October 8, 2025 • 13 mins
Johnny Mac covers Bill Burr's reaction to the controversy surrounding his performance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Despite Burr's concerns about media misrepresentation, he clarifies that the audience included 8,000 citizens and diplomats, not just royals. Burr also praises (presumably) comedian Jessica Kirson for her boldness on stage.
The episode transitions to other comedy news, including Jo Koy's joke about Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes, Taylor Swift's multiple late-night show appearances, and concerns over diversity on SNL after the departure of its only Black female cast member. Additionally, Fred Armisen releases a new sound effects record, and the burgeoning comedy scene in Austin is highlighted.
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The episode transitions to other comedy news, including Jo Koy's joke about Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes, Taylor Swift's multiple late-night show appearances, and concerns over diversity on SNL after the departure of its only Black female cast member. Additionally, Fred Armisen releases a new sound effects record, and the burgeoning comedy scene in Austin is highlighted.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caloroga Shock Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Bill Burr has forced my hand. Hello Johnny Mack with
your daily comedy news. I'm kind of talking about the
riog Comedy Festival, but Bill Burr addressed it on this
week's Bill Burr podcast, and let's hear what Bill has
to say. As always, I'm clipping for f bombs and
sometimes for pacing. But here's Bill Burr.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You guys are asking me obviously a ton of questions
about the absolute controverty. All right, here's the deal. I
would love I have no problem answering any of them.
The problem I have is after I answer them, it
all gets clipped. And then once it gets clipped, then
the lies start getting told, or they start shaping it
(00:51):
and making it this and making it that. So all
I'm doing is just throwing another log on the fire
and then they can make more money. No I'm sorry,
well oh no, no, no, no, because they care so much.
That's right, Sorry now, because they're just making money.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Not to be fair to Bill Burr, I am indeed
editing these. I considered leaving the clips alone, but he
drops more than f bombs than I want to do
on this podcast, and sometimes I need to pick up
the pacing a little bit and not just play a
ten minute clip that said, I welcome Bill burd a
challenge if I've changed the intent of his words in
any way. But yes, I've edited them for language and
pacing and taken out the F bombs, But the intent
(01:30):
of his words are intact.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So like these these stories of like there was no
women there, he just performed to the royals. By the
time they had done with this shit, they're gonna say,
I went over there and did a one on one
show and a tent staring at my toes, and then
I left for the head's guy, whoever the hell it
is over there? Right, once again, I performed in an
(01:53):
arena over there in the round. There was eight thousand
people at the show, okay, it was citizens, And then
they had diplomats sitting down front in a nerve wracking
way for the performer to make sure that, you know,
you didn't talk about the two or three things that
they said that they negotiated down to not talk about.
(02:16):
Once again, as I said before, whoever put together the
comedy festival and everything, what it did for freedom of
speech over there, because like before it started, you couldn't
talk about all of this stuff, and then they whittled
it down to just that. And that is how you
know if you truly care about stuff like that, you
gradually moved towards something more positive.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, Bill Burke, clearly for you, this is a freedom
of speech thing and not at all about the money.
In this next section, he compliments a fellow comedian who,
by all context clues must be Jessica Curson. I don't
know who else this could possibly be. From the clues,
I did leave some s words in here, so if
you don't like salty language, some salty language coming up,
(03:00):
edit out f.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Words all of this sanctimonioushit out there. I'm gonna tell
you something right now. I saw in thirty three years
a stand up. I've never seen anybody with bigger balls.
And I'm not gonna say the name of the comedian,
even though you're gonna figure it out. But I'm just
trying not to get anybody else. This shit coming at
him went on over there openly gay. In the middle
(03:23):
of the set, two of the diplomats got up to
go to the bathroom, and this person said, Hey, where
are you going? Are you gonna? Are you going to
go on grinder. I mean, I've seen them all. I've
never seen anybody. It's like, I don't have the balls
to say that. And the fact that her own people
(03:47):
came at her and all of that, it's just it's disgusting,
it really is. That's what they're gonna clip. That's what
they're gonna clip. Bill says. The reaction to Da Da
Da is just And I'll tell what else is amazing
and really confusing to me is what we did over
there wasn't even on TV. However, what everybody's complaining about
(04:08):
was on TV the week before, on a different event,
and nobody said anything, so, you know, and that's the
difference between being a billion dollar conglomerate and being an
independent contractor.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Now, I'm not sure what he means there. Does he
mean Kimmel? Is he talking about something with Israel? Does
he think nobody talked about Kimmel? Is that what he means,
because I can assure you it was talked about. I checked.
