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Featured: Norm Macdonald, Martin Mull, Maria Bamford, Theo Vaughn, Sam Morrell, Nate Bargatze, Jimmy Kimmel, Judd Apatow

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix October 2026 comedy documentary lineup featuring four releases
• Norm Macdonald intimate documentary produced by Judd Apatow
• Martin Mull documentary produced by late Bob Saget and Neil Berkley
• Maria Bamford documentary ‘Paralyzed by Hope’ from Judd Apatow
• SCTV documentary and full series arriving on Netflix
• Theo Vaughn NASCAR Chase promotional campaign
• Sam Morrell on how Knicks championship affects his comedy writing
• Nate Bargatze launching edgier production company after family-friendly success
• Jimmy Kimmel contract renewal discussions and potential retirement considerations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

From Poolside, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. October is going to be very exciting on Netflix. They have four comedy documentaries. I think the big one will be about Norm Macdonald, but I’ll tell you about them in order. These will be on Fridays.

On October 7th, we’ll get Who is Martin Mull, produced by the late Bob Saget and Neil Berkley. Who is Martin Mull tells the story of the Chicago-born actor, musician, and painter known for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and for playing Jean on Arrested Development. We’re told that the doc traces his restless reinvention from smoky folk clubs to primetime sitcoms to gallery walls, told in his own words and by their friends who watched it happen, including Steve Martin, Tom Waits, David Alan Greer, and others. Then on October 16th, we get Norma. The Tale of Norm Macdonald, an intimate portrait of Norm Macdonald, including his rise as the deadpan anchor of Weekend Update to his enduring legacy as a comedian’s comedian, a master of the absurd, the dry, and the unexpected.

The doc is built entirely from archival footage, personal photos, and rare home videos. This is really great. Judd Apatow is the force behind this one. Then on the 23rd, we get the Maria Bamford documentary, also from Judd. It is called Paralyzed by Hope, the Maria Bamford Story.

It made its premiere earlier this year at Sundance. It is a funny and tender glimpse into the childhood, early career, and present-day life of a comedy great who’s known for turning radical honesty into radical comedy, often blurring the line between performance and personal crisis. I know people that like Maria Bamford love Maria Bamford. Never quite been my thing, but I know people are really, really into her. So that is Paralyzed by Hope, the Maria Bamford story.

Then on October 30th, we get SCTV, The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of, which is just a fascinating title, because if you’re my age, of course you’ve heard of it. Plus, by the time October 30th rolls around, SCTV is coming to Netflix September 1st, so it will have been on Netflix for two months, so people will have heard of it anyway. SCTV, The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of, except you have, tells the story of one of the most influential sketch comedy series in TV history, although ostensibly you supposedly haven’t heard of it, even though you have. Second City Television helped boost the careers of John Candy, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, Rick Moranis, and more. No love for Dave Thomas there?

Why is there no love for Dave Thomas? Come on. Anyway, we’re told through intimate interviews with surviving members of its legendary cast and an emotional reunion in Toronto, the film explores the creative partnership that transformed a small Canadian television production into a cultural phenomenon, etc. Etc. Etc.

Jimmy Kimmel has an executive producer credit on this. As I previously mentioned, all episodes of Second City TV arrive on Netflix September 1st. NASCAR has teamed up with Theo Vaughn. USA Sports brought in comedian and podcaster Theo Vaughn to star in a new promo for The Chase, breaking down how the NASCAR playoffs work in simplest terms. Vaughn explains, 16 drivers, 10 races, one champion, the rules are easy, winning insanely hard.

Then there’s a video where we see some drivers in a classroom. Let’s cut to the trailer. Now, I did make edits for pacing. And honestly, I struggled to make it all the way to the end, so at some point we’re going to bail here, but here’s Theo Vaughn doing his NASCAR thing. Welcome to USA Sports Racing School.

You’ve battled all season for a shot at the championships, And now you’ve graduated. To the chase. Are you talking about me? I am not, but big fan. Did you just say chase?

Hey, Chase Briscoe, pipe down. We’re talking about NASCAR’s postseason. Wait, the chase is back? The chase is back, Ryan Blaney. Thank you, man.

And apparently so are 70s mustaches, huh? 16 drivers, 10 races, one champion. The rules are easy. Winning, insanely hard. Johnny Mac, stick to sports. OK, Sam Morrell was on Rich Eisen’s podcast and they talked about the world champion Knicks.

Sam said it hurt my comedy that Knicks run because it’s hard to write jokes when everything is great. A lot of comedy comes from irritability and like, you know, oh, this is annoying. But what am I going to be like? You ever notice that God is real and everything’s cool? Like, what am I going to write about?

I couldn’t believe it. Pajiba wrote an article about that controversial mega comedian, you know, the guy Nate Bregansi. That’s right. I didn’t have to tell you who it is. Pajiba’s headline, Nate Bregazzi does edgy comedy now, losers.

Let’s just read this one verbatim from Pajiba. After the breadwinner whimpered into theaters, Nate Bregazzi immediately went mask off and stumbled around the White House UFC fight like some sort of mega Forrest Gump. He had just spent months carefully saying he’s not a political guy, only to prove that anyone who says that is totally political but self-aware enough to know that they should keep it under wraps. Well. In an entirely predictable move, Nate is reportedly moving past his family-friendly shtick that made him a massive success on the standout circuit.

His Nateland Entertainment just announced the launch of No Pictures, a new company producing film and television that will delve into edgier genres and stories more suited for older audiences. Pajiba continues, While I just assumed Nate would stay arm’s length away from anything that uses words stronger than dorn, He’s already full steam ahead on some pretty spicy stuff. Hold on to your butts. What does any of this mean? Well, for starters, I’m guessing roller coasters cost way more than Nate realized, and he wants to open an amusement park.

He’s going to need more than Mr. Mom rehashes to bring in eyeballs. Pajima says, I’m also reminded of Nate’s May 2025 interview with Esquire, where Nate confessed that he was very tempted to go the canceled comedian route, but ultimately chose not to pursue those riches. Riches that would not be available to him unless he had views that would get him canceled. Are we about to learn what those views are?

This certainly looks like a start. Unless we’re about to witness a very expensive foray into four chokes. Sounds like Jimmy Kimmel’s not going to retire. I mean, that makes sense. Once they make you the king of late night, why would you walk away after a year in your late 50s?

What else are you going to do? Sit in the backyard recording a podcast like a loser? No, Jimmy Kimmel, you keep hosting the show. You already have the summers off. Call Rosie O’Donnell up and tell her you want her for six weeks next summer.

Tell ABC you don’t want to work in December. Rosie will do it. That’s a good solution, actually, everybody. Rosie can waltz in. Everyone will go, oh, Rosie’s great.

Kimmel doesn’t have to work. ABC has a show. Why are we not doing this? Jimmy and his wife Molly went on Dax Shepard’s podcast. Kimmel said he still asks himself if the demands of doing a nightly show are worth it.

Quoting Jimmy, weirdly, I deal with it less now than I used to because now I feel like the show’s an outlet for people who are outraged by what’s going on, and I feel some responsibility to those people. So it’s not just like, oh, man, why do I need to get up? It’s like, well, yeah, there is kind of a reason, a non-financial reason that you need to do this. Kimmel’s current contract runs through May. Recently, Kimmel told Vulture that ABC hadn’t yet talked about a renewal.

Kimmel at that point said, I don’t know what ABC is going to want to do. Jimmy’s wife, Molly, said she could picture her husband with a fly rod in one hand and a torch in the other, finally getting a chance to relax. But she believes his voice is important. Now, this is where we get down to it. Jimmy was asked, could he see himself retiring and then regret it?

He said, yeah, I do. And he said he had watched others announce their retirement only to make a, quote, lesser comeback. Jimmy said, I always look at that and go, oh, is that going to be me? Yeah, don’t walk away, dude. Will he retire, retire?

It depends on what you mean by retirement. He said, I’m never going to stop doing things. That is my like I’m already pretty much retired. I’m sitting next to a pool. Talking into a laptop and making money doing this, and thank you for listening.

You help fund this ridiculous lifestyle that I have. I am so blessed. Thank you. I have no reason not to do this. I already pre-taped some days of the week when I want to go to the beach.

I mean, Jimmy, apply that. Again, call Rosie O’Donnell. In fact, Rosie, if you want to host this podcast on the weekends, I’m happy to have you. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival is stepping up their lineup. If you’re free on Friday, the 11th of September, and you want to hit the Mississauga Festival weekend at Arendelle Park, Stavros Halkias and James Austin Johnson have been announced.

They were replacing Mike Birbiglia and Nick Kroll, who can no longer appear on the show on Friday due to scheduling conflicts. We’ll get into that in a second. But it is a pretty solid lineup at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival Mississauga lineup. On the 11th, you get John Mulaney, Stavros Halkias, Fred Armisen, and James Austin Johnson. I mean, when Fred Armisen’s the fourth best guy, that’s a pretty good night.

Then the afternoon show on the 12th is Adam Ray’s Dr. Phil, Miss Patton, T.J. Miller. Then the night show on the 12th is Jeffrey Curie, fresh cut featuring Brad Williams and Grace O’Malley. Then the afternoon show on the 13th, we’ll be watching football, so I feel bad for Matt Matthews and Jordan Jensen and also Catherine Blanford, who is fantastic, but there’s football that day.

And then you can blow off Sunday night football and go see Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng plus Michael Kosta. Now, why isn’t Mike Birbiglia going? Remember he said he had a bail on the Mulaney tour because he had a dream job? Well, apparently it is this. Focus Features has greenlighted Old Friends, New Friends, a comedy marking Mike Birbiglia’s first feature effort in a decade.

When a tight-knit group of college friends travels to a summer camp for their old friend’s wedding, they discover he’s built a new life with new friends, forcing them to confront what they’ve lost, who they’ve become, and whether growing up means growing apart. Michael Ian Black, who looks fantastic, and I say that because I watched the trailer for the thing I’m about to tell you, which is His new comedy special, it’s titled First Annual Retirement Special. It is now out on Comedy Dynamics. Michael Ian Black reflects on his 27 years of experience as a married man and the difficult choices that come with it, like choosing between intimacy and watching Better Call Saul. Caring for each other through sickness and health and discovering just how important accent pillows are to bringing home together.

He also takes on the increasingly unhinged world of snack and soda flavors, living abroad in Rome and London. Where he learned that London theatre might not be all it’s cracked up to be, and recounts the time he hit it big at the poker table against a man named Dave. Now, there is a trailer. Michael Ian Black, who’s 55 and looks fantastic, goes a really long way for a joke here. I’ll let it roll into the laugh line.

There’s a tag after the laugh line that’s more visual, but I’ll cut it before we get to that because it’s visual. But this is a long way to go for a joke. If you ever get the chance to live abroad for any length of time, Take it. It’s such a great experience. You learn so much, not only about the cultures that you’re in, but about your home culture.

And what eventually happens is you will accumulate approximately $ 36, 000 in credit card debt. Here’s what happened. Towards the end of our stay, I got a call from my friend, Joe. Joe works for this big poker company putting on a high stakes poker game in Las Vegas. Would I like to participate?

Now, I am a poker player. I’ve been playing poker my whole life. But when I buy into a poker game, it’s for like $ 300, $ 500. The buy-in for this game, $ 50, 000. Okay.

Okay. Now, my strategy is very simple. We have 150 hands of poker to play. When the 150 hands are over, the game is over. So my thinking is, I’m just going to hang back.

I’m not going to do a thing unless I absolutely have to hope to put a dent in this $ 36, 000 of credit card debt that I’ve got. On the second hand of the 150, I hear myself saying these words. I’m all in. Well, once again, I’m bumping that Hannah Berner story because the podcast is getting long. We’ll eventually get to it.

And, you know, sadly, it’s not that good. But it is Friday and time for the Comedy Stock Market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds. Comedy Stock Market. All right, despite me constantly bumping Hannah Burner stories from the podcast, we’re going to buy stock in Hannah Burner.

She’s got a lot of projects coming along. Not that I ever tell you about them, but someday I will. But just trust me. You trust a guy sitting by a pool hosting a podcast, don’t you? Hannah Burner is a buy for us.

Let’s also buy some Stavros Halkias. He’s got a lot going on, and I’m seeing a lot of press. I already have a few things into next week’s scripts.

And also let’s buy..

Can you buy Norm Macdonald? Let’s buy some Norm Macdonald estate. I feel like this Netflix documentary will re-shine the light on Norm. Not that the light has really diminished. He’s revered.

I’ve even caught in grief from people like friend of the show Scott Beckett would be like, what do you mean when I say Norm Macdonald is not one of the best standups of all time? So, yeah, people are into Norm and I think this doc will really help. And if you’re on Twitter, people will either repost old Norm stuff or do stuff in the style of Norm on this breaking news. So Norm is in the zeitgeist. So we’ll buy Stavros.

We’ll buy Hannah. We’ll buy Norm MacDonald. And that is your comedy stock market on a Friday next to the pool all week. I’ve had this in the notes every day. And what happens, because it’s just one sentence, I’ve been glossing over it and forgetting to put it in.

Remember like a week ago there was the thing at Penn State with the frat guys who were accused of being coke dealers? Did you hear that? And the ringleader was tagged with the nickname Pablo Pledgobar? Have you heard this story? Anyway, a comedian named Chris Barnes made a video of what it might have sounded like at the fraternity.

Taz, today you. Gotta move this brick! You gotta move it, man! You gotta move this brick! It’s a ton of cocaine!

It’s hazing! It’s fun! I sell it or snort it, but you gotta get rid of it! It’s gotta be go- You really gotta move this! You will all be getting one brick!

And you gotta cut it with this! Is that Fent? Yes! Yeah, assface, it is Fent! And you better mix it in well, because it’s not good quality!

Get a whisk! Like, really get it in there! Tonight we’re doing a scavenger hunt! You gotta get on an 18-wheeler! You gotta go to Bogota!

Over the border! In Colum- Columbia? Yeah! Oh! Oh, you’ve seen a map before.

Did you major in math? Oh, geography guy. You’re going to get a selfie with the head of the cartel, and don’t fake it. We know what he looks like. Don’t just take a pic with a random Mexican guy.

He’s a loner. He’s a legacy. He’s class of 08. I like that a lot. If you are on my texting list, you got a copy of that sent to you by me.

From the Sunday Post, let’s head up to the fringe. Comedian Sasha Neslobin fled Russia after making an anti-war protest. He doesn’t know when or if he or his family will ever be able to return. He was performing in a small space, capacity 83. He was once Russia’s most successful comic, a household name with his own sitcom, who could fill arenas with his stand-up shows and directed successful films.

