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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Dave Chappelle, Marc Marin, Howie Mandel, Brian Posain, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Alec Baldwin, James Austin Johnson, Jim Downey, Robert Smigel, Maya Rudolph, Keegan-Michael Key, Chevy Chase, Robbie Hoffman, John Mulaney, Jeff Foxworthy

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien partners with Adaptive Security for 15-part AI cybersecurity training series
• Dave Chappelle announces Summer Camp 2026 dates in Yellow Springs, Ohio
• Marc Marin promotes new film In Memoriam about comedian with terminal diagnosis
• Playing Potus documentary celebrates presidential impersonations at Tribeca Film Festival
• James Austin Johnson discusses playing Trump on SNL with empathy and humor
• Robbie Hoffman discusses success and John Mulaney’s support of her career
• Johnny Mac announces new Saturday deep-dive format starting with Shane Gillis

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Callarogashock Media. Hey, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I think we’re all crushed and sad and just really upset that the Knicks lost on Monday Night. Michael Jay is blaming the President of the United States, which I got to say is totally unfair. The reason the Knicks lost was because of the crooked referees.

That is the reason. Call some fouls both ways, guys, I digress. Michael Jay posted on Instagram, you just had to invite Trumpty Dumpty Spurs one fifteen New York Knicks one to eleven. Knicks play tonight at eight thirty. Johnny Mac plays volleyball at six thirty.

Should be a big night. Conan O’Brien has partnered with AI cybersecurity firm Adaptive Security. Conan O’Brien will start in a fifteen part training series. I wonder how much he’s getting paid for this, because fifteen’s a lot. Conan can’t be cheap.

These AI people have money. Conan will star in a fifteen port training series four Customers, exploring the various cyber threats emerging in the AI age, from voice cloning and impersonations to the ever present threats like phishing and even physical safety. Each episode of the training series, available to Adaptive’s enterprise customer base, begins with Conan O’Brien deploying a bit that’s relevant to the episode’s topic. Conan said, I teamed up with Adaptive Security just to figure out what these kids are up to. Turns out it’s pretty cool.

The company reportedly has raised more than one hundred and forty million dollars through several investment rounds. Some of that went to Conan O’Brien. Dave Chappelle will return to the Cornfields of Yellow Springs, Ohio this summer for Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp, a new run of shows at the Weiriga Pavilion. The new dates are July first, second, third, August twentieth, twenty first, twenty second, and August twenty seven to twenty eight, twenty ninth. Tickets available today noon local time at ticketmaster dot com.

The sixth edition of Dave chappelle Summer Camp celebrates the sixth anniversary of the Cornfield shows. Remember they started, If I recall correctly during the pandemic in six years, that sounds about right. No phones, no smart watches, no accessories, et cetera, et cetera. It’s a Chappelle show. Guests maintain possession of their devices at all times.

It can access them through the event only in designated phone use areas. All devices will be secured in yonder pouches, et cetera, et cetera. Anyone seen using a device during the performance will be escorted out by security. Mark Marin is beginning to do press for in Memoriam. He plays a comedian with just six months to live.

He’s pushed to connect with the daughter he’s never met and finds himself questioning what truly matters. Mark says, if you’re can make it funny and make a point, you should make the point. And people on either side will resist the idea of popsics being part of comedy, but it has to be. And if you have something to say and your principles are sound, you should figure out a way to say it better. If it’s funny, just try to make it funny.

Howie Mandel and Brian Posain are in a new music video. This is a collab between German band Electric Callbol and The Offspring’s Dexter Holland. The two released a collaborative song called let the Good Times Roll. In the music video, we see how a Mandel, Brian Posain, and John Goblekhan Remember that guy. Yeah.

A new documentary is celebrating being able to make fun of the president. It’s called Playing Potus. It’s not just about the current president, it’s about making fun of all the presidents. Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell and Alec Baldwin were at the Tribeca Film Festival and they look back on their presidential impersonations. There was also a panel discussion with SNL writers Jim Downey and Robert Smigel, as well as James Austin Johnson, who plays President Trump on Saturday Night Live.

James shared how he gets another role. He said, I’m trying to think of a guy who’s been working in retail for like five decades, in a corner, in an uncomfortable chair somewhere. He’s just doing that to whatever new workers walking past. I want to play it like it’s a man talking alone in a room, and it’d just be saying all that stuff. The panel moderator asked James Austin Johnson if he has some degree of empathy for the president.

Johnson said, If you can’t tell how I feel about Donald Trump from the way that I do him, you’re a moron. He said, people who come to see a perform him live are sometimes mistakenly under the impression that he loves Donald Trump, and they wind up walking out. Johnson said, I think I play his charm a little bit more, maybe more than Alec Baldwin did. I think I play the secret weapon that he’s deployed, which is that he’s you know, funny, intentionally and unintentionally kind of hilarious guy. That’s not really something I’m looking for when it’s time to vote for somebody, but it’s been extremely powerful.

Johnson said, am I fearful of the crazy person who wields the military and seems to target individuals? Yeah? I hope my name never comes out of his mouth. Senior letters to James Austin Johnson. Jim Downey said he sometimes feels like we did a little too much political stuff on SNL and pointed out that the cold open wasn’t always about politics or news of the week the way it is usually these days.

Down He said, our cold openings were only political about a third of the time. That shifted after we started to get a lot of attention for political sketches in the mid eighties, and Lauren began to feel like we were almost like a daily newspaper and we had an obligation of the public to something political upfront.

Also appearing and playing potus Maya, Rudolph Keegan, Michael Key, and Chevy…

Robbie Hoffman told people, I don’t want to jigs anything, but it’s pretty good to be me right now. She says this current stretch has come after years of grinding and TV writing in the stand up circuit. She said this level of success out of the blue would not feel manageable. What’s happening with the heated rivalry boys. That feels like there’s no on wrap.

We’ve been rubbing up to highway speed for a while. She is thankful for John Mulaney, who directed her first stand up special, Wake Up. Robbie says, he’s like a Knight in shining armor. He was putiful and going I want everyone to know about her. It feels like Batman and Robin and my name’s Robbie.

Some quick housekeeping. I’ll get into this a little bit more on Friday. Starting on Saturday. For Saturdays in the summer, I’m going to do deep dives on single topics. This week’s topic will be Shane Gillis, next week will be Tony Hinchcliff.

So among the reasons I am doing this is search engines are changing the way they’re doing things, and I need to create some content that has longer to make sure the show shows up and hopefully that will lead to more downloads and more people checking out the episodes. Plus, candidly, it’s summertime and I like to pretape the weekends. I’ve always been honest about that. So when you start hearing those Saturdays in the summer, that’s what that’s all about. I’ll get more into it on Friday.

And again, it’s an experiment. Much like Comedy stock Market was and Comedy Survivor was. This is a different experiment and hopefully you guys will like it. And if you all hate it, let me know in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I’m not offended if it sucks and then we won’t do it anymore.

But I think it’s pretty good. I’ve recorded three of them. They came out pretty well. Jeff Foxworthy caught up with Atlanta magazine. Good placement there.

You know, it’s interesting. I have a friendship with Jeff’s manager, and I, you know, I’ve had Cable Guy in a couple of times. I don’t know. I didn’t ask for Jeff this time around. He’s doing some press.

I just didn’t feel like I had anything to ask Jeff about. Great guy. I have nothing but great things to say about him. He’s been very helpful in my career. But you know, I’m slow to ask for the favors, and I just didn’t feel like using one this time.

But Jeff did speak with Atlanta magazine, and when comedians asked Jeff for your guidance, he says, nobody has your life experience, nobody has your point of view. The sooner you let your stand up be you, the better it’ll work. That’s just part of the learning curve, he ads. I think you need to do it every night for ten years, and all of a sudden you have a style. His biggest piece of advice is you need to hang out in comedy clubs with other comics so you can see how materials perform, developed and honed, as well as how comics find their own voice.

Jeff himself moved to LA in the early nineties. He’d watch people like Seinfeld and Stephen Wright. He said, Stephen Wright in particular, at this really slow and monotone style. He was really popular, and I wondered if I should copy it. Comedians would tell Jeff to tone down his accent, and he said, I tuck my heels in.

I’d think, where I come from, You’re the one with the stupid accent. I thought this was interesting. I’ve never heard this story. If Foxworthy was performing in Nashville in the late eighties and Robert Plant, you know, the singer from led’ Zuppa and La Guy, walked in to watch Jeff Foxworthy. After the show, Foxworthy sought out Robert Plant.

Plants old Foxworthy he was funny and said people from London would often make fun of the way that Robert Plant spoke when Plant was growing up. Fox Worthy said, I kept thinking as he spoke to me, Holy hell, Robert Plant likes redneck jokes. Steph Tolev is having a year, so are the folks at Tom Sigor’s YMH Studios. They are teaming up Steph Tolev’s podcast, Steph Infection Well premiere with YMH Studios. Guys today, which means her career is going to shoot up.

So that’s an early hint on the comedy stock market this week. That’s a great crew to be running with. With Steph Infection, Steph Tolev brings the same no holds bored and hilarious, honest approach that has made her a fan favorite on stage. The podcast features conversations with guests that deliver outrageous stories about the human body, medical mishaps, intriguing Ailment’s health quirks, and more. Late Night reports that Outside Tonight with Julian Shapiro Bornham will premiere June seventeenth.

That’s just one week away. This is YouTube’s first direct attempt to build a late night franchise of its own. So Ben Gleib is kind of doing his own thing, but this is YouTube trying to do it. Hosted by the creator behind the YouTube hits Recess Therapy and Celebrity Substitute, which I’m sure are amazingly popular and have never once hit my algorithm. So I’m assuming these are not for fifty six year old guys recording podcasts in their basement.

Again, I’m not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying factually, it has never once hit my algorithm. Outside tonight, we’ll take the format out of the studio and into public spaces with celebrity interviews, live music, games, and audience interactions staged in parks, plazas and street corners. So we’ll see that it’s a week from now now. I did look up on Monday at eleven thirty I looked up to see how Ben Gleb’s second episode did Ben Gleb Episode two had When I looked at eleven thirty am on Monday, twenty two thousand views.

That is not going to cut it. Arch Barker will have a new album out on July seventeenth that is called The Mindfield. You’ve got that via Blond Medicine. On the Minefield, arch Barker encourages the audience reflect on questions insufficiently explored by science, such as what is consciousness. He also takes on topics like meditation, masturbation, and traveling over an now to eat mediocre pizza.

Track listings include New Zealand, Travel Tips, Night Boner, and Coffee Breath Blues.

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Meanwhile, up in Canada, the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival annually combines…

Once again. They’re doing events in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Mississauga, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Now the show’s July seventeenth through the nineteenth. In Edmonton and Winnipeg. Are Pete Davidson, The Not So Canceled Disease, I’m sorry, Jeffer Curry, Bill Burd just back from the Red Comedy Festival, Matt Riife, Jordan Jensen, Hasan Minhaj, Robbie Hoffman, Ronny Chieng, Jimmy o’yang, and Adam Ray as Doctor Phil.

Then in Halifax in August, you’ll get Nicky Glazer, Fortune Fimester, Steph Tolev, Trevor Wallace, Ryan Long, Andrew Schultz, Lucas Zelnik, Cam Patterson, who by that time will probably have anoulys he’s not returning INESNL, alongside Matt Rife and Adam Ray. That’s good. Now in Calgary August twenty eighth to the thirtieth, you’ll get Mulaney, Bill Bird, Signatoro Bob the Drag, Queen, Mittel Lane, Mike Brobiglia, Langston Kerman and Jordan Jensen.

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Meanwhile, if you’re in Vancouver and you know that you are, Anthony Justin, …

If you’re in Ontario, you gotta wait till September eleventh. You guys get Nick Kroll, Fred Armison, Matt Matthews, miss Pat t J. Miller, Katherine Landford, Michael Costa, Brad Williams, and Grace O’Malley. Now, if you’re not overwhelmed by those names, they’re joined by John Mulaney, Jeffic Curry, Hasan Minhaj, Ronny Chieng, Adam Ray, Mike Berbiglia and Jordan Jensen. You’ll find that at Mississauga’s Erindale Park.

And that is your comedy news for today. Right it’s June. You’re sharing the show? Are you telling everybody? Especially Canadians, just be like, Hey, Canadians, nobody talks about us.

This guy did like a whole three minute segment at the very last item in a show. So if you’re Canadian today, you’re going to tell a friend about the show, and you can tell them they can follow a show on Spotify where comments are open, and they’re going to click that little button that says turn on notifications so that they never miss an episode. You’re all going to do that, all right, Canadians. You guys are trustworthy. You’re going to do that for me.

Coming up tonight, the New York Nicks take on the San Antonio Spurs. That’s where I’ll be if you’re looking for me. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Jay Leno, Stephen A. Smith, Whitney Cummings, Woody Harrelson, Zarna Garg, Adam Sandler, Patton Oswalt

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Maher wins Mark Twain Prize at Kennedy Center
• Zarna Garg performs at Riyadh Comedy Festival
• Trump plans to attend Knicks game at Madison Square Garden
• UFC event scheduled on White House South Lawn for Trump’s birthday
• Adam Sandler declines UFC White House event invitation
• Patton Oswalt releases new special on YouTube
• George Carlin commemorative collection discussion

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. Here’s a crew for you. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It’s the Mark Twain Prize.

Remember last year Conan O’Brien and like everybody showed up. Well, who’s coming this year? Who’s even getting it this year? John? Well, this year’s winner is Bill Maher.

And who’s coming Louis C.K. Jay Leno and Steven A. Smith. Which sounds like the setup to a joke, that’s right. Bill Maher will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center Sunday, June twenty eighth.

It will be filmed for Netflix. And it’s not just Louis c. K, jay Leno and Stephen A. Smith, Oh No, you’ll also get Whitney Cummings, Woody Harrelson, Arianna Huffington, and John Mellencamp. Previous winners include Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, wiop Be Goldberg, Bob Newhart, George Carlin.

You’ll cosme, we don’t like to talk about that. Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, David Letterman, Kevin Hart, Conan O’Brien even Cheilano himself in twenty fourteen, I bet you can’t wait, Well, you’re gonna have to wait two weeks.

Meanwhile, listen to this from Zarna Garg.

Are you ready for this? You’re not. You know why she played the Rion Comedy Festival. No, it wasn’t about the money. She was on the Breakdown podcast and Zarna Garg said, I really went with the spirit of I’ve been ordained to do this by somebody, some higher power.

It is my job to spread the message and to let women know they could say what comes to their mind. That’s life freedom. If I can even inspire them to think in that direction, then I’m doing something positive for this world, which of course is why she donated all her proceeds to share hold on in being passed a note. Oh she didn’t. Oh so it’s never mind.