I personally did at least fifteen episodes with Jimmy Kimmel.
I just went back through my catalog and I saw
fifteen episodes in a cluster with Jimmy Kimmel. In the title.
(04:49):
Now I concede this is not the biggest platform in
the world. All ears and eyes are not on this podcast.
I get it. But I didn't just monologue free thoughts
for fifteen episodes. I was clearly sourcing other people. I
had some guests on for fifteen episodes worth of shows,
and that's just me. So somebody talked about Jimmy Kimmel,
or maybe that's not who Bill Burr meant. I'm not sure.
(05:12):
Bill's Instagram post about the podcast did not go so well.
One person wrote, your legacy is now re Odd. That's it.
The re Odd Comedy Festival does continue today. Some of
your favorite comedians are there. Sam Morrell brings his cool,
clinical delivery to the re Odd Comedy Festival. Expect brisk pacing,
sharp turns, and a touch of crowd work with jokes
that build and pay off fast. Tom Sagora, Yes, I said,
(05:33):
Tom Sigora, write that down. Tom Sagora s E g
u r a one of comedy sharpest voices. Tom Sagora.
He's at the Real Comedy Festival tonight. Tonight would have
been when Tim Dillon was going to perform, but he
was disinvited and also appearing. It's a big, big night
at the Red Comedy Festival, Joe Coy, He'll be at
the Real Comedy Festival.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Interestingly enough, this isn't even the worst thing Joe Coy
has ever done in his career. Oh no, no, no,
one time he holds that the Golden Globe and dared
to insult Taylor Swift with this horrible, horrible, mean joke.
Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.
The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.
On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of
Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go
to here? Sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Ooh brutal, No wonder Taylor Swift, who had walked through
the room in the middle of the live show so
that everybody saw her across the room. No wonder, Taylor
Swift sat there offended, giving Joe Cooy an icy stare
and killing the mood in the room, rather than just
doing a smile and be like ha ha, no, Joe Cooy,
that mean, mean, mean joke. That is the worst thing
(06:45):
you ever did in your career. Never mind the riad
Comedy Festival. You made a joke about Taylor Swift. Now,
somebody who knows better is Jimmy Fallon. He had Taylor
Swift on Monday Night. It was her seventh time on
The Tonight Show. So Taylor knows. Jimmy Fallon's not gonna
make some mean joke about Taylor and cameras in the NFL. No,
he's not going to do that. She did three full
segments with Fallon guests often Get two. She talked about
(07:08):
her engagement to Travis Kelcey and the song would The
less said about that song the better. It is cringe
with a capital see says the old man in the
basement recording a podcast. But it is cringe. Casey haven't
listened to the song. Some of the lyrics include the
words wood, redwood, tree, cocky, and it's about Travis Kelcey.
You could figure it out. Jimmy Fallon his monologue said,
(07:31):
this is the hottest ticket in town today. I was
on the phone with Pope Leo and I said, I'm sorry,
your holiness, there's no more room. Boy. That's hilarious, even
though it sucked, and Jimmy told it better. Of course,
even though it's October like everyone else, I spent the
weekend looking for Easter eggs. I listen to the album
so many times this weekend. I think I'm in love
with Travis. Fallon asked some rapid fire questions. These are probing,
really difficult questions of Taylor Swift, the last person who
(07:52):
texted Selena meaning Gomez, the last movie you saw, one
battle after another. We're so lucky to be alive. At
the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson last fall related
activity you did, I make cinnamon Rolls the other day.
With a material like this, I don't think Fallon has
to worry about Trump and people or the FCC coming
after him. If we're gonna ask Taylor Swift about cinnamon rolls.
(08:13):
This is not exactly a biting satire here now tonight.
For some reason that I can't explain. Taylor Swift superstar, megastar,
huge star. Whatever you think of the song would and
the cringiness of it, there's no avoid she's a huge star.
Tonight for some reason, she's going on Late Night with
Seth Myers to reach his what twenty three thousand viewers?
How many viewers does he have? I lost my notes
it's some number like that. Why she's going on Seth
(08:37):
Myers of all things, like anybody would take her and
she's doing Seth Myers the twelve thirty show. I mean, sure,
the clipsical viral. Sure, I'm going to talk about it,
but really that okay on the View, which you know
is a show Taylor Swift could do. Sherry Sheppard is
concerned about Saturday Night Live. Sherry said, when I watched
SNL this weekend, I did notice something was missing. Ego
(08:59):
n Wotam left the show and she was their only
black female cast member. So now there are no black
women on SNL. So what do I say to SNL.