He sounds like the Russian Nate Bergenzi, huh? Then Sasha Nazbolin criticized his country’s invasion of Ukraine and was forced to leave everything he knew behind, fleeing Russia. One of the last direct flights from Moscow to the U.S. Are there not direct flights? I haven’t looked.

I’m going on kayak. No, I’m not going on kayak, because then guys in sunglasses will be like, why is he looking up flights to Moscow? I’m not looking. You look it up. Got to be careful what you Google.

Sasha explains, in Russia, I have thousands of people in the audience, but it’s all understandable. I’m on a different road, and I don’t suffer. I don’t want to do arenas right now on my show. I want to do 100 people 100 times. Then, of course, I desire to have more.

I’m fine with this amount. This amount makes me happy, and I can do pictures afterwards with all who want them. Now I have more connections with my audience because I’m talking with them after my shows. People come to my show to see a guy who made the same decision they did, who left his country, who left everything there. They come up to me and say, wow, it’s so cool.

You’re telling stories about your struggles and it helps us to live in the same situation. They hug me a lot right now. 10 years ago, people wanted a picture just to show it on the internet. Now it’s completely different. It’s people with the same perspectives, values, and views. I’ll miss them when I’m selling out 4,000 seat venues, he laughs.

They’ll be saying, Sasha was so nice when he was unsuccessful. As for his set, he says, I talk about struggles with politics, relationships, and the future of my childhood. I think anywhere in the world you can experience this. The U.S. U.K.

And Russia have a lot in common and a huge history of relations, most notably World War II. Johnny Mac’s been listening to a lot of the Tom Hanks World War II podcast while walking his dog. When we last left Tom Hanks, we were at Yalta. So yes, the U.S. U.K.

And Russia do have a lot in common and a huge history of relations. Sasha says, some small things or stupid laws that we have now in Russia I can explain and turn into jokes. This has got to be really hard. He said, I told my girl we were going on vacation and we packed up her favorite toys. I took two big suitcases and we flew to New York.

A week or two later, my wife decided she wanted to leave because countries were closing their airspace. She had to go via another country, only bringing a small carry-on bag because she didn’t believe we’d be going for long. Four years later, they’re still in the U.S. With no idea if they’ll ever return home. Getting even more serious, Sasha said, I read Viktor Frankl’s book about Auschwitz.

I read that in college. High recommend, very powerful book. I read Viktor Frankl’s book about Auschwitz and there was a theory that that the people who believed it would end in a year died first. Those who believed it would end in five years also died, but those who stayed alive are the people that believed it would end, but they didn’t know when. So I’ve decided to live my life in the here and now and not think about it.

I don’t know what will happen in the next 10 years, but I’ve experienced so much. I have so many new experiences in life, and everything is nice. One of my dreams is to go back to Russia and educate students to teach cinema, stand-up art, something like that. I think that could be really profitable if I learn here, then take that experience and give it back to my homeland to build a new generation of people. That would be nice.

Staying over at the Fringe yesterday when we wrapped up, I was telling you about Warren Morton, who’s putting on two shows at the Fringe. This from comedy.co.uk. Warren says the part of the Fringe that nobody really prepares you for is what happens when you finish your show. The audience leaves, the adrenaline disappears, and suddenly you’re alone. The Fringe can be incredibly social when you’re surrounded by performers and audiences, but there are moments when the crowds have gone and the Fringe feels strangely lonely.

Would I recommend doing two shows at the Fringe? Absolutely. Would I recommend doing two solo shows at the Fringe? Probably not. One of the shows is selling out every day, while the other has a consistently almost full room.

Audience feedback’s been outstanding, and artistically it’s been fantastic. From the Scotsman, comedian Stephen Gordon says the Fringe was built on risk. Comedy should be allowed to fail again. He compares live comedy to rugby and said it has the same electricity. A brilliant comedian is not just someone who recites a polished routine.

There is someone with a strange private logic and the ability to feel a room shifting between their feet. Comedy, at its best, is a live negotiation between idea, performer, and audience. The Edinburgh Fringe understands that better than almost anywhere. At least, it always has done. At its best, the Fringe has a punk spirit.

Messy, ambitious, experimental, occasionally ridiculous, sometimes life-changing. It has also become increasingly expensive, slick, and professionalized. Posters are better, PR is sharper, reviews matter, awards matter. A month in Edinburgh can define a comedian’s career or bank balance. Awards, reviews, and agents don’t just recognize comedy, they shape it.

When the most recognized path is the polished 50-minute hour, comedians naturally optimize for that form. It’s worth asking what gets squeezed out with the fastest route to legitimacy most rewards completion. At the biggest comedy festival in the world, it is oddly difficult to find space for the most basic act in comedy, trying something out. He explains, there’s a difference between unfinished and careless. I’m not arguing for laziness or for charging audiences to watch comedians read out scraps.

The question is something else. What happens when skilled people meet genuine uncertainty? The same way a world-class rugby player uses years of training when the ball bounces wrong, a great comic uses timing, instinct, and nerve when an unfinished idea suddenly has to live in front of an audience. That’s why I created Notes, the comedy B-sides. Comedians open up their Notes app and perform live, half-written premises, 3M voice memos, strange fragments they once believed were worth saving.

See, I love that. That is great. He explains, what has surprised me is how quickly brilliant comics have understood the appeal. Acts with polished hours, international followings, and serious reputations have still jumped the chance, not because they have nothing finished, but because even the best comedians still want rooms where they can play. Comedy B-sides at the tonic. 11 40 p.m claire smith went to go see rury miller miller’s show is called autocorrect thinks my name is rubbish uh rury is spelled r-u-a-r-i-d-h i had to look up the pronunciations So Rory Miller, spelled R-U-A-R-I-D-H, autocorrect, thinks my name is Rubbish.

Claire Smith, writing for Entertainment Dash Now, says, Finally, I feel seen. This is a brilliant hour of comedy. I knew I was in for a good time as soon as he walked onto Dog Dribble by Get Down Services. Rory reveals he’s named after a dog shortly before getting into his place in society. Middle class, of course.

The show begins with the painfully relatable pain in the neck that is autocorrect when you don’t have a boring name. Autocorrect thinks my name is Rubbish. 8 to 20 p.m. At the Penny at the Gilded Ballroom Patter House until the Fringe ends on the 30th. That is your comedy news for today. All right, tomorrow, what’s the deep dive?

I haven’t recorded it yet, which is why I don’t know. I have to check my own script. Richard Jenney is who we’re doing tomorrow. I’ve written it. I just didn’t record it yet.

All right, Richard Jenney tomorrow. On the Comedy Deep Dive, a normal episode on Sunday. I’ve got a lot, including the eternally bumped Hannah Berner article. Maybe I’ll get to it on Sunday. Who knows?

From Poolside, I’m Johnny Mac. Back in a couple hours with the short afternoon check-in and Richard Jenney in the morning. See you then.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Theo Vaughn, Nate Bregazzi, Rosie O’Donnell, John Mulaney, David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Hope

What’s in This Episode

• College students unfamiliar with Bill Burr’s comedy
• John Mulaney’s Netflix late-night show failure despite star-studded guest list
• Rosie O’Donnell late-night show rumors and likelihood
• Rosie O’Donnell responds to White House criticism with Trump golf resort photo
• Arthur Treacher’s opens new location in Lakewood, Ohio after bankruptcy comeback
• Bob Hope’s connection to Arthur Treacher’s launch in 1960s

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Hey, Johnny Mac, cool side. We are outside today. The cleaning lady’s here, and she’s cleaning the basement studio. So, aside from the beautiful day, we are outside. As you can see, I finally got the pool reasonably clean, which is nice.

We’ll see if the leaf robot kicks in at some point. A couple of random things I wanted to talk about today. I do teach college classes, and on Monday night, I asked the college students if they knew who Bill Burr was, and they had no idea. Boy, it goes quickly. I mean, I know I do this for a living, but I don’t think Bill is the most obscure comedian out there.

That was kind of shocking to me. I was listening to Theo Vaughn. His guest was controversial maggot comedian Nate Bregazzi. I didn’t last with it long. I know Theo’s show is super popular, but he’s just not smart.

That’s all I have to say on that. I’m still hung up on Rosie O’Donnell getting a late night show, which is just not going to happen. Rosie, 66 years old. The more I think about it, you may be familiar with Colbert’s show ending, possibly because of budget. You may be familiar with Jimmy Kimmel being suspended at one point because the people in Washington were not too happy with him.

Why would you go out of your way to hire Rosie O’Donnell and put the red flag in front of the wild bull? That’s just not going to happen. Plus, I was thinking, Netflix gave a quote-unquote late-night show to John Mulaney and couldn’t get people to watch it. Even with John Mulaney’s star power, the guest star power, which I’ll talk about in a second, and the algorithm, nobody was watching the Netflix show. So the guests on Mulaney’s show included David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Nikki Glaser, Stavros Halkias, Bill Hader, Wanda Sykes, Pete Davidson, Hannibal Buress, Marc Maron, Ronny Chieng, and others.

Now, sure, the show was misproduced, which I’ll talk about in a second. But, I mean, if Netflix couldn’t get people to click on that, how is anybody going to watch Rosie O’Donnell on, I don’t know, ABC at 1230 in the morning? That’s just not going to happen. Now, I had a long career in radio, and I worked on a show called Rambling with Gambling, which was actually the longest-running radio show. And I worked with John R.

Gambling, who was the third-generation John Gambling, to host the show. And I just remember one time in the mid 90s, I was asking him something about the format of the show. And he said, we’ve been doing it this way a long time and it works. Leave it alone. And he’s right.

So I felt with Mulaney’s late night talk show, it was misproduced because if you have Jerry Seinfeld on the couch, talk to Jerry Seinfeld. But what that show did was they were trying to be quirky and mix and match the various guests. But it just didn’t work because nobody knew. All right. Should I jump in?

When do I jump in? Is it my turn? If you’ve got Jerry there. Just go, hi, Jerry, and shut up and let Jerry be funny. I call that Johnny Carson theory is, you know, Johnny knew how to make his guests look good and would stay out of the way.

And then the next day, people would say, did you see Johnny Carson last night? I did tell you the other day that the White House had some comments about Rosie O’Connell. Well, she shot back. She shared a photo of Donald Trump from his golf resort from 2024. She captioned it.

This is the guy calling me a slob. Hashtag mirror mirror. And as I put together the show today, this from Cleveland dot com, the headline is, Arthur Treacher’s opens in Lakewood. Tap’s like, what? What is this?

The story is, let me tell you the big news story from Cleveland dot com. Arthur Treacher’s is celebrating a grand opening in Lakewood, marking its first location on the West Side. The new location at eleven seven five Madison Avenue. Hey, if you’re in Cleveland, bop on over. Officially open the doors at ten thirty a.m.

On Wednesday. The space, as you know, was most recently Joe’s Deli and Restaurant. But was previously home to an Arthur Treacher’s, so it has returned to being an Arthur Treacher’s. Where’s the comedy? Stay with me, Cleveland.com.

Who wants us to remember that the chain got its start in 1969 in Columbus and once boasted more than 800 locations worldwide. However, after bankruptcy in the early 80s, the Arthur Treacher’s brand dwindled down to just a couple local-owned restaurants. Now, why did this show up on the comedy tracker? Because of this next paragraph. Bob Hope, the famed comedian showman originally from Cleveland..

Loved fish and chips, and helped launch Arthur Treacher’s by suggesting that its founders hire the British actor as the public face of the company. Who knew? Arthur Treacher’s is best known for its fish and chips, fried chicken, clam chowder, hush puppies, and other comfort food favorites, and apparently the pool robot is not going to move today. All right, back in the morning with a normal episode.

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Featured: Dolly Parton, David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Tim Curry, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Christina P, Tom Segura

What’s in This Episode

• Dolly Parton passes away at 80; classic Late Show top ten list resurfaces
• Tim Curry death at 80
• Stephen Colbert endorses Jimmy Kimmel for Emmy in humorous video
• Christina P performs three days after separation from Tom Segura; Page Six story debunked
• Emmy voting deadline reminder

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Man, let me set the scene here. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with a poolside edition of Daily Comedy News. Now it’s late August and the weather’s gorgeous out today, so don’t get me wrong. I would be outside regardless. But my wife had the cleaning lady come over and she’s fantastic.

But she’s cleaning where the studio is, so I can’t even be inside if I wanted to. Not that I want to. Because I’m outside, the neighbor is doing some sort of grinding thing, so we might hear that. Oh, no, that’s a landscaper. Sorry, totally different sound.

I thought that was right on cue. There’s cicadas, there’s planes, all sorts of things.

And also, I’m hungry, but I can’t make a smoothie because the smoothie makes …

So I don’t want to like immediately ruin the blender while she’s still here. These are the pressures. Life is hard. All right, John, get to the show, will you? Oh, the other problem I have is I hit record and my computer died.

It’s not getting along with the heat so much. So I can’t even set the computer up on the table the way I usually do because the power cord is short. So I actually have my microphone in my lap and I’m sitting at a different distance than I normally do. All right, John, get to the show already, will you? Okay.

We were all sad to hear that Dolly Parton passed away at 80 years old. I mean, I think everyone was sad about it. The president of the United States even said the flags will be at half-mast for a week. Her passing did surface this clip. This is from 1995.

It’s the Late Show with David Letterman. But as I watch the clip, Dave still looks like NBC Dave. He’s got the Gulf of Mexico hairline, as I remember him calling it a million years ago. He’s not yet establishment 21st century statesman David Letterman. He still has the whimsy, but this top ten list is fantastic.

I will let David Letterman set it up. I do want to pre-warn you that the place I sourced it from cut it off rather quickly after number one. Number one is very funny, but pay attention because all of a sudden you’re going to hear the joke and you’re going to hear me talking again because that’s all the audio I have. But here is David Letterman.

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And now, to assist us in the presentation of tonight’s top ten list, please w…

Dolly, there you go. Okay, the category in our top ten Dolly Parton pet peeves. Dolly, are you all set? Here we go. I’m ready.

Okay, number ten. Accountants who don’t understand how much it costs to make me look this chic. Yes. Number nine. Trying to play guitar in these five-inch fingernails.

They’re great. When are we going to have them on the show, Paula, five-inch fingernails? I’m telling you, that’s my favorite new band. Make that booking if you can. They’re alternative.

Number eight. When the county declares my hair a fire hazard. Number seven. Confused Dalai Lama constantly asking for theme park royalties. Number six.

