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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Kevin Hart, Al Roker, Chanelle Jones, Seth Meyers, Whitney Cummings, Joel Kim Booster, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke

What’s in This Episode

• Marcello Hernandez’s Kevin Hart impression on the Today Show
• Kevin Hart and Marcello Hernandez promote ’72 Hours’ Netflix movie
• Marcello Hernandez appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Netflix cuts Whitney Cummings joke from Mark Twain Prize TV special
• Joel Kim Booster leaving Scrubs revival after 9 episodes
• Scrubs revival season 2 casting updates and guest stars

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Let me know if you found my headphones. I must have left him outside when I recorded yesterday. I’m using my old broken pair. Hi.

I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Mar Solo Hernandez is everywhere. He’s out promoting seventy two Hours. That’s the exciting movie that’ll be out on Netflix tomorrow where Kevin Hart, who’s forty seven years old, plays a forty eight year old guy. They appeared on the Today Show together, and eventually Marcelo, we’ll get around to where he’s making fun of Kevin Hort liking to work and make money.

Here is the clips, the. First time we work. It’s the first time we worked to How is it? How would you describe it is? Uh?

Do you want to see it? Yeah? Sure, I show you? No, don’t. Yeah, this is what is Kevin Hart.

I’ve told a few people this, but I’ll tell you so tell us. Let’s say pretend like we’re on set, right. Am I Kevin? No, you’re me? Okay, I’m Kevin.

You’re me? Hey? Yeah, okay, I don’t know. I don’t know what I was Okay, okay, Kevin, Okay, all right, that’s okay, okay, let’s do this. I’m you’re mean, you’re trying to get some advice from you know, Kevin Hart.

Yes, already, already three to one action. I’m sorry. I just add. The thing is that I got a little Yeah, just give me a moment. They got to bring the money up.

Money’s got to be up, and they want me to do that. Listen, I’m good, I’m good. But he’s going to cost I’m good, I know what I’m doing. Yeah, I’ll be there for a price. Here’s a zero.

Is he lying, Kevin? Listen, this is ridiculous. By the way, he got the AirPod behind him. He got it behind the thing just in case, just cause of Jesus CEO calls and it’s like, we want Kevin to be the face of fruit loops. He’s only like, of course, this is the fruitiest loop in the world.

I’m Kevin Hart. Hello world, I’ll have him, y’all have him. Wait, come in the morning and pick me up. Let me pick you up with the loop that smiles back. Get that’s a lot of laughing over there out A currently al roker the Today Show lady whose name is Chanelle Jones, I was unfamiliar with her work until this clip, and Kevin Hart himself found that quite funny.

I guess the fruit loop shoke wasn’t too bad. I have a second clip, I know, right, yeah, And the second clip, Marcello makes fun of Kevin’s outfit. Why don’t you ever wear socks? How about we talking about that? Because I’m Dominican.

This morning is a perfect example, because Kevin is waking up in the morning going which shirt should I wear it? Should I wear a normal shirt like a human being? Or should I put on this weird, rusty silver combo. It looks like I’m golfing, but also I’m the matrix D casual. I think it’s a very casual.

Why don’t you ever wear socks? How about we talking about that? Because I’m Dominicans Dominican, I can’t I need to wear socks. I’m hot hot, I’m. Hot mor solo than did Late Night with Seth Myers make twelve thirty great again?

I mean, if we combine Seth Myers and Marcelo Hernandez, how could this clip not be funny? I’ll show you how cannot be funny. Kevin Hart Man I got to work with him and it’s so great. It’s he’s a here’s one of the thing. And he plays an older gentleman, as we can tell from the clip, who’s on a bachel party weekend with you guys?

Yes, and do you feel like in real life? I mean, Kevin’s cool dude, right. Yes, he’s a cool dude. He’s definitely think about it. The movie is about an older guy that’s trying to keep up with younger people.

Yeah, you actually brought a few Instagram photos? I did, I did. I brought something because I want you guys to look at these photos and not tell me that Kevin is perfect for this role. He’s a very handsome photo of him. I mean, come on, guys, he’s fifty years old.

Doesn’t this doesn’t this photo? Just say like, hey, let make sure you get this on me real good, let me let me let me post this on the Instagram. And by the way, the hashtag his caption is duck hid. If you’re older forty calling yourself duck hid. Yeah, I mean this is this is give your son the phone and be like.

Let me let me get you. Let me get me. Did you get it? Did? You can’t make sure you get the boots in it.

Caption says little swag hashtag duck kid. Right, he’s still using hashtagh. Are you, Marcella? Are you telling me the kids are not using the hashtag? So this is nice.

He just kind of cut candid moment in the elevator. Yeah, I love that. This is his new pose is the hands? Look, this is his pose. By the way, Marcella was not wearing socks in that clip.

Marcelo is a nice looking guy and the Illuminati wants you to like him. So there was a little kerf fluffle and I pronounced it that way because it was brought to my attention that I’ve been saying it wrong and it’s apparently kerfuffle no way. Yeah, Mary brought it to my attention that I’ve been saying kerf fluffle, which is incorrect, for seven years now, and nobody told me until New Well, thank you Mary for pointing it out. The problem is, kerfuffle doesn’t sound right to me, and I’m going to keep saying kurf fluffle to be defiant and stupid. So what is the kerfluffle?

Johnny Mac? Well, perhaps, possibly, maybe, but it doesn’t sound like they did. Netflix cuts some Whitney Cummings jokes from the Mark Twain Prize TV special. There here’s Whitney Cummings talking about the special. The Mark Twain Prize, which we talked about last time.

Uh whatever. When I got back, not only did I have to cut a joke in rehearsal, then the joke I did, I ended on Donald Trump. Couldn’t make it tonight. He got caught in sex traffic. It stayed in and then they said we would like to cut it out.

And I’m gonna be very careful with how I say this, because the people at the venue have been amazing. They don’t want to silence anyone. It is. True that their boss is Donald Trump. So they did their job.

I was presented with a tricky conundrum. I just don’t know if I did the right thing or not. They said it was very clear to me that they would lose their jobs. This is for the broadcast. This is for broadcasts.

The joke was already leaked by someone that was in the audience, journalists or something. It was already in People magazine and Daily but it was already out out there. But then they said we need to cut it from the broadcast. We’ll thirty out there who cares now like he will sue you, which is like, I don’t buy it. I don’t buy it.

Number one, number two he might. Netflix then denied that they decided to remove a joke about the president of the United States they threw the unrenamed Kennedy Center under the bus, saying the decision rested with those guys. A Netflix spokesperson told Puck News. While it’s our preference not to cut jokes from anyone set, the newly unrenamed Kennedy Center has the contractual right to do so. Whitney Cummings on Twitter added, I was super clear that Netflix did not cut anything from my Mark Twain price set.

Netflix always supports comedy and comics. Quit spreading rumors, you weirdos. We got an update on the Scrubs revival. Now, shockingly, Joel Kim Booster is leaving the show. So what was the point We made nine episodes Joel Kim Booster was in like five of them, and now he’s gone.

What was the the point of the character of doctor Kevin Park then, Plus, now there’s no antagonist. Ava Bon, who played doctor Sam Tosh in season one of the reboot, has been up to series regular status for the second season. Interesting. She must have the right agent. The rest of you interns step it up, get some better reps.

Of course. Zach Braf, Donald Faizon, and Sarah Chalk are all returning once again. I mean, if they don’t ride this thing for fifty years, they’re fools. Returning and recurring guest star roles include Neil Flynn the former Janitor, John C. McGinley, doctor Cox, Judy Reyes as Korla, and Robert Machio as the todd Christer.

Miller will also again guest star.

Also appearing in recurring roles Vanessa Bear as the annoying new character,…

I don’t have to tell you who they play on the show, you know, I have no idea. I guess those are the interns and the sassy nurses. I don’t know who they are. Season two Slash eleven, JD. Turk and Elliott have leveled up from interns to iconscred Heart now the respect to doctors inspire the next generation while balancing the ups and downs of working at a hospital.

Uh, could you get me any specifics whatsoever? Gee? Thanks for that description. Together with characters new and old, they’re navigating this next chapter with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way. Let’s head an up to Montreal for jfl at six thirty Jerry Seinfeld live, exciting.

I saw they were all excited. They’re like, dude, to popular demand, We’ve released an additional two hundred and thirty two tickets. Like, I don’t know what that is. Probably they put the stage up and went, oh yeah, somebody could sit here. Brich Ish at seven, Chris Fleming at seven o’clock.

Now, now this is interesting. Had I gone and I did not, and you asked me, do you want to go see Jerry or Chris Fleming? I would pick Chris Fleming. Welcome to Comedy twenty twenty six, Joel Kim Booster. He’s not even on scrubs.

He’s there at seven as well. New Faces of Comedy Characters at Club Soda at seven, Ron Funches at nine thirty second, Jerry at nine thirty second, Chris Fleming at nine thirty. Okay, John, you should have read ahead. You could have seen both and Midnight’s surprise at eleven to fifty nine. Again, this feels thinner than previous years.

Again, this is the reconstituted festival, but this just doesn’t feel as big as it has in the past. I definitely feel like there are fewer shows that said I’m glad the festival is back, rather than not existing at all. On the eight hundred pound Gorilla Plus channel today, Rhys Darby’s twenty five years is out. The Telegraph fired some shots in the direction of Sasha Baron Cohen. He’s been doing ali g lately, they wrote of the recent clips.

At least it was amusing. Even so, it feels humiliating Baron Cohen, who’s now in his fifties, So people in their fifties can be cool. I’m enjoying my mid fifties because I’m about to turn fifty seven, which he is late fifties. Get ready for that mental breakdown coming in a couple months. But as a guy in his mid fifties, I mean, Sasha Baron Cohen’s way cool, is he not?

Baron Cohen is essentially exhooming a character he drumped up in his twenties with the aim of wrenching a career that has noticeably faltered. What is he recording a podcast basement? His past decade has yielded more famine than feast, with few projects of note since twenty sixteen’s absurdly underappreciated Grimsby Grimsby exists? What’s Grimsby? Whatever it is?

It’s ten years ago. Grimsby. Let’s say Grimsby Grimsby is a twenty sixteen spy action black comedy film. Nabbi Butcher has been separated from his little brother Sebastian Butcher for twenty eight years. During their years apart, Nabbie became an alcoholic football hooligan who started a life with his partner Dawn, and there were eleven children in Grimsby, while Sebastian, now known as Sebastian Graves, has become one of I six’s top agents.

This exists. Let’s head on over to just watch and see if this is streaming, because you know, because soccer’s over now and I can actually watch things. I don’t recall this existing at all. Let’s see Grimsby. You can rent it four bucks on Amazon, four bucks on Apple, four bucks on fendango, and it’s free with ads on two B and It’s eighty three minutes long, so you know it’s good.

The Telegraph rights. But I can’t agree that this dry stretch means that Baron Cone has lost his mojo. Rather, it’s that the film and television industries have long since lost the nerve to let him deploy it. Can you imagine a young comedian swanning into Channel Four’s offices today and pitching them a sketch show based around a feckless middle class manchild from Surrey who pretends to be black? Maybe not, perhaps not, but Netflix would go for it.

Did you not see Tom Sigore’s bad thoughts? Anyway? They say? Does the character still work? All we have to go on for now is the stir of this new forty two second clip.

So happily, the answer appears to be yes. Is there a conclusion? James Tricky was performing his final set at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year when a fire alarm sparked the evacuation of the pleasant’s courtyard. He decided to continue his set on the street. However, one man who had not been originally part of the audience did not take too kindly to the performance.

Tricky explains there was a fire alarm. There was a feeling that the show must go on. It was the final night, so we carried on outside on the street, but someone passing by didn’t really gel with it. He was obviously not very happy with the fringe going on and his shout it over. I just thought when he came over that if we hashed it out and I explained the situation, it would be fine.

I’d already decided that point we would stop. It was quite late on a Sunday night, and we wanted to be respectful of the neighbors. However, the man took a punch at mister Tricky’s face, split my lip pretty dramatically, and my glasses came off. It looked very intense, I said, shock. I couldn’t believe what was happening.

He ran off. Tricky said the instant punch somehow turned into me interrogating the male relationships in my life, and it’s the basis of his new friende show love It. He said he would welcome his attacker attending the new show, adding I don’t even know if he remembers my name, but if he came, the script would have to go out, the window would sit down, would be more like a talk show panel thing and sad news. The Great’s Peter Less Sally, a producer who worked with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and with David Letterman and Craig Ferguson on their CBS shows, has passed away. Sally worked with Johnny until Johnny retired in nineteen ninety two.

Then he joined forces with David Letterman. Michael Natus worked with A Sally on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show as the showrunner. Michael said Peter had few loves in his life that lasted more than half a century, the first with his lovely wife, Alice, and the second with the world of talk television. Each of those love affairs was a two way street, quite literally. Hundreds of millions of people oh their late night smiles and laughs of this beautiful soul whose gift for finding extraordinary talent and honing it is unmatched and unrivaled.

An NBC spokesperson said, when Johnny Carson and David Letterman needed counsel in an honest opinion, they immediately went to Peter le Sally, the professor of Late Night. His relationship to each of these giants was immeasurable, and both of them would undoubtedly say his contribution to their success was so impactful it would be difficult to put into words. Peter Losali born in Hamburg, Germany, in nineteen thirty two, to a Jewish family that had to flee while there. Peterle Sally’s sister went to school with Anne Frank or on a Franca. My daughter was in the theater show where I learned that he was supposed to pronounce her name like that, but most people would just know her as and Frank.

Peter, his mother and sister were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp and later in a concentration camp. They survived the Holocaust and La Sally and his family moved to New York And Night eighteen forty seven. Wow. He joined The Tonight Show in the nineteen seventies, rising to executive producer. His final act in Late Night was identifying Craig Ferguson and transforming him into a talk show host.

Ferguson wrote on Instagram, Peter le Sally was the best boss I ever had. His kindness, generosity and skill were incredible. He taught me how to do a job. I was deeply unqualified for, and he changed my life beyond measure. I’ll always be grateful for what he did for me and my family.

Thank you, Peter. Peterle Sally was ninety three in That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Ricky Gerzais, Kat Williams, Marcelo Hernandez, Kevin Hart, Mike Epps, Dave Chappelle, Stephen Wright, Howie Mandel

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais on free speech and cancel culture
• Netflix comedy special viewership rankings for 2026
• Kevin Hart’s movie ‘Seventy Two Hours’ release
• The Office UK rewatch comparison
• Stephen Wright on his comedy writing process

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. From Poolside with a cicadasm Johnny Mac with Your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gervais did an interview with BBC two. He doubled down on his long held defensive free speech. Ricky said, I don’t tell people not to be offended.

I tell them I don’t care if they are be offended. If you want it makes it funnier for me. You can’t help by what you’re offended by, but don’t expect me to care. It’s a myth that I go out to offend. I never go out to offend.

I just know that it’s probably gonna happen because everyone’s different. There’s nothing you can say, particularly anything that’s mildly interesting or contentious at your viewpoint, that somebody’s somewhere won’t find offensive. And times have changed. Twenty years ago, if someone said I was offended by that, I probably would go why Now I go, I know you are everyone is, that’s funny. Ricky said, I’ve dealt with it too much.

Actually, I think the last couple of tours I’ve dealt with cancel culture and free speech because I felt like I had to. Now I don’t have to I’m ignoring it all. I shouldn’t even bring it into the room. Those people there have paid hundreds of pounds. They’re not offended.

I can play a million people, not one complaint. As soon as it goes on Netflix, fifty million people. Of course it’s gonna be someone who doesn’t like it. What am I gonna do? It’s too late, I’ve been paid.

I love how brigage just doesn’t care. I finished my rewatch of The Office UK again. There’s only fourteen episodes. It goes pretty quick, it is. It’s better than the American version.

You know, they’re different. You’re comparing one hundred something episodes to fourteen. But the David Brent character is so cringe, Like like Steve Krell’s Michael Scott, they quickly softened and you know, you could see yourself actually hanging out with Michael Scott. But the David Brent character is so cringe. There were times where I was talking back to the TV like, oh my goodness, like it’s it’s unbelievable.

