know you got a month of
Melbourne and you got zero days in between. The Sydney
Comedy Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, featuring over three
hundred performers today through Bay eighteenth. Daniel Sloss stars on
(10:43):
the debut of the festival's One Night Stands series, a
Sydney exclusive performance April twenty fourth at the Sydney Opera House.
I Like this too. The Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl
attendees can explore the y C Cana I've been down there.
I'm trying to remember what that's stand for. I guess
it doesn't matter. The yck's precinct bars in the CBD
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that Central Business District, each hosting unexpected lineups in various
surprise venues. The festival will also features a pioneering mentorship
initiative hosting four up and coming comedians. They are Alan Fang,
Frankie rous Thorne to be Barone, and Stella Wu to
develop their acts with seasoned industry professionals. Locals include star
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of RuPaul's Drag Race down Under Rhys Nicholson. International stars
include Brazilian's Fabio Rabine. He'll be performing in Portuguese. Malaysia's
comedy Elites Cavin Jay, Roisel Van Gazel and Poppy Zach.
They are the Malaysian Comedy All Stars. The Theater Sports
All Stars blend improvisers with new talents, miniature for the arts,
(11:48):
jobs and tourism. John Graham said from Humble origins twenty
years ago, the Sydney Comedy Festival has become a big
highlight in our cities calendar, which is why we're now
backing it with event funding from Destination NSW New South Wales.
Our government has been working hard to rebuild our nightlife
after a decade of lockouts and lockdowns, which unfortunately were
no joke. I see what we had did their Minister Graham, Hey,
(12:09):
minister Graham, why don't you fly down like a world
renowned podcaster. Hope you promote this thing. You know, if
you've got funds, you should use them. All right, my
voice is gone. Tomorrow show will be good. I can
tell you that because it's already half written. Plus the
five stories I didn't do today. I try see tomorrow
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