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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, I guess we only answer to you why they didn’t promote the lineup for the Roast of Kevin Hart. I am Johnny Mackam recording this at nine pm, where I just turned the Roast off during Lizzo. Now, if the rest of the night was amazing and there were surprises, then they didn’t structure the show correctly because that first hour. Boy, I feel tired from watching it.

I kind of wanted to turn it off half an hour ago. Maybe it got better. I got some notes for you here. Shane Gillis came out. Shane’s material probably better than the crowd reacted to.

It a tough room for Shane. He wound up eating it a little bit. He opened up and did about a minute or so. I did pull some clips. Now, just assume for any clip that I played during today’s podcast that I have made edits for language, lots of F bombs, and we don’t like to do that on this program.

But here’s a little bit of Shane Gillis. Welcome to the Roast of Kevin Hart, live in Los Angeles. Where we’re yeah, where we’re here to celebrate a guy we used to like in a city that was once important. Kevin will be out in a minute. I’m sure he’s backstage shadow boxing or doing a group prayer or whatever he does.

I’m your extremely white host, Shane Gillis, Yeah, white hosts pick up laws. All right. I’d just like to thank Netflix for choosing me to host this celebration of black excellence. Look, I’m not saying there’s a lot of black people here tonight, but backstage, a production assistant asked me what color drank I want in my dressing room. Chose purple.

You can even hear in my deliverism doing the podcast, Like, I just don’t have the energy to be excited about this at all. So after Shane Usher came out and sang Kevin, it was just like overacting, like fake outraged. It was almost like wrestling, like, oh, I can’t believe you’re bashing me at the roast, Like yeah, no kidding. It just felt very very lame. Kevin Hart got up there and said it would be better than the roast of Tom Brady.

That ain’t true. I’m gonna tell you right now, it’s gonna be way better than the Tom Brady, gross, way better, way better. The reason why is because I’m not a bitch. Tom is a bitch. Tom sat there in the.

Whole time with the white man face, went on radio stages after what anything me? I gat believe, and then in the leadoff position, Tom Brady came out. I thought that was a weird choice. Here’s a little bit of Tom Brady. I do have a few words for you before I returned to my affairs in Las Vegas.

Oh wait, I’m talking about affairs in Las Vegas. Was that off? I’m not supposed to talk about affairs in Vegas. I think I broke another rule. One line I did like was Brady ripped the dais saying it wouldn’t be a Kevin Hart project unless it was a crappy sequel.

I mean, no star power at all. Chelsea Handler and Pete Davidson, Tony Hinchcliffe and those were the big names. I mean, I’m just not feeling this thing at all. All right, Shane comes back out, does a longer set here, and I think he kind of ate it again. But I did like this line.

We’re all here to honor Kevin Hart, and what a better way to do that than to take a paycheck while pretending to have fun. Shane did get in some good shots about Kevin Hart playing the Riodd Comedy Festival. Shane said he himself turned down the Riodd Comedy Festival to honor the brave firefighters who lost their lives that day, Right, Pete, that was kind of a nice job. Jeff Ross comes out, it’s already eight twenty six and the energy’s out of the room in my opinion, by the time Jeff Ross comes out. He came out dressed in an Eddie Murphy’s style red outfitted to the music of axel f.

Here’s a little Jeff Ross. We’ve been friends a long time, but the world first fell in love with you when Michael Jackson dangled you over that balcony. Jeff had a couple quick riffs, he said, Kevin put the elf in Philadelphia. He also called him Eddie Smurphy. Jeff’s set was pretty strong.

He also had a joke about Pete Davidson only banging nines and eleven’s. I like that one a lot. The next person up was Niam Win, not exactly a household name. Mister Wynn explained he has a show on bet thought the material was pretty good, but it was already eight thirty seven at that point, and I hadn’t been really laughing all that much. I was just kind of like, okay, Winn did ask where Dave Chappelle was good.

Point Chelsea Handler was next. She was good, but I thought her set was really long, and then Lizzo came out. During Lizzell, I was like, you know what, I’m tired. I’m not feeling this and I don’t feel like chasing this thing to eleven o’clock. Sometimes you just have to punt.

So maybe you all disagree. Maybe the rest of the night got more amazing, and I’ll be eating crow on Tuesday’s podcast. But as I speak to you at nine five pm Sunday night, not feeling the roast of Kevin Hart at all. Very interesting though, that, like who didn’t come? You know, some of those names that I had thrown out speculating on Sunday’s program, and you know, and people not showing up for Kevin.

I don’t know what to make of that. Another thing that caught my eye on Sunday, Bloomberg dropped an article just like I saw it on social media, like an hour before the roast of Kevin Hart. The headline inside a year of chaos and conflict at Kevin Hart’s media company. Now to drop this on a Sunday is a choice. Please understand that that’s a choice, Lucas Shaw writes.

When Kevin Hart announced in January that he’d licensed his name to Authentic Brands Group, the popular comedian was silence on a key detail, the future of his name’s media company. Skipping around the article, Heart’s employees say they worry that the deal marks the beginning of the end of Heartbeat. Once valued at about six hundred and fifty million dollars, Heartbeat has shriveled over the past few years. The company enacted its latest round of job cuts in December, firing the heads of its scripted TV division, as well as employees working across marketing, social media, and brand partnerships. The article then walks through several acquisitions and people leaving the company.

The article ends telling us about an email sent by Kevin Hart’s assistant, in which Kevin Hart says, I know the past few months have been tough, and Kevin apparently added that for too long the company had been too dependent on him. The email was said to be signed by Kevin aka boss Man, as I said, interesting timing to drop that on a Sunday afternoon. That is a choice. Stephen Colbert, now into his last two weeks, Tonight should be a really good episode. He will interview Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, and John Oliver.

That’s right, Strikeforce five is reuniting. You may recall those gentlemen during the sag AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes did the Strike Force five podcasts together. Proceeds from that podcast went towards supporting the crew members of the respective shows. I guess it all works out. Kimmel Intown for the upfronts, Jimmy Fallon already in New York City, Seth Myers, and John Oliver already in New York City.

So should be a good Late Show tonight. The original host of The Late Show, David Letterman, will be Stephen Colbert’s guest on May fourteenth, which is Thursday. From jimbands dot Com, You’re home for Jimband News. John Mulaney calls Bruce Hornsby’s Indigo Park the best album of the year. Now, if you’re listening to the other day, when my dog came by and the dog wanted to go for a walk.

I went for a walk and listened to Indigo Park. Based on John Mlanie’s suggestion, it’s not the best album of the year, but it’s pretty good. It is sonically interesting. I kind of like that Bruce Hornsby under sings it. The first two tracks the last track are really good and there’s one with North Carolina in the title that are really good.

The rest of the album is hit and miss, but it really goes for it. A donkey charity has named a newborn fall after Ricky Gervais. Ricky Gervas donated one hundred thousand British pounds to help Safe Haven for Donkeys. Save Haven for Donkeys was one of twenty two animal charities that benefited from Ricky Gervay’s Christmas donations over two and a half million British pounds. Save Haven for Donkeys cares for working donkeys in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Egypt.

They’ve been treating thousands of donkeys in the Gaza strip, where a lack of fuel has forced people to rely on donkeys as their main form of transport. A tiny foal named Jervaise was born at the charity sanctuary in Israel on April nineteenth. Jervy’s mother, Deborah, was found abandoned in southern Israel in September and was around two years old and was seven months pregnant when found. A local woman contacted Safe Haven for Donkeys. The charity transported at Deborah to their sanctuary in Israel.

Andy Foxcroft is the chief executive of Safe Haven and said, Jervaise the donkey is full of life at already showing off her first teeth. She’s brought so much joy to the team and as a tiny symbol of hope this world Donkey Day, Debora could have given birth alone after being abandoned. Instead, she was safe, watched over and cared for in Jerves has had the start every full deserved. Now some more donkey facts. The sanctuary team had hoped that Theodora, another rescue donkey and a companion of Debora, might act as an aunty to the new arrival.

You see in the wild, new mothers sometimes accept help from another female donkey. Theodora initially stayed close by Zebra and Jervase. However, Debra seems to prefer caring for Jerves on her own. Billboard put out the list of top comedy tours for March twenty twenty six. Great Davies at number five, seven shows, thirty seven seven hundred tickets grossed two and a half million dollars.

Number four John m’laney did fourteen shows, thirty one thousand, three hundred tickets, three point one million gross. Bert Kreischer thirteen shows, fifty four thousand, six hundred tickets, grossed three point seven million. Number two Naprighatzy off of number one. This month he was number two. Eight shows grossed four point six million across fifty six thy nine hundred and who’s He’s making more money than anybody.

You can hate all you want. Matt Raife did seven shows, sold ninety three thousand, three hundred tickets and grossed eight point three million dollars. Here’s an email I say from a week ago. Remember I told you that just for laughs, decided to announce a bunch of shows during Netflix week. Not sure that was the best strategy, but hey, I love those guys and we can get to it now.

They’ve added a second show by Jerry Seinfeld. He’ll be at the Place day Arts, which is how you pronounce it. The six thirty show is sold out. The nine to thirty show has been added. Chris Fleming at Late National That’s how you pronounced it at seven o’clock, also on the twenty third Wow.

The twenty third’s where it’s at. Dan Soda will be a club Soda. That’s a good club. Been in it myself. Did I have a soda?

No? I had a beer. July twenty fifth, seven o’clock. Joel Kim Booster you know him from Scrubs now He’s also there on the twenty third seven o’clock at Studio TD. Two of the galas are sold out.

Otsko at Kotzka July twenty fourth at the Placed at Arts and Gabe Iglesias’s got La same venue on the twenty fifth are sold out to Jerry de Gala still tickets and the Mike Brobiglia Gala not yet sold out on the twenty fourth at six thirty. Hashtag Team John marcos Aresi snl UK has been renewed for season two. It’ll be back this fall and early twenty twenty seven, so more of a traditional schedule there. Twelve episodes have been ordered. Snl UK executive producer Loren Michaels said, I’m incredibly proud of our team in the show.

It keeps getting better every week. I’m grateful to Dana Strong and Sky for believing in and supporting snl UK. I’m excited for the season ahead. Diana Strong is the Sky CEO. The series started with two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers for episode one, hosted by Tina Fay.

Jack Whitehall had the lowest numbers of the season up until the time of this recording, with one hundred and nineteen thousand, five hundred and forty viewers. Boy, that’s like Seth Meyers Territory. Seems like the show settling in at around one hundred and forty thousand. However, on social media, the Prince Andrew cold open from episode two has two point four million views, and a cold open with King Charles and Queen Camilla has one point seven. Royal Family is where It’s at.

Everybody, good time to plug the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the Royal Family twice every day and I’m the writer on that. Check that out. Diane Morgan, who some people think I have a crush on and I was thinking about this the other day let’s say I had a crush on Diane Morgan. Now, first of all, I’m married, But putting that aside, well, what do you even say to Diane Morgan?

Hi, I really like when you do kunk and I host a podcast in my basement. I have no game. Diane Morgan, who some people say I have a crush on, is getting ready for a BBC comedy Anne Droid, an n new word Droid get it, no premier day yet, but Anne Droid tackles AI in everyday life, exploring how far society will go and replacing people with tech and droid centers on an elderly woman and a humanoid care robot. You see, Sue’s husband David passed away eighteen months ago and her only son, Michael, is moving out to try and fix his marriage. But the good news is he got Sue a surprise to help her live in independently.

And that is a second hand Anne Droid Z fifty eight slash one hundred Basic elder Care robot played by Diane Morgan. Android is an overly attentive socially in pain in the arse, says the British copy, but she soon works out that she can use the Droids her benefit in settling scores and doing the things her son never gets around to. Diane Morgan is ann droid. I’ll watch. James Austin Johnson will be touring right after SNL wraps up the new season this weekend with Will Ferrell and musical guest Paul McCartney.

Is it Lauren’s farewell or is it just a really good host and a really good musical guest. We’ll find out. James Austin Johnson playing New York City, Dallas, Uncasville, Connecticut. That’s a casino, Red Hook, New York, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, four shows in various North Carolina’s, Philly, Indianapolis, Chicago, Richmond Heights, Missouri, Pittsburgh, and wraps it up in Nashville. I cannot imagine he will not be back for the new season of SNL.

Emily, she was a guest on this program. She’s gone viral. A video of a nurse springing into action when a patron passed out at Emily Canilano’s show has gone viral. In the clip, Emily Catilano asked an audience member what their occupation in ann Arbor was. The audience member said they were nurse.

Seconds later, a man passes out and falls to the ground. The nurse offered medical advice and called nine to one to one. Emily Catilano moved to the side, and the social media clip has added music from TV series The Pit to make it more dramatic. Catilano joked, I hate when people steal the attention away from me. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, gossip corn, probably about Pete.

Gossip conn where the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. Gossip Connor whispers this tree gossip cone probably gossip gone where the room is meeting with John mccot’s always a tree. Gossip corner is about Pete. Pete Davidson. Boy, I’m starting to think if you want to invest in stuff, don’t listen to Pete Davidson.

He’s trying to sell this house in Westchester. Reelzer dot com says Pete has decreased the asking price again. Weeks after elicited it for two point seven million dollars, He’s now dropped it by another one to twenty five. So if you would like to buy Pete Davidson’s home, it is now going for two point one point five million dollars. Fox is holding their upfronts today.

Bad news for Dennis Leary. Going Dutch was the lowest rated entertainment program at Fox. According to Deadline. However, Dennis Leary is well liked internally, so they thought about renewing the lowest rated entertainment program at Fox. But Sanner has prevailed and no more Going Dutch.

You may recall, or you probably don’t, because no one watched this thing. Dennis Leary played US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn, who was reassigned to the Netherlands, where he was punished with a command position at the least strategic army base in the world. Of course, it worked out that his daughter, Captain Maggie worked there. Shockingly, not renewed. To better news for Joel McHale, Animal Control will come back.

If you’re joning for comedy festivals, The Boston Fringe Festival kicks off tonight. Forty acts around the city during this week. Not just stand up, they will also be clowning, magic and musical parody. Co founder Debbie Jondie said, Boston is such a huge comedy scene in comedy community, but we do allocate space for musicals and specifically for like variety shows, magic or something that’s different. Comedy is the most specific slots, but we did make sure to keep a variety, so we’re not just doing a comedy festival.

The co founder said they haven’t seen any of the acts except for the two that they’re doing, so outside of those two, we have no idea what’s coming that’s fun. I’m still picking away. At this Deadline interview with the Netflix of Folks, I saved some of the stuff that was not a festival related for this week. Deadline asked head of Comedy Robbie pra why we’ve seen a dwindling of projects like Verified stand Up, which served as a showcase for young stand ups. Robbie Pros said, the honest answer is it’s tough to get the viewership.

When we did the stand ups the first season of it, I think it’s eight or nine year years ago, the numbers were massive and if you look who was on it, it was Naperghatzy, Nikki Glaser, Fortune Fimester, Dion Cole. But we quite frankly stop seeing great numbers for that. We want opportunities like that to be really winning for stand ups and if they’re not going to work on other ways of finding the opportunities. We ended up doing more freshman specials for people like Derek Stroup, and that’s how we’re getting it done now, less in the multi comic way. I think that’s all fair.

Deadline asked what’s the importance of comedy to the company. Robbie pro said, the festival is a great example of a manifestation of that because you have people who maybe they did a Netflix special four years ago, maybe the last specials on YouTube or Hulu or Amazon or Hbo, but at the festivals, these things are still playing on Netflix. So I think it feels great that even when folks do projects somewhere else, to a lot of these artists, this still always feels like part of their home, which is a pretty cool thing. Deadline asked do you have any predictions for the comedy marketplace in the next three to five years. Robbie Pross said, I think it’s going to continue to be really strong.

We’ve seen the artists that are emerging. It’s pretty exciting. We used to talk years ago about is this a boom? I think comedy is just part of the culture. I think things ebb and flow.

I think comedy movies are going to come back in a big way. And that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians on the comedy industry. Now, I did tape this one Friday. It’s eleven forty nine am on Friday. There is no information about who is performing at the Kevin Art Roast, which is tonight.

I’ve checked the Netflix page, I’ve check Kevin Ort’s instagram. There is nothing. So I’m gonna wildly speculate here. Might we see some of the following people? The Rock?

I can see the Rock coming by and crushing. Could we see Eddie Murphy? Is that possible? Chappelle, Chris Rock? Right?

I think we would. I think Chris Rock. If Chris Rock did the Funny af Show, I think Chris Rock is possible. Jamie Fox Nikki Glaser said she wasn’t gonna do it, so all right, that’s on tonight. Johnny Mack will stay up late and cover that.

On Monday’s program, Deadline asked the Netflix executives, how did you land on Kevin Hart as your roast subject. Tracy Pecosta from Netflix said, I mean, look, Kevin is somebody who we clearly love it Netflix. He’s been part of the Netflix family for a long time and it just felt right and fun and different. Have Kevin be roasted this year at the festival. Robbie Prau, who heads Netflix Comedy, said, at a certain point when we were thinking about it, we were just like, Okay, we have this comedy festival.

