From Canceled Flights to Comedy Nights: Embracing Chaos with Danny Palmer

Full disclosure: The episode summary below was created by AI. It's a little too self aggrandizing but overall I was pretty blown away by it. 

Who says a travel mishap can't turn into comic gold? That's just a slice of the zany life lessons you'll pick up from my latest escapade, which saw me scrambling from a canceled flight to an early train— all to keep the show going. Hitch a ride with me, Danny Palmer, as I weave through the therapeutic hilarity of podcasting and stand-up comedy, complete with a Shatner-esque narration that's sure to tickle your funny bone. We'll explore the personal growth that comes from this journey and how it's not the paycheck but the priceless connections with you, my global audience, that fuel my passion.

Imagine a basketball court swarming with eleven players a side—sounds like chaos, right? Well, get ready to chuckle as we ponder the mayhem of oversized teams and drag out those quarterback vowels with a Southern twang. In the world of comedy clubs, I'm dishing out the inside scoop on audience etiquette and the buzzkill of pre-show rule lists. Tune in for a dose of laughter and a heartfelt shoutout to you, the listeners, who make every onstage moment and every podcast a harmonious blast. And remember, it's all about those good vibes, so join in and be a part of the unforgettable moments that only a journey like this can provide.

Transcript

Danny Palmer: 0:07

Well, I don't need to fall at your feet just because you cut me to the bone, and I won't miss the way that you kiss me. We were never carved in stone and I'm just going to shift from a song to a William Shatner speak-along thing, like that pulp song he did. If I don't listen to the talk of the town, then maybe, just maybe, I can fool myself. I'll get over you. I know I will. I'll get over you, I know I will. I'll pretend my ship's not sinking and I'll tell myself I'm over you Because I'm the king of wishful thinking. That Peter Gabriel song is so good. Just kidding, it's Go West. Who the fuck is Go West? Is that like a one-hit wonder or something? Is Peter Gabriel in Go West? We may never know, because I'm not going to look that up. Sorry, pal, and by sorry pal I mean my devoted listeners across the globe. Germany, number one international market, always has been, hopefully always will be. What's up? German, germany, germans? Was that germane to the discussion? What are we doing? Okay, thank you for listening to my podcast.

Danny Palmer: 1:11

My name name is Danny Palmer. I do stand-up comedy in New York City. I've had this podcast for like four years. This is like the 360th episode or some shit. Has the podcast taken off and provided a primary source of income for me over time? It is not. Will it ever Feels unlikely? Will I stop doing the podcast? Apparently not feels unlikely. Will I stop doing the podcast? Apparently not, I mean, at this point. I've been doing it for so long. It's like I'm not gonna stop doing it, you know. And also it's kind of like therapy. It's a little bit of a like, kind of a self-therapy to say your ideas out loud in a format where you're speaking to maybe not a big audience, but a true, truly global audience and a lot of different cities around the country. So you have to think about what you're saying. Is this bad, not nice or cruel? You don't want to say anything that's going to come back to haunt you later. She doesn't really put thought into the words that you're expressing in the pod, and I think that's a healthy and productive exercise and I also like to use it as a tool for, like, self-evaluation and growth and learning. And, okay, how can I get better at X, y or Z? You know, that's, that's. That's nice, that's a nice thing. Okay, I just got back from, uh, by the way, my Instagram handle if you want to follow me. It's at Danny Palmer, nyc. Um, I also operate the at black hat comedy instagram page.

Danny Palmer: 2:35

I run a dope show every friday night, black cat les. It's a cool coffee shop on manhattan's lower east side. We turn it into like a comedy club basically, and uh, people are smoking weed and drinking dude, so it's like sick. You can have fun and then it's like it's like a young crowd. My friend, amy cardinale she's a funny comic she said that she loves doing black hat to watch, um, horrified nyu students stare at her for 10 minutes, which I thought was pretty fucking funny dude. Um, okay, there we go. I've completed my little promo thing, you know. Um, yeah, I just I just got back from uh, washington dc.