Sorry I got distracted there, guys. Zarna said it was controversial here as everything tends to be, because everybody thinks they know what Saudi Arabia is sitting in Brooklyn. Well they don’t know is that my material goes all over the world because of the digital world we live in. My joke’s my comedy special. Everything travels.

You can’t control where these things show up anymore. So women in that part of the world watch me in secrets the jokes that are open here. It’s not so easy for them to watch it. They write me constantly. They’re like, come to us.

We want our daughters to see you because they’ve never seen somebody that looks like me say these things. Greg said her children were dead against the trip, but she offered to go for message, not money. Uh huh. Zarna says a lot of people think that the comics who did it did it for the money. Money’s very important in life.

But I’m gonna say this, and it’s gonna sound a little braggy, but I’m gonna be honest about it. The comics they invited make a lot of money in America. They didn’t invite the comics who are struggling here. To be honest, you think you think they didn’t invite open micers? Sorry, Zarady said, we would have all made money.

I could do three more shows in New Jersey and make the same money, right, three shows. We all didn’t go there to chase the money. I can’t speak for others, but the money was not a motivator for me at all, which is why she donated it to Oh no, she didn’t. I’m telling you, I went with the same sense that I owe these into something. Honestly, it’s a very slight capitulation by the regimes that run those places that they too need a woman on the lineup.

They didn’t have to invite us. They could have ignored us, They could have just had fifty men. But even they are now understanding that is it really in your best interest to exclude half of your world? And even though there are plenty of problems there, there’s no defending a lot of things that go on there or here for that matter. But if they’re opening that door, even for the slightest ray of sunshine to pass through, is it not our job to help push it open even that little bit more?

In October, The Hollywood Reporter shared that Jessica Curson donated her fee from the Riod Comedy Festival to the Human Rights Campaign. Perhaps Zorna did too, and she just hasn’t promoted it. Who knows? How about those Nicks? Huh?

Everybody’s talking about the Knicks, including Jimmy Kimmel. President Trump said he is planning to go to New York for the day. This would be the first time Trump has appeared at a court New York since being convicted of thirty four felonies. Trump is. A fan.

I mean know he’s a n X fan, because a few days ago he posted this Ai slop of himself in a Next Jersey dunking on New York Governor Kathy hulk Ole areas Larry tured with two hands on the bar. The President wants to be there in person to support his hometown team and, if necessary, to overturn the results of the game. I just can’t wait to hear him try to say the word Webin Yamas. That’s where I’m looking forward to. You think Trump would be rooting for the Spurs, right, It’s what got him out of Vietnam.

Solid joke there. It’s a big sports week for the president, who’s excited about the big UFC event on the White House lawn. I was in DC recently and you got to see this thing. It looks like a mess. I’m sorry, it looks terrible.

They do such a good job down there with the monuments and the whole National Mall area, but this thing on the lawn mess, total mess. Adam Sandler’s Not Going to Go. Sandler was one of seven celebrit that UFC CEO Dana White said he invited to the events on the White House South Lawn on Saturday. That list included Guy Ritchie, Tom Brady, Jared Lado, Jason Statham, The Rock, Mario Lopez, and of course Adam Sandler. What a list?

Actually, wouldn’t you watch that movie if it were on Netflix? If I told you they’re a movie staring Sandler, The Rock, Jason Statham, You’re already in right now. I’m gonna throw on top for no reason. Tom Brady, Mario Lopez, Jared Lado and Guy Ritchie. Why are we not making this movie?

It’s like Ocean’s eleven, but like bad. Make that I digress. A representative for Sandler told Vanity Fair that the star best known for comedies including Billy Madison and The Wedding Singer, along with dramatic roles in films such as Uncut Gems and Jake Kelly Wait Am I Winning the War? Are people starting to refer to Adam Sandler dramatic actor? Because they just qualified him?

In Vanity Fair naming four movies and only two of them were horrible comedies. Hmm, maybe I’m winning the war of Adam Sandler. I digress again. The representative for Sandler told Vanity Affair that mister Sandler would not attend. No reason was given.

The UFC event is scheduled for the President’s eightieth birthday this weekend. It is being promoted as part of the country’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration. If you’re old like me, you remember in nineteen seventy six we had things like Operations Sale and CBS, Rand Bison, Sanniel Minutes, and everything was red, white and blue all over the place, and there were like flags with thirteen stars. None of that happening this time. Very very disappointing.

I remember fifty years ago as a kid being like, oh, I can’t wait to the two fiftieth because I really enjoyed this spic centennial. The two fifty is going to be awesome, and it’s just going to come and go. How disappointing. Send your letters to me, I guess Star trek grown Er Patton Oswalt has a new special out today t N Scotch on YouTube. Good discussion with Patten and Vice Vice ass Patten and the liner notes for the George Carland Commemorative Collection.

You said that you thought Carlin entered the millennium with his eyes wide open. Weiss was curious, what material you’re referring to. Paton said, I was referring to a lot of the very painful, self reflective stuff that he puts himself through. As far as the Boomer generation, his generation failed. A lot of the peace, love and understanding stances from the Summer of Love were so easily co opted and marketed.

And he owns it, and he shows how those failures led to a lot of the mess we were in when he was filming his material. I don’t get directly into it in this special, but a lot of the ironic racism and homophobia the gen X indulged in in the late nineties early Oughts set the blueprint for the whole it’s just jokes, doodge that actual racists and homophobes are using now, and we need to own that and find a way beyond that. Every generation does what it can, and every generation ultimately falls short. You got to own your failings and hold him up so the next generation starts from Okay, first off, let’s not do that which I think would apply to the next generation of Star Trek series. You would go back and you would watch Strange New Worlds, and you would watch the Dug the Vulcan episode.

You’d be like, Yeah, we should not have done that. Let’s never do that again. In fact, let’s pay John Delancy a lot of money to show up as c snap his fingers and wipe that out of existence and just say that never happened. Peacard. Humans take time so seriously, and then we just wiped the Doug the Volka.

I digress again, Vice asked Star Trek runer or Patton Oswalt. He stirred up a bit of controversy in twenty fourteen when you admitted that you never found Lenny Bruce funny. Richard Lewis even wrote an op ed in The New York Times responding to what you said, I don’t remember any of that. That’s fun. Have your thoughts changed about Lenny Bruce since then?

Did you get to talk to Richard Lewis after that? Patton said, I spoke with Richard over text and voicemails, but he was also going through a lot of mechal stuff and we never got to get together. But it bothered me that people misunderstood what I was saying were simplified it into a sound bite or poll quote. Me not finding Lenny Bruce funny doesn’t mean he wasn’t funny. I was being honest about how his stuff was too out of context for me to really laugh at.

If I’m really being honest, I can appreciate his genius, acknowledge what he did, and be aware of the dead I owed him as an artistic performer, but his stuff never made me laugh. And that’s me being honest, even if it makes me look bad, which I think Lenny would have appreciated maybe.

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Meanwhile, Spin caught up with the star trek Ruiner patent Oswall.

They asked him about his comedy heroes. He said, definitely people like Prior and Carlin and Steven Martin and Albert Brooks.

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And then once I started doing comedy, was just all my friends.

I got to see Carlin live a couple times, I got to see Leno before I started, But once I started actually getting into clubs, I was hanging out with people like Dave Chappelle, Brian Possain, Sarah Silverman, and David Cross, and those were the people that were really influencing my moment to moment development. The subject went to Heckler’s Patton said people are so used to talking online, commenting on things and reacting things that when someone’s in front of them in real life, they want to comment on that in the moment they think they’re in a constant dialogue with people. Then there’s also jealousy or boredom. There’s nothing more frustrating than Heckler getting tossed out of a show, going, Oh, it’s just trying to hope the show, just trying to make it funnier. I mean, everybody wants to be funny.

Nobody wants to think that they’re not funny. And they asked a Star Trek crew and air patent Oswald about his appearance on Star Trek Strange New Worlds as Doug the Vulcan. Doug said, it was a bleast getting to work with that crew and that cast, being on a set where it was a three hundred and sixty degree practical set. I thought it’d be in front of green screens and stuff, but no, they actually built the hallways and the decks and the rooms in the chambers. It was just a fun world to get some plan.

Were you a Star Trek fan as a kid? I can’t answer that from here. F No, there’s no F and way. I almost dropped an actual F bomb. I’m so upset about this.

Patent said, I’m not deep into the lore because Star Wars kind of captured my brain when I was eight. Yeah, this guy that ruined Star Trek has a bit about he wants to kill George Lucas with a shovel for the stupid things in the Star Wars prequels, and then you go, when you play Doug the Vulcan, don’t come to my neighborhood and drop a deuce on my lawn. Dude, I’m not deep in the lore because Star Wars kind of captured my brain when I was eight, and Star Trek was a little bit ahead of my time. But I know enough about it, and I certainly appreciate how amazing the world is. What are you talking about?

Star Trek was ahead of your time. It came out in nineteen sixty six. I watched it as a kid. I old as Patton Oswalt, he’s fifty seven, also born in nineteen six, And what are you talking about? It was ahead of your time?

It was out before this. This Guyugh, I think we’d better play some commercials so I can calm down, be right back. I am still worked up. I went and pulled the bit. This is from Patton Oswalt.

This bit is at midnight, I will kill George Lucas with a shovel. The premise here is Patton has a time machine and he goes back to nineteen ninety three and runs into George Lucas on the street, and George starts describing the prequels. Now, I will point out to you Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds is a prequel to Star Trek. So everything Patten says here applies to Dug the Effing Volcan. Some edits here for language, but here’s Patton Oswalt being mad about a prequel.

And the first thing I thought of doing if I actually had a time machine is I would go back to around nineteen ninety three or ninety four and killed George Lucas with a shovel. That was the first thing that came to my mind and stop him from making the prequels. That’s how I would try to save history. I mean, I don’t even know how it would erect if I’d just run into him on the street. I going, oh my god, George Lucas, Dude, look, I don’t want to bother you and nerd out, but like, Star Wars is one of my favorite movies, and I just want to thank you, man, just thanks for all that.

It’s so great you like Star Wars. I got some good news. I’m working on the three prequels, the first three chapters. Oh really, you’re gonna do the finally. Oh my god, that’s awesome, dude, I’m so excited.

I can’t wait. Well, hey, you say you’re a Star Wars fan. Do you like Darth Vader? I love Darth Vader. Dude, the helmet and the cape with the sword.

That’s right, man. Is he in the first movie? Yeah, in the first movie you get to see him as a little kid. Is he like a little Damian omen kid like evil and killing people with his mind? Now he’s just like this little kid.

And then he gets taken away from his mom and he’s very sad. You know what’s scary. I’m not even doing a bit. I’m actually this upset. Okay, what else do I have for you?

Are you a new listener? This is the show Francisco Ramo says a new special out today it is called Still Learning. I don’t believe Ramos appears in any episodes of Star Trek Francisco Ramos Still Learning on tvod via Comedy Dynamics out Today, Filmed in New York City, Still Learning dives into the lessons that don’t come with instructions, marriage therapy, eating with other people, and even learning how to dance in the US, from cultural misunderstandings to relationship realizations. The special explores how we’re all still learning, especially when we think we’ve got it figured out. And The Toronto Guardian does their wonderful series Tragedy plus Time, where they speak to local comedians.

One of them is Spencer Glassman, favorite comedian growing up, John Mulaney. New in Town was probably the first special Eye memorized. I also love the s and Ol Weekend Update character Step on which John Mulaney co wrote pre show ritual Jim Tan Laundry and Macha. I don’t drink alcohol or carbonated beverages, so they’re really the only way to get loose or lock in is with sugar and breathing exercises. I’m kind of avoidant, so unless it’s a showcase or a particularly important set.

I don’t decide what I’m going to say until an hour before. Then, right before the show starts, I repeat the mantra, I love the audience. I’m so grateful to be here. I’m so excited I get to do what I love in front of these people. If they don’t laugh, I will not turn on them and start frantically repeating, see you guys hate this huh favorite bit that he’s written.

I have a joke about Steve Jobs super timely I know where I basically say that people made such a big deal about how he wore the same thing every day to maximize productivity. But what was he wearing before that that was so distracting. That’s a good joke, and that is your comedy news for today. Go watch some proper Star Trek. Go watch Star Trek TuS the Doomsday Machine.

Go watch that. Go watch William Windham turn in the best performance in the entire Star Trek series, even better than Sir Patrick Stewart William Wyndham as common or Decker. Go watch that, and don’t forget you can comment. We’ve got the comments on on Spotify, and there’s the Facebook group Deally Comedy news podcast group. You can write things like this show is terrible.

This guy thinks he’s funny. All he does is rant about Star Trek. I hate this show. You could post that, but it will help the Spotify algorithm, and you’ll only be helping me. Another way you’re gonna help me is by sharing the show.

Right, We’re doing that in June. Pretty soon, I’m gonna be demanding proof. You’re gonna have to send in a picture of how you shared the show, because that’s that’s part of the price to get in this month you’re sharing the show. It’s June, Share the show month, all right? Follow the show on Spotify, Turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.

Catch tomorrow,

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Jimmy Kimmel, Dwayne Johnson, Henry Cavill, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Joe Rogan, Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Jim Carrey, Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr.

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart discusses his roast experience on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Jimmy Kimmel Live becomes number one late night talk show
• Kevin Hart movie with Henry Cavill about rival spies
• Late night ratings: Kimmel vs Fallon competition
• Debunked rumor about Joe Rogan joining 60 Minutes
• Nate Bargatze’s movie ‘The Breadwinner’ bombs at box office
• Dave Chappelle announces five tour dates for June 2026
• Shane Gillis spotted wearing Chili’s T-shirt at NBA Finals
• Hulu orders Cable Guy TV pilot with Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Ten Am, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We are still talking about the roost of Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart himself was on what’s it called Jimmy Kimmel Live. I was gonna call it like late Night with Jimmy Kimmel.

That’s not a thing, Jimmy Kimmel Live, which is now America’s number one late night talk show. We’ll get to that in a bit, but here’s Kevin hartch talking about the roost. Obviously, you know you could you dish it out there. You can obviously take it as well because you volunteered to be a part of this, absolutely obviously. Well, I think the the beauty of any roast is the roast ta being gained for whatever is going to happen.

Yeah, so sometimes it happens that the roasty did not research what theah. Sometimes they sit in that chair and don’t really understand what comes with that chair. Yes, I’ve seen that happen. When you sit in that chair, it’s like, okay, have at it, like go have a good time. No, did I get the mic last?

And I’m going to have a good time. But you’re not gonna make me uncomfortable in the chair. I’m not gonna let you get the luxury of seeing me be discomfortable, Like, I’m not gonna I’m not gonna sit and give a reaction of oh my god, this stuff hurts what you’re saying. So I sat there and in comfort. Uh no, no, man, I think uh, I think.