You all got to hurry up and you gotta find somebody.
This is a break glass in case of emergency. It's
an emergency. We got to have representation on that show.
She noted SNL does not have the best track record
in hiring black female talent, and noted that Keenan Thompson
would often have to dress in drag to do impressions
(09:20):
of black women in pop culture. Shepard said there was
no black woman even play Whoopy Goldberg. Keenan Thompson would
play Whoopy at the table when they spoofed us in
two thousand and nine, Tracy Morgan played Shepard. She said
they had the nerve when Tracy Morgan guests hosted Tracy
Morgan played me on the dog On Show. They had
Tracy Morgan in that old tired shake and go wig
looking like he SAIDs Third Road Church and serves the
(09:42):
dinner after service. He's even still got a five o'clock shadow.
I don't think this controversy is unwarranted in terms of
having a cast that is diverse in all ways, so
that you have someone who can realistically portray a character.
I don't think this is absurd at all. Shepherd said.
What I don't like hearing is we can can't find anybody.
There are lots of talented black female comics you can
(10:02):
cast on SNL. If you go to any comedy club
or improv place, they're out there waiting for this opportunity,
getting ready for this very opportunity. Yeah, that is that
is that makes a lot of sense to me. Yep. Apparently,
the cast of SNL gathered at a farewell party on
October third, and they met with the cast members who
left the show. Devin Walker and Emil Wakeem were there
(10:23):
as well as alumni Chloe Trost and Punky Johnson. Trost
and Johnson spoke to people about the realities of being
fired from SNL. Trost said, you don't get a cushion
when you fall. Even before the show, they were the
ones that were guiding light and so that's what I
looked to after and I feel like without that, I
don't know where i'd be one year out. To be honest,
Punky Johnson said, you can't leave SNL and then go
(10:44):
do the same things you were doing before. It just
puts pressure on you because everybody's always like, yo, what's next,
So have to go do the next big thing. I
had to figure out how to understand the difference between
all right, cool, he did something really great and now
it's okay for you to just go through motions and
not rush and figure out what's next for you. It's
okay for you to figure that out. It's very hard
to stand a place like that. They just throw you
in the water. You better know how to swim. They
don't give you a life jacket. Out Today, on the
(11:06):
Comedy Exports YouTube channel, It's reached James spilt Milk. Fred
Armison has a new sound effects record, and he told
NPR sound effects record is something I felt like was
missing in my life if I didn't hear any new
releases of sound effect records. And I just remember in
my life, you know, there would be like a Halloween
record that would come out, or sound effects CDs that
would come out, and it was just fun looking through
all the titles and everything and then just you know,
sampling some of them and it was like a feeling
(11:28):
of whatever happened to those and then occurred to me.
I was like, I'll make one. I think when I've
listened to sound effect records, wherever there are audience sound effects,
you know, booing, clapping, cheering, those are always the first
ones I went to, mostly because I was like, wow,
they really got a group together do applause and laughing.
So I thought, what about expanding on that? What about
somewhere that are a little more detailed, like supportive booing.
He helps people play it for their friends, like hey,
(11:50):
did you hear this? And they play a couple of
tracks and they go on with their day. But I'm
hoping in like ten years, someone does reach for it
in a way that I feel like, hey, I actually
really need the sound of breaking glass. Lost in the
Kimmel and Riot of it All was an article in
The New York Times in Austin, a comedy scene that
speaks to political mavericks. This was a good piece. It
talks about the explosion of the Austin comedy scene in
(12:10):
the past five years. More than a half dozen new
comedy clubs of open, including The Creek in the Cave,
which moved from Queens, Black Rabbit Comedy, The Vulcan Gas Company,
ros Coos, and East Austin Comedy Club. So so that
Joe Rogan won down there. Roza Jeoffrey is the co
owner of East Austin Comedy Club. He told The Times
it's fair to have critiques of different elements within the scene,
(12:31):
but it's impossible to say with a straight face that
it hasn't created something really interesting and special. Comedian Liz
Splatt talked about the Rogan of it All. Last year
she won the annual Funniest Person in Austin contest. She
was backstage at The Creek in the Cave and said,
I'm the opposite of anything those guys, meaning the Rogan
Easts are talking about, and they still support me. Heavily.
