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The Wall Street Journal profiled Louis ck under the headline
Louis c. K doesn't need everyone to like him. And Hello,
I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Now this
came to me from friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Now,
you're not supposed to do this at the top of
the podcast're supposed to get right to it. So I'm
bringing all the rules here, but I got to talk
to your friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Scott, I
assume you're reading the Wall Street Journal because you're trying
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to figure out how to make money. Are you not
paying attention to my friend? Here's how you make money.
You purport to be like a kind of a nice
guy hosting a comedy podcast. This is a long cont
You got to put some time to this. And then
what happens is someone will invite you into their football pool,
not knowing that they've invited a total shark who's just
going to bleed your wallet one hundred dollars at a
time every week, just taking your football pool money. That
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is how you make money. Did you not listen to
the gambling ads for two years? Do you not listen
to me give bicks, and they're always on point. I
digress Louis doesn't need everyone to like him. Well, that's true.
C K's out plugging his new book, Ingram, which the
Journal says signals a new chapter for c K in
more ways than one. He once ranked among the world's
most successful stand up comedians, respected for his sku on
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heavy topics such as religion and mortality, and elevated to
auteur status by his quasi autobiographical Louis and Emmy winning
series he wrote, produced, directed, and edited. But then in
twenty seventeen, his standing imploded when he confirmed allegations that
he had engaged in a pattern of you know stuff,
We've talked about it. Don't want to go there, the
Journal says. Since then, Seek has been living a split existence,
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a parie to some former fans and much of the
corporate entertainment world, and a secret superstar, as he calls himself,
among the people who still flock to his show. As
I talked about that the other day, mainstream not going
to let him back in. Of course, the Wall Street
journals kind of mainstream, and yet he can probably sell
out the Garden, sk said on stage. I'm perfectly okay
with any outcome. With writing. I have thinner skin because
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I'm not as common. The journal was curious, what are
you doing differently this time out? C K said, I
did a show at MSG almost three years ago. I
walked off stage and I said to myself, you don't
have to do it anymore. I didn't just take time off.
I quit and it was a beautiful clean out, and
I wrote this book. I took sculpture classes and painting classes.
I was being creative without ego because I wasn't performing.
And then I started thinking of jokes and making myself laugh.
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It's like a bladder filling up. I thought, well, you
don't have to be a comedian, but you have a
membership to the club. So I started doing sets at
the Comedy Seller, just feeling what it was like on stage,
and it felt awfully good. When I started putting together
this set, I made some rules. I'd never done that before.
Don't charm the audience, don't make a point, don't have
an opinion. I'm seeing the audience more than I ever
did before as individuals with different faces, and I'm talking
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directly to them. All that stuff sit for a minute
and look at them beyond the laugh, how they feel.
I also got interested in trying different energies, like there's
one about beating up an old lady to get her donuts,
and I say, I had to hurt her really bad,
and I try to really honestly feel remorse. Good stuff there.
We'll pick up that a little bit more tomorrow, and Scott,
thank you for setting it over and I look forward
to taking your money again. This Actually it's a very
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Scott show because he's also the guy that sent over
this Nicki Glazer thing where she's talked to Pure Wow.
This was the thing from was it yesterday where she
was hawking the Alexa plus well. Pure Wow asked her
about the Golden globes and how you deal with the nerves.
Nicki Glazer said, I learned her breathing technique from my
voice coach on the Masked Singer. She taught me then
when a backstage and my heart is racing, I breathe
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in for four seconds, hold it for eight and breathe out.