If you haven’t watched The UK Office in a while, it’s on Hulu, go back and watch it. Especially. You know, if I say The Office, you picture Michael Jim and Pam. But go back to the original. It’s really good.

I do have to scold the audience today. May now, maybe not you particular listener who I’m in your ears right now because you are smart, but just in general, I have to scold everybody. What are you people doing? Netflix released the top comedy specials for the first half of twenty twenty six. These are the ones that are the most watched.

Now. The top special for people with brains was Kat Williams the last Report that got eleven point three million views. So good job there, But that’s not why I’m here to scold you. You know what’s number two? Marcelo Hernandez American Boy.

You’re watching Marcelo Hernandez attempt to do stand up comedy. He does one thing. Marcelo Hernandez American Boy premiere January seventh, and got nine point two million views. Now, hopefully I’ll give you the benefit of doubt here. Netflix might count anything is few.

Hopefully. What they accounted here was he watched four seconds of it and went, oh my god, this is unbelievably unfunny, and he had stopped and they were like, nope, that’s a view. Hopefully, that’s what happened. Hopefully you listen to this podcast and you’re like, how unfunny could Marcelo Hernandez be this guy? Johnny Mac goes on and on about it.

I got to see how unfunny this is, and you watched three seconds of it, you were like, oh, yeah, Johnny Mac is right, this is horribly unfunny. You have to dance or you have to find a new family. That’s the rule. I had to dance ever since I was a kid. I had to dance.

That’s how I had to enter my house. If people came to my house, my mom would be like, Marcello, and I’m six years old and I have to leave my room like this, and I’m like, Mommy, I don’t want to dance, and my mom is like yeah, and I didn’t want to escape Cuba, so dance, okay. I’m sorry. I don’t know what that’s like. I’m sorry, and I would think that I’m doing a good job, and then out of nowhere, my mom would be like, no, Marcello, not like that.

Do what I taught you. And I’m like, mommy, please. Don’t make me get nasty. So it’s got to be that right, like, you watched like that much and you’re like, oh my god, this is not funny at all. I have to hit stop on this.

But Netflix was like, nope, gotcha, that’s a play, all right. So I apologize, listener, I see what happened there. You sampled it because you couldn’t believe how horrible it was, and then you watched it and you’re like, Johnny Mac is right, Okay. I apologize. I shouldn’t have taken a shot at you.

Sorry about that. I’m very sensitive about these things. I’m here to promote good comedy. We’ll be hearing a lot about Marcelo Hernandez in the next few weeks because he’s part of the Kevin Hart movie Want’s That Thing Out Again? Seventy two hours is out July twenty fourth, that’s two days from now.

To save his career, a forty year old executive, Kevin Hart is playing a forty year old dude. Just own it. You look good, Kevin, but you’re forty seven. You’re not forty. Like I’m fifty six.

I’m gonna be fifty seven. I’m not fifty. I wish I was fifty. I wish I were forty. I like to pretend I’m young, but I’m not forty.

You’re not forty. I’m not fifty, You’re not forty. To save his career, a forty year old played by a forty seven year old Kevin Hart joins a crew of twenty somethings for a wild Miami bachelor party after they mistakenly add him to a group chat. Marcelo Hernandez, one of those wild Miami twenty year olds. The dude is good looking.

I just feel like the illuminati decided, you know what, let’s make Marcello Hernandez a star, and they’re not gonna stop now. While I was looking that up, I saw that Netflix is saying that Kevin Hart’s Funny af got forty one point eight million views in its first season. That is a great number. Mike EPP’s special Delusional third six point six million views. I thought Dylan and the Facebook group was the only person who watched that one.

Ricky gervais Is late twenty twenty five hour Mortality has pulled six point four million views since the beginning of the year. Dave Chappelle’s The Unstoppable four point eight million. Again, that was left over from December. Lest do you think Chappelle had a bad number. He topped the chart for July to December of twenty twenty five with fourteen million views.

This is funny. Okay, I’m gonna specifically call out one of the listeners to the show. You know who you are. You just texted me right now and you are listening to your take on Sunday’s Pot about Marcello or Hernandez Savage. I am writing you back.

We are time traveling and I’m writing him back saying I’m killing Marcelo right now. And just read your text on the show. Hilarious. Okay, So for all the people I scolded, not you, sir, you know who you are. I’m not gonna say it is private text.

You’re reading the private text on the air anyway, John, I know. Wait, and the same person is saying I’m wrong about my take about reclining on airplanes. No, I’m not. There’s no reason to recline. The seat is perfectly fine.

You recline now. I have about half an inch from my laptop, which forces me to recline, and now we’re all reclining. They need to disable that button and everyone just sit comfortably. It’s fine. What they need to do is improve the headrests.

Never mind the reclining nonsense. All right, so this guy’s one for two. He’s right about marcell Ernan as he’s wrong about reclining. I, of course am right about everything. Stephen right back in the spotlight.

Stephen right now seventy years old, which makes sense because he’s been around since the eighties and forty years went by. None of us are getting any younger. Stephen Wright was on Howie Mendel’s podcast, Howie Mendel Does Stuff. Stephen talked about his writing process. He says, I go on the road and write more stuff.

I don’t think things like that’s what I should do. I’ve never had a plan about it. It all just happened. Tim Dillon has some thoughts about politics. Let’s listen.

They’re in the White House. They have the Congress, they have the Senate, they have the Supreme Court. It is them. It is now them. I don’t want to hear about the deep state anymore.

You’re playing me for a fool. You’re playing everyone for a fool. I’m sick of hearing about this deep state. All of these people. You have to be one of the stupidest people in the world to fall for this at this point, this is you are peddling the dumbest most like by the way, I hate to use this word, but cringe.

It’s literally cringe. You watch this and you go I feel so. Disgusted by the fact that they think people are still gonna believe this. Send your letters to Tim Dillon. Ryan Hamilton was on WRIF Radio with a very DJ sounding DJ.

The DJ asked Ryan about the comparisons to Jerry Seinfeld, and I think if you listen to this clip, you’ll hear it in Ryan Hamilton’s speech pattern. It’s not at all an absurd notion. It’s definitely there in the speech pattern of Ryan Hamilton here on WRIF radio. I’ve been compared to him my whole career. I think maybe people here in my voice a little bit his tenor and a little bit of my natural rhythm, yeah, the way I talk.

So I’ve been compared to him my whole career really in a way. But starting out, no, I was trying to be It’s interesting you find your path. I mean, I grew up with his show. I revered him, I watched the show, I saw his lifestyle in New York and his comedic mind. I always but I was trying to be in the very beginning more absurdist one liner like Mitch Hedberg was a really heavy influence to me.

I would watch him when I first started on Letterman, and he was one of the first live shows that I ever saw, Mitch Hedberg, and I just thought, I love the way his mind thinks. And I was trying to be that because when you first start, you don’t know what you’re doing, and you experiment with something and it’s almost like your essence and your voice is decided for you. You don’t really decide it as much. So I started there and eventually I became in this place where I am and I’m always evolving. Kelsey Cook getting a Netflix special.

It’s called Happy Hour. It’ll be out Tuesday, August eighteenth. In Happy Hour, Kelsey Cook explores anxiety, relives a plain bathroom nightmare, and breaks down dating and a literal chad filmed at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with Eric Abrams directing. Cook’s most recent special, Mark Your Territory, was released on both Hulu and YouTube and made the top fifteen most stream specials for twenty twenty five. That special has been streamed over one point six million times on YouTube.

As for the Hula number, asked the Hulu publicist in Montreal tonight, it is New Faces. Now. I usually go, and I kinda I feel guilty that I’m not going this year. When they first announced festival, I reached out to the people. I was like, oh, I gotta go, and they’re like, yeah, I get back to us a little closer, and then it got a little close, and I was like, I don’t know, I don’t feel like going, and I don’t know why I don’t feel like going this year.

I just don’t feel like going. I haven’t looked at the list yet. We will do that together right now. Deadline has spotlighted Englishman Read Richardson, who made their list of the Comics to keep an Eye on in twenty twenty six, and Mario Adriann, a German American comic spotlighted in their Comedy Means Business newsletter. Since its inception in nineteen ninety four, New Faces has been regarded as premier launch pad.

It has launched the careers of people like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, who loves when we talk about her, Colin Joe Stali Wong, Gerrod Carmichael, Jack Whitehall, of course, friend of the show, John Marco Siasi. Nick Berzo is the VP of Programming and Talent, and he said this year’s performers are sharp, original, and hilarious, I hope, so we’re proud to offer this platform. Blah blah blah. Okay, new faces stand ups. These are new faces, so don’t be surprised if neither you nor I know the names yet.

Ainsley Baily, Aylon Ellion, Andrew Packer, Carolina Montesquie, Chris Renoir, Christine Mariani, David Drake, Elijah Nevills, Ellie Orlando, Elouise f Dos. She’s been around, Estebund Gast, Fiona Couley, Freddie Chanell, Gary Simons, Gus Tate, Hannah Veldowen Hassan, Phil’s Helen Bauer, Jack Hirshfield, Jackson Banks, Joe Maurice, Joey Dardano, Jonas, Joseph, Kenny Lee, Mario, Adrion, Mark Thompson, Mitchell Doren, Nicky, Paris Peyton, Ruddy Red Richardson, and Tessa Bell. Good luck to all of those folks, Your new Faces Characters. That’s a fun show as well, Annie Sullivan, Caitlin Freen, Claire McConnell, George c Owens, Jesse Kendall, John Blair, Russell Daniels and Tijonda Again great show if you’re up that way. I don’t know.

I just didn’t feel I can’t explain it because I usually am like all up to go, and I just didn’t feel like going this year. All right. Tonight in Montreal at the Comedy Festival. Some of the shows include Jordan Jensen at seven o’clock, British at seven, French New Faces at seven, English New Faces at seven at Club Soda, Timmy No Breaks at Ley Studio seven o’clock, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine pm. Now, why is Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine pm?

Johnny Mac? Because when you schedule a show at twelve and you write am, people get confused and think that’s noon, and it gets very confusing. So that’s why you just schedule things at eleven fifty nine. You’ll notice planes that do the same things. Otherwise people get confused.

That’s actually a pretty light Wednesday. So if I were up there tonight, I would hit the New Faces one and two at seven and nine thirty, but they’ll eventually post them online and we will cover it then. Chris rock is heading to Canada. He’ll be at the Toronto Film Festival. He is the director of hal Misty Green, about a talented actress whose career has been stifled by her vices, also at the Toronto Film Festival.

I Play Rocky? Did you see the trailer if I Play Rocky? Stop listening to me right now and go watch the trailer for I Play Rocky. This guy that they got playing Sylvester Stallone is uncanny. Like now, I want to make Rocky Zero, which I’ve wanted to make for fifty years.

So what’s Rocky zero? Johnny Mac Well, it would take place in early nineteen seventy five, and it would follow a guy who collects debts for the local mob boss. The debt collector is also a part time boxer, so it’d be a prequel to Rocky. Rocky Zero, you’ll watch People in Mobile, Alabama are all upset that the first entertainment act announced for their new arena is comedian Matt Matthews. Matt rose to social media fame with a series of videos about life on his farm he shares with his husband.

The videos offer feature him yelling at form animals while wearing a bathrobe. After earning millions of followers on TikTok yelling at farm animals and at bathrobe, at least on poolside today, I’m not in a basement. At least I’m sitting by a pool. I’ve got some money. Matt Matthews made the jump to stand up in twenty twenty TiO and now the Not What I Ordered World Tour will be at the Mobile Arena.

Some people on Facebook wrote who. Somebody else wrote never heard of him? Others said it didn’t look the most family friendly thing. What do you want? Then book Maga comedian Aprigazzy.

Then Matt Matthews post that it’s been brought to my attention that some people in Mobile aren’t too happy with Is it mobile or mobile? Wait? I’m looking this up. Some people say mobile, some people say it’s mobile. Now you’re all going to be mad at me.

I don’t know. I’m from New York City. I’m just gonna say Alabama. Matt Matthews posted, it’s been brought to my attention that some people in Alabama aren’t too happy that I was the first artist announced for the new Region’s arena. Well stay mad, because I can’t wait to bring all this gay and raunchy comedy straight to your city.

The good news is, since I’m apparently such a nobody who won’t sell it out, there should be plenty of parking. See you there. He then posted a thank you to his supporters, saying I joke a lot, but this one is real. Thank you Alabama. You all have already pushed the show at Region’s Arena too, over half sold before the general public on sale even starts.

Thank you doesn’t even begin to cover it. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, I never imagined my life would look anything like this. I started out making videos and telling jokes online, and now I’m getting the opportunity to perform for people not just across the US, but in Australia, New Zealand, the UK. Blah blah blah, I meaning Connor Ratliffe is on Blue Sky. He is currently presenting one Roadrunner cartoon.

Each day, he posts a link to the full cartoon, then post the cartoon again in segments with his oral commentary. Connor Ratcliffe says many people think the Roadrunner cartoons are repetitive, but he maintains that watching them in the order they were made as movie audiences would have in the nineteen fifties reveals that the gags and tropes actually satisfyingly build on each other.

Meanwhile, there’s a new trailer for Daffy Season, a soccer theme short.

You might have wanted to release the actual short during the World Cup, but nope, they decided to wait until November. It’ll be attached to the new CGI Cat in a Hat movie. It will not be attached to the Coyote Versus ACME movie coming out in August. Why John, Because remember that they were they made that and then like Warner decided we’re not releasing it. It off and now it’s being released via Ketchup Entertainment.

So Wrights Lawyer is something something something. Anyway, we’ll get a Daffy Duck short five months after the World Cup ends. There is a trailer. Let’s listen, boy, you I watch Soccer Season’s supposed to. Be Dug cleven Socker Season, Duck Cleveland Soccer season, Watch up Black.

Walk Em Molly. It’s just the offense on Now we’re talking all, that’s the way to play. Time to pull the plug on this so called soccer. Cleeven And that is your pool side comedy news for today. Have an awesome day.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Chloe Fineman, Mario Barth, Naomi Watanabe

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis breaks comedy attendance record with 76,212 tickets at Lincoln Financial Field
• Bill Maher wins Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• Bill Maher defends Louis C.K. and discusses appropriate punishment for comedians
• Chloe Fineman exits Saturday Night Live after seven seasons

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hitter Johnny mackpool Side with your Daily Comedy News. My life advice to everyone is, when you get a nice day, take it. So we are outside today. Shane Gillis sold seventy six thousand, two hundred and twelve tickets for his show at Lincoln Financial Field.

Let’s just stop for a second because you can easily glaze over that number. Seventy six thousand, two hundred and twelve tickets football stadium. We’re not talking about Madison Square Garden anymore, which used to be like the gold standard football stadium. Seventy six thousand, two hundred and twelve tickets. Take that number in seventy six thousand people at a comedy show Shane Gillis, who was canceled and not on Saturday Night Live, remember that.

With seventy two hundred twelve tickets sold, Shane Gillis broke the Guinness World Record for most tickets sold for a comedy show by a solo comedian. The previous record Mario Barth performed for sixty seven, seven hundred and thirty three people at the Olympia Stadion in Berlin in two thousand and eight. Who’s Mario Barth? I don’t know either, but we have Google. Wikipedia tells us.

Mario Wolfgang Barth is a German comedian who mainly deals with the interactions between men and women. In two thousand and four, Barth published a dictionary for men to understand women. He sold two million of them. The dictionary was also sold internationally in various countries such as South Korea, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Japan and Poland. In two thousand and eighty, established the new world record in the category live comedy with the largest audience.

He broke the previous record of fifteen nine hundred comedy visitors by Chris Rock at a show in London. Do you want to hear a clip? Well, I have good news for you. Mario Barth Channel has posted a comedy clip of him, translated by the YouTube AI. So judge this one on a curve.

Here’s Mario Borth. Hey, let’s be honest. Let’s be completely honest. These permanent construction sites, we men love them. We love construction sites.