The the the one that caught me off guard, Dwayne. Dwayne had the picture of my father and and he had a mug shot of my dad, and he goes, look at my dad, keV. We both love our dads. And he had a picture of his dad in shape, you know, coming from a gym. He’s like, look at my dad, He’s a tank.

And then he goes look at Kevin’s dad. And it was the worst picture of my father. I’ve ever seen the worst picture of my find. And they caught me off guard. But it was funny and and and anything done.

Uh with the effort of giving the laugh, I’m always gonna give it the benefit of the doubt. Kim ask Kevin Hart, which celebrity is Kevin? Things could be good for future roasts. Kevin suggested Lebron James because of his enormous cultural influence and public profile, and Kimmel asked, what about Oprah? Would that be unacceptable?

Hart immediately rejected the idea and said that would be like spray painting the Sistine Chapel. If I found out Oprah’s that she wanted to do what, I’m driving one hundred miles an hour to Oprah’s house. You cannot do this, no shot. Kevin Hart never afraid to work. I told you he’s working on a movie in which two rival spies cross pass and a Lama’s classes, their wives become friends, their double lives collide in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways.

You know that might not be the worst idea for a movie either.

And now I like the casting the other spy, Henry Cavill, you know Superman, yo…

Very good casting. Mara like that a lot from Late Nighter. They’ve got the ratings from the first post Colbert week in Late Night. As predicted, Jimmy Kimmel is now number one. I will continue to say I think Kimmel’s crazy.

If he’s walking away in a year, I don’t think he will. But I also think he’s crazy that he’s taking the summer off, which the guys on the Late Nighter podcast seem to agree with that that’s a major, major, can’t miss opportunity for Jimmy Fallon. Fallon’s gonna have to floor it this summer to get back in the race. Kimmel’s now basically beating him almost two to one. But if Kimmel is goofing around with guest hosts all summer and Fallon puts in the work and gets some good guests, it’s a good opportunity here.

Again, I think it’s insane that Kimmel’s taking the summer off all right from Late Nighter. According to Nielsen Live plus three ratings data for the week of May twenty four, Kimmel averaged two point four to three million total viewers. That was up thirty five percent from the week before. In a small two hundred and fifty two thousand adults eighteen to forty nine that was across three original episodes two repeats. Fallon averaged one point four to one million, So again, it’s two point four to three to one point one four.

However, in the eighteen to forty nine’s Fallin beating Kimmel two seventy one to two fifty two, and that was with the Tonight Show in reruns all week. CBS News has denied reports that Joe Rogan will be joining sixty Minutes to replace Anderson Cooper. When I saw this on Twitter, I just wanted to say to people who were like saying Joe Rogan rumor to join sixty Minutes, I just wanted to say to them, are you stupid? There was like a better chance of me being on sixty minutes because if they ask me, I will actually say yes. Whereas there’s no chance Joe Rogan is going to go on sixty minutes.

He doesn’t need the money, he doesn’t want to do the work. No good would come of it. Why would Joe Rogan be on sixty minutes. Radar Online, one of those gossipy news sites, had reported that CBS was considering Joe Rogan. An unnamed media executive told Radar Online they do a lot of those on name sources.

Rogan would bring a core connection to over fifty percent of the country. Joe Rogan speaks to viewers who feel ignored or mocked by legacy media. There was never a chance of that happening. A CBS spokesperson said, the rumors are false. I don’t know why, but I find it amusing that this an Aperghazzy movie bombed so hard.

I did think it was gonna bomb this hard. The Atlantic had the wonderful headline, Comedy’s biggest stand up won’t be Hollywood’s next leading man, Nate, are you listening to me? Theme park? Terrible idea? Stand up tour, great idea.

The subhetter from the Atlantic, Naperghazzy’s big screen experiment is a bust. They’re right. The comedian in Aperghatzy is an indisputably Titanic name in his field. He’s been the top grossing stand up in America for two years in a row. He hosted last year’s Emmy’s Appey It’s to mixed reviews, and he’s even planning on opening a theme park called Nate Land in his hometown of Nashville.

Don’t do it, Nate, don’t do it. Consequently, there was every reason to think that the new movie The Breadwinner would break through with audiences. It’s a breezy comedy, aim Squareliad Family is blomb blah blah. The Breadwinner is admittedly not very good. Dave Chappelle is touring.

He just announced five tour stops for twenty twenty six. They’re all in June, Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and San Diego. Pretty big arenas. One of them the United Center. You’ll find Dave Chappelle there on Friday June nineteenth.

Are you ready to watch the NIXT tonight? Of course you are. Now if you watch game one, you saw Shane Gillis on the screen. It’s unclear who Shane was rooting for, if anyone, but he was wearing a simple black T shirt with the Chilis logo and a forty fifth and Lamar under the famed pepper. From Kron dot Com, they tell us the Chili’s located on forty fifth and Lamar in Austin has been a long running local joke.

The quick the answer to my parents slash, grandma’s lash, childhood best friend is in town? Where should I take them to eat? Kron tells us it’s unclear where Shane got the shirt from, but y two Kts sells a very similar shirt for nineteen ninety nine. We’re also told gillisism and spotted court side at Spurs games before who knows. Hey, remember the movie Cable Guy, the one with Jim Carrey.

What if we brought that back and made it a TV show? Yeah. Hulu has ordered a comedy pilot inspired by the Jim Carrey movie. Jake Johnson and Damon Wayne Junior attached to star and executive produce the log line. In a world of endless streaming binging an algorithms, old school cable technician Chip Douglas played by Jake Johnson languishes alone until Steven Stevens played by Wayne Junior, calls to have his cable turn back on, reconnecting Chip with a childhood friend he never forgot.

The relationship gives each man something he’s been missing, until Chip’s enthusiasm turns into obsession. Inspired by the movie, the show explores the darkly absurd side of modern day male friendship. Why are we making this? I don’t know. Can’t we just watch the movie?

Some famous New Yorkers including New York Knicks fan Spike Lee, Jack, Ryan John Krasinski, Natasha Leone from a cool TV show that I can’t remember the name of right now, and Amy Schumer, who likes when we talk about her. They are all in a PSA released by New York City Mayor Zoran Mumdani. Yeah, that guy in the PSA. Amy Schumer says people are in the habit of discounting New York because they think it’s so expensive or it seems unertainable to shoot here. Then you find out what the tax breaks here.

It’s never been easier to shoot in New York. New York Knicks fan Spike Lee ads, I remember there was a time when a lot of stuff with shooting Toronto, but it’s not New York. You save a couple of Nichols you don’t even have to know was shot in Toronto, but you feel like something’s off, including the video. Amy Schumer, who likes when we talk about her, says, New York is there to service whatever you’re looking for and the story you’re telling. One of the things you learn as a filmmaker is that every frame should have a purpose.

It should be part of telling your story. And whatever that story is, whatever mood you’re looking for, New York has it for you. As I mentioned earlier, if you need something else to listen to. Late Nighter had a very good roundtable about late Nights at television, including the final Colbert Show. That’s worth a listen the Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno.

Listen to what this guy’s up to the nerve of this guy. Jay Leno is auctioning off a chance to meet Jay Leno and tour his legendary Big Dog Garage. This auction will benefit you mass Lowell, specifically the Joseph Dorsey Memorial Scholarship, which supports you mass Lowell Physical therapy students who demonstrate strong academic performance, leadership, and dedication to serving others. Beginning today through Friday, you can make your bid. One winner and up to four guests will meet Jay Leno in the garage, a one hundred and forty thousand square foot facility that holds his collection more than two hundred and fifty rare and specialty cars and more than one hundred and fifty motorcycles.

Jay Leno said of Dorsey, he was just a wonderful man. Jayleno also discussed the importance of investing in students through scholarship support and the gratification that comes from helping students succeed. For over thirty years, the Worst Person who Ever lived has supported causes that reflect his charitable priorities. Particularly education Boy, the nerve of that guy? And are you a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Well, they are making a sitcom for some reason. It’s called LL off Season. It is the Chief’s first ever scripted comedy series. I don’t think you needed to tell is that this one created entirely in Spanish and built for a new generation of social first fans. The nine episode micro novella premieres this Friday and will roll out twice weekly across Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook internationally and in the US YouTube.

Blending sketch comedy with classic telenovella storytelling, LL off Season follows four young friends who work for the team and suddenly find themselves searching for purpose and drama when football season ends. What begins as a quiet off season quickly spirals into chaos, complete with romance, rivalries, alter egos, questionable side hustles, and wildly exaggerated plot twists. I can already see the Netflix English version of this. It’ll star Adam Sandler and Marcelo Ornandez. It’s already in my mind.

You can fixture right. Chiefs Vice President of Brand Marketing and Fan Engagement, Lauren Deniwitz said, this is exactly the kind of storytelling opportunity the off season creates. When the game stop, the connection matters even more. Ll off season lets us show up for our fans in a way that feels fun, culturally relevant, and completely different from anything we’ve done before, while staying true to who we are. The New York Nicks play Game three of the NBA Finals tonight at eight thirty pm.

This show here, You can follow it on Spotify and turn out of vcations on so you never miss an episode. You can also comment in the Spotify section there. You can also always comment in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. And I’ll see you tomorrow. Go next

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Nate Bargatze, Bert Kreischer, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart loses $1.4 million on High Stakes Poker
• Jim Gaffigan on comedy evolution and social change
• Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bargatze discuss aging in comedy
• Nate Bargatze’s movie project and theatrical releases
• Bert Kreischer’s Free Bert season two renewal
• Nikki Glaser discusses mental health and meditation

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Caloroga Shark Media spoilers for season sixteen of High Stakes Poker, which streams on Poker Go. I know you were gonna watch, so I don’t want to ruin it for you. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy. He was John Why are you talking about poker?

Because Kevin Hart was on the show. We are told, with nearly one million dollars in front of him, Kevin Hart had a rough night. So I don’t understand any of this. So here’s Kevin already’s playing against somebody else who’s five hundred and forty four thousand dollars in the pot. We’re told his opponent improved to the nut flush on the first runout.

You know what that sentence means. I don’t. And on the second run out, Kevin Hart’s misfortune increased as the board left him drawing dead on the turn. A few hands later, Kevin Hart looked down at the four thousand dollars double straddle, live and lots of action in front of him. We’re told Big Owl kicked off the party with a limp from upfront with Senior Tilts, who bumped it up to twenty thousand dollars.

Attacking the dead money in the middle, Kevin Art opted to flat the rays with his jacks. I love reading this story to you because I the words are in English, but I don’t understand a word I’m telling you. So anyway, Kevin Art had to buy back in, but the majority of his five hundred thousand dollars rebui vanished in two pots, and Kevin Hart lost his losses eclipse the one point four million dollar mark. Someone will have to send me cliff notes on what I just told you. Jim Gaffigan caught up with the Golden Globes dot com.

We’re told Jim began his comedy career in the nineties. He said, I started prior not only to streamers, but also social media, YouTube, and even satellite radio. Hmm, you’re welcome, Jim. The arrival of these elements transformed stand up from niche born club, dead end career into a vibrant live performance business You’re welcome, Jim, which is presently properly the healthiest part of the entertainment industry. Jim says, stand up comedy’s about listening.

I feel most good comedians understand that comedy, like liberty, is ever evolving concept. Of personal liberty or a reverence in the nineteen twenties was very different from what we now have in the mid twenty twenties. I feel like he’s changed topics here. Jim Gaffigan said these changes can be incremental or dramatic, but if one is listening, you could pick up trends on social norms. If you’re a comedian who primarily deals in a reverence or shock, these changes can feel punitive and unnecessary.

If you talk about being lazy and complain about your children, that’s pretty evergreen. Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bergazi kind of had a conversation for Forbes. Nate told Jerry I had a joke about being older. If the TV captions are on, I’m not taking them off. I’m not saying I deliberately put them on.

But if they’re on, I’m not at a stage where we don’t want them on. I have a whole thing I’m doing because I’m forty six, so I’m like the old of the young. I get to fifty, which is the young of the old. Once you get to fifty, you’re like, well, I could beat up everybody above me. But the back end of the forties is the frustrating part because you’re like, I bet I can clear that fence, and then you need to be fifty to go.

Why would I want to clear that fence? Jerry says, forties is the most dangerous time because you don’t really know that you’re not young anymore. Nate chimed in and at fifty you accept it. And when I say, in the joke is that’s why everybody tells you when they’re fifty, No one tells you their age. They go from like a child to quiet to like fifties.

Then they’re just walking around just like fifty three years old. They start yelling it and you’re like, all right. Jerry said, I like when people go, I don’t want to date myself, Like, we can’t tell by looking at the extra wide light, gray new Balance, We have no idea how old you are. It was only because you knew Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons that we could tell. Nate said, I’m at the age now where I want to wear the same thing every day.

Jerry said, ah, yeah, I’ve been there a long time. That’s Einstein Steve Jobs. They got to that. I used to have a really good joke. You may remember when I was in my sixties that I don’t want to turn around anymore.

Someone says, you got to see this, and I go, I’ll see it. On the way back. We’re all google it. I’m seventy one now with nothing funny about the seventies. I can’t even tell them because they’ll get depressed.

Jerry asked Nate Brighetzi. What was it like making the movie? Oh boy, Nate said, I liked it. I wrote it. I was in every scene.

I didn’t got to do a ton of editing. I love taking stuff out. That’s a comic. That’s all you do. It’s frustration.

But some of my favorite parts is going it doesn’t work, cut it down. I want to see what I could do adapting to this movie world. This is a movie that I think you would think I would make. I’m not playing a stand up comedian, but telling those stories and having it all connect. Nate had told Jerry, I’m not a believer when people were like, no one wants to go to the movie theaters and no one wants to do this.

I disagree with all that. Traveling into the country doing stand up and hearing laughs in different places and different reasons. That stuff matters. Well, no one went to see the movie, sorry, Nate. So as gutting back to comedy, Jerry said, I loved doing comedy clubs.

Whoever the middle act is that week, we’re hanging out every day all week. I spent the past twenty six years being married. I’ve learned to be with regular people. But the language of comedian and comedian is just a different language. Right now, this was interesting, Jerry said, do you imagine you’ll maintain the pace here on now for quite a while.

Nate said, well, see what happens with this movie. I have a plan of what I want to do. I think this big tour, I see another big tour. I’ve said I want to stop doing comedy and all this. Jerry said, no, you’re not.

Bert Krascher is both to Fox News Digital about what to expect from season two of Free Bert. Bert told Fox I said to my wife, we’re getting dressed to go to an FYC event for a TV show that people seem to like that’s been renewed for season two. Our kids are doing good. We’re living the dream. If you had told us twenty two years ago when we were giving birth over at Cedars, Sinai and broke.

Not sure we could afford it that would be here. We made it. We made it as for free. Bert. You hope it comes out as fun as the first one.

But the first time we had no expectations, no realizations. We’re just going to make something that made us laugh. And with this one, you’re like, well, you’ve got testing. You know what people like. People seem to appeal to this and that, and you know the characters that stand out.

