Daily Comedy News Podcast Transcripts

---

---

Featured: John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Kathleen Madigan, Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliff

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney headlines first-ever comedy show at Wrigley Field in Chicago
• John Mulaney discusses Sant Ignatius alumni connection with interviewer Michelangelo Dagostino
• 312 Comedy Festival returns to Chicago November 5-15 with Nikki Glaser, Michelle Wolf, and others
• John Pinnette documentary screening at 312 Comedy Festival and comedian’s legacy
• Tony Hinchcliff and Joe Rogan discuss Riyadh Comedy Festival controversy and comedian participation

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tomorrow at Wrigley Field in Chicago, John Mulaney will host the very first comedy show at Wrigley Field. He caught up with WB e Z. Mlaney said, I can’t pretend I ever thought sitting there that I’m gonna do stand up near second base.

But it’s a full circle moment in a lot of ways. I mean to sit there as a kid watching Andre Dawson, Ryan Sandberg, Mark Grace and to now be standing roughly where Mark Grace would be ripping cigarettes during games. John said, last summer they asked me to do a show about Wrigley Field. Wriggley did no comedian has played Wriggley and they said, would you like to play Wrigley Field? I’m pretty sure.

In the same breath they said you’d be the first to do it, and I said, Okay, definitely. Malady said, I’ll tell you what I’m excited about this week. I just informed my son that all of the city burned down in eighteen seventy one because it was all made of wood. I know there’s nuances to the story. It was all made of wood, except for the water tower.

Everything burned down. Nothing’s ever intrigued him more about Chicago. So now we’re going to go to the Chicago History Museum to see photos of the city on fire, which he’s very excited to see. Now, this is pretty funny. We’re in the weeds here.

One of the interviewers is named Michelangelo Dagostino. Michelangelo said to Malani, it’s a fellow Saint Ignacius grat I was disappointed earlier when you talked about the Chicago fire and you’re like, yeah, the whole city bird down except the water tower. But you forgot to tell your kid that sant Ignacius also survived the Chicago fire. Malaney said, what parts of sant Ignacius? Michelangelo said, I guess the oldest part.

Melaney said, Were you two years ahead of me at sant Ignatius? Michaelangelo said, I was in your brother’s class. Yeah, m’laney said Michelangelo Dagastino. Michelangelo said, yeah, that’s mem’laney said, valedictorian of your class. And you don’t even know which building survived.

You call me uple to comment. I come in here, try and entertain the people of Chicago and you come at me like that. Then they got into some saint ignacious minutia. You could read the article Melany who talked about Chicago and said, it feels like you live in a small town in a lot of truly nice ways. I don’t have many complaints about that at all.

You walk by people and they go like, good lie suck at Wrigley and it’s great. So I’d be saying famous in Chicago’s one of the best situations a human being can ask for. It is ninety nine percent friendly, and when it’s hostile, it’s hilarious. They asked John Mulaney what younger stand ups or comics should we be keeping an eye on. Mulaney said, definitely super establishment comedian profile to The New York Times Robbie Hoffman, he named checked Andrea Jinn and Mendal who are opening for him.

I’d also say Langston Kerman from Chicago. You’ve seen him on Abbot Elementary.

Speaking of Chicago, the three one two Comedy Festival is returning to Chicag…

Nikki Glaser, Michelle Wolf, Alisi Diek, and Burke Krascher are among some of the comedians who will be in Chicago November fifth through the fifteenth, which makes me want to go. Venues include the Chicago Theater, Park West, the VIC Theater, Zanies Rosemont, All Great Venues eleven day line up. Now, I was clicking through the lineup and I saw John Pinnett on the schedule, and I was like, isn’t John Pinnett dead? And I and I checked yes. John Pinnette passed away April fifth, twenty fourteen, at the age of fifty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he’d been attending a family wedding.

So that I was like, huh, oh, it’s a screening. Apparently there is a John Pinnett documentary. Do you guys know John Pinnette? I feel like he’s like he never comes up. Obviously he’s no longer around, but you know, one of those great comedians from early this century that just doesn’t get talked about, like like Richard Jenny who you know, crossover from the nineties, Robert Shimmel.

These guys never their name’s never come up anymore. I mean, I get it they’re dead, but I don’t know. They had pretty good careers anyway. If you didn’t know John, he was a heavy set fellow and did a lot of jokes related to that, which is why I’m sharing it. Very very funny comedian and apparently there was a documentary made about him in twenty twenty.

I will play the trailer for you. It’s about two minutes long. Some of the voices you will hear are Jim Gaffigan and Kathleen Manigan. He’s a show. Everybody else is in act.

He had such a distinct style. He was so self deprecating. I’m John, I’m your slim, fast representative for the evening. He was like a force of nature. When he rocked a room, every person is howling.

Please welcome John him. He had that cherubic face with glenns and he had gotten his accounting degree and was working at the bank. I was here the night that John first came on stage. One of those things that you just you knew it. What do you think of the new suit?

I think it makes me look fast. He had a fanatical fan following. It’s like the Beatles or something, and. We were selling out venues all over the place. He was making twenty thousand a weekend.

John could become a major television start. He imploded. Every comedian has a self destructive streak. John is a guy who overindulged in everything. Would just like hammer pills and then eat them, and I’m like, what are those idle though?

But you’ll feel wonderful. He thought that if he lost weight he would affect his career because he’s known as the big guy. I’m actually writing a book around the world in eighty buffets. John was always wanting to get better. It’s prescription drugs, which are pretty much the number one probably in America, and John became right in the middle of it.

One train it took me. There was sixty minute workout. He said, once you start, you get addicted. I don’t think so. We’ve lost a lot of people in comedy.

John isn’t the first friend that. We’ve lost great minds but tortured souls. Well, I have a lot of friends that came out tonight to see me be fifty. Well, let’s all meet at. My hundredth Shall we.

Love the memories? I don’t remember that documentary coming out. It came out in twenty twenty. There was a pandemic, but I was doing the show during the pandem and I would have been desperate to talk about anything during the pandemic. So I don’t know.

Maybe they didn’t promote it. Well, I don’t remember it happening anyway. John Pennett, Fantastic Comedian, Hondy Joe Rogan experience. Joe Rogan spoke to Tony Hinchcliff. The topic eventually came around to the ri odd To Comedy Festival edits here for pacing and language.

Didn’t know obviously, because they laughed. They thought maybe you did go, or maybe Shane did go. They didn’t know that you were the two people that did say no. You know, Jessica Curson went and she got criticized so much she gave her money away. She murdered over there.

I heard so a lesbian woman from New York went to Saudi Arabia. Thom Segurro went and put a photo of a Ferrari and said thanks Saudi Arabia. Yeah, but everybody was very upset. But my perspective is the people that are in that audience. If you’re upset of the people that are paying and organizing, Okay, the people that are that audience though, that they’re performing to.

They don’t get a chance to see American stand up comedy and they’re getting a chance to see it live and stand up comedy like music, like literature, changes people’s minds. It changes all art where you see someone a different person than you, with a totally different perspective that lives on another side of the world, that says something that you think is hilarious and you love it changes you know, it changes people’s perspectives. You win hearts and minds. I mean that’s real. Like you can change the world a little bit by getting people to say, hey, we kind of are We all have a lot of shared interests.

We just want to have fun. We just want to be with our friends, be with our family and do what we want to do. Like everybody wants that, including those people in the audience.

---

Speaking of Tony Hinchcliff the live comedy podcast Killed Tony, We’ll go to …

Organizers say the show is expected to feature a lineup of special guests. Here’s a weird one coming. Georgia Mayor Tony Brumbelow has challenged Brit Kraser to a round of minigolf. The mayor did this in a very strange social media video, which I have cut down a little. But let’s listen to this.

Bert, the city of Coma officially invites you. You can run from the Russians, but you can’t run from the City of Coma. Burt. I challenge your baby. It’s called you versus Me.

One round of the hardest put putt course in America. The winner gets bragging rights. The loser buys lunch. How about that? Bert, You’re in Atlanta all the time, We’re twenty minutes away.

Look at what we have to offer here. Have your people call my people? How about that? I mean, is this a thing? Because I challenge Dve Chappelle, John Maliney and Louis C.K.

To a round of mini golf, you cowards.

---

Speaking of mini golf, Lebron James trolls Kevin Hart, head of a golf competi…

This September, Lebron James dropped a video. I pulled the audio for the video, but it doesn’t really work. It’s not very exciting. But in the video we see Lebron James shopping for children’s golf clubs. He holds them up to the camera and says to Kevin Hart, these are perfect.

See the golf clubs are small, and Kevin Hart’s not the tallest fellow you’ve ever met. That’s the humor there. Fox News stirring it up. They found a Facebook clip posted by Trevor Noah or his social media team on July fourth. It’s a discussion from a previously released episode of Trevor Noah’s What Now podcast, during which Josh Johnson calls Trump white’s Obama.

Apparently, Josh Johnson said he’s Obama for white people who hated the idea of Obama. That to me is why I think people keep underestimating Trump. Fox News says. Josh Johnson said that people are like my great great grandparents with these Irish immigrants. They got spit on when they came here of drugs and crime.

Where I’m from, my family is on food stamps, all the stuff like that. As a white person, which has never really talked about, and so this person had to overcome a lot just to be next to this other white person, right. Josh goes on to say that Trump speaks to that experience. The way that Obama spoke to black people or may or may not have been having that stereotypical experience white people who were the living embodiment of everything we’ve been sold Black people. Go through Fox News as they reached out to Josh Johnson for comment, but he did not immediately respond.

Pete Holmes, this is like doing a lot of press. I noticed a few things on my own, and then Paul, one of the listeners, shot me a note and told me a couple other things that Pete’s on. Let me find that email. Paul says, Pete Holmes was on the Burt Cast and Harland Highway. I don’t know what Pete is promoting.

He will be in an upcoming movie. It is an indie feature drama called Friend a Thing. Friend to Thing is set in Seattle during the spring of nineteen ninety six. Fourteen year old Ernie, a thoughtful scholarship student at an elite Catholic school, finds himself torn between lifelong friendships and the allure of a caars Ma new girl. Lewis Black plays Father Briggs, these schools exacting headmaster.

Pete Holmes plays mister Greeley, a homeroom teacher who’s quietly become the moral compass of a school built on faith. He doesn’t share. Comedy stock markets. You know how the stock marker works, right, Well, every Friday we try and find value. We try and buy low and sell high on various comedians.

I don’t think we have any day Pergetzie left to sell. We’ve been selling a lot of it. I’ll just say, don’t invest in any theme park comedies right now. This UFC thing is not going away. Or maybe I just read the Daily Beast every day.

Even they keep throwing out mega comedian Nate Brigetzi. Oh so ridiculous.

---

All right, let’s buy some Pete Holmes.

Pete’s making the rounds. I don’t know what he’s up to. He’s a good guy every interview. I just really like him. And I don’t think everybody else is walking around going Pete Homesweet Home, Sweet Homes.

But there’s something to Pete Holmes. Let’s buy Pete Holmes. Let’s buy Jeff a curate if you watch his Netflix special. I actually did, because what was it? Tuesday night?

The soccer was over by seven thirty and I got to watch quote unquote TV and I put Jeff special on let me find uh in the Facebook group here. Dylan is one of the regulars in the group, and Dylan nailed it. He wrote, He’s immensely likable in his popularity is easy to understand. I just don’t think his comedy is anything special. He’s good in his great stage presence, but it feels more like a mix of CrowdWork and anecdotes than actual comedy.

That’s how I felt it was. It was you know, sometimes I’ll describe as special, saying it’s nice company, and that’s how I felt with this one. I don’t think it was particularly funny, but like I was like, all right, I like this guy. I won’t turn this off. So I kept that on.

And we’re gonna buy Vittorio Angeloni. And you’re like, who’s that exactly? I’ll tell you why in a couple of seconds after we got a couple of stories coming up. But you might not know the name Vittorio Angeloni. There’s buzz on him.

I’ve seen him live, so that’s a you know, one of those sneaky ones. Remember I told you to buy some Ryan Hamilton, buy some Vittorio Angeloni. That’s your comedy stock market for this week. The rest of today’s show is all British comedy. So if that’s not your thing, I get it.

You’re dismissed. I’ll see tomorrow. We’ll do a deep dive on the Office UK. Sunday’s a normal episode, but a British comedy interest. You hang around because the BBC has announced that David Mitchell.

You know David Mitchell from Mitchell and Webb. He’s Mitchell in Mitchell and Webb. He’s got a show called Ludwig. It’s been renewed for a third series before the second series even airs. David Mitchell stars as John Ludwig Taylor, an introverted puzzle designer who steps into the shoes of his missing twin brother, a detective Chief inspector.

Series one was the BBC’s biggest scripted series since twenty twenty four, and marked the largest comedy launch episode since at least twenty eighteen. In series two, Mitchell’s character John takes on a new role as a crime scene consultant for the Cambridge Police Authority. His identical twin brother, James, remains missing, but the consultant has been banned from using any police resources to look for sibling or uncover exactly what he was investigating. But John will not stop, Mitchell said, and I’m delighted that Ludwig will be returning to solve more of Brotherhood’s brilliant mysteries. I can’t wait to get started.

I never knew the subscription of my Denoment learning app. Vittorio Angeloni will start in the new comedy series Rewarding. Yeah he’s got an Italian name, but he’s an Irish guy and I’ve seen him alive. He’s fantastic. Rewarding is a six sports series commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland and US streamer Wonder Project.

What’s that I Don’t know? Rewarding follows support workers Francis and Shanade as they look after their clients to the best of their abilities, sometimes at the expense of each other. Set in care facility Beacon Fold, newcomer Shanade is a sunny personality, radiating positivity and idealism in contrast to Francis’s reality and pragmatism. We had told Francs and Shanaide clash, flirt and over shaer while putting out the small flyers all around them. Diane Morgan.

Some podcasters have a crushed on her. She’s got a new show called Anne Droid. How did Diane Morgan become a comedian in her twenty She had proper jobs, working as a dental assistant, peeling potatoes and making sales calls as a telemarketer. She said, I felt like I’m on the right track any minute now, that phone’s going to ring for years. Then one day her boss at the telesales agency suggested stand up.

Diane said, I was like, no way, can’t think of anything worse. But she was about to turn thirty and thought, eh, I’ll try it. It went all right, and I thought, oh my god, I think I might be able to do this, and would mean doing twenty minutes being physically sick every night rather than eight minutes of sitting in a telesales chair. Things change when she auditioned for Philamina Kunk. The character appears in Kunk on Shakespeare, Kunk on Earth, Cunk on Life, and now they’re working on Kunk on Cinema quote because there’s a lot of very pretentious film people.

Her new show was Ann Droid, a BBC sitcom about the relationship between a widowed pensater and her humanoid robot helper played by Diane Morgan. Diane said, I was laughing at my friend, Oh, that’ll be me, because I don’t have kids that’ll be fed soup by a robot. The robot’s carrying you to bed, the really embarrassing stuff. We were just laughing our heads off. Her droid is named Linda, who’s a secondhand model with a blunt man and a vacant stare.