We stop and don’t understand women, But we men stop at construction sites even if there’s a sign somewhere saying it’s freshly painted. Do you hear the. Sign saying to you, well, do you believe me? Women just keep going, But you, as a man, you want to keep saying no, I don’t think, I know, I don’t know, and you have. To go there.

And the fact is you’re right. We love construction sites. We stop. We touch things too. Men can’t see with their eyes.

We have to touch things. Okay, you’re curious. Naomi Watanabe holds the record for most tickets sold for comedy show by a solo female comedian. The Japanese comic sold forty four, three hundred and fifty six tickets for her set at the Tokyo Dome in twenty twenty six. At Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, former Eagles center Jason Kelsey.

His sister in law is Taylor Swift. Jason Kelsey came out led the pack stadium in an eag l e s chant. Kelsey then brought out Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill. Other performers at the show included Big Jay Oakerson and Dave Chappelle. The show took place under all that smug If you were in the Northeast last week, we had the smoke from the Canadian fires.

A Code Purple designation meant that the air was considered unhealthy for everyone, not just those with respiratory conditions. Some local attractions and community events were canceled because of the smoke, but Shane Gillis’s show did go on. Some people didn’t think it was the most diverse show in terms of crowd. Shane Gillis was joined on stage by Dave Chappelle. Shane attacked that notion dead on and slipped into his Trump impression.

The audio is not great here, and I made a minor edit for language. But let’s listen what’s. Going on there? And I said, mis president, can please have the air for us? Is a gallery of whites.

Let me say, sir, it’s the largest gallery of whites.

And then his in Philadelphia.

Well then we love it. We’re gonna send you the muster. The guys who bombed Jaman, how about the bombsamore unbelievable, how they bomb Jaman? And we we used the N word. We use nuclear.

That’s one of his best quotes. And I call it the N word. It’s on sixty minutes. It’s like yo, He’s about to say the Edward over sixty minutes. He’s like, you know the Edwards going around lately, you know the little ship Allen D.

S. Bryants. It’s like, let’ll be a tough one to defendo. He hit the N word over sixty minutes. I’d be like, I’ve been defending you for a while.

That’d be a tough one. But I’m trying to figure out is how do you promote a show himself? Delvin and that old black people hear about it? Hey, you know it’s funny. I love.

I was like, there’s one black person that’s Tiffany Hadiship. I was sitting in the bank with Tiffy. Ads from Nick. Mills like we got it on Netflix today. It is the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the now re renamed Kennedy Center.

This year’s winner was Bill Maher. You can put on Netflix tonight and watch Bill Maher with his friends Louis C. K Whitney Cummings, Jay Leno, Borderline Impressionist, Matt Friend, Woody Harrison, John Mellencamp, and Steven A. Smith, the greats of comedy. There is a trailer.

In this trailer you will hear from Woody Whitney, Jay Leno met friend to doing Trump. Louis C. K some edits for language and I did omit Stephen A. Smith, I think for language. I pulled this clip three days ago.

I can’t remember, but I left myself a note here to address that I did take Steven A. Smith out of the clip. Finally, an award from my dear friend. Tonight, we’re here to honor Bill Maher with the Mark Twain Prize. Becoming a political comedian is like becoming a surgeon and choosing colo rectal.

Bill and I used to talk about the Lord Thomas and we’ll reach out to you the other side, try and see even bring people more in. He did, and now both sides Hay, we’re up. Mark Twain. He’s a great America. If you sailed the Mississippi, which used to be called the Mississippi before the crazy Democrats made a transition.

These are sick people. He doesn’t like kids, and he smokes a lot of pot and me and thanks. God’s stupid show business. Of wards are just the opinion of who sometimes we don’t even know, usually just some very small group of people who are harboring God knows what kind of taste or agenda. Having said that, thank you so much for this.

Bill Maher was on NPR’s Newsmaker’s podcast. He defended Louis c. You may recall Louis C.K. He got in some trouble years ago. Bill Maher said, anyone who’s still mad at that has no concept of appropriate punishment.

People just want to believe what they want to believe. So when the jury comes out on the side, you like, oh, perfect, the jury spoke. But when they don’t, it’s like, oh no, screw that, forget it. I don’t care about the police investigations. I don’t care about the exonerations.

Either the law means something or not, and not every punishment should be forever. Bill Maher was asked by having a Louis c. K at the unrenamed Kennedy Center. Was he just inviting a friend or was it some sort of statement. Bill Maher said, it’s already been told of the world.

Do we have to just dwell on this forever? People get like two years for rape. The weird sort of no rules for how we meet our punishment in this country for offenders is pretty weird. Chloe Feinneman has left Saturday Night Live after seven seasons. This is the first publicly confirmed cast update going into season fifty two.

On Instagram, Chloe Fineman wrote, it’s really hard to leave us and l but it does feel like the right time. I’m gonna miss it a lot, but the people who work there in my family and at places my home, and I know I’ll never be too far away. I just got a text from my daughter. She’s at the beach. She too understands when you get a nice, beautiful day, enjoy it.

So I’m planning on taking a nap in the sun after I record here. I digress. This is more of Chloe’s statement every day I was lucky enough to be sprandled by the best people in the business, and I was constantly amazed watching them work. I’m definitely not the first to make this observation, but it really is funny looking back at it all now, because at the show you get so invested in everything you work on, you sob uncontrollably. When your sketch isn’t picked, You storm into a producer’s office telling them they just made the biggest mistake of their lives.

You call everyone you know to complain, and then you look back a few years later, and it was a sketch called Lipstick for Thick Dogs. That’s funny. Apparently the reason she is leaving is to star in the Netflix adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Myron Bulletsar with Fineman off the lineup. Sarah Sherman is currently the solo female main cast member. It is assumed Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline will be promoted to main cast.

Perhaps Veronica Slowakowska also makes it she’s a featured player. Ask Lauren Michaels, now, nothing is easy. Page six had to throw some shade, and insider tells Page six, LOI, we could rub people the wrong way at times. She got along really well with some cast members, but not everyone clicked with her. Some cast members felt like she expected people to accommodate her and assumed everyone would adjust to her schedule and preferences.

The insider added, it wasn’t some huge feud or anything like that. A second source close to the show told Page six, there’s no truth to this. Christina pe she has split up with husband Tom Segura. She went on social media and wrote thank you for all the kind messages. This is a really difficult time for our family.

Episodes of YMH are pre recorded in advance, hence no mention of recent events. Just know your mommy loves he and we’ll see you very soon. Did you watch the World Cup? I think everybody did. Spain won.

Spoilers Trevor Noah said, amazing game, crazy game, red card, good goal, fantastic. But everyone’s gonna ask what would have happened if Argentina had eleven men on the field. I guess we’ll never know. Kevin Hart was out and about at the World Cup. He showed up at the Pitch Side Club to perform celebrity karaoke.

He sang Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel. He called the World Cup breathtaking. It’s all or nothing, so much riding on these games for these countries, because there’s a lot of not just fanfare, but a lot of meaning and integrity. There’s so much that goes into it. Stephen Colbert was on social media for the first time since hanging up The Late Show.

I remember there used to be a thing called The Late Show and Steven Colbert hosted it, and like nobody seems to miss it. Stephen Colbert posted happy seventh birthday Benny. Benny is a dark brown Boykin Spaniel and apparently it was Benny’s birthday. I like recording outside with the cicadas and whatnot. It’s fun.

The Montreal Comedy Festival is underway. Let’s see what’s happening tonight. The Big Show tonight is an evening with David Letterman and special guest Will Arnett. There’s a pretty good lineup as we get into the festival proper now British at seven o’clock, Nasty Show at seven, Bamford at seven, some French New Faces at eight, Martin Demini at nine thirty, and the Culture Show at nine to thirty. They did announce the cast of New Faces.

I’ll cover that intomorrow’s show. If you need something to watch today, of course you can watch Bill Maher. There’s also Willie Max Good Dad, Bad Father. That’s on the eight hundred pound Gorilla Channel. Kyle Gordon will have a new album and Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter will narrate it.

Yeah, what’s this about? Kyle Gordon’s third album, Kyle Gordon Is Everywhere, will feature a narration by Daniel Radcliffe. The album will be out October second. It features Daniel Radcliffe performing a David Attenborough esque narration during the album’s interludes. The album’s first single, Mister Jambo, is out Now through the persona of a prototypical cringe American tourist named Barry Bergen.

The song satirizes Paul Simon’s graceland. There’s an accompanying music video filmed in South Africa. Hey there, mister Johnbo out there in the African sun? Do you ever get time? Hey there, mister John Bo, will you share with me.

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And then he told me, well, I couldn’t speak his language.

You couldn’t even understand door. What I knew his meaning was what I. Decided I had heard, he. Said, the love boy. This is elaborate again.

This album is called Kyle Gordon Is Everywhere. His first album, Kyle Gordon Is Great, features two thousands country music and pop punk emo parodies. His second album, Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful, satirizes folk pop and British rap. This album pokes fun at a dozen genres, including indie sleez pop, Disney Channel era, between bops, and late nineties mini van rock. In a statement, Kyle Gordon said with Kyle Gordon is everywhere.

I feel like I’ve achieved my goal of creating a comprehensive, cohesive comedy album that is enjoyable as a whole piece, but also a collection of very fun, funny and catchy pop songs. I also feel as though I finally found that perfect balance. The songs are funny without sacrificing the songwriting. Essentially, they are a bunch of great pop songs that are also funny. And that is your comedy news for today.

I have an awesome day. It

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Featured: Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Fortune Feimster, Chris Parnell, David Hornsby, Marcello Hernandez, Shane Gillis, Caleb Williams, Carlos Mencia

What’s in This Episode

• Will Ferrell’s Netflix golf comedy ‘The Hawk’ receives poor reviews
• Marcello Hernandez ESPYs monologue breakdown and criticism
• Will Ferrell and Marcello Hernandez awkward ESPY presentation segment
• Shane Gillis reference as previous year’s ESPYs host
• Carlos Mencia tax evasion court case and Encino mansion
• Jalen Brunson and WNBA jokes from ESPYs monologue

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. I realized that on today’s show, I’m gonna sound like Silkie Johnson, winner of the Haters Ball. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I hate you, I don’t even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happened to you and nobody else but you.

The reviews for Will Ferrell’s The Hawk are not good. The Independent, with the headline Netflix Golfing Comedy, gives Will Ferrell his own crappy Gilmore two stars out of five. The Hollywood Reporter said, you might think it would be impossible for a TV show featuring Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Jimmy Tacho, Fortune Fimester, Chris Pornell, and David Hornsby not to generate at least a few laughs. Perhaps the biggest issues that everybody’s essentially playing to type. Fortune Fimester is more or less the same filteralistic centric she played on shows like Foo Bar or the short lived Middy Kayling sitcom Champions.

Chris Parnell abuse his PGA board member with the same disarmingly perky charm he’s been peddling for decades. Molly Shannon is perhaps the standout, though even her withering scorn is nothing new. No one feels real, least of all Ferrell. They add. Ferrell is a performer whose glory days have seemingly passed.

Where he once ruled the box office, now he’s grinding out a comeback on Netflix. The New York Post said, Will Ferrell’s The Hawk is a pale imitation of his earlier work. He’s been all over the place doing outrageous antics to promote it. It’s a shame it didn’t seemingly put that effort into making sure the show wasn’t a dud. It’s a story that might have made for an amusing, yet forgettable, five minutes Saturday Night Live sketch.

It’s tedious as a five hour series. At the very least, it’s obvious that his skills are best for a movie, not stretched across a ten episode series. The Hawk is painfully unfunny. The Daily Bet said twenty years ago, The Hawk would have been a ninety minute theatrical comedy. Today it’s the latest feature film idea to be overextended to the point of worthlessness.

Will Ferrell was at last week’s SP’s, which will give us a nice smooth transition to our second target today, Marcelo Hernandez. Now you might be wondering, Hey, John, what if we took the unfunny Will Ferrell and put him on stage with the unfunny Morselo Hernandez. What might that sound like? Well, I have a clip for you. I have edited this for pacing so you don’t lose your mind and turn off my podcast.

Warning. I know that this clip is bad. I know that this clip is going to make you want to hit skip. But to illustrate today’s theme, I have to play the clip. Here’s Will Ferrell with Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing.

As a Latino. It’s very important for me to represent my community every chance I get, and I’d like to take a moment to do that now in a special way. For the first time in the history of the sp Awards, I am going to present an award entirely in Spanish. I just thank you, yes, thank you. I just don’t want anybody to feel left out.

So I just need a translator. Can anybody, I’ll do it. I’ll do it. I can translate. I can translate for you.

Are you sure, Will Ferrell? Yeah? Yeah, you speak Spanish. Yeah, sure, okay, yeah, of course I do. All right, come all, come.

In a little Spanish film. Yeah we’ll ferrel. Yeah yeah, I’m happy to I was in a little Spanish film called Talladega note. Chase, so. Okay, so yeah, all right, yeah, let’s do this.

Sure okay, all right here damas caballeross me or notice the premio tangu indand. Hey everybody, Uh, what’s up? Game? Were feeling good? I’m excited to present this next award here in the world’s greatest sports arena, Madison Square Garden.

Can I get a what? What? Ambul masaldo imucha disciplina. As a young boy growing up in Miami, I didn’t have many friends. Uh.

Most of my friends were stray dogs I had collected in the neighborhood and I gave them names. There was George, there was Peaches. There was Alexander. Often late at night I would press my private parts against. I didn’t even talk for that long.

Ouch. You may recall last year’s host was Shane Gillis, who the establishment athletes did not welcome. I lost. Shane was hilarious. What’s Shane up to now?

Marcelo Hernetez has the answer. I also want to shout out last year’s host, Shane Gillis. He is watching from home like a true American on his couch, gonna be here while a Hispanic guy does his job. Do you like hack jokes like the hackiest of hacked, most obvious? How long did it take you to write that joke?

Because I have one for you. In nineteen seventy three, hockey players didn’t wear helmets, basketball had no three point line, and in nineteen seventy three, Bill Belichick was the age his girlfriend is. Now, Wow, that’s pretty hacky there. Marcelo then turned his attention to the Nicks. Now on the video of this, Jalen Brunson made the face that Taylor Swift should have made at the Joe Koy joke way back when Jalen did the ha ha ha that’s funny.

But you can tell he did not find this funny because it’s not funny. And Jalen Brunson, Rick Brunson’s son got to win an NBA championship with his dad as the coach, which proves one thing, which is that nepotism, like most things, is way cooler when a black guy does it. Next up. We have a WNBA joke that isn’t that bad, but I think he mispaced it ended comedy. Timing is everything, and I also think this kind of joke would have worked better for say Shane Gillis.

I also want to shout out the WNBA players for signing a new deal and they’re not making more money than ever before. Yes, yes, it’s a lot of new money in the WNBA. Man opening up the door for a new reality show basketball husbands and wives, but mostly wives. Okay, Marcelo? How about the World Cup?

World Cup is the time when American sports fans remember what the word world means. They usually think it means the US and one team from Toronto. I will say it has been amazing to see Americans learn about soccer and Europeans learn about ranch dressing. And I have something to say to the Europeans. Come in here.

It’s not so easy to stay skinny here, is it. I’ve really enjoyed watching you slim snobs eating like delicious junk food and this is real karma. You called American stat for hundreds of years, and now look at you drinking ranch taking it home with you like a weirdo. That’s the fattest thing you can do. By the way, Wow, that is just bad.

And you might be saying, Johnny Mac, you’re just such a hater. Surely Marcelo Hernandez must have had one good joke, and you’re right, he did have one good joke. And here it is gradulate one player. I want to congratulate. Caleb Williams, the quarterback for the Chicago Bears, will be on the cover of the new Madden video game.

Congratulations to Caleb. Yeah, and Tiger Woods will be on the cover of Grand Theft Auto. Carlos meant SIA it sold the California Post. All I did was not pay my taxes being arrested the guns. That was a very shocking thing.

I was compared to al Capone. All I did was not pay taxes. I never cheated on them. I never got paid in cash. I never didn’t sign a ten ninety nine.

