December 6, 2025 • 11 mins
Johnny Mac delivers his daily comedy news from a freezing basement, battling a broken boiler.
Kevin Hart shares life reflections on 'Diary of a CEO', while Gary Gulman humorously criticizes state abbreviations. Josh Johnson discusses the challenges of transitioning from writer to anchor, and Morgan J's unique blend of music and comedy is featured in Variety. The Sklar Brothers talk about their start in comedy, and Chang Wang shares thoughts on meet-and-greets. The University of Southern California offers a comedy minor with a unique medical clowning class. Comedians Paris Asha and Ismail Lofty give their best and worst comedy advice.
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Kevin Hart shares life reflections on 'Diary of a CEO', while Gary Gulman humorously criticizes state abbreviations. Josh Johnson discusses the challenges of transitioning from writer to anchor, and Morgan J's unique blend of music and comedy is featured in Variety. The Sklar Brothers talk about their start in comedy, and Chang Wang shares thoughts on meet-and-greets. The University of Southern California offers a comedy minor with a unique medical clowning class. Comedians Paris Asha and Ismail Lofty give their best and worst comedy advice.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media from the basement where it's literally fifty degrees.
My boilers are not working. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with
your daily comedy news. I am all discombobulated. It is
freezing in the house like cauld as. I have this
space heater and can kind of heat up one room.
(00:23):
It's just it's awful. There's supposedly coming on Sunday. Yikes,
So I'm a little messed up here. Billboard did release
the top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century,
if you want to check that out on Billboard dot com.
I was hoping that today I would be able to
record my thoughts on it and put it out as
a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, and it would
be in the regular feet at the end of December.
(00:44):
But not going to get to that today. Johnny Mack
is running late. And you know I mentioned I had
the wedding last night, so as I record this, it's
before the wedding. But I have to shower, shave, and
put on real clothes. It's one thing to sit here
dressed like Adam Sandler recording a podcast. It's another to
look like an adult and then people like, hey, is
that George Clooney, And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
I get that all the time. I did record the
(01:04):
Comedy Survivor Selection Show that'll come out as a bonus
feed in the middle of the day Monday. So Monday,
I'll give you a regular episode which I haven't recorded yet.
And the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that came out really
well and put a lot of work into that. One
had fun with that, all right. Today's news, Kevin Hart
was on Diary of a CEO, and Kevin said, if
life ended today, I could cross my legs comfortably and
(01:25):
be okay. I made sure I applied myself to the
best of my ability. I tried my best to put
those I loved in a better position so that they
could see more and do more. My last name and
my family name is much stronger today than it was yesterday.
The idea of the world is that something I was
able to live and understand better because I was blessed
and fortunate enough to travel in meat. I was an
energy and source of good to bring people closer together
(01:46):
through all the things I've done, so it all connects
and I'm okay. I'm okay. If it stopped, it stopped.
What I'm not okay with is w well. I have
the bandwidth of good health, great mind. I can go,
I can do it. I can get there. I'm not
okay with wasting that time. Those are good smart words
by card If you haven't watched his special, it'll probably
unless something surprises me this week wind up as my
number two special of the year, Very very funny. Gary
(02:07):
Golman was asked what's the worst and most illogical state
abbreviation and why is it MO for Missouri. Gary said
they must have gone in alphabetical order and got to
Michigan and Mississippi before Missouri. Then they got to Missouri
and the next non s letter was Oh, that must
be how they did it. It's not intuitive at all.
They should have based it on population. Gary was asked
to talk about the Chicago comedy scene. He says, I've
(02:29):
been really impressed over the years. There were a lot
of good comedians in the eighties, white guys from Chicago
who reminded me of Boston comedians, but with a different accent.
The thing I noticed in Chicago's on the top five
for this The closer city is to university. I couldn't
have gotten into the better my act does. It never
fails the further I go from a good college the
harder I bomb Chicago has a Northwestern University of Chicago
and others. It's not about me being smart. It's about
(02:51):
how I try to sound smart, and it's appreciated there.
I found there were more comedians trying to sound dumb.
You spend five minutes watching them and you think that
person's not dumb. Those jokes that you clever, you're insulting
my intelligence. Billboard asked Josh Johnson if there were any
challenges making the transition from writer to correspondent to anchor.