Preparation involved robots school with a guy named Dan that leads to some physical comedy with an unblinking gaze, rigid stance, and jerky movements. Diane said, yeah, it really hurts. I’ve got new respect for c three po As for the voice, she tried a hybrid of Siri and Alexa, but it didn’t work. Diane said, so I looked at old style robots and it weirdly came out as Catherine Hepburn.

---

Meanwhile, Ed Gamble is the host of a brand new comedy show Unacceptable, whe…

Gamble said, I think panel shows have gotten a bad reputation in the past of being very competitive and comedians not giving each other room and only trying to get their own stuff in, and I think that’s changed a little bit now. The comedy scene seems to be a little bit more collaborative and this is a special show because each comedian has their moment to shine, to do their unacceptable opinion. How edgy does this get? Gamble says, I think all the opinions that are unacceptable or the sort of thing that everybody could get involved in and discuss and have an opinion on. There’s certainly no one saying anything where you’re like, well, that’s that’s get upset a lot of people.

The Guardian watched the show. They gave it two stores out of five and added that it feels completely unnecessary. The review says, you know we don’t see enough of on British TV. Romesh Wagon Nathan said, no one ever unacceptable is for reasons that aren’t totally clear. A panel show and which comedians defend their worst opinions in front of a studio audience who are unlikely to agree with their horrible views.

Richard Ayoada, who is fantastic and to be a great doctor, who by the way anybody paying attention and Joanne McNally are the team captains. Ayoada does his usual deadpan thing and McNally leans in her strain of entertaining over sharing, except because this is unacceptable, she has to say things like I almost bought a mega hat because I like the colors. Perhaps in twenty years, unacceptable will be a household name like never mind the Buzzcocks or mock the Week. But I don’t see it, says The Guardian, And that is your comedy news for today. All right, we’ve made it through the week and what should have been a slow week.

Thank you comedians, this was awesome. Tomorrow will take a look at the Office UK. Sunday’s a norrible episode. See you tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: Tony Hinchcliffe, Kevin Hart, Joe Rogan, Nate Bargatze, Kel Amin Bell, Rainn Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Shane Gillis, Kanye West

What’s in This Episode

• Tony Hinchcliffe Kevin Hart Roast Backlash and Joe Rogan Interview
• Nate Bargatze White House UFC Fight and MAGA Comedian Controversy
• SNL Washington’s Dream Sketch July 4th Social Media Reaction
• Shane Gillis and Kanye West Backstage Photo at Texas Concert
• Rainn Wilson Criticizes Ricky Gervais on Award Show Speech Comments
• Tony Hinchcliffe Netflix Special Reception
• Emmy Nominations Announcement

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Just again. I’m stunned it how much there is this week. Normally this is a really quiet week.

We’ll do the Emmys in the second half of the show. The Emmy nominations are out, but let’s start with the fighting stuff, because that’s what I like. Tony Hinchcliffe was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience. The conversation turned to the roast of Kevin Hart at its year for both language and facing. What’s it been like like the weirdness, the post roast weirdness.

I’m always surprised by these things. I’m always surprised that they last so long that anybody’s talking about it. It’s so bizarre. I was surprised with the Pang Dang thing. I was surprised at the Trump thing.

And this one is really surprising because with other one they’re like, Ah, there’s a time and a place for jokes like that or this or that or whatever, and this is the time and the place for it. Is like the roast of Kevin Hart. You know, I’m gonna go for it. Yeah, and we roasted Kevin, you know, I did a George Floyd joke in the uh at the Tom Brady roast and then this one. People are offended or something I don’t know, And yeah, if you just watch that clip on my dismount, it’s a crazy clip.

But if you watch the entire flow of the roast set, it’s just one last departing joke, which that’s my thing. Man. It’s like I knew Earthquake would be standing up on his feet like he was halfway through my set, you know. You know there’s standing o’s that are happening during my actual roast and on this one because there were so many people on it. It was such a long, big roast.

You know, they set you to an allotted time. So I’m like, okay, I’m going to do something I don’t normally do and blast off more jokes per minute than I normally do. Instead of milking it and getting applause breaks and things like that, I’m just going to create a bang bang bang bang bang final stand up things. You know, what’s funny is that I have something that’s supposed to offend everybody, Like I don’t want you to like one hundred percent of any of my jokes I’m not that guy. I’m heelish, I’m a bad guy wrestling thing exactly.

So what’s funny because people got offended about the George Floyd thing, and people a lot of people said, yeah, well Pete Davidson did a Charlie Kirk joke, and they’re comparing these things from two different spectrums. But what they didn’t mention is that I did a Charlie Kirk joke in my set. You know what, everybody gets them. Everybody gets it is always might get some jokes everybody does. I said that Kevin has a quite the fan base.

He has more gunfire at his merch table than Charlie Kirk or whatever. And so you know, for them to for people to nitpick that joke and be offended, and it’s funny because it was a lot of a lot of comedians, a lot of black comedians were like, I’m upset about this. You know, they made their videos, which is just hilarious because they’re not on the roast, they’re not in attendance at the roast. You saw it, Tommy Harsh that was the best one. Nobody handled it better than her.

Meanwhile, there was another kerfluffle involving mega comedian Nate Bergatzy last weekend. It was July fourth, Saturday, July fourth, and normally on Saturday they would air a rerun of Saturday Night Live, but no, it was July fourth, so they didn’t. However, on SNL’s Instagram, they posted a sketch called Washington’s Dream, which of course stars mega comedian Nate Bergatzi. If you don’t know why he’s a mega comedian because one time he went to a UFC fight at the White House, the Daily Beast tells us the traditionally progressive fans of SNL lashed out when his sketch was on Saturday. One social media user said, really not the time, NBCSNL.

Another told the program to read the room. Yeah, how absurd that you would post a George Washington sketch on July fourth. That’s crazy.

Meanwhile, The Daily Beast caught up with wkmal Bell, who recently posted a s…

Bell told the Beasts, throughout the history of the White House, going to the White House is a political decision, but now it’s not only a political decision, but it is a caustic and toxic decision based on what this administration is doing, like holding a UFC fight. Maybe you wanted to see some fights that THO would be kind of cool to see one on the White House lawn, and maybe you’d run into Shane Gillis in the back, who knows Cameu admitted that he used to be a huge UFC fan, So I relate in the sense that this is a thing that I loved, and there’s a version of this where I might have felt like I should go. They asked, come out, does Nate actually want to be a maga comedian? Bell said, I’ll say this, his accountant doesn’t want him to be a maga comedian, the concern being that being a mega comedian will hurt Nate’s bottom line because he’s bigger than every maga comedian. There’s nothing he’s going to gain from losing people who are like I just think that guy’s funny.

He cuts across race and ethnicity and religion and socionomic background in politics. So why would you suddenly put that in a box. I don’t know. Maybe you wanted to go see a UFC fight, and Cheryl Hines was like, Hey, do you want to take a picture with me and my husband? And he went, yeah, sure, they’ll at it.

If anything, Nate, this is me trying to help you. Who are the people around you who are supposed to say, don’t do that. Whether that’s your politics or not, that’s not a good business decision for you, Nate. It’s not good doesn’t help your brand in any way. The conversation turned to Tony Hinchcliff’s recent Netflix special.

Belle said, I have not watched Tony Hinchcliff’s new special, but I’m not hearing great things. The Daily Beast points out that Tony Hinchcliff was also at the UFC fight. Was he I missed that? Okay? Belle said, well, I mean Tony Hinchcliff has basically made himself a henchman to Donald Trump’s joker.

Why wouldn’t he be there? Shane Gillis when he’s not at UFC fight, said, the White House sometimes hangs out, apparently with Kanye West. A photo has appeared of Kanye West and Shane Gillis hanging backstage after Kanye’s at Texas concert. We know this because Shane Gillis posted it. All right, I promise hear this one from yesterday.

I had a bump it. Reen Wilson not happy with Ricky Gervis. Before I get into the clip, let me remind everyone. Rain Wilson perhaps possibly best known for playing Dwight on The Office, which was a spinoff of the British series called The Office written and created by Ricky Gervas and Stephen Merchant. So Rain Wilson might want to remember where his whole career comes from.

But anyway, here’s Reen Wilson on the Soul Bloom podcast edits for language. One of the things that pisses me off to no end is Ricky Gervase saying, just just take your after award. No one wants to hear what you have to say. Guess what Everyone gets to say what they want to say about anything. Yeah, Gaza, climate change, politics, you get to say it.

If you’re a truck driver, you get to say it. Yeah, if you’re a school teacher. And you’re winning in this country. And it’s we have free speech, and you know if people don’t want to hear it, they don’t have to give you an a war and. He’s never put any limits on his speech.

No, no, And like, yeah, is it going to change, you know, war or climate change? With you saying something for seventy five seconds after you win a golden globe like, no, but why would you try and shame and silence someone from speaking their truth? I mean, it shouldn’t just be for the sake of it. Hopefully what you’re saying is well researched, and hopefully you’re doing something about that cause that you want to speak to, and it’s not just kind of like what do they call that mood signaling or whatever, virtue virtue signaling or something like that. And I think everyone from janitor to act you do not need to be an academic, you need to have a PhD.

You don’t need to be a politician or an expert to speak out on what moves. You rain relaxed dude. Brian bonumgottner Is shared his story. Apparently this anecdote’s around for five years or so, but I had missed it. Some people wondered in the Office US finale how Kevin went up with a bar.

Brian said, I can’t go on a bar and not be offered a drink. They want to have a drink with Kevin Malone. So the storyline is shot but not air that Kevin Malone goes into bars. Everyone wants to buy him a drink. There’s a particular bar in Scranted, Pennsylvania that he goes in all the time, and he’s accumulated such a credit at the bar from people buying him drinks that he uses.

That is leverage to own the bar. That is a true written story that was shot. Now coming out next week is The Office US Complete Series super Fan Extended episodes with twenty five plus hours of unaired footage. Now I’m not going to buy the whole series on DVD again, but this all new collection reconstructs every installment of the landmark series with additional footage per episode, delivering more than twenty five hours of unaired asterisk material. The asterisk is during initial TV broadcast run, so some of these things have been around runtime one hundred hours and twenty minutes.

The Office the Complete Series super Fan Extended episodes available on digital and Blu Ray July fourteenth. Looking ahead to the weekend, I think I’m going to make this weekend Saturday deep dive about The Office UK, being that it’s the anniversary today, Happy anniversary, everybody. Josh Johnson told Deadline that unlike his YouTube sets, he intends his specials to be timeless. He says, the intention that I have what everything I do, is like most people don’t feel as great as they are walking around. A lot of people don’t feel in sync with their life and personally don’t feel like their own melody.

Sometimes there’s just this noise in your head and there’s this external disruption that’s going on all the time, whether it’s negative news or negative opinions and stuff like that. He says that you shouldn’t just completely shut out what’s happening in the world. It’s important to be part of the world you’re in, but if you’re in the world, you must be worth the world. And I don’t think people walk around with that feeling. So if I could be a part of changing that, that means a lot to me.

Vyies tells us that wedding officiator Adam Sandler has a running neighborhood prank with Conan O’Brien. We are told that one of Adam Sandler’s favorite gags is to yell O’Brien’s name out in front of his house whenever he passes by, whether he’s on f foot, riding a bike, or driving through the neighborhood. According to Conan, there was a time when a celebrity bus tour happened to catch wedding officiator Adam Sandler in the act. It’s become such a common occurrence that Saidlor’s kids expect them to do it every time they’re in the area. The Emmy nominations came out on Wednesday.

Hacks landed twenty four nominations, beating the record of twenty three previously held by The Studio and The Bear. It has also surpassed Shit’s Creek for most nominations for a comedy series. Now, Hacks is nice and all, but like Relax, it is not the greatest thing. Ever, It’s good. Hacks gott nominations for Best Comedy Series, Best Actress for Gene Smart, Best Supporting Actress for Hannah Einbinder and Megan Statler, and Best Supporting Actor for Paul w.

Downs. This brings hacks lifetime Emmy total to eighty six nominations and twelve wins.

---

Meanwhile, The Late Show with Steven Colbert got nine Emmy nominations.

That was the biggest award showing of Colbert’s eleven year tenure behind the Desk For this year. The most he ever got was five nominations three years in a row twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, and twenty twenty two. The Late Show is up for a Variety series, writing for a Variety series, directing for a variety series, production design for a variety series, technical direction and camera work, lighting designed, sound mixing for a variety series, picture editing for variety programming, and music direction. Late Nighter reminds us this year is the first time in over decade that shows across the Late Night field will compete in the recombined Outstanding Variety Series category, which emerges what had previously been Variety Talk Series and a separate scripted Variety Series category.

---

Also, the rules this year are weird and stupid.

Rather than selecting a single winner, voters will consider each nominated series on a yes or no basis, with any show receiving yes votes from ninety percent or more of eligible voters winning an Emmy. That means the category could produce more than one winner, which of course is stupid. If no nominee gets ninety percent, the Emmy will go to the series with the highest percentage of yes votes. The nominees Outstanding variety series are The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmelive, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Saturday Night Live. Good shot that they all win, which is stupid.

Let’s give it a Colbert just to stick it to CBSD. The nominees for Best Comedy Series are Abbot, Elementary, The Bear, which of course is not a comedy, Hacks, Margo’s Got Money, Troubles, which apparently is a show on Apple TV. Nobody wants this from Netflix, Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking, and Widow’s Bay from Apple TV, which I hear is very good. I haven’t gotten to it yet. I’ve been watching soccer every day of my life except yesterday, but I had volleyball.

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series yah Abdul Medine the second for wonder Man, Steve Grell for Rooster, Matthew Rees for Widow’s Bay, Jason Siegel for Shrinking, Martin Short for Only Murders. Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. The nominations are Quinton Brunson for Abbot, Iu Edaberry for The Bear, which of course is not a comedy, and Ellie Fanning for Margo’s Got Money Trouble, Lisa Kudro for The Comeback, and Gene Smart for Hacks. Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Colman Domingo for the Four Seasons, Paul w Downs for Hacks, Harrison Ford for Shrinking We Got to do that, That’s just fun, Nick Offerman from Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Steven Root for Widows Bay, Michael Uri for Shrinking Tailor James Williams for Abbott Elementary. The nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series are Dale Dickey for Widows Bay, Hannah Einbinder for Hacks, Janelle James for Abbott, Kate O’Flynn for Widows Bay, Michelle Pfeiffer for Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Making Statler for Hacks, and Jessica Williams for Shrinking.

And Outstanding Animated Program. The nominees are Star Wars, Vision, South Park, Spiling Friends, Simpson’s and Bob’s Burgers continuing the Great Hoax. I hope Bob’s Burgers win and then everyone in on the Hoax will be like, I can’t believe they fell for this. Let me ask you two questions, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no, And more importantly, have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer is also no. Oh, think about that. Sometimes, while we’re all fawning over Stephen Colbert, Late Night er tells us we now have a full month of live plus seven ratings data for Byron Allen’s two hour CBS late night block. How’s it doing Late Night Or summarizes He’s a distant third, but the floor is holding. Byron Allen’s hour is averaging just under seven hundred thousand viewers, about a quarter of Jimmy Kimmel’s two point seven and half The Tonight Show’s one point four.