Repeat that four to five times. That slows my heart
rate down. And during the press, I just repeat a
mantra in my head that another coach gave me. I'm strong,
I'm prepared. This is easy. However, that mantra only works
if I'm actually prepared. Good question here. What's the strangest
thing an audience member has yelled out? Nicki said, I
can always see when people are recording my set when
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they hold up their phones, even if they're in the dark,
because the light reflects off their phone cases. So I
often call it out in the moment, just quickly say
I can see you filming. Please don't thank you. In
ninety nine percent of the time they stop. But one
time this person would have put it down, so I said,
please stop filming. I'm serious. I can see the light
reflecting off your phone. Stop filming, and I'm pointing right
at him. He didn't stop. I was in sense, but
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then my eyes adjusted to the light and I could
see him and it was just the glare coming off
his bald head. I felt so bad. He was cool
about it. I told him to get a case for
his forehead. If you're a wow, asked what's the question
in your search history that you really should have known
the answer to already? Nikki said, how old is Brad
Pitt's new girlfriend? As a forty one year old woman
in Hollywood. This should become a knowledge to me. People
are mad at Tim Minchin. This from The Guardian. The
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backlash came after Tim Minchin appeared to congratulate himself for
not cheating on his wife. Tim was on the Inherited podcast.
He talked about the challenges of fame, temptation and his
long marriage to Sarah. We married in two thousand and two.
Tim said, I got myself in this situation and I
got very close to doing the wrong thing. There was
a time I don't think Sarah remind me saying this
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where she's like, Tim, don't tell me the stuff, Just
do the right thing. Don't come to me with like,
ohmost Tim said, It's not in my nature to think
that the goal of life is to get the best
version of everything. I'm not someone going, well, what are
the imperfections of my relationship? I might be able to
get a better once not on Mitche did not interested
in trying to find a younger, smarter, hotter partner. I'm
interested in a nice life. We have a lovely companion.
People did not like that. They went on the Inherited
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Podcast Instagram page and orde the bars on the floor
and Tim is praising himself for hitting it. Not cheating
on your partner and actually wanting to be with them
is the bare minimum my guy. Another said, the way
he talks about his wife in this is pretty demeaning.
I feel sorry for his wife. Imagine thinking this is praiseworthy.
One more nothing says I love you like I decided
to settle for this. I got to work with Tim
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a few times back in the day. He was relatively
unknown in the States when we got to know him.
So I'm at the Chicago Comedy Festival a night. Was
absolutely blown away by how talented he is. And we
did Tim mentioned week up at Sirious or Serious XM.
I think it was pre merger at Sirius, and I
just had a good time celebrating his comedy. He is
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really talented, But I don't think these social media observations
are insane. Charlie barns he'll have a YouTube special out
on December first. He brings his particular brand of Midwestern
nice to the Latest Hour full of stories of growing
up one of twelve children, sneaking beer into church, gambling
with Grandma, and Midwest cheap hacks. Here is a trailer
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slightly edited.
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Midwest chief hits are hereditary disease. My mom had twelve
kids and no epidural. That is either the most badass
thing you can do as a human being or the cheapest.
I'm not sure which.
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Sorry.
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I brought beer into church, not really a wine.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Guy.
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Dalla was byob for the JC, like, that's not child labor, Lady,
child Labor's what made the golf bag. That's where Nike
got it, slogan from Just.
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Do It So. THEO Vaughn was reflecting on his recent
special taping, which by all accounts, including Theo's, did not
go so well. THEO said, I just wanted to have
a little bit of more story to it, which is
the reason why I was trying to have a little
bit more feeling and emotion so I could kind of
have more storyline in there about growing up in life.
And maybe I was trying to do too much. I
don't know, but you start to realize that these are
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like photo albums. Neil Brennan said to me for the show.
He goes, hey, this will be the last time maybe
you ever do this material, so go out and have
a great time with it, enjoy it, take your time
with it. These are the things that brought you close
to people, and it brought people out and hopefully sometimes
made people laugh. THEO Vaughn said, there was a thing
where I was directing in my head because I wasn't
getting certain information. I was like, well, if the stool
was here in the first taping, does it need to
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be there in the second one? And where do I
put it when I move it? Little things like that,
And then they had five extra people though that didn't
need to be there. Everything was just kind of like
a lot. Bill Board asked Leanne Morgan about the Manosphere,
specifically saying the Theo Vonn's, Joe Rogan's, and Andrew Schultzes
of comedy. Leanne said, I don't know those boys. I
did meet Andrew Schultz at the Tom Brady Roast. Honestly.