Every single comedian is doing it and listen. Of course, we’ve had other ideas and other conversations over the last year, but when it came to it, when we finally had to make the final decision, we were like, which comedian can we ask? Kevin was the first person on our list on that front, and we were lucky to have said yes. And they’re just pairing that with Shane Gillis. We’re starting to look at some of the scripts and I think it’s magic and the people doing the roast.

It’s also going to be phenomenal. It’s also going to be a really special day. Let me just chime in again as my brain is just thinking about the list, like, I haven’t even seen that Jeff Ross is attached to this or Tony Inchcliff. I mean, they have to be right. I’m not sure why they’re going for the mystery.

The other explanation would be that they don’t have confidence in the events, so they’re not trying attention to it. I mean, we’ll know in a couple hours. Deadline talked about Funny AF Robbie Pros said, as somebody who came from the Just for Last Festival, that’s the sort of the world I lived in watching this show work and these comedians having an opportunity. You’re right, it’s very difficult in that landscape for that to happen. And quite frankly, back to your first question of why Kevin Hart, it’s because he’s singular in that way.

He came to us and was like, I want to do a show that gives comedians this opportunity, and even as you see the way that we approach the roast, it’s very stand up for it as well. The Coast has said, I agree when you say the discovery piece has been missing, giving the audience the opportunity to discover somebody, to get super passionate about them and watch that grow over time. When I watch Kevin on that show, you could sense the passion for it and a much who loves it. And I do think it’s contagious even for people that might not think they like watching that type of show. As I’ve said all week, I thought that was a very good version of such a show.

The winner was Ron Taylor, who did a lengthy interview with Vulture. How do you feel, Ron Taylor? Ron told them I don’t know. The dust hasn’t settled at all, but I can tell you how it feels right now. It’s pretty amazing.

I didn’t think it’d be as validating as it’s been, especially being able to do the competition then leave and go to the festival and be the comedy stores around a body, a bunch of friends. Everyone’s like, oh man, I always knew, and I’m like, that’s crazy, because I didn’t. The whole competition was very competitive. If this was a race, I stumbled quite a few times, and I was shocked when I recovered losing, not doing well, not getting the trophy. I’m used to that.

Everybody’s used to that. Winning was the part that I wasn’t used to. I’d planned for everything except winning. Good question. Have you seen your social media blow up because of the show?

Definitely. When the show first aired on Netflix, everybody in the competition’s followers went up and the longer you were in the competition, the more your followers continue to go up. I’ve had people I’ve followed for years I’m a big fan of reach out and chop it up with me, like we’ve known each other forever. They’re like, oh, man, I’ve been a fan of your work, and I’m like, really, I didn’t know you knew who I was. Good question.

Were you trying to save your best material for later rounds or did you think you had to do your best stuff at every step. I’m going to guess the latter. I haven’t read this ahead. Ron Taylor said, I feel like there were some people who blew out their best stuff early on, and there were some people who held onnesome stuff. I guess I felt more of the amp of holding on to stuff.

But that wasn’t my strategy, all right, I was wrong. I travel a lot, and I’m normally doing sixty minutes, so the time constrained of having five minutes made it hard to squeeze everything in. There were two times in the competition where I’d planned out three jokes and I was like, that should be about five minutes, but I didn’t get to my third joke, which was my closer, But when that happened and I moved on, I still had that joke. So coming in the semifinals and finals, I had these two great closures that have actually meant to do already. So I would have been the person to blow their best stuff early in the competition, were not for my poor time management skills.

Deadline did a good job on this interview. Next question, did do you approach your sets differently during the semifinals and finals knowing the public would be voting live? That is really smart, Ron Taylor said, I did. Actually. Throughout the whole competition.

We had appealed to the judges who’d been doing comedy forever. This is so smart. They were judging stuff like your approach, your confidence, your originality, how much they learned about you. But the people don’t care about any of that. They just want to laugh.

See my previous comments about comedy snobbery, Taylor said, we saw whoever got the most laughs seemed to be the people who moved forward to the finals. So coming in the finals, all right, I’m just doing the funny stuff. Of God. It might be dirty, it might be nasty, it might be low hanging fruit, and some of it is, but my job is to take low hanging fruit and put a smart twist on it. I was like, I’m just gonna say the wall of stuff I can which was the hardest round the roast by far.

I agree with that as a viewer because it was the only one for practical purposes that wasn’t stand up. Another great question, considering how much of your material you used on the show, do you have an hour ready to film or do you need to go work on it now? Great question, great Ron Taylor said, I definitely have to go work on it now, but that was part of the package of winning. I talked to Kevin after the show and he said, I’m gonna give you the opportunity to get on the road and get as many shots as you can in the gym so you can work this hour out and away. You couldn’t before the competition, so I’ll have the space and ability to create the best hour I can.

Now, even if I did an hour that was ready, I wouldn’t want to just turn around and throw it out there. I want to take the time to build this up the right way. Angela Johnson’s specialists out today. It’s called Ugly Baby. The La Times asked Angela, who’s the ugliest baby You’ve ever seen?

She said, Oh, I can tell you. A face popped into my head, but I’m not going to say it. I mentioned the show too, and every time I do the joke, I could see people in the audience got upset, and you see faces shift, you see people get uncomfortable. It’s like you’re not supposed to say certain things, and it’s not even that bad a thing to say some babies are ugly. She talked about joking with her family and does she ever run a material by her family.

She says, you know, I’ll try it first to see how I feel in my body doing said jokes, and if I start to feel little guilty, then I’ll run it by them, like, hey, I’m doing this joke about the one time you did this, and are you okay with it? Sometimes you’re like, yeah, say whatever, and it’s a green light. I actually can’t think of a time when anybody said no. Usually my family’s like, do it. That’s funny.

I will say in this hour, I do a whole piece on my mother in law, and I’ve talked about my mother in law and past special. She loves it. She laughs. She’ll even leave comments on the video. But for some reason, I’m nervous about this one.

I think she’s getting older and maybe a little more sensitive. I don’t want to think I’m making fun of her, because I’m definitely not. I’m just highlighting her little isms. Congratulations to Sinbad, who has returned to comedy for the first time since his stroke in twenty twenty. Sinbad data show at the Comedy ice House on April twenty nine.

He is another show tonight. On social media, Sinbad explained, I can’t walk since the stroke in twenty twenty, I haven’t been on stage. It’s just the beginning of me coming back. I’m so looking forward to these shows. I got so much to talk about.

I’m gonna be talking more trash than I ever did. His daughter is opening for him, and he’s excited for that because she talks more trash than I talk. Gossip. Connor whispersins changing gossip. Con probably gossip cone Quaver with me, Johnny mag salling the tree.

There’s a website called Naughty but Nice that I’m familiar with for my work on the Royal Family podcast Palace Intrigue, and they get a little out there but this caught my eye, they wrote, Naughty but Nice wrote, Jimmy Fallon strange Miami Grand Prix weekend had insiders whispering the same question, What was really going on? Naughty but Nice writes, Yes, the moment caught on camera Fallon biting the foam cover off Martin Brundle’s microphone during a chaotic Formula one grid walk was bizarre enough, but according to horses on the Ground, that awkward viral clip was hardly the full story. Insiders tell Naughty but Nice, the late night host had been acting off all weekend. Erradical late, usually tense, and increasingly difficult behind the scenes, an insider said it wasn’t just the mic incident. There was the moment everyone saw, but all weekend Jimmy was acting strangely.

He was off his game, running late, distracted, jumping, and hard to manage. Another source said people laugh because it looked like classic Jimmy clanning around, but behind the scenes people weren’t laughing. Something felt off. One minute, he was charming and switched on the next he was scattered and impossible. It made everyone uneasy.

Hmm. I quote unquote worked with Jimmy Fallon a few times back in the day, he’d come up and do Brewers Show and maybe some solo stuff too. Was always good. And have I shared this before, And maybe I have. It’s been a long time.

So at one point, someone use your imagination. Someone was sending me clips from Jimmy Fallon’s twelve thirty show and saying, go ahead and play them on the series channel. And I would get these clips from someone and I don’t know, I’d put him on a flash drive or something and tell my guys, you can play this once during the live show, and I would never enter at the computer. And I was totally confident that nobody from the twelve thirty show was going to ask me why we were playing clips from the twelve thirty show because of the source, because someone was sending them to me directly. Anyway, I’ve worked with Jimmy found a few times and always enjoyed him.

At the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival Tonight, five o’clock, La Time, eight o’clock live on Netflix. It is the Roast of Kevin Hart, hosted by Shane Gillis. Who’s performing who knows I guess he was not performing? Is Nate Berghetzi because he’s performing at the Intuit Dome at that the exact same time.

Meanwhile, at eight West at the Greek Theater, it’s the Flight of the Concords.

Oh yeah, today’s the big Morselo hernandez show. He is headlining the biggest Spanish language comedy show ever to greace the Hollywood Bowl. The La Times asked Marcello, how do you think your family influenced your sense of humor? Marcelo HERNANDEZU, in my opinion, does one thing well, says I think you gotta be funny if your parents are divorced to my parents, getting divorced made me grow into an adult quicker. All my friends have divorced parents have a funny thing about them, because what’s more childish than being like, I can’t be with you anymore.

I’d call my dad like a grown up, pick me up at seven well of dinner, and then you’ll return me to my home because I have school in the morning. Marcelo, do you ever consult your family before writing jokes? He said? I think I did. My time, I earned the ability to say the stuff.

We’re always together. I would never want to make my family look bad for laugh. I don’t think that’s a smart way to play it. My mom has always gone on my shows and been like, what’s he gonna say? Now?

We have a great relationship. Something I love about immigrant families is that we have a pretty good sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, because some parts of life are very serious. Skipping ahead, Marcello said, I’ve met a lot of famous people who are really successful but also super nice, generous and caring and inspires you to be better. The La times were like, who are those people for you?

Marcelo Hernandez said, Pedro Pascal has been a life changer in many ways. With that first sketch we did on SNL. I think Keenan Thompson was always so unreasonably helpful with me in the early days. Colin Jost was always really nice to me. Ago Nuodham was like a big sister to me on the show.

Kevin Hart also had big brother energy with me, and as the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival wraps up, you can go see more solo Hernandez at the Hollywood Bowl at seven Kevin Hart roasted five Nate Bergetzi at five Flight of the Concords at eight And those are all the shows tonight, no smaller shows as the festival wraps up. And that is your comedy news for today. Johnny Mack has to stay up late, but I will tell you Johnny Max is gonna record Monday’s episode with everything but the Kevin Hart stuff because I don’t like to stay up too late. Nick’s at three thirty today. Oh and Happy Mother’s Day everybody.

See tomorrow

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Caloroga, Shock Media, and are I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians, on the comedy industry, A sentence the algorithm loves, even if I can’t figure out how to get the crowd noise right in my new mix here. A couple of weeks ago, I cleaned up my computer and I accidentally deleted some stuff. And I’ve been trying to rebuild the way it used to sound, and I can’t figure it out. I digress. David Letterman was a guest on Bill Simmons podcast.

An unnamed Canadian Letterman expert texted me on the side, and I’m gonna violate the guy’s privacy right now, and he says, good stuff, builds it a good job. I will have to catch up with that at some point over the weekend. That’s David Letterman on the Bill Simmons Podcast. Page six took us inside Dave Chappelle’s epic Hollywood Palladium Netflix show, where even his closest collaborator didn’t know what Dave might say. Ooh, scary all right.

Page six tells us it was no small miracle that a show even happened. Given the climate of chaos and the days leading up to the big night, I don’t know what happened. Sources tell Page six Hollywood that no one, including Dave Chappelle’s longtime collaborator Stan Lathan, knew what material Dave Chappelle was going to perform. Page six says last week Chappelle tested material at pop ups in New York and before that in Chicago. A source says, Dave is really proud of these specials.

He wants to get the stuff right.

Meanwhile, Oh, do I have my phone?

I want to read you this now. I left my phone upstairs. Hold on, I got to I could just re record this, but no, I gotta tell you. James Adomian on Thread’s uh kicked Matt Friend in the face. Here it is.

James posted congratulations to Matt Friend for wrestling the championship Belt of Least Funny Personal live from the longtime title holder Elon Musk. Now I thought this was a little weird. The headline impressionist Matt Friend takes fans inside ridiculously star studded comedy brunch at Netflix CEO’s house. So Ted Sarandos had a bunch of comedians over and Matt Friend took pictures and post it on Instagram. Now, I’m just a loser recording a podcast in a basement.

But there was a time when I was around a lot of celebrities, and I don’t have many pictures of me in celebrities because that’s not what you do. You play it cool. I remember at some point, at some where along the way, I was at some sort of after party with Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman. I don’t have any pictures of it. You don’t go, hey, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, can I take a selfie?

You play it cool. So I’m kinda surprised that met Friend was taking pictures when you have the likes of Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld at the party. In a selfie video, Matt Friend scans the crowd and says, this is crazy. Oh my god. Behind him, dramatic actor Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy are shaking hands.

Behind him, also as he pans, Kevin Hart, John Malini, Chris Rock, Hade Hudson, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, John Stewart. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong do these people want to be? In Matt Friend’s video. Matt Friend then cuts to Bert Krascher, and Bert says, I feel incredible, but maybe I’m wrong. Photo shared by the official Netflix’s a Joke Instagram page showed more folks including Dave Chappelle, Jelly Roll, Will Forte, David Spade, Ken Jung, and Britney Snow.

I don’t know, it just seems like, again, maybe everybody was cool with it, but I could see people like icing Matt Friend because he’s that guy. Maybe I’m wrong. The Hollywood Reporter posted their winners and losers for the week, kind of like Comedy stock Market, but different. And I’m not accusing them of ripping me off. I’m just saying it’s kind of like they say, who won the week, Louis C.K.

It’s like that line from the Rise of Skywalker. Somehow, Louis C.K. Returned, that’s pretty good. They dusted off the quote from Robbie Praul the other day. That quote.

Part of the job of my team as we listen to the type of stand ups people want to see, but we also spend a lot of time looking at who’s selling tickets all around the world. The Hollywood Reporter opines an honest reply might be nearly a decade has passed, he’s really popular. Nobody can agree on the consequences for certain mistakes, and we estimate blowback will be minimal. But hey, my team just now noticed this Louis K guy sells tickets is also an answer. Vanity Fair weighed in on Louis C.K.

Their headline the Curious, Uncomfortable, and perhaps inevitable return of Louis K. They talked to some fans, Now, I to do the story right, I have to get vulgar here. If you listen, you know, I try and keep the show clean. But I don’t want to pull my punch here because I think these quotes from the people who went to the show really nail it. Vanity Fair quoted these people.

The first person they quoted was Richard, who is thirty four years old and told Vanity Fair after the show, here comes the vulgar quota. You’re ready, Richard told Vanity Fair he’s officially uncanceled. Netflix platformed him. His friend Julian, who’s thirty two years old, was there and gave Vanity Fair quote his quote. Quote.

Richard says, it’s okay to whip your dick out in front of women. Vanity Fair says the crowd skewed overwhelmingly mail no Way. They observed a smattering of gen Zers and attendance. It was predominantly millennials and members of jen X. Most of the women appeared to be with their boyfriends or husbands.

A man who identifies himself as a huge fan of ck joked that the comedians admitted sexual misconduct made him a bigger fan and then was like just kidding, just kidding. During the week at the Greek Theater, it was a benefit for Hilarity for Charity. Seth Rogan was your host for the evening. The lineup included John Stewart, Nick Kroll, Eric Andre, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, John Gadd, Michael Booble, Buster Rhymes, and magician Justin Willman. The sort of people you could see Matt Frienn taking selfies with.

Seth Rogan was not happy with Kanye West appearing at the festival. Seth said he had a song called Hyle Hitler and He’s back. What’s funny is I’ve said critical things about Jewish people. I think I got more trouble than Kanye West did, I got a lot of crap for what I said. I have no number one albums.

I sometimes think what Adolf Hitler would think of the Kanye West song Hyle Hitler. I bet he’d be torn. That’s a great joke. At that same show, John Stewart weighed in and mused, how Kanye thinks we fed up as Adidas deal, but seriously f that guy. He was like Hitler, we miss understood.

We’ve got to forgive Hitler, and I’m like, I don’t think I need to listen to anybody who thinks Hitler needs to be forgiven but is still mad at Pete Davidson. John Stewart began roasting RFK Junior, asking if the crowd was made of MAHA supporters. Zen your letters to John Stewart, who asked, I don’t know how fed up Los Angeles is. I know you’re pretty fed up. I know you had a fire and a mut slide and you were like, nah, fit, let’s let the guy from the Hills fix it.

So I assume you’ve given up. That reference is Spencer Pratt, who was running for LA mayor. John Stewart said, how are you gonna lect someone from the hills and not have it be Lauren Conrad. Come on. John Stewart then made fun of the President of the United States.