I want to give them a little more of that, but also one of the things, you don’t want to give them too much of that, you know, it’s like cocaine. Upworthy asked Nikki Glaser about her journey with mental health. Nicki said, I would first try a free meditation app. That’s what I did when I was broken, was in desperation for any kind of relief from my negative thoughts. It really helped.

I’d also recommend twelve step programs. There’s one for just about everything. The meetings and fellowship are free. You can go on zoom and just listen if you’re scared to share, and you don’t have to believe in God to go. Up Worthy asked Nikki, have you ever met someone else who’s famous and completely freaked out.

Nikki said, yes, I’m quite an obsessive fan of celebrities who I love, and I could never seem to keep my cool when I meet them. I was a Dave matthew Stan in high school. I met him in twenty eighteen, and I humiliated myself by saying the word sphere a lot. I don’t even know why. It had nothing to do with the Las Vegas sphere as well before that existed.

Thank god I got to meet him again a few years later and act relatively normal. My policy now with these kind of icons is that I don’t really want to meet them. I just feel like a huge bother when I share how much they mean to me, unless, of course, they’re new to fame or if faded from the spotlight, then I’m happy to tell them. As someone who’s not a huge a listener, I get how much it means when someone tells you they like their work. But someone who’s a global pop star doesn’t need me shaking and crying and telling her she saved her in my life.

I don’t want to bother her with my anxiety. She needs to save her energy to write songs, not hug me, so I stopped convulsing. I assume we’re talking about Taylor Swift there. David Cross talked about AI and said, as we understand it now, I would imagine dance can’t be replaced, and I would imagine stand up comedy is safe if you can’t replicate that experience without a replicant. M New West World idea, and he pitched New West World, but said, but it’s all crappy stand ups.

Who knows where the fit’s going. It’s clearly not going to be regulated. I mean not with the current people in office that won’t regulate anything. Send your letters to David Cross and The Toronto Guardian caught up with local comedian Kendell Labella. Labella self describes as like if a Ted Talk and a panic Attack had a child and the child was raised exclusively on Much Music and y TV from the nineties.

Port Sermon, part garage sale, part disco party. Favorite comedian growing up, mister Bean obviously a silent genius. That man was my Richard Pryor. Favorite comedians now Nathan Fielder, Chelsea Paridium, Maria Bamford, Patty Harrison, Josh Johnson, Dan soder Sheng Wang and Sam Speraza favorite bit you’ve written. He says, there’s one way I compare can Tuda to the emotional availability of my father.

I’m proud of it because it makes both older men and me and the audience uncomfortable. At the same time, I write jokes so people will remember me while microwaving fish. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, it’s June. So you’re sharing the show with a friend.

You’ve been doing this right, yep, absolutely, I’m sure I’m not going to check on you today. I trust you, and you’re following the show on Spotify. You’ve got notifications on so you never miss an episode. You can comment there on Spotify, and you can of course comment in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Nikki Glaser, Marc Maron, Leanne Morgan, Harlan Williams, Tim Hawkins, Chuck Nice, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Foxworthy, Brian Stack, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel dominates post-Colbert late night ratings
• Nikki Glaser on wanting to be likable while saying provocative things
• Marc Maron discusses his audience of sensitive, creative, politically engaged people
• Harlan Williams on instant feedback from stand-up versus animation
• Tim Hawkins advocates for clean comedy in entertainment industry
• Jeff Foxworthy returns to small clubs for new material development
• Brian Stack reflects on late night comedy influences and character creation

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Caloroga Shark Media. I I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Latenighter dot com. We have our first ratings snapshot post Cobert Ooh do you think finished? First? Of course, Jimmy Kimmel did.

Now, this data is from last Monday, the first time that everybody was live and things were kind of fair late night or sales US. According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Jimmy Kimmel dominated the hour with an average two point one eighty five million total viewers and two hundred and ninety five thousand in the eighteen to forty nine’s Boy Boy Is only old people like me are watching these things? I mean two ninety five in the eighteen of forty nine’s Wow. So, comparing Monday June first, twenty twenty six to Monday June second, twenty twenty five, Kimmel was up fifty three percent in total viewers and up one hundred and seventy eight percent among adults eighteen to forty nine. So at eleven thirty five, Kimmel had an eight point three share average two point oney eighty five million viewers.

Fellon in second place with a little over five share and one point three million viewers. Comics unleashed six hundred and twenty eight thousand viewers. Now, before you’re like, that’s not a lot of people, The Big Fancy Daily Show with Jon Stewart had six hundred and twelve thousand viewers at eleven o’clock and then at twelve thirty seven a m. Late Night with Seth Myers seven hundred and ninety thousand people, and the new twelve thirty Byron Allen. Thing funny you should ask, that’s now the twelve thirty show four hundred and nineteen thousand people.

Nightline is winning that time slot with eight hundred and nineteen thousand more. From that Hollywood Reporter Comedian roundtable that we were picking at yesterday, Nikki Glaser, the Hollyood Reporter writes, this is the hollered reporter speaking recently defined her aspirational self as follows. I want to be someone who’s smart and effable and adorable and likable and seems nice, but it’s saying awful things. They asked Nikki, did they miss anything? Glazier said, wow, I didn’t practice that before I said it.

I do want to be liked by everyone because it’s a sickness, but I also want to say things that make people feel less alone. I always felt like it was weird. No one was really an example of that on TV, the people that were my role models. And yeah, I want to be effable because it makes people treat you better and give you more money for things. I don’t actually want to be ft.

I want to be clear about that. I don’t want to be She’s getting a little coarse here. I just want the stuff that comes with people wanting to feels weird to say that. But who doesn’t want to be liked. I’ve read the room, and when you look prettier, people are nicer to you.

Maren wade in and said, effable is good. I think I want people to like me, but I see you don’t want them to work for it for a bid. I’m also very clear that not everyone’s going to this. Part of me thinks I’m from everybody, but I know that’s not true. The Hollered reporter, we’re asking the comedians, who are your people?

How do you define your people? Maren said, it’s multi generations of handringers, sensitive, creative, angry people that feel like they don’t have a voice in the world. A lot of them politically active or at least engaged and want to feel a little better. Holly Reporter, Where won’t your audiences go with you? Maren, I push a la leak because I get labeled as this progressive.

I’m a progressive person, but I’m also an old, dirty man. I mean, I’ve been in this business a long time and half of it was drunk. There’s a part of me now that I have this following of sensitive, socially concerned people that wants to be like, yeah, but I’m kind of dirty. You still like me now. Leanne Morgan said, I don’t think I’m qualified to weigh in on politics.

Nobody wants to know what I think, and I don’t know. Half the time. I’m just sitting here thinking about how to get through menopause. Harlan Williams having a bit of a moment. He’s been around forever, but he was on Rogan recently and the spokesman caught up with Harlan Williams.

He said, you tell a joke, can you get your result instantly in the moment versus waiting for years to see a finished animated film. I wanted that immediacly. I wanted that instant feedback, so I knew that’s stand up was the right fit for me, so I could get that really quick turnaround on my product. I don’t like to get too serious because to me, comedy is silly and fun. I don’t want to talk about politics or abortion all that stuff.

I’d rather talk about a frog jumping around on a beg of doritos, or something stepping outside of a predetermined routine. It’s like I’m almost entertaining myself when I don’t know where it’s going. I think the audience picks up on that energy that I’m amusing myself, and so they’re amused. It’s infectious and it’s fun. Tim Hawkins told The Christian Post there’s guys who were entrenched in the industry and in the world’s entertainment business.

It’s a dirty place. We’re finding that out with certain files in a certain way the world works. Comedy’s a lot of fun, but you’d be surprised it did a little bit of club work. Starting out was a very depressing place. It was filled with drug addicts.

It was filled with depress people. A lot of comedians just have issues. We’re not the most positive people in the world. All the time. These entertainers are realizing there’s more to it and that they’ve been down these roads and it doesn’t end in a fun place.

It doesn’t end in a good place. It’s like, well, what are the answers. I think it’s encouraging and the more clean performance succeed that helps guys like me. It’s really kind of a team thing. There’s more opportunities if you’re clean.

He named check Nate Brighetzi and Leanne Morgan. There are a lot of people out there that can connect and relate to what I’m talking about. We’re not out clubbing, We’re home doing family stuff. People laugh harder when they can relate to what you’re talking about. Be the same person you are in your living room making your friends and family laugh.

Jeff Foxworthy works clean. He said he was shocked when Fox Nation agreed to bring his act back to smaller clubs. Jeff said, there’s just something about that beer smell. I spent so many years in them, and when it’s working on new stuff, I never do it in a big place. It’s always a little place.

Because stand up is intimate. I want the audience actively involved in it. I’m talking to them, is this funny? Is it not funny? And I’ve had a lot of people that were there for those nights in the small club saying that was probably my favorite night of stand up because I got to be part of it.

Jeff explained, I wasn’t just receiving. I’m watching you thinking, how do we make this better? If you do it well, it looks like you just walked on stage and thought of it that day, which works in the break room when you shared experience in history with each other, But when you’re on stage or in front of strangers, you have to work it. You have to be a fishing at it. An example of that the Redneck jokes, he said, the redneck jokes help me to be efficient as a writer because I had to create an entire joke in one sentence because they were one lighters.

All right, here’s a leftover from Cole Bear week. This guy is Brian Stack. He was a writer on The Late Show and for Conan. He caught up with Chicago Magazine. He talked about his influences Good List here Letterman hit me really hard in college at a younger age was things like SETV, Early SNL, Steve Borton, Richard pryor Peter Seller’s Monty Python Great List.

The conversation moved to Conan being silly for silly’s sake, and some of the characters Conan would do Chicago mag liked already. Kendle the ghost crooner. Brian Stack explains that just popped into my head one day. Rockefeller Center had been around since nineteen thirty, and these old singers like Bing Crosby were there, and I thought a lot of the views from back then wouldn’t be acceptable today. What if there was a guy whose views weren’t even acceptable in his own time.

I was trying to make it clear that Artie Kendall was a monster who had been murdered because he was awful. I love doing all the silly characters at Conan, but I’m grateful for some of the newer challenges that I had at Stephen’s show, and learning from people who were so brilliant political satsire. It was never my strong suit, so it was interesting and fun to try and develop that voice war but it was an adjustment, especially when Trump came along, because that caught us all so off guard by how much we had to think about one particular guy They then talked about Conan’s nine month run on The Tonight Show. Stack said, as happy as I was for Conan, they got the opportunity to do the show they’d always wanted to do. I always felt like we were all better suited to something that was on a little bit later, had a little bit less of a high profile.

I’ll chime in, and I think in retrospect that’s crystal clear. Conan once said that the Tonight Show’s like a big, beautiful ship that’s a little hard to maneuver. It moves very slowly, and it’s very large and bulky. When we got to the TBS show, it was more like being on a little cigarette both that can flip around and do whatever you want. I think that’s where we felt more comfortable.

I don’t remember anyone imposing anywhere strictions on us at the Tonight Show, but there’s something about it as an institution that made us so little self conscious about some of the stuff we were trying. So while I wish Conan had gotten a shot at the Tonight Show that we all know he deserved, and the time to develop it the way the other host did, I always loved the freedom to mess around like we’re up in an attic and no one’s paying attention, and the Toronto Guardian does this serious tragedy plus time where they talk it to local Toronto comedians. One local Toronto comedian is Olena Fox, known for bold, sex positive storytelling and sharp Eastern European honesty. Her influence is Matt Rife for his fearless crowd work, Louis C.K. For turning personal life and relationships into sharp comedy, and of course the Ukrainian women who survived everything and still make jokes.

Favorite comedian right now. I’m really inspired by Matt Rife for his stage presence in crowd interactions, and Chay Durina for his disgusting but delicious humor pre show ritual lipstick, Deep Breath, and an internal pep talk, which is, Elena, you survived immigration and divorce. You can survive people looking at you for ten minutes. And that is your comedy news for today. Right.

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Featured: Mark Maron, Nikki Glaser, Wanda Sykes, Leanne Morgan, Julio Torres, Hannah Berner, Bert Kreischer, Lori Kilmartin, Michael Jay, Stephanie McMahon, Paul Heyman

What’s in This Episode

• Hollywood Reporter Comedians Roundtable featuring five major comics discussing fears and comedy
• Nikki Glaser on performing dirty material versus working clean
• Mark Maron on talking to himself as comedy material
• Hannah Berner’s new Hulu special ‘None of My Business’
• Bert Kreischer’s health scare: blood clots and lung issues in January
• Bert Kreischer’s tour bus fire connection to his blood clot discovery
• Lori Kilmartin discussing Gen Z son and loss of in-person socializing
• Michael Jay interest in writing for WWE

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am such that weather’s finally come to the Northeast. The Knicks are winning. Life’s good. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

The Hollywood round Table. No, that’s not what it’s called at all. I’m leaving it in. I’m in a good mood. The Hollywood Reporter did a round table.

There’s no such thing as the Hollywood Roundtable as far as I know, But the Hollywood Reporter did a round table. They say, gather five of the most relevant comedians working today and ask them what scares the most, and the answers very complacency comes up, SODA’s cancelation. Mark Maron says, and sometimes people don’t hear comedy for comedy. They’re like, well, I don’t really believe that, And I’m like, good because it’s a joke. Stupid.

Who was on the round table, which took place in May at the fancy Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica. Excuse me, Mark Maren, Nikki Glaser, want of Psykes, Lean Morgan and Julio touris. There’s a crew and we are till to get your eye roll ready. Johnny Mac, are your eyes ready to roll. John.

Yes, they are all of whom I’ve released specials in the past year for a wide ranging oft in raunchy conversation about comedy, pothics, bombing, and yes, Glazer’s desire to be, as she puts it, effable. Oh nicky. As I went through this and I’ll pick out it today and tomorrow, I found Mark Maron and even Nikki Glaser interesting. I am finding Nicki increasingly annoying. I think that’s clearly leaking out into the show.

I found Wanda Leanne and Julio uninteresting. So I’m mostly going to quote from a Glazer and Maren chr asked, what was the last experience where we thought in the moment, well, at least this will make good comedy. Maren said, well, I’ve been talking to myself more than usual in the moment. I don’t think it’s very funny, but I’m starting to think this is an avenue that I can explore. I don’t know if that sounds sad or not, but I have three cats and I’m not talking to them.

They won They’re like, what’s going on. I’m like, no, I’m gonna keep this to myself. Bestween me and me chr Nicky. You recently said that stand up is like sex, Nikki Glaser, But I’m on stage. I believe in ways and say things that I would never say off stage, similar to sex.

I feel unbridled. I feel like I make different noises and faces and do things with my body that I would never do in front of my friends and family or the general public. Having to then hear feedback about anything I did on stage always feels to me like someone after sex being like, remember when you said that one thing? No, no, no no. I don’t want to hear what I said.