That's why I think this is such a great place
Austin to practice my art. You can get the liberal people,
(12:53):
but you can also get the people on the other side.
We have a mash up of both. Jeffrey to tell
the story about being at Rogan's place. Comic was setting
up a joke about trans people and was getting clapter
and he explains clapters proven collapse before you get to
the punchline. He had prepared the line to try and
win them over, like wait, wait, hear me out, because
he was expecting pushback, but he was getting ovations. It's
like at that point, all you're really doing is pandering.
(13:16):
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Caloroga Shock Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Bill Burr has forced my hand. Hello Johnny Mack with
your daily comedy news. I'm kind of talking about the
riog Comedy Festival, but Bill Burr addressed it on this
week's Bill Burr podcast, and let's hear what Bill has
to say. As always, I'm clipping for f bombs and
sometimes for pacing. But here's Bill Burr.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You guys are asking me obviously a ton of questions
about the absolute controverty. All right, here's the deal. I
would love I have no problem answering any of them.
The problem I have is after I answer them, it
all gets clipped. And then once it gets clipped, then
the lies start getting told, or they start shaping it
(00:51):
and making it this and making it that. So all
I'm doing is just throwing another log on the fire
and then they can make more money. No I'm sorry,
well oh no, no, no, no, because they care so much.
That's right, Sorry now, because they're just making money.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Not to be fair to Bill Burr, I am indeed
editing these. I considered leaving the clips alone, but he
drops more than f bombs than I want to do
on this podcast, and sometimes I need to pick up
the pacing a little bit and not just play a
ten minute clip that said, I welcome Bill burd a
challenge if I've changed the intent of his words in
any way. But yes, I've edited them for language and
pacing and taken out the F bombs, But the intent
(01:30):
of his words are intact.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So like these these stories of like there was no
women there, he just performed to the royals. By the
time they had done with this shit, they're gonna say,
I went over there and did a one on one
show and a tent staring at my toes, and then
I left for the head's guy, whoever the hell it
is over there? Right, once again, I performed in an
(01:53):
arena over there in the round. There was eight thousand
people at the show, okay, it was citizens, And then
they had diplomats sitting down front in a nerve wracking
way for the performer to make sure that, you know,
you didn't talk about the two or three things that
they said that they negotiated down to not talk about.
(02:16):
Once again, as I said before, whoever put together the
comedy festival and everything, what it did for freedom of
speech over there, because like before it started, you couldn't
talk about all of this stuff, and then they whittled
it down to just that. And that is how you
know if you truly care about stuff like that, you
gradually moved towards something more positive.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, Bill Burke, clearly for you, this is a freedom
of speech thing and not at all about the money.
In this next section, he compliments a fellow comedian who,
by all context clues must be Jessica Curson. I don't
know who else this could possibly be. From the clues,
I did leave some s words in here, so if
you don't like salty language, some salty language coming up,
(03:00):
edit out f.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Words all of this sanctimonioushit out there. I'm gonna tell
you something right now. I saw in thirty three years
a stand up. I've never seen anybody with bigger balls.
And I'm not gonna say the name of the comedian,
even though you're gonna figure it out. But I'm just
trying not to get anybody else. This shit coming at
him went on over there openly gay. In the middle
(03:23):
of the set, two of the diplomats got up to
go to the bathroom, and this person said, Hey, where
are you going? Are you gonna? Are you going to
go on grinder. I mean, I've seen them all. I've
never seen anybody. It's like, I don't have the balls
to say that. And the fact that her own people
(03:47):
came at her and all of that, it's just it's disgusting,
it really is. That's what they're gonna clip. That's what
they're gonna clip. Bill says. The reaction to Da Da
Da is just And I'll tell what else is amazing
and really confusing to me is what we did over
there wasn't even on TV. However, what everybody's complaining about
(04:08):
was on TV the week before, on a different event,
and nobody said anything, so, you know, and that's the
difference between being a billion dollar conglomerate and being an
independent contractor.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Now, I'm not sure what he means there. Does he
mean Kimmel? Is he talking about something with Israel? Does
he think nobody talked about Kimmel? Is that what he means,
because I can assure you it was talked about. I checked.
I personally did at least fifteen episodes with Jimmy Kimmel.
I just went back through my catalog and I saw
fifteen episodes in a cluster with Jimmy Kimmel. In the title.
(04:49):
Now I concede this is not the biggest platform in
the world. All ears and eyes are not on this podcast.