A plane flew over during that joke. John said it was the Secret Service yelling tell him Kimmel’s house is over there. This has nothing to do with me. I’m on basic cable. Trump doesn’t even get the package.

Sarah Silverman taunt at RFK Junior during her set. She read the poem that RFK Junior had sent to reporter Olivia Nuzzy during their alleged romance. Is it an alleged romance? I’ll keep it safe? Alleged romance?

Silverman’s I couldn’t make this up. It’s so eff engross, but I feel like you should get an audience here, and like, I don’t want to king shame anybody, but f this guy. He like brought back the measles. Nick Carle joked about shooting the comedy Get Him to the Greek and mentioned the cast Jonah Hill the Wonderful Russell Brand Diddy at a number of other alleged sex pests. He remembered a moment during rehearsal when a pyrotechnics went off and said and I swear to God.

Unfortunately, nothing happened to Russell Brand. The folks from Consequence went to see the Pee Wee Herman show. I’ve got a pee Wee Herman story. I’ll tell it at the end of this one, they tell us. There were surprisingly few tears shed at Netflix As a Joke’s fortieth anniversary celebration of Pee Wee’s Playhouse on Monday, despite the weight of nostalgia and the sad absence of the dealy departed Paul Rubins.

Clips from the show were heavily featured, including an opening montage that laid into Kate Pearson of the B fifty two’s performing the pee Wee theme with the house band. Members of that band included a guy from Devo on stage. The simple set featured a few large pieces emulating the show’s original production. Our truck ruiner Pat and Oswald called out how during rehearsal for the show, every performer was excited to walk through the signature of Zigzag padded red door. Five of the original Playhouse puppeteers got to show off their talent as performers with a puppet free number.

Huddle’s Pity Party came out in full clown regalia to show off his incredible singing voice. Sounds like that was a lot of fun, all right, My pee Wee story, so, way back at the serious XM days, we would do these pop up radio channels to salute people, and we had some sort of deal to promote Pee Wee Herman. I don’t remember what it was. I never was into pee I’m a little too old for it and just never really got it. But the younger guys of my staff were all into it, so they were doing this thing.

I’m not throwing them under the bus, but in terms of things that we worked on the creative on, I was less involved with this one. I’m not shading them at all because I think this story I’m about to tell you is ridiculous. So you know, you have a radio station and we were trying to figure out, all right, what is the excuse for playing various clips from the Peewee Show, And one of the guys came up with an idea for a slot machine, so you’d hear a slot machine effect, you know, dddddd ding, and then it would go like chunk, chunk, chunk, and then whatever subdivision of Pee Wee’s Playhouse would come up that would be that the clip you would play, and it sounded great and we mocked it up and everything, and then it got sent over to mister Rubens camp and the whole deal fell apart, and we were like what and are you like what? So, what’s the problem with the slot machine? Apparently that Camp, possibly mister Rubins himself, I don’t really remember, thought that the slot machine was us making fun of the incident with mister Rubens in the adult theater.

So maybe something with pulling a lever or something he thought, I swear on a Bible that was not our intention at all. Sometimes a slot machine is just a slot machine. Anyway, the whole thing fell apart and we never did pee wee playhouse radio or whatever we were going to do a million years ago. We are along again and I’m bumping five six stories. Let’s get the break in.

We’ll come back. Gossip Conner, whist business change, Gossip con Problem, Gossip God were with me, Johnny magtoll in the tree. Let’s start with this one from TMZ. Comedian Akila Hughes has fired shots at Manpacker Keegan, Michael Key’s wife. In the video, the comedian claims that Key’s spouse has been a detriment to Key’s career.

TMZ says the story is bs quoting TMZ, here’s the deal. During Aequila’s stand upset, she uses a not so clever code, lock and banana. You see lock is like a key in a banana appeal. You got out lock and banana. Many people think when she jokes about lock and banana, she’s joking about Key and Peel.

Quoting TMZ, she says she and Kamka pitched and sold a show around the time of the pandemic, but it got up ended in the eleventh hour because Keegan Michael Key’s wife, Ellie, caused too many waves as an executive producer. This gets nastier. Akila also claims she was warned about the Kmka’s spouse by Peel’s wife, quoting TMZ, allegedly likening her to Phil Hartman’s wife Brynn, who fatally shot Phil Hartman in ninety eight. TMZ says multiple sources connected to KMK and Li tel TMZ a Kila’s stand up narrative is outlandish and fabricated nonsense. There’s also a theory floating around that the whole movie get Out is about Key I don’t know man.

Also on Gossip Corner, Wayne Brady feuding with Bill Maher. Wayne Brady was on the America Who Hurt You Podcast and said of Bill Maher, he’s racist and I don’t care Bill Markinson have all these black friends that took Dave Chappelle recently saying something Apparently in a twenty ten CNN interview, Bill Maher said, quote, I thought when we elected the first black president. As a comedian, I thought that two years in I’d be making jokes about what a gangster he was, and not that he’s president. Wayne Brady, you know, I thought we were getting shook night. Amy Schumer likes when people talk about her, So what did she do?

She showed off pictures of her new home, sweeping Central por views much be nice. The home features a spacious living room, a dining area with a bold red light fixture, an ample seating for entertainer. Schumer previously sold her Brooklyn townhouse for eleven million dollars after splitting up with her husband, Chris Fisher, in a series of photos shared to Instagram. Because you have to do that, you can’t just keep your personal life private, she thanked interior design firm Ash Leonardo for helping bring quotes my dream home to life. Amy Schumer said, I’m grateful every single day beautiful and filled with love.

I know, I know, but it’s true. I never dreamed I would get to live somewhere like my home. Late Night had some good jokes during the week from Spirit Airlines. Stephen Colbert said Spirit announced their immediate closure in a statement saying all flights have been canceled and customer service is no longer available, which coincidentally was also Spirit’s motto. Kimmel, I’d have to say the announcement is particularly a bitter pill for those of us who host late night talk shows.

Spirit being terrible with something every person got immediately and that’s hard to replace. We’re taking applications. I’ve got my eye on you, allegiant. Jimmy Fallon said they heard Frontier Airlines, was like, oh no, were we the worst airline? Now?

All right? Netflix? Is that Joe keeps going The La Times is excited to see Otsco at Conska at the Orphium at seven o’clock. I recently saw the hour she’s doing. It is very good.

Also, this morning you probably missed it if you’re listening to me. Maybe not. I don’t know how early you get up at seven thirty am. It was the Two Bears of five K that at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Boy, I hope you listen to the show at like five am and hopped in your car.

If you’re too lazy to even walk the five K, We’re told there is or was plenty to entertain you between cheering, including a DJ, food and drinks, and rubbing elbows with fellow Superstar participants. Deadline is excited to see Moe Ammer at the Orphium at seven and let’s take a look at the schedule. I was scared for a minute. The schedule’s blank. Now the problem is because of the event at seven thirty am, everything’s all the way over to the side.

I was like, this is pretty light for a Saturday night, right. Nate Berghatzi is at the Intuit Dome Concords at the Greek Theater that is killing me Chappelle again. He’s at the Palladium as on on Ronny Chieng of a show, Brett Goldstein, Sex, Death and Small Talk seven o’clock at the stab in Theater, Pete Davidson with John Mulaney at The Will Turn and that’ll wind up on Netflix as what Netflix calls a podcast. It’s clearly not a podcast. It is a low produced television show.

Todd Barry is sold out. He is at Dynasty, Typewriter at seven, I’ll go smirnov at seven at the ice House Sticke. It’s still available, and no joke, probably forty other shows that I’m not reading to you. Just you can go to Netflix as a joke dot com slash schedule. Click the rectangle that says Saturday, May zero nine for more information.

And that is your comedy news for today. Pretty busy for a Saturday that I didn’t even pre tape. We’ll see tomorrow

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Callarogas shock media. Hey, crazy busy. We continues. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on standup comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves.

Where to even begin, Let’s start with this one. Jimmy Kimmel had John Mulaney on the show. You know, our friend Stephen Colbert is he’s only got weeks to live, you know, yeah, right, yes? And by live I mean on television? And is there any other better way to live?

I was looking at your Instagram and I’m not realizing I look at your Instagram too much, but oh I. Approached you about this. Actually, this is a message that you wrote last time you’re on the show. I can barely read that, but it says me, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, the best, my last time at the ed Sullivan Theater with the kindest, coolest man in late night. Now right, well.

Last fat I just say, right now to the audience. Applause was not the reaction I was looking for. Now, kindest I could have definitely dealt with, for sure, even coolest on its own I for sure could have done the in and kindest coolest in Late Night really narrows it down, Yeah yeah, really narrows it down. To just a few guys. Yeah yeah.

And so then I sent this to you. Yeah, with the text that said, I let you live in my house, yeah, which which during a wayward a dressless period of my life, I lived in your house just for a while. Was there a period of time where you lived in Steven’s house for longer. Than I have to say? The man’s never invited me over.

But I think obviously, like what a position you’ve all put us in. You’re all getting suspended and fired constantly. That conan retires, we all have to talk so hyperbolically about all of you so often we’re out of words. The coolest who gives it? I mean, it’s psyche, he’s he’s off the air.

You gotta say something nice. If you had been full fired, not half fire, yeah, I would have said, this is the kindest coolest guy in Late Night. And I broke his bathtub once. While m’laney was in town, he sat down for this Better Be Funny with David Letterman special guest John Mulaney. Before bringing out Mlany, Dave brought out our good friend Paul Shaffer.

The capacity crowd greeted Paul Shaeffer with a standing ovation. Letterman has signed on to executive produce Say Hello to Our Good Friend to Paul Shaffer, an upcoming future documentary about Paul Shaffer. Recap says Dave and Paul traded quips like they did for years. Shaeffer came back to close the show ninety minutes later by taking a seat at the piano and performing Frank Sinatra’s That’s Life. So this sounds very similar to the Vancouver show that a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm, who hosts the Letterman Podcast, Mike could come on here to tell us about that one.

So it sounds like it was very similar when Paul shot up in Vancouver.

Also like the Vancouver show, Dave kicked off the La show with an opening tha…

Dave looked back on his early days, all the way back to childhood. Photos flashed on the screen showing a young David Letterman in his yearbook photo and on the basketball and track teams at Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dave recapped highlights of his career early radio and TV gigs, the time he was a weekend weatherman, or when he reported live for KTLA at the nineteen seventy nine Rose Parade. I’ll have to pull that clip someday. He played clips of himself on Mork and Mindy and the Mary Tyler Moore Hour.

That’s the variety show, not the famous sitcom. Dave talked about an early appearance at the Comedy Store, saying, I told a joke and nobody laughed, but I wasn’t discouraged because I was specified. You can’t be discouraged and petrified simultaneously. When I got off stage, there was a man there in the shadows, a man I recognized by the name of Richard Pryor. And Richard Pryor said to David Letterman, I really like that joke, Dave said, and I thought, oh my god, I can go ahead and pay the rent.

It was a huge moment for me. Blaney comes out. Dave and John spent some time talking about Malleini’s family. It sounds like Mullaney wents to stock material, which is kind of lame. To be honest, We’ve heard this before.

If you listen to this show, if you pay attention to John Mulaney, but the recap I see says that Mallani got lots of laughs for For the first thirty nine years of my life, I financially supported zero Vietnamese people. Now sitting in with you tonight, I have about ten on the books and to take cash app It’s weird when people like, oh, what’s your life like when you’re doing all these projects, But most of my day is texting with elderly Vietnamese people about if they got the money, if they need more, if I bought an appliance at a breaks. I don’t know if you know this, that’s on me. M’laney said it was one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to him, to have his life expanding that way, quoting Malleni, there’s just no comparison to being Vietnamese. Being Chinese Vietnamese is the smartest thing I ever did.

It’s remarkable. It’s remarkable. Letterman asked mullaney about some other stuff, like being the first comedian to play Wrigley Field, accepting an honorary patronage from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, taking Malcolm to Graceland, and becoming a part owner of years the famous non autum alcoholic beer brand. Dave asked Lane about directing Robbie Hoffman special. Dave was curious what it’s like to work with Robbie Hoffman.

He prefaced his question saying, I’ve lost my way in the world of contemporary comedy because I’m so smitten by you in a handful of other young men and women who I think have elevated this craft, this art beyond early expectation in the world. Mullaney called Hoffman a total original, likening her debut to Sam Kinnison. Quote someone who you’re like, I’ve never heard a comedian like this. I’ve never seen anyone this unafraid. You know, you throw Sam Kinnison in front of Johnny Mack and I was ready to say the phrase tap the brakes.

But I don’t think Mullaney’s crazy there, Malaney said when she opened for me in San Diego at an outdoor venue on the water with lots of couples of tables, she never adjusted her act for anyone. Tell you that’s gonna make for a nice pair on the Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one radio app. The app is free. The show is free, and over there I can play bits.

So I’m going to back to back some Robbie with some Kinneseson. That’s great. Mullaney said. He reached out to Robbie Hoffman because he had a deal to direct and produce specials for Netflix. As John tells it, she goes, what’s the money, and I go all told, you’ll net blank there’s a lot of expenses, and I have a small budget, and they’ll license it, and it’s a really interesting deal.

But I’ll just be up front. I take no fee to direct it, but you’ll probably only net blank blank thousand. She’s like, not very much. She came to the conclusion that was very good for her, but said to m’lanie, let’s be clear, it’s good for you too, because he seems street. When you do stuff like this, John, you seem street.

It seems like you’re plugged in, Mollini said. But I will say her prophecy came true. I am seen as cooler, I am street. A lot of people have been saying I see more Street. Now she’s one of those people that makes me excited to just stand up again.

Now this is an interesting change. Letterman asked Mullaney will he make more of the talk show. Mullany gave a non answer. He said, we have another season from Netflix. I’m on tour till January twenty twenty seven, so we shall see.

So it’s Schrodinger’s talk show. It’s both dead and not dead. Other conversation points they talked about Mullanie’s time on SNL and the new Michael Jackson movie. Melanie asked Letterman whether a Letterman would see it. Dave declined.

Mlaney said, I don’t think that program is for me. I don’t say this, by the way, some kind of stance, but just esthetically and as a film, it looks stupid and bad. I don’t think that was filmed. I wonder if that will come out on some form on Netflix. That sounds really amazing.

I would love to see that. Maybe it’s one of those you just had to be there, all right. It was the finals of Funny af that’s the Kevin Art comedy competition series, which I’m behind on. But I’ve been picking away at and I was like, you know what, this is a pretty good version of such a thing. I could give notes.

I think I have given notes, but just it’s like something I have on while I’m scrolling on Twitter to see what’s up with a hantavirus. It’s nice to have on in the background. Anyway, it was the finals. Here’s Kevin Hart. Viewers around the world have voted and the winner.

How funny af is? And why did you clip it there? Johnny was just about to tell us who won. Yeah, so the problem is Kevin Hart dropped an F bomb, and I try not to do that on this program. Your winner was thirty four year old Detroit Bourne comic Ron Taylor.

Taylor went out over at Caitlyn Palufo, Sama, Sidiki and Regg Thomas. Kevin Hart said, Ron is such an amazing talenty. It’s a strong voice, and I love his energy. He’s poised, polished and now position to be a face that will be seeing for quite some time. This competition was everything was supposed to be plus more.

The four finalists were all amazing. They did not disappoint. I’m blown away at Ron’s win and we’re all in full celebration mode. I got a high five Kevin Hart. There is gonna make a short joke, should I?

I got a low five Kevin Hart hack, But like I said, this was a good version of that, and you came away liking these people and rooting for them, and you got to see some newer faces. So it was a good job there. Taylor was crowned the winner during a taping on Tuesday night that aired live on Netflix. He will now get his own Netflix special, he said, he will title that special Elevate Now. During the semi finals, they did a roast and Nikki Glaser was there, and I was like, hold on, hold on, hold on Niki Glazer, and they’re like praising Nikki Glaser that she’s the greatest roast comic of all time, which will debate some other day.

Don Rickles and did Tony Hinchcliff write the jokes at the Brady Roast? But okay, fine, Nikki Glaser is the greatest roast comedian of all time. She’s in Los Angeles with Kevin Hart and on Sunday is the roast of Kevin Hart and Nikki Glaser the greatest roaster of all time? Isn’t doing the roast of Kevin Hart. The whole thing was weird, especially when Kevin Hart is just waxing poetic about what a great roaster she is.

Why isn’t she doing the roast of Kevin Hart. I mean, if you’re the greatest, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. If you’re the greatest roaster of all time? Should I not be able to wake you up out of bed and you just slay? Wouldn’t that make you the greatest?

Right? I know? Niki said, oh, I need time to prepared jokes. Well, maybe you’re not the greatest. Then maybe you’re the best prepared.

I don’t know. The whole thing was weird. A guy named Chris grulan Comedy on three did a breakdown here. I have not confirmed this, but according to his threads account, he said, Osama time on stage six thirty five total laughs, fifty three laughs per minute, eights applause breaks, five, run time on stage six thirty two total lasts, fifty five last per minuted, eight point four applause breaks six. All right, very similar numbers.