You can’t get a wig repaired because Letterman’s got some kind of a hairpiece crisis. Hey, come. On. Very good. Thank you.

Yes. It’s like my goofy cousin is hosting the show tonight. Hello, I’m Dave’s cousin, Kenny. Dave was smoking a cigar and had to go home early. So Dave asked, could.

I fill in? Oh, man, where the hell are we? Have we done all ten yet? Number five. A rhinestone rash.

Yeah, okay. Number four. Number four. Okay. You ready?

Let’s just go home, Dolly. Number four. Okay, when he visits Dollywood gift shops, Garth Brooks always shoplifts stuff under that big hat of his. Yeah, let’s do go home. Just three more.

Dolly’s been smoking her own self. Number three, number three. Okay, smart-ass emcees who introduced me by saying, and now here they are, Dolly Parton. Number two. When the Super Bowl is over, winner never says, hey, I’m going to Dollywood.

That’s right.

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And now, the number one Dolly Parton pet peeve.

Nobody notices I’ve got a great ass, too. Dolly Parton’s passing also surfaced this clip from Johnny Carson. I saw this making the rounds, but as I watched it, it’s heavily edited, so I’m not 100% sure that this is exactly how it went, and it’s possible this is even a created clip. However, it’s pretty funny, so let’s just enjoy the laugh and hope that it is real. The discussion point here is the size of Dolly Parton’s assets.

What would they call that where you grew up in Tennessee? I can’t say. Healthy? Healthy, I guess. Bosomy.

What did you ask me just before that? Have you always? Oh, well, yeah. I’ve always been pretty well blessed. People are always asking if they’re real.

I would never. I would never, you see. No, you don’t have to ask. I would not. I’ll tell you what.

I have certain guidelines on. I would give about a year’s pay to peek under there. As I’m recording this, I also learned that 80-year-old Tim Curry, best known for Rocky Horror, has passed away. Let’s hope it doesn’t go in threes this time. We’ll keep it on late night.

You may recall last year, Jimmy Kimmel endorsed Stephen Colbert for an Emmy. Well, Stephen Colbert has posted a video. We see Stephen sitting on a hillside. He’s got a beard, and he had this to say. Oh, hi.

Stephen Colbert here at the end of the world. You know, there’s 24 hours left in Emmy voting, and if you’re anything like me, you haven’t even started yet. So, let’s get going. First up, we have, oh, Outstanding Variety Series. Kind of a weird voting system this year, but, you know, I think we can all agree that Jimmy Kimmel deserves an Emmy.

I don’t care if you’ve never even seen his show. You know he deserves an Emmy. Besides, look how cute he is. Anyway, please consider thinking that Jimmy deserves an Emmy. I do.

I love you. All this bumped what had been my number one story from the New York Post. Christina P. Apparently performed in July of Three days after her separation made headlines, Christina was performing at the Top Secret Comedy Club in London. An audience member told Page Six she spent the whole set slagging off Tom Segura.

The audience member added that Christina P.

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Also booed him and swore at him, presumably Segura.

The eyewitness said she spoke about her cancer recovery and said one of the best parts of survival was that she didn’t die so he wouldn’t get to be happy with a younger woman. That just sounds like a joke joke. I wasn’t in the room, but that just sounds like, you know, a routine. We are told that Christina P.

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Also spoke about Tom Segura’s toilet habits, but that the British audience di…

The audience member said Christina then told the crowd they were no fun. But a source tells Page Six, and all right, so my spidey sense was right. This is a set she’s been doing for a long time. It’s three years old. She’s been talking about relationships and marriage from the very beginning.

It’s a comedian’s job to tell jokes about life, and now through the lens of a divorce, it looks different. Yeah, I mean, that all makes sense. The other day I was walking my dog. And I ran into my friend Ken for the second day in a row. And we were like, again?

And he was asking about the podcast and how to listen to it. So he said he was going to listen to the podcast. And as I told Ken, you know, as I like to tell everybody who knows me in real life, sometimes I will exaggerate. Again, I’m not being fake. I’m really sitting by a pool.

I’ll send you a picture if you want. But sometimes I play it up a little. And I told Ken, I go, you know, I might say I ran into you nine days in a row just for the comedy bit. So, yeah, Christina talked about things from her life and it made it to stage. That totally adds up, as I’ve explained in the past.

John doesn’t like Adam Sandler movies. Johnny Mac hates them, as you know. But, John, I don’t walk around kicking my dog going, I can’t believe they’re making Grown Ups 3. You may recall the president of the United States had a spokesperson comment on Rosie O’Donnell. Rosie O’Donnell shared a photo of Donald Trump at his Florida golf resort from 2024.

She captioned it, this is the guy calling me a slob, hashtag mirror mirror. It was not the most flattering photo of the president of the United States. Andrew Santino revealed that he tried to make Saturday Night Live for the 2013-2014 season. Santino was testing opposite Pete Davidson. Santino left.

He thought he did a good job impressing Lorne Michaels. He got a call from Lorne inviting him back to New York City for a one-on-one meeting.

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Now, here’s the twist.

Santino said, I flew to New York. And I was like, is this it? Am I going to move to New York? This is wild. He shows up, has a meeting with Lorne Michaels.

Santino said, we talked for an hour about Chicago. He loved talking about Chicago because he knew I was from Chicago. He ate popcorn. I walked around, met all the writers.

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And then Lorne Michaels said, I think you’re going to have a great career.

I don’t think you’re the puzzle piece I’m looking for. Wow, that is brutal. Santino said he doesn’t have any ill feelings about the rejection, and he wasn’t surprised that Lorne Michaels picked Pete Davidson. He said, yeah, Pete Davidson is like a decade younger than us. He was a kid.

So I was like, yeah, they’re going to pick this malleable cute kid whose dad died in 9-11 versus a vulnerable red-headed crackpot. Do you like golf? Do you like Cat Williams? Do you like Cat Williams covering golf? Well, good news for you.

Cat Williams will return today and tomorrow as an on-course correspondent for the rounds of the PGA Tours Tour Championship at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club. Say that three times fast. What you just heard was take two. That, of course, is the final event of the 2026 FedEx Cup Playoffs. All that airs on ESPN, where you will find Cat Williams.

Cat will follow each round’s marquee group, offering commentary over the first 36 holes of the competition. Cat Williams tells The Hollywood Reporter the gig is a joy. Cat likes his own game. He said, I think I still have the ability and the age, he’s 54, to still play professionally. If I do get a few things taken care of, if that happens, then the rest of it will open up for me pretty organically.

There’s no other sport where you could ever dream of such a thing, you know? Cat says he’s cut eight strokes off his handicap. He’s now an 11th. And he wants to wipe out another eight. Cat explains, I was able to do that with just a couple adjustments.

I was trying as good as I could get before I started taking lessons, which are guaranteed to get me better. As for the gig, as a fan, you know how important a good commentator slash narrator is for this thing in their home. The Great Ones really breaks that gap, so that’s what I’m going to be doing. He says he does not have a rooting interest, but as a comic.. I guess preferably, just as a comedian, as a writer, one really great guy and somebody sticking up the place would be great.

I’d love to see a minus six with a plus six. Apparently, golf and comedy are crossing over. A new unscripted sports comedy series co-produced by Peyton Manning’s company is called PGA Tour Alter Ego. You’ll find this on the PGA Tour YouTube channel. The chief marketing officer of the PGA Tour, Andy Weitz, said, We think we got a generation of really fun PGA Tour stars who are looking to connect.

And build their brand and their game to try stuff like this out. This is a play to get younger fans into the golf. Mr. Weitz explains that they’re a fan of comedy if they’re a Will Ferrell fan, if you’re a Drewski fan, if you’re a YouTube golf fan, if you like simulator golf, if you like gaming. There are all kinds of different ways through our original content strategy.

We can make them more familiar with our players, more familiar with the competitive format, and translate that over time into a larger fan base. More sports. This from Cubs.com, which you thought was your home for Chicago Cubs baseball news. No, it’s where you get your comedy news. Other than me, of course.

It’s the first ever fastball comedy festival bringing some of the biggest names in comedy to Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona in October on the weekend of the 17th and 18th. Now, don’t roll your eyes. Here’s your headliners. Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, and Tom Segura. So you don’t have to go to Riyadh to see some of these folks.

You can just go to Arizona.

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Also in a desert.

Interesting. Is Mesa a desert? I don’t know. I should probably look that up. Leave the joke in.

Who cares about the facts, John? Two-day passes go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, which is noon Central Daylight Time. The rest of you can do your own conversions. Go to sloanpark.com.

Justin Piper is the GM of Spring Training Operations for Sloan Park, and he says.. The Fastball Comedy Festival combines world-class comedy with the unique atmosphere of a professional ballpark, creating a one-of-a-kind live entertainment experience. Produced in collaborations with Bruce Hills Entertainment. Oh, that’s interesting. You know I don’t pre-read these articles.

That’s Bruce Hills, who I know from the old Just for Laughs Montreal days. Oh, good guy. And Wrigley Field Events. They’ve teamed up. This is great.

Great to see. So that means Bruce can still pull if he got Burr, Segura, and Chappelle. All right. Good job, Bruce Hills. Throughout the weekend, fans can shop for merchandise and enjoy food and drinks, with rotating acts performing at a second stage beyond right field.

There are also premium tickets, which include complimentary ballpark food and non-alcoholic beverages. Press box club tickets include alcoholic beverages for you alcoholics or non-alcoholics who know the difference between two beers and eight. It’s a phone-free event because Chappelle’s there. You know how that goes. Boy, I got a lot today.

Should we just keep going? Why not? It’s beautiful out. John Mulaney. He played Minneapolis, and Neil Justin from the Minneapolis Star Tribune was there, and he wrote a column titled Three Ways John Mulaney’s Minnesota Return was Extra Special.

Neil explains, most touring comics tend to stick to the same material for one or two years, polishing their bits along the way. Mulaney’s No Exception is set at the Ledge Amphitheater. It didn’t much vary from his three-night stint at the Armory five months ago, but there were a few differences. One were the openers, Mike Braviglia and Dan Mintz, who’s part of that Bob’s Burgers hoax that we talk about sometimes but not today. One of Dan Mintz’s jokes told better by Dan Mintz was, I’ve been selling my bathwater for $ 50 a gallon at refugee camps.

Ouch. We’re told by the time the crowd warmed up to Dan Mintz’s unusual approach, his set was done. This was an outdoor show. John Mulaney joked about the insects and said, Several bugs have been circling my mouth for some time and insisted he had to negotiate around a spider web to get on stage. Mulaney did a couple jokes about the venue, which he kept referring to as a quarry, but for the most part, his set was identical to the one from five months earlier.

Toronto Just for Laughs has announced Gerard Carmichael will play the Paradise Theatre at September 27th. I would never be able to walk into that building without thinking about Styx, the band.

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Also at the Toronto Festival this year, John Cleese, who’s always involved in…

Another person who’s always involved in controversy is Bassem Youssef. Like, I’ll put him in the Kathy Griffin.. Category of I never name check Bassem Youssef and be like, oh, Bassem Youssef was petting a puppy and enjoying the nice sunny day recording his podcast by the pool. There’s always something with him. Well, he says he was asked by Australian authorities to provide a background check from the FBI in the U.S.

As well as his criminal record in Egypt. Whoa, what’s going on here? He announced his imminent Australian tour has been postponed after the request for the background checks as part of his visa application. We are told that Yousef has attracted criticism from Australian Jewish groups for jokes and commentary about Israel and Palestine. In a video statement, Yousef said, My shows in Australia and New Zealand have been postponed, rescheduled.

Of course, I owe you an explanation, and it seems there are new conditions and procedures for Australian visa applications. If you want to work there, perform there. We tried as much as possible to fulfill these requirements. It was a bit strange for me to have to provide a criminal record from Egypt, a country I left 12 years ago, but I respect Australian law. I respect the immigration laws.

He has toured Australia in the past, in 2023 and 2015. In 2015, he gave a keynote speech about freedom of expression. Yousef fled Egypt after his satirical TV show was taken off the air when he mocked the country’s president and military. He’s lived in the U.S. Since 2014.

He is currently a U.S. Citizen. He further explained, I cannot get on a plane in Australia unless I have the work permit because you have to go respect the law of the country that you go to. So I truly apologize. I want to thank everybody involved.

We were hopeful that when my criminal record arrives, hopefully I haven’t done anything in the last 12 years when I left Egypt. We’re going to apply. I’m very looking forward to seeing you again. I apologize once again. It’s unclear to me what his criminal record is.

Now, this is interesting. I’m asking AI here, and the AI says, if you mean the Egyptian-American comedian, I can’t find evidence that he has a conventional criminal record involving an actual criminal conviction. What he does have is a significant history with Egypt’s criminal justice system stemming from his political satire. Then they break that down. But AI is on it because they wrote, this is suddenly relevant today.

Because Yousef has postponed his Australia-New Zealand tour, etc. Etc. So if you’re asking because of today’s Australia story, the important distinction is, quote, asked to provide a criminal record check does not mean, quote, has a criminal record. Okay, good job on the AI there. Glad I asked.

Gossip Corner, whispers in the street. Gossip Corner, probably about Pete. Gossip Corner, where the rumors meet. With Johnny Mac, it’s always a treat. On Gossip Corner, we are told Hannah Berner enjoyed a birthday meal with Bobby Flay.

That’s right. The co-host of the Giggly Squad revealed that Bobby Flay and Bobby Flay’s girlfriend, Brooke Williamson, invited Hannah Berner and her husband and former guest on this show and cool guy Des Bishop over to celebrate their birthdays. We’re told that the couples kicked things off with a little tennis before Bobby Flay got to work in the kitchen. Hannah Berner said on her podcast, I celebrated my birthday with Bobby Flay. Shout out Bobby Flay, a friend of the pod and an avid Giggly Squad listener.

He literally was like, it’s really educational. As for the food, Hannah says, all I have to say, make friends with the chef. These people, they love it. This is how he expresses love. Bobby Flay made what he casually presented as a soft shell crab sandwich.

Hannah observes, but he’s Bobby Flay. So he’s like, yeah, there’s something together, you know, some crab on a bun. This is some five star restaurant appetizer. Hannah asked the chefs when they last ordered through DoorDash. She said they were like, what’s DoorDash?

Meanwhile, up at Cape Cod, Fortune Feimster was seen in Provincetown. People up there said she took in the sights, sounds, and local flavor, including some Portuguese natas, a delicious custard pastry that the locals say they’re very familiar with. I was not, so I looked it up. Apparently, pastel de nata means cream pastry. It’s a Portuguese egg custard tart pastry, optionally dusted with cinnamon.