There’s a detachment for me, and I’m kind of embarrassed by that person. So I’m glad that everybody watches it, but I don’t want to watch it. I don’t want to hear what you think. They talked about working clean versus dirty, Nikki Glaser said, once you get agents and people who are weighing in and you want to be marketable, I get a lot of don’t be dirty, and not only because you can’t be on network TV talking like that, but it’s also what all female comics do, and so you’re doing the easy thing. I go, well, is it easy for other women to talk about their private parts.

Look like on stage, it’s easy for me, But why wouldn’t you want me to do something that comes easy to me? The hollered reporter was curious, who’s saying work clean? Maren said, book club owners Agents. Glazer added in and TV early on because of my stand up. I wasn’t chosen to do a lot of things on network TV because they’re just worried you might go off and talk about an advanced sexual thing, very advanced, very very advanced.

You even go on radio and they’re like, now, this is a show where families are listening, and I’m like, I know where I am. I preferred Maren’s answer, which is part of me is always a little dirty, just to keep those people away. And by that I mean success. But I’ve done clean sets because we all had to do them. If you’re doing Letterman, you had to be clean.

I could do it. And I don’t talk dirty stuff as much as I used to because I’m old. It doesn’t age well. And A Burner has got a special out today on Hulu. It is called None of My Business and it’s held variety.

After my Netflix special, I was like, I have to do that. Again. How many specialists they have to put out It’s crazy. I was really nervous about how I was going to make these jokes as good as the ones that are so tried and true and tested. But I also realized that my Netflix special wasn’t good because of the particular jokes.

It was good because I was being myself.

And now I’m better at writing jokes and better performing, and I’ve had more …

Being on stage is all about or on confidence, and you can’t help but get better the more you’re on stage. Stand Up comedy was healing from me after dealing with reality TV, which was a blessing. Stan up made me just feel so myself because even if something didn’t go well, at least I was authentically being myself. It made me want my voice to be heard. I felt like my voice was shrunk, and I wanted female voices to be heard in all their emotions.

If I wasn’t feeling that excitement to do that, I wouldn’t be crazy enough to tour for five years. You have to have a chip on your shoulder and be like, I’m getting a Netflix special, I’m getting a Hulu special. I have stuff to say. I can’t be quieted down for the new special, Hannah Burner says, I want it to be the people’s comfort show. I want them to be able to put it on when they’re feeling down, and to be able to watch it with their friends and to share clips that they can relate to want people to feel less alone in any of the tough times in life.

I hope this comedy special adds little brightness. Hannah Burner, none of my business Hulu today seems like Bert Krascher has seen the light. He was speaking to Fox And Now remember earlier in the year there was the whole bus fire thing. Well. Bert shared with Fox News that in early January, Bert had gone to the er after a severe leg pain woke him up in the middle of the night.

At the hospital, doctors found a blood clot behind his knee and discovered additional clots in his lungs. He was placed on blood thinners and had to stop drinking. Now back to the bus fire, Bert says, two weeks after it burned down, I got to go on my new tour bus with my same tour bus driver who was in the fire, and he says to me casually and did add affect me? At all. He goes, man, you’re lucky you got that blood clot.

Bert was like what, and he goes old school Birdie boy would have been drinking. He didn’t pass out in the back. We would have just let you sleep. Bus would have caught on fire Man, you would have been dead. That thing caught up in thirty seconds.

Bert said, I’ve realized how valuable life is. I realized how luckworks in certain ways. And you’ve got to see everything is lucky because all those things are real. Seven days Vermont caught up with Lori kill Martin. They were curious about her talking about her gen z Son in her comedy and what Laurie kill Martin finds disturbing ridiculous about the Zas.

Laurie said, I don’t know. I mean, I guess the only thing I’m sort of bummed out about is they don’t hang out together in person. They go online and he’s hanging out with his friends, but they’re not in person. They’re losing something. The ability to make small talk and just being bored with each other’s that kind of bums me out.

Wrestling in kids dot Com You’re Home for Comedy News spoke to Michael Jay about Wrestling. Jay was a guest on Stephanie McMahon’s What’s Your Story podcast? Would Chay like to write for WWE? Chase said, I would love to do that. That’d be a bucket list that could be really fun.

I’m a fan, you know. He then name checked a bunch of wrestlers I’m not familiar with. Chay’s a big fan of Paul Hayman, saying he’s one of the best people I’ve ever seen on television. Like he’s then on the short list of the people. I don’t know why he’s not a four time Emmy winner.

He’s so good on television. Every time he’s on, it’s like something cool or developing. I had a meeting with Paul Hayman once, very very likable, very likable guy. Wish I’d gotten to work with him. Star trek Ruiner Pat Oswald is mad about food bowls.

He was on the Snacks podcast. The Star trek Ruiner is upset with KFC’s famous bowl, the menu item that combines mashed potatoes, chicken, corn, cheese, and gravy into one container. Paton said, it’s clearly what stuff do we have left over? Can we jump into bowl and cover it in grievy. That sounds pretty good, actually, Doug the vulcan continue.

The reason I think bulls have caught on because now every place offers bulls is because half our time now we’re staring at a screen, and a bull is a way you don’t have to need to look at what you’re eating. He’s got a point there. We’ve got to stop the bulls. No more bulls. Comedy stock Market, Thank you, Bert Reynolds.

Every week in the Comedy stock Marker, we look at what comedians are overvalued and undervalued, and much like you would in a real stock marker, we try and make some money on the folks. You get how this all works. We’re gonna buy low and we’re gonna sell high. It’s been a very quiet week, you can tell from the stories that are making the podcast the last two days. Not much going on after the whole Stephen Colbert farewell thing.

So I’ve got two for you. Let’s buy some Tracy Morgan. There’s Tracy. He’s at the Knicks games. The Knicks are winning.

Everybody’s happy Tracy Morgan. Sure, why not? Let’s buy some Tracy Morgan. Plus the people seedn’t like that NBC sitcom and one sell for you. If we have any left, let’s just sell our Nate Berghetzy.

I mean that movie bombed so hard and I’m going to continue to first guess this theme park thing. What are we even doing? Nate, You’re making more money than anybody according to bill Board when you do the comedy tours. Just do a comedy tour, so a pretty simple one today. Buy Tracy Morgan, sell, Nate Brighetzi, Nuva dot Nat caught up with Guy Brainham.

He likes trivia now. I didn’t make trivia this week. Were between volleyball seasons, but Wednesday night was the Knicks, so I couldn’t go to Wednesday Night trivia. I had to watch the Knicks. The trivia guys won’t put the Nicks up on the TV.

They want their trivia questions up on the TV, so I had to stay home. Got the same issue coming up for Game four on Wednesday. I have to hope my volleyball game is at six thirty, seven thirty. I haven’t seen these schedule yet. Guy Brainham said, I think comedy and trivia come from the same place of wanting to be right and proving yourself that you have a mine that’s quick.

In the same way that I was growing up during the Golden age of comedy, I was growing up during the golden nature of jeopardy, and they’re both ways of learning about the world. Jokes tell you so much about the world as a kid you don’t understand, and so does trivia. When I was in college, I was on the quiz Bowl team, but at Berkeley I wasn’t good enough to travel. I only got to play when we were at Berkeley. Then I went to law school at the University of Minnesota, and one of the good things about it was they had a nice endowment, so we traveled a lot and I got to see the college towns of the then Big Ten.

It was a lot of driving around the Midwest, learning about the importance of steak and shake, and that one McDonald’s it’s on a weird bridge over the Highway on the way to Chicago, and which towns in Wisconsin were the best to stop for pie. I’m in on all that, and I had a pitch from the people at openmicx dot com. They have some data which cities have the most active open mic scenes, what stage time costs, now free MIC’s versus paid mics. Wh Thursday is a big night for open mic nights and what comics on the road can learn from city to city. Let’s call it the data on a slow news day and see what they got all right?

Thursday is the peak night for open mikes. Looks like there’s a barograph here. Thursday number one, Wednesday two, Tuesday, three, Monday, four, Sunday, five, Friday, six Saturday. According to twenty two hundred and sixty three published recurring open mic listings, open mics by states on open mic x Top ten states New York, California, at Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Florida, Arizona, Washington, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Not surprised there, and the top venues and ticket sources for open mics Number one the NYC Comedy Club, followed by second city event, Bright Laugh Factory, Show Clicks, Leap Flappers, Allegiant Theater, Improv Tixer, TIXR, Comedy, Mothership, Zany Chicago.

And there’s a lot more here. And you can check all this out at openmicx dot com. And that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget it’s June. So what are you doing you’re sharing the show with a friend.

That’s what the rule is. You have to share the show with a friend this month, and don’t forget. You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so you never miss an episode, and comments are on there, and you can always comment in the Facebook group as well Daily Comedy News Podcast group. By the time you’re hearing this, Dylan has already watched the Hanna Burner special three times and updated his top comedy ranking, so you could check that out on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Seed to Bar

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Featured: Ben Gleib, Kevin Smith, Tony Hinchcliffe, Marcelo Hernandez, Brooks, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Hannibal Buress, Michelle Obama, Dave Chappelle, Josh Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Ben Gleib’s YouTube late night show ‘Goodnight’ premiere viewership numbers
• Netflix’s Tony Hinchcliffe special ‘Man of the People’ teaser and controversy
• Marcelo Hernandez hosting the 2026 SPS Comedy Awards at Lincoln Center
• Brooks opening for Seth Meyers and John Oliver at Beacon Theater residency
• Chicago comedy scene history and influence on comedians
• Brooks’ marathon running experiences and A6 shoe sponsorship
• Dave Chappelle living on a farm in Ohio for creative freedom

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Caloroga Shark Media. In there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now this first story, please understand, I come in peace. I came to be supportive.

I was curious. Remember the future of late night is doing late night shows on YouTube. I was like, all right, I wonder how the premiere episode of Goodnight with Ben Gleib did. I’m recording this sentence at one thirteen pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, June third. The premiere episode of Goodnight with Ben Gleib, a YouTube channel with two point nine one million subscribers at this time as I record this sentence, has twenty one thousand views.

His guest was Kevin Smith. Separate from the twenty one thousand views video posted five days ago, they have posted a video titled Kevin Smith’s Best Advice Believe in Yourself First. That clip, posted fourteen hours or as before I spoke this sentence, has three hundred and eight views. Maybe a lot of people were watching the live stream and I don’t have access to that data. Again, I come in peace, but that’s not going to cut it.

Your headline from the Daily Beast, ready buckle up, everybody. Netflix doubles down on bigotry with Mega Comedians special. That’s right, the Streamers promoting Tony Hinchcliff’s late Ast special by celebrating his jokes about Blacks, Latinos, the Whites, the Indians, and Asians. The Daily Beast rights Tony Hinchcliff is back to his usual stick quote unquote making fun of different ethnic groups with plenty of help from Netflix. They remindus.

The Donald Trump fan went mainstream following his appearance on the streamers Roast of Tom Brady in twenty twenty four, after which he gained fame for a different kind when he told racially insensitive jokes at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally later that year. Netflix rewarded the appearance with a major deal, offering the comedian four specials last March three for his show Killed Tony, and one for an hour of his own stand up. On Tuesday, the streamer released the teaser for that stand of special, titled Man of the People. Should we listen? We probably should listen.

We’ve made fun of Blacks, Latinos, the Whites, the Indians, Asians. Thank you. I’d imagine if I were sitting where you are right now and I bought a ticket to a Tony Hinchcliff show. I’d probably thinking of myself, Tony, where are those juw jokes? Well, I’m averaging about four specials a year with Netflix right now, and I’m not in the mood to make jew jokes anymore.

Now. Right before the Netflix sounder, they are Tony winks at the camera. So that’s your trailer as a curiosity. As a comparison, This trailer as I record this sentence at one seventeen pm on Wednesday, was posted one day ago and has twenty thousand views, just slightly less than Ben Gleb’s hour and a half a late night show. And I support you, but that’s not going to cut it.

Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing really well, he is going to host the SPS on July fifteenth. The twenty twenty six SP’s are returning to New York after more than twenty five years, this year’s event being held at Lincoln Center. Marcelo Hernandez said, I started doing comedy ten years ago in Cleveland, Ohio, and I would take the train twelve hours to New York to sell comedy tickets on the street in Greenwich Village in Exchange for stage time. It’s an honor and frankly feels crazy to be hosting the SP’s this year in New York. I agree, it does feel crazy that Marcelo Hernandez is hosting the SPI’s.

I agree with you, Marcelo. Marcello said, I’m sure the energy is going to be great. It’s been a slow week for comedy, you can tell by Brooks making the three spot on Today’s podcast. He caught up with a Little Village magazine. But part of this particularly interested me.

Brooks has been opening for Seth Myers and John Oliver in their residency Anti Beacon Theater in New York City. How’s that going? Brooks said, they’re the best. I looked into the coolest gig, imaginable opening for two friends and comedians that I really look up to. I also head out on the road to open for each one of them individually.

So me and Seth have been road tripping around America lately. When I was on SNL, he was my boss, and now he’s just super great friend. Turns out he’s a great boss to have it. It’s ratt just to be on the road with a pal. They talked about the Chicago comedy scene back in the day.

There are other comics from Iowa back then, right kameil and on. Johnny moved there after he went to Grenelle. Brooks said, right after I got there, did an open mic at a place called Kiddy Moon. Kmale went up and I was like, what that scene was the best? Kyle Kanaan had just left.

Hannibal Burris was becoming the funniest guy who’s ever been alive. That’s when I was in the Chicago just doing the serious XM thing. But there was a Chicago comedy festival and we used to be out there relatively frequently, and that’s when Hannibal was owning the town. That’s when I was out there, Brooks said. There were so many guys who were perfect to look up to you, Guys six years older than you.

They were doing late night sets, which was so much more attainable than the full hour special. So when I saw them, I thought, this is possible. Now. What caught my eye they started talking about marathons. Humble Bragg.

I’ve ran the New York City Marathon twice, and I have ran three days in a row. I’m trying to run every day in June and so far. I ran on June one, two and three. I talked to Brooks about marathons. He’s got an endorsement with A six shoes, but Brooks says, I’m two and done with marathons.

I ran wondering COVID as a joke to prove that they weren’t hard and that people make too much out of them. Hey, I ended up really hurting my knee because they are hard. Oh that’s better, Yeah, now you get it. A six reached out to me about training appropriately running a marathon. After twelve weeks of that and then writing about it, I got really fast.

It was awesome, and halfway through the second marathon, I slammed a Mountain Dew to try and parlay it into a Mountain Dew sponsorship by saying, Mountain Dew’s good for you. Look how fast I am, and my body immediately stopped working right away. Everything just tightened, spasm. I’d lay on the ground for like half an hour. I ended up running that second marathon slower than the first.