Caitlin seven minutes twenty four sixty four total laughs, eight point six lass per minute, five applause breaks, and Redge got seven to twenty one on stage fifty eight total laughs, seven point nine laughs per minute, and seven applause breaks. Not sure what you do with that information, but it is interesting. If you follow me in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you saw me post Thursday Midday that like, hey, I just had to like get the machete out to cut down today’s script. I mean, check your watch. We’re this four in and we’ve got a lot to do even in the first half.

Dave Chappelle was on Michelle Obama’s podcast, Here’s Dave. It’s never really been quite like this before, where everyone feels like we’re on the precipice of some amazing change. And every day the new cycling is more appalling than the last day, and this doesn’t seem like it’s eving going to end. And every week I learned some new word like straight of her moves or blah blah blah. And it’s such an avalanche that it is fun even for me now to watch comedians contextualize this stuff.

Someone asked me about my transgender I say, say, you know, you got a lot of trouble for those transgender jokes, and I go, ah, the good. Old days. Now getting some pick up, and I suspect this is going to get more pick up, will become more of a thing because of some of the words of Dave Chappelle, some of the blowback he’s going to get, and that Michelle Obama was there and really didn’t comment on what Chappelle said. Dave was talking about trans jokes. Dave said, people would think it’s me versus the gay community.

I never looked at it like that. Oh, it was corporate interest and culture negotiating itself. So you know, most of these people who were critical of what I was doing didn’t seem like they were of it. It’s like they had their faces pressed against the glass commenting on what we were doing in there, but they weren’t there doing it. Every opinion you could think of is represented in a comedy club.

Every type of person you can imagine does stand up comedy, transgender stand up comics, black, white, Asian, every kind of perspective, and we all champion whatever opinion we champion. We would never think to silence one another. Dave said, being in the room for a joke is much different than a joke being read on paper or perhaps by some idiot in a basement reading your words on his dumb podcast. I if Dave Chappelle has that criticism of me, I think Dave Chappelle would be correct. Dave said, for a media outlet to speculate on a comedy show that they weren’t at or misinterpreted joke, nothing makes a comedian matter than reading his joke wrong in the paper, you know, And reading a joke is nothing like hearing one or being one.

And the intention of a comedy show is a very unique intention. We’re playing with whatever the culture is made of, and we break it down and we get it right or we get it wrong. But in all art, if it’s going to be good or even hopefully great, you gotta have a margin of error. I think that’s all very fair. And like I just said, if if if Chappelle or any comedian like hates when I quote their stuff, they’re right.

They’re one hundred percent right. In Yahoo or maybe it’s from them dot com, Matthew Rodriguez writes, come again. Many of Chappelle’s anti trans jokes were not in fact digested on paper, but were available and widely watched a series of Netflix specials that were available for all to see. And indeed, it is actually kind of hard to misinterpret the comedians saying he is Team Turf seems like one of those situations where you get exactly what it says on the tin.

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Also from Yahoo, they were talking more about K’s show the other night.

They observe themes that stuck out in CK’s performance are ridiculous. Is the new materials interest in aging, death, wisdom, and regret. Take for instance the call and response bit where Ck said I’m so old and the crowd yelled how old are you? He named three increasingly bleak truths about approaching sixty, concluding I’m so old that I live in the present for the first time, not because of wisdom, but from because there’s too much of the past and not enough of the future. The thing about life that I’ve learned is that life is too long.

It’s way too long. It’s way too long because you again have a good life, but then you’re still live after that one.

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And also you kind of figure life out, you figure out the world, and then it c…

Here’s the thing about getting old. I don’t feel bad for somebody that gets old, because you don’t have to do it. Getting old is what happens when you don’t die for a long time. That’s all it is. Uh.

That quote worries me a little bit, Louis, I hope you’re doing all right. Comedy stock marketine. Every week we take a look at what comedian stock we should buy and we should sell. Again. This is not a judgment on who’s good or bad.

It’s a judgment on value. Who’s overvalued, who’s undervalued. Let’s buy some Ron Taylor, right, I mean Kevin Hart backing Ron Taylor. Ron Taylor getting in a Netflix special. Let’s get in while it’s still low.

Let’s also get in on some more job. It’s Johnson. He’s got a new special coming to HBO. We’ll talk about that next week. It’s just way too busy this week to get to that.

I also did get to tell you about Larry the Cable Guy. Has got a cable show that’s ironic coming out this fall. So we’re gonna buy some Larry the Cable Guy. We’ll get all these stories. Another bye.

Johnny’s positive today. Vittorio Angeloni. I’ve seen him personally up in Montreal that has been buzzing him for a few years, and now playing out in la at the Netflix Festival. A lot of people getting to see Vittorio for the first time. Good buzz on him.

Mo Ammer. I always like what he does, and he’s now consulting to the Daily Show. That’s another buy. Jeff Currey, I thought looked pretty good on the Kevin Hard Funny AF shows. Let’s buy some Jeffic Curry and I got some sales for you.

Andrew Schultz, I got story in tomorrow. His co host is leaving the Flagrant Podcast. And let’s sell Louis C.K. For reasons well discussed to recap. We’re gonna buy Ron Taylor, Larry the Cable Guy, Vittorio Angeloni, mo Amer, Jeffic Currey, and we’re gonna sell Andrew Schultz and Louis C.K.

My dog is no dog knows it’s a nice day and wants to go for a long walk. Oh you just pulled up on the floor here, okay, dog is co hosting the show. Deadline had caught up with the Netflix folks earlier in the week. Robbie pra who heads up Netflix Comedy, said, you’re getting this huge community of talent to come in and all be in LA and not only comedians, but people who work with comedians, people from around the world who work in the comedy business. Having that for two weeks seemed unecessary, so that was probably the biggest pivot, turning it into a week Tracy Pacosta said, I also think what becomes a parent is the bigger comedy ecosystem that we have here at Netflix, So being able to be inclusive all that, whether it be the scripted shows, a lot of features, or talent does many different things here in flexus different muscles, So how do we best take pride in that and give our talent the opportunity to get involved.

Robbie said, that’s a good point, merging very popular podcasts with some of our biggest shows. I think that’s a real fun development this time around. I think we have more music and athletes in the festival, but God’s something that organically happened last time and we’re excited to do that. Deadline asked, what have you figured out in the last four years in terms of ticket sales and had his best structure a festival when you have so many big names. I’ll jump in here.

I know we saw some of the bigger names weren’t selling out, including c K. Robbie Pros said, I think as somebody who’s worked in the festival world for a long time, I’ll jump in again. He used to be the number two I think. At the Montreal Comedy Festival, Robbie said, ticket sales work a little bit differently. What we’re seeing from our consumer base right now is people waking up, seeing things all around town, saying the festival’s coming, and starting to pick the festival shows they want to go to, which is a little different than the typical behavior.

We have a touring comedian coming to town really just speaking to their fans. I think a joy about any festival, not just hours, is people experimenting. I’ll jump in again. Amen to that. I always tell you, if you go to a festival, go see the random shows.

Don’t only see headliners. Robbie says. People picking the thing that they know they love the most and then giving a shot to somebody maybe they heard is cool that they just want to try out to take advantage of this being in their hometown. Amen. We are getting along here, and the dog wants to go out, and so does John.

John’s been on the computer. What is it? It’s two o’clock at Thursday afternoon. I started at seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve one. I have another career for seven hours, and I’m a podcaster who works from home and it’s sunny out, I want to go outside.

Let’s see what’s at the festival. Two nights Hollywood Bowl seven thirty. John m’aliney’s Mister Whatever the Bad Friends podcast at the YouTube Theater at seven o’clock. What is this beautifully Broken Comedy Night hosted by jelly Roll that’s at the Greek Theater. That’ll get a click out of me.

Let’s see what this one is? Oh interesting show, they’re not marketing this properly beautifully broken Comedy Night is America’s foremost political commentator, Ata Schultz, Tony Hinchcliffe, Big Jay Oakerson, Adam Ray, Jeff Ross, and Josh Adam Myers. Hosted by jelly Roll. That’s a pretty interesting show and definitely has a vibe. At the Palladium Dave Chappelle Dolby Theater, seven o’clock, Low ticket warning for Hassan Hates Ronnie, Ronnie Hates Hassan.

That is Hasan Minhaj and Ronnie Ching Maximini sold out at the Orpheum, A good one if you want to go off the beaten path. Sam Campbell is at the Masonic Lodge at nine forty five if you’re in town and you don’t have tickets at one of the big shows, take a flower on that, trust me. At Largo tonight, Robbie Hoffman sold out at eight and ten thirty. Wow the Laugh Factory at seven forty five, says Legends of Comedy. I clicked on it.

They won’t tell you who it is. At the Preppermint Club, Michael Irvin and Friends Michael Irvin from the Dallas Cowboys, who are their friends? Headliners Michael Irvin featuring comedian CP. I’m sure it’s a wonderful show, but boy, there’s some other things to go see tonight. And I’m just scrolling down.

There’s a good thirty other shows I didn’t even tell you about. That is the Netflix is Joke Comedy Festival, just crushing it in Los Angeles this week. And that is your comedy news for today. All weekend normal episodes. I’m very open that I usually pretape the weekend episodes.

I haven’t touched Saturday, Sunday or Monday. I’m swinging here day today because I want to keep abreast of what’s happening out in LA. I don’t want to get too far ahead of things as I record this at two o nine pm on Thursday afternoon. Netflix has still not said who’s on the roast of Kevin Hart? Is that not weird?

I mean, let’s just play it out. Let’s just say that, like it’s amazing and they’re gonna keep it secret. So who’s gonna show up chappelle Ck, etc. Like, all right, is John m’laney gonna roast Kevin Hart? I mean, I guess is you know?

Is David Lettering gonna show up and do five minutes roasted Kevin Hart? I can’t imagine any of that. So why are you not telling us who’s playing the roast of Kevin Hart? Who knows? Maybe we’ll get Eddie Murphy, who knows?

You know what? No, I’m thinking about that. Eddie lives in town ish you know what I mean by town in Los Angeles. You know, Eddie doesn’t live ten hours from Los Angeles. He lives close enough.

Jamie Fox. I can see Fox showing up at this. This could be an event. I’m looking forward to the roast of Kevin Hart Sunday night on Netflix at eight Eastern after the next playoff game, and tonight we have a next playoff game. Go Nix see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, there another busy one. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. David Letterman did a big piece in The New York Times with friend of the show Jason Zenneman. Nice get by Jay Z the Subhetterer.

David Letterman no longer feels a sense of ownership, but the program’s former host has harsh words for the network. The topic Steven Colbert’s show coming to an end. By the way, Colbert did a ton of press. Now I’m holding on to all that for Colbert Week because we’ve got the Netflix Festival to talk about this week. But you know me and Dave, if Dave drops something, I’m going to jump in on it.

Jason asked Dave, Hey, what were your first thoughts when you found out late show was ending? David Letterman said, disbelief. Then it seemed like a botched hold up. When we got the facts about the Ellison family, it’s a great delight in referring to the principle as the Ellison twins. I was later corrected and told it’s just one guy.

I didn’t care and I still don’t hurt him as twins. There’s also the old Man, Larry, is it in fact? Larry Jason said, yes, Letterman, as best I understand it, he invented the slinky and the Ellison Twins are really hill. He’s spending the old Man’s money. So that was what ran through my head that I wondered, what the hell have they done to Stephen Colbert?

And I would say, farther down the list is your point, Wait a minute, this used to be my show. It’s like driving by your old neighborhood and realizing that where he used to live, they’re putting up an adult bookstore. They’ve said, time has separated me from the genealogy of the show. On the other hand, if there’s outrage to be directed at management, either reel or imagined, I’m all in, let’s go. Does Dave believe they cancel the Late Show over financial reasons?

Dave said, they don’t share the books with me. All of television seems to have been nick by digital communication and streaming platforms, and on and on TV may not be the money machine it once was. On the other hand, what about the humanity for Steven and the humanity of people who love him and the humanity for people who still enjoyed that eleven thirty respite. He was jumped because the people who’s selling the network to sky Dan said, oh no, there’s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We’re going to take care of the show.

We’re just gonna throw it into the deal. When well, the ink on the check dry. I’m just going to go on record as saying they’re lying. This is David Letterman speaking. Let me just add one other thing, Jason, they’re lying.

Weasels. I love that, the article said. As to comment, a spokesperson for CBS said unequivocally a financial decision that he apparently did not respond to the weasel comment or The Times chose not to overprint their response to the weasel comment. The topic switched to Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed David Letterman til The Times. I was recently driving around on an interestate and all I would see with these rental blazes where we could store your stuff, And I just thought these didn’t used to exist.

You used to have to be responsible for your own stuff. But now everywhere you look there’s warehouses and rental facilities, and I think that’s not a bad parallel for what’s happening in network television. We now have this, but we’re just going to lease it to Byron Allen and you’ll make penny us on every dollar or whatever he’s making. But you know, everything changes in life as people of a certain age understand both good and bad. He’s been more wildly successful than any hundred of us.

I periodically talk to him, and neither he nor I understand how he became a billionaire. God bless him. Tell let’s seeb to hell with skydancewer to help with the Winslow Twins or whoever the hell these guys are. But Byron he’ll still be providing comedy in that time period. I think that’s a valuable bit of resolution.

Here, hold on to a little bit more of that for next week. Normally this would be your top story. Louis C.K. Gets standing ovation at raunchy comeback show during Netflix Comedy Festival. This from the Hollywood Reporter.

He not so canceled. Louis C.K. Took the stage in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. By the way, if you keep noticing, I keep saying Los Angeles that’s a lettermanism than I am absolutely appropriating. The Hollywood Reporter says the Hollywood Bowl was seventy five percent full, mostly of male fans in their twenties and thirties who came to life when Louis Cik started.

After four opening acts, Louis apparently never addressed the misconduct allegations. Are they allegations? Quoting the hollyd Reporter, the women alleged that he masturbated in front of them or on the phone with him. C K later admitted to the behavior unquote, So that’s not an allegation if he admitted to it, right, not really to the point maybe, but they’re not allegations. If you said I did it, John, we’re leging that you.

Hosted Daily Comedy News Today, TK open up about his dating life, revealing he has a girlfriend and believes in dating women his own age. He quote from CK is, if you date young women, there’s pressure sexually. But the women in my age, I’m like, do you wanna, you know, do stuff? She’s like nah, And I’m like, yeah, good, And if you do, there’s no condoms. He later mused, I think it’s crazy that it’s legal for me to date eighteen year old.

That’s fed up. That’s forty years difference. You shouldn’t have sex with somebody if the years between you would be the age of a woman who can’t get pregnant naturally. BK got a standing ovation at the end of the set. He said, that was my last show, last time telling those jokes, and I’m really happy I got to tell them to you.

Thank you very much for coming. Thank you to Netflix. I really appreciate the gig I did see on Threads. One of the comedian whose name gets dragged into the K news cycle said, please stop asking her about it. So I’m not going to say her name, nor am I going to ask her about it.

But I did feel bad for her. She said, the press keeps reaching out to her. He has me blocked on Twitter for some reason. I think I must have used her name in a headline, not blocked by her on Threads. Whatever beside hers headline, what Louis K’s Netflix is a joke comeback says about the sad state of our culture.

In twenty twenty six, Sean McCarthy writes Louis C.K. Didn’t received consent from many of the women he exposed themselves to over the years, and yet Netflix eagerly consented not only to showcase the comedian at the Hollywood Bull but also to prevent his forthcoming a ridiculous special on the streaming platform. Is anyone actually surprised but this turn of events in twenty twenty six. Before you come at me, please know that my disappointment at this point is no longer so much at Louis c. K as it is with the system.

It’s the system that continues to fail us, even more now than a comedy hero may have failed you or me in the recent past. It’s giving down. The media has also failed us, whether by negligence or laziness. In reports of his new Netflix deal in Hollywood Ball, Performance, Variety claims he quotes mostly disappeared from the public eye for a few years before returning unquote, while the Holly Reporter said his new Netflix deal quote here’s to mark a churning point for the comedian who’d been exiled from many mainstream comedy spaces unquote. The side of writes for Netflix says, with so many others in our capitalist society, there’s no moral code, only a look at the financial bottom line, and only then in terms of how decisions impact the c suite and the shareholders, not the subscribers, although the press releases will tout how subscribers vote with their views.

And if Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais could generate such high ratings while trolling us by tracking in transphobia, then why should they leave the potential profits of a new Louis C.K. Special off the platform? But again, it’s not just about c K. Christalia remains disgraced fallowing revelations of his improprieties with underage fans, writes to Cider, and yet several of his specials are back on Netflix now. Pucker Carlson started a book in print and probably gave a deal to Russell Brands giving ahead.

C K couldn’t apologize last year, but he could promote his novel with Bill marn Bank riches from the Saudi royal family by performing at the Rion Comedy Festival, and he could write this new hour of material that his ending his tour with in Hollywood and filming for Netflix. Might the real amends come then or thereafter giving a head Again, What matters now and still is whether or not he can make an honest amends to the people he’s directly harmed. Whether or not they accept his efforts is beside the point. For us and for him, all the noise around it is just ridiculous. Dave Chappelle brought Kanye West on stage.