Outside Portugal, they’re particularly popular in other parts of Western Europe, former Portuguese colonies such as Brazil, Mozambique, and, of course, Cape Cod. The Macau variant has been adopted by KFC, which you know is Kentucky Fried Chicken, and is available in regions such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and not Cape Cod. Now, if you’re like John, we knew that, then you’re a food snob. I tell you what, we’re going long here. I do want to get in a bunch of these Edinburgh Fringe shows today.

Because the Fringe is coming to an end, and it doesn’t make sense to do these reviews three weeks from now. So how about this? If you’re not interested in the Edinburgh Fringe, you’re done. You are dismissed for the day. If you enjoy my company, let’s take one more break.

We’ll come back. We’ll do a little Fringe stuff. Website entertainment-now.com is this guy John Conahan, and he’s been hitting a lot of the shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. He gave this one five stars. So now we know the scale.

If you’ve heard me comment on his previous reviews, there were some four stars ones, but I didn’t know if it was four out of four or four out of five. It is a five star. Well, I assume maybe somebody got a six star review. I haven’t seen a six star review yet. So I’m going to assume this is five out of five.

What got the five out of five? Johnny Mac. Tom Cashman’s NPC, which stands for Nearly Proficient Comedian. This was at Monkey Barrel. Apparently Tom Cashman said, I do more jokes than any other comedian.

I am that fast. John Conahan said, he’s not lying. For those who only know Cashman as the meek assistant of Australian Taskmaster, the bundle of energy that explodes onto the stage at Monkey Barrel may take you by surprise. His mind and mouth run at a million miles an hour, and yet he still has time to be fastidious with his PowerPoint presentations. Nearly proficient comedians, the show design helped Tom’s audiences become more confident.

It’s clear he’s taking this task seriously. There are graphs, equations, idioms rewritten as code. This is some nerdy comedy. Apparently, Tom went to a barber in Edinburgh on his first day.

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But fear not. NPC is not a dry lecture. It’s a joyous whirlwind of stories and anecdotes. That sounds fun. The same site, but a different reviewer.

She’s Molly Rie. She went to see Madeline Bredingham’s show called Legend that also got five stars. We’re told Madeline Bredingham grew up as a pub kid sitting in a bar for hours waiting for her dad to finish drinking. Been there, done that. Usually with a packet of potato chips or crisps, as it says in this European article.

There she learned what a true geezer was. Basically, her dad. After giving a definition of what an old geezer is, which included acting out how a crab walks, she picked someone from the audience to be the show’s geezer, who she named Gary, and would give a nod to every time she said something sexist or overly orthodox. The super-fast-paced performance is full of quick jokes, so much that the reviewer found it hard to finish her laugh from the last joke before a new topic or piece of crowd work came flying at her. That’s great.

Less successful, two stars for Stephen Catling’s Clownfish Out of Water. This is John Conahan again, who says it’s a chaotic hour of stand-up Stephen Catling’s crowd work and props showcase his very strange animal facts. The show jumps between autism, Disney remakes, Oasis, AI, sex, marine life, and Stephen’s experiences in the workplace, often without much warning. His strongest quality is his willingness to commit to the bit. He moves around the audience, repeatedly acknowledging how close he is getting to people, and turns the awkwardness into part of the joke.

His sarcastic delivery works particularly well, although audience members, including the reviewer, became recurring parts of the show, and his ability to build jokes from the response is Didn’t always work, leaving the room silent in points. Well, it’s not going on a two-star review. Here’s another five-star, also from John Conahan. Gary Starr’s Classic Penguins. John tells us Gary Starr is and always has been born to be a star.

What a performance. Five stars easily. Wow. On paper, this show sounds like an exercise in absurdity. A naked performer, the Penguin Book Collection, and audience members pulled it into action, yet Starr takes what could easily become cheap or stupid and flips it completely on its head.

The result is inventive, intelligent, and remarkably well-crafted. The premise is simple. Starr works through the Penguin Books catalog, recreating every book title at miniature scene, each one unfolding through a camera positioned above the stage. He flips a new book into view, and instantly another world appears. Hamlet, Dracula, and countless others become fuel for increasingly imaginative scenes.

The nudity is deliberately confrontational. Audience participation becomes central, with volunteers repeatedly drawn into increasingly outrageous scenarios. At one point, Starr even crowd surfs naked through the audience. Conant says, I’m forever left with the memory of an audience member who was a 70-year-old man stripping naked and running on stage with Starr. Wow.

All right, hop on a plane and head on over to Pleasant’s Courtyard for a 9.20 show. Boy, I got three more of these. Hey, I put in the extra commercial break and it’s nice out. We’ll hang out. I was going to head for home there and rap and I scrolled down my script to bump one thing to tomorrow and I’m like, oh no, there’s a lot left.

Let’s just keep going. Four stars for the Underground Monk Show. I remember this one came up, I think this one was at Melbourne. Four performers, two men and two women, take to the stage as monks and communicate entirely through physical performance and what sounds like golem grunts. There’s very little dialogue, but somehow you still understand the different personalities and problems each character is dealing with.

At the center of the show is a bowl of water. Whenever one of the monks puts their face into it, they’re transported into a completely different world or dream. The physical comedy is excellent, with the performers constantly finding new ways to make each other laugh and involving the audience along the way. Underground Monk Show. I’ve heard good things about this one. 10.15 at Assembly George Square Gardens. 10.15 p.m.

In case you’re curious. Four stars from John Conahan to Roger O’Sullivan’s Devil May Cry. John tells us Roger has a brilliant way of mixing Catholicism and Irishness into comedy that’s impossible not to laugh at. The show opens with a video featuring online game characters, the devil, and Roger himself. His material about growing up Catholic and the family and normalities that come with it had the audience in stitches, particularly the Irish members.

But there’s more. There’s plenty of inventive colonial humor, including a comparison between the IRA and ISIS not having the same style of soundtracks, which we’re told was hilarious. You’ll find that one at Monkey Barrel at 5.45 p.m. And some tips from Warren Martin, who’s putting on shows. This article comes from comedy.co.uk.

Warren says, I’m an Irish comedian traveling to Edinburgh with Proud Father, Exhausted Dad, which is a whimsical look at the chaos of trying to be a good father while barely functioning as an adult, and his other show, Paddystinian, a much more political show exploring Ireland, Palestine, history, and solidarity. They’re very different shows. Both are unmistakably me. See, I love all this stuff that I’m talking about here. I know it’s not for everybody, and that’s why I put it in the very rare segment three, but I dig this stuff.

Like, Paddy Stinian just sounds fascinating. When I was up in Belfast last year, there was actually a fair amount of.. Graffiti kind of makes it sound lesser, but artwork on walls about the Palestinian experience and how it might have applied to life in Belfast, far too complicated to get into on this show. Warren says the real challenge is the daily schedule. I have an hour between shows, which seems reasonable.

And so you remember it’s the fringe. A typical day involves flyering from around midday, performing Palestinian at 115 in the afternoon, then going back out to flyer before performing Proud Father, Exhausted Dad at 310 in the afternoon. There’s no leisurely lunch, no time to sit around contemplating the merit of your last performance. There’s at best time to shove something resembling food into your face while wondering where your flyers went. Then you have to do it the next day and the next day and the next day.

Then there was the venue saga in early July. My original venue decided it didn’t want to host a controversial show, so Patty Stinian was moved. The show’s not actually that controversial at all, but I guess not everyone would agree. I actually sympathize with the venue. But once you’ve been told your show’s controversial enough to warrant a venue change, it does leave you in a slightly paranoid state.

A week later, unrelatedly, I received an email from Eventbrite to say my comedy club’s most recent payment was, quote, stopped in our sanctions screening system, unquote, because my name was an exact or close match to a name listed on the Office of Foreign Asset Control list or other global sanctions watch list. Wow. Suddenly I found myself looking over my shoulder and imagining the worst. And remarkably, the paranoia didn’t seem quite so ridiculous when the worst actually happened on the pro-Palestine show next door. Two protesters interrupted their performance and tore down the show’s posters, somehow managing to completely miss mine.

In the ultimate act of anti-Irish racism, apparently even the protesters couldn’t be bothered to pick on the Irish guy. Which is a good line to get out on. I’ll do more with this Warren Morton article tomorrow. And that is a very long Daily Comedy News for today. Back in the afternoon with a quick check-in from Poolside.

And I’ll see you here tomorrow with a normal episode.

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Featured: Jimmy Carr, Kat Williams, Kamel Bell, Jeremy Clarkson

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Carr considered to host Top Gear reboot
• Top Gear revival competing with Amazon’s Grand Tour
• Kamel Bell interview on unappreciated apps and map services
• Johnny Mac’s idea for highway ‘jerk detector’ app feature
• Kat Williams returning to golf as on-course correspondent for PGA Tour Championship

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

That’s Challenger the Eagle. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with the afternoon Daily Comedy News update. Remember turn of the century, Challenger of the Eagle would be like Yankee playoff games. Well, they made a statue with him. A little beat up over the years, but that’s him there and he’s part of today’s b role for Daily Comedy News.

As I take you to my weekly beach volleyball game, We’re about to play a seven to thirty PM game. I recorded this last Wednesday when I went on over to beach volleyball. Jimmy Carr is being considered to be one of the hosts of a reboot of top Gear. Now, I love Jimmy Carr. If you ever get a chance to see Jimmy Carr, he is fantastic.

Don’t miss Jimmy Carr when he comes to your neighborhood. My initial reaction to this was Jimmy Carr top Gear. Aside from the obvious like car pun. Okay, that is kind of funny, But I was like, I don’t know Jimmy Carr hosting top Gear. Love Jimmy love top Gear.

Not sure the to mix well, but I texted had one of my friends who loves top Gear and he was all in on it. So we will see a source tells of the Sun newspaper, not the actual Sun, and you probably figure that out. Our production has their set sight on Jimmy. He’s the ideal host to take the show into a new era and revive top Gear. So that’s interesting as well because the Amazon Grand Tour series is coming out with a new cast and maybe top Gear feels like they can steal the thunderback from Jeremy Clarkson and friends.

We are told Jimmy Carr is a real car buff two so it would be a passion project and they’re looking to pair him up with a woman and quote unquote online celebrities and I don’t know, I don’t know. Three dudes and cars just do that? Who online celebrity? No, that just don’t don’t don’t hope.

Speaking of cars, The Verge caught up with w Comel Bell and asked him they di…

They asked Comel what is the most unappreciated app? He said, I probably use the map app every day. I wish map Quest app was better, so it didn’t have to use the Trump billionaire as guy’s apps. You know who I’m talking about, I actually know. I mean, are we talking about Apple Maps, Gooba Maps, wheez an they’re billionaire or something?

Trump Billionaires is map Quest some sort of like hippie free open world. I don’t know. Come out says the map apps that have the Gulf of Mexico listen is the Gulf of America. So embarrassing. Here’s my idea.

I was driving home over the weekend. If you use ways, you know, hell like, you can like help other drivers and push the button and say like, yeah, this is a speed trap there, or there’s traffic that kind of thing. We need a hole detector. So here’s what’s gonna happen. I’m this is a real thing.

I was on I eighty. I’m in the middle of lane, out of my own business, and one of those jerk holes comes up and passes me on the right and is doing, you know, three times the speed limit. What I want to be able to do is push a button that warns somebody half a mile ahead of me that there’s a jerk coming. We need this. I try and keep the show clean.

I have an idea for what to call it, but uh, you know, ahole detector is pretty close, So let me know if you like that idea. Kat Williams is getting back into golf. Cat will serve as the en course correspondent for the Thursday and Friday rounds of the PGA Tours Tour Championship but Atlanta East Lake Golf Club, the final event of the twenty twenty six fed Ex Playoffs. Gat Williams, who’s fifty four, said, I think I still have the ability of the age to still play professionally if I do get a few things taken care of. If that happens, then the rest of the world will open up for me pretty organically.

There’s no other sport where you could even dream of such a thing, you know, I don’t know. I know some old guys that play beach volleyball on Wednesday nights. Here, let’s look point for them. Cat said he took eight shots off his handicap. I was able to do that with just a couple adjustments.

I was trying to get as good as I could before I started taking lessons, which I guarantee you’re gonna get me better. PGA Tour Lie which features Kat Williams, he’s off on the ESPN app eleven Eastern Thursday and Friday, and that is your afternoon check in again. If you’re hearing this on the audio feed, these are quick YouTube videos I’ve been doing. This is week three of this little experiment. And if you’re staring at you right now, hi, And this is really an audio podcast and you can check out the audio feed there and they’re like twelve to twenty minute episodes every single morning, seven days a week.

So that’s it for now, see you tomorrow

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Jon Stewart, Bill Burr, Sam Tripoli, Adam Carolla, Bobby Lee, Andrew Santino, Dan Cummins, Jonathan Kite

What’s in This Episode

• Oxford Road Comedy Podcast Ad Performance Ranker study
• Top 15 performing comedy podcasts for advertisers
• Tim Dillon Show advertising efficiency despite poor ad reads
• Comedians using Instagram carousel posts instead of video clips
• Comic strip style social media strategy gaining traction
• Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Bourdain impression

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. And I’m actually gonna start with a couple of articles that I’ve been really interested in. This is not like filler stuff. This is the stuff that I’ve wanted to talk about and haven’t been able to really get into the full show.

The second one I talked about in the live episodes that have been putting out in the afternoon. But let’s start with this one. Oxford Road. They’re like, if you’re in the podcasting industry like me, they’re like, A, I don’t know. They stick up for advertising basically as their whole thing, and they put out a study about comedy podcasts.

They say comedy is a highly competitive category and as a result, our Orbit ranker for the category is always in flux. Old favorites are regularly displaced by new hits, while shows hosted by eight list comedians are largely absent from Orbit’s performance picture altogether. Even a some of the fifteen hit shows listed on their comedy ranker aren’t on your radar. They’ve earned their place on the list, says Oxford Road. Many are led by creators who’ve built up loyal audiences over a long period of time.

So this is a top fifteen performing comedy podcast. So what this is orbit normalizes performance across different advertiser goals, Orbit factors and what advertisers paid and what they were trying to achieve. Right, So this is for comedy podcasts that do well for advertisers. And as I like to remind everybody, sometimes my podcast industry gets little snobby. We’re trying to make money, like I’m trying to make money.

I like doing this. I have a lot of fun doing this. I hope it comes across. It also pays the bills for me. So the top of fifteen shows, Now this is interesting to me.