Now, this is interesting, Late Nighter says every other program in late night sheds audiences on Fridays. Kimmel drops twenty nine percent, Seth drops twenty two percent, The Tonight Show slips seven percent. Byron Allen goes up eleven percent. Now, if we look at the eighteen to forty nine’s, Byron Allen’s hour averages seventy eight thousand viewers in a nation of three hundred million plus seventy eight thousand yikes. Nightline which doesn’t even start till twelve thirty five, has double that.

Even Seth Myers beats that number. I mean, come on, Late Nighter says, nobody records this sh Joe. Ninety six percent of the blocks total weekly audience’s watches live or same day, meaning it’s the least time shifted programming in late night. Kimmel’s audience adds seventeen percent to his audience over a week of delayed viewing the Daily Show, more than doubles and Late Nighter points out that the Knicks championship run was in here and that helped Kimmel’s numbers a little bit, but gives us a pretty good sense of where things are in late night. And that is your comedy news for today.

I will see tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: Trevor Noah, Dave Chappelle, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Freeman, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Lucy Davis

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah on FIFA World Cup corruption and US government interference
• Dave Chappelle on CNN discussing American pride and free speech
• The Office UK 25th anniversary special tensions between cast and creators
• Martin Freeman defends improvisational aspects of The Office filming
• Ricky Gervais launching YouTube channel with Office anniversary content
• David Brent statue unveiled at Premiere Inn in Slough

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, I am so happy because the comedians are hooking it up and fighting with each other. It’s wonderful. Hello. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

I’ve got two days of comedian fights. We’ll save the mega comedian aperghetti stuff for tomorrow. Today we’ll dive in on the office Wars. But first, let me tell you about Trevor Noah. He had some thoughts about the World’s Cup and the President of the United States.

Now in the video that I’m sharing the audio of, if you hear clapping sounds, that’s because Trevor Nooa keeps clapping his hands, and it is worth noting that he was wearing a Team USA jersey during this clip. Here’s Trevor Noah. Americans were very quick and proud to say FIFA is a corrupt organization, the corrupt fifas corrupt. I’m glad FIFA’s coming to America because finally they’re going to be held accountable. Until they needed some of that corruption for themselves, until Americans needed.

Some of that corruption for himself. Yes, then now they’re like, yeah, man, Bulligan needs to play belligan. I’m Glad Bullagan’s because that was a bull brinker. Yeah, until you need this happens. Welcome to the World.

Com But what do you mean, this happens all the time, yo. It doesn’t matter who you are. Welcome to the World Cup. I don’t care who you are. I don’t care what country.

You When this tournaments, thought that I had my conspiracy theories. My man, they were people who are anti Trump, and then when this thing was happened, now for the first time, they’re like, nah, but Trump did the right thing. Hey, this is government interference. Guys, send your letters to Trevor No. I’ve noticed his World Cup live streams are getting around two hundred and fifty thousand views, not a bad number at all.

Over the weekend, it was July fourth, Dave Chappelle was on CNN with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. In the clip, Chappelle appears to be in front of a crowd, perhaps at a comedy show. But here’s Dave Chappelle and it’s for pacing and language. Hey, Dave, you’re such an You are so emblematic to the idea of the power of freeze. Tell me tonight as we look at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country.

Why you are proud to be an American? And how do you view our country today? For that’s a loaded question. Now, I see why Trump gets mad at y’all all the time. Why would you ask me that?

All right? No, I got an answer for that. I don’t agree with everything that our government does. But the one thing that I really consistently believe in that I love about being an American is my Countryman. If I’m overseas or around the world, anytime I see an American over there, we just give each other the fight club look, because we live in a madness that only we really understand what it’s all about.

And I have faith in my countrymen, no matter how crazy. All of this will make it feel that the sun will rise and that I feel like I’m part of a very incredible community. So God bless my countryman, and let us megas country absolutely great. Now, the big story today, the big fight is the Office, the UK Office. Guys, they’re all fighting with each other.

It had been fifteen years since Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman had seen each other, but it is the twenty fifth anniversary of the Office or you may know it as The Office UK and they have done a special for BBC. They share their memories of working and laughing alongside Ricky Gervais Will Get to Him, co writer Stephen Merchant, and the other leading Office colleague Lucy Davis, who played Don who is the analog to Pam for You Americans. Among the anecdotes, they tell us of how Martin Freeman initially auditioned to play Gareth Now, Mackenzie embraced one of TV’s worst ever haircuts, how Ricky came close to ruining filming on a daily basis, and what it was like to be at the heart of Office medium when the show was at its peak. You will find Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman Remember The Office on BBC two an I player today at ten pm. I assume that’s UK time.

They’re five hours ahead of us. You do the math. Ricky Gervas and Stephen Merchant do not appear in the one off show. Why not, well, because Ricky Gervase is marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the Office with a rundown of his favorite David Brent moments. Ricky is presenting each of the twenty five moments on his YouTube channel and said, there will be never before told stories here.

Let me let Ricky tell it to you. I have chop this up for piecing. I’ve made a special show to commemorate twenty five year anniversary of the Office, just me chatting about my memories of the show, my favorite myths, and a whole lot more. David Brent begging for his job back was the first bit of serious acting I’ve ever done. I was a little flat bloke playing him.

Let’s be honest, rick you won’t wear im Patvin waya no watch it. It’s free, so yeah, you do the math. His YouTube channel will feature plenty of David Brent and will also have other archive materials from his other shows, including Afterlife and his stand up shows, alongside content made specifically for the channel. Ricky’s YouTube channel already has Sunday evening live streams where Ricky takes audience questions. Topics have ranged from ai in comedy and creative inspiration to veganism.

Ricky Tervay said, I’m absolutely loving building my YouTube channel. It’s the best way to interact with my wonderful fans without leaving the house and actually bumping into any of those weirdos. So if you think this thing where he’s not on the BBC was about scheduling, I think differently. Martin Freeman said his recollection of Making the Office is different than that of Ricky and Stephen Merchant. Jervas and Merchant have long said The Office was entirely scripted.

Martin Freeman, who played Tim, says it was looser than they suggest. Freeman said he was left frustrated when a book of the shows scripts was released filled with transcriptions of the lines that made it into the final episode, including his own improv as part of the BBC two special Remember of the Office. Kirk Freeman, another thing people always ask you is how much was improvised? Very little bit, because it was all there on the page. Freeman responded, It was all there on the page.

However, I think my true feeling about it is what it became the monster that it did because it sounded improvised. Understandably, Ricky and Stephen went, no, none of it is improvised. What slightly annoyed me at the time, but only slightly at the time, is that when scripts were published, they weren’t the scripts, They were the transcriptions of what had been on Telly. So that annoyed me a little bit because anyone who knows any of us knows the line came from you. In that moment, the line came from me.

It was loose. That’s to Ricky and Steven’s credit, because the scripts were absolutely brilliant. It wasn’t improvised, but was what I would call loose. Freeman argued, he can understand why there’s a little bit of protection about that, because otherwise people would have gone, hey, you just rock up and make it all up, which is clearly not the case. The writing on it was brilliant.

You only need to know us a little bit or no the process of it to know we’re also in there. It doesn’t mean it’s a co credit, it doesn’t mean it’s improvised. It’s nicely loose. So what does that mean Either you read the words or you didn’t. A statue of David Brant, that is Ricky’s character on The Office UK, in case you’re not familiar with that particular program, has been unveiled at the Premiere Inn in Slough.

Yes. The clay sculpture of David Brent was commissioned by Premiere in It is displayed at the Slough Trading Estate Hotel. The Premiere inn sits on the side of the old building used in the series opening credits. Oh that makes sense. The new installation was revealed by David Brent impersonator Tim Oliver, who recreated the stance alongside some of the character’s distinctive dance routines.

The bust took one hundred and twenty hours to put together and weighs seven kilograms. It will be permanently installed off the site. A spokesperson for the hotel chain told The Daily Star, We’re thrilled to unveil this brilliant tribute to markets place in British comedy history. Ricky’s iconic character truly puts Slough on the map, and it’s only fitting to honor him with this memorable statue, which we hope will be particularly popular with some of the millions of business travelers who stay with us each year. Whilst the building itself is totally transformed, our guests are more likely to be interested in pillows than photocopiers.

Eagle eyed fans will certainly spot the similarity in the footprint of the site. The spokesperson for the Premiere in added from tech to business attire. Office life has changed drastically in the twenty five years since the show aired, but what hasn’t changed is the need for business travelers to know what they’re getting with a great night’s sleep and a comfortable room, ready to face the day, no matter how embarrassing their boss is. You know, I’m gonna make a decision on the fly. Here I got two more office stories.

Rain Wilson called out Ricky Travay’s let’s save that for tomorrow, and I’m gonna tell you a story about Kevin from the office tomorrow because we got to deal with Taylor Swift stuff. And by the way, this is way more news than I thought we were gonna have coming out of July fourth. This is all wonderful. Thank you comedians. George Stephanopoulos said Adam Sandler was funny and touching.

And not only did Adam Sandler officiate the wedding of Taylor Swift, really, he also performed an original song that was humorous and touching and was all about their love. Oh can you imagine Sandler’s been out and about. He was spoted but at Sawyer’s on the Pier, a place that serves homemade ice cream. That’s right. There was a Facebook group from Sawyer’s Daily Bar.

They shared that Adam Sandler stopped in at Sawyer’s on the Pier on July fourth for some ice cream. That was just a day after officiating Taylor Swift’s wedding. The social media post highlighted a series of selfies, all taken by Sandler, and interestingly, this article calls Saandlor the star of Uncut Gems. People are coming around to the way I think and recognizing him as a dramatic actor and of course a wedding officiator and not at all a comedian because he’s not good at comedy. But he’s a good actor and apparently a solid person to have officiate your wedding.

If you ever wanted to have him, I’m sure he’ll do it. The Uncut Gem Star and a bunch of staff members from Sawyer’s to selfies. We are told it looks like they were having a fun time. What a great article. Then on Sunday, which is July fifth, he was seen in Nantucket playing basketball at Bacchus Lane.

According to the Nantucket Current, Adam Sandler called the police department’s non emergency line to ask where he could play basketball. Personnel directed him to Backus Lane Court, which is part of Nantucket Intermediate School. Imagine Nantucket police, How may I help you? Hi, this is Adam Sandler. Oh, yes, mister Sandler, how can I help you?

Yeah? Do you guys have a basketball court? Dude? Use the internet. Why are you bothering the police with this, even if it’s the non emergency line.

Are you serious about this? Or is this a way that you have a more colorful story in the press. Is it that Johnny Mac? Of course it’s that guy’s where told Andrew Kessler and his friends normally don’t play outdoor basketball, but they coincidentally showed up at the park. Kessler told ESPN.

We see a car pull into the parking lot and there’s a guy wearing an interesting outfit. Initially they joked that it was Adam Sandler. Once the person got closer, they realized it was indeed Adam Sandler. Kessler said, Adam Sandlor has elite passing. He didn’t miss a pass.

They were all dimes. His layup game was good. I didn’t really see him shoot the ball. Really, he is a good playmaker. You can tell that he’s played a lot in his life.

Meanwhile, Amy Schumer, who likes when we talk about her, wants you to know she was not invited to the wedding of Taylor Swift. Neither was I Amy. Amy Schumer trolled the happy couple with several Instagram posts, including a spoof outfit for Thursday night’s rehearsal dinner. Schumer joked on Friday morning rehearsal dinner was sick. Who knows what she has planned for us?

Then there was a second post which also featured Life and Beth co star Michael Sarah. That one was captioned Okay, so why weren’t we allowed in? Apparently Amy has been taking shots at Taylor for some time. Back in twenty sixteen, Amy Schumer took a shot at Taylor Swift’s Grammy outfit, sharing a photo of herself and writing Taylor, that’s not a thigh gap. This is a thigh gap.

That got some backlash from the Swifties. Schumer responded, I’m a comic and should never make fun of myself at the expense of anyone else that it wasn’t making fun of in the first place. How about everybody takes a deep breath Schumer’s rep had to step in and tell people Amy loves Taylor was making a joke because she does and have a thigh gap again. I am so excited to have this much feisty content. Week of July fourth, no filler at all.

When I was looking up to Trevor Noah Numbers, I checked in on Ben Gleb. You know he’s got that late night show on YouTube of sorts. Good Night with Ben Glebe Episode six had thirty five thousand views at eleven nineteen. On Tuesday, they did split out his monologue from episode six that had three hundred and eighty eight views, John, did you say three hundred and eighty eight? I did meanwhile, competing YouTube late night show Outside Tonight, and that one is kind of more official.

An episode that had posted four days ago has eighty seven hundred views. That’s not going to cut it. An isolated clip of Caleb here on Outside Tonight’s, and Caleb has a lot of Internet followers. That clip has four hundred and seventeen views. Did you say four hundred and seventeen, John, I did four hundred and seventeen.

And a clip they pulled out from the show titled we found the Gayest Dog. How many views does that have? John Found the Gayest Dog has fifty nine views? Did you say fifty nine? I did remember like a year ago, Madonna supposedly did some stand up comedy.

Well, not supposedly she did. Will Arnett was speaking with Romesh Oranga Nathan and told Hermesh how Madonna did forty minutes of stand up. He said, we had a night where Madonna went up. Amy Schuber brought her. She said Madonna’s gonna come.

The audience went crazy. I think she did about forty minutes. She had a binder and she was reading from it. But I got to say, it takes a lot of guts, because you know, Madonna’s shy. An audience member said she did well enough, but the audience was so stunned it was Madonna that it took the entire set to warm up to her.

She didn’t do as well as she thinks she would. She got laught every time she dropped deaf bombs, because just hearing Madonna curse is funny. She elsa nailed a joke about how with all these Trump deportations, she’s not gonna have any staff left, which got some laughs. But really, everyone was just so shocked that she was there. And that is your comedy news for today.

You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so you never miss an episode, and please join us in the Facebook group. We have a really good community over there. Daily Comedy News podcast Group. See tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: Kathy Griffin, Jimmy Fallon, Conor McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Leslie David Baker, Cam Patterson, Tony Hinchcliff, Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan

What’s in This Episode

• Kathy Griffin claims she’s banned from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• Jimmy Fallon’s decision to book Conor McGregor sparks controversy over platform for convicted rapist
• Ricky Gervais criticized for recycled shock comedy material at Leicester Square Theater
• Ricky Gervais absent from The Office UK 25th anniversary BBC documentary
• Ricky Gervais releases limited edition Office 25th anniversary vodka bottle
• Leslie David Baker opens Honey Baked Ham franchise in Sherman Oaks
• Cam Patterson discusses Tony Hinchcliff’s George Floyd joke at Kevin Hart Roast

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. There. I’m Johnny Mac with the camera with This show is called I believe this is take three. This is Daily Comedy News. I just recorded the weekly Comedy thing.