A source tells TMZ. This happened at the Comedy Store. Kanye did not perform, but made a quick appearance at the end of the night. Dave had already done a full set. He brought Kanye out until the crowd Kanye West has lost more money than I’ve ever made, DMZ says.

The crowd cheer did Kanye loudly. He got a full standing ovation and as he joined Dave. The lineup that night was Shane Gillis, Chris Rock, and Louis C.K. That’s not a bad show there, Dave Chappelle at a club. The roast of Kevin Hart is Sunday night.

Now. I was on the Netflix site on Wood’s Day Thursday, Wednesday morning. Even the Netflix site had no information about who’s on. And I don’t mean like there was an absence of information. They even had the phrase like stay tuned, We’ll let you know here.

I should check that hold on. Okay, it is ten twenty on Wednesday, and this page was update on May fifth, sixteen hours ago. Says the time stamp, and there’s some FAQs. I’m on Netflix dot com, Slash to them, Slash Features, Slash the Hyphen, Roast, Hyphen of Kevin Hart, Love and Netflix the FAQs. What time is the Roast of Kevin Hart?

The Rest of Kevin Hart streams live globally on Netflix on Sunday May tenth at five West eighth East. What’s the lineup for the Roast of Kevin Hart? Now? This is Netflix’s site. So far, the only confirmed stars to appear are Heart and Gillis, but be sure to check back on TODAM for updates as the event gets closer.

That’s a little weird, right that we don’t know who’s performing. I was catching up on Funny AF. I didn’t watch any of the live events yet because I’m kind of a week behind, and I’m actually enjoying it as a comedy competition. It’s the good version of it, so I didn’t want to skip ahead. I did see some people saying during the semi finals on Monday night that Chris Rock appeared not into it at all.

Speaking of Kevin Hart. TMZ acquired video of the Rock being stopped by the police for having a tinted window on his car. Paparazzi caught Kevin Hart walking by Miami’s car Bone Beach Club. Kevin Hart was asked if he was responsible for calling the cops on the Rock. Kevin Hart said, was I either one that called the cops on the Rock?

No, but I would. I often would because he’s a piece of crap. That’s why we’ll circle back to Netflexi in a bit. Some other stuff in the news. Zach alifan Akis has criticized comedian podcasters who have interviewed Donald Trump without challenging Donald Trump.

We reminded that Donald Trump has appeared on podcasts including The Joe Er of a Experience Andrew Schultz. The O. Vaughn Zach told Conan O’Brien, all the podcasters that have had the President on now, they don’t do the court jester. They don’t do it. They suck up to him.

That’s not the job of a comedian. You are to challenge, you are to make uncomfortable. You’re not to sit there and fake laugh. That is not the job of the court jester period.

Meanwhile, Andrew Schultz and Charlemagne the God not Seeing I too.

I This happened on the Brilliant Idiots podcast. Darlamagine said the brutality of Trump’s legal immigration crackdown could be a motivating factor for someone wanting to do See I don’t need to visit from men in sunglasses to do something really bad to a famous person who used to host a game show on NBC. Schultz said, are you saying was justified because of that? Charlemagne said no, no. Charla Maaine said, we have to deal with the reality that some of Trump’s policies have hurt people so much that some folks are willing to risk at all.

Schultz said, well, now you’re justifying it, Charlotmagne, I’m not justifying. It’s just a reality you have to deal with. I think it would be remiss not to take a step back and not just of conversations about violent rhetoric. Let’s just talk about violent policies that people have been watching over the last year and a half. I know a lot of people have been hurt by those policies, and some of those people are willing to risk at all because to your point earlier, they have nothing to lose Andrew Schultz, who on June twenty third, twenty twenty five, got a headline from The New York Times where they wrote, Andrew Schultz podcast bro might be America’s foremost political journalist.

I have to keep looking back at this to make sure that this is not the onion. This is a real thing that the New York Times printed somehow Anyway, the man who might be America’s foremost political journalists said, sure, sure, but I guess what I’m saying is it’s wrong to do that. Treler made said, I’m not saying it’s right. We have to deal with the reality. The possible America’s foremost political journalist said, but you and I both know from knowing people that are crazy that it actually doesn’t take that much to get actual crazy people to do things.

As you can hear, it is a busy day. I was surprised. Right before I sat down, just for laugh sent out an email blast and you know, and I love the JFL guys, but they announced a whole bunch of new shows and I was like, why would you do that this week? Wait till next week, because the Netflix is going to dominate you. I mean you’re up against all these things, plus the whole Colbert media tour.

I thought it was an oddly timed email. I don’t have time for today. We’ll get to it on Monday. Some things for you to listen to. Jimmy Carr is the guest on Josh Zepp’s podcast SZEPS.

That’s a great podcast that I like listening to, and it’s linked to in my substack. That’s a free substack I write once a week link in the show notes, but it’s mcdee pod on substack.

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Also, Robert Smigel is on the Late Nighter podcast.

They also did a really good roundtable episode about the end of Cold where but Smigel’s really good. There was a comment in the Facebook group. I know who wrote the comment, but I want to get the person in trouble with Smigel. But the thought was that Smigel seemed a little, uh, not really into the conversation early on and then warmed up. And I kind of caught the same thing.

It just seemed like Smigel didn’t want to talk about some things, but then got into it. It’s a very good listen. Dave Chappelle performs the first of his three shows at the Hollywood Palladium tonight as part of the Netflix Festival. Deadline is excited to see Moe a mayor. He’s at the Orphium at seven pm.

Moe is now a contributor on the Daily Show. LA Times asked Will Smith, not that guy, the one from the La Dodgers. A dozen slab people. They asked that Will Smith about Dodgers Comedy Knight. Who is the funniest player on the Dodgers.

The clubhouse consensus is Keky Hernandez. Dodgers Comedy Knight is a fundraiser for the Catching Hope Foundation, launched by Will Smith, not that one, the other one and his wife, not that one, the other one to equipped to aversk youth with skills and leadership and self sufficiency. Boy, if anybody had a sense, if you humor, Chris Rock should show up and Will Smith should slap him. Will Smith, not that one. The other one said.

I was definitely a little anxious because you have to get up there and give a little speech, which I enjoy. Now, this is not the first Dodger’s coming. Tonight kind of took me back to my high school days. We have to give a speech in front of the whole school. It was a little worrisome.

It was fine, It was fun once I got up there, Will Smith, not that one. The other one says, I’m not saying too many jokes, maybe one. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts compared Will Smith, not that one, the other one to John Lovettz, who said John Lovitz’s comedian, and he has that dry humor. So there you go. Will has that dry humor.

Time out. Is excited to go see the legend of Crystal Shell. Crystal Shell is Kristin Shall. Kristin is that Dynasty typewriter tonight eight o’clock. You may know her is the voice of Louise on Bob’s Burgers.

You know my thoughts on that hoax? Like times, is excited to see Nate Jackson at the Laugh Factory at ten pm. They write, though plenty of comics of you. Crowd work is another part of the job. Nate Jackson has made it the springboard to a career.

If you feel like being made into a human smore, go ahead and make sure you’re somewhere in his line of vision when he gets on stage at a Laugh Factory. They’re also excited to go see the are you garbage guys. They’re at the Belasco at seven o’clock and Jay Yang Summers is at Pacific Electric at seven. They say dark humor means something different to a woman who narrowly escaping thrown in the Dumbstars of Baby, A survivor of China’s one child policy in the nineties before coming to America, Joying Summers specializes in jokes too brutal for the average American psyche, delivered with sweetness that makes the punchlines even more shocking. Oh Yeah, Big One Tonight, Night of Too Many Stars, Smigel and Friends, Hollywood Bowl seven point thirty.

Guests include Bill Burdback from the Red Comedy Festival, Nikki Glaser She Hates Press, Conan O’Brian, Steve Carell, Ron Funches, Tiffany Hattish, Jimmy Kimmel, Leanne Morgan, John Mulaney, Kevin Neil and Bob Odenkirk, Matt Riife, dramatic actor Adam Sandler, Comedy Survivor winner, Sarah Silverman, Ali Wang, Noah Wiley famous comedian, and many more. If that doesn’t float your boat, Big Night Tonight, Killed Tony at the Intuit Dooms seven o’clock and that’s just what other people spotlighted. Let me click on the schedule proper here and see what else is going on. Still man about the flight of the concords adding three shows. I didn’t throw them into Google today.

Let me see if there’s any line of the concords. This is how the show gets put together. I type as I speak to you. No, nothing yet, not even to mention that they added all the shows. Okay, Thursday, May seventh, Let’s see what I haven’t mentioned.

Wanda Sykes is at the Dolby at seven nine, Saving Los Angeles with Tim Dillon and the cast of Selling Sunset and Selling the OC that’s at the Wildered like Tim Dillon. That feels like a little much. At the United Theater on Broadway at nine forty five, Sammurill, Jordan Jensen, Joe listen, Rachel Feinstein. That’s pretty good show if you’re just in like comedy comedy. I don’t need a like super all star show.

At the montabonn David Letterman with Martin Short seven o’clock, low ticket warning on that one. A lot of these not sold out. One that is sold out theater at all with John Marcos Serresi He’s at the Regent at seven. Again, it’s easier to sell out a small theater than the Hollywood Bowl. Matt Rice at the Comedy Store Main Room at seven.

That one is sold out, just added at the Laugh Factory Lavelle Crawford Rhys Derby’s The Legend Returns is sold out at the Allegion at seven o’clock. I wonder if the Concords will stop by that one. They seem to have a night off. Haitlyn Palufo at west Side at eight o’clock. Probably some heat on her coming off the Kevin Hart thing, and a whole bunch of others that I didn’t tell you about.

It’s a pretty busy Thursday at the Netflix, is a joke at Comedy Festival, and oh my goodness, I’m just looking at the raw time here before I make all the edits and clean up the stumbles. I’m at twenty six minutes, which is very long for a raw file here, So I’m going to stop talking and see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Another busy and weird one today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A center is the Algorithm loves toms Agora returning to Minneapolis. Now, I thought this was interesting.

He’s playing in the ACME Comedy Club three nights August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth. I wonder why Tom Sikora is doing club shows. I don’t have a theory. I just find it interesting. Maybe he’s work shopping, maybe he’s going to record something.

But if you’re in Minneapolis, a nice small room to see Segora. Industry insider establishment comedian Nikki Glaser was on Karras Swisher’s podcast, There’s a Sentence, regular role comedian just like you. Nikki Glaser says, I don’t live like I see a lot of people living.

Also for fear of like if you crash in a private plane, no one feels sorry for…

That’s my biggest fear. Now wherever I’m in one, she joked, if I’m on Southwest, people would be like, oh my god, what a woman. Of the people. What a hero. She died so young.

Nicky said, people hate people flying on private this elitist b word. She deserved it. I do feel like it’s a huge waste of money. I don’t mind flying. I’m not famous enough that it’s really a hindrance to me.

I’m sure Kara Swisher, totally related to Flying Coach Kevin Hart went on Alex Cooper’s podcast. He got in a little trouble. He was describing Timothy Schallomey, and he described Timothy Shallamey as having the body of a German woman. That did not go over well with the Timothy Shallomey fans. It was a little kerfluffel over the weekend.

He also made fun of Elon Musk and Nick Cannon. They discussed Bruno Mars. Kevin said Bruno was born in the wrong time. He probably yells at his parents. Why didn’t you have me even in the sixties and seventies.

I should have been back there with those guys. He then made fun of machine Gun Kelly, saying the product of a wrong tattoo choice. There’s nothing you can do now, there’s nothing you can do about it, can’t cover it up. He can’t do what anything. It is what it is.

He has a full flooded shirt tattooed on him, dark green shirt. Nobody could say anything. Everybody’s got accepted. The roast of Kevin Hart airs on Netflix Mother’s Day Night. Who scheduled that at least the Knixt Games at three point thirty, which also gets the comment who scheduled that at least for me?

I can watch both? The roast of Kevin Hart Sunday, May tenth, eight East five West. Kevin said, have at it, say what you want, because I’m gonna say what I want. Kevin discussed his career, saying, I’ve been doing this for so long that the brand of Kevin Hart sorry to go third person has become pretty big, so because the brand aspect attached to me in business opportunity. I got commercial in places where I had to because that’s the direction I was going, and rightfully so very happy with the decisions I made.

Is excited to return her roasting, saying this is what I do. This is where I started. Ground zero was snapping and jonesing and hitting people below the belt. That’s the good stuff. And I think doing that and giving the world an opportunity to see that and laugh at it.

I don’t give an f say what you want laugh. More from that Variety interview with the Netflix is a joke at Comedy Festival, Folks, Variety was excited about the more Solo Hernandez show. Yeah, their premise, The Marcelo Hernando Shows a huge showcase for Spanish language comedy. What does the global marketplace for comedy look like right now? Good question.

Robbie pro who runs Netflix Comedy, says, what we’re seeing is not necessarily emerging markets, but more stand ups who are successful in the US can now sell everywhere in the world. If you look at people’s tour schedules, it’s a wide array of where they’re able to sell because there’s a pocket of mega fans everywhere. Comedy has become a real export around the world, mostly through Netflix. Marcelo may be talking about his mom, but he’s talking about my mom too, and someone’s mom in Japan. Some of those themes are super universal.

I just threw up in my mouth. Bob Odenkirk predicts the end of Manisphere comedy. He told The New York Times it is low hanging fruit. It’s like literally on the ground. It’s fruit that’s on the ground rotting.

See I disagree. Comedy is not actually a fruit, thus it cannot be literally low hanging fruit. Odenkirk said Manisphere comedy was the reactionary comedy movement of the last five years. I don’t think it has a lot of depth to it. It’s a movement that I’m happy to see transforming int his something else and disappearing or dissipating.

Odenkirk made a good point. He argues that audiences often mistake performance for sincerity. Bob said, if you want to say something honest, then you should get off a comedy stage. Everything you say is of construct everything. Let us use the stage to be as crude as we can be, and as clumsy and oafish as we can be.

You’re not you. You’re pretending to be a person named you. Really smart there, that’s insightful. Some reason Dave Chappelle has popped into my head. Rob Schneider was on the Doctor Phil podcast.

You gotta say one thing about Rob Schneider. He’s interesting. Right. You may not agree with Rob Schneider, but anytime I mention him, it’s always interesting. Schneider told Doctor Phil when you stop the conversation.

That’s when violence starts. Doctor Phil said, well, comedy isn’t just punch lines at social math. In one sentence, a comic can expose what we’re afraid to say, what we secretly believe, and what the culture’s trip wires are. Schneider said, it’s liberating. I mean, if people come to see comedy for any reason, it’s to feel liberated standing up for what’s right in free speech.

It’s not going to come without a cost. May cost you friends, may cost you a job, a potential job, may cost you money, and it certainly costs me money. A social media clip from Jim Brewer is making the rounds. I played it, I was like, what the hell is Jim talking about it?

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And then I looked it up, so I let you seequence the same way.

Here’s Jim Brewer talking about something you forget. A couple of years ago, we were putting stickers on gas pumps and said, I did that? Have you checked the gas prices lately? Where are the stickers? Where are the stickers?

It works for one person and not the other, but it is amazing how much we will go to defend a same scenario because you believe that’s your profit and you believe this one’s taking the promised lab It’s mind boggling. So I did some research, and here’s what I think Jim is talking about. People are putting stickers with the face of the President of the United States saying I did it. People are putting them or were putting them on gas pumps. So it seems that that’s what Jim is talking about.

Jim Brewer appears to be upset with the price of gas. I think not sure. Fiera Eisenberg has announced her new special I Used to Be Nicer, produced by Lewis Black’s company, will be on Veeps five pm Pacific Friday May fifteenth. In I Used to Be Nicer, o, Fira Eisenberg gives a Canadian middle finger to toxic positivity, parenting, marriage maintenance, aging therapy, and the cost of eggs. She says, I’ve been told my whole life that I’m so nice?

Is this the Canadian in me? The accommodating woman in me. Well, thanks to parenthood, getting a little older and being told to just be positive one too many times, I can finally say I used to be nicer. Now I’m honest and it’s better for comedy. Yesterday we talked about Hulu Comedy and if you listen to the show, I just the Hulu Comedy brand.

They’ve gotten some big names, but it’s everybody like a little past their prime.

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And now I’ve gotta play a trailer for you.

This is from Lisa Ann Walter, who is releasing her first stand up comedy special. It’s called It Was an Accident. We’re told Lisa An Walter is sixty two years old and it’s been doing stand up comedy for years. And I’m gonna play a trailer for you. Now.

I’ve clipped the beginning because the beginning of the trailer she’s yelling and it’s so annoying. So I’m gonna lop off the top and get you straight to a joke. Here’s Lisa and Walter. I’m thrilled to be here, honestly because I have twenty teenage boys at home, so I’m just happy to be in front of people who like me. All right, where’s my LGBTQ?