Me too, but I put a decade between my two. So they’re curious, Brooks, why did you go with A six sneakers instead of Brooks shoes, Brooks would have been a natural fit. Brooks said, Hey, Asex reached out if Brooks had called me first, Sure, I am wearing Brooks sneakers right now. Those are the ones that I run in these days, but I run the second one. I’m actually wearing them my marathon sneakers right now.

These are my Rainbow Brooks shoes. They’re worn out, so these are now just my wear around the house of sneakers. Why are they rainbow, John, because I like to make my current training pair, like visually very different so that I don’t wear them as like everyday shoes. But John, he just said, you’re wearing them as every day shoes. Yes, but I know the rainbow ones are worn out, so every pair I get looks very different from the previous pair.

Michelle Obama said, Dave Chappelle is one of the smartest people on the planet, the funniest all get out. Once he became himself, he moved back to Ohio, bought a fo and he’s raised his family on this farm. One of the questions was why here, and he said, I wanted to have the financial freedom to be courageous. Mashable asked Josh Johnson about his hoodies. He said the hoodie started as a comfort thing, mostly vintage and thrifted fines Hans are now giving him more customized ones, to inspired ones, even cashmere versions.

He jokes he’s too scared to sweat in the gray hoodie has become part of his persona. He said. Even when people see me out in the street, they’re like, oh, you’re really wear that. That’s the good and bad part of doing a thing. If you generally like it, it just becomes how you look all the time.

Vittorio Angeloni told the CBC, John has said a slow news day. No, Vittorio didn’t say that. That’s you asking me that. Why why do you ask? Vittorio Angeloni told the CBC.

I don’t want anyone to enjoy the entire show. I have people come up to me after the show and say, oh, I really like the show apart from that one joke, and I think, yeah, you shouldn’t like all this. It should be the edges of your taste and where you feel comfortable. I want to push the audience. Ray Romano talked about naming his show Everybody Loves Raymond Raids Old People.

When the show was starting, I was a comedian, and all I did was self deprecating humor. My brother, who in real life is a New York City policeman, came home one day and saw that I got an award from some stand up comedy that I did, and he said, sarcastically, Raymond goes to work and they give him awards. I go to work and people spit on me. Everybody loves Raymond. Ray didn’t like the title, even though the CBS execs did.

Ray suggested some other titles, including that Raymond Guy, Raymond’s Tree awful, and his personal favorite was called Um Raymond. Jeff fox Worthy, who dropped a special on Fox Nation on Monday, said this may be his final special. He says he’s not done with stand up, but creating a special it takes a lot of effort. Jeff said, I’m not saying I would quit doing stand up. It’s just a lot of work to do a special and I’d rather hang out with my grandkids.

When you commit to doing a special, it’s a year. It takes a year of going in comedy clubs Wednesday night’s, Tuesday nights, you know, trying new things. Is this funny? Is it not funny? And nobody’s ever showed that.

That is part of the special The Jokes on Me, where he shows some behind the scenes looks at the repetitive creative process of putting a special together. Did his first stand up special in nineteen ninety with a you might be a redneck joke, and for this one he figured, let me dust it off. I thought, well, this might be the last special idea because it’s a lot of work. And I’m like, if I close the first one that way, why not sig a bowl around it and close the last one that way. Boy, this Nate Brighetzi movie didn’t do.

Uh, I don’t think it did for Nate what he thought was gonna do. Let’s look at the box office. I forgot to do that earlier in the week Nate Brigetzi Breadwinner box office. All right, we are on boxoffice report dot com. It is the weekend box office report for May twenty nine through the thirty first.

Oh my domestic weekend studio estimates for May twenty nine two May thirty first. Of course, I don’t think Nate is a big international draw, so we’ll just look at the domestic number one back rooms eighty one million, A number two Obsession twenty six point four. The Mandalorian got another twenty five million in fourth place, Michael with eleven million, and the Breadwinner seven point five million dollars. With that kind of box off, you’re going to be the guest host for Ben Gleeb on YouTube eight. Don’t do the theme park?

Are you listening to me? Theme park? Big mistake? Comedy tour? Not mistake?

Theme park mistake? Nate, you gotta listen. In Indian comedian revealed he was detained in Dubai for forty seven days before being deported to India, and an Instagram post yoursh Barjoaj said he had shared a quote harmless dumb reel. Bardoise revealed the reel was about how Google Maps allegedly malfunctioned in Dubai amid tensions link to the conflict in the Middle East. He explains, on March nineteenth, while I was at a gig in Dubai, I got a call from Dubai Police asking me to report to the Dubai Police HQ.

Immediately turns out they had an issue with a comedy reel I made about Google Maps malfunctioning in Dubai and do the current war in the region. It was a harmless, dumb reel, but the authorities didn’t find it funny. I was detained and arrested as a perceived national security threat, and I spent forty seven days in a ten center and in New York City, home of the New York Knicks. The New York Laughs Festival is back tonight through June seventh. Among the comedians slated to a peer Jeff Ross David tell, Dice, Mark Norman’s, Rachel Feinstein, Mm Willman, Paul Versey, Matt Brisard, Alex English, Steve ran His Easy, and Gerard Carmichael.

That’s a pretty good list. The centerpiece on the whole thing is Comedy in the Square. That’s a free outdoor show in New York City is Union Square Park, North Plaza tonight six to nine pm. Organizers say the event will turn the park into a giant open air comedy club, complete with a concert style stage setup, seating, standing room, and food and drinks nearby. The outdoor lineup includes Mark Norman, Matt Brossard, Emma Willman, Caitlin Palufo, and Is Samasudigi plus live music.

That’s a pretty good show other than Union Square. Performances will pop up throughout Lower Manhattan venues, including The Stand, Irving Plaza, Joe’s Pub, Peer fifty seven, and Saint Mark’s Comedy Club. Ticket prices range from free to about fifty eight. Sounds like a good time, no me, It’s June fourth. What do I do on June fourth?

I always watch Star Trek two The Wrath of Cohn, which, as you know, came out June fourth, nineteen eighty two. That’s what I do.

Now here’s what you’re gonna do.

Because it’s June. You’re gonna share the show with somebody. Remember you’re supposed to be doing that. Have you done it yet? You haven’t.

We’ll get on it. We’re gonna grow the show. You’re gonna tell somebody, hey, Daily Comedy News check it out. Let me download it for you. Whatever you do.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Rogan, Kevin Hart, Chelsea Handler, Steven Colbert, Harland Williams, George Lopez

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Future and Contract Negotiations
• Jimmy Kimmel Peabody Award Speech on Presidential Censorship
• Joe Rogan Defends Roast Comedy Against Comedian Critics
• Kevin Hart Roast Controversy and Comedian Backlash
• Late Night TV Format Decline and Disney Strategy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Behind the scenes here this is actually take two. I started to go down a rabbit hole. There is an article in the Daily Mail, the headline Kevin Harten crisis, staff goes scorched earth to expose secrets, Empire crimbles and sex scandal refuses to die.

And as I just started going through it, I’m like, I don’t even know what we’re talking about here. I don’t want to get in a lawsuit. I don’t want to have an opinion. But just as I did the story, I’m like, this doesn’t feel right for the show. But if the exciting headline gets your attention, I’ll let you read it for yourself.

In the Daily Mail, let’s talk about Jimmy Kimmel, who did an interview with Vulture that headline, Jimmy Kimmel would stop if he could. Trump wants him out late night, is dying and he’s tired. What does the end look like? The article walks through Kimmel’s career, including the early struggles of Jimmy Kimmel live some of the stuff that has not aged particularly well. Kimble says he is willing to apologize for things he believes crossed the line the quote, I don’t consider apology to be a defeat.

I think it’s the very basis of Catholicism. But we learned that Kimmel is passed the point where he can be persuaded to apologize or something he doesn’t think is wrong. Quoting Kimmel, one of the things we talked about when I first got suspended was that I can’t do the show if I’m going to be micromanaged. They got into the end of the Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel said, I feel a little bit defeated by it in a lot of ways. I feel like I’m looking at my own future.

If you look at the number of views me and my colleagues get online every day, and add in our linear television ratings, he says it’s silly to call the format less relevant. However, says we’re not just dying of natural causes, We’re being poisoned. He questioned the idea of the Late Show with Steven Colbert losing forty million dollars a year, pointing out that they had offered Colbert a five year contract and then two years later, we’re like, yeah, no, we don’t need this show anymore. Jimmy Kimmel said it mighty believed that over the course of those two years they suddenly started losing forty million dollars a year. Those are just made up numbers.

He adds, it’s not like when Johnny Carson or even Jay Leno were raking in the dot. But he’s been told by ABC that Jimmy Kimmelive is profitable. Last December, Disney extended Kimmel’s contract for one year, more than the typical three year renewal. Jimmy Kimmel said, everything is so tumultuous that seemed to make sense. It’s definitely not how it’s gone in the past.

The current contract expires May twenty twenty seven. Kimmell says it’s important to me to be responsible. I know I could go out in a blaze of glory and get a lot of applause for it, but it would be a very selfish thing to do. Kimmel is thinking about the end of the show. He told Vulture six years ago, I told him I thought I was done when Biden was president, but he wants to end on his own terms.

Kimmel’s producer Aaron Irwin said he’s been talking about leaving for a while. She’d like to see the show continue through the twenty twenty eight election, but I don’t know if Jimmy can do it for that long. He’s tired. Kimmel will take a break this summer. Johnny Mac has said, I think that’s a strategic mistake, and you should grab the Colbert diaspora.

But maybe Kimbill doesn’t care. If he’s thinking about ending the show, I don’t know I would have him on this summer. His break will start after the Knicks win the NBA Championship. Kimill’s break starts after the NBA Final on June nineteenth. Normally, renewal conversations would be underway by now, but as of late May, they haven’t begun.

Kimil said, I don’t know what ABC is going to want to do. It’s an unusual position to be in, but I do still have a year left on my contract and that’s what I agreed to do.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel won a Peabody Award and gave a speech Let’s listen to…

I’ve made some edits here for language and pacing. I’d say I. Felt pretty dumb a lot of times in my life, but I’ve never felt dumber than I do right now, being on stage with this group of people who expose the horrors of ice on prison abuse and protests against the Vietnam War teacher who took on Putin. I called our president fatty shack and blobbed the builder and Leiger Woods and the hungry, hungry hypocrite, our fondling father Malardo Cintandella, and no Stra dumbass, And somehow we. Got a peabody out of that move.

Making jokes about the president in America shouldn’t win you a prize. We have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize and satirize our leaders, as is a right that many of us take for granted. It’s one that I took for granted for the first fifty seven years of my life until September of last year, when the FCC delivered a very unpleasant surprise. But then I experienced something that surprised me even more. I watched as millions of people, even some from across the aisle objected.

They spoke up, they marched, they canceled, their subscriptions to Star Wars because they refused to allow our freedoms to be bulldozed like the East Wing of the White House. They sent a message. You sent a message that we do care, and we will stand up, and that we will not stand by when comedy and journalism and dissent are censored and regulated and criminalized. Jo Rogan was talking with Harland Williams about the roost of Kevin Hart. Joe Rogan thinks some comedians.

I don’t know. I’ll let him explain it. I’m pretty sure he’s talking about Chelsea Handler here, But you tell me. I’ve made edits for both language and pacing. To defend Tony to everybody.

Yeah he’s a great guy. Yeah, he’s a great guy. Yea, yeah, he’s just like in that world. You have to understand the roast world. That is not the real world.

Kids, That is you’re going for blood. You know, like if you’re in a cage fight and you elbow someone in the face, it’s not because you’re a bad person. You have like that is your job. That’s the game we’re playing. These are the rules that we’re under.

And so when you see people complain about it, see I understand the general public that’s not aware of what roasts are because the reality of roasts are especially for like if you’re a twenty two year old kid, the last time they were roasts on television before the Tom Brady Bros. Was literally ten years ago. Yeah, like do you remember the Charlie Sheen Rose, the Donald Trump Rose, the Comedy Central roast. They saw them all the time, all the time. They were a long time ago.

Yeah, it’s a long time in the zeitgeys, right, So those things don’t exist to kids. To kids, comedy is joking about stuff. Comedy is Chris Rock, Comedy is Kevin Hart, Comedy is Luis c K. That’s what they think of comedy as they don’t under they don’t even understand the jokes like that this is roast. Jokes are mean.

They’ve always been mean. They could be cruel to personal, ruthless. Go back and watch all those old Comedy Central roles. They were brutal, they were brutal. Patrecea would just eviscerate the entire stadium those things.

The thing is, like, if you’re a person and you’re not accustomed to roast and you don’t get why those jokes are so mean. I get it. But comedians, comedians that are getting upset about these roast jokes, you know what this is. You know exactly what this. You’re a trader.

You’re just using this moment to try to boost yourself up, to try to like knock down what’s happening in these things. You could disagree with the content, you could say, I think they went too far with this. I don’t think, but this this pretending that these people are actual racists and Nazis just because they’re telling these jokes that are in a roast. I’m gonna be careful with this next one because I don’t want to visit from anybody wearing sunglasses. George Lopez made a joke about a very very famous person like picture, like a really famous person that’s in the news all the time.

And George Lopez made a joke about that person. A few minutes after the joke, he received a phone call telling him expect a visit from guys in sunglasses. You know I’m talking about those guys. Here is George Lopez talking to Shaquille O’Neil. I’ve made some edits because I don’t need to be visited by anybody.

I was with Cedric and his daughter at the chateau for a birthday, drinking some champagne. I leave, I get in the car. I turned my phone on Instagram had said this was probably like maybe four and a half years ago. Allegedly Iran had offered an eighty million dollar bounty, and I put in there, we’ll. Do it for half.

And I wasn’t. I wasn’t even home yet. I wasn’t even home, and my publicist school whenever round, my publicist calls, it’s just like, oh, I said, hello, where are you? I said, up in the car. But but but where were you?

Where have you been? And I told her man and uh, she said, it’s it’s big, like it’s big. And Fox had these people that you know, he should be arrested. Of course, yeah, so I had. I had it on Fox occasionally to see.

And then one day I get up in the morning, I walked by it. I stopped against my attention and said, George Lopez should expect a visit early next week. And uh, five minutes after that, my phone rang and I said, hey, George Lobe, you should expect the visit early next The same thing that was all the thing. They told me, and they came over. Attorney with me and they come to the house.

Ronny Chieng was at Harvard class day and unleashed on AI. He said, can I say fai fi fai? He didn’t say f he said the full word there. Chang said, it’s stupid. It’s so stupid.

If you tried using it, it’s always wrong. AI says that Harvard has a fifty six point nine billion dollar endowment and that the Harvard Graduate Students’ Union is on strike to try and get a liverable wage increase to twenty five dollars an hour. There’s no way that’s true. I mean, that’s ridiculous. How bad are these AI hallucinations?