That’s the show I host on Slacker and I couldn’t remember where I am Daily Comedy News. Hi, how you guys doing? I could do that again, but that’s no fun. Kathy Griffin is claiming she is banned from Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show. Longtime listeners know, anytime Kathy Griffin’s name comes up on the show, it’s usually something super positive, right, Like Kathy Griffin was wishing everyone a nice day, Kathy Griffin was getting along with everyone, Kathy Griffin smelled some nice flowers.

It’s always something great like that. But she is now claiming she is banned from Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show. Now, before we get into all this, I would ask why would the Tonight Show book Kathy Griffin to begin with? Like, I don’t know, it’s not the biggest comedy star. I don’t think she is a special out right now, So I don’t know why am I banned from the Tonight Show.

Why won’t Jimmy Fallon have me on, that’s my question anyway. Kathy Griffin went on social media’s and explained. Now I have not done the Jimmy Fallon Show since it was on at twelve thirty Eastern and Pacific. So I guess I’m banned from the Fallon Show or inappropriate or too controversial. I don’t even know when you’re banned from a show.

And if you guys know me, I’m banned from most of them. You’re welcome America and Indonesia. They don’t usually tell you your band, they just can’t seem to find room for you. So I do like Jimmy Fallon. I’ve met him a few times and what I used to do is later show.

He was always super nice to me. But I do think it was a bad call for him to have convicted rapist Connor McGregor on the What is he a boxer or like a kickboxer UFC United Fighting Champion. I don’t even know what dead stands for because it just makes me thinkive Joe Rogan and then I get pissed it off. For those reasons, I think the Fallen folks made a miss by having Connor McGregor on. I think it sends yet another message to women and marginalized folks everywhere that were not equal and you can do anything to us, and the perpetrators are still going to be out there being glorified.

And it kind of reminds me of when Fallon had Trump on and then he petted his hair or as I called a bird’s nest. I don’t know. That didn’t sit well with me. I didn’t like when Lauren Michaels had him host SNL. You know when Trump was running.

I believe it was during the campaign. I think it’s it’s time we kind of make up our minds about who we’re going to cancel and who were not. Take it from the most canceled celebrity in history. Look it up, you know, as the kids say, do. Better really quickly.

I wanted to refresh my own memory on the Connor McGregor story. This from RTE dot Ie July thirty first, twenty twenty five. I’ll go quickly here because this is not what we do on this program. But they wrote to Connor McGregor has lost his appeal against a High court juries finding that he raped a woman. The jury at the civil trial found that he raped the woman.

In a hotel room in December twenty eighteen and awarded her just under two hundred and fifty thousand euros and damages. The Court of Appeal rejected mister McGregor’s appeal in its entirety. This week we have the Dueling Office specials. Ricky Gervay’s in the news for that and for his Alley Cats show, and Digital Spy rode to the headline He’s being lazy Now? Has Ricky Gervais lost his magic?

They write? His current output isn’t exactly innovative or impressive. It’s old hat. Currently, Ricky recently tested new material at a special gig in London. It was at the Leicester Square Theater, which holds four hundred fans.

The writer says, I was among the lucky ones who managed to bag a ticket, But the gig wasn’t everything I hoped it would be. It was a conveyor belt of gags designed a shock and a pall. Now, before I even read further, if Ricky was playing a four hundred seat theater, that would make me think he was working out material. No, yes, no, yes, Digital Spy says. Topics include Jimmy Seville, you can look up that story.

Don’t want to go there, Adolf Hitler suicide and the N word quotes a lot of it was funny and well written, and the crowd lapped it up as a stand up gig. Was his success unquote all right, digital spy ass. But was it daring or brave or exciting? No? Was the same stick Ricky’s been doing for years, picking the most shocking topics he can think of and making jokes about them.

That’s what Ricky Gervas does. What do you want him to do?

Meanwhile, stars at the Office, the UK version, have filmed a new documentary…

Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crik are part of that. Ricky Gervais is not. Spokespeople had said that Ricky was unavailable to be part of the BBC shoot. Now let me come in here. Here’s the thing about anniversaries.

They don’t sneak up on you. You know when the twenty fifth anniversary is, it’s now? You know how we know this because The Office came out twenty five years ago. Here write this down, Ricky. The thirtieth anniversary will be in twenty thirty one.

Ricky couldn’t have been too busy because he’s got his own Office documentary coming out on YouTube this week. And he also can’t be all that busy because he celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of the Office with a limited edition vodka release through Dutch Barn, which he of course co owns. Even Jim Gaffigan might have been like, really, dude. Ricky revealed the bottle on Instagram, and he captured he wrote different drinks for different needs. The one lead bottle features an illustrated image of David Brent on the front and contains Dutch Barn Orchard Vodka, which is made from British apples.

The brand tells us that the vodka won a gold medal at the Vodka Master’s twenty twenty four competition. In the Instagram announcement, Ricky said, we made a special bottle to commemorate twenty five years of the Office. The anniversary is actually on nine July. So I mean maybe the BBC only last week, asked Ricky. I doubt he was unavailable for months and months and months and months and months, and just knowing a little bit how the BBC operates, I doubt they rolled out of bed last week and like, oh, we all slap together an office special.

The limited edition vodka bottle is priced at fifty four US dollars. It has a forty percent ABV and we are told Dutchburn’s flavored vodkas, particularly black cherry and jitter spiced key growth drivers for the company.

---

Speaking of the office, Leslie David Baker, you know him as Stanley from the …

What are the brids call it off? The office at American Workplace? Is that what they call it? We could just call it the office? Who cares?

Because Leslie David Baker aka Stanley has opened up a Honey Baked Ham store in Sherman Oaks. No, it is not April Fool’s Day. It is July seventh. Baker owns the place with a guy named Tony Tony. It’s old patch dot com.

Growing up, Honey Baked was always part of our holiday traditions. It’s a brand that brings people together around great food and meaningful moments. If you want to go, it’s at fourteen four tow seven Ventura. The new location will offer the company’s signature collection of Ham’s turkey slide dishes and more. Cam Patterson was on the Pivot podcast, No, not the one with Karas Wisher, a different one, and Cam was asked about Tony Hinchcliff.

I’ve made some edits here for language with Tony. Many people in our community feel like he went too far with the George Floyd joke at the Kevin Hart Rode. What are your thoughts on that? In being a black man. But also somebody who was around him knows him and it’s really a huge part of why your comedy career took off.

Turning changed my life dog, and I knew like him as a person and his character and stuff. I mean, that’s just his former comedy, you know what I’m saying. That’s just what he liked to talk about. I can’t speak for somebody out what they want to talk about, but I know him. I know he’s not a race.

He chained my whole life. So I can’t see him and be like, oh, he’s a I know the guy. He not a He’s not a racist. That just his former comedy. I think everybody’s former comedy is very different, you know what I’m saying.

I try to be an advocate, especially like for us in white spaces, as best I can. You feel what I’m saying, I’m getting older and I’m figuring out to do that out. I’m figuring how to do that that better. But I mean, it’s a situation where I how I feel about the joke don’t matter because I know his his cad and not even know him as a person. From The New York Post, Hannah Berner has revealed that after getting injections for jaw tension, she woke up to an unpleasant surprise.

She could not smile on TikTok. She said, like joy, laughter is my life. That’s all I care about. We’re going to get through this. Pray for me.

I’ve turned to religion. Stay safe out there in these streets. Berner said she got diceport injections to leave tension for TMJ. The New York Post threw in the treatment is also done to slim the jaw line and decreased teeth grinding. New York Post educates Drownie Mack and says dice boort is a neurotox and like botox, that temporarily blocks nerve signals to the massive muscles used for chewing at the side of the face and jaw line.

This reduces muscle contractions, eliminating chronic tightness and grinding. Over time, it causes the muscle to weekend and shrink. This takes six to eight weeks and results last for up to six months. The New York Post wants us to know, though dice, bort and botox are used to treat TMJ tension, this is an off label use aka not FDA approved. I think they’re trying to say something there, but you know to ask them.

From Threads, Matthew Brissard posted last week, I was on the same flight as Seth Meyers, Colin Jost and Dan Soder, and when we hit turbulence, I thought how much should suck to be a guest spot in my own obituary? Which is really funny. He tagged that with I thought about the outrage at the lack of diversity in this obituary. If you’ve ever been on a flight with famous people, you may have had the same thought. I remember flying to Nashville one time and Elvis Costello was on the flight, and all I could think of was the New York Post putting Elvis Costello two hundred and forty others dead.

As you could tell, we made it there safely, If you need something to listen to otsco At Cotske was on Trevor Noah’s podcast back in April, and I finally got around to it this weekend. Very good listen there. If you were wondering what happened to the sign from Stephen Colbert’s late show, It’s got a new home at Weeho, who is a West Hollywood bistro. In April, Stephen Colbert had listed the sign for auction during a late show home shopping bit featuring guest John Stewart. A guy named Jeff owns weh.

He bought the sign for one hundred and two thousand, one hundred dollars. He had it mounted on the roof of the West Hollywood, California restaurant, The Marquis is twelve feet long, eight feet six inches tall and nine inches deep. On social media, Jeff shared a photo and said thank you Stephen Colbert for all the magic. Bill Board published the May box score report. Nate BERGESSI number one for the second month in a row and ninth time overall for tickets sold.

In May, he grossed nine point three million dollars and sold one hundred nineteen thousand tickets across eleven reported shows. The mega comedian who one time attended a UFC show clearly canceled the rest of your top list. Matt Rife grossed one point six million dollars and sold thirteen thy seven hundred tickets across three shows. In fourth place, we Them One’s comedy tour grossed one point six mill fifteen one hundred tickets. Two shows.

Weird Ow you can see for free at the end of July unless you told your daughter you’d go visit her and you can’t go to the weird Ol concert. He grows to one point eight million dollars twenty eight thousand tickets, five shows. Again, go to Montreal and zee them free on a Saturday. I won’t be there. Jimmy Carr three shows, thirty two thousand, eight hundred tickets gross two point one million, and Maga comedian Aperghetzi once attended a UFC show eleven shows, one hundred, nineteen thousand tickets nine point three million to lead the month.

Speaking of Montreal, seven days Vermont took a look ahead at the Montreal Comedy Festival officially just for last Montreal. Some of the shows they’re excited about are the Nasty Show. This year’s lineup includes ian finance Marito Lopez, Rebecca Reid’s Mattie Smith, and host comedian CP. I’m seeing some buzz on Mattie Smith and having seen her myself, she’s pretty good. Not all the way there yet, but definitely keep an eye on her.

Seven Days. Raman also excited about he did Rivalry, the unauthorized musical parody Stage Reading.

---

Also on their list Jordan Jensen interesting copy here.

The Ithaca, New York born comic often feels like an alien, and, having been raised by lesbian moms, never understood dressing up with makeup and jewelry. Though not get yourself, Jensen has likely fooled many with her construction worker background and utilitarian energy. You can see her Friday, July twenty fourth, unless you’re off visiting your daughter Ron Funches. I’m not bad about it. I just I was like, oh, yeah, okay, obviously I want to visit my daughter Ron Funches.

Thursday July twenty third, Joel Kim Booster. They’re excited about. They’re twisting the knife and pointing out that weird Al Yankovic Saturday July twenty fifth, nine pm at the Place Day Festivals, Free Show, May Martin taping a Netflix special Sunday, July twenty sixth, and I have to figure out what I’m doing. I keep going back and forth. I might go up for new Faces.

Maybe I go up and see if they’ll credential me for Letterman, and I do the Tuesday Wednesday. Maybe I do my usual Wednesday up and back. Maybe I don’t go at all. I don’t know, but that’s your comedy news for today. You can follow a show on Spotify, turn on notifications so you never miss an episode, and I’ll see you tomorrow

---

---

Featured: Adam Sandler, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Charlie Day, Dave Chappelle, Seth Meyers, Paul McCartney

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler officiates Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding at Madison Square Garden
• Celebrity guest list analysis and Hollywood agent involvement
• Dave Chappelle on Travis Kelce’s bachelor party and missing the wedding invite
• Johnny Mac’s frustration with celebrity wedding cynicism
• Late night hosts attending the Swift-Kelce wedding

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with a bonus episode. I don’t know if you heard Taylor Swift got married and Adam Saylor officiated. Let me tell you, if you’re a longtime listener, you’ve heard me mention probably every other day that I worked for Serious XM for ten years, and during that decade, I spent a lot of time in the celebrity world. And there are just ports of the celebrity world that I can’t stand.

And this Taylor Swift wedding is just kind of everything all at once. I mean, what are we even doing here? Adam Saylor was the efficient. Even the New York Times went out of their way to write an article about that, they say. A representative for Taylor Swift confirmed it a statement that the proceedings at Madison Square Garden included Austin Swift, who’s Taylor’s brother, who served as Taylor Swift’s man of honor, and Jason Kelsey was his brother’s best man.

The statement also said Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony as one does when you’re in love and you take your house very seriously, you get Adam Sandlor to do the wedding. The Times looked into the connections. Perhaps the swift Kelsey’s have a deep relationship with Adam Sandler will of course, Travis Kelcey appeared in Happy Gilmore Io, so of course that’s who you ask. Late last week on Thursday, in British tabloid The Sun saw Adam Saylor unloading a gorment bag before a small rehearsal dinner held at a theater inside Madison Square Garden. Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said Adam Saylor gave the couple some pretty good marriage advice.

According to Andy Reid, Adam Sandler told them to keep kissing. So in its simplest form, that’s a good thing. It’s hard to argue when you give your wife a kiss or your wife gives you a kiss, and make sure you do it every day, every minute they have an opportunity to do it. Knock it out and you want have problems. The AMC Theaters CEO had a posted on Twitter and then deleted it.

He said the efficient sang and talked, oh oh my goodness, how horrible. And he was warm and welcoming, funny and eloquent. USA Today says Joseph Kahn, who’s directed a number of Swiss music videos, set on Instagram that the wedding was so much funnier and emotional than expected. Slate Rights. Adam Sandler officiated, yes, you’re reading that correctly.

The Sandman, star of the Grown Ups franchise and so many terrible Netflix movies. That’s Slate saying or not me. It was just so wrong on a spiritual level, my body is rejecting it. There is nothing against Sandler, whom I love and who I truly believe was robbed of an Oscar nomination for Uncut Gems. Again, I didn’t write this, but I agree with this person Slate Rights.

He is just absolutely the wrong choice as an efficient for Swift, someone who I usually think of as a serious person and it always who cares about lyricism and romance, someone who could have asked literally anyone in the world to do or the honor of marrying her. Did you plan the rest of the wedding and let Kelsey make this one choice so he would feel happy he got involved. As for whether they even know each other, Kelsey started with Sailor and happy Gilmore too, but Swift apparently loves him. As well. She’s spoken about how the happy place concept in Happy Gilmore partially inspired her song wish list skipping ahead.