Danny Palmer: 3:11

Julio gall, my good friend he's very kind, often lets me open for him on the road. We went down there. Okay, listen to this shit, dude, I go down there on. I'm supposed to go down on a Wednesday night, right, so I can work from my hotel in DC. There was one show on Thursday, two shows on Friday, two shows on Saturday. So Wednesday night I I get.

Danny Palmer: 3:30

Oh, my god, am I doing the thing that I don't like I used to listen to, uh, tuesdays with stories a lot with joe list and mark norman. I'm friends with both of them. It's a great podcast. I listened to probably hundreds of episodes. But you know they're professional full-time traveling comics and so I felt like oftentimes their stories would involve travel. And then I'm like, well, if I do a pod, I should probably try to steer clear of that a little bit. And now what am I doing? I'm telling a travel comedy story. So who the fuck am I? You know, danny, you fucking hypocrite piece of shit, fucking loser. I think it's just fun to say fucking loser, dude.

Danny Palmer: 4:03

Anyways, I go to LaGuardia just sitting at the gate waiting. You know there were storms, oh yeah. When I storms, oh yeah, when I arrived at la guardia it was, it was literally raining sideways. That's probably not a great sign for your flight getting off the ground. Or if it does get off the ground, it's gonna be bumpy as fuck. You know your fucking door will fall off of the of the, your the panel will fall off just from the wind anyway, uh yeah.

Danny Palmer: 4:24

So I, I did, I literally, I literally walked around la guardia for four hours. It's was my flight. I kept getting delayed, kept getting delayed. I ate dinner by myself. I had my headphones in, I was listening to like sick tunes, maybe smoking a little John Bud, little Bud, you know. And then my flight got canceled and then there were no more flights out that next, that night, the next day, there weren't flights out until like late afternoon, which would have made me miss the Thursday night show in DC. So then I just like went home, went to bed, got up at like five thirty in the morning, took a train down to DC and I made it in time and it all worked out fine and it was super fun.

Danny Palmer: 5:20

But I was thinking, if you just had a camera observing my behavior from 5 pm to 10 pm last Wednesday night and didn't understand the context of what had happened, you'd probably think I was completely insane. Dude, this guy packed bags, went to LaGuardia, listened to music, walked around for four hours, ate dinner by himself, and then just went, just went home. Dude, why don't you just stay home? Why are you going to the airport like a fucking psycho, dude? It's bizarre, but you paid for a ticket and didn't go anywhere and then just went back home in a cab. My cab driver was like oh, that's hey where you get in from man. I'm like, uh, here I was not able to take off, literally. Okay, there we go. It's one story in the books.

Danny Palmer: 6:00

And then we did it, the uh dc comedy, loft, me and hannah dickinson she's funny as fuck. By the way, I didn't. I know her instagram handle by heart. You should follow her. It's eight at hands dickie, h-a-n-s and then d-i-c-k-i-e. She's so cool, she says she's so funny. You know, you're like, oh, my friend's a g, like a cool guy, like handles like a g dude, she's fucking, cool as fuck and she's funny as fuck.

Danny Palmer: 6:21

And then we did two shows friday. We did two shows saturday. It was crazy, man, and I feel like usually with stand-up comedy, the saturday shows, typically the audience is kind of looser, more relaxed. You know, friday most people work all day and then if they have to turn around and make it to a show, you know it's kind of a lot of effort to put out on a workday, but then on Saturday you can sleep in, take a shower, so like. But it was the opposite. Like the crowds on Saturday there were great crowds all five shows, but they were definitely a little bit more difficult to win over than the crowds on friday, which I thought was interesting. But anyways, more importantly, julio fucking murdered all five shows headlining for an hour. Hannah killed it. Hannah's so funny dude. It was great, it was fucking awesome.

Danny Palmer: 7:05

Then we flew to atlanta on uh, sunday and that was the first place I ever performed stand-up comedy. I don't know why I'm using this platform as a diary right now, but I don't know. I feel like if you're interested in stand-up comedy, this could be kind of interesting. You know, and we did the Atlanta Punchline. I had friends from College Comm, they were so nice and stuff, and then we'd yeah, so that was the whole thing that happened, and yeah, so I guess that story's pretty much over now.