Getting? The mission of your generation is to destroy AI, kill it. Ronny Chieng explains, the creating is the fun part. The best part in comedy writing is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self regard from having accomplished a different thing. Why would I want AI to take it away from me?

On mattin Sheen’s Secret podcast, The Guys discussed communism. Here’s a clip I’ve made an edit for language. Watch the Little documentary on Mals dung. What’s he up to? He’s dead, but he killed a lot of people in the way out a lot.

It’s important to study communism, yeah, because you know the youngsters these days, they think it’s far out and fly. Yeah, it’s really weird. It’s not usually results in about fifty million people dying. Doesn’t work typically, Yeah, it’s no, it’s pretty I mean that’s you know again, I’ve been making the YouTube debates spear watching that and that’s a big one, Like how you uncomfortable calling yourself a communist if that many people died? And it’s like, well, it’s because it sounds nice, you know.

It’s like, no, we shared. It’s like it starts with the seizure of private property exactly. That’s crazy. Yeah, it is funny where it’s like built on It’s like it’s not really sharing. It built from the government taking everyone’s property.

Well, the government’s terrible. Yeah, I don’t trust them with anything, it’d be horrible. Why do people want to give them more power? New England Patriots fans not happy with Matt Rife. Why quarterback Drake May held a celebrity softball game on Sunday night.

Some of the participants comedian Matt Rife Patriot’s running back Ramandre Stevenson. On one play during the game, Matt Riife got a bad throat a first base after what looked like a routine ground out, so Riife went to second base. He got caught up in a rundown. Rife wound up aggressively sliding into second base and took out the legs of the Patriots running back. Can you imagine if you lost your running back because Matt Rife slid into second base.

Luckily, Stevenson appeared to be okay after the play. John Mulaney has shared the new entry in his book Club. He wrote on social media, it’s on threads. If I recall correctly, Hello from a wahwah somewhere outside Washington, DC. Mlanie reads this month is all about the Left and the Lucky by Willie Vlauton.

M’laney says, I’ve read this in a day, just in love with the characters. Very funny people in some cases, very tragic, very human. Reminded me a lot of one of my favorite movies, Joe by David Gordon Green. I’m really a sucker for any story of an older person taking a lost kid under their wing. This one is electric.

Buy it at your favorite bookstore.

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Meanwhile, Tig Nataro has joined the cast of Beach Read.

Character details are under wraps, but in Beach Read, idealistic romance novelist January Andrews and cynical literary fiction writer Augustus Gus Everett played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, have at least one thing in common, a serious case of writer’s block. When they unexpectedly find themselves living next door to each other in a small Lake Michigan beach town for the summer, they strike an unlikely bet to swap genres, and the lines between fiction and romance begin to blur. Exciting. Huh all right, I don’t feel like playing the Gossip Corner song today, but we are on Gossip Corner. This was on Threads.

There is an account called Assistance versus Agents. Their description the next Generation of Entertainment. We can contact a team Warner Bailey at United Talent dot com and we are told there are jobs, news and interviews every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Now on Monday they posted ever wonder what some of the biggest comedians request on their writers? And I was like, I do so I don’t know is this one hundred percent accurate or is this totally made up?

We are on gossip corner here. Use this information at your discretion. But according to this post on threads dot com, Bill Burr’s writer asks for two Kind bars, two Cliff bars, two Quest chocolate brownie protein bars, two Quest chocolate chip protein cookies, two Deer packwater cases, six bottles of unsweetened iced tea can be pure Leaf or Golden Peak. Dave Chappelle’s writer apparently includes American Spirit cigarettes, two Blue too black. Kevin Hart He’s never in the news.

Apparently Kevin Hart needs parentheses, thirty six parentheses, twelve bottles of spring water, and then it says keep twelve bottles at room temperature. So I’m guessing thirty six total, but twelve of them room temperature and the other twenty four presumably cold. The alleged Kevin Hart writer also asks for simply brand fruit punch, half a gallon, simply brand lemonade, half a gallon simply brand watermelon, half a gallon, a Curriig coffee machine, some assorted k cups, two boxes of lit would iv any flavor, but no strawberry, so that’s not any flavor. It’s any flavor. Butt strawberry, a Canada dry ginger, ale x L dudewipes.

So Kevin Hart was very thirsty and now he needs some dude wipes. Are you familiar with dudewipes? If you go to dudewipes dot com, they will tell you we make flushable wipes, billions of them assembled right here in the USA. They’re tagline billions of butts wiped. That’s on Kevin Hart’s writer.

Where what else does he want? Pathwater, Essentia or Icelantic water, twelve bottles of those four diet Doctor Pepper twelve ounce or sixteen ounce. It’s not like Kevin Hart’s Picky Sea. Four smart energy drinks are sorted, and he’s also down with the unsweetened iced tea pure Leaf or Golden Peak. Gabriel Iglesias, his writer asks for cold brew coffee Stumptown preferred.

Joe Coy, he want host of the Golden Globes. It made a horrible, mean joke about Cheryl Swift. Wodn’t have time for that. Joe Coy is asking for six twenty ounce hydration water bottles. Essensia can be a substitute Alisa Dieke would like two Celsius Energy d Inks orange please, and six bottles of Mountain Valley Spring Waters not sparkling.

Hannibal Burrs would like kind bars two of those. And our last writer is from Tom Segura, who, according to assistants versus agents, would like four Liquid Death rest In Peach cans, four Stumptown Cold Brew coffees, glasser nitro can is fine, six Sierra Nevada pel els, six bottles of Harmless Harvest coconut water, four Fever Tree on Cater’s can’s blue label. I don’t even know what that is. Two RX bars Dealer’s choice, ten Go Marco macro bars, berry or lemon flavor preferred, and we’re told you can get those at Whole Foods. There are six sparkling waters, Popochico lime or grapefruit please.

Can you mention? Rob Anderson has his debut special. It’s out on YouTube today. It’s called Are You Afraid of the Nineties. We are told that Rob Anderson is known online as the King of Nostalgia and has built up a cult following through his celebrating and roasting of the most chaotic retro pop culture moments taped during a sold out show in Vancouver.

The special revisits the movies, television and pop culture moments that shaped the generation and Bill Cosby in the news. An LA County Superior Court judge has denied Bill Cosby’s request for a new trial after Drury recently found Bill Cosby was liable for nineteen million dollars in damages for a civil sex assault case. Judge Bradley S. Phillips ruled on Friday that Bill Cosby did not prove there was any irregularity in the court proceedings that would have presented Bill Cosby from getting a fair trial, and the damages awarded to his accuser were not excessive. In March, a woman was awarded nineteen point two five million dollars in damages after she sued Bill Cosby in twenty twenty three, alleging that Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her in nineteen seventy two after escorting her to one of his shows.

Someday on this program, after the death of Bill Cosby, I’m going to tell you a story all this month. It’s June. We’re asking you we Who’s we? John? Who’s WII?

I? Don’t know me. I I Hey, I’m asking you to share the show. That’s what we’re doing this June. So if you like the show, you’re gonna go, Hey, buddy, there’s this podcaster.

I kind of like him. He’s weird, but you’ll dig it. It’s called Daily Comedy News. And I don’t know what you do then, I don’t know. You grab the guy’s phone and you download the show, or or you’re send him a picture.

I don’t know what you do. You figure that part out? Who is my dog barking at? Did Amazon? Come?

I bet Amazon come? Can you hear the dog on the microphone? You might not be able to, but boy, I can hear the dog. Dog. I’m trying to tell the people to share the show, and now they’re all distracted because this is a dog barking and I’m distracted.

All right, just share the show. That’s what we’re doing. Don’t forget to follow the show on Spotify. I’ve actually turned on the comments now, so instead of me telling you, hey, what do you comment and you’re like, hey, idiot, the comments are off, you can actually comment now. Thank you Justin for pointing that out.

At three forty two am in the morning and I think that’s it. Oh Nick, Tonight, Go Nix go. The New York Nicks are in the finals. If you’re looking for me at a thirty pm Eastern time, I will be in the comfy cheer Go Nix. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Byron Allen, Patton Oswalt, Tom Segura, Nate Bargatze, Theo Von, Rob Schneider

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien sues Harvard University in comedic response to federal lawsuit
• CBS partners with Byron Allen on $15 million annual time-buy for late night slot
• Patton Oswalt discusses AI in comedy and releases new special ‘Tea and Scotch’ on YouTube
• Tom Segura and YMH Studios announce partnership with Fox Creator Studios for multiple projects
• Nate Bargatze discusses clean comedy approach on Theo Von’s podcast while promoting ‘The Breadwinner’

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien is suing Harvard. I’ve got a clip for you, a little longer than I usually play for a clip, but it’s great. Here’s Conan.

Perhaps the biggest issue facing this institution is that the federal government of the United States is suing our university. Yeah. Many people think I’ve come today to defend Harvard. Well, sorry, those people are wrong. Not only am I not against these lawsuits, I’m here to announce that I’m joining them.

I too, am suing Harvard. I’m suing Harvard for the cast iron bunk bed that greeted me upon my arrival at How Were They sixteen my freshman year, a bed that has since been confiscated by the Hague as an instrument of divine c I’m suing Harvard for allowing me to sign up for a nine am class at the Science Center and a ten am class down at Soldiers Field. For God’s sakes, I was a child. I’m suing Harvard for my less than spectacular undergraduate sex life, for me having a three way man adding a second mirror to my dorm. I’m suing Harvard because once I had to listen to the Harvard Crocodillo’s do an eight minute rendition of split splash, I was taken a bath.

My god, each one took a solo and it was awful.

And finally, I’m suing Harvard because, and this is absolutely true, in the s…

You has served a meal called capt’n Ben’s fish spaghetti. To this day, I have no idea who capt’n Ben is or why someone would combine government issue cod with spaghetti. Harvard, I’ll see your ass in court. Yes, I’m confident that my claims will have more merit than those filed by the President of the United States. Yes, as you are aware, the current administration feels Harvard amidst too many foreign students, and who knows, they may have a point.

After all, what has any foreigner ever added to our American culture, with the possible exception of music, literature, art, cuisine, architecture, dance, scientific breakthroughs in the core of our moral codes and ethical blaze? Seriously serious, If foreigners hadn’t gummed up the works right now, it’d all be listening to delightful Calvinist reggae, eating savory Church of England ZD and dancing the forbidden and sexually charged the Lutheran LOMBARDA wow. And you can send your letters to Conan O’Brien now via Deadline. BBS is letting you know you could take all the shots you want at them over this Byron Allen thing. They’re good with it.

I see people on threads and they’re like, the ratings are down for Byron Allen. CBS is getting what they deserve. They know what they’re walking into. Byron Allen is fine with this. CBS is fine with this.

CBS wants you to know that Byron Allen, who is a billionaire and has had a lot of success in television, doing this sort of thing. Byron Allen is paying fifteen million dollars a year as a time buy, meaning that he’s leasing the eleven thirty hour from CBS and selling its ad inventory himself. So on the CBS end, even if this show gets zero viewers, they make fifteen million dollars a year, so they don’t care. You can hate all you want the first night of Comics Unleashed got eight hundred and seventy eight thousand total viewers, which honestly is not that far from comparing apples to slightly different apples here, but Seth Meyers show really doesn’t get a lot more than that. I’m comparing eleven thirty and twelve thirty, and maybe that eight seventy eight was some curiosity mixed in.

We’ll see where the Byron Allen number settles in. BBS said, We’re proud to partner with Byron Allen on a new business and programming model for Late Night that proactively addresses a network date part that was cost prohibitive to continue with this time by model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly forty million dollars annually to fifteen million dollars in profit, a fifty five million dollars swing. Some industry sources or curious how a CBS arrives at the negative forty million dollar number, doesn’t really matter. The Late Show is over. Star trek Ruinner Patton Oswalt spoke to Vice about his new special.

One of the topics was ai. Patton Oswalt said, stand up as an art form is a living, evolving snapshot of one person’s life and their reaction to an opinion of it, which is why I think a lot of younger people are kind of seeing the job security of it at all. A I might be able to craft technically funny jokes, but it will never have a point of view that comes from living a life of heartbreak, joy, accidents, massive f ups, and real growth. The new special is called t and Scotch. What’s with that patent?

He said? The titles of my specials and albums are never consciously connected to anything within the special, But later on I realized I was subconsciously expressing something I didn’t even realize was eating at me. And right now, the way we’re living, it’s either soothing tea or bracing scotch. Maybe I’m struggling with how I’ve willingly embraced living under those two extremes and fooled myself into thinking it’s somehow healthy vice ass, Patten, this seems to be the smallest venue you ever filmed a special. Aunt.

Is there a reason for that? Patton said, I did some shows at Comedy on stateon Madison, Wisconsin a few years ago, and I was blown away by how electric and just plane present the crowds were. By the time the weekend was over, I knew that’s where I was going to film my next special, small, raw, intimate. I still love the big streaming platforms, but a lot of them seem to send some pretty brilliant comedy specials down a digital black hole. This was a chance to own my product, control the distribution, make sure the right eyes got on it.

Roll with the new t in Scotch on YouTube. June ninth, Congratulations to Tom sigor who’s on a bit of a roll. Fox Creator Studios and Sigora’s YMH Studios are joining forces. It is a strategic MULTII project partnership to develop, finance, and produce a broad slate of original content. That slate includes a stand up comedy showcase spotlighting both established and emerging voices, a horror comedy animated series, and a live action comedy series set in an airport bar.

Sagora til Deadline. We’ve spent years building a business where we can create independently and stay directly connected to our audience. Fox Creator Studios understands that model and brings the infrastructure and reach to help us expand it in a meaningful way. Nate Bergantcy was hawking his new movie The Breadwinner on in the Ovaughn’s podcast. They started talking about clean comedy.

THEO said, you can get away with a lot more when you don’t curse. I think you could say a lot of things and talk about a lot of stuff. When people hear foul language, they either check out or label a comedian as dirty. Nate said, just be in control of it. When did he get into comedy.

Let me look this up two thousand and two, Nate, you could say stuff by two thousand and two. Relax, You couldn’t say whatever you wanted to say way back in two thousand and two. That’s not a bad thing. That means you have to be creative in a scenario and come out stuff in different angles. THEO Vaughn said, foul language is kind of how I operate a regular day.

Nate said he doesn’t consider von a quote dirty comic and told him to do whatever you want to do. I think Nate needs to hide out for a while. I think if we look back in this run that started with what did he host the Emmys like? He had all the heat coming off the Snlharents. But then the Emmys, the Game Show?

Did anyone care? The movie? Does anyone care? The theme park? Does anyone care?

I think he needs to just tap the brakes a little and just do a stand up tour. But what do I know. He’s making more money than anybody. And I’m sitting in the basement. Rob Schneider in the news, and there’s always when Rob Schneider is in the news, it’s about, you know, really positive things.