Let me know if you’ve heard of this first one, because I hadn’t, which you know, might not mean anything. I do host a comedy podcast every day for eight years, and I’m in the podcasting industry, and yet I haven’t heard of Crash Dummies podcast with Pat and Mike. Have you? Maybe I’m just stupid, Maybe I’m old, And I’m not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying I’ve never heard of it.

Patrick Johnson and Michael Asubio dive into current events and scenarios that probably will Never Happen seems to be one of those video podcasts that they talk about. Again, I don’t know that one, but apparently the advertisers love it, so good for those guys. That’s number one. Number two is The Foyle Hat with Sam Tripoli. Again Sam not a name that normally comes up on this show, but doing well.

Three is Adam Carolla. Four Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Burn. Five The Weekly Show with John Stewart. Six The Tim Dillon Show. Now that is stunning to me because Tim Dillon’s ad reads are atrocious, Like when you listen to it, you can tell he does not give an f about the ad at all.

I wow, I am stunned by that because I’m offended Sometimes when I hear his live reads, plus on the audio version, the commercials just drop in in the middle of nowhere, like no effort put in whatsoever. But the advertisers are happening with Tim Dillon, So what do I know? Number seven is The Toast. Eight was I in a cult nine Monday Morning podcast with Bill Burr, ten kill Tony eleven times stuck with Dan Cummins. Every time Dan’s name comes up, I think I bowled with Dan at the Montreal Comedy Festival, like twelve thirty in the morning, and I might have had a beverage or two.

I seem to remember that happening, and I seem to recall having a good time, and luckily the bowling alley was in the hotel where we were staying. I think I might have to check with former coworkers to see how much of that is accurate. Number twelve is something called Some More News. What’s that? Median Cody Johnston hosts this always fair, always well researched, but most importantly, always entertaining take on the topical news of the week.

Every Tuesday, Some More News dives into the world’s weekly the events. Wow, that has never ever hit my radar, and not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying it’s never hit my radar. And that is number twelve. Thirteen Bad Friends, that’s Bobby Lee and Andrews Santino, fourteen smash Mouth, and fifteen Jeff Lewis has issues and Jeff often goes on.

Rogan Oxford says only four shows from the November twenty twenty five Comedy Ranker are held on to their spots during the new round the takeaway when it comes to comedy buying, don’t just sit and forget. They say. Nearly half of the one hundred and twenty five at qualifying comedy shows tracked in orbit are proved to be efficient, but the genre as a whole lags. Why because the more efficient shows don’t get enough ad spend, spend sore money. You got guys in the basement.

Try to do a show by the pool. They need money. Chlorine is not free. Oxford Road tells this, Four of the five highest efficiency shows on this ranker cost under twenty five hundred dollars per episode. That means to advertise on you can get in this show a lot cheaper than that, just saying.

At the same time, household name shows command premium price points and deliver a massive reach, yet lag and efficiency. Remember when you need major results, you don’t need a big name or a big price. And just because you haven’t heard of a comedy podcast or doesn’t mean they don’t have a loyal audience. Exactly, support your local guy in a basement. Another article that interested me from the New York Times how comedians are using social media that instead of posting clip clips, they’re now doing comic strip style panels with captions.

Have you seen this? They use an example of Mike Kaplan doing three images, kind of like the old comic strips. If you’re old, remember comic strips in the newspaper. Some of you were like yeah, and some of the people are like, what are you talking about? But that whole one, two three beat the comic strips tend to have.

Comedian Eric Walsh said he started posting carousels in the spring and found he was reaching more Instagram users than he had with videos. He explains, and this makes sense. Some people just don’t want to watch clips at work and stuff like that, and so the fact they can just scroll through the pictures, it makes it easier to consume and distribute. Julian Brenny is a thirty six year old stand up comedian who said, sometimes you have a joke you love, but sometimes you get a tape and maybe the video’s not so good or the audio’s not so good, and the crowd didn’t love it, and so it takes a long time to get a really good tape of a joke, whereas with a carousel you can kind of do it straight away. Dtyes Shunkar is the thirty two oerd comedian and said the hook is much faster with these.

People are able to see the first punch line on the first page immediately, so there’s not even this ten second delay that you have with the videos. Younger generation, your breens are fried. Now. I’m somebody who’s on the internet sixteen hours a day and listens to podcasts at two point three speeds. So I don’t want to be holier than now.

But if you can’t wait ten seconds, I mean, what does this younger generation do? Says the old man in the basement. Regina Lutrell runs Syracuse University Center for the Creator Economy and said, there’s no sound to turn on, there’s no video to sit through, there’s no waiting for sort of a payoff. Geez, what are we doing people? I get it all right.

Let me indulge myself here. I keep forgetting to put this in the show. Jonathan Kite does this wonderful Anthony Boardine impression. It’s probably my favorite thing happening in comedy this year. Anyway.

Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Boardine went to Pizza Hut. Let’s listen in for a bit. Welcome to the reboot of the red roofed Rendezvous Pizza Hut, an old friend putting on its old face to remind us of simpler times when apps meant appetizers, the cloud meant weather, and everyone didn’t have a podcast, back when no one out pizza the hut. We begin with the salad bar, a terrarium of water logged iceberg, lettuce and bland accouterments. Top it off with French, Italian or Thousand Island exotic flavors from around the globe, all made in a windowless factory in Ohio, and shielding.

This garden of eton is a sneeze guard so useless it could only pass safety standards in a Wuhan lab. Next, a plate of piping hot breadsticks dusted with garlic and parmesan, served with a cup of marinera basically deconstructed pizza for people who would never use the word deconstructed. He’s Jonathan Kite. Follow him on Instagram. He regularly does those boarding bits and I love him.

From the OC Register. Gabriel Iglesias and Long Beach Chef collab for special menu at Yamava. That’s right, the Japanese Mexican fusion dishes will be available for a limited time at the Highland Casino. You see, Martin drove trucks for fifteen years before COVID took him off the road and put him behind a grill. He told the OC Register, I couldn’t find anything good to eat anywhere.

It could get a good pancake anymore because it didn’t taste authentics. I just put together what I could decide to start an eatery out of my own driveway, and it blew up. Jeff Martin opened Mexi Hanashibachi Grill in Long Beach in twenty twenty and expanded from a ghost kitchen to a full fledged eatery. He specializes in quickly roasting vegetables and meats over a flats up growth for Japanese Mexican fusion dishes, and considers it to be a hole in the wall. However, word got around, including to comedian and to actor Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias.

Now I like Gebe, and I’ve worked with Gabe specifically when we launched Comedy Central Radio. I don’t think of him as an actor. I know he does some voice work, but now I’m going to hop on his IMDb here and see what I’m forgetting. He plays Speedy Gonzales in the short Daffy season. He played Fluffy on Shifting Gears.

That’s like me playing Johnny Mac on a podcast. His acting credits include Kill Tony, and he was in one episode of the Neighborhood where he played Luis in twenty twenty three. Yeah, so I’m not sure I’m wrong about that actor and comedian thing. Here again, love the guy. But oh and here’s the credit Reond Comedy Festival.

That’s interesting. The chef said, I actually met Fluffy from a direct message. He congratulated me for opening my restaurant and for the billboard sign we had right off the four of five, which caught his attention. He told me he’d like to come by and try out the food, and he hasn’t stopped coming by since. To have a person like Fluffy coming to my establishment, it’s like a dream come true.

The chef tells us, Fluffy has his own shelf at our restaurant. Whatever he needs, it’s always there. We don’t have to scramble. It’s like a vip shell for him, and he appreciates it and we appreciate it. All right, John, Well, you got us hungry.

What are they serving? Well, you see, there was a secret menu that the chef said had only been tasted by Aglacias, but will now be available to you to your listener for a limited time at the Yamava Resort and Casino in Highland. It’ll be available through October thirty. First guests can order dishes inspired by the meals Gabe orders most often. The chef said, Fluffy would come in and do a regular fried rice, which has the choice to add chicken, shrimp, or beef to go with the fried rice if they like, which, by the way, reminds me, I’ve got leftover ty food.

So as soon as we’re done recording here, I’m in. One day, Fluffy came through the door and was like, Hey, I got this can a spam. You want to bake it up and throw it at the fried rice? I told him sure, and I went next order the pizza shop, grabbed a couple of cups of pineapple, threw them in the diced up spam, and we made it happen. Other tasty concoctions include the Beef Chow Maine top with Mongolian beef and vegetables and served over chop suey hibachi noodles.

Then there’s the fluffy Rito love It. That, of course is a burrito stuff with spam, fried rice, Mongolian beef, chop, suey noodles, and vegetables. I’m not sure that sounds good. The beef and Cheese Quesadia is one of Gabe’s other favorite orders, and that’s filled with guey Chihuahua cheese and Mongolian beef inside of flower tintia that’s crispy after a few flips on a flat iron grill. For dessert, Guess can enjoy the carrot cake, which weighs half a pound.

The chef said it was delicious enough to get Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias to give his favorite pastry chocolate cake a break. You know, I might have to start doing a bid here. I’ve got this Hannah Burner article that gets bumped every day. I might just tell you every single day it got bumped. But we are long into the break.

Leonard Woods he’s been around for a while. He’s releasing his long awaited debut comedy special, talk about Long Away to Day. He’s been on my radar for at least twelve years. It’s called lil some some l l s um n sumn lil sumsum. That’ll be out on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla.

The special is availed now on Gorilla Comedy Plus. It’ll be on Gorilla’s YouTube channel September tenth. It’s seventh Central. Leonard Hoitz says, you ever been a Texas roadhouse? Well, this is my cinnamon butter rolls while I finished cooking the main course.

It’s just little something, something to put on your stomach. I like it. Leonard is a large man, at least the last time I saw a photo of him. Growing up as a military brat in Chesapeake, Virginia, Leonard Oitz reflects on life with a navy father, living in Japan after nine to eleven, and navigating parents returning to college while raising him. He shares funny and heartfelt stories about family dynamics, including being bribe with McDonald’s to keep secrets, coping with loss of his mother before his father quickly remarried.

He mixes vulnerability, sharp commentary, and laid back charisma into a deeply funny hour of comedy. He is very funny. Out of Tel Aviv, a magistrate court has ordered stand up comedian Vova to Marken to pay three thousand dollars to a woman in the audience who he allegedly mocked over her wheat during a comedy performance. The judge ruled that the comedian’s comments went beyond what could reasonably be considered part of a stand up performance. The woman attended a Russian language stand up show.

According to the lawsuit, the comedian told her during the performance, buckle up here. If you think the tailor Swift joke that Joe Koy made was harsh, I should play that if you just to refresh your memory. The big difference between the Golden globes and the NFL. On the golden gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. Now, if you think that Joe Coy joke was harsh, listen to what the comedian said at a comedy show about the woman’s weight.

The comedian said, soon a man will come on stage who weighs as much as you. He’s been involved in boxing fights for eight years. Whoa dude at a comedy club back that down. She also claimed that the comedian said, now listen to this, Okay. I don’t know if anybody listen to this, you remind me of my cat.

You’re as fat as she is. Whoa at a comedy club? Are you kidding me? Can’t have crowd work like that. The comedian Who’s twenty two, deny making the statements.

However, he also argued that audience’s attending stand up comedy understand that the genre involves provocation, humor, and jokes at the expense of audience members, and that such interactions are part of the experience. He also disputed the woman’s account, claiming she had attributed statements made by other comedians to him. The judge, however, found the woman’s testimony credible, determining that Timarkan’s testimony was not equally reliable. The judge wrote, language used in standup performance is, to put it mildly, not clean, and participants who attend such performances should be aware of that. However, humiliation that goes beyond the boundaries of that unclean language should be avoided.

The judge ruled at the comments concerning the woman’s weight, including the references to a quote fat cat and a boxer, crossed the line of what could reasonably be expected at a comedy performance. The court rejected the woman’s full compensation demand amount of UH to do a currency conversion here, let me see what this is in dollars. She was asking for fifty thousand Israeli new shekels, and according to my exchange rate, that’s approximately sixteen thousand, six hundred and seventy nine dollars and seventy three cents. Again, she was compared to a boxer and called a fat cat and wanted sixteen thousand dollars, but the judge was like no, no, no, till Markan was ordered to pay ten thousand new Israeli shekels, including four thousand Nis toward the woman’s legal expenses. To Markin said, why I do my stand up My only goal is to make the audience happy with quality comedy.

I never go on stage with the intention of hurting anyone. But yes, although the court’s decision left a bad taste from this whole story from my career as a stand up comedian, gave me a serious boost and that’s obviously something I can’t help but be happy about. Dude, buy yourself a ticket to Austin and hope your name comes up in the hat. And that is your comedy news for today. This was a fun one.

I enjoyed this one. Say Tomorrow,

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Featured: Rosie O’Donnell, Jimmy Kimmel, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney, Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle, Thomas Agora, Reggie Watts

What’s in This Episode

• Variety pitches Rosie O’Donnell late-night talk show after guest hosting Kimmel
• White House spokesperson criticizes Rosie O’Donnell over Trump remarks
• Rosie O’Donnell relocates to Ireland
• Nate Bargatze launches ‘No Pictures’ comedy brand for edgier content
• Nate Bargatze announces ‘Nateville’ animated series in development
• Fastball Comedy Festival announces Dave Chappelle and Thomas Agora as headliners in Mesa, Arizona

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I’m Johnny Mac with the Afternoon check In. There’s an article in Variety they want Rosie O’Donnell to get a late night show. All this because she did pretty well last week on Jimmy Kimmelive as the guest host. People seem to dig it. But come on, guys, we’re not giving Rosie O’Donnell a late night show in twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven.

What would possibly be the market for sixty six year old Rosio Donald. Now, she had a very successful career, successful daytime television show. I could see her going back to the view, but we are not starting, you know, later at night with Rosie O’Donnell. In this day and age, I will remind you Netflix couldn’t get people to watch John Mulaney when the guests were the ilk of like Jerry Seinfeld. Okay, no one’s watching a ros o donald late night show.

Maybe for a week there’d be some curiosity, but you know, this is not an episode of Hacks. We’re not doing this. This is just not gonna happen. But Variety wrote that piece. The President of the United States had some thoughts about it.

A White House spokesperson what out of the way to put out this statevid. Listen to this Rosie O. Donald’s a nasty woman and a total slab whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump drangement syndrome. You can send your letters to either Rosie or Trump, or whatever side you’re on. Now, the other thing I’m gonna point out here is Rosie left the United States and moved to Ireland.