Danny Palmer: 7:31

Danny, k-bud, k-bud I like to say K-bud like in a condescending manner towards people. I think it's fun to be like intentionally condescending. Okay, wow, this has been only seven and a half minutes, so I really need to. I mean, I didn't have a lot of time this week to like capture pod things because I was like fucking working, working, go to dc, work all day. It's you know I, that's you know. What am I complaining about? I'm very like, fortunate and blessed to be able to have a job where I can work in a hotel. Oh yeah, dude, I worked in the hotel in atlanta on monday, which is two days earlier than the release of this podcast, and then the peak in atlanta it was like 87 coverage or something like that.

Danny Palmer: 8:16

The peak was at like uh, 3 pm and I had a call at three. So I just went outside, I just wore these. You ever like just go from your room in a hotel downstairs to get breakfast or something? And then you're like I don't give a fuck what I look like. I don't give a green, god damn, look like I don't give a green, god damn. Dude. That's what I did.

Danny Palmer: 8:35

I just walked outside looking like a fucking maniac, looking for people with the eclipse glasses. The ladies at the front desk didn't have any. I was kind of disappointed by that. Like, come on, dude, shouldn't, like national chains have eclipse glasses provided at each of their multiple hundred locations? I feel like that's reasonable. I might lodge a complaint.

Danny Palmer: 8:58

Anyways, I found this lady outside. She let me borrow her glasses. I go hey, miss, I'm so sorry, can I borrow your glasses? She goes, oh sure. And then, as I was walking towards her, I go, don't worry, I don't have lice. And she goes what? And I was like I don't, I don't have lice. She's like why are we making a lice comment? Dana, you don't have hair. I don't need to hear this like lice idea. You know what I mean. Um, anyways, can I just say one thing about dc? Like, I really like dc. It's cool, it's beautiful at night.

Danny Palmer: 9:28

You know the potomac, the roads are usually pretty like smooth. I don't know why I brought that fact up, but it has so many fucking traffic circles, dude, like what the fuck? And then the like the dispensaries are unusual. Like there's some that just you can only get medical marijuana and you have to sign up for a card, and then others you don't have to sign up for a card, you don't have to do anything except have a license. And then you can get mushrooms and weed and those like why do you have ones that you need? I don't know, I don't know. But also I think it's kind of interesting that, like weed and shrooms are completely legal in the nation's capital, even though both are against federal policy. It's like what don't you think that the feds would just be?

Danny Palmer: 10:11

like hey, not here, not here anywhere, but here go to like fucking bethesda or like chevy chase, but not here. You pieces of shit. But now do you see it's all fucking. Yeah, all right. Well, that's the end of that story. So what else do I got? Oh, yeah, dude.

Danny Palmer: 10:27

Let me just do a quick pitch for sia. Oh, my god, her new song with labyrinth. She and labyrinth and um diplo used to have a group lsd this song incredible. It's her new single that came out last week. It's so, it is an incredible, incredible dude. Sia is the is a fucking. She's a g. Sia and hannah dickinson are g's. Dude like that. Sia does not miss with her fucking songs. It's super sick. Okay, I'll do a few more things. And Hannah Dickinson are Gs dude. Sia does not miss with her fucking songs. It's super sick. Okay, I'll do a few more things and we'll call it a fucking John dude.

Danny Palmer: 10:56

I thought this was interesting. I was reading this article about the Disney board. Like Bob Iger returned as the CEO and set out this vision for the company and now these activist investors wanted to, I think, boot him or just control the board. It's basically like a live succession, but except it's more current and real. And then I was reading some of this article and I thought this was interesting about the disney. Disney as a company. An unusually large amount of disney shares up to 40 are held by individuals, many of them fans of the company's movies and theme parks. On average, among public companies, individuals own closer to 15 of the shares. So it's like fucking more than double dude and uh, that's kind of cool. You know like people love it so much that they just want to own it.