I don’t know what it is with Rob. He’s just one of those comedians that every time he appears, just like strife involved with the story. This time he was weighing in on Adam Carolla making the Hollywood Walk of Fame. How about you just say congratulations Adam Carolla, or don’t say anything now. Jimmy Kimmel was there at the ceremony.

Kimmel said, Adam and I, as you probably know, don’t agree much when it comes to politics. But I love him dearly. I’ve never worked with anyone funny or I’m proud of him. This is guy worked his way up from nothing to become literally a millionaire. And if you don’t believe it, you’ll hear him say at every single show.

Schneider, who was not at the ceremony, had to jump on Twitter and said, have a friend like Adam Carolla who’s able to set aside the most egregious whiny. He hates viewing leftists lying even about murder bs and still be a pel all at uh is believed to be about Jimmy Kimmel, Adam, congratulations on your well deserved star and your loyalty above ideology. Greg Proops has a new album. It is called Kidding but Still. It’s available via a Special Thing Records group.

Recorded at the Punchline in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve for the fifth year in a row, he did a spontaneous set of tales from the road, improvvel’s pointed political observations, and more. It is his tenth live comedy album. Jamel Johnson’s third album is available for pre order. It’ll be out on June twelfth. That’s called mid Range.

On mid Range, Johnson brings levity to serious topics like the racial biases of artificial intelligence, the way men encourage toxic masculinity, and the pros and cons of being a fat boyfriend. There are also some hyper specific references like phone game ads, basketball, ice hockey and living with an iPod Touch instead of a phone. The Guardian caught up with Nish Kumar now. They point out, while they were doing the interview, there was a big poster promoting prime videos last one Laughing UK and in the center of the frame is Jimmy Carr, The Guardian reminds us. In Kumore’s last stand up show, he recalled the time he confronted Jimmy Carr about Jimmy Carr’s decision to appear on Jordan Peterson’s podcast.

The Guardian tells us Kumore is initially as it into criticizes fellow comics, saying all I’m thinking right now is a single phrase. You should not be allowed to give interviews. But soon he was calling out Jimmy Carr, Bill Bird, Dave Chappelle and Jack Whitehall were playing a part in the quotes cultural washing of a repressive regime. All that about the Riod Comedy Festival, I imagine he found the participation of those who have complained about cancel culture egregious. Kumore said, I don’t want to hear about free speech from any of those sea words again.

He tells us he’s not living like a superstar. No one I know of his level of wealth where they have transcended the mechanism of day to day life. That’s a Jimmy Carr level of money. We found out that Kumar even turned down last one, laughing when his agent laid the offer. She told him the money was really good and that Jimmy Carr was hosting.

Nish said, I said to her, do honestly think I could say yes to this given the content of what I’m saying on stage right now. If I’m essentially accusing him of being part of the mechanism that’s wondering fascist, misogynist ideas in the mainstream discourse, I can’t then be like, oh, Jimmy, isn’t Bob Mortimer good? And that is your comedy news for today. You can follow a show on Spotify, and you could turn on notifications so you never miss an episode, And you can also use the comments section on Spotify to chime in on any of this if you’d like to. And there’s also the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group And I’ll see here tomorrow

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Featured: Theo Von, Nate Bargatze, Kevin Hart, Chelsea Handler, Tony Hinchliffe, Shane Gillis, Stephen A. Smith, Jeff Foxworthy, Howie Mandel

What’s in This Episode

• Theo Von and Nate Bargatze debate Kevin Hart Roast on This Past Weekend podcast
• Chelsea Handler criticism of Tony Hinchliffe and Shane Gillis roast jokes
• Stephen A. Smith responds to Kevin Hart’s ‘Mount Rushmore of racism’ joke
• Nate Bargatze’s film The Breadwinner receives poor reviews
• Jeff Foxworthy releases new special The Jokes On Me on Fox Nation
• Howie Mandel discusses how he saved Deal or No Deal and inspired other comedians to host game shows

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Caloroga Shark Media. And there I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We’re still talking about the roast of Kevin Hard. THEO Vaughn and Nperghetzi got into it on THEO Vaughan’s This past Weekend podcast. I’m not sure what the hell these two were talking about.

I’m not even sure THEO actually watched the roast. Based upon we’re about to hear, I have made some editing for pacing. As THEO goes on at some point about nothing. None of the roasters I don’t think had a problem with the jokes. Oh wait, except for Chelsea Handler.

Did I think Chelsea Hander came out and said that she has some problem with you some of Shane and Tony’s jokes? Maybe? Yeah, I don’t think with the roast. I think was Shane and Tony. Yeah, yeah, can’t pole it down?

Good call. She kind of said the Yeah, it was like, I know about all the jokes, mainly Shane and Tony. Do you feel like in that kind of instance, if people are signing up for something like that, it feels like it’s like fair game, unless it’s like vile. You know, maybe I. Think it’s got to all be fair games signing up for it.

I mean it’s like like, I know, you know, it’s like one of those like where are you gonna say? The line is, Uh, the Roast have just they’ve just I believe we’ve gotten to the spirit of the roast is kind of gone. You’re you’re not really having people on there that love each other, and so if there’s no love shown, then uh, it’s it’s it just gets mean and uh, you know. And but I mean not saying that they did they did what they were asked to do. I thought they a lot of them did a great job.

You know. I was very happy for Big Jay Everson killed it. Some of the feeling that you get with it, it’s like it’s intense, it’s funny, and some of it is like some of it is kind of like, yeah, what feeling do I really leave here within the end? Right? Like I leave with some temporary highs?

For sure? Oh that was crazy. That was creative. Even something that’s edgy and dark can be still be very creative. But yeah, some of it it’s like this, some of this really make me feel good or it does like, yeah, I think.

I thought Kevin Hart did great handling a lot of it too, because yeah, it was like he wasn’t you know, he you know, kept saying like this is what you signed up for, and yeought the messaging was good from him afterwards, like because I mean it was like such a tough crazy it’s crazy. Nate’s out promoting The Breadwinner. The reviews are not so good. From the Hollywood Reporter and Aperghetsi’s big screen vehicle is inoffensive to the point of total boredom. Hr roads.

This is all supposed to be riotously amusing, and perhaps could have been if we hadn’t seen it handled in so much funnier fashion and nearly every family sitcom ever created at such movies as Mister Mom. But even forgetting its predecessors, The Breadwinner is so lazy and laid back that it practically recedes into itself. This is a film that makes television shows like Father Knows Best and My Three Sons seem edgy Forgetsi’s resolutely deadpand comic person. It works well for a stand upback, but on screen he seems mostly on the verge of a coma. In a recurring gag, Nate blows an airhorn to get people’s attention.

It may be the only thing that will keep audience members awake. Wow. The av Club’s review was and Aprighetzi’s girl Dad comedy The Breadwinner is more painful than funny geez. Stephen A Smith has commented on the roast of Kevin Hart because during the Roast of Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart mentioned stephen A Smith. I have made lots of edits to this upcoming clip.

The original version that I pulled is six minutes long. Steven A speaks very deliberately, so I had to chop it down. We can’t do a six minute clip. But I just want to be clear. I don’t mean to take away from the point that mister Smith was making.

Hopefully my edit here is fair, but I have quite trimmed this down to hopefully get to the point mister Smith was trying to make. Kevin Hart made a pointed joke about his personal Mount Rushmore of racism lest the people he claims hate black people alongside Jane Shane Gillis, Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan. Kevin Hard included my name quote my Mount Rushmore of racism when it comes to hating black people is Shane Gillis, Kid Rock Hulk Hogan, Stephen A. Smith. Those are my four people when it comes to hating black people.

The joke came during a roast segment where Heart was targeting Shane Gillis, the event’s host, and then expanded to a broader critique of several public figures. Obviously, everybody knows me to be a sports commentator known for my outspoken opinions, and I’m considered an individual that’s been the subject of controversies over the years. Okay, you know I tried to. First of all, I got the least. I thought I had pretty damn good relationship with Kevin Hart.

It’s been on my show on many occasions. I’ve known her for years. I don’t know. I mean, it’s a roast, but you know, he’s getting crucified because a lot of people felt like too many jokes at this particular roaster was tasteless. My attitude is a roast is a roast, and people are there to be attacked.

He’s gotten attacked all of that other stuff. Anybody expecting me to go after Kevin Hart, you got the wrong man. I’ve always had a lot of love for him. I will continue to have a lot of love for him. I think he’s a good man and a great comedian who’s highly successful and a good dude.

And I’m just I was just taken aback by it, because obviously it’s the kind of narrative that a few have tried to give the impression that the many feel about me. Kevin Hart may have been telling the joke. It may have been the latest tasteless one. That he told. I have no issue with the joke if it was a joke, if it wasn’t the joke, if it wasn’t a joke, I still wouldn’t have an issue with it.

I have an issue with the fact that it came from him, somebody that I kind of know a little bit, that got a lot of love and respect for. I could respond more vitriolically, but I won’t, more incendiary. But I won’t because Kevin Hart has never, once in this lifetime, did anything to me that deserves that. Jeff Foxworthy has a new special out today on Fox Nation. This one called The Jokes On Me.

It was filmed at the Gasole Theater in du Luth, Georgia. In The Jokes On Me, Jeff Foxworthy jokes about family, aging and everyday moments The Jokes On Me also uses behind the scenes in documentary footage and shows how some of the material is developed for the stage. Jeff Foxworthy said, comedy has always been about finding the funny in everyday life, but people don’t always get to see the work in the process behind it. I’m grateful to Fox Nation for understanding the vision I had for the special and giving me the chance to share that journey with the audience. Jeff was a game show host at one point.

He might want to thank Howie Mandel because Howie Mandel took credit for everybody. Speaking to the CBC how we talked about back in the day, being asked if he would host A Deal or No Deal, Howie Mandel said, a game show would have been the nail in the coffin of my career. If your currency was irony in comedy, you don’t want to be a game show host. So I said no, and then they called me back an hour later and they said, come on, they can’t do it without you, and they’re going to put it in prime time five nights in one week, and I go even more of a nail in the coffin of my career. They persisted.

One of them met Howie Mandel in a deli. The game show rep even brought a cardboard cutout of Deal or No Deal and had how we play it right there in the Delhi how He says, I go home, I tell my wife, I tell her the story. She goes, so go do it. They’re offering your money. You think your career is crap anyway, so what the hell?

So he does it. Then I get a call from the guy who came out to the Daily saying, you’re not gonna believe it. In the first week, one hundred million people watch over the five nights, all those comics that you see now doing game shows. You’re welcome. Robert Lloyd, writing for The La Times, really likes Jane Wickline.

Lloyd writes, I know from online testimonials that I’m not the only person who loves Wickline, just as I know that there are those who do not like her at all, to put it mildly, who believe she has no place on Saturday Night Live. Who are those people? I’ve never met any of those people, And of course it’s more than possible you have no idea who I’m talking about, says Robert Lloyd. There’s the SNL Jane, best known for the song she urgently performs during Week and Update. But there’s also TikTok Jane, who began making one woman multiple character sketches in twenty twenty.

More so than many cast members who wear their pedigrees on her sleeve, she generates a feeling of well, well, what do we have here? With no easy immediate answer. The fact that she’s so polarizing is, in a way recommendation. She’s different. She’s a mystery.

Nearly all her TikTok skins, it’s Wickline plays all the parts, cutting back and forth, sometimes distinguishing the characters only by the tops they wear. The camera angle in the background. Wicklin doesn’t need me to defend her. She may not be a typical cast member. She doesn’t do impressions, for one thing, and I can’t imagine her in the sort of SNL film The comedy players have been graduating too, though David Lynch might have a part for her or Wes Anderson.

GQ wrote a ridiculous piece calling Marcelo Hernandez the boy Prince of comedy. GQ asked, Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing? One thing? Well, if he would turn Domingo into a movie character. Marcelo Hernandez says, maybe, who knows.

I’d be grateful, but ultimately, now it’s a strategic thing. I have to listen when it comes to movies because it’s not where I started. I have to listen and learn. That’s what I’m trying to do now. Study film the way I studied stand up.

Then try to get as knowledgeable and then do the work. Gossip Conna whispers in the street. Gossip con probably a bout pie gossip conn Aware. The rumors meet with Johnny macke it’s always a tree. I will wind up singing that half the afternoon.

I’m just it’s so catchy. There’s a website. It’s Rob Shooter. He’s a gossip calumnist. I go to his site sometimes when I’m prepping Pallace Intrigue, which is our sister podcast about the royal family.

He floated an interesting theory about what’s going on with Chelsea Handler and Tony Hinchcliff. According to Shooter. Sources say at the roast, Chelsea Handler appeared openly flirtatious around Tony Hinchcliff during rehearsals and backstage, clearly enjoying the edgy comics attention and energy. The problem Tony had zero romantic interest in her. An insider says Chelsea was absolutely giddy around Tony backstage, laughing extra hard, hovering around him, touching his arm.

Everyone noticed it immediately. Another insider said Tony wanted nothing romantic with Chelsea. He liked the attention, but it wasn’t interested in her in that way. A source claims Tony felt Chelsea came after him harder once she realized he wasn’t interested, and when Tony feels attacked, he goes scorched earth. This wasn’t just comics roasting each other.

There were real feelings involved. That’s all kinds of fun. The Toronto Guardians sometimes catches up with Toronto based comedians. I enjoy these. I like exposing all of us, myself included, to comedians that maybe are off our radar.

One of them is Toronto based comedian Alex Wood. We’re told to think of Nirvana if Kurt Cobain were a regional comic, workshopping jokes about marriage and McDonald’s all right, I’m interested, the Guardian says, drawing inspiration from everything from Charles dickens to Whoope cushions. Alex Wood’s comedy blends dry observation with chaotic sincerity. Alex Wood, who is your favorite comedian growing up? Nor McDonald?

A close second would be Sabrina the Teenage Witch? Favorite comedian now Josh Johnson and Dylan Gatt. Pre show ritual, I draw a pentagram on the floor and then I write out my set list in the blood of a trangit drifter that I’ve murdered no one will miss. After I make this fastian deal, I shave off all my body here and scream into a mirror. You can do this favorite place you’ve performed?

This answer is wonderful. Last week I performed in a bowling alley in Perth, Ontario, and it made me fall in love with the Art Forum all over again. After the show, there’s a drunk man from the audience who gave me some excellent jokes. I could do it my next skit. Alex Wood’s favorite part of Toronto is the hipster part of Toronto.

It’s called Toronto Canadian’s like you’re over pronouncing that. I’m supposed to swallow that second tea right like Toronto. I could do that if I focus Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, I’ll to check in with Canadian consultant Mike Chisholm from the Letterman podcast. But he’s out west, who knows how he pronounces everything?

And then is your comedy news for today.

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