And now I’ve been to Ireland. Ireland’s a fabulous place. I wouldn’t mind living in in Ireland. But when you’re leaving because of who’s in charge, you’re making a stayment. So you know, it’s just like coming home and hosting a late night show.

So I think this is a complete non starter. We also have some news about controversial MAGA comedian Naprighazzy. He’s back in the news and he’s getting edgier. And you see he went to a UFC fight on the White House lawn and now he’s into edgy material. He’s started a new company.

It is called No Pictures. He’s not getting rid of Nateland, and Nateland will be the family friendly one, but No Pictures is for quote unquote edgier content that’s right. We are told the name no Pictures comes from quote his daughter used to say. When she was little, she would tell Nate, no pictures please. I’m pretty sure we could figure it out that there was some kind of joke like that with the no Pictures.

We’ve also learned Nateland is in pre production on Nateville. This would be the naperghazzy version of King of the Hill, sort of kind of why why we already have King of the Hill. I’m not sure people are actually watching King of the Hill. I’ll put this in the Bob’s Burgers category if I understand. Fox has been promoting King of the Hill for a decade and a half, maybe two decades at this point.

I’m not sure it’s actually on. Have you seen it. We’re not gonna do the Bob’s Burgers bit today, but I don’t think we need like the napergazzy ripoff King of the Hill? Is that necessary? From Cobbs dot com, you’re home for comedy news.

They’ve announced the Fastball Comedy Festival. The headlineers are amazing, Dave Chappelle and thomps Agora. That’s a pretty good one too, to lead off your festival. It’ll be in Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona, October seventeenth and eighteenth. That’s a Saturday and Sunday.

We’re told, turning one of baseball’s premiere spring training venues into a comedy destination. And we’re told that’s one of those phone of free events, so you’re gonna have to lock your phone away and a packet. And that is your quick update this afternoon. If you’re catching this in the audio feed, there’s quick videos I’m doing on YouTube and if you’re seeing me on YouTube, but this is really an audio podcast. On Tuesday morning, there’s a Reggie Watts story that’s like not fun at all that I didn’t want to get into here.

You know, this is kind of loosey goosey. I’m sitting poolside, I’m outside, you hear the birds. But again to the Reggie Watts stuff. Listen to the audio episode. It’s getting kind of hicky, all right, Catch in the morning,

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Featured: Zarna Garg, Nate Bargatze, Lawrence Gray, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Ritchson, Reggie Watts

What’s in This Episode

• Zarna Garg trapped in Hermès bathroom in Berlin for 90 minutes
• Nate Bargatze launches No Pictures production company for edgier content
• Lawrence Gray hired to oversee edgier Nateland projects
• Nateville adult animated series in development for Netflix
• Rolling Stone report on Reggie Watts and ex-girlfriend Katherine McCullough
• Comedy Bang Bang removes Reggie Watts theme song

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh my, Zorna Garg got stuck in the bathroom. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. That’s not even really why I’m laughing. I’ll do this story that I’ll tell you why I’m really laughing.

Okay, So there’s Zarna Garg and she went to an air Mas store in Berlin and ended up spending time in the bathroom. She was there at air Mez trying to secure one of the luxury brand’s famously elusive handbags. Zarna Garg said she was trapped inside the bathroom for about an hour and twenty minutes after its sliding door refused to open. Her team and her children documented the episode while they waited on the other side, which was later posted as an Instagram reel, which now has my hogwash detector going, why was your social media team with you shopping? Ya happened?

He gets stuck in the bathroom. I don’t know about this one. We are told that why locked in the bathrooms? Aren’t a Garg, who happened to have her social media team with her did what a stand up comedian might do. She turned the predicament into content.

Good thing the social media team happened to be there, She joked from inside the bathroom, played with paper towels and even fashioned the paper towels into origami. She wrote on Instagram. We started recording, thinking we’ll make a funny video about what you can do when locked in a bathroom. I made an origami village of paper towels and played games like guess how many towels I’m holding. It’s so funny that a place that is so persnickety about perfection, this is happening there.

According to zarn’t A, Garg, her team asked store managers to call the fire department when attempts to open the door failed, but the staff resisted because they wanted to protect the door, which I can understand. Garg said. She was eventually asked to push the door from inside as those outside the door worked on it with a crowbar. Firefighters ultimately did help free her. When the door opened, she appeared visibly shaken and said, thank God, there was no fire.

However, had there been a fire, there were firefighters there No. Yes, So here’s why I was laughing, because I know you’re like, hey, Johnny Mac, how did you know how to pronounce air mez. A guy like you probably would have said Hermes. Well, friends, I decided to check it and I found this wonderful video by this guy. Hi, I’m Simon Dunan.

Today I am preaching and teaching about pronunciation. Ready, air mez is pronounced air mez, sort of like I think you’re gonna say air mattress. Oh. You know who’s back in the news. Controversial mega comedian Naprighetzi, And now he’s moving away from the clean stuff and he’s getting edgy.

See what happens when you go to UFC fights You get all these crazy ideas. Nyperghetzi has launched No Pictures and he’s hired some guy named Lawrence Gray to oversee quote unquote edgier production alongside the family friendly Nateland Entertainment. Do you think he’ll open like an edgegear theme park? That would be fun. No Pictures will produce film and TVs shows that will delve into edgier genres and stories more suited for older audiences.

Why is it called No Pictures? Nate said he took inspiration from a family favorite quote from his daughter Harper, who when she was little would tell him no Pictures Please Nate Tull Deadline. Lawrence has developed some of the biggest movies in the world, so having him choose to come build Nateland and No Pictures with us is incredible. He’s operated at the highest level of this business, knows what it takes to turn a great idea into something that can reach millions. Bringing that kind of creative firepower into both Nateland and No Pictures changes what’s possible for us.

We’re already have some big things in motion, and I think everybody’s going to be surprised with what’s coming next. So let’s see what this guy has worked on. He began his career at Scott Root and Productions before moving to Fox Searchlight, where he shepherded acclaimed films like Thank You for Smoking, The Hills Have Eyes, and Sideways. Following his time at Fox, he went to Universal, where he shepherded the Sam Raimi horror fic Drag Me to Hell, before launching Gray Matter, where he produced a slate including Life Out, the launchromat Yes Day, Pain, Hustlers, and Family Switch Out. Of all those things I just mentioned to you, I think I know what two of them are.

More recently, Great produced the Man with the Bag. This is coming out on Prime Video December second. In The Man with the Bag, it stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Richon. I’ll be curious to see if Alan Richan can act at all. I’ve been watching Reacher and I love the new season of Reacher.

But my dude has no range whatsoever. But I guess if you put him in a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, suddenly he’s Olivier. John, did you just drop a Laurence Olivier reference? And you’re wondering why younger people don’t listen to your show. Lawrence Olivier passed away on July eleventh, nineteen eighty nine.

Sean, maybe you get a little fresher with the reference. Is who am I supposed to say? He’s no? What? Leo com Hanks?

Who do you want me to reference? When it comes to Nateland, Gray now oversees a slate including the comedy Fantasy Camp, which also sold Amazon in a heated multi studio bidding war. That film follows a group of friends that at a make or break moment in their live I’ve had to Dwayne Wade’s Fantasy Camp in Miami to relive their basketball dreams. Did Kevin Hart and Marcello Hernanez pass on this film? What is that?

Oh? Wait? Listen to this? Currently, Nateland is in pre production on Nateville, an adult animated series for Netflix that sources have equated to being Naperghetzy’s King of the Hill. You think I’m making this up?

It’s there in deadline. Does anybody want that? We already have King of the Hill and already don’t watch it. I guess somebody watches it. I don’t know is it even on.

I’d put that in the bobs Burgers category of Fox claims it on. I’ve never checked. I don’t know if you’ve seen this story around Reggie Watts. I had been avoiding it. It seemed a little too gossipy and not at all fun, but it is now really touched into comedy.

Comedy. Bang Bang has removed the Reggie Watts created theme song, as upcoming music festivals have also removed Reggie Watts’s name from their lineups following a report in Rolling Stone on the comedian musician’s quote reckless behavior and the wake of his ex girlfriend’s death. We’ll talk about this song in a minute. The removals follow a lengthy report published by Rolling Stone on Thursday of last week, were loved ones of Reggie Watts’s late ex girlfriend, Katherine McCullough came forward to claim that Reggie Watts encourage mccullaugh to take a heavy array of drugs, particularly ketamine. Throughout the relationships.

Friends say they witnessed abusive aspects of the couple’s relationship, including financial dependence and Reggie Watts allegedly withholding emotional support from McCullough. One friend is quoted as saying Watts cultivated a dynamic and a relationship where she felt like she could only truly access intimacy, closeness and empathy from him if they were both using drugs together. Watts entered the relationship in October. McCullough died by suicide in March, so you can see why I haven’t been doing that one. I like fun Locked in the Bathroom Stories.

This is a comedy show. But now where this has crossed over into comedy is because of Comedy Bang Bang, which I will remind you of all the comedy shows I ever went to, especially in the series XM years, Comedy Bang Bang the only show I walked out of because it was bad. I remember looking at my host Mark and we both looked at each other and our Facebook said we’re wasting our time here and we left. It was the only show we ever left, That’s how bad it was. So I’m not a fan of that show.

I know a lot of people are. Comedy Bang Bang has removed the Reggie Wats theme. Fans who hit play on the podcast were greeted by a generic British woman’s voice stating the episode number on Monday, instead of the usual Reggie Wats improvisational beatboxing riff that has served as the show’s interest since twenty eleven. The show did not acknowledge the replacement. They also have not commented on the accusations against Watts.

We are told a representative for Comedy Bang Bang and host Scott Ackerman did not immediately reply to Rolling Stone’s request for comment. Watts was also scheduled at the Shambala and green Belt festivals in England. His name was removed from the website, so a representative for green Belt said Watts would no longer be appearing. Shambala did not respond to a request for clarification. Rolling Stone says and a screenshot reviewed by Rolling Stone.

A festival representative acknowledged that Watts was no longer part of the event. Over the weekend, a set of shows with frequent collaborator Capiac was canceled in Bristol, with no acknowledgment from the venue or any of the parties. Rolling Stone spoke with five women who previously dated Reggie Watts. Three claimed they also experienced Watts encouraging them to take drugs, including ketamine with him. To exes allege Watts blue past their boundaries to satisfy his own needs.

It’s unclear to me what that means. One woman claimed Watts recorded an explicit video of her that she had not consented to, and another claimed Watts initiated sex without her wearing a condom, despite an implicit agreement that they would always use production Due to Watts disclosing they had an STD Rolling Stone says through an attorney, Watts said any suggestion that he was an abusive boyfriend was false, but did not comment on the women’s accusations directly. Let’s not going to break on that. Let’s do something a little more fun. The White House had some thoughts about Rosie O’Donnell hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live last week.

They gave a statement to Entertainment Weekly. A White House spokesperson said, Rosie o’donald’s a nasty woman at a total slot whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump derangement syndrome. Send your letters to I don’t know Rosio Domine or the White House up to you. This is interesting. Andy Wheel, who was Netflix’s VP of Comedy and the second longest serving program and executive, is leaving Netflix to join Amazon MGM Studios as head of Comedy.

His first day will be September fourteenth. We are told he is a well regarded comedy executive and had been at Netflix for more than eleven years. At Universal, he shepherded Boy Deadline, Likes the Word shepherded, He shepherded at Brooklyn ninety nine, and also worked on The MINDI Project and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. So we’ll see we’re getting more comedy out of Amazon, like I feel they’re in a lane now that’s like shows like Jack Ryan and Reacher. But we’ll see if they do more comedies or maybe we’ll get more and better stand up comedy on Amazon anyway, good luck, sir.

Apparently, one of Eddie Murphy’s kids did a set at the West Side Comedy Club in New York City on Saturday night. Miles Murphy got up. Club manager Gina Savage said he’s only been performing for less than a year. An insider says during the day, he’s a screenwriter performing comedy with something he’s always wanted to do, and he’s performed in several of the clubs in LA. We’re told that he was pretty good.

Would you like to hear the worst trailer of all time? I’m going to play for you the worst trailer of all time The News Stories. Comedian Jack Asidorian Junior, who goes by Jack Junior, has announced that his debut special Mexican Armenian, will premiere on YouTube on Thursday, September seventeenth at noon Pacific. In the special, Jack Junior explores the unexpected similarities between his Mexican and Armenian cultures. All right, it sounds like a good premise, but let’s listen to the entire trailer.

Okay, stay with me. This is the entire trailer. Haven’t touched it at all? What’s that down? My dad never hugged me.

The only time my dad hugged me was when you try to hate me, and he missed. I’m the Arminian. I’m not Mexican, I’m r mex I’m both money lies, Jack Junior, guys, thank you so much so one hack joke and you’re letting us know your Mexican Armenian. That’s the entire trailer. I mean, a hack joke and just a premise.

That is why it is the worst trailer of all time. Now, yesterday on the show we did cheesy jokes. Today I have for you the sixteen best one liners, crowned the best in Edinburgh. As always, they were told better by the comedians than some loser with a podcast in his basement. But I will try my best.

Andrew Maxwell said, I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship, but I bottled it. Some of the other jokes, I’m not naming the comedian because I’m here on MSN dot com and they have pictures of the comedians who I don’t recognize, but not their names. But some of the other jokes. I started dating a zoo keeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah next, I try to steal spaghetti from the show up, but the female guards saw me and I couldn’t get pasta. I’m assuming he said pasta and not pasta, otherwise the joke wouldn’t work.

And this was in Scotland. I like this next one. I thought the word cesarean began with the letter S. When I looked in the dictionary, it was in the C section. Pretty good, we’re gonna get the job.

Center has to be a tench job, knowing that if you get fired you still have to come in the next day. That’s pretty good. That took me a minute. That’s very Hedbergian. I’m not a fan of the new pound coin.

But then again, I hate all change hedgehogs. Why can’t they just share the hedge? I like that one. I’ve just been on a once in a lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.

I needed a password eight characters long, so I picked snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I heard a rumor that Cadbaret is bringing out an Oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese wispa. I’ve decided to sell my hoover. Well, it’s just collecting dust.

I just deleted all the German aims off my phone. It’s hands free again. I think if I do it in my native accent, I would have said it’s hans free and doesn’t work as well. And one more, my dad has suggested that a register for a donor card. He’s a man after my own heart.

That your company news for today back in the afternoon with one of those short episodes that people will I don’t know, let me know. Tell me the Facebook grip. You like them, you hate them? They color the feed, they’re kind of fun. I don’t know.