I get it. But I didn't just monologue free thoughts
for fifteen episodes. I was clearly sourcing other people. I
had some guests on for fifteen episodes worth of shows,
and that's just me. So somebody talked about Jimmy Kimmel,
or maybe that's not who Bill Burr meant. I'm not sure.
(05:12):
Bill's Instagram post about the podcast did not go so well.
One person wrote, your legacy is now re Odd. That's it.
The re Odd Comedy Festival does continue today. Some of
your favorite comedians are there. Sam Morrell brings his cool,
clinical delivery to the re Odd Comedy Festival. Expect brisk pacing,
sharp turns, and a touch of crowd work with jokes
that build and pay off fast. Tom Sagora, Yes, I said,
(05:33):
Tom Sigora, write that down. Tom Sagora s E g
u r a one of comedy sharpest voices. Tom Sagora.
He's at the Real Comedy Festival tonight. Tonight would have
been when Tim Dillon was going to perform, but he
was disinvited and also appearing. It's a big, big night
at the Red Comedy Festival, Joe Coy, He'll be at
the Real Comedy Festival.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Interestingly enough, this isn't even the worst thing Joe Coy
has ever done in his career. Oh no, no, no,
one time he holds that the Golden Globe and dared
to insult Taylor Swift with this horrible, horrible, mean joke.
Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.
The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.
On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of
Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go
to here? Sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Ooh brutal, No wonder Taylor Swift, who had walked through
the room in the middle of the live show so
that everybody saw her across the room. No wonder, Taylor
Swift sat there offended, giving Joe Cooy an icy stare
and killing the mood in the room, rather than just
doing a smile and be like ha ha, no, Joe Cooy,
that mean, mean, mean joke. That is the worst thing
(06:45):
you ever did in your career. Never mind the riad
Comedy Festival. You made a joke about Taylor Swift. Now,
somebody who knows better is Jimmy Fallon. He had Taylor
Swift on Monday Night. It was her seventh time on
The Tonight Show. So Taylor knows. Jimmy Fallon's not gonna
make some mean joke about Taylor and cameras in the NFL. No,
he's not going to do that. She did three full
segments with Fallon guests often Get two. She talked about
(07:08):
her engagement to Travis Kelcey and the song would The
less said about that song the better. It is cringe
with a capital see says the old man in the
basement recording a podcast. But it is cringe. Casey haven't
listened to the song. Some of the lyrics include the
words wood, redwood, tree, cocky, and it's about Travis Kelcey.
You could figure it out. Jimmy Fallon his monologue said,
(07:31):
this is the hottest ticket in town today. I was
on the phone with Pope Leo and I said, I'm sorry,
your holiness, there's no more room. Boy. That's hilarious, even
though it sucked, and Jimmy told it better. Of course,
even though it's October like everyone else, I spent the
weekend looking for Easter eggs. I listen to the album
so many times this weekend. I think I'm in love
with Travis. Fallon asked some rapid fire questions. These are probing,
really difficult questions of Taylor Swift, the last person who
(07:52):
texted Selena meaning Gomez, the last movie you saw, one
battle after another. We're so lucky to be alive. At
the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson last fall related
activity you did, I make cinnamon Rolls the other day.
With a material like this, I don't think Fallon has
to worry about Trump and people or the FCC coming
after him. If we're gonna ask Taylor Swift about cinnamon rolls.
(08:13):
This is not exactly a biting satire here now tonight.
For some reason that I can't explain. Taylor Swift superstar, megastar,
huge star. Whatever you think of the song would and
the cringiness of it, there's no avoid she's a huge star.
Tonight for some reason, she's going on Late Night with
Seth Myers to reach his what twenty three thousand viewers?
How many viewers does he have? I lost my notes
it's some number like that. Why she's going on Seth
(08:37):
Myers of all things, like anybody would take her and
she's doing Seth Myers the twelve thirty show. I mean, sure,
the clipsical viral. Sure, I'm going to talk about it,
but really that okay on the View, which you know
is a show Taylor Swift could do. Sherry Sheppard is
concerned about Saturday Night Live. Sherry said, when I watched
SNL this weekend, I did notice something was missing. Ego
(08:59):
n Wotam left the show and she was their only
black female cast member. So now there are no black
women on SNL. So what do I say to SNL.
You all got to hurry up and you gotta find somebody.
This is a break glass in case of emergency. It's
an emergency. We got to have representation on that show.