How much money I made will come out because I never hid that. Carlos showed up in court. So what do you wear in court? You dress up nice, you wear a suit, you try and look professional. Carlos wore a University of Oregon jacket and a T shirt and blazon with the words super funny.

Now, I’m not a judge, but I probably wouldn’t have reacted that too well. But again, I’m up for winning the haters ball this year. Up again, Silky Johnson. Mencia’s attorney argued that Carlos should be able to list his la estate in order to help pay his over three hundred thousand dollars tax bill. The attorney also attempted to unfreeze assets from Vincia’s bank accounts so he could pay living expenses and his attorney fees.

I could see why that might be important to the attorney. The judge ruled that Carlos could list his Encino mansion, believed to be valued at over four and a half million dollars. The judge also allowed for one hundred thousand dollars to be taken from the bank account. Carlos told the California Post at the end of the day, we’re going to take care of this. It’s how we got there.

That’s a little painful from a psychological and physical standpoint. They got what they wanted. They got the attention of this issue for me, So it is what it is. Dane Cook, serious actor, perhaps Jeff Barker, who’s that He’s the father of Obsession director Curry Barker and a screenwriter. Jeff Barker is writing and directing his own psychological horror short film, Medium Rare.

It will start Deane Cook. Medium Rare follows a man trapped inside a bar where reality begins to unravel in increasingly disturbing ways. Perhaps Dane Cook’s character is forced to watch the hawk. Hey, remember the other day I mentioned Thom Sigore not wearing a wedding ring, and I shared that for a while playing volleyball, I wasn’t wearing a ring. Don’t read anything into it.

So I showed up at volleyball the other night and two of my teammates were there. They were mid conversation, and the conversation was like, yeah, you know, you could stick it in you know, your shoe or something and won’t get lost. And I’m like, what are you guys talking about. One of my teammates wanted to take off his wedding ring for volleyball because his fingers were swollen. He had spent the entire day with his wife.

They had a nice day. Don’t read anything into it. Sometimes we’re just playing volleyball. It’s almost time for season eighteen. If It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

FX has announced it’ll be back Monday, August seventeenth, with what they’re calling an expanded ten episode season. We have all lived long enough that ten is now an expanded season. That’s because the previous three seasons were only eight episodes each, which goes really quickly, especially when they show two a week. Season eighteen premieres at nine Eastern on fxx FX and Hulu. We are told now the longest running live action sitcom and TV history.

It’s Always Sonny follows a group of deeply self absorbed friends and they’re chaotic misadventures while running the failing Philadelphia dive bar Patty’s Pub. Now, to be fair, this show’s been on for twenty plus years eighteen seasons. Is the bar failing because it’s been a steady business for two decades? I mean, how long do they have to own this thing before we consider it a successful business. We’ve got some plot points here minor spoilers.

It’s Always Sunny, don’t worry about it. In season eighteen, Charlie mcdennis, d Stupid Bird, and Frank are wrapped up in a salvaging inheritances from a dead woman, b surviving tent encampments, and the great inside outside divide between the haves and have nots. C withstanding job loss at the hands of workplace automation. Four you switch from the letters to numbers, John, Yeah, I did, embracing a new found appreciation for neurodivergence. Five, questioning the fabric of society against conspiracy theories, and six the biggest elephant in the room, outlasting the public’s pendulum swing against drinking.

We’re told not to mention battling nerds, LARPers, and a particularly petulant mcpoile clan at the Renaissance Fair were sports washing their way back into the good graces of their community by sponsoring a little league team. All those sound like really, really good plots. Kevin Hart likes to work. He’s got a new season of Cold as Balls. You know, that’s the show where Kevin Hart sits in a cold tub with famous sports figures.

They were getting ready to film new interviews live at Fanatics Fest in New York over the weekend. Guess we’re scheduled to be Serena Williams, Rob Gronkowski, Cooper Flagg, Sean O’Malley, Zlatson, you know the guy that basically ran Alexi Lallas out of town on World Cup coverage. We all love that guy, and I show speed now as cool and hip as I am. I had a google Sean O’Malley, who apparently currently competes in the bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. So although I don’t know who he is, I’m sure Maggot comedian Ate Berghazy’s familiar with Sean O’Malley can talk about that.

For a second, I was thinking about this, Can I be honest? If the President of the United States wants to come on this show, he’s coming on now. If he comes on Daily Comedy News, I’m probably gonna ask him about like Saturday Night Live and some comedy stuff that he’s done, and then eventually I’ll get to it. But like, this show’s not sixty minutes. I know, I know sometimes she confuse it for sixty minutes, but this isn’t sixty minutes.

I probably ask him who his favorite comedians are, you know, that his stuff, and then maybe with the end, I could be like, hey, you know this thing with the war, you know, I might get that in at the end, and then you guys would all be like, Maga, podcast host Johnny Mac had the President on, but meanwhile, I’ll have the number one podcast that week. You know, we could probably talk about Late Night. I’d be like, hey, mister President, you know, what’s your deal with Jimmy Kimmel?

And then he’d say his stuff and I’d be like, now, the one thing I do agree wi…

This seth Meyers thing. It’s got to be better, right, And then he would say some stuff and I’d be like, that’s right, make twelve thirty great again. Then he would laugh, and then I would ask him about Colbert, and then you guys would be like, come on, how come you’re not ask him about election interference? And I’d be like, I’m guy in the basement, what do you want to do. I will also welcome whoever runs for a president on the Democrat side.

That person is also welcome to come on here, and I will also ask them about their favorite comedians and if they’ve ever hosted Saturday Night Live. I Digress. Cold as Balls will now be on Netflix with six new episodes with those guests that I told you about. Kevin Hart said, Coldest Balls coming in Netflix feels like a homecoming. I’m pairing two of my favorite ease together for an unbeatable conversation and content.

I love that for twelve going on thirteen seasons, thirteen seasons of this, now Kevin’s billionaire and doing really well. Does this thing of cultural impact or people watching this thing? I love that for twelve going on thirteen seasons, the show continues to be a celebration of sports and entertainment. Then he went into some corporate speak and plugged his other stuff, and this is sad. The High Planes Comedy Festival has announced it’s over.

Festival organizers posted on Facebook, all good things must come to an end, and man has High Planes Comedy Festival have been good. After thirteen years and a dozen amazing festivals, we’re calling it. Founded by comedian Adam Clayton Holland, High Planes focused on local comedians and national comedians. The announcement said we’ll be taking the next few months to say goodbye. We want to see your favorite picks from High Planes over the years, so post them and tag us or email them to info at Highplanescomedy dot com.

They’re going to host one last official party, a blowout show Saturday, November twenty first, at the Skylark Lounge on South Broadway. Performers TBA, sorry to hear that, Fellas, and that is your comedy news for today Hater Edition see tomorrow. I hate you, I hate you, I don’t even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you

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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Gianmarco Soresi, Pete Holmes, Jeff Foxworthy, John Leguizamo, Matt Damon

What’s in This Episode

• Marcello Hernandez’s journey from college soccer to Saturday Night Live
• Gianmarco Soresi defends airplane seat reclining in Wired interview
• Pete Holmes discusses email and text management habits
• Jeff Foxworthy recalls origins of ‘You might be a redneck’ one-liners
• Jeff Foxworthy’s memorable Johnny Carson Tonight Show appearance

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You’re excited for the World Cup final today. I’ll be in the backyard watching it on the laptop. It’s summer.

I can’t go inside. Three in the afternoon. I’m sorry. Guys. Love the World Cup though.

USA Today caught up with Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing and does one thing well, maybe possibly he does two things. Well, is the second thing being funny? No, no, it’s playing soccer. Morselo Hernandez was recently spotted at a World Cup game, specifically Columbia versus Portugal. He was photographed in a suite with John Leguizamo and Matt Damon.

Pretty fancy. Marcelo said he introduced Matt Damon to both his mother and younger cousin. He says, of hanging with the actor, You’re next to Matt Damon for long enough that you like. If I don’t say something, I’m an idiot. So I asked questions and I try to get some game from him.

When I played soccer, if I was ever with somebody was playing on a better team or older than me, you try to ask them questions. USA Today tells us hernand has played soccer right up through college at John Carroll University, he quit three years into his sophomore year to pursue comedy. Boy, we could have had one of the great soccer players of all time. Instead, we have a guy who does one thing on Saturday Night Live, According to the university, after a day of classes in soccer practice at night, Hernandez would uber to comedy clubs to work on his set. Eventually he realized he had to choose whose Wisely he did not.

Hernandez recalls, I had to tell the team with tears in my eyes that I’m quitting. That drove me to work hard because I was like, if I’m gonna quit something that I’m kind of good at, I should get really good at this new thing. Unfortunately, Marcelo’s plan failed, and he got kind of good at the new thing, but not really good at it. He does one thing pretty well. Hernandez believes he’s probably better now at comedy than he ever was at soccer.

Oh, he must have been a terrible soccer player then. Despite playing Division IREE in college and earning an All first team honors in Miami as a high school senior must have been a pretty crappy league. Marseillo says soccer is a full time job because you’re taking care of your body, and I think that SNL is a full time job because of the schedule. You’re also taking care of your mind. You’re trying to write stuff.

It’s a much more mental game than a physical game. But pretty demanding for sure. I’m curious about that trying to write stuff part, because I haven’t seen it. Establishing comedian John Marco Siraisi continuing to do mainstream press. He talked to Wirecutter and had some travel tips for us.

Hi. I’m John Marco Siaisi, and I’m a stand up comedian and host of The Downside podcast. I travel a lot. I would say, at least on average, two flights a week. It gets constant.

It’s crazy. I am here today with advice for how to be the perfect airplane seat mate. Is it annoying if they lean the seat in front of you all the way back? It’s what it’s there for, that’s the function. It can be annoying.

I think, like if it’s brutal, you could ask, but that’s just what you sign up for. John Marco I’m a big fan. He’s the Community of the Year twenty twenty six. He of course is wrong about reclining. Reclining should be permanently banned on all planes.

You don’t need to recline. You just do it because the button’s there. Same as when everybody first got free minutes and everybody was on their cell phone all the time on trains and planes and being annoying. You were just doing it because you had the minutes. He didn’t have anything to say.

Same thing the reclining button. If we take the button away from you, you’ll be mad for like two seconds one time, and you will get over it. No more reclining. Let’s keep it technical. Wired had caught up with Pete Holmes.

Remember we did this a little bit last Sunday while I saved some of it Beach Friday. You know what I’m saying. Yeah, you know what I’m saying. Pete Holmes sells us he has eighty unread texts. He says, the thing I do most so often when I read a text is market is unread.

That was the greatest achievement of tech in the past ten years. If my wife texts me, it’s different, but a lot of times I feel people just bugging you. It’s like, do I work for you? When did we start? Somehow, all of life feels like we work at an office.

Even your friendships are like, I gotta get back to Jennifer. I think a change might be coming. AI is going to lead to so much disinformation in your inbox, even in your text, that we’re all going to slowly walk away. We’re just going to be like amish. We’re going to be hanging out in person and talking again.

We’re going to be meeting up and having coffees way more. How many unread emails does he have? Fifty five, four hundred and twenty six. He says, If you reply to an email more than three times, you have to start a fresh thread. I’m not going to dig through.

I’m getting better at being like you don’t have to do that. I don’t think it’s a show business thing. I just think I’m forty seven years old. What computer does Peede Holmes have? He says, a MacBook Air with the M two chip.

I had a slightly thin, kind of fun one that snapped in my backpacks. I just bought this pretty thoughtlessly, which kind of a shame. This was my I just need a laptop. Laptop. There have been other laptops I’ve had far more feelings about.

There was a MacBook era eleven inch that I still think about. It was the smallest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And there was a MacBook that was seventeen inches. It was huge. I still think about those computers like their old friends.

Favorite news source of Pete Holmes none zero. I get my news from people. This is my unreliable, biased news source, and there’s nothing more fun than watching them fumble through the mismatch. They can’t even remember why. They’re angry and scared.

Favorite subreddit none. The folks over at McCalls asked Jeff Foxworthy what inspired the you who might be a redneck one lighters. Jeff said, back when I was starting out, would go to places like New York and LA. Guys would go, look, Jeff, I don’t hurt your feelings, but you got to take voice lessons and lose that stupid accent you got. It was all good natured fun, but they were always saying I was an old redneck from Georgia.

One night, I was in Michigan and I was telling them about how I wish I could be sitting at a tree in the morning because it was deer season. They were laughing and calling me a redneck. I said, if you don’t think you have rednecks in Michigan. The club we’re at now is attached to a bowling alley that is valley parking. That night, when I got back to the hotel, I decided to write ten ways you know if you’re a redneck.

The next night, not only do people laugh, they were pointing each other. That’s when I thought, if I could have ten, can I ride thirty? And if I can ride thirty, can I rate one hundred? Jeff? Of all the highlights in your career, what’s the most memorable?

Jeff said, If I had to pick one, it would be the first time doing Johnny Courson. Back then, there were only three channels. That if Johnny like you long enough to call you over the couch, that made your career. So I was out there doing five hundred shows a year, grinding. When I finally got the Tonight Show and could do my six minutes, they pulled me aside and tell me, if Johnny doesn’t like you, he’ll just clap.

If he likes you, he’ll give you the big OK sign, and if he loves you, he’ll call you over to the couch. At the end of my six minutes, I was scared to look because it was like Caesar deciding whether I live or die. But it looked over and there’s Johnny waving me over to the couch. My only plan when I started doing comedy was to be on Johnny Carson. I remember going home that night after the show, just laying there in the dark.

I stared at the ceiling and couldn’t stop thinking about how I’d made Johnny laugh. That’s all I wanted to do. Isn’t that fantastic? The Laconia Daily Sun caught up with my former coworker, Jim Brewer. Jim told the story about the time Jie Peshe, he was a guest on the show.

Brewer used to do a Peeshe impression. Jim meets Pesche and says he’ll never forget it. After about ten minutes, he didn’t know if he had disrespected the actor. Jim said, he confronts me. He gives me the whole Good Fellows Tommy seen scared the living snot out of me.

I was like, I’ll never do the sketch again, but then he said, ah, busted you, chops. I thought I was gonna have to pay him. Commission star trek Ruiner Pat Oswald talked about how he dresses for different occasions. He told Forbes, I have a travel suit, which is a nicely pair of jeans, really good walking shoes, and then this short sleeved hoodie with a pocket in front that I could shove stuff in when I’m in the airport. Then I have my wheeled two me suitcase there is a very specific one that fits in the overheads, and then my two me briefcase that slides onto it perfectly.

When I’m on stage, it’s always a T shirt and a button up shirt. Nothing crazy, but I dress nice for the stage. It’s same clothing during the days I have to travel. Keep it really simple. I don’t like to have too much stuff, especially on a travel day when I have enough anxiety because the airports have gotten so insane.

Now I make the preparation for travel just no brain or stuff. Here’s his travel ritual. Pat Noswald tells Forbes, this is gonna sound kind of insane. I bring a ziplock bag of PG tips, tea bags and When I land, I buy some honey, and I always asked for an electric tea kettle in the hotel room so I can make myself that specific cup of tea, two bags honey. That’s a reset for me and helps me calm down.

And The Toronto Guardian as a series where they speak with local comedians. How about comedian Nick Burden. Nick practices what he calls beautiful nonsense or freestyle yelling, a crowd heavy and prophesyational style shape more by people watching as a self described social butterfly than by any specific comedic influences. That’s very complicated there, Nick Burton. He explains, although I do have a lot of material, everyone has a story.

Because I do a lot of international shows, I enjoy hearing about different people’s lives, perspectives, et CETERA. Favorite comedian growing up Dave Chappelle, because literally every millennial group on the Spell Show. Favorite comedian right now sounds basic in mainstream, but honestly, there’s nobody more effortlessly funny than Shane Gillis. Dude’s an animal. Favorite place you’ve performed comedy Budapest, amazing city with a vibrant nightlife scene and super cool venues.

So many people from all over the world go there to party. So every time I’ve done a show there, you always get like fifteen plus nationalities in the audience. Super cool. He was asked to tell them a joke about Toronto, and he said, nah, I’m off the clock. That’s your comedy news for today.