I’m just trying stuff. See tomorrow, No, no, see in a couple hours.

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Featured: Dane Cook, Daryl McCauley Cook, Seth Meyers, Chris Fleming, Jay Leno, Weird Al Yankovic, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s brother Daryl McCauley’s name confusion
• Seth Meyers taking seven weeks off and launching video podcast
• Jay Leno’s Vanguard Award and scheduling a comedy gig during the ceremony dinner
• Weird Al Yankovic’s NPR Tiny Desk concert performance

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This, friends, is why we do the show cool Side when we can, because sometimes it rains. I’m in a silly mood today. So I was putting together the regular audio show. I was doing the Dane Cook story and I noticed, like, his brother’s name is Daryl McCauley, and I was wondering, Hm, why is Dane Cook’s brother’s name McCaulay. I’m like, Dane Cook.

That sounds like a stage name, like Johnny Mac. Like maybe Dane is using a fake name. It show business. That works, So I asked Ai, Now this is where it gets fun. So AI says, yes, Dane Cook is his real name.

His full name is Dame Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth, nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okay, fair enough, So I said, why is his brother McCauley And AI said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name. Huh, his name’s Daryl McCauley. So I asked, hey, hey, hi, and it said no, his full name is Daryl McCauley Cook. He went professionally by Daryl McCaulay, using his middle name as his surname.

And I went yeah, because that doesn’t make sense. Damee Cook’s name is Dane Cook, but Darryl Cook is going by Daryl McCauley. Why so I question that, I asked the AI. Is that right? Yeah?

I said, no, you Coby. This is a verbatim from the AI. No, you Coby. My previous answer was wrong. I checked it.

Why did you tell me that Deane Cook is Dan Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Darryl McCauley, oh icee, And then the I explained they have different fathers, oh Ice. They shared a mother, Donna Jean Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. Now, regular listeners to the audio podcast know that I want to make twelve thirty great again. The President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one issue we agree on is that twelve thirty could be better.

And in the great tradition of David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, I want twelve thirty on NBCD be hosted by Chris Fleming and not Seth Myers. Seth Myers is currently taking seven weeks off from his show, which isn’t insanely a long amount of time, and apparently Seth agrees because he has started a podcast. It’s a video podcast of the A Closer Look segment and you’ll find that on YouTube. I hope it takes off and Seth Myers becomes a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming. Funny Jay Leno story.

The guy likes to work, so he was given the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six at Burbank International Film Festival thingy. The plan was, okay, we’ll have a dinner for Jay Leno, and as one does it, at dinner, you eat dinner, and then we’ll do an hour presentation of Jay Leno’s career.

And then Jay said, hey, guys, I got a gig at seven thirty.

Could we do the presentation first, then the dinner. So Jay got his award and then they had salad and dinner afterwards. And this is true because Jay was doing a seven thirty show at Flappers, which just that Jay had a show at Flappers sounds like a Jay Lettle joke, but that’s an actual club in Burbank, I think, so, I hope you enjoyed your salad, and I gotta check this out. Weird that was on the NPR Tiny Desk podcast. When I saw it, I thought this was old news because he had been on in Let me check my notes here.

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Did you hear that in Acorn? Just hit my umbrella? Here Weird Owls on NPR, and there’s Augusted Wind. This is fun weird als on. I love this.

I’m so distracted right now. Let me shut the laptop before this stupid bit costs me two thousand dollars at a new MacBook. Weird Owls on the Tiny Desk concert in twenty ten, and from memory, let me tell you what he did. He did whatever his parody of the Backstreet Boys song is, and he did the saga begins, which is the Star Wars song from American Pie. So that’s it.

From under the Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, this is why we do the show pool Side on the nice days. But I guess we can also do the show pool Side in the Pouring Rain back in the morning with a regular episode. And let’s take a look at the rain as we check out here

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Featured: Dane Cook, Darryl McCauley, Chloe Fineman, Seth Meyers, Kathy Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s ‘Funny Money’ movie about brother’s $12 million theft
• SNL Season 52 casting showcases and emerging talent
• Lack of Black female representation on SNL post-Ego Nwodim
• Seth Meyers launching podcast during summer hiatus
• Darryl McCauley’s embezzlement case and prison sentence

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deane Cook movie coming out the headline all over the place. Dane Cook’s brother Darryl stole millions from him, hid cash in spaghetti sauce, and disappeared.

This was an exclusive from People, which is everywhere. Now there’s a trailer for the Dane Cook movie. Maybe we’ll just play that. It’s a little long, but I find it really compelling. It’s your owner.

I could hurt important SPI canvolved with something. What happened? What have you died? A person that spent so much time pretending to be something he wasn’t. From the moment he left that bank, my brother disappeared.

He was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. I was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. These people are fearless. I want to be fearless. Darryl was a major factor.

He became a corrections officer, enjoying your time here on the beach. There very much that time. It’s almost times money. Once he started going platinum, everything changed. He was like a rock star.

Daryl and I looked at each other and said, we’re in for a hell of a ride. He would handle every aspect of every penny that came in. Initially withdrolls for twenty thousand dollars, hecame withdrolls of fifty thousand dollars, wires of one hundred thousand dollars. I was starting to feel something that I couldn’t really identify with was he hiding it in different places? Stockpiling this money?

Darryl was traveling across the country. My pursuit would be to put his brother in jail. Done swung the door open, and piles upon piles of cash. I’m like, this is not normal. The last time I had seen it, there wasn’t nearly as much money in there.

The police officers, they believe that you were communicating with Daryl with coded messages. There were bricks of hundreds in all the spaghetti sauce and. The pasta sauce. Of course, where else would you put the money? This is blowing my mind.

Dude, Darrel’s a go getting was the point to just bury me alive? He seemed to disassociate himself from the whole thing. There was a good part of him somewhere that I grew up with. I do believe that there’s money out there. I believe there’s people that know more.

Where is he? What has he done? How does this end? Funny money? The Dane Cook Story will be available on streaming September twenty ninth.

People, writes. McCauley, who was Cook’s business manager from the nineties through two thousand and eight, handled every penny of Cook’s wealth, but paper trails showed he was withdrawing huge amounts, up to one hundred grand at a time, from his brother’s account. Dane said he began to feel something I couldn’t identify. By the way, are we learning here that Dane Cook’s name isn’t Dane Cook and it’s Dane McCauley. John, you have Google?

Why don’t you tell us you host the show? Okay? I will okay? I googled is Dane Cook his real name? And the Internet said yes.

And then I was like, huh, so why is his brother McCauley. So I asked chat GPT. Now this is a lot of fun. I typed in, is Dane Cook his real name? The AI said yes, Dane Cook is his real name.

His full name is Dane Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So, unlike a lot of comedians, Dane Cook isn’t a stage name. So I asked, so, then, why is his brother McCauley And the CHAT said no, No, pay attention. The CHAT said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name, to which I went, huh. Dane’s brother is Daryl McCauley, full name Daryl McCauley Cook.

He generally went professionally by name as Daryl McCauley, using his middle name as his surname. And that read my hogwash detector. The AI is that right? And the AI said, no, you caught me. It actually says, no, you caught me.

My previous answer was wrong. I checked it. Well, well, why didn’t you just give me the right answer the first time? AI? So the AI is now sourcing Boston Magazine.

Take this with a grain of salt. I don’t doubt Boston Magazine, but I do doubt this AI. Dean Cook is Dean Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Daryl McCauley. Reliable contemporary coverage says the AI consistently identifies him as Darryl McCauley, not Daryl McCauley Cook.

You see, they’re half brothers. They shared a mother, Donna Jane Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. But we digress because we have to talk about the movie Funny Money The Deane Cook Story, People tells us. McCauley, a former corrections officer, was ultimately arrested in two thousand and eight and charged with stealing twelve million dollars from Cook while acting as his business manager. Just curious and I’m trying to stay out of prison.

I wonder how that went for a former corrections officer. I don’t think I I want to know. McCauley pleaded guilty to larceny, embezzlement, and forgery and twenty ten says People, and was sentenced to five to six years in prison. He was also ordered to repay the twelve million dollars to Cook. His wife, Erica, was sentenced to two and a half years in connection to McCauley’s crimes.

Funny Money The Dane Cook Story On VOD September twenty ninth, Deadline apparently had some spies that the possible casting for Saturday Night Live season fifty two. SNL season fifty two had showcases across three cities. Deadline says those names are beginning to come in. Trenton, Mason, Inside Out, Bella, Osage, Hope, I got your name right. Deadline heard they generated buzz at their showcases.

They’re said to be on the list. Other names Deadline has heard include Claire Riffle, Grace Ryder, Devin Bachrath, Olivia Puckett, Ismael Lufti, Rachel Coster, Russelli Daniels, and Anna Fabrega. Reps from SNL did not return request for comment to Deadline. All we know about season fifty two at the time of this recording is that Chloe Feineman will not be back. I will still be stunned if Cam Patterson is part of the cast, Deadline tells us.

As his customary staffers hit three big markets, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. There was the character’s showcase in LA on August sixth. Chicago’s showcases were at the Annoyance Theater in the Io Theater on August tenth and eleventh, and on August seventeenth and eighteenth. There were showcases at New York’s UCB more standouts. Names that emerge from LA included Trenton Mason, Cabba, Hughes, Chase Rosenberg, and April Rock.

In Chicago, Peyton Reddy, who was one of the twenty twenty six Just for Laughs New Phases quote dominated in Chicago, Deadline says everyone in New York was raving quote unquote about Joey Welsh. Other New York talents that did well Alicia Edwards, Amber Singletary, and saida Bello Osagi. Deadline points out that Hughes, Rock, Edwards, Singletary, and Belo Osagi are all female performers of color. You may recall the people have been observing a lack of black female representation since Ego Nuotum departed after the twenty twenty five season. Deadline and says next up in the casting process are screen tests.

Keep your posting on that. Seth Myers, he’s off for seven weeks and for some reason, has launched a podcast. Yeah. Seth and Salgentille, who writes the popular A Closer Look segment, have teamed up during the hiatus to launch a video podcast called A Closer Lookout of Office to tackle the stories they’ve missed while they’ve been off. So my Caddy comments about Late Night with Seth Meyers aside, that’s pretty interesting, right that they are trying to get this stuff out there.

That suggests Seth didn’t want a seven week vacation. That makes me think even more that this is a bit of a budget thing. So this whole summer thing is interesting. Seth was off from June eighteenth to July thirteenth, did two weeks and then another seven week break. So that’s what nine ten eleven.

That’s like off eleven out of thirteen weeks. That sounds like a budget cut. Seth Myers joked, we had to cancel a family vacation. We were going to take the kids to the Straight Offore Moves and then the travel agent finally said, I just wouldn’t risk it. Obviously, you want to bring the kids when it’s open, you know.

Fo Seth enjoys YouTube and it’s super successful because then we can move him off twelve thirty. He can just be a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming and make twelve thirty grade again. Jay Leno used to have a late night show was called The Tonight show with Jay Leno. He recently was presented with the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six Burbank International Film Festivals Gallas ceremony. The original plan called for dinner followed by an hour long career retrospective with Jay Leno, but they moved everything around.

They put the stuff about Jay Leno at the beginning of the night. Here’s why. Jay asked for them to change it so he could leave so we could do a seven thirty set at Flappers. That sounds like a bit but no. Jay Leto had a seven thirty pm set at Flapper’s Comedy Club in downtown Burbank, so he asked the awards people, Hey, could you move it around?

So before the salad was served at the Marriott, jay Leno recorded the podcast, accepted his award and thank the crowd, and headed to Flappers. Oh my god, that’s fun. More Jay Leno news. Jay was granted a conservator ship for the estate of his seventy nine year old wife, Mavis. Jay, who had been granted a conservator ship over the estate of wife Mavis in twenty twenty four, is seeking to register said conservatorship in New Hampshire, so he can sell community property real estate there.

As you may know, Mavis has advanced Alzheimer’s disease that sometimes leaves her unaware of her birth date or who she’s even married to. Court papers fought on August fifth do not state what kind of real estate the couple own in New Hampshire or what part of the state. Jay was born in Massachusetts. He also owns real estate in Rhode Island. Anyway, for all the bits about Jay Leno being the worst guy who ever lived, seems like a pretty good guy to me.

Kathy Griffin. If you’re a longtime a listener to this program, you know anytime Kathy Griffin gets mentioned, it’s always something happy and good, like Kathy Griffin was petting a Golden Retriever puppy, or Kathy Griffin was smelling some flowers and said, what a beautiful day. It’s great to be alive. So it surprises me that she’s involved in a beef. Right.

Kathy said she’s really hurt that she wasn’t invited to appear on Rosie O’Donnell’s week guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show. Kathy, Kathy, listen to me even you self described as a Dalist celebrity. You had a show with d list in the title. Let’s see who Rosie even had on this from Interbridge dot com. Here’s the lineup for last week when Rosi o’donald guest hosted.

Monday, Hannah Wadding, m Ted Lasso, Sure and a guest ire The Linda Linda’s Bella Brown Tuesday, Gen Smart, Richard Gad Bella Brown again. Wednesday, Charlie Day, Yeah, it’s always Sunday it was out Janelle James, Ashley McBride, Thursday, Nick Offerman and Megan Malaly. Friday was a repeat. I mean, who do you want us to bump? Kathy Griffin on her podcast which is called Talk Your Head Off, Kathy Griffin said, I’m gonna be honest today.

I might cry. I’m asking for your pity. I love a good pity cry. I’m gonna be open and honest and hope you understand. And I’m trying to talk about something bigger than TV talk shows.

But you know, I talk a lot about Hollywood and I give you the inside scoop, et cetera. But this one’s really personal. I’m just gonna come out and say it are you ready. It’s embarrassing to say, but I have to tell you, guys, because we’re friends. My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited to go on Rosie’s Week with the Jimmy Kimmels Show.

Good pals. We’re like sisters, and everyone knows sisters fight. Sisters and brothers fight, best friends fight, relatives, coworkers fight, and we’re not even fighting. I don’t think I’ve ever had a fight with my best friend. I can’t recall one.

If we had one, it’s been a minute. I’m sure he’d have me on his show. Cathy said, I’m just being honest that when I found out that Rosie was gonna take over for the full week from my beloved Jimmy Kimmel, I love that, he said to the camera, and I’m doing it as a special treat to Donald Trump, and I thought, oh, fantastic. He’s leaning into it and his viewers are honestly leaning more to the left. Kathy then brought up her infamous photo from twenty seventeen.