Josh shedd it's probably hitting refresh after each show. It's
(03:11):
not a bad thing, but you could be on cloud
nine after you do a show. Right after the rap,
there's an element of okay, but do we have to
come back tomorrow and start again. At the end of
a week, you get to enjoy everything that you did
and be like, wow, that's a great experience. Day to day,
hitting refresh is sometimes a challenge, although I'm used to
it from doing so much stand up on the road.
You're in West Palm Beach one day, Jacksonville the next day,
and maybe Tallahassee the next I feel the same way
about my YouTube channel, where I post every Tuesday. Variety
(03:34):
was focused on Morgan Jay, and they wrote, Morgan Jay
is not your typical stand up comedian. Variety rights. Armed
with an acoustic guitar and autotune drench microphone, Morgan Jay
sprints down the ass of the theaters in which he performs,
bantering with his fans and leading them in song. He
pours tequila shots into women's mouth straight from the bottle,
convinces his couples on first dates to give each other
a smooch, and push his wheelchair bound audience members across
(03:55):
the venues, recruiting bad ease to sit on their laps.
All the while he stairs directly into the lens of
a roaming camera that follows him around and projects his
face onto a JumboTron. He's got a health and fitness
regiment equipped for a pop star. That regiment running every
other day, jim every other day, yoga, twenty minutes of
stretching a day, vocal exercises every day while I'm touring.
No alcohol, no weed, no smoking whatsoever, and no meals
(04:18):
after eight PM. Now. I love that because right when
I was reading vocal exercises every day, my voice cracked
and I'm leaving it in. And I worked out five
days in a row, and then I had to teach
Thursday morning, and then Friday I had to record this
and go to a wedding and not watch Adam Sailor
Jay Kelly and Today's Saturday. I'm not going to get
to work out either, because I didn't do the weekend
shows yet. Uh, this is how you wind up fat
(04:38):
well that in the seven thirty Am cheeseburgers I ate
when I was twenty four years old producing morning radio
in New York City. That's a story for another day.
Morgan Jay says, it's an investment for people come to
the show. I'd hate not to be able to give
my fans the best show I can give them. Variety
did some math. Ticket plus parking plus merch plus two
drinks plus hotel can easily tell them more than five
hundred dollars, so you don't need a hotel go home.
(04:59):
Jay sett of minds two things that comedy purist might
scoff at, music and crowd work. People get so upset
about the crowd work. Did you watch Matt Raife special?
It's funny Variety really waxed his car, They wrote, Just
as Bo Burnham might be the quintessential comic to rise
from YouTube, Morgan Jay embodies comedy's TikTok era. He posts
about one crowd work clip per day to his nine
point four million followers, asking people where they're from, who
(05:21):
they're with, and whether they will sleep together after the show,
all while talk Singing into a pitch corrected mic, he says,
crowd work, It's only the first twenty minutes of his set.
The rest of his show follows a more rigid structure,
with pre written songs and interludes, a traditional stand up comedy,
and no, the autotune is not always on. Interestingly, after college,
Morgan Jay was an intern on NBC's Tonight Show when
(05:44):
it was hosted by Conan O'Brien. He explained Conan would
have three or four pages of jokes for the opening monologue,
and the interns were asked to come down and watching
rehearse so he could get a live reaction. He'd read
the jokes immediately go no, no, no, yes no. He
wasn't precious with the material. After the Tonight show Mortgage
Jay was a bike to our guide plugging his own
show to tourist cycling around Central Park. Then he got
(06:04):
a job hawking iPhones. He said ninety percent of working
at the Apple stores resetting passwords. That's funny. He started
doing the autotude crowd work during the pandemic, but says
they did do a grind. When I started going viral
on TikTok, I had ten years of experience and a
backlog of material. Or people will blow up on TikTok
who don't have twenty minutes of material. People see me
as this TikTok comedian. There are a lot of other
sizes of myself. I'd like to show. These. Glar brothers
(06:27):
talked about being twins and said being twins, even from
an early age, was an attention getter. Back when we
were born in the seventies, it was rare to see twins.
You rarely saw a double wide stroller. I think as
we got older, there was a lot of attention on us.
We love getting laughs and being connected to people. When
we started out, it was hard to live in Saint
Louis and give yourself a lot of opportunities in the
Comedy World. We went to the University of Michigan for
college and really started to develop our comedy chops. Then
(06:49):
we had a choice either go to New York or
la if you really wanted to try and make a
run at this business. So we chose New York because
we love New York and the energy there. I worked
with those guys a little bit. They are cool guys.