At a summer Sunday, enjoy the World Cup. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Patrice O’Neill, Louis C.K., Marc Maron, Jim Gaffigan, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze’s rise to becoming America’s favorite comedian
• Nate’s early years in Chicago’s comedy scene at Second City and the Dugout
• Nate’s grind in New York City including barking for the Boston Comedy Club
• Marc Maron’s discovery of Nate at LaughFest 2012 and WTF podcast appearance
• Nate’s comedy festival wins and late night TV appearances with Fallon and Conan
• Nate’s Netflix and Amazon Prime special releases and commercial success
• Hello World becoming most-streamed original comedy special on Amazon Prime

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Saturdays this summer for deep dives on single topics. Helloo, I’m Johnny Mac and let’s start in Chicago. It’s two thousand and two. We are in a rat infested basement.

Aprighetzi’s there with his friend Michael Clay. They were meeter readers at a water company back home, and they decided they were going to become comedians. They moved to Chicago and rented a basement they nicknamed the Dugout, and they signed up for classes at Second City, you know, the improv factory that gave you Bill Murray Tina Fey half of every SNL cast for fifty years. Nate did it for a minute and figured out pretty quickly improv was not his thing. He switched over to a stand up program run by a guy named Jim Routh.

Nate did his first set in April of two thousand and three and started picking up scraps around Chicago and back home in Nashville. H my name’s Nate. It might be hard to understand me. And sometimes I come in New York City. I’m just going from Nashville.

I’ll wear this shirt for a couple of reasons. So if I get questions like that, they just they’re oh okay. If people come in late, they know they don’t have to interrupt us by asking. They’ll just read my shirt and they can’t figure that out. And they’re probably from Nashville too.

You’re probably have the same shirt. I also wear it in case I get lost people not wearing the sinem It’s kind of like a dog leash. I got my name to know where written in the back. This part of the story matters because it skips the aprighetsy creation, myth that he’s this wholesome Nashville guy. His dad’s a magician, he does clean comedy.

It skips the part where he actually came up in Chicago. He wasn’t a regional guy who got discovered. He went did the unglamorous thing the comedians do, which has moved somewhere else with a real comedy scene, and get humiliated in front of small rooms until something clicks. In two thousand and four, Nate moved to New York City. He got a job as a barker for the Boston Comedy Club, which is a club in New York City, which meant standing in Greenwich Village handing out flyers in exchange for stage time at night.

You ever see these guys, they’ll be like, hey, do you like stand up comedy? It is a rough gig. Nate was also driving for FedEx and walking dogs during the day to make the rent. But back in those days, the Boston Comedy Club was a real room. Dave Chappelle came through there, Bill Burr, Patrise, O’Neill, Louis C.K.

Nate has talked about watching those guys from the back, paying close attention to comedians who were not doing clean comedy, and he has said it took close to a year before he got his first actual paying gig in New York City. He described those early years as doing as many as seven sets a night, bouncing between rooms, which by his account, is too many. Nate will tell you five is the realistic ceiling before you stop being able to tell what you’re even saying anymore, Nate forgets. He stayed in New York City for almost nine years, nine years of the comedy seller the Stand Carolines. That’s where where he got the education, the place where he built the timing and the writing instincts that everybody now associates with effortless dad comedy, except none of it was effortless, and none of it happened in Nashville.

He built this in rooms that were dirty and rowdier than almost anything he had ever performed himself. And the interesting part is that people in the quote unquote mainstream comedy culture openly liked him, despite Nate being nothing like them. The detail that the dirty comics of that era genuinely loved Nate tells you that the cleanliness was never a defensive posture. It’s just who he was tested against an audience that had every incentive to expose him if he wasn’t real. Part of the discovery story I don’t hear about involves Mark Maren.

Maren saw Nate at a festival called LaughFest back in twenty twelve and tweeted about him and brought him on to WTF that same year. Mark Maren not exactly known for a wholesome sensibility, not exactly the Nashville demo, but Maren always had a sharp eye for who’s actually good underneath the surface presentation, and he clocked Nate almost immediately. That WTAF appearance did something specific for Nate’s career, put them in front of an audience of comedy people, the exact opposite of the casual audience had been known for, and that audience responded because the writing was that strong. I think I got a fascination with people that live in the South. I want them to h to set me straight on it and and and make me appreciate it as a place where a lot of different kind of people live, and not just the kind of people that are stereotypically Southern.

Yeah, we’re like the rest of the country, you are, except New York and LA the only ones that are different. Oh really, I think so. So we’re the assholes. I mean sort of like y’all Like New York always baffles me because they’re like they are like so small on America. Yeah, and they’re just like this is how it is, and this is how y’all are.

And I’m like, in your own state, their people are not like that, Like they’re your own Like they’re You’re only thirty miles away from hill people, yeah, like I mean very close. Yeah. And my people that I can go talk to and get out. Let’s go to upstate in the town. Of seven and they get it.

They get me. They I can go to Walmart and walk around and breathe and feel good about myself. Around that time, Jim Gaffigan was advocating for Nate, calling him one of the best up and comers in the business. Jimmy Fallon found him around the same time and put him on Late Night in twenty thirteen, then brought Nate onto something called the Clean Cut Comedy Tour, which Nate used that year to win both the New York and Boston Comedy Festivals. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Nate by got it.

Thank you, Thank you everybody that was exciting, you know, it felt it felt good, all right. I’m from Tennessee originally. Yeah, so that’s something. And I lived in New York though for years. I’m on board in New York.

I like it. It’s I like the driving. It’s like great, It’s very intense. It’s everybody just honks it, everybody NonStop. And that’s how it should be everywhere, you know, like growing up in the South, no one honks their horn ever.

People just sit at lights and they’re just like, if you want to go, I totally understand. Conan had him on the Old TBS Show back in two thousand and eight and brought him back multiple times over the years. Very excited to be out here. Love getting to travel a bit. I’ve been through a lot of different countries lately, and it’s always weird because like every time I go to another country, I don’t never know where it’s at.

Uh, because I’m from Tennessee. I didn’t learn about countries in school. I learned about Tennessee. I learned about the states that touched us in case they attacked, and then I was told the rest was Europe and that’s where the gays were made. So by the time most casual audiences eventually discovered Nate through a Netflix special The Actual Comedy Folks Maren Gaffigan Vallan Conan other comedy Snobs You Me had already spent close to a decade quietly insisting he was one of the best pure writers working.

Twenty fourteen, yelled At by a Clown eight number two on the Billboard Comedy Charts. Full Time Magic followed in twenty fifteen, the title of that one a nod to his dad’s actual career as a working magician. In twenty nineteen, The Tennessee Kid, That’s the One a lot of the comedy nerds points to is the moment the writing fully arrived was now confident specific less about proving it could be clean and more about just being funny on his own terms. No Gimmick twenty twenty One’s the Greatest Average American on Netflix got made a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album. Then he switched teams twenty twenty three, Hello World went to Amazon Prime.

That became the most streamed original comedy special in Amazon’s history in its first twenty eight days.

And then there was Saturday Night Live.

Nay Brighetzi hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time on October twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, was the Halloween episode Season forty nine, Your Musical Guest, The Foo Fighters. His monologue ran long, the response strong enough that both Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly both wrote him up as a standout. He would come back and host again less than a year later October fifth, twenty twenty four, and season fifty Your Musical Guest Coldplay That tells us a lot. That’s Lord Michael’s making a specific bet that Nate brigets he could deliver ratings and a clean broadcast back to back. Of course, the famous moment is from the first appearance Washington’s Dream.

He plays George Washington walking his soldiers through an absurdly over complicated system of measurements, weights and measures. Sir, Yes, as I dream of that one day our proud nation will measure weights and pounds, and that two thousand pounds shall be called a ton, and what would one thousand pounds be called, sir nothing. That became one of the most clipped sketches of the season, and Vulture actually ran a piece asking if Nate had cracked the SNL code, whether his specific deadpan, patient’s style had found a way to work inside of a format that chews up most posts. Lord Michaels does not invite anyone back to host within a year. By accident that, in my opinion, was peak Nate.

Dennis starts to get a little rocky, not too bad, but a little old. There was the Emmy hosting gig. In twenty twenty six, CBS announced Nate as the host of the seventy seventh Emmis. The monologue leaned into a bit built around Nate’s reputation, the premise that he was terrified of offending anyone in a room full of famous, powerful people, using his clean image as the engine of the joke rather than working around it. Look at us, we’re doing it, all right.

Welcome to the seventy seventh Emmy Awards. You know, it’s not a big one like seventy five or eighty, but it’s the one that gave me. It’s an honor to be here tonight. I mean, I’m so excited to be here. Just all you guys have worked so hard to get here.

I mean. And it’s confusing too, because it’s just like we even McIntyre feel like I’m about the Grammys, Kate Lanchette feel like I’m aout the Oscars. Crazy Tina Fey. I thought like they should have had her host, you know why. A lot of people were wondering, like why am I hosted?

I I don’t know what that was, but all right, it counts as a laugh. It’s on paper. Maybe it worked in the room. People felt it ran out of gas before it found its second gear. The reviews afterward were not kind.

Award show hosting is chewed up funnier people and even more successful than David Letterman comes to mind under better circumstances, but it exposed something about the gap between his strength and the longer format. SNL gives him four minutes with a premise he can control, and Emmy’s monologue is fifteen plus minutes addressing a room that you know isn’t there for you.

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And then Nate made a movie, an actual movie.

The Breadwinner hit theaters May twenty ninth, twenty twenty six. The pitch his wife, Mandy Moore’s character Lance a shark tank deal and now she he’s the one with the career and Nate’s stay at home dad bumbling around with the three daughters. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the movie. If you know Nate’s old deal, you know exactly what every scene looks like.

The reviews were not kind. Roger Ebertsite called it Burgatsley, which is pretty good.

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And then there was the UFC event on the south lawn of the White House.

It was UFC Freedom two fifty, which was also part of the President’s eightieth birthday celebration. Nate was there. He’s a massive UFC fan, and while there he took a photo with Cheryl Hines and her husband RFK Junior. Cheryl posted a photo of the three of them together in the background. Jd Vance comments blew up on Nate’s Instagram.

People had seen him four times were swearing that they were done. W camal Bell wrote a whole substack about it. Some outlets started calling Nate Maga comedian Nate berghatsy and called him part of Team Fascism. His representative put out a statement saying Nate is not political, nor is anything he produces, and called him a huge UFC fan who just wanted to watch fights. All that brings us to Nateland.

In twenty twenty three, Nate launched Nateland Entertainment, not a touring brand, on a merch line and actual production company. The state ad mission is family friendly content across stand up, special sketches, scripted shows, podcast music, the whole apparatus.

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And then he started to actually use it to actually build other comedians’ car…

He’s done great with that. Look at the Nateland roster. Dusty Slay, Aaron Webber who got a debut special produced by Nate Nateland, Nick Thune got one, Derek Stroop he was on Netflix, Julian McCullough, Joe Zimmerman, Lachlan Patterson, There was the Nateland podcast, Nateland at Sea, and actual cruise built around the brand. So while down in Austin, Tony Hinchcliff and Joe Rogan and Gang are doing one thing, Nate is building a quieter, more family oriented version of the same idea content company that gives emerging, clean leaning comedians, a real production budget, a real platform, and a real audience that already trusts the Nateland lame. So what do you do when you’re at the top of your game despite some minor stumbles in twenty twenty six, you start to think about walking away from it to open a theme park, an actual theme park on the site of Opryland, USA and Nashville that closed in nineteen ninety seven.

Nate plans to build the next great American theme park, a one hundred acre land named after himself. It will be called Nateland, he told the Wall Street Jourtle I’m the Mickey Mouse. The initial design for the park is divided into three sections based on Nate’s roots. Part of it will be Tennessee, part of it his journey to New York, and the rest He’s reach into the world beyond is as people magazine. Guests will enter through a nineteen ninety style mall.

The Tennessee themed land will have roller coasters at a donkey dive. The New York area will have street performers live shows at a ride through a simulated Times Square.

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Meanwhile, the third section will have stunt performers and interactive shows.

Nate says, I’m in the ticket selling business. That’s all I’ve ever been in. That’s Daily Comedy News for Today, Back tomorrow with a regular episode.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky, Will Ferrell, Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Nolan, John Stewart, Bill Maher, Michael Loftist

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzky split after 18 years of marriage
• Will Ferrell criticized for annoying commentary at Netflix Home Run Derby
• Will Ferrell’s new Netflix golf comedy series ‘The Hawk’
• Colin Jost nearly hits hole-in-one at American Century Championship
• Michael Loftist predicts Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce relationship will last three years
• Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ receives praise from John Stewart
• Bill Maher discusses plans to continue working at age 70

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Caloroga Shark Media Tater, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Their first story seems to be bothering people, and I don’t come to make light of it at all. Let me tell you the story and then I’ll tell you my feelings about it. The headline Toms Agora and Christina Pozitski have reportedly split. They’ve been married for eighteen years.

A source told TMZ they had a special and productive relationship, creating one of the most successful comedy podcast networks in the industry, and more importantly, two kids. They’re taking different paths moving forward while remaining devoted to their children. They’ve been married since November of two thousand and eight. In her twenty seventeen Netflix special, Christina p said, I love my husband. I laugh at his jokes, I think he’s fantastic, and then all day every day, I want to punch him in his dumb face.

It’s not the big things that make you want to kill your spouse, it’s little stuff. Back in twenty nineteen, Tom Sagora joke the key to his marriage was intimidation and saying, my wife is Kim jong Ill and I’m the people of North Korea. Every day there are a series of interrogations leading to a looming execution. The pair will reportedly continue to host the podcast Your Mom’s House. So obviously a big story if you follow comedians, and Tom is one of the bigger comedians right now.

You know, for me, I don’t come to it’s say to me when anyone’s marriage breaks up. This is very different to me than like, if Amy Schumer posts a picture on Instagram at a bikini, she wants us to talk about her, and I’m happy to poke fun at that. But this here is just, you know, I like seeing anybody break up. The New York Post said. Sigora hinted at the splits by titching his wedding ring during the latest episode, Monday’s episode of Two Bears One Cave.

That episode came out the same day of the news of the split. I’ll just caution everybody don’t read too much into that. I wasn’t wearing a ring for a while. You know why, because I play beach volleyball and my hands would swell and it was bothering me. And depending on how fat I am at a particular moment, sometimes the ring bothers you when you take it off, especially playing volleyball.

I’m used to playing it now and I’ve actually dropped some weight this summer. Some days it’s loose. Right now, it’s a little not loose, but you know what I mean. I can slip it on and off in other days it’s don’t read anything into that. Maybe Tom Sigoor is playing volleyball.

The innerk Post says the couple has not filmed an episode of Your Mom’s House Together since late April, during which Sigora wore his wedding ring and apparently somebody did the homework and saw that Tom had his wedding ring on all prior podcast episodes. People have too much free time. I was going to share with you that, and I still will. Tom Sagora was on the Colin and Semir podcast talking about Y m H Studios that came out prior to the news of the split, and you know it’s a decent listen. In terms of the business of podcasting, people are not happy with Will Ferrell.

They found him really annoying. Monday night during the home Run Derby on Netflix. I found him so annoying that I had to turn the thing off. Let’s listen to Will Ferrell introduced Bryce Harper, the man who never asked the pant Rarah. The Liberty Book comes in photos of him.

This big cross have cost the Temple more than George Rohington. He has twenty one career. Help me. I’m hopefully he ejects some bones tonight, Bronze Harper. You can tell Netflix does not care because they shared that clip on social media, so they think it’s great.

In general, social media was not happy at all with Will Ferrell. I saw a lot of chatter I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group with people just being like, please shut up. A lot of people suggesting Will Ferrell is past his prime. He’s got the new show out on Netflix, The Hawk, so we’ll see if there’s a Feral Sans or not. In The Hawk, Will Ferrell stars as Lenny the Hawk Hawkins, a washed up golf legend who’s trying to make the sport’s greatest comeback by chasing one final major and in typical Will Ferrell fashion, that’s accompanied by plenty of chaos along the way.