Where are you? Thank you very much, thanks for coming out and also coming to the show. Hey shut up. I mean I know what mindfulness is because my kids told me. But I’ve seen the way I eat, and I’m pretty sure I don’t practice it.

I don’t know why I can’t find a fella. I’m pissed off so often lately, guys. I swear because I’m a grown ass woman in America and I’m paying attention to by known, we were headed towards the Handmaid’s tail, and I was gonna be wearing that big red cake. I wouldn’t have cut out carps. I had a young boyfriend for a while after the divorce.

I didn’t want to, but uh, I was divorced in LA and that’s the law. Now. Was that not awful? That was awful? Right?

Like? None of those jokes are good anyway. Lisa Ann Walter was an accident part of Hilarious Celebrity Traders or Celebrity Traders UK. Is there a Celebrity Traders USA? I don’t know if there is.

Anyway, British Traders is a zillion times better than US Traders because US Traders is people playing reality TV. Oh, I gotta come back to that in a second. But British Traders is like regular people and it’s just way more entertaining. But this time it’s celebrity Traders, and there are five comedians on it, James Acaster, Joan McNally, joe Lycett, Rob Beckett, who if you watched Last One Laughing, you will love and Romesha Wagon Nathan who was also on Last One Laughing to reality TV. My other daughter was over at the house and we were looking for something to watch.

I’m like, I kind of want to watch Survivor season one. We watched three episodes of Survivor season one. Oh my goodness, saw the scene with Richard hash that he played last week. That was one of the episodes. Saw the folks eat rats.

They were just mounting down on the rats. The challenges were much better. Jeff showed up and made them eat live grubs. Oh and Jeff. Now, we had nothing to compare it to at the time, but watching Jeff Probes twenty five years later, he’s so much better at it now.

In those first episodes, he’s not good even a tribal council. You can tell he’s just speaking words that he memorized and it’s not natural at all. Now season one, I think it streams, but they’ve pulled a couple of the episodes for reasons. You’d have to ask them I bought the DVD. I found it’s out of prints, but I found a brand new Season one DVD of Survivor.

Anyway, let you know when I get back to that. If you’re at the Sydney Comedy Festival today, it’s Ikea Wars. Kieran Bullock takes his cult comedy festival favorite across the globe. In ike Awards, Bullock turns host, referee and chaos maker, pitting two contestants against each other in a battle royale. Two people have to build Ikea furniture.

Have you ever done that? Oh? I would lose my mind. It’s always a piece missing. Maybe it’s just me.

I’m sure akia Furniture is wonderful and this should sponsor the podcast. Let’s be honest. But if you think it’s going to be a straight race, think again. There will be added challenges forfeits and hurdles of plenty, but at the end of each night, one contestant will reign supreme as the Champion of Sweden asterisk. We are told the title is not officially recognized by the Swedish government.

Kieran Bullock started the Ikea Show in twenty nineteen at the Melbourne fringe turning through an assortment of Sweden’s flat packed finest while chatting casually with the audience. On the last night, he decided to try a race format, as suggested by a friend, and away we go. If you are in Australia and I know we have Australian listeners, hello Erin Thursday May seventh and Friday May eighth, at the iconic Bondai Pavilion, I spent Was it a New Year’s Day? Was it a Christmas Day? No?

Christmas Day? I was up at the reef. I spent in New Year’s Day, Not Year’s Eve, but New Year’s New Year’s Eve day, That’s what December thirty, first daytime at Bondai Beach. I loved it. I gotta get back there at some point.

That sounds like a fun show. You should go. And let’s check in at the Netflix is a Joe comedy festival. On this Wednesday, We’ve got Nicks basketball tonight and volleyball. So I have to play volleyball and then come back and watch Nick’s playoff basketball on tape.

What does that have to do with the Netflix? John? Why did you just randomly bring that up? I don’t know I’m leaving it in. I don’t know why I suddenly needed to tell you what I’m doing tonight.

Well, let’s see who’s doing shows. Michelle Buteau, Chelsea Handler or Biglia Rod Carmichael, Craig Robinson, I thought you quit comedy Craig Robinson, Matt Rice at the Comedy Store at seven, Mark Norman at the Comedy Store at ten. Both are sold out. Oh A just added this is new. This is like new new Flight of the Concords.

I’m learning this. I’ll see now. Guys. Now, if you have told me Flight of the Concords had a show on Wednesday night, I would have gone out and done the Diane Morgan Monday Flight of the Concords Wednesday. Ah, I’m learning this as I look at it.

Just added Flight of the Concords. Oh wait, they added they added Monday night, Tuesday night and Wednesday. Oh I could have guys, you’re killing me told you Fly the Cord. I’m so upset at this because then I would have gone out so annoying. Come on, I’m not doing a bit.

I’m genuinely annoyed because I would have gone out for if I could have gone out and done Diane Monday and Concords Tuesday or Wednesday, and some other stuff I was out there. I would all right, shut up John to host the show, Okay, Taviny Atish, Sam, Jay Vittorio Angeloni at Dynasty Typewriter at nine thirty. He’s fantastic. Go see him if you can. Drew Lynch, he was a guest on this program at the ice House at seven thirty, and a bunch of other things.

But you know, last night there were a lot of bigger names, but tonight the big show, Flight of the Concords. Now, when I recorded, they must have just just added this, because I’ll tell you behind the scenes, I’m recording this on Monday, and I recorded Tuesday and Wednesday back to back to accommodate my schedule, and they must have just just added this because it wasn’t on the it’s still not on the Tuesday schedule. I know that’s in your past, it’s in my future. So they must have added this like five minutes ago. Anyway, I have volleyball tonight at seven thirty and then at the Knicks playoff game.

And that’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Very busy one. Today, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. I’m excited.

Robert Smigel has launched a podcast in which he and his comedian friends try to hush up the hilarity of everything from a eulogy to a Tinder profile. Now, who are Robert Smigel’s celebrity friends? No, no Cone enlisted yet, but he does have David Letterman, Bob Odenkirk, Ellie Kemper, and Jim Gaffigan. As you may know, Robert Smigel best known for his TV funhouse segments on SNL. I would say he’s best known for Triumph Maybe not anyway, He is the host of Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends, a weekly podcast.

It premieres May eighth, so that’s later this week. I know the trailers already out because I’ve subscribed to it. On Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends, Smigel and a rotating panel of his friends assist people seeking help been making something in their real life funnier, Smigel told Variety. We’ve had several rabbis wanting help with sermons. There was a woman who wanted to break up with her mom group in a diplomatic way that was still funny, he told Variety.

The original idea was to do like a writer’s room of sorts. He said, the only dream I had was how much fun I have in writers’ rooms, because almost the fun part and being in comedy is just generating ideas. Then you actually have to execute them, and that’s where the pain comes in. There is a trailer. I’ll run some of it.

I wish the trailer were a little better. Being honest, Hello, I’m Robert Smigel. I did lots of things, cartoons, ONSNL, Conan stuff, Triumph, The Insult, comic dogs, some movies, but now I’m past my peak. So I’m hosting a podcast Humor Meet with Robert Smigel and friends. Each week, me and my favorite comedians, writers and whatnots help regular people just like you, presuming your regular who have some project or task that they’d like us to help make funnier.

You’ll see guests like Bob Odenkirk, Jim Gaffigan, David Tel, Mikey Day, Ellie Kemper, Pete Holmes, Alex Adelman, Bruce McCollough, David Letterman, David Letterman, and many great writers dedicated to helping the less humorous. Netflix has announced the date for season two of Tom Sagora’s Bad Thoughts and It’s Pretty soon, May twenty fourth, will get six episodes. As you may recall, the series follows Tom Sagoras. He navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies within a cinematic world. Tom Sigori said, it was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain in horrify audiences with our very bad Thoughts on Netflix.

We’re all so excited to push things further.

Speaking of Netflix, Robbie Prau and Tracy Podeska they are behind the Netfli…

They asked, Robbie, what do you think is the wackiest or most ambitious idea you’ll pull off this year. Robbie Prost said, I’m excited to see the celebration of Peewee Herman as a Seinfeld dork. I’m excited to see Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. That was last night. The roast speaks for itself.

As for the wackiest things, I’m personally running a five K for the first time. I assume that’s the Tom Sagora Berd Krasher five K, but you never know. Here’s an interesting one. Netflix has invested quite a bit in the podcast space. How’s that going, pra said, we can’t speak to the whole strategy.

The podcast that our group has been working on is The Pete Davison Show, and we’re really happy with that that’s going. He’s doing two shows that are going to sell out, one with Nikki Glaser, one with John Mulaney. He was asked, is John Malini going to do another season of Everybody’s Live? What did Johnny Mack tell you? Well, Robbie Prau admitted it, No, we don’t think so.

No, John is on a big tour. There’s no talk of him doing that right now. Told you so. Any interest in Stephen Colbert, Tracy Pocosta said, we haven’t talked to Steven. We talk about how much we love him.

We’re big fans of Stephen Colbert in his show, but nothing specific. All right, What about the roast of Kevin Hart. Robbie Pross said, it’s going to be a real night of surprises. You have Shane Gillis hosting and Kevin Hart is the roasty. Two of the biggest comedy superstars of all time.

Might be a little early to put Shane Gillis on the list of biggest comedy superstars of all time. I think we need a little more work there. You know, if you were a baseball player, he’s in like season four, Like, relax a little with that. He’s great, but relax, you know what I’m saying. Don Maddingly didn’t make the Hall of Fame.

Keith Hernandez not in the Hall of Fame. Robbie Prost says, there has never been a comedian at Kevin’s level that has been in that hot seat. He’s going to be ruthless at the end of this roast, and I’m excited to see it. Now, I’m going to fact check that my gut is telling me. I’m doing this live.

My gut tells me that is not true. Let’s see celebrity roasts of comedians, because he got the Dean Martin ones.

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All right, let’s start with the Comedy Central roasts, Drew Carry, Jerry Stil…

You could argue Kevin Hart is bigger than all of those guys. There was a TV show called The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Governor Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad Kirk, Douglas, Betty Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson. You want to put Johnny Carson up against Kevin Hart in a battle, It’s at least a discussion, right. The roasters on that were Jack, Benny, Joey, Bishop Foster, Brooks, George Byrns, Ruth, Buzzy, Truman, Capoti, Dom Deluiz, Red Fox, Rich, Little Bob Newhart. For nineteen seventy three.

You know, I don’t know man heads ahead that lineup in nineteen seventy three with Johnny Carson versus whatever they’re gonna throw up Sunday Night. It’s at least the discussion. Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carol O’Connor, Munty Hall, Plugman and Randall, Jaja, Leobta Roscher, Truman, Capodi, Don Rickles. It could be Ralph Nader, Jack Benny red Fox, Bobby Riggs, George Washington is portrayed by Jan Layton. That’s different.

Rowan and Martin Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope. Okay, please understand, Bob Hope is on the mount Rushmore of comedy like an eight decade career. I know a lot of people judge him by the work he did after turning eighty, but watch the young Bob Hope. He is solid on that. Neil Armstrong, who’s the first next man on the Moon?

Johnny Bench, Jack, Benny Milton, Burrow, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Phillis Dillars, Jajah Rich, Little, Ronald Reagan and a governor at that point in seventy four. I would assume Don Rickles and others. Telly Savalis, Lucille Ball, want you want to go head to heead against Kevin Hornt Lucy Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Junior, Michael Landon, Evil Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali not a comedian, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Red Fox, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gave Kaplan, Tad Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty Sinatra not a comedian, Clugman, Betty White, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Suzanne Summer’s, Joe Namath, Joan Collins, Mister t In nineteen eighty four, and the last one on December seventh, nineteen eighty four, Michael Landon, I have quite digressed. The premise was Robbie Prost saying, there has never been a comedian at Kevin’s level that has been in that hot seat. I propose to you, Johnny Carson, we have digressed.

They asked Robbie prow about Louis C.K. You remember Louis was canceled at one point, but now everybody loves Louis. Come out to the Hollywood Bowl, come see him. Pros said, when it comes to Louis, part of the job of my team is we listen to the type of stand ups people want to see. We also spend a lot of time looking at who’s selling tickets around the world.

Louis is at a really impressive run for the last two years, and it’s a great special right now, so we’re excited to see it on Netflix this summer, Variety did follow up, you must have anticipated backlash given his twenty seventeen sexual misconduct scandal. How much does that factor in? Pros said, When our members sit up and open up Netflix, they have a decision to make of what they want to watch. Oh, that’s not a good answer. This is about giving them an option to see a really popular comedian that they may want to watch, who’s still putting out great stuff.

Sure, that opens the door to and I’m not gonna go there put up anything. I’ll let you use your imagination as to what anything is. You don’t have to watch it, Like if there’s the hate speech show, you don’t have to watch it. That’s not a good answer. I’m sprised the pr people let that make it.

Ato Variety, that is not a good answer. Oh here’s a fun one. They asked, what do you make of Hulu push into comedy? Now, if you listen to this show and I’ve got some stuff I slept for tomorrow’s episode. I don’t like Hulu’s nail on this at all.

Right, he’s phrasing, what do you make of Hulu’s pushing to comedy. They’ve been able to secure big names for specials, some of which i’d imagine you also fought for. Do you view Hulu as a threat? That’s hilarious? Bekostas said, I don’t know about that part.

But look, competition is always good because it’s good for the comedy community. It means people are working, getting exposure and getting to tell their stories. See that’s a good answer. I don’t know if it’s working or out for them. I know we continue to be in the business with a lot of the people that were on Netflix that have gone to do specials at Hulu.

Because we offer an extension on the stand up brand for these comedians, We’re able to work simultaneously with them, whether that be on the scripted side, on the future side, or what have you. Me Save some more of this for tomorrow, as we are already getting along. Because John read you a list of everybody who’s ever been roasted.

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Speaking of Louis C.K.

He was on Jim Norton’s podcast. C K was talking about visiting India as part of his tour, which is called Ridiculous. In a free Wheeling check Ye with Jim Norton, Louis C.K. Opened up about what he saw in India, comparing it to how he sees poverty, specifically in New York City. Let’s let Louis C.K.

Tell you here’s a clip. Feeling in India is like the and I am ignorant. So I just saw what I saw. Nobody’s on the street looking like shit, right, nobody’s on drugs, and nobody’s living homeless, do you know what I mean? Like the way in the streets here in New York.

Yeah, I see guys with a little bubble sting like they’re really they really like street syringe. I see guys shooting up broad daylight all the time now.

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And then you see guys you.

Know that bent over it the way. Yeah this thing. I didn’t see a single person like that. And any of the places we went to in India. From the hotel, we could see this area that was like corrugated steel uh cubes, yeah, with tarps over them, but like a whole city block.

So there’s there’s a functioning poverty there and and there’s many levels of housing that are way way cheaper, whereas here we have like a standard. But if you fall below it, if you’re if you can’t afford a home in New York City, you’re on the street and you freeze to death, and you’re and uh and nobody looks at you, and there’s no job for you. Like, you can’t you can’t get a job if you don’t have a credit rating in this country. You can’t. If you don’t have like a credit card and a real like identity, you can’t just like hustle and see what you can get done.

If you do, you probably live on the street. You probably live under a tarp somewhere in a in a really uh not in a group. You know. I mean, obviously there are people who build shanty towns and uh, but the cops come and dismantle them all the time once I call them. The Alex Jones is not happy with this Tim Highdecker stuff.

By the way, Tim Hidecker and for worce people tap the brakes. I’m kind of sick of it now. It’s a lot of fun for a couple of days, but it’s too much now. Alex Jones weight in he captured the post appointed Onion news director and a vowed Satanist. Tim Hideker melts down over the court ruling blocking a transfer of Info Wars to the Onion.

I am not familiar with Tim Highdecker’s choice of worship at all. I don’t recall seeing anything where he was an avowed Satanist. I guess I get asked the internet, is Tim high Decker a Satanist? Well, here is a video from YouTube one week ago titled Tim Highdecker admits he loves Satan. I guess we should listen.

I am going to make a big announcement right now, and that might affect our relationship. And I am pledging myself to Satan and to the Prince of Darkness. Oh. I read about this last night on a WEBSDAYE. I read about a fores dot com.

Yeah, it’s been out there, and now I’m here to confirm that I am a soldier for him. I am a soldier for the Prince of Darkness, and I hail him in a lot and respect the hell out of the devil. Okay, there you have it, the words of Tim Heidecker. So I guess what Alex Jones said in that case is accurate. A judge has scheduled another hearing from May twenty eighth, so we’ll keep an eye on that.

Boy. I told you there was a lot going on. I even bumped like four things, which I love to do. It makes the whole week. It goes so much easier when I have too much to talk about.

I was actually strategizing with our publicist earlier in the day, and I told her save some stuff for a week of Memorial Day, because that’s when it gets a little quiet. I’m going to see if we get some press for this little podcast here. A Radar Online reported there was an effort behind King charles hilarious jokes. A source said there was a conscious effort to sharpen the tone of Charles’s words and to make sure the jokes traveled across cultures. It was less about improvisation and more about precision writing, similar to how late night shows workshopped their material.