Gave them a show on serious as most of the
stories I tell you. I couldn't get anyone to give
me any budget for it, and it was not a
lot of money, but you know, you got to give
people some money. So many missed opportunities. We tried to
(07:12):
give Amy Schumer a show before she super popped, but
no money. Chang Wang caught up with Cincinnati dot Com
sincey dot Com wrote, that's understandable in a club where
there's fifty one hundred people, but if a thousand people
are in the line, you'd be in the lobby twice.
As long as you're on stage, Shang said, I try
to keep it moving. It's quick, photo quick. Hello. Charging
feels weird to me to just say hello to people.
(07:32):
It feels so nice that people will express how excited
and happy they are for the show, the topic they
are charging for meet and greets. A lot of comics
do that. Shang said, I love seeing generations of a
family have a reason to spend time together. Someone in
Milwaukee thank me because they get to spend an hour
and a half with their mom and they rarely get
to laugh and spend time together like that. I might
not hang after shows forever, but right now it's touching
and sweet to me. Fun interview here Cincinnati dot Com
(07:54):
doing their research said I ran across a wedding page
that said you're marrying Rachel Rowlands next summer in Oh Yeah.
I don't know how many Sheng Wang's are out there,
but it seems like a singular name. Comedian Shengwan said,
you know, I saw that recently. I don't know what
that is, but it feels like a scam. There's no
photos of who they are. Since he said, it says
please send presents to Rachel Shen Wing said, exactly, that's
(08:15):
such a good scam. At the University of Southern California,
you can minor in comedy. You can take classes in
stand up improv, magic, and medical clowning. About fifteen to
twenty undergrads complete the minor each academic year. The La
Times took a look at this program. I found this interesting.
Launched in the fall of twenty fifteen by the School
(08:35):
of Dramatic Arts. Some of the students are seeking careers
as actors. Others are just in careers in medicine, science
and engineering. For them, comedy offers a chance to develop
skills that could be useful in their hope for professions
and their daily lives. There's an intro to stand up
class that's also the medical clowning one, in that students
learn how to interact with hospital patients. Along the way,
(08:56):
they're taught how to juggle and perform magic tricks. The
professor of the said, some of the students have gone
on and graduate from medical school. That's fun. One of
the students, Malaya, who wants to be a doctor, said,
at first, my dad was like, why am I paying
tuition for this? I have a college aged daughter. I
encourage her to take fun elective. She actually took a
(09:17):
sailing class, which was really great. Paris Sachet is on
Vulture's list of comedians You should Know and Will Know
and ask two questions Best comed advice worst comedy advice.
I always enjoy these answers. Worst women aren't normally funny,
so be grateful. Every time you get booked on a show,
make sure you stand out because they didn't have to
book a woman. Best comedy advice was if you're nervous,
(09:38):
and no matter how big the room is, if you
look straight to the back, it'll look like you're looking
at the entire room. It'll give off that you're making
eye contact with the entire crowd. That is a great tip. Also,
be funny on stage, but'd be likable off stage. Roy
Wood Junior advised her don't leave any meat on the
bone when it comes to a topic. He said, rather
than talking about ten different topics, you can literally talk
about one topic until you get everything out of that
one topic that you can also on that list. Ismail
(10:01):
Lufti Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best when I
was starting out in Florida and older comics on me
performing one night and said, you give a hoot, Keep
giving a hoot. Worst. I once wrote for CBS's After Midnight.
Other than writing games and stuff, one of the duties
of the writers was to serve as a Shirpa for
the different comedian. Guess who'd come on One day, I
was working with a pretty huge comic. He came in
(10:22):
Stone out of his mind and refused to wear shoes.
Eventually we sort of bonded away, look me dead in
the eye and said, if I can give you any advice,
Islam not my name, it's this be undeniable. Then he
stared at me completely serious, as if he just blew
my mind. Then he won on TV and took off
his shirt. It was the stupidest moment of my life.
I'm talking to a barely sentient, half naked blob who's
(10:43):
parroting something Jim Gaffigan famously said earlier, as if he
came up with it himself. Who do you think that is? So?
Who would show up at after midnight? So it can't
be a huge comedian if they during after midnight and
the person took off their shirts. So we're all thinking
Burt Krescher, But it's not gonna be Burt Krescher here.