The Holland Reporter compared it to Happy Gilmore So you can tell I’m excited about it. Fortune Fiemester is part of this. She wondered if the Hawk character would get along with Happy Gilmour. She said, the characters are so different. I think you love seeing these non golf type guys in the very buttoned up golf world.

That’s the comedy, the juxtaposition. I think they would give each other a pretty hard time but have a good time doing it. Will Ferrell said, I was really interested in the possibility of getting to shoot something in La and I was intrigued with playing a character for longer than ninety minutes in a film. According to Will, the character really only cares about himself and that’s what gets him back to the top of his game. Ten episodes Netflix, you’ll watch.

Speaking of golf, at the American Century Championship last week, Colin jos teed off from the par three seventeenth hole and nearly hit a hole in one. His ball rolls within an inch of the cup. Colin Jose pumped his arms in the air before ripping off his sunglasses and embracing the crowd’s roars. Scarlett Johansson, his wife, was there. Joe said Scarlett was like, Baby, if you’re gonna win this thing, I gotta be there like I got to see the champ in action because she kind of knew this was my year.

Unfortunately, for Colin Jost, that was his best shot. He had a couple bogies and did not win the championship. Remember the other day, I was recording the show and I didn’t have power, and I didn’t get to tell you what comedian Michael Loftist said about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey’s wedding. Loftist told Sky News. Set your watches on how long this lasts?

I give it three years tops, and then it’s over. I don’t know how she’s going to spin it. Somehow, he’ll be the bad guy, she’ll have her heartbroken, there’s going to be action figures, and she’ll probably be part of the Marvel Cinematic universe before it’s all over. Are you going to see the Odyssey? This weekend?

John Stewart had on director Christopher Nolan and said, holy s word, it’s a staggering work. I was utterly absorbed and transformed by the powerful storytelling and epic nature of it. That sounds like I’m reading the quote here. John apparently spoke those words, but that just reads like a printed quote I digress. Stuart said, it’s just remarkable.

I feel like I know a lot of the tricks, but I don’t know how you did it. Here’s what I’m going to say. You’re a wizard, Harry. The film is spectacular. Stuart was impressed by practical effects, saying that’s all practical effects right.

Those are real boat’s, real water. Christopher Nolan said, real boats, real water. Bill Maher has no intention of retiring. Bill Mooh is now seventy for comps. Johnny Carson retired at sixty six, David Letterman at sixty eight.

Bill Maher had on Byron Allen on Mar’s Club Random podcast. I have that in my cue for this weekend. More said, people are basically retired at this point anyway. But I don’t want to retire, and nobody who is my fan wants me to. I don’t feel any different really, quite frankly, act different than when I was forty.

I’m married, I don’t have kids. I still drink and smoke pot and blah blah blah. When my life changes, maybe the show where my career will change, but until it does, not retiring. Comedy Stock Markets, thank you. Bert Reynolds this week on the Comedy stock Market, we’re going to make some aggressive plays.

Okay, if you’re new to this. Every week we try and find value in the comedians. We try and sell high and buy low. And I’m not all that confident I’m right this week, but I’m gonna play some bets here. Let’s sell Will Ferrell.

I was looking at social media during the home run derby, and people were annoyed, and people were saying things like Will hasn’t been funny in fifteen years, and Will has passed his prime, and I haven’t seen this Netflix show or not. I’m sure right now if I log in, it’d probably number one in trending just because he is Will Ferrell. But I don’t know if people are kind of done with Will Ferrell. So let’s sell Will Ferrell. I might be wrong there, but that’s the recommendation.

Sell Will Ferrell. Let’s also sell Tom Segura. I’m seeing a lot of vibe of Tom lost weight and he’s gone Hollywood and he’s lost his way, and just the general public blaming Tom Sagora. I’m not in their marriage. I don’t know what goes on or not, so I wish them both well as I’ve said, I’m sorry anytime anybody breaks up, but you know, trying to make some hypothetical money here.

So let’s sell Tom Segura and let’s buy Tim Hideker. I’ve been spending some time on this new rebooted Info Wars, and what Tim high Decker is doing on there is amazing. I can’t stop watching it, basically making fun of the entire Alex Jones persona, and he has got my intention. So we’re gonna sell Will Ferrell, sell Tom Sigoram, We’re gonna buy Tim Hidecker. That’s your comedy stock market this week.

If you need something to listen to besides me. Marg Barker’s new comedy album, The Mind Field, is out today via Blonde Medicine. You can also find it on various places that stream and comedy albums. Late Night Er tells us the TV Academy is preparing for the possibility that this year’s newly recombined Outstanding Variety Series category could produce more than one Emmy winner. I told you about this the other day.

If you get more than ninety percent of the votes, you get an Emmy. CEO Morey McIntyre said, it’s a pretty high bar to clear ninety percent yes votes. But you know it’s not unreasonable. It could happen. We’re planning for it just in case.

Under the new structure of voters won’t be asked to choose one winner. They’ll just vote yes or no on each series. I’ll walk you through the series in a minute and tell you what’s going to happen here. If no nominee reaches ninety percent, goes to the show with the highest percentage of yes votes. McIntyre till deadline.

One of the things we had heard from the community loud and clear was these are such disparate shows. It’s hard sometimes to compare them, Like what is Saturday Night Live? How is that really the same as Colbert. That’s why this idea of the Area award made more sense. Again, I think it’s stupid.

So let me walk you through this. The Daily Show, you want to give it an Emmy. How about Kimmel? You want to give Kimmel an Emmy just to stick it to the man. Probably, how about John Oliver he almost always wins anyway.

How about Colbert? You’re gonna want to give Colbert a vote just to stick it to the man, right, And Saturday Night Live did not have a great year at all, but I could see them getting votes. So those are your five. Jimmy Fallon’s got to feel pretty dopey being left out, and luckily Seth Myers isn’t on this list. Make twelve thirty great again.

But again I could see Oliver Kimmel and Colbert all getting one, And then what are we even doing? Do you believe in the Mendela effect? I do, because where I’m from, the guy from the Flight of the Concords used to be named Jermaine Clement, and at some point the R went out of his first name, and his name in this universe where I’m speaking to you today is Jamaine Clement, and I’m telling you that was not always true, Jamaine Clement told Vulture New Zealand political correctness came quite early. We still like to try and not insult whole groups of people, and we stuck with that. We then joked, oh, it’s cool to make fun of trans people.

Now we should do that. We’ve not done that. But there was a reaction of political correctness of going, okay, it’s edgy, you know, make a racist joke. But it wasn’t edgy. It was just old.

It was just old fashion. And it’s like that again. It’s like this just looks like it’s from nineteen seventy. I Eata Rodriguez spoke to the La Times about comedians taking jabs at marginalized people. I said, yeah, there’s no balance when people say, oh, the trans people are so sensitive, queer people are so sensitive because the people who were talking about them are at the top of the food chain.

If there was a trans comedian that was in the Forbes Top ten that could push back and give their perspective and their point of view, then it wouldn’t be as horrible. But there’s no balance. Sometimes that translates into violence. I got tired of that, and I decided to create the world I want to be in because I’m tired of fighting. Comedy and music bring people together.

Comedy is very subjective. There should be a spectrum either love George Lopez or fluffey, and there’s never any room for anything else. And there are many voices in comedy. With Frankie Conunius, we started a long time ago together. I thought This Fool was brilliant.

It was a great representation of the city. The fact that it took time to be part of something that represented La in the community in a way that you never see. Is so special to what’s happening right now. He has got a new show called The Remix, and I wanted to put all that stuff together and celebrate us because no one else is going to do it for us. And that is your comedy news for today.

Saturdays. During the summer, I’ve been doing some deep dives on single topics. Tomorrow we’ll take a look at mega comedian Nate Pergetzi. See then,

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Featured: Mick Jagger, John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle, Usher, Jamie Foxx, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, Kathy Griffin

What’s in This Episode

• Mick Jagger responds to John Mulaney’s ‘not nice’ comment
• Mick Jagger interviewed by New York Times about fame and stage persona
• Dave Chappelle crashes Usher’s concert in Washington DC
• Amy Schumer posts bikini photo on Instagram
• Kathy Griffin’s social media prank about dating a 22-year-old

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Caloroga Shark Media Hit Air. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Have you checked out the new Rolling Stones album? It is fantastic. Mick Jagger has responded to John Mulaney.

John Mulaney had said that Mick Jagger is not nice. Everyone always wants to know if famous people are nice, like Mick Jagger. He came in to host the show. My friends were all like. Is he nice?

No? Or maybe he is for his version of life, because he has a very different life. He’s Mick Jagger, that’s his name. He’s played to stadiums of twenty thousand people cheering for him like he’s a god for fifty years. That must change you as a person.

If you do that for fifty years, you’re never again gonna be like, does anyone have a laptop charger? I could borrow? You know, Mick Jagger didn’t talk like that. Mick Jagger talked like this. He’d go yes, no, Jase.

I pitched him a joke and he went not funny. Mick Jagger was recently interviewed by The New York Times. He said he had never seen that segment by John Mulaney, but admitted the experience of fame does affect you, Jagger said, you get disassociated from what people might call real life. A lot of people in show business only hang around with people in show business because they’ve got something in common. They can relate to each other, and you can get disassociated from what people might call real life.

I mean, you do fight against it. It’s a conscious effort. Jagger went on to say that he’s not really like his stage persona. He compares the experience to that of method actors, saying they take it to the absolute extreme, so they’re like the character all the time, and then after the movie’s over, they’re still in character. It takes a lot of time to slough off the characters.

Which character do you go back to? I spent two hours alone with Mick Jagger that week. We were writing song lyrics. It was for a fake song in a comedy sketch. And he was sitting there and we came to one point and he goes, all right, let’s all go to the picnic.

Let’s all have a drink. Let’s see what rhymes would drink? And I said think and Mick Jagger said no, And then I said sink and Mick Jagger said yeah, And I was like, is this how you write songs? Just one word at a time with verbal abuse? Say all right, I can’t get no happiness now satisfaction?

Shit? All right? Next sentence, faya indent face SA. Mick Jagger would go like this, He’d go di it coke and one would appear in his hand. Now that’s not nice, right, I was raised.

You’re supposed to say, may I please have a diet coke? Please, and then maybe you will get one? And I bet all of you were taught to say please and thank you. But if all of us could go diet coke and one would appear in our hand, we’d do it all day long. Even if you don’t like diet coke, you just summon them so you could chuck them in on coming cars.

It has been a busy week. I didn’t get to tell you about Dave Chappelle going to see Usher last Friday. There’s Usher, He’s performing his concert in Washington, DC. Suddenly Usher pauses mid performance. He scrunches his face and disbelief, and he calls out into the microphone.

Is that Dave Chappelle? Yes, it was Dave Chappelle. Now this happened during the Nice and Slow segment of the Usher concert. During an Usher set, he moves through the audience distributing Usher Bucks, which is custom currency he carries in a red bag. Chappelle had other ideas about the bag’s purpose.

He reached inside, grabbed a handful of the bills, and made it rain on nearby people. The arena erupted with laughter. I worked with Usher war and I didn’t know how to address him because I hadn’t really met him, and I tend to be very formal in these situations, Like, for example, if I were working with Dave Chappelle, I wouldn’t just be like hi, Dave. I would be like, hey, mister Chappelle until he waved me off. So if we were backstage and I had to tell him, you know, it’s time to go on, I’d be like, hey, mister Chappelle, We’re ready for you.

So Usher was the guest on Jamie Fox’s show, and I didn’t want to be like mister Usher, so I just had to call him Usher and seemed pretty fine.

And then that story reminded me I think I had blocked this out.

I was actually with Adam Sandler once, believe it or not, Yes, the great dramatic actor was at the super Bowl in Dallas and I was there overseeing Jamie Fox’s radio show. And the Big Boss, who is a star hugger, had my assistant who was his former assistant, go on a hunt and the bounty was Adam Sandler, and the assistant did deliver Adam Sandler. I don’t think I interacted with Sandler at all, but I was with him. Hit the movie right now, so we can, you know, just go with it, another block buster. That’s what we try to do, just like you do this.

No, please get out of it. I was talking. I was talking to your producing Yeah, Jamie, I never would have named Ray Charles. Yeah, movies would make money. Didn’t you make some money off that one?

I think I think it went right. Seemed like a nice guy and a groovy dresser, Johnny Mac. All you’re doing is talking about the cool comedians that everybody likes. What about the annoying comedians? Okay, listener, I’ll hook you up.

TMZ reports Amy Schumers, once again showing off her body. That’s right. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, and she shared a sexy photo on Instagram, says TMZ. Featuring Amy Schumer in a bikini with her slim toned figure. They write, check it out.

Amy strikes, supposing her two piece while sporting oversized sunglasses and big letters. The cap should reads C section peeking out saying yeah, I’m a warrior. TMZ then went out of their way to remind us you may recall. In twenty twenty five, Amy uploaded sizzling pictures of her slim down self and a Valentino mini dress, sending the Internet and a dizzy over her hot bod. Days later, she announced her divorce.

Meanwhile, Kathy Griffin all kinds of annoying. Last weekend. I don’t know if you saw this, Kathy Griffin posted a picture of herself holding hands with a young man. A young man is twenty two years old. She captured that post he’s twenty two.

Have added Internet and a couple emojis there, one of a fire and one of is this a basketball shooting? I don’t know what it is. I don’t speak emoji. That got the Internet at all talking about Kathy Griffin and her new twenty two year old boyfriend. You may recall.

Back in December of twenty twenty five, Kathy Griffin wrote an essay for The Cut about her divorce. She eventually tried dating apps, where she met younger men. Kathy wrote, at my age, if you can’t handle everything that goes along with me being Kathy Griffin and that’s a lot of bag it trot’s Kathy, then I’d rather hang out with my friends. But she did fall in love with someone who happened to be twenty three years old. She wrote, I was really in love with him.

He touched my heart. He came along at a time in my life when I was like, men suck, there’s only bad ones, and why do I pick the worst ones?

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And then he appeared and I was like, oh, okay, well he’s cool, but it’s dumb.

But he’s too young. We gave it a shot anyway, and we both went with it for a while, and then it came time to go. He made me feel sexy and special and smart and funny, had a lot of the elements of what I think would have made a real lasting relationship. He hadn’t been banged around that much. He’s so young that he didn’t have this baggage, and I just knew my baggage was gonna get in the way anyway back to the picture from last weekend of Kathy Griffin with a twenty two year old psych Kathy revealed it was all a joke.

She posted you guys crying emoji thanks to all who participated my social media sociological experiment. No, I’m not dating this twenty two year old. He was helping me with security during my trip to NYC. But what if I were. The reactions were fascinating, Kathy said.

Her Instagram comments mostly consisted of people saying good for you. On thread, she got quote a whole lot more slutshaming, accusations of grooming, and debates about how gross it would be for sixty five year old woman to date a younger man. Let me just jump in here. In my opinion, I don’t care who Kathy Griffin dates. She could date a ninety year old or a twenty two year old.

Whatever makes you happy, Kathy. What annoys me is every story about Kathy Griffin is about attention. Kathy wrote, older men have been dating younger women since the beginning of time. Just ask Luke Wilson fifty four, who just had a beautiful baby with his twenty four year old girlfriend, or Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, and Jay z and Beyonce some of the most long lasting, beautiful relationships in my beloved though agis and sexist industry. Relax, just a little harmless fun with you, guys with an IG post.

Congratulations to Kathy Griffin. We talked about you for several minutes over on Staten Island. SI Live tells us Pete Davidson will highlight this year’s Just for a Laughs Toronto Comedy Festival, joining a lineup that includes Tiffany Hattish and John Clees. Are there people that like Pete Davidson and Tiffany Hattish and John Clees? Probably?