Another source said the King has natural wit, but this was refined. Lines were tested, adjusted and structured to ensure they resonated in a highly str extu environment without causing offense. It created the impression of effortless charm. Behind the scenes. It was highly curated.

Every beat was deliberate. The Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival continues in Los Angeles. The La Times is excited about Seinfeld Is at the Greek Theater at eight o’clock tonight. They describe Jerry Seinfeld as the king of the comedic rant. Jerry is joined by Tennessee funny woman Leanne Morgan.

They’re also excited about the Comedy Swap seven o’clock at the Nest at the Crow, Created and hosted by Brooklyn Jones. The Comedy Swap mixes fantastic stand up comics with a cool twist on a clothing exchange. Bring old clothes, shoes, at accessories to donate. During the incredible comedy show, a pop up shop will be created for you to take an item with you when you leave for free. That’s fun.

Anything left over goes to local charities. I like it. Let’s check the schedule. We’ll click the Tuesday May fifth button seven thirty at the Hollywood Bowl. Louis c.

K not So canceled at seven thirty at the Intuit Dome Cat Williams. Those are two big shiny shows. The Greek Theater. Seinfeld at eight three shiny shows, so just to be fair to Netflix. Jim Gaffigan at the Dolby Theater at seven.

Fourth biggest comedian I’ve named it so far, maybe the third. Maybe you think Gaffagan is bigger than Kat and I’m not sure he is. Alana Glazer and romy Yuseffer at the Orpheum at seven, Jesselnick at the Sabin at seven, theovonn at the Wildron at seven thirty. Tom Pop is out there at the Woolshare. He’s at seven seven o’clock the Maltabon Theater.

David Letterman with special guest John Mulaney. So just there right like, and I just stayed home. If you even go out to La of the like six seven shows I already mentioned, which do you even go see? I guess I’d go see Letterman. So you’re blowing off Seinfeld and c K however you feel about him and Caton Gaffigan.

I mean, this is just huge, nine forty five hanging with doctor Z that is the I assume legally distinct planet of the Apes of Parody. Friend of the show, John Marcos Serresi at seven o’clock at the Blasco. That is the only thing that I’ve se scene with the words sold and out on it. As I look at this Steph Toleves at the Troup Door at nine thirty and they just added at six thirty a the Laugh Factory the Best of Chicago hosted by Jeremy Piven. That’s different.

Oh wow, the Tuesdays with Stories. Guys, they were sold out at the Hollywood Improv at seven thirty. Cameron espositos in ten. I mean, this is what a huge, huge, and it’s Tuesday. Now.

If you’re not in Los Angeles, fear at home like me, you can go on YouTube at eight o’clock Eastern and watch Eugene Mermons Here Comes the Whimsy. If you want to own it on vinyl, you gotta wait till Saturday, May thirtieth. But you can watch the special now. You can get a digital download on PGF Records. Now.

It’s Eugene Mermons first special in ten years. Is that true? Because maybe it is true because the last one had like eight trillion cuts. Maybe that was just an album album. Here Comes the Whimsy was recorded live in Summerville, Massachusetts, and features Eugene Merman’s trademark Playful Spirit as he shares anecdotes on fatherhood, travel insights, rental car disputes, and more.

You can also participate in a live chat with Eugene during the YouTube premiere tonight eight Eastern, five West. You can also see him at Largo on the twelfth in Los Angeles. And that it’s your comedy news for today. I told you was busy. Tomorrow is going to be busy too, and I’ll meet you back here then

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Caloroga Shark Media Hire. There, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. The Netflix is a joke comedy festival kicks off in Los Angeles. The LA Times has a lot of coverage of it, and in the La Times, Nate Jackson writes, the LA comedy scene has never been just one thing.

Sure, we’re home to some of the best comedy clubs and comedians of the world, legendary improv troops. We’ve got them, podcasts at Center, We’re drowning in them. When it comes to variety shows, drag brunches and clowns, Our Town is top tier. Yet still at some point even the most omnivorous comedy fan can hit a wall when it comes to looking for new things in this city to laugh about. Thankfully, every other year for the last six years, the Netflix is a Joke Festival and Jack’s LA with a large doseph discovery.

Tracy Pacosta is Netflix is head of comedy until the La Times being able to put groups of people together or talent that’s doing this for so long, I think that’s what makes the festival great. The change this year is the festival is one week, not two weeks. It’ll go through Sunday. Eliza Schlessinger said, we have so many opportunities for comics to showcase themselves, and we have such unique voices here in LA and there’s such diversity. It’s a chance to see all your favorite comics in one place and then about five hundred other comics.

It might not be great for your brick pads or your traffic time, but there’s a lot going on. Sheng Wang till the La Times. There’s a lot of smaller shows around town that are also listed as part of the festival. I like doing those rooms to just practice and get reps. But it’s cool that they’re partnering with the festival so they can kind of build a profile for themselves.

Let’s go at Cotska called the festival comedy Coachellaunge said, for me, it was the alt rooms that helped me grow because you know, everyone has different energies and backgrounds and backstories. I’m not someone that could start at a comedy club. My personality doesn’t allow for it. The seven day festival has three hundred and fifty shows. Tracy Pocosta from Netflix said, I think it sort of goes back to wanting to be in business with incredibly talented people, and a lot of comics were talking about Louis C.K.

And what he was putting out recently. In order to make sure that we have the best and most variety on service, having him perform at the festival and then ultimately launching a special on Netflix, it gives members the opportunity to see if they want to. When we’re getting the talent we’re working with that, we have a lot of respect for how great he is and how he’s doing this. Again, it’s like, Okay, we want to be able to give people the choice to see it. I’m not going to editorialize here, but I suspect some people will have some commentary on Tracy’s comment.

Case you, I don’t know what I’m talking about. Google, Louis C.K. Canceled. We learn here that otsgo at Kontska plans to shoot her next special in LA later this year. I saw that show a month ago already, that show’s ready to go.

It’s very strong. Eliza Slessinger said. Comedy wanees and it waxes and right now. It’s just everywhere. People you’ve never heard of are micro famous.

They’ve got a billion followers, they make a jillion dollars. You’ve never heard of them. And the festival is great because it keeps growing, so there’s more opportunities for that audience to find you. Some of the shows the La Times is excited about. They have a whole list.

I’ll pick at it day by day, but they’re excited. Tonight at seven pm, Ralph Barbosa, who they remind us, garnered viral fame by being distant, then apologized to by George Lopez, who didn’t know who he was at the time. We are told Barbosa heads to the Orpheum with a newfound spark of energy and attitude on stage, adding some spice to his naturally laid back style. The Al Times also suggests you had to Dynasty Typewriter at nine thirty tonight. Mike Ward might not be a household name in La yet, but he is widely respected in the comedy world for pushing boundaries.

Known for dork, irreverent and unfiltered stand up. His joke related legal case reached the Supreme Court in Canada, which ruled in his favor in twenty twenty one. I remember that The Only Times also suggests that the Comedy Store at eight o’clock in the belly room, it’s Timmy no breaks. You may know Timmy from kil Tony. If not, think confident, unpredictable and hilarious improv at its finest.

We are told his signature line boom Roasted, turns a typical one minute set on Kiltny into a full night of NonStop energy. I think that’s also my son’s cat. I wonder if they’re the same person. Godfrey is at the Ice House at nine forty five. Let’s take a look at the Johnny Mack version of the list.

Have got the schedule up here, and they have things in chronological order, which is my favorite type of schedule to have people post. Other comedy festivals please take note of this. Let’s see what we’ve got going on tonight. Shane Gillison Friends at the Hollywood Bowl eight o’clock. That seems like a big deal.

Tell you though, as I recorded this sentence around twelve forty five pm on Friday afternoon, plenty of tickets available for Shane Gillis and Friends at the Hollywood Bowl. You could get in for fifty nine to thirty plus fees, kind of surprising six o’clock at the Saban Theater. It’s Rushmore with special guests Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. One of the shows I wanted to go see and one of the few shows on the website that actually says sold out is Kunk in Conversation with Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker. That would have been one of the shows that would have gotten me to go out there.

And as I mentioned earlier on the podcast and not earlier today in a different episode, the issue there was some of the stuff I wanted to see was like tonight and then fly to the Concords a Sunday, and just everything about going to LA for like a full week during finals week so my daughter can’t even hang out with me, six seven, eight days of hotels car. I was just like, I’m not doing it, doubly so without credentials. These Netflix people, I know, I suck. I’m a loser in the basement. I reached out to Robbie Praul on LinkedIn, didn’t hear back.

That’s fine. Tried going through the front door to the publicists. You get nothing back. Tried going through the back door to the publicists, you get nothing back. I had my publicist reach out.

This was impenetrable, so you know, eight days. I’m not looking for freebies, but you know, just having the proper information about this stuff makes this all easier. So thumbs down to the Netflix folks. Thumbs up to the Just for Laughs folks who were awesome, super easy to work with, Get right back to you, book guests for you, hook you up. It’s all great.

I digress punkin conversation with Dian Morgan seven o’clock at the Egyptian. Donnane Rawlings at the Blasco nine five, Dusty Sleigh at the Troubadour at seven. Joel Kim Booster has a low ticket warning. He’s at the Trouba Door at ten. Ron Funches at the Hollywood Improv Main Room at seven thirty.

Friend of the Show Ismo is at the Ice House at seven thirty. Natalie Palamedes, who is awesome and one of the few sold out some I’m seeing here. She’s at the Allegion at seven and many many other shows. That’s pretty busy for a Monday night. Dion Cole is doing a benefit show out there tonight.

He’s all the La Times. He’ll do crowd work if he has to, but he’d much rather tell you the jokes he wrote. He says, the audience feels like, hey, we came to improv, we came to have fun. It’s like, no, you know how long it took me to write these jokes. I don’t need to come in here screaming at me, and then I spend five minutes talking about you and your mom and your kids.

Then I forgot what I was doing, and now the tone of the show is messed up. Love it. He is proud of his career. He says, there’s a lot of people look in the mirror every morning, go out in the world and becomes something else when the thing that’s gonna make them rich and successfuls in the mirror. I think, whoever that person is in the mirror, you need to take that person with you and apply that person to every that you do, and that’s gonna make the difference in your life.

The Times was curious how his prep has changed over the years. He says, I’m more confident. You know, back in the day, it might be a thirty sixty chance that a joke will work thirty, meaning it will work sixty that it won’t. Now in a point when I can think of something and there’s an eighty five percent chance at work fifteen that it won’t. So my preparation is for us thinking of something on going to execute it.

Being able to execute it is another difference. Back in the day, I’d have to ask for stage time. Now I can think of something, go to a club and go right up. I can hear something now and go that’s funny, and then go do it and it becomes funny. So just having confidence to do that and I question myself as much.

Also out today, it is Kevin Hart’s Funny AF Live Semifinal on Netflix at nine o’clock. There is a clip. Now interesting as you watch the visual of this clip, and you can’t because this is an audio podcast. The visual says tonight features guest Chris Rock, But unless I missed it, Kevin Hart didn’t actually say that, so they must have recorded this earlier and then booked Chris Rock later. But the text says Chris Rock is on tonight.

Anyway, let’s listen. I just crossed the country to find the freshest and the funniest new voices in common. Recently, I just had my first threes attempt. You’ve heard from legendary comedians. Some people have that thing.

Marshan, why are you here? Did you think Kevin was a football? Now? Le JITs are in a vaulte your favorite stand up comedian, I’m down with dinner for what you watch the live semi finals on May fourth and the grand finale on May fifth. White mom chores are like Hunter take Out the Try.

Immigrant mom chores are like Hey, get up and get me up passport when one will rise above the rest and take the mic and wins it, all people are going for me. It turns out CTE just stands for casting talentless idiots. This person is going to be common one of us. This is now a death patch. I will see who stands up in the pressure and who doesn’t.

So I need to know, well, who will you vote for? And from last their headlines Sorry New York City. In Chicago v’s funny AF comics say LA has the stand up scene to beat. LA based comedians Felicia Folks, Steve Fury, and Ray Lao said that for them, LA is the place to be. The three were among the group of forty four comics like to celebrate in funny af Steve Fury told Las there’s a real camaraderie among comics in LA and the other cities can’t match.

He says, there’s a couple of people that everyone hates, you know, but overall you’re competing with people, but in the end you see someone win. I don’t really get mad about it, and I don’t think a lot of people in LA do. Steve Fury said. A lot of people since the pandemic have kind of crapped on LA, especially some people that decided to move to other places. Do you mean Joe rogan I digress?

Steve said, this is a great comedy scene. The best guy in that small town moves here. The best person in New York a lot of times at some point still gonna end up here. Sure, there was an exodus of a bunch of podcast comedians during the pandemic do you mean Joe rogan I Digress? But it allowed the scene to grow in a way that it hasn’t seen a long time.

You know, there’s a lot of people like Ray Laud coming up and showing that this is a fantastic scene and it can hang with any other scene. This is a great place to come for finishing. It’s almost like your searing steak. It’s almost done, you put it in the oven for the last hour. That last hour.

The heat that this place has is la and that’s how you become great. It cuts all the fat off, the bs off your act, and it makes a great good stuff there.

Speaking of Ray Lau, Heat’s old last it’s totally a grind.

But at the same point, to be honest, I prefer it because I’m not really sure I would have cracked through in the old world where bookers and gig keepers could decide whether or not you could move through the ranks. And in this way, at least, all of it is technically up to you. I mean, it’s extremely exhausting and stressful and difficult and nearly impossible, but it’s up to you. LA gets a lot of crap talked about it, and in New York there’s a lot of good comics and there’s a lot of stage time there, and that’s good. I just like where I’m at, you know, sometimes the grass isn’t greener.

I like my life here, I like working on my stand up. I like my friends here. I’ve gotten to know the bookers and other comics, and it’s just nice. Felicia Folks said, I love comedy and LA has a great history. I can get on stages here.

I know people complain a lot about not being able to get stage time, but I think that’s a skill issue. I’ve never had problem getting up in my city. I don’t know what to tell these people. Will be talking a lot about Los Angeles this week, as the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival has begun. King Charles has returned back home.

Josh Johnson on The Daily Show apparently agrees with me that Charles was pretty good at jokes. Josh said, what’s annoying about this? As a comedian, he’s actually killing He called the King the world’s oldest NEPO baby. A couple jokes from Late Night about the King. Josh Johnson, you know, I’ve always wondered what white deaf jam would be like.

Josh again, Wow, he really commands the stage. I’m sorry, he really colonizes the stage. Seth Myers with a bomb. King Charles gifted President Trump a gold bell from an old submarine called the HMS Trump And what better gift for a guy who’s way underwater. That’s lame Kimmel.

Unfortunately, only Belle Trump likes is the Tago one. Greg Guttfeld, you know the guy from Fox. See know all you people that were like, how could we never talk about the other side because they recaps never included Guttfeld And now they do, and you will now see how lame Guttfeld’s jokes are. I mean, tell them way, way, way way better than I do, but they’re not good. Gottfield, King Charles and Queen Camilla paid visits in New York City to make them feel at home.

None of us f lost. I mean, you can hear the audience groaning, right, do that joke in your head? You can hear Gottfeld. Yeah. The White House held a steak dinner for the King and Queen of England and I actually attended, though they stuck me at the kids table.

Yeah, it took Prince Andrew’s seat. Wow, okay, Jimmy fallon today, King Charles and Queen Camilla were in New York City and on Earth visit time Square Elmos, which from Jack Daniels to Crown Royal. See that’s cleverly crafted. Rob Schneider wants ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Remember the whole kerf fluffle last week with Jimmy Kimmel and the joke and Milania and all that.

Yeah. Rob Schneider has posted a letter to Walt Disney Company CEO Josh Tomorrow. In the open letter, Rob Schneider called for Kimmel to be fired for quotes a pattern of reckless, dehumanizing rhetoric that disrespects human life and contributes to the tucks climate of hatred and violence threatening our nation. Schneider also claimed keeping mister Kimmel on your network is a serious and dangerous mistake that reflects poorly on Disney’s values and leadership. When a major network platform repeatedly portrays the president and his family and his supporters as legitimate targets for contempt or worse, violence, it does not entertain, it incites.

I don’t recall Jimmy Kimmel inciting violence at any point. Mister Schneider is welcome to refresh my memory if I’m forgetting something, but I don’t think that is a fair comment at all. Again, if I’m forgetful, let me know in the Facebook group or Rob you could reach out directly. Be happy to have you as a guest if you’d like to come on. Rob Schneider said the Disney Company’s platforming of an individual who has shown such blatant contempt for basic human decency allows that legacy to be stained.

The eyes of the nation and history are watching. Wow and good news. Scrubs was renewed. Yeay hey. Season two slash eleven of Scrubs will happen.