Has Swift chosen a partner she can be a dumbass with everyone deserves to have fun, I guess, but I truly hate this. Even if Swift’s wedding dress is eventually revealed, have been made out of dalmation, for no detail of this day will be worse. So people shared some of the guests list. I’m gonna focus on comedy here. I mean I looked at it and I was like, why is that person there?

Why is Kevin Burkhart there? Oh yeah, he hosts Fox Football. I guess he got his order, almost knows Travis Kelzie Shore, Why is Paul McCartney there? Why is anyone there? These are not your friends.

Again, I’ve been involved with like Super Bowl parties and big parties and the Big Boss going, hey see if Charlie Day can come because Charlie Day for some reason, was it Taylor Swift’s wedding? Are they friends? I don’t know. Some other people that made it Marcelo Hernandez because he does one thing well and one thing only. And I guess Taylor Swift finds it funny Marcelo Hernandez at the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey for some reason.

So behind the scenes, what happens here is you’re having these big events and the big boss makes a wish list, and you know it’s probably had all the biggest people you could possibly think of, you know, Paul McCartney level, and I guess Paul actually said yes, and wouldn’t surprise me. Possibly perhaps if Paul got paid to sing I saw her standing there or I want to hold your hand or whatever he’s saying was I want to hold your hand, wouldn’t surprise me if Paul didn’t do that for free, just saying anyway, So the big boss makes a list, you know, hey, can you get so and so and so and so so, And then there’s the other list of hey, so and so wants to know if they come, so say it’s I don’t know, Charlie Day, and Charlie Day has to wait to find out that, like Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t want to come.

And then a spot opens up and you got to fill the room.

So there’s that whole jockey in going. But I don’t believe that any of these people are Taylor Swiss friends. This is Hollywood agent’s jockeying back and forth with an event planner trying to get us to talk about it, and I’m talking about it. So Marcelo Hernandez was there, why, I don’t know. Conan Ryan was there.

Stephen Colbert was there. Well, he’s got free time. Seth Myers was there instead of working hard on his late night show that has barely more viewers than this podcast as listeners. But Seth Meyers had time to go because Seth seems like kind of person that hangs out with both Taylor and Travis, doesn’t he. Donald Glover was there.

The aforementioned Charlie Day did make the list, Chris Rock was there, and Nikki Glaser made the list. She’s gonna be so happy. This is everything Nikki Glaser has spent the last four years trying to do. Nikki Glaser gots to go to Taylor Swift’s wedding and probably had a sign a non disclosure agreement and now can’t even talk about it. When she does, she’ll get in trouble.

That’s actually Nikki Glaser. Hell, you got the invite and you can’t talk about it. John guesses. I hate everything about it, Like I’m glad they got married, but I hate the celebrity cynicism of this whole event. Dave Chappelle was on CNN over the weekend for July fourth.

He confirmed that Travis Kelcey did bring his friends with Dave Chappelle’s show for Bachelor Weekend in California. Did he interact with Travis Kelcey. Dave Schappelle said, well, of course I did. Chappelle then joked I was shocked. I’d never seen anything like this, A horrorless bachelor party that got a laugh from the crowd.

Dave said, whatever makes you happy. Travis was Dave Chappelle invited to the wedding. Dave said, I heard he was getting married at Madison Square Garden. You would think I could have gotten an invite, but I didn’t make the fifteen thousand closest friends. Amen, Dave Chappelle, just a quick rant episode.

If you follow me on social media. I didn’t have power for a couple. Now I didn’t have power, but I have a generator, so it’s fine. But then I didn’t have the internet, But now the internet is back. So now I can get back to ranting about whatever I’m ranting about right now.

Tomorrow I had actually pre taped Tomorrow’s actually pretty good, the Tuesday episode, and then Wednesday we’ll pick things back up. Now that I have the internet, can actually prep the show and upload shows and do all the things that I do. But congratulations, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelcey. I’m glad Charlie Day was there for you to be part of your big day.

---

---

Featured: Dave Chappelle, Michelle Wolf, David Cross, Pete Holmes, Sam Harris, David Spade, Chris Rock, Hannibal Buress, Seth Meyers, Charlie Kirk

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle on AI and automation replacing human thinking
• Michelle Wolf’s comedy origin story from finance to HBO
• David Cross on writing jokes on stage and button-pushing comedy
• Pete Holmes discusses parenting and work-life balance in comedy
• Sam Harris purchases David Spade’s Beverly Hills estate for $32.3 million
• Comedy special releases: Tamson Kelly and Brendan Ayers

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was speaking to PBS News and said, I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and we were laughing about how no one would really know what to teach a kid now. What skill sets are going to matter ten to twenty years from now. Is the world becomes automated and everything’s just changing.

I don’t know if anyone needs to think anymore. The machines are doing all the work for us. It’s AI, it’s quantum computing. Just seems like thinkings for poor people. He quickly added, it’s a joke, by the way, but he did get a little more serious and said, no one reads books anymore.

It’s just so different from when I grew up. Amen. Michelle Wolf told her origin story. I got a job at bear Stearns in the summer of two thousand and seven, a couple weeks after two of their hedge funds failed. I was not there at the start of the financial crisis.

I jumped on the sinking ship and it’s sink too big to fail, not bear Stearns, just the right size. It was more two thousand and eight, all the banks were failing. Some friends of mine came to visit. We went to a taping of SNL. I’ve always been a big fan.

I was like, out of the people do this? How do you get here? She found out the entire cast had started an improv so she signed up for a class. I’d work at the bank during the day and then go to an improv literally in my heels and skirtsuit. I would do improv looking like a business lady.

She and some comedy minded friends started writing and sharing five jokes a day with each other. Posted some of them on Twitter in case you’re looking for them. She says they were atrocious and long since deleted. She started doing open micers and then shifted to a part time job, and then her plan. I was like, all right, I’m gonna slowly do less and less work until I get fired and I left my financial career in the dust.

By twenty fourteen, she was writing jokes for Late Night with Seth Myers and for comics like Hannibal Burs. Hannibal recommended her to Chris Rock. She wrote for Rock for some of the stuff at the twenty sixteen Oscars, her first comedy special Nice Lady was for HBO in twenty seventeen, The White House Correspondents Dinner in twenty eighteen. Is there anything she considers off the table? Quoting Michelle Wolf, she said, I think there were jokes where the level of difficulties a lot higher, Like if a white person’s going to the nword on stage, you better have a joke that’s so good that everyone’s like, all right.

The level of difficulty for that is extraordinary. A lot of people are like, I’m gonna try it, and it’s like, why, why do you want to try it so bad? People think they’re being edgy when they’re just being stupid. Start trek carew in your pat As Walt said, you really have to fight for the space to observe and withdraw and watch both other people’s behavior and pay attention to your own. Because it’s entertainers especially now have less and less non performing time.

It feels like in order to be an entertainment of the arts, you got to be shooting content for your insta, shooting stuff for your TikTok. You’re performing authenticity. So now authenticity is becoming something that drains you. It’s gonna be really interesting to see how that affects not just comedy, but anything where you have to observe life and then reflect it back in a unique way when so much of your energy is now being taken towards promoting yourself so that people look at the stuff when you’re saying that you’re observing reality. He works with a notebook.

I’m very old school. I have a notebook. I use the classic composition notebook with a speckled black and white cover. My notebooks are a combination of me writing the beginnings of jokes as best I can. I can’t sit and write jokes, he says, something I’m going to try to do for the next album.

What I do is I have an idea. I just kind of work it out on stage over successive nights, and then it becomes a joke. My notebooks are all jotted down ideas and clippings of things like a picture from a magazine or name I’ve heard I think artists call them a morgue, where you collect pictures and images of things that might inspire you or something later. So he just collected altogether. It’s a weird combination.

David Cross says, I do not sit down and write jokes. I’m just not good at that. I do all my writing on stage. Cross says, I’ve done plenty of stuff that is, for lack of a better word, button pushing. He was asked if that’s fun for him.

Oh, yeah, I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t if it makes a set that night memorable and interesting and potentially dangerous. I mean, it’s live. That’s part of the fun of doing a live show. During one show, he let the audience know that his routine was a work in progress and said, by some miracle, all this will turn into a good set, a really good set. Once the set is together, he’ll take it outside of a basement of cool people in Brooklyn and bring it to maybe a less discerning audience in Kansas or whatever.

There’s a difference between Kansas and Brooklyn, which I think we can all agree on. On this particular night, Brooklyn liked an extended bit about Charlie Kirk. He got groans for a Holocaust joke involving the Nazis co opting Santa Claus. We are told another joke quote, boy was I mistaken about what a rape kid is? Unquote got a healthy, delayed laugh but one about Beast Reality elicited only a middling response.

Pete Holmes had a conversation with Vulture about his seven year old daughter. He said, it’s like talking to someone who owns a horse, if you’re going to talk about your horse for five hours, and make sure the other person that you’re talking to also owns a horse. Meeting people without kids typically don’t want to hear about kids. Pete Holmes says, why would someone need to swashbuckle and keep private hours. I’m more in the camp of if I could do this job at noon, I’d love that.

I briefly did It’s talk show after conon O’Brien on CBS, and I loved it because the shows were always at two o’clock in the afternoon. That was proof positive that some people visiting Burbank will still laugh at stand up comedy even if it’s being delivered at two in the afternoon. I’d be done at four o’clock, go home, have an early dinner, and being bet by nine. It was the best on Gossip Corner in Touch magazine reports that podcaster Sam Harris has purchased David Spade’s former Beverly Hills estate worth thirty two point three million dollars, David Spade had money? What does Spade have money from?

Like? SNL doesn’t pay that well? Call up Spades, IMDb? Where does he have money from? Polis Academy four an appearance in Coneheads.

He played Scuzz in the animated movie Racing Stripes. How does this guy have money? I gotta ask Ai? Hold on hey, I says, movies like Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Jodurt, and The Emperor’s New Groove paid well and some generate residuals. TV was probably his biggest paid a On Just Shoot Me, he reportedly earned up to three hundred thousand dollars per episode in later seasons, How Long did Just Shoot Me?

Run? And On Rules of Engagement he reportedly earned about one hundred and fifty thousand per episode, but that didn’t run long. Podcasting, he has co hosted the successful Fly on the Wall podcast with Tana Carvey. Sure, and the podcast is doing well. And believe me, he lives well.

But that’s not like crazy money. All Right, Just Shoot Me ran on NBC from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand and three. All Right, I guess he’s got Just Shoot Me money ran for seven seasons and produced one hundred and forty eight episodes. All right, so if he was making three hundred grand, so he’s making a million every three episodes towards the end there. Okay, just shoot me if you need something to watch today on YouTube, it’s Tamson Kelly’s Hot Tity Bungalow comedy special.

You can ask her about. The title also Outsiday Brendan ayres a debut comedy special alive and well you’ll find that on the eight hundred pound guerrilla streaming service Guerrilla Comedy Plus told you about that one on Friday. I like the name of this company, Joke zero. It is a distribution company. They’ve announced they’ve acquired Isabel Higgins.

On a String and On a String will be in theaters starting on the eleventh of September. Boasting a ninety one percent critics score in Rotten Tomatoes stemming from a successful festival run. It’ll get a week long theatrical run exclusively at the Quad Cinema, New York City before expanding into other markets. On a String follows a Juilliard training violist as she navigates the New York City freelance classical musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the personal lives of strangers, all while living with her oddball family’s NYC apartment. Nice job by Comedy Versus Cancer, They’ve raised two point seven million dollars for blood cancer research.

The event was held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. New York City is having quite the summer huh. This year’s show featured appearances from Britt Goldstein, Hasan Minhaj, Zoner garg, Nick Krohle, and others, and from The Toronto Guardian. They have their series where they check in with local comedians, Let’s Check In with Brea Habert. Bret describes her comedy as confessional things you’d only tell a priest to your doctor, but instead I’m saying them in front of a group of strangers in a dimly lit basement and getting paid and drink tickets and chicken wings if I’m lucky.

Influences interesting. Listen here, Christopher Guest, Monty Python, Bernie Mack. See you didn’t think I was gonna say Bernie Mack After Christopher gust and Monty Python, Bernie mac Kilda Radner, Norm MacDonald, Beth Stelling, Michelle Wolf, Tina Fey. Favorite comedian growing up. I loved Amanda Bines growing up.

Favorite comedian right now. I’m really enjoying great list here. Josh Johnson, Chris Fleming, Llowe, Radcliffe, Jeffrey Asthmas and Maddi Wiener pre show ritual a crisp diet Coke with a lime wedge, Scroll my notes app and question why I didn’t just go to law school. She’s promoting her debut album, Big Naturals. You’ll find that on Comedy Records, and she also hosts a late night stand up show at Comedy Bar called ghost Orgy.

You’ll find her at at Uncle Brea on Instagram and TikTok. And that is your comedy news coming off a holiday weekend. You know how the show works. I’m not trying to kid you now. Hopefully this week we’ll have some controversies.

I’m keeping an eye on this whole office thing with Gervaise and the others. I told you about that last Thursday. Hopefully they mix it up and we’ll have something to talk about. We will see. So we want to do so you don’t miss an episode.

You want to go to Spotify and turn notifications on and then it will send you notification probably every morning at three oh five am Eastern, which is when you want the notification if you’re being honest with yourself, and it’ll be like, hey, new episode. Actually it won’t three oh five. It takes like seven minutes or so to get through the pipes. I’ve published it at three oh five, but it’ll probably show up on your phone. Spotify is actually pretty quick Apples a little slower.

Podcast is a little slower than that, but you know by three thirty in the morning you’ll have the show Eastern time. Oh, which reminds me I’m supposed to be reminding you. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, what you do is you go to Apple Podcasts. There’s a better there. It says uninterrupted listening.

You click on that, and then for five bucks a month you get the show with no ads. There’s a thirty day free trial if you want to try it out. Now. I won’t bore you with the details, but the commercial free version doesn’t show up on your phone till about seven thirty in the morning. But again, were you really listening at four in the morning.

Probably not. I know there’s a couple of people who do these, A couple people who work overnights who appreciate that when the show shows up on their phone the middle the night. And I appreciate you guys listening. But anyway, if you want the show commercial free Apple Podcasts undert Listening, thirty day free trial, try it out. Maybe you like it.

After that, it is five bucks a month and I’ll see tomorrow

---

---

Featured: Chris Fleming, Ryan Hamilton, Trevor Noah, Cat Williams, Pete Holmes, Derek Stoop, Ramy Youssef, Jackie Kashian, Shehang Wang, Aaron Chen, Kevin Hart, Mark Maron, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Fleming’s HBO special ‘Live at the Palace’ ranked #1 of 2026
• Ryan Hamilton’s comedy special following being hit by a bus
• Trevor Noah’s Netflix special ‘Joy in the Trenches’
• Ranking of best comedy specials through mid-2026
• Roast of Kevin Hart on Netflix in May

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedys holiday weekend. I hope you had a great fourth of July. Am now well into my mission to make it to the tri Centennial. Need medicine help me a little bit.