The ten day festival runs from September twenty fourth through October third. In the past, under the previous ownership was a really good festival. I haven’t been there under the current ownership. I’m sure it’s still pretty awesome, but I did really enjoy jfl Toronto when I went. Other comedians appearing in Toronto include Oh, sorry, I said the second tea right, look at me over enunciating You’re supposed to just say Toronto, right, You’re actually supposed to drop the second tea when I get a letter from my Canadian listeners at Toronto.

Rachel Feinstein, Joe list Joel Kim Booster, Nick thum Raffi Bostos, Emma Willman, Monaics, change the Scar Brothers, Caitlin Palufo and a bunch of others. I think that’s actually a better lineup than the New York Comedy Festival. Anyway, Head on up to Toronto, September twenty fourth through October third. Late Nighter tells us it’s official Late Night has a new ratings king. The new ratings king is Jimmy Kimmel, who posted the highest monthly ratings average of his entire twenty three year run.

So he wouldn’t be stupid and take the summer off to whistle away all that momentum. He’s not that stupid, is he. Jimmy Kimmel’s Late Night show average three point one five million viewers per night in June, up twenty four percent from May. When he used to have competition. There was this thing the Late Show at Stephen Colbert that nobody talks about anymore.

Kimmel led adults eighteen to forty nine, averaging five hundred and five thousand viewers in the demo, up one hundred and twelve percent month to month. Yeah, this is what I’ve been saying all along, Jimmy, that the Colbert exiles were gonna come to you.

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And now you took the summer off and the gun of sample fallon.

This is a mistake. You should have worked this summer. I like summers off too. This summer you should have worked. We’ll see what happens.

We’ll see if I’m right or wrong. In second place, the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon one point four to seven million nightly viewers, up four percent from May. So the Colberts don’t really like Fallon. I can’t even be bothered with the Byron Allen stuff at twelve thirty Make twelve thirty great again. Seth Myers has a show for some reason.

Not sure why he’s losing to Nightline. Nightline average one point zero six million total viewers and one hundred and sixty three adults eighteen to forty nine. Seth Myers, who has a show for some reason, finished second, averaging nine hundred and seventy five thousand total viewers, down seven percent and in the eighteen to forty nine, so was down twenty one percent? Did you say twenty one percent, John, I did, He’s down twenty one percent in the eighteen of forty nine. Is down to one hundred and twenty four thousand people at that point just air this podcast.

Jimmy Kimmel, of course, is crazy taking the summer off. Variety wrote the article NBC’s best chance to boost Jimmy Fallon seth Myers may come during TV’s slow summer cycle. Brian Steinberg wrote of this particular week that I’m talking to you during Fallon launches NBC’s Tonight’s Show without any regular competitors, a throwback to the days when Johnny Carson osed the show before Our Senio and all that. Meyers likewise has no direct rival for his late night show at twelve thirty Am. Make twelve thirty Am Great again?

Little wonder then NBC in recent weeks unveiled great bookings for both shows. NBC may have bigger goals than just winning the summer. Both Fallon and Myers are currently tied to contracts that end in twenty twenty eight. Kimmel recently surprised as surprising one year deal with Disney that’ll keep him on through twenty twenty seven. What’s more, NBC has grown fun in recent years of celebrating big anniversaries for some of its most durable properties.

Tonight will turn seventy five and twenty twenty nine, and if NBC wants to celebrate the occasion with the current host, it presumably will have to extend his contract. Yeah. Imagine switching hosts and being like, Hey, I’m uh, I don’t know who’s somebody ridiculous that they would put on. Hi, I’m Nicky Glazer. Welcome to the Tonight Show.

Now, that’s not going to happen. Variety catching on to one of the YouTube things not working, they wrote, Meanwhile, Julian Shapiro Bornham, who hosts Outside Tonight, none of his clips appeared to have generated more than ninety thousand views. Ouch, and do you like the TV show the It Crowd, The it Crowd, the British shitcom. That’s very funny. They made it crowd.

Lego Yes, a mock up has been posted on Lego ideas, a website in which any design that manages to amass more than ten thousand votes is considered by the Legos to become an official Lego set and includes mini figures of Roy Moss, Jen and Richmond. Creator says, as a longtime fan of the Crowd and someone who works in IT, I wanted to recreate one of the most iconic TV workplaces in lego form. Even years after it first aired, the show’s clever humor, unforgettable characters, and relatable tech moments continue to resonate with fans around the world. I hope this build brings back great memories for fellow fans and celebrates one of the funniest and most beloved workplace comedies ever made. You can vote for the ITD Crowd on Lego Ideas.

If you’ve never seen the show, let me see if it’s streaming right now. If you ever want to know where something is, is a great website called just watch dot com, and it appears the id Crowd is on Amazon Prime Video. Great show if you’ve never come across it. And if you’ve never come across peep Show, watch peep Show as well. That’s a Mitchell and Web thing.

And that is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Shane Gillis, Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Tim Heidecker, Alex Jones

What’s in This Episode

• 2026 ESPYs hosted by Marcello Hernandez
• Shane Gillis SNL controversy and career resurgence
• Blue collar comedians on woke culture
• Larry the Cable Guy on performing in modern America
• Jeff Foxworthy on audience commonality
• Tim Heidecker’s fake Infowars project with Alex Jones conspiracy

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Caloroga Shark Media full side. I’m Johnnie Mack, who with your daily comedy to use. You know what today is. I don’t have to tell you. I know you have it on your calendar.

It’s the SP’s And of course you know who’s hosting the SP’s. That’s right, it’s comedian Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing really well. The SP’s tonight on ABC eight Eastern, seventh Central. Some of the guests include Slick Rick, Ghostface Killer, and Dla Soul. They’ll all perform on the show from Lincoln Center in New York City.

I’ll be curious to see if the establishment athletes population welcomes Marcelo Hernandez. I bet they do. They definitely did not to welcome Shane Gillis last year. However, I tuned in to see Shane Gillis, and I have no intention of watching Marcelo Hernandez. I’ll pull some clips and tell you about it in a day or two.

The blue collar guys are getting slightly political, Larry the Cable Guy spoke to US Weekly. Larry was out participate baiting in the thirty seventh annual ACC Golf Championship, which reminds this podcast host to pull some clips of comedians talking about that event, but we won’t get to that today. Cable guys said, we live in the United States of America. If somebody doesn’t want to like your act, then don’t go to see that person’s act. It’s as simple as that.

Larry was asked about performing stand up comedy in Woke America. The cable guy, who’s now sixty three, which makes sense because I’m almost fifty seven now, said I don’t worry about it. I already got a pretty good built in following, and I got some awesome fans. You know. If I think it’s funny, I’m gonna do it.

We’ll see where it goes. If you let it bother you, yeah, it’s gonna be tough. But I think Shan gillis pretty much proof to everybody that you get canceled and if you want to double down on that, that’s what people want you to do because they’re sick of it too. Shane Gillis got even more popular after you got fired from Saturday Night Live for being too woke from stuff he did ten years ago, you know, and now look at him. That’s the whole key.

Right there. If you don’t like it, It’s like soda pop. Find the one you like and don’t bitch about the others love it. Larry, speaking of Shane Gillis a Hire Season three will be on Netflix August thirteenth, twenty twenty six. I think it’s of an episode or two left from last season.

Meanwhile, Jeff Foxworthy told Fox Digital, I don’t think Hollywood has understood that audience in a long long time. I don’t care where they live or where they stand politically. If you sat people down and said what do you want out of life? I bet we would agree on eighty five percent of the things. We want the same things.

What happened was, instead of celebrating the eighty five percent that were all alike, we yell and scream at each other over the fifteen percent that were different. Being different is fine. It would be boring as hell if we were all alike and all thought the same way. Jeff said. I think that was the success of the Blue Collar Tour because when The Kings of Comedy came out, Atlanta was one of the first stops, and they had an article about it in the Atlanta paper and it said it was a show for the urban hip audience.

And I’m like, well, I’ve bet all fifty states, so let me tell you there’s two hundred million people that aren’t urban or hip. Let’s do a show for them. The first time I worked with those guys, they invited me down to their show. They were playing the Hockey Arena in Nashville. I asked the Blue Collar team, please do not vip me.

My mission there was to learn about that audience so I could program the blue Collar Comedy Channel for Serious. So they sat us in the upper deck again and what I wanted, and I remember a couple things caught my eye. One I was the second skinniest person in the arena, usually never true. And a couple of things got ovations. One was, y’all ever been to the Walmart?

Got a big ovation? And a Jimmy Buffett mentioned got a big ovation. So that helps inform me. Whereas the Raw Dog Comedy Channel on Serious back in the heyday before the Sebastian Manuscalco camp murdered it, we imaged it like a rock station and that was kind of sarcastic, and if it had come to life, it probably would have been a classic Bill Burr Hey. There sal here from Raw Dog Comedy uncensored, laft bread rolls, get out of here.

This is our thirty second laugh. Break is comedy for everyone. Rod Dog is elitist, tell it demand well, dude, raw Dog is comedy uncensored. So why don’t you go? How about some chin music?

Show kin music that’s for stealing our answering machine and our ideas. Rod Dog Comedy uncensored. Serious one O four last Break comedy for everyone. Serious one O five coming in Mark blue Collar Comedy. With the Blue Collar Channel right down the middle of God Flag, country troops, country music, Love, Working with those guys.

Serious XM’s Blue Collar Radio presents Bovie Stars TV host in comedy Legend visit about rednecks Jeff Coo truly up into super Bowl. Jeff’s hanging with the players, the stars and the fans. It’s not even it might be a redneck you are. It’s Jeff Fox Body love from the super Bowl. Here at Friday two pm.

Sexual Blue Collar Radio Serious Exam ninety seven. The road to New Orleans and super Bowl forty seven is right here on Serious XM. The new Info Wars is up. Slate caught up with Tim Hideker. Heidecker has been impersonating Alex Jones for the past ten years.

Tim told Slade, I’m attracted to people like Alex, not sexually attracted, but interested in his mind, in the way he presents himself. Everything we do that’s perceived as absurd always starts from a real place of something like this exists, and we’re gonna expand upon it and go deeper and weird with it. In the New Info Wars world in their continuity, Alex Jones is dead. The big story we want to get to right now, and this is exclusive. These are stories from other news outlets, but one thing Emergency’s gonna be the leader in is breaking news that we’ve reported on.

I’ve got a terrific team out there, producers and researchers finding the truth, getting to the bottom of things. This one pertains to Alex Jones, and I’m gonna break this is big news. This is gonna be on every CNN and all the other fake news sites. They’re gonna be running with this wild. They’re gonna be running wild with this story.

We have leaked video now revealing that Alex Jones pop like a balloon in his car two months ago. That’s right, folks. Alex Jones, the Alex Jones that we have come to know over the years, is dead. He has passed away. In forces obtained shocking cell phone footage that appears to show disgrace broadcaster to Alex Jones popping like a balloon in the front seat of his own vehicle on the morning of May one, twenty twenty six.

Where did that come from? Tim Hideker said, I think I made an offhand remark on my podcast where I said he popped like a balloon. He’s such a round man. I don’t want to fat shame anyone, but reminds me a lot of the Monty Python Meaning of Life sketch where the guy says the wait for him blows up. He reminds me of that guy.

I wouldn’t say anyone’s asking for this, but we want to do some little wish fulfillment or just live in a world where he could pretend that this is happening of Alex Jones. Tim Heideker said he’s trafficked in conspiracy theories and crisis actors and really has such little respect for the truth and for other people’s feelings and experiences, especially with the families at the Sandy Hook tragedy that we were like, let’s just surf him back what he’s been serving for years, which is a bunch of bs. Let’s muddy the waters, go on the offense a little bit and create this messy, stupid conspiracy theory that anybody with a brain knows isn’t true. But make it annoying and confusing, and expand upon this conspiracy theory that Alex Jones exploded and there’s a new impostor Alex Jones, a fake one that they’ve created. You know, Capital TV.

You can’t just go middle ground on this. We have to go to place with this where it’s not worth it for me. Questions remain, Who is this Alex Jones? I believe this is an imposter, This is a know it as a clone, but it’s somebody that they’ve managed to fool the world into believe in. Is is Alex Jones?

Why we’re gonna get into the why is this happening? I want to get into the video. The source of the video here, because we got some metadata on this. The video was created on my first Central Time on the same day that a man claimed to be Alex Jones relaunched his show under his new banner, the Alex Jones Network or Alex Jones Live. Metadata listen iPhone as a recording device and contains GPS coordinates, placing the camera on a residential street on the south side of Austin.

Now, this video was uploaded the X that afternoon by an account with no followers and no prior posts, so it’s a new account. This is kind of what caught my eye. The account was suspended forty seven minutes later. Look at forty seven think about who’s in charge? As late was curious.

Have you ever spoken to Alex Jones? Tim said no during that period. In twenty sixteen, when we were at the Republican National Convention, they were live streaming on the street and I interrupted their live stream. It’s on YouTube. You could see me doing my Alex Sjoon’s impression that his report.

He was there, and he was amused. If someone’s doing a pretty good impression of view, I think that’s kind of amusing. But he didn’t know who I was. He didn’t know I was a world class, legendary comedian. Louis C.K.

Was on Dan Soder’s podcast. Yeah, I talked about this a little bit in the Facebook group. Now, Normally I would make fun of myself and say I’m a loserer basement, but today I’m a medium loser sitting pool sides. I’m not a total loser. At least I have a pool.

But is Dan Soder good at podcasting? Because I think he’s not. I went to pull three clips and I had to throw two of them out because Dan Soder, professional comedian, can’t tell a story. Louis C.K. Really can’t tell a story either, and I had a cut down for pacing.

Anyway, here is a clip of Louis C.K. Telling a long story to Dan Soder. I have cut it down for both pacing and language, and I tried to take soda out of it because soda just steps on c K. Let the man tell us story. I opened for Jerry Seinfeld when I was like nineteen and I was sitting on the stool and he came in.

He was doing Letterman, and back then when someone was doing Letterman, it was this thing, Jerry’s going to be on Letterman tomorrow and he does the set and I saw a bit for him, I saw a tag and I knew him a little from Boston. It was a bit where he was talking about milk. He’s talking about how once you’re racing against the expiration date, you know you have too much milk, you’re washing your face. It was a great bit. And he said, how do they know that’s the day?

How do they know that that day is the day? That was it? That’s all he had, And I was like, I got it. So he’s coming off stage and I just go Jerry and he looks at me like, oh yeah, with this kid? What And I go, I got a bit and he goes, go ahead.

He’s kind of like, you have ten seconds and I go, you say, how do you know that’s the day? Is the guy milk and the cow? And the cow goes July third? Funny? And I knew it would work because his funny face being a cow.

Yeah, And he goes, oh, Jerry’s on Letterman, he’s sitting on panel, he’s telling jokes and he does that thing. How do they know that that’s the day? The crowds I’m listening to the crowds building that was the day? Are they milking the cow? The cow goes July third?

Explosive applause and Letterman comes out of the applause and goes the cow says July third, and Jerry goes, yeah, the cow, and they reiterated. The next day, I’m walking around I think Central Park and I see Jerry. I bump into him on the street and he goes, hey, you’re a bit killed. And he goes, now you know that your mind, the way you think and your comedy can work in the big leagues, Like, now you know that? And I was like, so I felt like, now me and Jerry are you know?

We’re connected? I got a letterman thing. So then like a month later, he goes on the Tonight Show Johnny Carson sure does the joke again. I think he closed with it kills. And so then I see him at Ketch and I just walk up real familiar, Hey, I saw you did the bit on Carson and he goes, what like, do you remember this cow?

And he’s like, uh huh oh oh mirror. He’s kind of like, that’s enough now. And I’ve got a clip from Andrew Schultz. Now, every time I listen to Andrew Schultz, I just wonder, like, did people actually listen to this guy? I’m not pulling bunches today.

And then I have to Google to make sure I didn’t hallucinate this, but no, the New York Times really did print the headline Andrew Schultz podcast bro might be America’s foremost political journalists. This is a real thing that happened. Every now and then you look at something and you’re like, jud did Amy Schumer host the oscars? That makes no sense? And I have to say to you, no, it does make no sense.