So who showed up Stone and did a poor man's
Jim Gaffick? And that is a good question. Let me
(11:03):
know what you think about that. In the Facebook group
Daily Company news podcast group Ishmael, do you have any
advice to others? None of us deserve success selling out tours,
writing jobs, pilots, Netflix specials. I've held insurance through the
writer skills. Am I so good at writing that I
deserve to go to the doctor while other comics don't?
Of course not. It's a brutal, unfair, unsustainable scam. If
you're experiencing success, you'd better be humble. If you're struggling,
(11:24):
take solace in the fact the rich shall not enter
the Kingdom of God. That is your comedy news on
a Saturday. Have a great day.
Callaroga Shark Media from the basement where it's literally fifty degrees.
My boilers are not working. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with
your daily comedy news. I am all discombobulated. It is
freezing in the house like cauld as. I have this
space heater and can kind of heat up one room.
(00:23):
It's just it's awful. There's supposedly coming on Sunday. Yikes,
So I'm a little messed up here. Billboard did release
the top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century,
if you want to check that out on Billboard dot com.
I was hoping that today I would be able to
record my thoughts on it and put it out as
a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, and it would
be in the regular feet at the end of December.
(00:44):
But not going to get to that today. Johnny Mack
is running late. And you know I mentioned I had
the wedding last night, so as I record this, it's
before the wedding. But I have to shower, shave, and
put on real clothes. It's one thing to sit here
dressed like Adam Sandler recording a podcast. It's another to
look like an adult and then people like, hey, is
that George Clooney, And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
I get that all the time. I did record the
(01:04):
Comedy Survivor Selection Show that'll come out as a bonus
feed in the middle of the day Monday. So Monday,
I'll give you a regular episode which I haven't recorded yet.
And the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that came out really
well and put a lot of work into that. One
had fun with that, all right. Today's news, Kevin Hart
was on Diary of a CEO, and Kevin said, if
life ended today, I could cross my legs comfortably and
(01:25):
be okay. I made sure I applied myself to the
best of my ability. I tried my best to put
those I loved in a better position so that they
could see more and do more. My last name and
my family name is much stronger today than it was yesterday.
The idea of the world is that something I was
able to live and understand better because I was blessed
and fortunate enough to travel in meat. I was an
energy and source of good to bring people closer together
(01:46):
through all the things I've done, so it all connects
and I'm okay. I'm okay. If it stopped, it stopped.
What I'm not okay with is w well. I have
the bandwidth of good health, great mind. I can go,
I can do it. I can get there. I'm not
okay with wasting that time. Those are good smart words
by card If you haven't watched his special, it'll probably
unless something surprises me this week wind up as my
number two special of the year, Very very funny. Gary
(02:07):
Golman was asked what's the worst and most illogical state
abbreviation and why is it MO for Missouri. Gary said
they must have gone in alphabetical order and got to
Michigan and Mississippi before Missouri. Then they got to Missouri
and the next non s letter was Oh, that must
be how they did it. It's not intuitive at all.
They should have based it on population. Gary was asked
to talk about the Chicago comedy scene. He says, I've
(02:29):
been really impressed over the years. There were a lot
of good comedians in the eighties, white guys from Chicago
who reminded me of Boston comedians, but with a different accent.
The thing I noticed in Chicago's on the top five
for this The closer city is to university. I couldn't
have gotten into the better my act does. It never
fails the further I go from a good college the
harder I bomb Chicago has a Northwestern University of Chicago
and others. It's not about me being smart. It's about
(02:51):
how I try to sound smart, and it's appreciated there.
I found there were more comedians trying to sound dumb.
You spend five minutes watching them and you think that
person's not dumb. Those jokes that you clever, you're insulting
my intelligence. Billboard asked Josh Johnson if there were any
challenges making the transition from writer to correspondent to anchor.
Josh shedd it's probably hitting refresh after each show. It's
(03:11):
not a bad thing, but you could be on cloud
nine after you do a show. Right after the rap,
there's an element of okay, but do we have to
come back tomorrow and start again. At the end of
a week, you get to enjoy everything that you did
and be like, wow, that's a great experience. Day to day,
hitting refresh is sometimes a challenge, although I'm used to
it from doing so much stand up on the road.
