“The Jackie Martling Show” now LIVE at 8pm every Monday at Broadway Comedy Club, 318 West 53rd St. in Manhattan’s theater district. The show will be recorded and integrated into a web series. Everyone in attendance, in addition to the people present, will be encouraged to get on stage and tell a joke, which will either make them laugh or earn a prize or both … in addition to a really memorable experience.
If you did not know, Jackie is also a songwriter in addition to a comedian. Among his best known songs are “Flies”, “The Pot Song”, “The Beer Song”, and “Fool’s Gold”. He has been a stand-up comic since 1979. Jackie started on radio with Howard Stern in 1983. He is a writer, and an actor. He has appeared in prime time movies and tv shows. Check out the scroll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6P_ulcfHb4
I asked for a moment to sit down with legendary comedian Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling to ask him a few questions.
Do you have any hobbies outside of comedy?
I’ve been a long time guitar player and songwriter, with little to prove it. I love gardening, and that I love meeting and sharing show business stories with anyone & everybody. If that sounds a little cramped… well, it’s.
Were you a comedian in elementary school?
In my eighth grade photo, I’m sitting up front flipping a bird. Enough said.
What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on my autobiography, which has become an endless project… six decades of fairy tales, with only twenty-six letters to tell them. I Tweet a joke every day at 4:20 p.m., so if you want to see it, follow me on Twitter, @JackieMartling
To get JokeLand Email List, just drop me an e-mail: jokeland@aol.com
Yankees or Mets?
Yankees. There were no Mets in the ’50s. My father was politically connected, as was everybody on Long Island, so we watched lots of Yankee games and lots of World Series games. Of course now I love both, and play a few games a year. Nothing of the kind.
Now tell me about Friars softball… what position do you play or are you just telling jokes on the sidelines?
I play center right and last game I walked twice and scored runs. Yes, we tell jokes. We ate at the Friars Club after the game and it was delicious. To be honest, I’m not a football player like I used to be, and that I wasn’t a football player back then either.
Boxers or pants?
I never saw.
I love the way your entertainment is appropriate for each age group. What made you want to make GrossMaster Jr. and JokerMaster Jr. to entertain kids?
In 2001, an electronics company asked me to come up with a gag gadget… we ended up with fifteen, of all sizes and shapes, and all of them were great fun. The company went insolvent in 2008…anyone interested in raising Phoenix? … along the way we realized that we should make prank toys for youths. I recorded jokes for Joker Master Jr. and then speed them up a bit, to give them the “Munchkin effect”, and the children flip them over. Then we create Dirty Teacherall the shit and farts and disgusting jokes and noises the children throw, again with the “Munchkin effect”, and obviously, they reverse that too.
Gadgets aren’t any longer available, except onelectronics bay, but all Joker Master Jr. kids’s jokes and Dirty Teacher jokes, good for anyone from 3 to all as far as i’m concerned, available from Oglio’s note on iTunes & Amazons.
What advice would you give an up-and-coming actor or comedian?
Stop. Jackie Tells Jimmy Fallon To Pocket It
After I started getting famous, in the early eighties, after a couple of million people came up to me and said, “I want to be a comedian, what do I do?” I would say, “Give it up. You don’t stand a chance. Forget it.” Which is in no way meant to be mean… but because if I say “don’t do it” is sufficient to stop you, or even offer you pause, you should not do it… because you will hit So, so many hurdles on your way to become a comedian than I tell you to give up. It was meant to be a kind of first test… do you actually want to do it?
Circa 2007, in his daily column at The New York Post, Cindy Adams quotes Matt Damon as saying, “People all the time tell me they want to be an actor. I told them it was too hard, do not bother. Hey, if that stops them, they’re no match for it.
Again in Fall 2013, in a Q&A atgold Coast Film Festival, Sean Young was asked the same question and answered the same way, with the same explanation. What a thought. After Jimmy Fallon became cast Saturday Night Live in 1999, he instantly had a role in the movie “Almost Famous” and when it was about to be released he was called for The Howard Stern Show to promote it. He had never been on Howard’s show before, so he and Howard were excited to talk. Jimmy said, “I met you years ago, Howard. I’m from Albany, and when you came to the capital when you were thinking about running for Governor, I went to the bar of the hotel where you were staying, hoping to meet you. Of course Jackie was at the bar. I went up to him and told him I was going to try being a comedian, and he told me to quit.
That was all Howard needed to hear. Forget I get one syllable of my reasons for saying it. I never heard the end of how I attempted to hold back great talent and how much I lost for doing so. Jimmy and that I have laughed about it for years. He even swore that one day we would tell his story on his tv show.
Find Jackie Here;
http://www.jokeland.com/