I got to go to tom Brady's Roast, and I
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swear I thought Gronk was flirting with me. I thought, Lord,
I'm my grandmother. Is Gronk flirting with me? But he wasn't.
He's been hit too many times. His eyes I thought
they were looking at me, but they weren't. I met
Shane Gillis. I never met Joe Rogan. I'll tell you,
I think it's so wonderful, Theovaugh, the uniqueness of that.
Theovonn Honey from Louisiana. I think he's so funny. I've
seen him live and I laughed until I was weak.
He talks about hamster bones. I can't even But all
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those boys doing those podcasts, I don't listen to them.
I'm listening to pop culture women talking about the Real
Housewives and who slapped you in Salt Lake City, which
is terrible. I should be listening to something informative. All
those boys, they're a big deal, I guess, and you
know I love men. I was on Nate's podcast the
other day. We did a charity event last night. He
was hilarious. We talked about going to marriage counseling with
his wife and McDonald's. He can sit and talk about
McDonald's and blow your mind. I think I'm going a
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lane by myself, even among female comedians. I'm sixty years
old in a grandma. All these girls doing comedy have
got pretty legs and short skirts, so I'm in a
big girdle. Oh right. The comedy festivals wrapping up again,
big thanks to the Flyover Comedy Festival in Saint Louis,
for finally a comedy festival having a website that is
useful where you can see things. The main show tonight
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at seven o'clock at Tropical Decors is still say Sloan,
That'll put a rap on that one. So I can
now delete that tab and get some memory back some
if you want to start the New York Comedy Festival
Today at noon at the program NYC, it's Comedy Records Hoops,
or maybe it's Comedy Records Hoops. Anyway, it's comedians versus industry.
They apparently are playing basketball. At three o'clock it's the
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tenth annual Hot Guy Draft, a comedy fantasy event. Comedians
use their expertise in the field of hotness and plenty
of hell from the audience to build a team of
twenty twenty five's hottest celebrities, characters and even cartoons on
that show. Josh Gonoman, Zach Zimmerman and Joel Nicole Johnson,
Jay Jorden and others. All right, that's fun. Todd Glass
eight o'clock, Second City. The Man can sell out New
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York City night after night, week after week. Todd Glass
America's number one comedian, nobody more popular, nobody more famous.
It is absolutely incredible. You run the Todd glasses on
Jenny's agreno. I'm a fan of hers. She's at New
York Comedy Club at seven Louis c k at the
Beacon again at seven point thirty. We're going all the
way down to the wire. And New York Comedy Festival
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still can't get their website together. Back to back, we
have the twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o'clock,
and then the next item on the website is the
twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o'clock. Secret
headliner at New York Comedy Club at nine fifteen, and
that's a rap on the New York Comedy Festival. Another
tab gets deleted and Johnny Mack gets a little more
ram and let me leave you with this awful thought
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from TMZ. Bill Maher confirmed some rumors. The rumor was
that before filming a showback in the nineteen nineties, Bill
Maher would take care of himself. Nudge, nudge, know what
I mean, say no more. Bill shared this with Cheryl Hines,
as one does Cheryl Hines, of course, married to RFK Junior,
so I'm sure she's had weirder things said to her
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by men. Bill explained the only way he could sneak
in a nap before filming politically incorrect was you know.
Bill said, his wild nights out clubbing left him dragging
in a work hungover, what a professional, and desperate for
a pre show nap. Everything went fine until he was
doing his pre show ritual and someone walked in and
the story go on out. I'm sure Cheryl Hines was
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thrilled to find out this anecdote. And that is your
comedy news for today. I have to go watch football
and take another one hundred dollars from Scott Beckett. See
you tomorrow