Speaker 2: 11:38

That's kind of neat like don't?

Danny Palmer: 11:40

yeah, like the people of green bay own the packers. That's kind of neato, you know. By the way, I've got this new joke. I'm trying to like make fun of bama fans and I don't have it all worked out yet, but it's fun to say, like when alabama made it to the final four. I feel like the majority of their fans are just huge football fans and know nothing about basketball.

Speaker 2: 11:57

So this is my impression of them, just like well, apparently our alabama made it to the final four in basketball and I just, I just don't understand it. Why would you only have five players in football? We got 11. That's more than double. You can add six more. Why would you just have five In?

Danny Palmer: 12:19

football. You got a quarterback, you got a wide receiver. They love to stretch out their vowels in the South, but any vowel gets stretched out.

Speaker 2: 12:27

You got a quarterback, you got a wide receiver, you got a safety A safety.

Danny Palmer: 12:33

Safety is fun to say.

Speaker 2: 12:35

Why would you only have five? You can't even run no plays with five. You can't spread out the defense on the court. You need to have 11.

Danny Palmer: 12:43

Why doesn't basketball just basketball should add six players, dude wouldn't that be funny If basketball was 11 on 11, like the court, it's just too crowded. The fans just started to kind of disperse out the back of the arena, like I did. It's just nobody can get anywhere. It's too many people. It's just like watching a crowd at a concert rather than a sporting competition. That's fun. That's fun for me what I just said, okay. Okay, last thing I feel like I don't like how.

Danny Palmer: 13:17

I feel like most stand-up audiences are. Just, they're normal people, right. So if they have enough money to buy a ticket to a comedy show and they took a shower and they got dressed and they're with their like friends or their loved one, or even if they're by themselves, I feel like they've got the ability to understand social settings, right. Like, if you go to a restaurant, you go up to the host stand hey, can I be seated, please, please. There's a party of three. You know you don't knock anything over, you don't yell, you take a shower before you go to a restaurant, like people.

Danny Palmer: 13:44

People know not, maybe not everybody in society, but most people in polite society know how to behave. They've been to, you know, maybe, a concert well, I guess a concert you can talk, but they've been to like a broadway show, they've been to plays maybe they went to see the nutcracker when they were in elementary school they've been out in public, and I'm not saying that all comedy club audiences are perfectly behaved, but nobody is perfectly behaved anywhere. I just don't see why these oftentimes a club or an independent producer will give a long list of rules to the audience before the show starts and then they go. Okay, and now are you guys ready for some comedy? And I'm just looking at them and they're probably thinking not really, now that I've been scolded before I even had a chance to exhibit any form of behavior.

Danny Palmer: 14:31

I mean, I understand it from the club's perspective or individual producers perspective or whoever is enforcing these rules or stating these rules. They've had problems in the past. People have been unruly. They don't want that to happen again. So they want to spell it out clearly. I guess maybe, if I'm really thinking to this point a little better, it would just be like, like, just maybe a little bit more of a narrow point to it, you know, like okay we know everybody's been out the shows before in public, but please keep it down, if you can.

Danny Palmer: 14:57

Just a little bit more like deferential. You know, I don't like when people disrespect the audience, like I was at a show recently. In the comic, one of the comics just kind of like, said that the audience sucked and it's like these are the only 35 people on the face of the planet earth that have any interest in hearing what you have to say about anything. So why are you attacking? Attacking them, dude, respect the audience, dude. Okay, that's my final point. Oh, maybe I can make a good vibes video about respect the audience, dude. Okay, anyway, no one cares, maybe they do, maybe they do. Thank you for listening. Um, again, you can follow me at Danny Palmer, nyc. This pod drops and, yeah, come out to the show man, it's fun and you guys are neat. Thanks for listening. I appreciate it, and I usually end this podcast by saying a pretty vulgar sex-oriented word, so I'm certainly going to keep that tradition alive, thank you.