I’ll have to be one hundred and seven years old, but that is my goal to be there July fourth, twenty seventy six. So let’s put our feet up today and take a look at the best comedy specials of twenty twenty six so far. And I’m going up to bottom best special of the year, and I don’t imagine anything passing this Chris Flemings Live at the Palace from HBO in February. This is the one that made everybody feel like they discovered a secret, even though the secret had been hiding in plain sight on YouTube for years. Chris Fleming filmed his HBO debut with the Cadillac Palace Theater in Chicago in a purple velvet gemsuit with ruby red Dorothy slippers.

He then prance, scuttled and belly flopped his way through an hour about Trader Joe’s, Doug Breed’s, NPR, and Conga lines. Mark Maron called him a marvel to behold, a true artist. If you’ve seen this thing, Fleming isn’t doing joke jokes. He’s doing art, except the art is pretty funny and has a lot of physical comedy. And let me flip over a card here.

I used AI to help me script out today’s episode off my scratch notes, and the AI came up with this one. Chris Fleming looks like he may have studied under a mime who was also a Golden retriever. That’s pretty good. Number two special of the year, Ryan Hamilton. This just hit me.

You know, sometimes I’ll see a comedian on the up and be like, oh, I can’t wait for this person’s next special, and they kind of disappoint. And you know, it’d been a minute for Ryan Hamilton because he got hit by a bus, which he made very clear. So I was very happy at how funny this special was, and it seemed to everybody in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group was with the program. In case you missed it, Ryan Hamilton got hit by a bus and then he made a comedy special about it. The special was directed by mega comedian Aperghezzi.

One time attended a UFC show who that guy? But much like the Nate brand, the energy is clean, warm, observational. Nobody’s getting their feelings hurt. And as far as I know, Ryan Hamilton did not attend any UFC events recently. I’m going to google it just to check.

Oh, this is fun. There’s an MMA fighter named Ryan Hamilton who goes by the nickname Hollywood Ryan Hamilton. He has a professional MMA record of zero and one. His last fight was July seventeenth, twenty twenty one, in whatever FCS is. He is currently on a one loss MMA streak.

He apparently lost to Johann Rubio by a rear naked choke two minutes and eleven seconds into round two. This is the kind of thing Nate bergets he would find very interesting. And I’m sure you’re like, shut up, John and get back to the comedy part. I will. That’s a good suggestion.

Listener Hamilton works in the Jim Gaffigan Brian Reagan Lane, Nah, I disagree. I think I think Ryan Hamilton would call me back had I helped him early in his career. Now I haven’t helped him in his career at all, but had I helped him early in his career, and I was like, Hey, Ryan, do you want to come on the radio show. I’m pretty sure Ryan would have called me back and said yes, sir or I said no, I’d love to, but you know, I’m busy. I’m touring, which is perfectly fine, and I have no problem to no.

I digress, Holliay weekend having a little fun here. Ryan Habilinson works on the Jim Gaffick and Brian Reagan Lan Family Friendly, Never a curse word, the kind of special you can watch with your parents and feel good about yourself. Number three Trevor Noah Joy in the Trenches. I really like Trevor Noah’s comedy. This was on Netflix in April.

I liked it a lot, but some people said at times have felt like a ted talk that wandered into a comedy club by accident, and not sure I agree with that. Number four Count Williams The Last Report Netflix in February. Count Williams Fourth Netflix special. The Last Report leans heavily into conspiracy theorist, political commentary, and the vibe of a man who’s looked at the world and concluded he was right about everything. If you love cat you’ll love this one.

If you thought his previous specialist wandered a little bit. You won’t like this one in fifth place. Pete Holmes Silly Silly fun Boy. I’ve been listening to some pen Homes interviews. I just really like what the guy’s about.

And as the year goes on and I revise this even here on the Fly, I’m like, Eh, maybe you don’t want to put Pete above Cat and above Trevor. I don’t know, come to revise here in the fly. Maybe Pete Holmes is the third best special of the year. John, you host the show, you made the list. I know, all right, I have it at five.

This showed up on YouTube in March. Silly Silly fun Boy has scorpion bites, elevator Superstitions. Harry Potter is a philosophical text parenting marriage and the general vibe of a guy who’s found genuine peace and wants to tell you about Like, yeah, that’s what I’m picking up on the interviews, and I think that’s what I like about him. Pete Holmes said it’s my favorite special two dates, which is nice, but doesn’t every comedian, like you know, is somebody gonna come out and be like, you know this one’s pretty good, but my last one was way better. Like, you’re just not gonna do that right.

Here’s one that might be off your radar, Derek Stroop’s Nostalgic. Now, by off your radar, I mean Netflix put it in front of you and you didn’t click on it. This was on Netflix in March, also produced by mega comedian Aperghancys Andnateland Entertainment. Nate one time went to a UFC fight Boy, People Are Very Upset fifty seven minutes about a nineties kid from rural Alabama, thrown it back to pre internet lifeboard games and why cigarettes should make a comeback. Critics compared to him either to mega comedian Apraghassi or Brig Krascher.

Next up, Ramy Yusef in Love HBO April. I always enjoy Ramy. He just he exudes charm and he’s very smooth. And this one he covers dogs, his marriage, Ai, religion, and the ri Odd Comedy Festival. One review said, it’s not trying to be the funniest special the year.

It’s trying to be the most meaningful, and I think that’s a good way to describe Rami Usef. Next up, Jackie Kashin with the title altercation I See what You did there? This on YouTube in February, the specialist personal stories in rapid fire punchlines shaped by decades of experience. She described herself as entirely made of bees at this point. So here the roughly halfway mark of the year.

Those are my top specials. Now, usually the back half of the year has more on the front end of the year, and we tend to get a lot of stuff like after Thanksgiving, like really big names. So we’ll see how the year develops. Let’s take a look at the good pile. So I do these in three tiers.

There’s the best, the good that you should watch, and then famous people who drop specials that I’m not really into. So we’ve already done the best. Let’s do the good. Shehang Wang’s Purple on Netflix. I liked his previous special, Sweet and Juicy, and thought it was excellent.

Purple not as good. It’s a little repetitive, and at times I really was feeling the Mitch Hedberg cover act, which in the previous special I liked a lot, but this time I was like, Eh, the material didn’t quite match the delivery. I like Shang a lot, but I’d actually recommend his previous special over this one. Ate pretty good specials. Aaron Chen’s Life in Questions.

Aaron Chan is Australian, surreal and underrated everywhere, kind of a low key style, an acquired taste. Perfectly fine special. I’m not going to put it in the elitch category, but pretty good.

Also pretty good and well talked about the roast of Kevin Hart from Netflix i…

If you listen to this program, we have well dissected that, and we’ll even be dissecting it in the upcoming week. Was it the roast of Tom Brady? Not even close? Was itatchable? Sure?

It was kind of long. I’d watched it across two or three nights. It’s hit and miss. Might be more miss than hit, but it’s washable. Definitely put your eyes on it.

This one’s gonna upset people. You know what’s watchable Tony Hinchcliff’s man, other people I know, people on Threads specifically, are mad that this even exists. Is it funny? I don’t know if it’s funny. It’s just nice company.

I had it on for an hour and a lot of times because I am a comedy snob. I don’t make it all the way through specials and I just go, Eah, this isn’t worth my time. And I just had this on and it was entertaining. I don’t know if it’s funny, but I was entertained. And our first mention of the Hulu brand hularious.

Now they’re a publicists might not get back to you, but you can still watch comedy on now. As you hear me say on the show, I feel like the Hulu brand’s not up where the Netflix brand is, and Hulu’s where you go when you’re a little past peak. They recently dropped Dez Bishop’s Bridge and Tunnel again, perfectly fine hour filmed at the Comedy Seller in New York. I like Dez’s a previous special more than this one. But if you need something to watch, does Bishop Bridge and Tunnel on Hulu?

And now onto the pass section. These are people you’ve heard of. I think it can pass. Let’s start with Louis C.K.’s Ridiculous Nope, didn’t make the top of the list. Now let me tell you.

I put this thing on the other night between soccer games, and the first ten minutes I was laughing out loud, like actual laughs. If you’ve listened to this program, you know. I have what I call Emperor of Rome syndrome, where my brain has just been fried from listening to comedy all these ears, and I do the thing the comedians do in the back of the room where they just go, oh, yeah, that’s hilarious, very very funny, great callback, Oh that is so well written, but I don’t actually laugh. K in the first ten minutes had me laughing, and I started thinking, Wow, is this going to be the number two special? Because it’s gonna be hard to be Chris Fleming.

I’m like, is this going to be number two? Did C Kate really bring it here? Because some of the reviews I saw said this wasn’t that good. In the first ten minutes I loved. The next ten minutes I hated.

He went into this bit about his father and I won’t spoil the material, and there was just one joke that’s aggressive, and I was like, I just don’t like this. I don’t want to spend time with this.

---

And then that chunk ends like right at the nineteen minute mark with he’s doi…

Life’s too short, I’ve got soccer games to watch, I got stuff to do. I’m not going to watch a special I’m not enjoying. And I just wasn’t enjoying it anymore, so I stopped. Variety calls it his return to the mainstream. Slate says he hasn’t changed.

Indy Wire says his misery becomes our own. All of those things are probably true at once, but passed on Louis c. K ridiculous. Pass on Taylor Thomason’s Prodigal Daughter in Netflix February. Critics love it Thomasin’s fourth Netflix special That’s incredible, hit religious trauma, faith, the construction, sexuality, and fear of death, and I don’t know, just kind of felt one note to me.

I don’t know, wasn’t feeling it. Pass on Josh Johnson Symphony from HBO, and may I know, I know, I know we’re all supposed to be like Josh Johnson is the greatest ever and his output is incredible. He does a new material on YouTube every Tuesday, and the buzzes on him and he’s charismatic, and I know I’m supposed to love it. I wanted to love it, but I zoned out. Material didn’t grab me.

People who love it seem to really love it, which means either it’s brilliant, or it wasn’t in the right head space, or I just suck at this. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong, but just wasn’t feeling it. And I know I’m supposed to, but I didn’t. No surprise that I didn’t like Marcelo Hernandez American Boy from in Netflix in January. As you’ve heard me say, Marcelo Hernandez does one thing.

Well, he does one thing, and he did one thing during American Boy on Netflix in January. Can also pass on Mark Norman’s None Too Pleased Mark Norman doing Mark Norman things. What are the descriptions of this specialist? You already know what you’re in for, And yeah, that’s it. I mean, if you like Mark Norman, great, I don’t dislike the special but again, I got soccer games to watch, video games, to play movies to watch, go outside, do something else, So I’m gonna pass on Mark Norman None Too Pleased, which again doesn’t mean it sucks.

It just means it’s not gonna make the end of your best of list. Neither is Nikki Glaser’s Good Girl from the Hilarious Brand. I am not the target audience. I’m aware of that, and I am also aware that I increasingly feel Nikki Glaser needs to tap the brakes and disappear for a little bit. It’s been a little much, but the type of material she does just does not connect with me.

It may connect with you. You’ll find Nikki Glaser Good Girl on Hulu. While we’re here into the holiday weekend, Vulture posted five new comedy specials you should definitely watch when you have a moment. Their list Real Quick, Louis C.K. Ridiculous on Netflix.

They suggested Tom Cashman’s The Formula for Happiness on YouTube. Don’t want to spoil the jokes here, Vulture kind of did, but sounds like it might be pretty funny. They also recommend Ryan Hamilton, who you just heard me say is the number two of the year. Ali SADIQX my father. There’s so much buzz on him.

He’s arguably the hottest comedian around right now. This special is released on Father’s Day. I guess I should catch up on it, and Caitlyn Polufo’s Pershudo Rose is on YouTube. Vulture writes, just as Paul Mooney pushed even their most progressive white audiences to discover their latent racism through long, relentless sets about race relations, Kaitlyn Pulufo does a similar thing with jokes about sex. Oh scroll down here.

They have some previously featured specials. Horatio Gould’s Space Cowboy on YouTube, Emmy Blotnik’s What’s Her Secret on Gorilla Comedy, plus Eugene Mermins here comes the Whimsy on YouTube. I need to get around to that one. Okay, good one, Bet Stellings. We’re looking for people who do huge numbers on social media on YouTube.

Julio Torre’s Color Theory is on HBO. I actually did watch that. I should add that to the past list. And Janet McNamara is not smart enough on YouTube all right, though, I’ll give you plenty to watch in between soccer games. And if you want even more of a list, join the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

Dylan is one of the power members of the group. And if you’ve put out a comedy special, he’s watched it before The paint is dry on it, which doesn’t make sense, but you know what I mean. And he’s got a very thorough list of his opinion on the top specials of the year. And again, this is just one idiot’s list, a guy sitting in a basement recording extra episodes for holiday weekend. You can agree, disagree.

It’s just a list. Don’t get too upset about it. Your list is just as valid as mine. And I will see you tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: George Carlin, Bob Moorehead

What’s in This Episode

• George Carlin’s relevance to modern America
• Misattributed Carlin quotes online
• Analysis of ‘Dumb Americans’ bit from Life is Worth Losing
• Carlin’s critique of American consumerism and corporate control
• The ‘American Dream’ monologue

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. How did July fourthom Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Today, I thought I would talk about America’s great prophet, George Carlin. If you’re a regular listening there to this program, you’ve heard me say before. The stuff Carlin put out at the beginning of this century, it feels like it was recorded yesterday. At the time, I thought Carlan sounded angry and had lost his fastball, And I am so, so so wrong to have had that opinion.

He is America’s great profit. I just want to talk a little bit about that war in the Persian golf, big doings in the Persian golf. You know my. Favorite part of that war. It’s the first war.

We ever had that was on every channel plus cable. And the war got good ratings too, didn’t it got good ratings? Well, we like war. We like war. We’re war like people.

We like war because we’re good at it. And you know why we’re good at it because we get a lot of practice. Those country is only two hundred years old and already we’ve had ten major wars. We average a major war in this country every twenty years, So we’re good at it, and it’s a good thing we are. We’re not very good at anything else anymore.

Can’t build a decent car, got no steel industry left, can’t get healthcare to our old people, can’t educate our young people. But we can bomb the shit out of your country, all right. We can bomb the shit out of your country, all right. Now, Before we get into this, some housekeeping. If you go looking for George Carlin quotes online, a huge percentage of what you’ll find is fig They’re not exaggerated or paraphrased.

They’re just attributed to him by people who never bother to check. One example is something called the Paradox of Our Time. That’s the one about taller buildings and shorter tempers, wider freeways and arrow of viewpoints that gets reposted with his name on it constantly. He didn’t write that. That’s from Bob Moorehead, a pastor who wrote it in nineteen ninety five.

Carlan was reportedly furious that he would be credited for it, and said nothing should be attributed to him unless it actually came from one of his album’s books, HBO Specials, or his own site. Let’s start with the bit that’s the actual backbone of this whole conversation. It gets quoted, the most it’s understood, the least it’s from. Life is worth losing. His thirteenth HBO special, recorded November fifth, two thousand and five, at the Beacon Theater in New York.