She noted SNL does not have the best track record
in hiring black female talent, and noted that Keenan Thompson
would often have to dress in drag to do impressions
(09:20):
of black women in pop culture. Shepard said there was
no black woman even play Whoopy Goldberg. Keenan Thompson would
play Whoopy at the table when they spoofed us in
two thousand and nine, Tracy Morgan played Shepard. She said
they had the nerve when Tracy Morgan guests hosted Tracy
Morgan played me on the dog On Show. They had
Tracy Morgan in that old tired shake and go wig
looking like he SAIDs Third Road Church and serves the
(09:42):
dinner after service. He's even still got a five o'clock shadow.
I don't think this controversy is unwarranted in terms of
having a cast that is diverse in all ways, so
that you have someone who can realistically portray a character.
I don't think this is absurd at all. Shepherd said.
What I don't like hearing is we can can't find anybody.
There are lots of talented black female comics you can
(10:02):
cast on SNL. If you go to any comedy club
or improv place, they're out there waiting for this opportunity,
getting ready for this very opportunity. Yeah, that is that
is that makes a lot of sense to me. Yep. Apparently,
the cast of SNL gathered at a farewell party on
October third, and they met with the cast members who
left the show. Devin Walker and Emil Wakeem were there
(10:23):
as well as alumni Chloe Trost and Punky Johnson. Trost
and Johnson spoke to people about the realities of being
fired from SNL. Trost said, you don't get a cushion
when you fall. Even before the show, they were the
ones that were guiding light and so that's what I
looked to after and I feel like without that, I
don't know where i'd be one year out. To be honest,
Punky Johnson said, you can't leave SNL and then go
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do the same things you were doing before. It just
puts pressure on you because everybody's always like, yo, what's next,
So have to go do the next big thing. I
had to figure out how to understand the difference between
all right, cool, he did something really great and now
it's okay for you to just go through motions and
not rush and figure out what's next for you. It's
okay for you to figure that out. It's very hard
to stand a place like that. They just throw you
in the water. You better know how to swim. They
don't give you a life jacket. Out Today, on the
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Comedy Exports YouTube channel, It's reached James spilt Milk. Fred
Armison has a new sound effects record, and he told
NPR sound effects record is something I felt like was
missing in my life if I didn't hear any new
releases of sound effect records. And I just remember in
my life, you know, there would be like a Halloween
record that would come out, or sound effects CDs that
would come out, and it was just fun looking through
all the titles and everything and then just you know,
sampling some of them and it was like a feeling
(11:28):
of whatever happened to those and then occurred to me.
I was like, I'll make one. I think when I've
listened to sound effect records, wherever there are audience sound effects,
you know, booing, clapping, cheering, those are always the first
ones I went to, mostly because I was like, wow,
they really got a group together do applause and laughing.
So I thought, what about expanding on that? What about
somewhere that are a little more detailed, like supportive booing.
He helps people play it for their friends, like hey,
(11:50):
did you hear this? And they play a couple of
tracks and they go on with their day. But I'm
hoping in like ten years, someone does reach for it
in a way that I feel like, hey, I actually
really need the sound of breaking glass. Lost in the
Kimmel and Riot of it All was an article in
The New York Times in Austin, a comedy scene that
speaks to political mavericks. This was a good piece. It
talks about the explosion of the Austin comedy scene in
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the past five years. More than a half dozen new
comedy clubs of open, including The Creek in the Cave,
which moved from Queens, Black Rabbit Comedy, The Vulcan Gas Company,
ros Coos, and East Austin Comedy Club. So so that
Joe Rogan won down there. Roza Jeoffrey is the co
owner of East Austin Comedy Club. He told The Times
it's fair to have critiques of different elements within the scene,
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but it's impossible to say with a straight face that
it hasn't created something really interesting and special. Comedian Liz
Splatt talked about the Rogan of it All. Last year
she won the annual Funniest Person in Austin contest. She
was backstage at The Creek in the Cave and said,
I'm the opposite of anything those guys, meaning the Rogan
Easts are talking about, and they still support me. Heavily.
That's why I think this is such a great place
Austin to practice my art. You can get the liberal people,
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but you can also get the people on the other side.
We have a mash up of both. Jeffrey to tell
the story about being at Rogan's place. Comic was setting
up a joke about trans people and was getting clapter
and he explains clapters proven collapse before you get to
the punchline. He had prepared the line to try and
win them over, like wait, wait, hear me out, because
he was expecting pushback, but he was getting ovations. It's
like at that point, all you're really doing is pandering.
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