I don’t need a visit from guys with sunglasses. Just google Kathy Griffin photo. It’ll come up. Kathy said, instead, in my own community of Hollywood of stand up comedy were you’re supposed to be edgy, You’re supposed to make political statements as well as be funny. My opinion, that’s what the greats do, That’s who the greats I admired did.

Did not go that way for me. Initially, Griffin said o’donald had made comments that were not supportive of said photo. On a recent podcast, The Upset Kathy Griffin, Kathy said, I mean, think about it. You’ve got these two women who shared this very unique thing in common, and well, what happened to me was much more extreme than what happened to Rosie. It’s pretty unusual that you’ve got these two women that have been so outspoken about Well, he wasn’t the president when she talked about him on the view, but he was the president when I talked about him.

And as I have spoken about before, most of Hollywood turned on me. Overnight. Rosie O’Donnell jumped on Kathy Griffin’s Instagram, posted the video and wrote, Kathy should have called me, honey, I didn’t choose the guests right out. Today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla Gorilla Comedy Plus channel Beloved English actress and comedian Carry Goldman brings her critically acclaimed stand up comedy special Bandwidth to a wider audience with Gorilla Comedy Plus. Known for her regular appearances on TV shows like Mack of the Week and task Master, He’s also on Allie Kats with Ricky Gervais.

Carry Goldman is noted as one of the most celebrated performers in the UK. Carrie said, I had a total blast filming the special and I’m excited to share my stand up with the wider audience. I do hope you love it, or at least they’re sufficiently amused by it, but love would be preferable. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it was the Cheese It Cheesiest Joke Award, award celebrates cheesy jokes. I love it.

Following more than one hundred and thirty entries, English stand up Phil Milton, Phil spells his first name fil Phil Milton emerged victorious and won the prize of one thousand British pounds with the following gag told much better by Phil Milton then I’ll tell it here, But the line is my brother convinced me to go on halves on a used funeral car. I can’t believe I was so easily coherst. That is terrible. It’s cheesy. Phil Milton said of winning, it’s a massive treat as a relatively new comedian doing my first show with the Fringe, having this award really helps get the word out about me and my show.

It’s really important to highlight individual jokes too. Sometimes a little one liner can get overlood or dismissed as a dad joke. They take a lot of effort and I’m really pleased Cheesse it have done it. He won from a public vote. There was a shortlist of five cheesy jokes.

Other finalists included this one from Martin Byrne told better by mister Burne. Give him man of Fish, He’ll lead for a day, teach a man OFFICI and will probably start a pod asked about fishing. We also had one from Carlin. No, not George Carlin, Brucken, Tiazac Carlin. This Carlin said, I’m looking for a new job.

I walked past a mirror shop the other day and thought, oh, I could see myself working there. I like that one. I would have voted for that one. Ruy frios Uk senior marketing manager Cheese had said, We’ve always celebrated not taking life too seriously and the inner cheesiness of everyone, so creating an award dedicated to the cheesiest jokes at the fringe felt like the perfect fit. The Trick comedy news for today right back at three o’clock with a casual short video in a normal episode in the morning See Then

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Featured: Rosie O’Donnell, Weird Al Yankovic, Ricky Gervais, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Olivia Colman, Martin Freeman, Robin Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Rosie O’Donnell guest hosts Jimmy Kimmel, draws 1.87 million viewers
• Weird Al releases new NPR Tiny Desk Concert with parodies and original songs
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season premiere and show history
• Ricky Gervais plans to marry partner of 44 years for tax reasons
• Ricky Gervais discusses cancel culture, work ethic, and assisted dying
• Olivia Colman and Martin Freeman join Only Murders in the Building Season 6
• Robin Williams children announce plans to maintain his Instagram account

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Caloroga Shark Media Hither. I am Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one thing we probably agree on is neither of us is interested in watching Rosie O’Donnell host Jimmy Kimmel live. But we might be in the minority. She drew one point eighty seven million total viewers on her first night out last Monday.

That was the biggest audience for any of Jimmy Kimmel’s guest hosts so far this summer. I’ve seen nothing but great buzz about Rosie. Again, not my cup of tea, but people seem to really like the job that she did. Last week, she beat out the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Rosie also won adults eighteen of forty nine, drawing two hundred and eighteen thousand viewers compared to Jimmy’s one hundred and fifty six thousand.

Late Night er tells us all this and they point out online Rosie’s monologue drew two point four million views on YouTube, probably more by the time you’re hearing this, and that was more than twice as many as the most watching monologue from any of Kimmel’s guest hosts this summer. That said, Kimmel’s own monologues routinely top three million views on YouTube, and his live plus same day audiences regularly surpassed two million viewers. Again, Rosie did one point eighty seven, not bad. In the middle of the summer, weird Al did an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Now, I was on the Internet and I saw somebody surface this and I’m like, Yeah, that’s been around forever.

Why is this a big deal? No, it’s a new one. NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert started in two thousand and eight. Al had an episode in twenty ten. Back then, the show was had a little more indie cred, so Al didn’t do parodies.

He did some original songs, but now as he returned, he did some old parodies. The new set, which is on NPR’s Various Socials, features There’s eBay, which is a parody of the Backstreet Boys I Want It that Way, and the Saga Begins, which is weird Al’s Star Wars song set to American Pie. It is observed that it is possible this is the first time that weird Al has performed the saga Begain in regular clothes, not a Jedi robe. Weird All also performed Emmy Losing closing credits blues rock Gym from his biopic Weird, the Al Yankovic Story, and his Weezer pastiche skipper Dan. I think over the years, I’ve come to like the pastiches better than his actual straight up parodies.

The New Yorker it took a look at It’s Always Sonny in Philadelphia. I watched the first two episodes of the new season. Thought they were pretty good. Episode one’s better than two, but I did like where they were. His table setting in episode two, and I think it’s going to go somewhere.

They looked back to the early days when they used Glenn Howarden and Charlie Day’s cheap digital cam quarders they were making their home demo then called It’s Always Sonny on tv Fax. Loved the show’s humor, but were worried at the show took place in LA because there were so many shows in LA at that time, so they decided to move into Philadelphia, where Rob Mcalenny now Rob Mack, had grown up. The characters would change from actors to nightlife industry colleagues aka bartenders, and that’s I never knew this. That’s why the show’s called It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. It’s a joke since the show’s always shot in la except for the occasional episode and some b roll.

But you notice it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. I love it. I never knew that. That’s a great little tidbit. The New Yorker reminded us.

An early episode featured a jab that Mac Direxit, Dennis and Charlie, which was a commentary about Hollywood’s inability to get Sonny. Max says in the episode, our problem is that we don’t stick to the basic format that gets us in a trouble. Dennis asked, so, what you’re saying is that by breaking that format, we’re actually limiting our ability to be a successful That’s hilarious. Another episode. I like this one a lot.

They were trying to win the award for Best Bar that was making fun of the show. Never winning an Emmy, it has only received three nominations, all for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Comedy Program, and it didn’t win that. A few years back, Charlie Day was one of the presenters at the MBS and said, wait, hang on, have you guys been doing this every single year without us? Good show? I’m glad it’s still going all the so much like me, everybody just looks older now, so you put on an episode and it’s just during Unlike me, I haven’t had plastic surgery.

I’m not saying anyone on that show has had plastic surgery. I’m not saying that. I’m just saying when you look at the show, it looks like they had plastic surgery. Well done, John, well done. Ricky Gervais has vowed he will finally marry his partner of forty four years.

Ricky is now sixty five. He’s been in a relationship with Gene Fallon since nineteen eighty two. He had previously said there was no reason to marry before the eyes of God, as there is no God. Send your letters to Ricky Gervais. With that opinion, why would he get married now to reduce his inheritance tax Bill Ricky spoke to Saga magazine and said, that will be the reason I marry.

But if it wasn’t for that, why it’s mad? The inheritance tax is horrible, isn’t it. I got to get around to marrying before I die, He said of his own relationship, How more married can you be? We share all our money. We’ve been living together for forty years.

Some marriages don’t last a year. The conversation made its way to the notion of Ricky Gervas being on Celebrity Traders. Ricky said, no, it’s not that it’s beneath me. I’d love to play Traders, but I don’t want to be filmed playing What good could come of that? I like watching MMA, mix mortial arts.

Hey, he might want to hang out with a controversial mega comedian in Aperghanzy, who also likes mixed martial arts. There’s a controversial lineup. Ricky Gerva’s a Nate Berghansy watching fights, possibly on a white house lawn. I digress. Ricky said, I like watching MMA.

I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to be doing something I’m not in control of. I don’t want to be away from home playing a game with strangers. Will he wind down? No, He’s said.

My dad worked on a building site until he was seventy. That’s hard work. I just stand there talking. He did say that performing catches up with him. Comparing it to driving really fast for an hour and heavy traffic.

I feel you, Ricky. Sometimes I’ll drive up from the beaches down the Jersey Shore, which is like a two hour ride, and I get home and I’m just like toast. Jervis said, I know I should be pottering around my garden shed, but I don’t think I could sit around doing nothing. You work, say, have a reason to sit on the couch and watch Tilly every night. It was an interview with Ricky Gervais, so you had to talk about cancel culture, right, he said.

Everyone got stressed about cancel culture, including me, although I try to beat it head on, but it’s peaked. It’s sick like. Cancel culture was never really about the comedians that could sell millions of tickets. It was about teachers and nurses who were losing their jobs because of an ideology. They discussed the concept of assisted dying.

Ricky described himself as pro choice in that area, but for himself, he said, it would take quite a lot to get me there. I’d want every last breath. It’s only if every breath hurts. Olivia Coleman, who appears in an episode of the Office. By the Way, She’s been announced as the latest star joining the sixth season of Only Runners in the Building Martin Freeman, who’s also in the UK Office.

He’s in the season as well. Robin williams three children, Zach, Zelda and Cody Williams. Did he run out of Z’s I don’t know, just yeah whatever. They went on Instagram to share how they planned to maintain Robin Williams’s Instagram account as a way to keep his unique talent and humor alive. In a joint statement, the Williams children said, as we recognize what would be our dad’s seventy fifth year, we’re grateful to see new generations discovering his work, while longtime fans continue to celebrate the joy brought in other lives.

As technology evolves, we want this to be a safe, trusted place where the stories, photos, videos and memories shared reflect his legacy with authenticity, warmth, and care. He continues to inspire us and delight people all over the world. Robin Williams died by suicide on August eleventh, twenty fourteen, in San Francisco. He was sixty three. Hey look at me actually putting in the notes on a Sunday to remind you, I also host a show called The Weekly Comedy Thing.

You’ll find that on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. What’s the Weekly Comedy Thing? It’s kind of like this, except the way the royalties work. I can actually play the bits, So if I tell you a story about a comedian, I can play the bid from the comedian and they get paid.

See, so it works for everybody. So it’s kind of like this with less me more comedians. Sounds pretty awesome, doesn’t it. Yes, it’s the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. And I also host a show called Five Good News Stories that comes out four days a week.

One of the four days is Sunday. It’s five stories. They’re all good news. So check out five Good News Stories wherever you found this show. If you’re relatively new and by the way, a lot of new people jumped on board this week, welcome.

Thank you. Often on the weekend, specifically on Sunday, I tend to do some international stuff. I do it in the second half of the show. I know not everyone’s into the international stuff, but I am. But if British comedy does not interest you, you can check out for the day and I’ll catch you tomorrow.

The New York Times wrote a piece about the use of AI at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Has it always been Edinburgh Festival Fringe? I always knew it as the Fringe Festival, but I don’t know. The words seemed to have flipped this year. I don’t know Mendela effect.

Maybe I’m from a parallel universe. Who knows? The Times tells us Garrett Millerck created a digital replica of himself by talking at an AI for four months so he could take on his character and comic sensibility. His show We Tried It Your Way runs at Pleasant Courtyard through the thirtieth The avatar appears on screen as a shifty looking three D avatar. The Times caused it unervingly dead eyed, a computer version of the man himself, and proceeds to tell jokes.

Millerrick has named the bot g Dog two point zero, he imagines sending in on comedy podcasts instead of himself. He has generated a clip of the avatar performing at the Hammersmith Apollo. Millrek himself has not played there, but he points out a plausible looking Instagram reels worth almost as much as the real thing. Love it. Millerrek asks his avatar to generate a monologue on a theme chosen by the audience, and it falls flat.

Audience members connected to a computer via QR code can register the reactions in real time. One of the jokes got a big laugh, and Millrich said he felt jealous. A couple quick reviews from website entertainment dash now dot com, John Conahan has been hitting some shows. One of the shows he hit was Zoe Woolfield’s Dog Funeral. John writes, I needed ten minutes to calm down after feeling uncomfortably exhausted by the show.

I enjoyed it, believe it or not. He says. Zoe is completely unhinged in this performance, inviting the audience to her dog’s funeral while arriving in a Victorian morning gown paired with the ego of an entitled, psychotic three year old girl. The show starts with a slideshow of different activities she would do with her dog before it died, and she would later quizz you on it by aiming in your face a water gun. I’m leaving that laugh and stumble in because that was natural.

As I read this sentence. Zoe relies on the energy and heckling from the audience to keep the narrative flowing. Ian an audience member had to comfort her as she wept on the floor crying that her dog has died. She makes the audience members moan and weep for her dog, Otherwise she’ll throw a tantrum and leave the show, only returning when everyone shouts for her to come back. How is this fun?

Doesn’t sound fun? He gave it three stars, three stars out of how many, John, I don’t know either four or five. I can’t tell. There’s just three stars and no grading measurement thing. There’s probably a term for what I’m looking for, but grading measurement thing.

But it’s at least four because the same guy, John Conahan gave four stars to Lou Wall. Lou Wall’s Show is where all the tall Grandma’s John writes, The show is exactly what it said. From the first moment, you were fully captivated by the confidence and madness of Lou Wall, and furthermore stunned by her amazing impressive height of six’. FIVE i didn’t Know Lou wall was six.’ five lou takes us on a detailed journey to find the one and. Only truth where are all The?

Tall grandmas that is an. Interesting point she has carried out, investigative journalism interviewing, the public emailing, health organizations and Even Contacted joe. Rogan spoiler she then breaks in, a song rapping to a beat almost as Fast, as eminem explaining how and what she has done to find. The answer that sounds like a. Good time that was a Pretty strong.

Sunday, episode again a lot of. NEW listeners i often pretape of the, weekend episodes including, this One which i’m Recording on thursday because it’s pouring Out and, i’m like let me get a jump on. The weekend but this was pretty strong For, a sunday, All right and that is your comedy news On. A sunday. See tomorrow

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