The bit is officially titled Dumb Americans. And that title alone tells you something because the version of the bit that circulates online almost never gets attached to that title or that context. It gets cut down to the punchest twenty seconds. It passed around like a standalone thought. So here’s my challenge here.

I want to play a little in context here, but I can’t go playing the whole bit. I’m just as bad as the people of critiquing. But here’s George Carland. Only a really low IQ population could have taken this beautiful content, this magnificent American landscape that we inherited. Well, actually we stole it from the Mexicans and the Indians, but hey, it was a nice one.

We stole it. It looked pretty good. It was pristine paradise. Have you seen it lately? Have you taken a good look at it lately?

It’s embarrassing. Only a nation of unenlightened half wits could have taken this beautiful place and turned it into what it is today. A shopping mall. That’s all you’ve got here, folks, Mile after mile of mall after mall, many many malls, major malls and mini malls. They put the mini malls in between the major malls, and in between the mini walls they put the mini marts.

And in between the mini march you got the car lots, gas stations, muffler shops, launder match, cheap hotels, fast food joints, strip clubs, and dirty bookstores. America the beautiful, one big trans continental commercial cesspool. And how did the people feel about all this? How did the people feel about living in a coast to coast shopping mall. Well, it’s just dandy.

They think it is cool as can be because Americans love them all. They love them all. That’s where they get to satisfy their two most prominent addictions at the same time, shopping and eating. What was actually happening in that room that night? Carlon spent several minutes building a case about American voters, calling out what he saw as wilful ignorance, mocking people for not paying attention, and then he pivots hard into something much more structural.

He says, there’s a reason education in this country doesn’t get better, and it’s not in competence. It’s designed Forget the politicians, he says, they’re relevant. They’re there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. The real owners, he says, are the big wealthy business interests. They control the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, the judges, the media.

They got you, in his words, by the balls two thousand and five.

And then he lands the whole thing on the line everyone knows when they don’t …

It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. That’s the big answer to everything. Education. They said, we need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools.

We need more testing for the kids. You say to well, you know we’ve tried all of that and the kids still can’t pass the tests. So don’t you worry about that. We’re going to lower the passing grades. And I said, they’re doing a lot of these schools.

Now they lower the passing grades, the more kids can pass, more kids passed, the school looks good, everybody’s happy. The IQ of the country slips another two or three points, and pretty soon all you’ll need to get into college is a pencil. Then everyone wonders why seventeen other countries graduate more scientists than we do. Education politicians know that word. They use it on you.

Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things, the flag, the Bible, and children. No child left behind, No child left behind. Oh really, well, it wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start, head start, left behind. Someone’s losing ground here. But there’s a reason.

There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this. There’s a reason education sucks. It’s the same reason that it will never ever ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better.

Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the big, the wealthy that the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. They’re they’re they’re irrelevant.

The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t you have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything, They own all the important land.

They own and control the corporations they’ve long since bought and paid for, the Senate, the Congress, the state houses and city halls. They got the judges in their back buckets. And they own all the big media media news, all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want.

Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking.

They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. You know what they want. They want obedient workers. Obedient workers people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours to reduce benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now they’re coming for your social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something, they’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner related because they own this place.

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. What’s important is the shape of the argument underneath that all. He’s not telling a joke with a setup and a Twisty’s making an accusation point by point, like a closing argument. And the laughs on the rum are happening because the audience recognizes something true in real time, not because he’s surprised him with a punch line. That’s why this bit has invaded the way topical material usually does.

He wasn’t joking about a specific two thousand and five scandal. He was describing a mechanism, and mechanisms don’t expire on a news cycle. The second piece of that conversation, the fascism line, has a different and more interesting origin than most people assume, because it didn’t come up from a stand up special at all. It came from a TV appearance September ninth, two thousand and five, on Real Time with Bill Maher, days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Harlan was on the panel and the conversation turned to President Bush calling for zero tolerance on looters and price gougers in the storm’s aftermath.

Carlin used the moment to say something he clearly believed. When fascism comes to America, it won’t be in brown and black shirts. It won’t be with Jack boots. It’ll be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts.

---

And then he throws out in a side Germany lost the Second World War, fascism d…

The real looting in this country takes place in the transfer of the wealth from the poor to the rich. I’m sorry that you don’t like class and the truth, my friend, but you’re just stuck with it. And the poor have been systematically looted in this country. The rich have been made richer under this criminal, fascist president and his government. Book.

That line has had a second life, completely disconnected from Katrina, completely disconnected from two thousand and five, completely disconnected from Bush. It gets pulled out now by people across a wide range of political positions attached to whatever they’re worried about in their own moment. And that’s not a misuse of the quote. That’s actually what the quote was built to do. Carlan wasn’t describing a specific political party.

He was describing the mechanism, the idea that authoritarianism doesn’t need to look authoritarian if it can dress itself in comfort and branding and a friendly logo instead. Hmm, that’s a structural observation. Hm. The great profit of our time. Then there’s the bid that almost never gets the credit it needs next to the political stuff, because it’s not really about the government, it’s about the planet.

This one from Jammin in New York, April nineteen ninety two, Paramount Theater inside Madison Square Garden. Carland reportedly said that one was his personal favorite of everything he ever did for HBO. George starts by going after the language of environmentalism itself. Everybody’s saying something now, save the tree, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails, and then, in his own words, the supreme arrogance, save the planet. He says, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves.

We haven’t learned how to take care of each other, and we think we’re going to save the entire planet, and then the turn the planet’s fine. The people are the one who are finished. The planet’s four billion years old, he said, it isn’t going anywhere. We are pack your stuff, we’re going away. We won’t even leave much of a trace.

The bit isn’t really making a claim about climate change one way or the other. It’s making a claim about human arrogance, the assumption that we are significant enough to destroy something that’s outlasted ice ages and asteroid impacts. It’s aged in a strange way because every time there’s a wave or wildfire season dominating headlines, someone resurfaces the clip and it lands like he’s narrating this week’s news from thirty years in the past. He wasn’t predicting anything specific. He was describing a posture, and the posture is still recognizable.

See, I’m not one of these people who’s worried about everything. You got people like this around you, Countries full of them now, people walking around all day long, every minute of the day, worried about everything, Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil, worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, carcinogens, worried about graydon gas, worried about asbestos, worried about saving endangered species. Let me tell you about endangered species, all right. Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling.

It’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that interfering with nature? Over ninety percent, over way over ninety. Percent of all the species that have ever lived on this line, that ever lived are gone. They’re extinct.

We didn’t kill them all. What ties all those pieces together, the owner bit, the fascism line, the planet bit, is that none of them are about a specific event. That’s the difference between material that ages and material that doesn’t. Jokes built around a particular scandal, particular politician, a particular headline, those need a footnote a few years later to even make sense. Carlin, especially in his last decade, was mostly building arguments about systems and habits of thought that don’t get retired just because the news cycle moves on now.

Some people would say Carlin himself would have mocked this framing. Not every bit in his catalog is aged the same way. Some of the broader targets from early in his career land differently now than they did in the room at the time, the way almost any comedian’s full body of work as a material that was much of the time. He was a comedian who, over five decades got progressively sharper and angrier and more precise about one specific question, Who actually holds power and what does it cost regular people that they mostly don’t notice. He spent his final specials narrowing in on that question with more focus than almost anyone else working in the format, and he answered it carefully enough and meant it specifically enough that the answer has not needed an update.

That is the case for calling him a profit. There has nothing to do with the seven words, nothing to do with hippie, dippy weatherman George Carlin, America’s prophet. Enjoy your Independence Day. Hope you have an awesome weekend. See you tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: Dave Chappelle, Nikki Glaser, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Robby Hoffman, Patton Oswalt, Dana Gould, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Ralphie May, Jeff Foxworthy, Louis C.K., John Marco Serasi, Ryan Hamilton

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Summer Camp 2026 in Yellow Springs Ohio
• New York Times magazine profile of Robby Hoffman
• Patton Oswalt discusses music influences and best comedy sets witnessed
• Jeff Foxworthy on forty-two years of comedy and aging material
• Comedy Stock Market segment with buy and sell recommendations

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media, Hey, or Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Late Nights Off. This week, Late Bought says it’s so hot the federal government is thinking of calling in the mets to cool things off. It’s so hot. Nikki Glaser did a twenty minute said about the heat, tagged every celebrity she’s ever met, and said a personal email to Tom Brady, it’s so hot that Jim Gaffigan finally called me back because he heard I have air conditioning and it’s so hot. John Mulaney wrote a tight, beautifully structured twelve minute bit about it.

His ex wife heard it and said it was the most attention he ever paid to anything. That’s from the AI getting savage and just murdering. John Mulaney Late Bot chill out. Do you have big July fourth weekend plans? Dave Chappelle’s summer camp is back.

If you’re in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Davin Surprise Guests will perform tonight at eight pm at the Weary Pavilion, located in Yellow Springs, about an hour south west of Columbus, Ohio. You’ll find the place off Meredith Road. It being a Chappelle show. The show will be phone free, no phone, no smart watch, no accessories.

You gotta do the stupid, annoying yonder pouch thing they see using a device. You will be escorted out.

Also, while you’re in the area, the Little Art Theater in Yellow Springs will…

My voice is giving out, which is not good for holiday weekend production. I gotta tell you about Robbie Hoffman. Now, Robbie Hoffman, let’s just be Clearlet’s take a second here. I’m going to slow down because I want you guys pay attention, listen to me. I know this is going to be surprising.

Robbie Hoffman is now full establishment. Okay, if you think Robbie Hoffman is like some cool, alt edgy comedian that only we know about it, No, Robbie Hoffman got the full New York Times magazine profile. Okay, we have mainstreamed Robbie Hoffman somehow. The New York Times magazine profiled Robbie at Robbie’s house. Who said it’s weird because you guys said, oh, they have to do it at your house because they want the person to be comfortable.

But you come to the house and you totally rip it apart. You want me to be comfortable, but the couches where the couches, The whole house has moved. They talked about rich weird and poor weird. Robbie said, rich weird is way weirder and worse because there’s a humanity that’s missing. My favorite is the people like me who grew up poor and then, by the grace of God, got some money and now it could be like, oh my god, how weird do these rich people who’ve been like this since birth?

Small things like when you go in a rich person’s house and nobody’s allowed to go on the fridge. The poor of much less when you go to their house, they’re like take, take, take. Whenever I meet a rich person and they’re actually helpful. I mentioned it. It’s worth mentioning Star trek run Er paton Oswalt what kind of music were you into when you were a kid, and said, oh, man, I very much love classic heavy metal, a lot of country, and a lot of punk, post punk, all that stuff from the nineties, pixies, A lot of Elves Costello, a lot of Beastie Boys, a lot of Kinks, and then smaller groups no one’s heard of, like Warm Soda and Bleached Patton.

In comedy, when a show’s going really well, what’s the feeling for you in the room? He said, The best way to describe it is, I’m outside of myself and I’m more connected with the larger crowd, the larger feeling of the room. I know this sounds very vague, but you don’t even thinking about the set or what you’re doing joke wise or worldwise. You’re just talking to the audience like they’re one person. Best comedy set you ever watched?

Star Trek growner Patton Oswalt said, I remember there was a night that Dana Gould was at Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco. This was in the nineties. The material was already amazing, but then he went off on some almost hallucinatory riff about Larry King interviewing guests in the time space membrane. I can’t do it justice, but it was one of the most amazing days I’ve ever seen. It’s definitely the best set I’ve ever seen.

Trying to think of best set I ever saw what’s popping to mind is Ralphie May at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Now, that same weekend I saw Chris Rock who destroyed, and then the next night Jerry Seinfeld went up when was even better than Chris Rock. But Ralphie that night in a medium size room. That’s what popped into mind, randomly, without me putting any thought into this. If I sit and think about it, I might have a different answer.

Jeff Foxworthy, how do you describe your style? He spoke to McCall dot com Johnny Mac. Is this a holiday weekend yet? Is guys coming up on the show? Completing its seventh year?

We know how the show goes by Now I might do an anniversary special. I have to think about it. I might do a Letterman styled like anti seventh anniversary show July twenty ninth. I don’t know, We’ll see Jeff fox already said, like most comics, when I started out, I remember looking at bill boards and watching commercials and thinking what can I talk about? I learned early on there’s a commonality we as human beings have.

We’re all doing the same goofy stuff in life. I’ve always trusted that we’re doing this for forty two years. But if you go back in time, the first material I did was about dating that it was about being a newlywed, then about having kids, then having teenagers. If you go listen to an old CD or watch a special I did, it’s almost like a snapshot of what was going in my life that year. I can’t imagine doing anything else.

You always hear comedians talk about the bad parts of getting older. I thought, I’m going to approach it different and talk about all the great things about getting older. It’s a fun template to turn upside down. As you get older. You don’t have to worry about the cops showing up if you’re having a party.

That is not true. I I had a pool party a few years ago and somebody called the cops on us, and the cops showed up and the look on their face because I was like, I had no idea why they were there. I think we had a radio on it, like I’ll describe it as normal volume, and the cops are like, we got a noise complaint. And the cop this face just told me that he thought the whole thing was stupid, and I was like, I don’t know, maybe people were hitting the pool with the pool noodles and that made a sound and the cop was like, okay, keep it down. Jeff Foxworthy said, if you get older, you don’t have to worry about the cops showing up at for having a party.

If there’s flashing lights in my driveway, it’s usually an ambulance telling you not to play twister with people in their eighties. All right, Tomorrow on this program, it is July fourth, I’ve done one of those deep dive episodes. It is titled George Carlin America’s Prophet. Now I’ll tell you all you need to know about that. One Sunday, I’m planning on doing top specials of the year so far.

And it is Friday. So let’s take a look at the Comedy stock Market. Comedy stock Market, if you were new to all this. Every Friday on the Comedy stock Marker, we take a look at which comedians are undervalued, which comedians are overvalued. I’m actually going to add a cell here on the fly.

Based on today’s episode. You can probably figure it out.

---

All right, Let’s buy some John Marcos SERAISI no particular reason.

While I was listening to him on a podcast recently, and I’m like, this guy’s really really good. He’s the goods. I’ve already named him twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, and people still don’t know who he is. So buy John Marco SIASI, let’s buy some more. Ryan Hamilton.

You guys saw the special. You know it’s pretty good. Let’s buy. Let’s sell Louis C.K. I mean, what is the upside to Louis C.K.

At this point he puts out a special and everybody rehashes stuff over and over. John, you did that all week yourself. I know, I don’t see the value in Louis C.K. Let’s sell, Let’s sell even more. N APERGHATSI.

This UFC thing is not going away. I think the whole thing is ridiculous and overblown. And Shane Gillis was there too, and no one cared. But if Nate’s looking to open up Nate Land and people are like, well, you went to a UFC fight one time, I don’t know, man sell Neighborghatsy, let’s sell our stock. And Trevor Noah.

I kind of see where Trevor wants to go with his whole persona. And I don’t think a lot of people are gonna want to go with him, and I’m not sure that he cares and he’ll go there anyway. But from a value standpoint, let’s sell our stock in Trevor Noah. Let’s sell James Cordon. You know he’s hosting show after soccer and there’s zero buzz on it.