But that is a thing that happened. I don’t know why, but yeah, the New York Times actually printed this, that Andrew Schultz podcast bro might be America’s foremost political journalist. So I saw this new clip and let’s hear from the man who might be America’s most political journalists. I did have to edit for language and pacing. The discussion.

Here is about the New York City mayor wanting us to turn the AC up to seventy eight degrees. Here is possibly America’s foremost political journalist, Andrew Schultz. Seventy degrees and below. You’re even a little high with when we say AC, it’s seventy two and below seventy degrees and below. You’re even a little high with that one.

But I’ll let you Rod. I know Zora was saying keep it at seventy eight with easeys, this is this is America. He was feeling a little too good NIXXA five, he was like off the high. He’s like, oh, we don’t need it, but he was wild. I put him to sixty four, just despite him even suggesting such a thing or a blew out.

I really don’t know how people listen to that. And there’s a video version, and I really don’t want to look at Andrew Schultz sitting there in shorts just for laughs. In Montreal. Kicks off tonight. Now there’s a couple weeks to it.

The first week is usually a little slow. The second week is like the heart of the festival and all the big shiny stuff happens. I don’t think I’m gonna go like nothing in the lineup. I’d love to go see weird al and I really like new faces, but I don’t know something. For some reason, I haven’t felt like going through.

A part of it is they changed publicity companies and I was in really good with the old crew, and I reached out to the new crew and they were initially responsive, but they haven’t chased me. And I haven’t chased them, so I’m not saying that they’re rotten like the Hulu people, but I don’t know. There’s, of course, the weird AL Show Saturday, July twenty fifth, at nine pm. It’s kind of late AL at the Place to Festivals. Apparently Al played there at the twenty fifteen just for laughs.

I guess I didn’t go to that one. That was probably just after my run it’s serious, and before I started getting back into all this stuff. I took a little break there. You know, I didn’t have the podcast yet. I probably didn’t even have the slacker job yet.

So it’s a little weird to just be like, hey, guys, I have no job, but I’m here at the festival, you know, so I stayed home. I guess that year. Bill Brownstein reminds us at the twenty fifteen just for laughs that the lineup was Mike Myers, Trevor Noah, Kevin Art, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Jane Lynch, Star, Trek Runer, Baton Os Walt, Colin, Joe’s, Tom, Papa, JB. Smooth, Margaret Show, Jimmy Carr, Gilbert Gottfried, Sebastian Maniscalco, probably made a face, Janee Ruffalo, and Hasan Minhaj. That’s a pretty good lineup, but Bill says COVID came and took a devastating toll on JFL and most other festivals for several years.

Then competition unlike anything JFL had ever experienced came with the arrival of the biennial Netflix’s a Joke Festival. Make things worse were jfl’s financial issues and some other stuff I’ll let the lawyers argue about. Then the new owners showed up and rescued this thing in twenty twenty four, and we had a pretty normal festival last year. This year’s lineup includes David Letterman, Will Arnette, Jerry Seinfeld, Tiffany Hattich, Mike Berbiglia, Gabe Iglesias, May Martin, and of course we’re aw Nick Brazo is the head of programming for JFL. He picked out ten of his favorites from the lineup.

One of them Heated Rivalry, the unauthorized musical parody. There’s also Sibling Rivalry Live. Say that one time slow and you still trip over it. We’re told definitely not to be confused with the Heated Rivalry parody. Too late, this one will be equally unforgettable, featuring two of the world’s most famous drag queens, Bob the Drag Queen and Monett Exchange, bringing a live version of their hit podcast, The Improveniers Sir.

One of the truly feel good stories of this and any other festival. The cast together since twenty eighteen, is made up entirely by members with down syndrome. They use improv to break down barriers and put on both a great show and provide a very inclusive experience. That’s cool the Montreal series July sixteenth and seventeenth that the Comedy Nests. Nick says, we have a duty and responsibility to support and celebrate our local comedians who get old their own with comics anywhere.

Twenty four locals and four shows. See that’s fun. That’s the kind of thing. If you go to festival, I think you go see Dan Tiernan July twenty fifth, the Cafe Cleopatra and appearing in British July twenty first to the twenty fifth. Nick says a new face of comedy star at last year’s fest Montreal.

May not know him yet, but certainly will. He’s a mad genius. I must see Nick’s excited about Dukes, which is Jane Wicklin and the Live of Pierce. They bring their off Broadway hit musical comedy dealing with the hope, lust and dreams of two friends with one piano. We are told Mike Berbiglia is a huge fan Abby Wamba the first three minutes of seventeen shows July twenty fifth at the Theater Saint Catherine Abbey won the twenty twenty six Melbourne Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show Award and the twenty twenty four Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Award.

Good pedigree there. The Nasty Show one of the annual traditions. A new breed of nasty here with American host CP and Canadian Reids performing. Both may fly under the radar, but they’ve both been crushing it. The Culture Show is another returner, Alfred Roblace and Tara Canistraki.

They are the opening acts for Gabe Iglesias and Joe Coy who one time told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift, but we don’t have time for that today. A Mexican and an Italian making their Montreal debuts. We are told details on the festival which starts today and runs through the twenty six go to Ha ha ha dot com. And good news for the guy. Remember the guy that was being sued by the Lion King people.

Remember this comedian, Lean Moore Junasy was being sued for twenty seven million dollars. You may recall the comedian said that the famous Lion King chant translates to look there’s a lion, Oh my god. And boy, if you think the tailor swift joke was mean, how about that line? Huh? That led to a twenty seven million dollar defamation lawsuit for joking that a song line means look there’s a lion, Oh my god.

The people suing remind us the line actually says, all hail the King, we all bound the presence of the King, and not at all, look there’s a lion, Oh my god. Anyway, US District Judge Josephine Stanton said the parties had fully discussed the matter and agreed to dismiss the case voluntarily. The comedian had turned the dispute into merchandise, selling T shirts bearing the words look, it’s a lawsuit, oh my god. The shirts also featured a cartoon of the comedian holding up legal paper is interposed that some perhaps possibly think, looked like Mafasa presenting Simba. And that is your pool side comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, David Letterman, Buddy Guy, Fred Armisen, Richard Kind, Nate Bargatze, Margaret Cho, Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, Brian Simpson

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s two-hour show at Wrigley Field with David Letterman and Buddy Guy
• Nate Bargatze interview on Dan Patrick Show following MAGA political controversy
• New York Comedy Festival November 2026 lineup and Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch program
• Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival awards and honorees
• Margaret Cho’s TikTok controversy over Senator Lindsey Graham’s death
• Jimmy Kimmel’s photoshopped Mitch McConnell proof-of-life joke
• James Corden’s FIFA World Cup After Hours late-night show ratings

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media with the landscapers and the cicadas of Johnny macpoolside with your Daily Comedy News Boy. We got a lot to talk about a bump stuff into like later in the week, but we got to talk about John Mulaney at Wrigley Field. Everything I saw about this starting on Sunday, everybody was there said the show was absolutely amazing. Your host was Richard Kind. Mullaney was joined by Buddy Guy, Fred Ormison, David Letterman, Yeah, and then m’laney did two hours.

Apparently the Hollywood Reporter had a nic recap. David Letterman took center stage to wild cheers and applause and asked, how did this happen? What are the beatles here tonight, ladies and gentlemen. This makes the Taylor Swift wedding look like a student film. Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy was the opener of the eighty nine year old.

Buddy Guy played a short set while everybody kind of got settled. Your host, Richard Kind, then welcomed Fred Ormison, who performed a comedy set that featured some musical numbers. Then David Letterman had the task of welcoming John Mulaney to the stage. Slash Films Ethan Anderton is quoted as saying, Mullaney blue the non existent roof off Wrigley Field. The hollered reporter says when it was all said and done, Mullaney seemed floored by the scene.

As Malini closed the show, he said, every Chicago thing in me is telling me to stop bowing, but I’m gonna enjoy the moment. Thank you very much for being with us tonight. It’s another round of applause, please for Fred Armison, Buddy Guy, Richard Kind, and Ball State’s David Letterman. Words can’t describe how cool this is. Sounds like an awesome show.

John Mulaney is touring, mister whatever, coming soon to a town possibly near you. I gotta talk about this. This is my new favorite topics. Lash bid from The Daily Beast, Outed Maga comedian does first interview since Trump event. That’s right, Outed Mega comedian Nateprighatzy did an interview.

The Maga comedian went on The Dan Patrick Show, where was asked softball questions like have you ever tried Burger Donalds, burgers from Burger King, fries from McDonald’s, and the Maga comedian answered, oh wow, I could that. Yeah, I would do it. I get two Whopper Juniors, no onion, no tomato, and that’s the root of and going to a lot lately. No fries. But now you’re throwing a McDonald’s.

Oh boy, geez, what a fascist answer that is, mate. Berghatsy did not address the firestorm of fan blowback that he has faced since cozying with Maga’s elite, says The Daily Beast. The New York Comedy Festival announced their headliners. The festival takes place November sixth through the fifteenth this year and all five at New York City Boroughs. I’m underwhelmed by this lineup, being honest, Mark Marin, okay, cool, a lot of glazer.

That’s the second aam You’re thrown out there? Sarah Sherman, Adam Friedland, Miss Pat Daniel Sloss, ze Way, Patty Harrison, and Moore Second Paragraph. Headliners also include Jordan Jensen, Jordan Klepper, Ben Bechis, Mojo Brooks, Dropout Improv game show starring Matt Rodgers and Dave Mazzoni, Jess Hilarious and Joanne mcnow. I know, is that an exciting line up. This thing is I don’t know.

It used to feel bigger. The festival will feature more than one hundred shows from over two hundred comedians, with more performers to be announced. Well that’s good. For the first time, The New York Comedy Festival will welcome Varieties prestigious ten Comics to Watch program as part of the lineup. That presentation will take place November twelfth during the festival.

This year’s honorees will also be featured in Variety’s November fourth issue ahead of the event. Since launching that franchise in two thousand, Variety has identified many of comedian’s biggest future stars, including Wanda Sykes, Maga, comedian Aight Berghatzy star trek ruin Her, Pat Oswald, Fred Ormison, and zach Alifanakis.

Meanwhile, just for laughs, doesn’t know what Summer Friday is.

They announced a bunch of things for the Montreal Comedy Festival at like noon on Friday in the summer, and I’m like, that’s waiting for Tuesday, guys, what are you doing where? It told Chris Fleming is set to receive the Comedy Performance of the Year Very Nice. He will also do a live show at the Montreal Festival. OT’s Goo at Cotsco will receive the Breakout Comedy Star of the Year trophy. So that’s interesting, right, Like, if you listened to this show, you know who Otsko is.

We’ve been talking about it for years and years, but I guess Sevieillians are like, who’s that. Canadian actress and comic Lisa Gilroy you may know her from Jury Duty or Brooklyn nine to nine will be honored as the Rising Comedy Star of the Year. Interesting. And Gabe Fluffy Iglesias we’re told coming off as Netflix special and I’ll add the Rion Comedy Festival he wins the Generation Award.

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Also, a friend of mine, a former Just for Last programming head, Bruce Hills,…

Congratulations to Bruce there. Now what’s really interesting is the continued establishmentization of John Marcos Siaesi. He and Jay Jorden will deliver this year’s State of the Industry address, which roasts the comedy business. John Marco’s going to be really, really good at that. I’m enjoying the cicadas.

This is the first day of the summer. I’ve heard any cicadas every summer. They’re like, this is the big brood, and then I get underwhelmed. I like when it’s like cicada media. So you may have heard the Senator Lindsey Graham passed away.

However you feel about his politics, you know, you don’t have to be a douche. Apparently Margaret Chow disagrees with the that sentiment. Margaret Chow posted a video on TikTok on Sunday morning with the caption bye girl, g u r L we are told him. The clip, Margaret Show said goodbye to Graham several times before uttering a frequent rumor that the politician who opposed LGBTQ plus rights was gay. Margaret Show said, from the closet to the coffin real seamless.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel is trolling Mitch McConnell. You may have seen over the weekend they put out a proof of life photo of Mitch McConnell. Some people think it was AI generated. Jimmy Kimmel interrupted his summer break and wrote on Instagram for those who’ve been asking, I’m feeling great. That caption was attached to a photoshop version of McConnell’s photo.

In this version, we saw Jimmy Kimmel sitting with Elaine Chow Mack Packer. Henry Winkler responded to that and said, didn’t ask, but so glad to know. Actually didn’t know to ask. Representative Jasmine Crockett praised Jimmy Kimmel, commenting with a series of laughing atmojis and adding, you never miss over the weekend. And Alie g was selling weed at Wimbledon.

Let’s listen stop. There were all also, Bob, we’ve got fresh low knocks. Come to set one four to two, low euge. How is the artificial one? Don’t be very name.

I’m sure somebody found that funny. If you need something to watch, Brian Simpson’s Live at the Mothership is out today. You will find that on Gorilla Comedy. Plus. It’s kind of weird having no soccer to watch yesterday.

I actually got some work done. How about that James Cordon late night show? You know I call it Show after Soccer. It probably has its own title, Oh yes it does. It’s FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon.

I think Show after Soccer would have been a much better name. How’s it doing? Johnny Mac Well, Late Nighter tells us it is averaging six hundred and thirty nine thousand total viewers and in the eighteen to forty nine two hundred and six thousand adults. Late night Er says for a lightly promorted sports adjacent pop up show, it is lightly promoted except for you know, fifty million people watching the US game and the announcer saying coming up at midnight. James Corden, I don’t know how lately promoted that is or not, but anyway, Late Nighter says the numbers are hardly disastrous, especially in the demo.

Late Nighter adds the more revealing numbers of the outliers. After Hours posted its two strongest telecast to date on June twenty ninth and June thirtieth, when it immediately followed World Cup Games. The June twenty ninth episode did one point two three seven million total viewers and in the eighteen of forty nine four hundred and fifty two thousand. The next night one point two two four million viewers and four hundred and sixty nine thousand adults eighteen of forty nine. Pretty good.

Also from Late Nighter. We’ll talk a little bit more about Jimmy Kimmel’s June ratings later in the week, but during the July fourth Lull, Kimmel averaged one point four to five million total viewers and one hundred and sixty seven thoy eighteen to forty nine’s number two and Late Night The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, which also aired repeats that week, one point one seven million total viewers and one hundred and forty three thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. The Byron Allen Garbage did six hundred and five fifty one thousand total viewers and eighteen to forty nine in a country of three hundred million people seventy three thousand adults. But CBS doesn’t care because they’re making money. At twelve thirty Different Garbage with Byron Allen Funny you should ask drew four hundred and twelve thousand total viewers and forty seven thousand adults eighteen to forty nine at that point.

Just run this podcast. Late Night with Seth Myers Make twelve thirty Great Again had repeats all week, six hundred and fifty one thousand total viewers and eighty four thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. Again, not that many more people than are listening right now. Prince Harry went on a comedy podcast. If you want to follow all the latest Prince Harry news, this is me Gross promoting the Palace Intrigue podcast.

We had some pretty good numbers ourselves last week. With Prince Harry visiting his father in London. Harry went on Joe Marler, We’ll see you now, and Joe Marler, a retired rugby player, is joined by comedian Jake Bardwall. They asked Harry his name and Harry said his name is Henry Charles Albert David, Duke of Sussex. Jake Bardwatch quipped it’s a long one.

Prince Harry said, all right, Jake. And in Turkey, the court has ordered access block to a YouTube video of the show Ulu Deniz, hosted by comedian Dennis Girtosh, citing national security and public order concerns. A video had been watched some twelve point seven million times. Girktosh was arrested by an Istanbul court on July third and jail pending trial after prosecutors accused him of insulting the President and various religious values. In the same show, he was detained at Istanbul Airport during passport control after returning from a previously planned vacation.

The ninety minute performance, uploaded to YouTube on June twenty fourth, include satirical comments on Turkish politics, universities, public protests, nationalism, and the secular children of conservative families. In a police statement, Girktosh denied intending to insult religious people or the president, saying the show had been performed for about three years the cities across Turkey and seen by more than one hundred thousand people before being uploaded to YouTube. Is your comedy news for today, Poolside? See you tomorrow.