You're in West Palm Beach one day, Jacksonville the next day,
and maybe Tallahassee the next I feel the same way
about my YouTube channel, where I post every Tuesday. Variety
(03:34):
was focused on Morgan Jay, and they wrote, Morgan Jay
is not your typical stand up comedian. Variety rights. Armed
with an acoustic guitar and autotune drench microphone, Morgan Jay
sprints down the ass of the theaters in which he performs,
bantering with his fans and leading them in song. He
pours tequila shots into women's mouth straight from the bottle,
convinces his couples on first dates to give each other
a smooch, and push his wheelchair bound audience members across
(03:55):
the venues, recruiting bad ease to sit on their laps.
All the while he stairs directly into the lens of
a roaming camera that follows him around and projects his
face onto a JumboTron. He's got a health and fitness
regiment equipped for a pop star. That regiment running every
other day, jim every other day, yoga, twenty minutes of
stretching a day, vocal exercises every day while I'm touring.
No alcohol, no weed, no smoking whatsoever, and no meals
(04:18):
after eight PM. Now. I love that because right when
I was reading vocal exercises every day, my voice cracked
and I'm leaving it in. And I worked out five
days in a row, and then I had to teach
Thursday morning, and then Friday I had to record this
and go to a wedding and not watch Adam Sailor
Jay Kelly and Today's Saturday. I'm not going to get
to work out either, because I didn't do the weekend
shows yet. Uh, this is how you wind up fat
(04:38):
well that in the seven thirty Am cheeseburgers I ate
when I was twenty four years old producing morning radio
in New York City. That's a story for another day.
Morgan Jay says, it's an investment for people come to
the show. I'd hate not to be able to give
my fans the best show I can give them. Variety
did some math. Ticket plus parking plus merch plus two
drinks plus hotel can easily tell them more than five
hundred dollars, so you don't need a hotel go home.
(04:59):
Jay sett of minds two things that comedy purist might
scoff at, music and crowd work. People get so upset
about the crowd work. Did you watch Matt Raife special?
It's funny Variety really waxed his car, They wrote, Just
as Bo Burnham might be the quintessential comic to rise
from YouTube, Morgan Jay embodies comedy's TikTok era. He posts
about one crowd work clip per day to his nine
point four million followers, asking people where they're from, who
(05:21):
they're with, and whether they will sleep together after the show,
all while talk Singing into a pitch corrected mic, he says,
crowd work, It's only the first twenty minutes of his set.
The rest of his show follows a more rigid structure,
with pre written songs and interludes, a traditional stand up comedy,
and no, the autotune is not always on. Interestingly, after college,
Morgan Jay was an intern on NBC's Tonight Show when
(05:44):
it was hosted by Conan O'Brien. He explained Conan would
have three or four pages of jokes for the opening monologue,
and the interns were asked to come down and watching
rehearse so he could get a live reaction. He'd read
the jokes immediately go no, no, no, yes no. He
wasn't precious with the material. After the Tonight show Mortgage
Jay was a bike to our guide plugging his own
show to tourist cycling around Central Park. Then he got
(06:04):
a job hawking iPhones. He said ninety percent of working
at the Apple stores resetting passwords. That's funny. He started
doing the autotude crowd work during the pandemic, but says
they did do a grind. When I started going viral
on TikTok, I had ten years of experience and a
backlog of material. Or people will blow up on TikTok
who don't have twenty minutes of material. People see me
as this TikTok comedian. There are a lot of other
sizes of myself. I'd like to show. These. Glar brothers
(06:27):
talked about being twins and said being twins, even from
an early age, was an attention getter. Back when we
were born in the seventies, it was rare to see twins.
You rarely saw a double wide stroller. I think as
we got older, there was a lot of attention on us.
We love getting laughs and being connected to people. When
we started out, it was hard to live in Saint
Louis and give yourself a lot of opportunities in the
Comedy World. We went to the University of Michigan for
college and really started to develop our comedy chops. Then
(06:49):
we had a choice either go to New York or
la if you really wanted to try and make a
run at this business. So we chose New York because
we love New York and the energy there. I worked
with those guys a little bit. They are cool guys.
Gave them a show on serious as most of the
stories I tell you. I couldn't get anyone to give
me any budget for it, and it was not a
lot of money, but you know, you got to give
people some money. So many missed opportunities. We tried to
(07:12):
give Amy Schumer a show before she super popped, but
no money. Chang Wang caught up with Cincinnati dot Com
sincey dot Com wrote, that's understandable in a club where
there's fifty one hundred people, but if a thousand people
are in the line, you'd be in the lobby twice.