Sell Let’s buy Ben Gleb. You know I kind of eye rolled his late night thing, but the numbers have been pretty okay on YouTube. He may be onto something. Let’s buy some Ben Gleib and the late edition. Let’s sell Robbie Hoffman.

You know, when you first see Robbie Hoffman, you’re like, oh my god, she’s amazing. That’s so different. That’s one thing, but establishment Robbie Hoffman having The New York Times over to profile her at her place, that’s just the opposite of cool. Alright, So the recap, we’re buying John Marco, we’re buying Ryan Hamblintson, we’re selling Ck, we’re selling Nate, we’re selling Trevor, we’re selling Cordon, we’re selling Robbie, and we’re buying Ben Gleeb. That is your comedy stock market for today.

If you need some stuff to listen to over the weekend. There’s always Daily Comedy News, but also Pete Holmes was the guest on Comedy Means Business. That’s Deadline’s podcast. The episodes a couple months ago at this point, but I finally got around to it this week and it was really really good. I like Pete and Everything’s about John.

Marcus Raisi was on Stavi’s World. That was also a good listen. Website Rittholtz dot com has the headline comedy is Hot. They were taking a look at the meteor issue of Pollstar and there was a chart for venues with capacities of five thousand or less and ritt Holtz discovered comedy is on this list. They’re right, So starting with the two thousand to five thousand capacity venues, number one is Jerry Seinfeld, which is not surprising.

Number two is DJ Subtronics. Three is Berg Kraser, four Christian Contemporary artist Josiah Queen, five def Leopard Somehow, six Manheim Steamroller, seven E d M Artist K forty s or K forties. I don’t know, I’m old, but three thousand people are going to see them, so great. Eight Jim Gaffigan nine British comedian Michael McIntyre and ten Josh Johnson. Brendan Ayre has announced his debut comedy special, the mental health themed Alive and Well, will premiere exclusively on the eight hundred pound Gerilla’s new streaming service, Gorilla Comedy Plus, on July sixth, that’s Monday, and the special will be available on the YouTube channel August fourth.

We are told from snakes wearing coats to being bipolar. Brendan’s laid back, observational style covers both the silly and the serious. Courted at the Blend Art Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he discusses his fatherhood, mental health, the burden of owning a cast iron skillet, and more. He told Deadline the hour super special to me. There’s a lot of normal, silly stuff, but I also take on my struggles with mental health, which is such an important topic to me.

I’m really excited to get the special out into the world. That is your comedy news for today. I hope you have an awesome, awesome weekend. I hope Independence Day July fourth is everything all of us want. I’m personally disappointed that the USA two fifty is nowhere near what the Bisonennial was.

If you want my thoughts on that, check out my substack link in the notes, but it’s mcdeepod dot substack dot com. I wrote about that about a week ago. But I’m just kind of disappointed because the Bisonentennial was amazing. But I hope tomorrow is good. All right, Tomorrow on this program, George Carlin, America’s Profits Sunday Best specials of the year so far.

Monday, normal episode. Back to work, so enjoy the holiday weekend. Bye bye,

---

---

Featured: Ricky Gervais, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Freeman, Louis C.K., Weird Al Yankovic, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, Don Lemon, Kevin Hart, John Oliver, Tim Heidecker, Michael Che, Colin Jost

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais skips BBC Office 25th anniversary documentary for solo YouTube special
• Louis C.K. special ‘Ridiculous’ reviews
• Weird Al Yankovic turns down AI commercial deal
• Dave Chappelle visits San Diego mosque after mass shooting
• John Oliver guest stars on General Hospital
• The Onion launches Info Wars comedy content with Tim Heidecker
• Kevin Hart Netflix roast controversy and racial joke disparity

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. We’ll do spoilers for the Louis C.K. Special after the break. Okay, everybody, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night is off this week, but I had the late bot write some jokes.

It’s so hot. Trump announced he’s building a wall to keep the heat out in New York City. Mayor MUMDONI wants to tax billionaires to cool down the city. The billionaires flew to their second homes and the Hamptons, which kind of proved his point. It’s so hot.

Nateprighatsy performed at another Trump event just for the air conditioning. And it is so hot that Louis C.K. Is not wearing pants. But to be fair, that’s not entirely weather related. Ricky Gervais has a big news story and I would tell you about it here, but I didn’t actually paste it into the script, and I could edit this out, but that’s no fun.

Where did you go Gervay’s story here? It is Ricky Gervas gives The Office co star reunion for solo anniversary show. I just find it’s more fun not to do the edits. A source told the Sun. Now again, that’s a new newspaper.

Sources don’t usually talk to the big yellow thing in the sky making things hot, but a source has told The Son that Ricky Gervas’s decision is a huge blow as it taints the BBC’s celebration somewhat. The BBC is making a documentary to celebrate twenty five years since The Office arrived. Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman, who played Gareth and Tim, which are roughly Dwight and Jim for you Americans, will reminisce about the sitcom in the BBC celebration. Ricky Gervais will not be part of it. He’s decided to film his own documentary.

The source speaking to the newspaper The Sun said it just sums up his lack of allegiance towards the Bebe, which has been drifting for some time now. A representative for Ricky Gervas told The Independent that Ricky was quote not available hogwash. Does Johnny Mac to take part in the documentary, but remains in contact with the BBC all the time about the Office. The BBC declined to comment. Jervas announced last week he’ll be celebrating twenty five years of the Office with a document entry on his own YouTube channel.

That version will appear Thursday, July ninth, which I’m going to add to my script right now before I forget. And that is good news for me because week after July fourth is a slow newsweek. Thank you, Ricky Gervas Sorry, BBC. Jerves rep told The Independent that Ricky’s YouTube content will be an affectionate look back at the Office on this big anniversary.

Meanwhile, the BBC’s Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman remember the Office.

That’ll be on BBC to an eyeplayer Wednesday, July eighth at ten pm. Johnny Mac once again says thank you because week after July fourth is a slow newsweek. Thank you guys, not only content but a controversy. This is fantastic. Can you guys fight some more, maybe say mean things about each other in the press, Please do not be civil.

Johnny Mac has content holes. Back in twenty nineteen, Ricky Gervas insisted he was still a fan of the BBC, but said I wish it wouldn’t bow down a pressure from media or from one complaint. That’s gotten worse and the days are gone. When people say we’re leaving it as it is, missioning editors are scared of being fired. How hot is it?

It’s so hot. I got to prop open the door here in the office before I pass out. For weird Al, it’s all about the integrity. Mister Yankovic told Syracuse dot Com that he’s not a big fan of AI, and he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is. Al says he was offered a quote nice pile of money to start a commercial for what he was told was business software that would increase productivity.

Al says that a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I found out, Oh this is AI, and I thought, oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI. Forget it. Dave Chappelle visited a mosque in California where three people were killed in a recent shooting. He met with community members and encouraged support for the families affected by the attack. Dave’s official Instagram shared a video in which Dave traveled to the mosque to pay his respects.

On Monday, May eighteenth, a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego left of security guarden to community members dead During his visit, Chappelle met with members of the congregation and highlighted ongoing fundraising efforts to support the victim’s families. Trevor Noah on his podcast had guests Don lemonon they started discussing the backlash surrounding Kevin Hart’s Netflix roast. Trevor Noah said, I felt like it was weird that all the black comedians that came on stage told jokes about the people who were there, but then a lot of the white comedians who came on told jokes about black people. I was like, wait, wait, wait, I thought it was the roast of Kevin Hart on your television today. If you’re watching General Hospital and you’re like, is that John Oliver it is.

There’s even a trailer. I’ve got to get Jocelyn out of Bindimer. Now my work is done. I completed the prototype. Nathan isn’t who he says he is.

John Oliver guest stars General Hospital on ABC. John Oliver had announced the casting on the June twenty eighth episode of Last Week Tonight. General Hospital. Executive producer Frank Valenti said in a statement, when John Oliver publicly threw down the gauntlet and said he wanted to appear on a soap. We didn’t hesitate for a second.

He was everything you’d hope for. Prepared, professional, funny, and genuinely kind everyone on set. He plays an integral character in the story and I can’t wait for fans to see Ross has pass with within Port Charles General Hospital is now on its sixty fourth year. You’ll find it on ABC and Hulu. John Oliver said, General Hospital was everything I hoped it would be.

It’s a true honor to be a small stain on the history of this illustrious show.

---

Also today, The Onion starts rolling out its first wave of official info Wars…

You may recall they acquired the property from the previous owner, Tim Hidecker, now the face of it. Idiker said, I think well SATs are gets old pretty quickly, and we don’t want to keep fueling previous owner. So the plan is to goof on him for a few months and have fun with it, and then transition the site into a comedy streaming platform for people that he would hate to see have success. Hidecker stressed this is a soft launch. He told Indy Wire everything will still live on the Onion because a standalone info Wars website and social media channel has yet to be set up.

The programming will be heavy on parodying previous owner and his right wing media counterparts. Iidaker says, we’re launching a couple shows. One is my extension of my emergency broadcast from a month or so ago, sort of a parody of the previous world. And we’re launching the Onions Jim Haggerty show that we’ve been teasing for a while now. That’ll all set the tone for the summer where this is heading.

Heideker said, I think it’s very much comedians and artists and creators I guess you’d say, who were using their experience and our experience with the Internet as the fuel and inspiration for their comedy. It’s very much people that are using the tools of social media and satirizing that are reflecting that on social media. Michael ja posted Happy b Day to my good buddy Colin Jessica Jost. I think back to all the stupid fights we had throughout the years, like when you came to work with that racist puppet, or when you kept doing Nazi salutest our fans on tour, when you got a first magazine cover canceled because I was making stupid faces, or when you insisted on getting or Kelly on the show, or when you took me to that whites only store, when you got us beat up at WrestleMania, or all the times I had to stand there and listen to you and Scarlet argue at work and I had to stand there and be like, okay. Or when Harry Styles gave us flowers and you gas lit me because I don’t think he likes me, and you got all mad because he got us the exact same thing.

You’re just being reverse racist again, Or that time when the FBI thought we were dating. None of that matters today, because we’re still pals and still the best update anchors besides Normantina, Amy, Jimmy Seth, Chevy Chain, Ackroyd Miller, Neilan and Quinn. And I’ll argue that with anybody. The remainder of today’s program will be reaction pieces to Louis C.K.’s new special. There will be spoilers.

If you don’t want to be spoiled, why don’t you come back tomorrow for everybody else. The Guardian gave it two stars out of five, their headline ridiculous review. Ridiculous is the name of the special. The Troubled Comedian returns with a whimper. Jesse Hassinger writes, Louis c.

K’s back again. It’s been nearly a decade since the comedian etcetera, etcetera. You know that story. It’s less a triumphant return than a gradual slinking back and unspoken assumption that no one really cares that much about his behavior. No particular defense or apology, just a shruggy emoticon.

A genuinely funny observation like I can’t be held responsible for what I dream. I’m not a good guy in my dreams doesn’t hit as squarely as it should, because we’ve already heard extensively about him doing bad guys stuff in real life. It’s also hard to avoid reading some moments intended as self deprecating or honest. Is when he talks about not having much sex recently and primarily dating woman in his own age, as a kind of tacit burnishing of his regular shrub cred, positioning himself as essentially harmless. Maybe this isn’t fair.

There are plenty comedians who haven’t been given the opportunity to assess whether the dark eyes being downplayed or set to the side for the sake of a funny bit. But it’s the reality Luis c K lives in the disconnect. The lack of shared reality accounts for some, but not all, of the specials halting on even quality. It has brilliant stretches to be sure. The review then gets into some specifics there and then skipping ahead elsewhere he relies on dopey shock laughs.

In past specials, at least some of those shocks would stemp more carefully from a logical progression almost trapping the audience, and a laughing at something taboo. Here, the set just feels like blunt, forced mischief, almost obligatory, and they’re pushing of some imagined envelope. Luis c K is clearly capable of more than this, and ridiculous as flashes of his writer’s flare for crystallizing what could be standard comedians laments into something more vividly relatable. For Slate, Imagen west Night writes, the material in this new special isn’t nasty and bitter as some of the material he was doing immediately after his cancelation was. It’s classic ck superficially offensive, but actually taking kind of gleefully a moral route to the morally defensible positions, and funny too.

You can tell from his on stage a fact that twenty seventeen is a long time ago from his perspective, But what about from hours as the audience. What is supposed to happen after somebody’s canceled. They’re things K could have done to an act of better redemption and didn’t. The problem is so much K’s big on television now, nine years after his disgrace. He was always going to return.

He’s simply too profitable and too famous to be put out to pasture. The problem is what he’s been doing in the interim. It’s giving ahead. I wonder how people would feel about it had he genuinely gone quiet and taken the long time he proposed in his initial statement about the accusations to step back and listen back. In twenty eighteen, Slate’s Christina Catterucci wrote this prediction.

Every time ck are one of his canceled peers re emerges, some people will get mad, but most people won’t. There will be other more pressing outrages to some other with energy, and before anyone fully grasps what’s going on. They’ll be back on tour or rolling through the credits of TV shows and movies with an ugly entry on their Wikipedia pages, but a growing bank account to sue that indignity, The rap writes, there’s no mention of Louis c. K’s once perceived downfall in this one hour comedy special, which finds the man a little older, not exactly wiser, but with a bit of a glint in his eyes, clearly enjoying his time on the stage. K’s audience eats out of the palm of his hand while he regals them with personal stories and his desire and never get plastic surgery to his face.

Variety says Ck is one of the most gifted and influential performers of his generation, and would remain so even if he never took the stage again. So when I say Ridiculous is a strong hour of material performed with practice expertise, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Skipping ahead, Variety writes about Netflix, when the company stand up Zar, Robbie Prat sold my Variety colleague, this is just about giving subscribers an option, and that viewers have a decision to make about their own personal viewing habits. He was downplaying the decision Netflix itself made to re enter a business relationship with c K. The release of Ridiculous also culminates a tour that saw Ck make inroads with the kind of liberal coded publications that once covered his reputational nador with favorite write ups in both The Times and The New Yorker and Indie Wire, and gave the special acus.

They write in Ridiculous, the remnants of his former inquisitive, committed self were all but gone. His set doesn’t build enough to be rewarding in the aggregate, and his individual riffs keep stopping short of real wisdom. It’s terribly sad that Netflix is platforming Louis K again, just as it’s terribly sad that there are enough people attending his shows to make a return of mainstream media possible. It’s also sad to see Ck so trapped creatively and emotionally, but nowhere near as sad as knowing he physically and emotionally trapped others. Then he lied about it, got caught, and now carries on as if nothing happened.

I have not seen the special yet. It is Tuesday as I record this I’m trying to work ahead this week into the holiday weekend. It was my plan to watch the special on Tuesday night and include it one way or another in Sunday’s episode. Would be the top specials of the year so far, it’s I’ll probably on Sunday tell you what I thought of Louis C.K. Ridiculous now streaming on Netflix, and that is your comedy news for today.

You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so st an episode and I’ll see here tomorrow.