As long as you're on stage, Shang said, I try
to keep it moving. It's quick, photo quick. Hello. Charging
feels weird to me to just say hello to people.
(07:32):
It feels so nice that people will express how excited
and happy they are for the show, the topic they
are charging for meet and greets. A lot of comics
do that. Shang said, I love seeing generations of a
family have a reason to spend time together. Someone in
Milwaukee thank me because they get to spend an hour
and a half with their mom and they rarely get
to laugh and spend time together like that. I might
not hang after shows forever, but right now it's touching
and sweet to me. Fun interview here Cincinnati dot Com
(07:54):
doing their research said I ran across a wedding page
that said you're marrying Rachel Rowlands next summer in Oh Yeah.
I don't know how many Sheng Wang's are out there,
but it seems like a singular name. Comedian Shengwan said,
you know, I saw that recently. I don't know what
that is, but it feels like a scam. There's no
photos of who they are. Since he said, it says
please send presents to Rachel Shen Wing said, exactly, that's
(08:15):
such a good scam. At the University of Southern California,
you can minor in comedy. You can take classes in
stand up improv, magic, and medical clowning. About fifteen to
twenty undergrads complete the minor each academic year. The La
Times took a look at this program. I found this interesting.
Launched in the fall of twenty fifteen by the School
(08:35):
of Dramatic Arts. Some of the students are seeking careers
as actors. Others are just in careers in medicine, science
and engineering. For them, comedy offers a chance to develop
skills that could be useful in their hope for professions
and their daily lives. There's an intro to stand up
class that's also the medical clowning one, in that students
learn how to interact with hospital patients. Along the way,
(08:56):
they're taught how to juggle and perform magic tricks. The
professor of the said, some of the students have gone
on and graduate from medical school. That's fun. One of
the students, Malaya, who wants to be a doctor, said,
at first, my dad was like, why am I paying
tuition for this? I have a college aged daughter. I
encourage her to take fun elective. She actually took a
(09:17):
sailing class, which was really great. Paris Sachet is on
Vulture's list of comedians You should Know and Will Know
and ask two questions Best comed advice worst comedy advice.
I always enjoy these answers. Worst women aren't normally funny,
so be grateful. Every time you get booked on a show,
make sure you stand out because they didn't have to
book a woman. Best comedy advice was if you're nervous,
(09:38):
and no matter how big the room is, if you
look straight to the back, it'll look like you're looking
at the entire room. It'll give off that you're making
eye contact with the entire crowd. That is a great tip. Also,
be funny on stage, but'd be likable off stage. Roy
Wood Junior advised her don't leave any meat on the
bone when it comes to a topic. He said, rather
than talking about ten different topics, you can literally talk
about one topic until you get everything out of that
one topic that you can also on that list. Ismail
(10:01):
Lufti Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best when I
was starting out in Florida and older comics on me
performing one night and said, you give a hoot, Keep
giving a hoot. Worst. I once wrote for CBS's After Midnight.
Other than writing games and stuff, one of the duties
of the writers was to serve as a Shirpa for
the different comedian. Guess who'd come on One day, I
was working with a pretty huge comic. He came in
(10:22):
Stone out of his mind and refused to wear shoes.
Eventually we sort of bonded away, look me dead in
the eye and said, if I can give you any advice,
Islam not my name, it's this be undeniable. Then he
stared at me completely serious, as if he just blew
my mind. Then he won on TV and took off
his shirt. It was the stupidest moment of my life.
I'm talking to a barely sentient, half naked blob who's
(10:43):
parroting something Jim Gaffigan famously said earlier, as if he
came up with it himself. Who do you think that is? So?
Who would show up at after midnight? So it can't
be a huge comedian if they during after midnight and
the person took off their shirts. So we're all thinking
Burt Krescher, But it's not gonna be Burt Krescher here.
So who showed up Stone and did a poor man's
Jim Gaffick? And that is a good question. Let me
(11:03):
know what you think about that. In the Facebook group
Daily Company news podcast group Ishmael, do you have any
advice to others? None of us deserve success selling out tours,
writing jobs, pilots, Netflix specials. I've held insurance through the
writer skills. Am I so good at writing that I
deserve to go to the doctor while other comics don't?
Of course not. It's a brutal, unfair, unsustainable scam. If
you're experiencing success, you'd better be humble. If you're struggling,
(11:24):
take solace in the fact the rich shall not enter
the Kingdom of God. That is your comedy news on
a Saturday. Have a great day.
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