How many episodes, Johnny Mack, Nobody knows. They didn’t announce that part. It is suspected it will once again be a limited number of episodes. Scrub Season one slash ten was nine episodes and very good. That is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Acent is the algorithm loves. Cultured magazine put out their Cultured one hundred. One of the Cultured one hundred is Marcelo Hernandez, who, in my opinion, does one thing, and does one thing well but culture It said.

In his four seasons of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez has played, in no particular order, an emo teen, a soul patch wearing wife stealer named Domingo. Yeah he’s done that, one, a frozen embryo, and himself patron saint of short Kings for the culture. At one hundred, he was interviewed by my former coworker Jimmie Fox. Fox said, you’re good looking, he got the swag. Now that the specials in your review mirror.

How are you feeling, Marcelo Hernandez said, looking back, I can say to myself, I gave it every single piece of me. When we called you, I was sitting there going crazy, and after a conversation, I was like, yo, Jamie Fox is the regulator. You put it in perspective, like it’s already shot. It’s too late to be freaking out. I wasn’t enjoying it.

I was suffering it. Fox said, Okay, let me give you this Michael Jackson Billy Jean Motown twenty five iconic. But he went backstage after and cried because he thought it was the worst performance of his life. You can’t always see what we see, so I told you get in the Ferrari pull out and have a great time. That special had like forty six and a half million views.

I just want to see how that feels. What’s it like to be on top of the mountain? Man? Did it at forty six and a half? What was that even on other Remember it was on Netflix.

I will have to take Jamie Fox’s word for the forty six and a half million views. Marcelo said, I’ll tell you what, Jamie. When I first started doing comedy, I wrote down on my little yellow pad the two people I wanted to be like. I wrote, I want to be physical like Eddie Murphy. I want to be meticulous like Jerry Seinfeld.

And that As I got older and I started to see more, when we started thinking about how we want to shoot the special I thought, I want to shoot it like prior. I want to be sweaty, I want to flowy shirt. You know. Richard Pryor filmed in Miami, and so did I. I wanted to tef Greens look old school, look vintage.

Yeah, so when you said you wanted to be like Eddie Murphy, that was the point. Eddie Murphy’s just doing. Richard Pryor watched the specials back to back. Now, this is interesting aut of Stephen Colbert. In that New York Times profile, Colbert said CBS tried to renew him for as long as five years.

During negotiations in twenty twenty three, Colbert went for a three year extension. Oops, one might say, Colbert told the Times less than two years before they called to say it’s over. They were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So something changed. As for what’s next, the show takes like ninety five percent of my brain.

He won’t seriously consider new opportunities until he has a little more time to breathe. Now, Colbert reportedly makes fifteen million dollars a year. And here’s some advice from Johnny Mack. If somebody ever offers you fifteen million dollars a year, Just say yes. That’s generational changing money.

And if they’re like, hey, we’ll give you fifteen million dollars a year for five years, and now if you do some math, that’s seventy five million dollars, you say yes. Especially on the talent side. You know what was gonna happen. NBC is going to go, hey, we’ll give you sixteen million dollars a year. That wasn’t going to happen.

Just say yes, What are you doing, dude. Conan O’Brien, who settled with NBC for reported forty five million dollars. When The Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno, took the Tonight Show back, Conan was seen in the Netherlands. He was taping a new episode of Conan O’Brien Must Go. Conan was spotted celebrating King’s Day in Amsterdam, then went on Dutch talk show Eva.

Conan said, we showed up, my wife and I got here at six in the morning and I went out on King’s Day, absolute madness day, drinking, which I’m used to. That’s my sport. They seem to be making an episode involving fashion. Conan explained one of my fans. It’s a high fashion model here in Amsterdam, and she said she could teach me how to be a male model.

I showed up, I met with her, and she told me at the end, this isn’t gonna work. She was very disappointed in me. Conan says his show is less interested in educating viewers about a country than putting Conan in absurd situations. We’ve all watched travel shows. They tried to teach you about the country.

I want you at the end of my program to know nothing about the country. I want you to maybe even be dumber than you were at the start of the show. Conan is impressed by the Netherlands, particularly that people are tall and have bikes. He said, so many tall people. I’ve met, so many women that make me feel short.

And everyone’s on a bicycle, which I love. In the United States, when you get on a bicycle, people dress up in these crazy outfits. Here you just see people riding their bikes in normal clothes. Nikki Glaser admits she wasn’t necessarily prepared for the reaction to her, saying that she’s open to her man fulling around. You remember that old story, Yeah, Hollywood Establishment insider Nikki Glaser was on Karras Swishers podcast, So it’s over.

That’s it. If we’re gonna line up the comedians and say who’s an insider, who’s an outsider? Nikki Glaser’s paling around with Kara Swisher, that’s it. She’s done. Don’t expect her to be a roast comedian or doing any of that.

The agents have successfully completed the mission. Hollywood insider Nikki Glaser told Kara Swisher I wasn’t even thinking about censoring myself in any way that this podcast makes headlines, meaning call her daddy. But Nicky said she woke up to headlines saying that she likes for her boyfriend asleep with other women. Nikki explained, it was like five different headlines showing up in my feed, and I don’t even follow myself. I don’t look for news about myself.

I avoided at all costs. It was just really embarrassing. Yes it was. Esquire wrote a piece the headline, this new comedy special completely shocked me with joy, they write. Michael Cruz Caine’s son Fisher, died from sepsis in two thousand and nine, just thirty four days after he was born, Fisher’s twin brother lived, and Caine and his wife Carrie also have a daughter.

The family’s world was destroyed. It needed to be rebuilt. Ten years later, Caine stand up comics started writing on Twitter about his grief. The comment started coming in by the thousands. The tweets turned into a one man show that Caine titled Sorry for Your Loss, which is the kind of phrase that shows up on cards.

Caine told Esquire, Yeah, the show’s about grief, specifically about how I felt, starting from the moment my son died, which was in two thousand and nine, untill now, because the grief continues. It’s an honest reflection on those feelings, and a lot a lot of that is comedy, because I’m a funny person. Even in the worst possible situation, there are still things that, if you’re a human, will make you laugh. I didn’t want to hide from those things and pretend not to see them. I just wanted to feel free and be myself as opposed to trying to be a quote unquote grieving person.

People have an expectation of what someone who’s grieving will be like, but all that stuff made me feel alienated from people. What made me feel good was talking to people who talk to me like I was a person. I know you, you’re my friend. Can we just talk how we normally talk? As for the special, he says, once you release it into the world, you lose a lot of control over how people receive it.

It’s funny. The New York Times did a piece about like how grief in comedy a few years ago that I was in. I read all the comments. A large percentage of them were like, what kind of sicko experiences some kind of tragedy then tries to turn it into jokes. I guess they hadn’t seen it, so that’s what they think.

It is that one is called sorry for your loss. He is Michael Cruz, Keane Kay and E Interview magazine caught up with Ronica Slowakowska. They did a little free association short form. She said, easier in ways, harder in ways. SNL’s a form of It’s not exactly live.

It’s edited on the spot about attention, spans, short and screwed up. But I don’t think all is lost. I can totally binge Sister Wives Delivery. I’m a corporate slot person. Rice Bowls protein a vegetable, something that’s sustaining my energy and making me think good.

I’m obsessed with this place that is Brussels sprouts. Whatever we order it. Everyone’s offices smell like farts actors. She says, I feel like I was right in the middle of comedian and actor. But since getting on SNL, I’ve chosen a side as being a comedian cooler.

I don’t know. Maybe about sleep. SNL gives us time to sleep, but will you sleep is the question. I’m just damped up. I’m excited tonight’s writing nights.

Am I going to go home at midnight? Or am I going to go home at four am? It’s kind of up to me. A few weeks ago, Ay Lorne Michael’s documentary came out. The Oler reporter said, Lorne Michaels has been enigmatic and evasive for long enough that he doesn’t seem more or less uncomfortable having a camera in his vicinity, knowing dorn Well that he isn’t going to let anything slip by by accident.

This same principle lets director Neville linger in Michael’s office, and even in the film’s closest to revelatory moments at Michael’s lakeside get away in Maine. Nothing Michael says is all that revealing or candid, but Nevill’s eyes are still loud to wander, inviting viewers to latch onto Michael’s life ephemera and read meaning into it. It’s his love of Gordoney and extension of his devotion to cultivating talent. He won’t say so, but maybe is his office filled with fish that he refuses to name as a mirror of the constant rotation of cast members of his best known show, Don’t Know, not surprisingly that people with the loosest lips are people who no longer rely on Michael’s for a paycheck. With many of the highlights coming from John Mulaney, Fred Ormison, Bill Hayter, and Adam Sandler swapping stories, Mulaney, like Tina fay Conan O’Brien and a few of the veteran writers, gives the strongest impressions of knowing where the bodies are and buried when it comes to revealing details about Michaels, but each other people who appear to know him best has and I can never repay Lorne story that makes it clear that they aren’t saying anything Lorn wouldn’t once said if Michaels were to retire after the season, Neville’s documentary could be shown at his retirement party without anybody feeling awkward.

The av Club said that Lauren the documentary fights a losing battle against all the other Sketch Show history lessons. They write, SNL has been so celebrated, chronicled, and mythologized that it seems impossible to imagine anything new to say about the Sketch Show, but documentarian Morgan Neville gives it a shot. Narrated by Chris Parnell, Lauren establishes early on that Michaels isn’t particularly interested in the movie being made about him. Michaels presents himself as we often see him, dressed up, gray hair, button down, a tad aloof The result does a likable film that auto appeal to SNL fans and hardcore comedy nerds. As an SNL history lesson, Lauren will feel rudimentary to those already be sotted up by the show.

As a portrait of Michael’s early years and comedy beginnings. The documentary passes by key biographical details too quickly for them to fully register. And the program’s memorable sketches have been played to death by this point. If somehow you’re just now getting an SNL and having a ready ingested, endless lore about the most aduring of sketch shows, Lorne might be a meaningful primer for everybody else. You’ve heard this joke before.

All Right, the Netflix is a joke of festival is about to kick off. They are highlighting the short list, a showcase spotlighting nationally touring comment These are not newcomers, but rising voices on the cusp of their next chapter. We are told, so kind of new faces, but different. Here’s your list. Comedian CP aka Chris Powell, writer and performer who’s comedy special Sunday After Six debuted in twenty twenty five.

Ethan Simon’s Patterson a stand up comedian who’s been featured on Comedy Central and is a regular at The Seller. Gabby Bryan is a New York based stand up comedian, actress, podcaster, and Emmy winning producer. Lucas Zilnik a stand up comedian, born, raised and based in New York City, featured on Comedy Central. Matty Wiener stand up comedian who made her fallon debut last year and his filmed to stand up sets for Comedy Central and Don’t Tell Comedy Opie Alakbaju, La based stand up comic who’s been recognized by Vulture as one of the comics you should and will know. Peter Ravello, stand up comedian, actor, and writer based in New York.

He debuted on Fallon and has appeared on Comics Unleashed, Yeah Chappelle. Lacey La based stand up comedian who performed at the Comedy Store and hosts a YouTube series called Cooked in the Comments. Sophie Buttle, She’s kind Of No No. Sophie was the head monologue writer for CBS’s After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and has appeared on Fallon Cordon and CBC’s This Hour Is Twenty two Minutes. And Zach ned Towers, LA based comedian, actor and writer who appeared on Netflix’s Dear White People.

Those are the short list. The showcase takes place tomorrow, two shows starting at six o’clock. And that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, their Happy Derby Day. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Catherine Blandford is an amy she’d keep an eye on. She’s been to the Derby.

She said. I was in college and took my roommate to the Derby with me. She’d never been to Kentucky. I was like, porta potty racist tradition. I forgot to tell her it’s illegal.

She gets to the end and she’s dancing and celebrating and people are cheering and the cops are waiting for her to get down. I was hiding, and she was like, I’m a team mom, It’s my first night out. She went to the drunk tank for the rest of the Derby. Ha Lanford started performing comedy at the University of South Carolina. She says, I’ve done a competition for a fraternity when I was in college.

It was like a pageant. You had to do a talent portion. I wrote a sketch like I was Chelsea Handler. That’s when her show Chelsea Lately was big. I roasted a bunch of frat guys and then did an interview with the pledge from their fraternities, Charlie Sheen.

Obviously we won and I kinda had the bug. She hit it big in twenty twenty two when a clip of her joking about her parents being cousins went viral. David Spade saw the clip and they connected. Blandford started opening for Spade. That lasted two years.

She started headlining on her own, moved to La She’s a regular at the Improv and the Laugh Factory. She plans to record two specials this year. Interesting Maximini was asked by the Hollywood reporter do you think the rulers of Iran will ever loosen their grip? Max says, I think so, and it has I think of it as water and oil. The ideology hasn’t been able to penetrate a culture that people there have had in their DNA for centuries, go back to the attacks of the Mongols, to the Arabs, to the Greeks and so on.

These different ideologies and invasions have affected the country and the people in the culture, but the foundation cannot be destroyed. The minute young Iranians get an opportunity to show themselves. I think the world will see a very friendly, kind and enthusiastic nation who likes to smile. Look, despite forty seven years of this Islamic republic mentality, every household still has their parties and gatherings. They have art shows and man, the music they listen to.

They’re so open minded. You have social media and the younger generation of moderates. Over time, I think it’s going to de escalate. When I was in Iran, you weren’t allowed to have a cassette tape and you’d get arrested for listening to music. Today, the same regime allows concerts, obviously with a lot of guidelines, but the progression has happened.

It’s inevitable. Max says, I never really thought of the opportunity to do comedy in Iran. But when I came back to America, that true sense of freedom that I can do all these things I could have never done in Iran was the spark. When I started college, I decided to become a theater major and pursue acting in comedy. I was very funny when I did my improv with my classmates.

I discovered stand up comedy through that. In the last four or five years, a lot of young stand up comedians have popped in Iran. They’re doing open mics, and they have their little comedy cafes that didn’t previously exist in Iran. I feel like me hanging in there and doing stand up and four Sea is going to pave the way for Irunian comedians down the line to be able to tour and build from there. Right Max, what do you think he got popular?

He said, For many years, I was disappointed that the industry was not recognizing my talent. No casting director, producer director, no projects, no comedy festivals. But I’m one of the lucky people, and that social media gave me the opportunity to let the people decide who they like. The Cavalier Daily went to go see Hannibal Burris. Charlottesville comedian Chris Allen was the opener we saw.

At the end of his sets, Chris Allen offered a heartwarming introduction for Hannibal Burris, calling him a personal inspiration who proved that off kilter black comedians could succeed in the industry. Hannibal grabbed the mic and jokingly took offense to being called weird by his opener. Hannibal started with some political comedy Send your letters to Hannibal Burris, who lamented that America would be in much better shape if only Donald Trump’s television show The Apprentice had been renewed for another season before his first presidential campaign. Hannibal did some more topical jokes about the economy and the war in Iran and did an hour and a half Wow. This is different to keep things fresh throughout the set, different for Hannibal.

I’ve seen other comedians do this. Hannibal used to screen to the back of the stage to show funny text messages he received from his friends, and brief video clips that amplify the impact of certain jokes with meme like outbursts were told. The audio visual elements were you sparingly until the finale. After stepping off stage for a moment, Burris returned to an act a scenario in which a rap song he wrote called the Tallest Person at This Mexican Party became his most popular contribution to society. Seems like it was a good show.

Jeff Dunham talked about his new television show on Discovery, The Cars that Drove Us. This from the folks that made the toys that made us. In the movies that made us. Jeff Dunham and developed his love of cars from growing up on hot wheels. Remember hot wheels, fellow oldies, we were hot wheels.

Person are a matchbox guy. I was a matchbox guy. I never really liked the hot wheels matchbox bleeding cool as Jeff. If you guys get another season, do you know what cars? Jeff said, not a clue.

What I loved about this one was it with seven great cars.

And then in the eighth episode we did a call It’s called the factory.

It was some of the goofy things that car designers put in the vehicles. So we have an idea they’re not be there’s still a cars. And if you pointed a gun at me right now and said tell me which ones they are, I couldn’t do it because I can’t remember since we’ve gone through so many ideas. But I like the idea and a season of having one episode that’s an outlier, kind of a weird one. Switching to comedy, Jeff Dunham, do you have to temper your act?

You know, times are changing, tastes or changing, Jeff said, timings everything. I wouldn’t want to be a new comic coming up right now, trying to do stand up comedy because it’s been a long time since I did a show to a comedy club. But as I understand it now, especially out here in Hollywood, the audiences can be brutal if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or two right, and you will get nailed, nailed, nailed by the audience. I laugh when I talk to my daughter who’s in college in California, and she cancels me about three times a day. Now, if you listen to me every day, there’s two thousand episodes, you kind of get what my vibe is.

Right, Like I was explaining to her about Season one of Survivor. I bought this is all true. I bought the DVDs of season one of Survivor. Fellow oldies, did you watch Season one of Survivor? Remember Root the old Guy.

There’s a clip you can go on YouTube because I sent this to my daughter where one of the contestants, Rich is gay. But twenty five years ago, people are like quizzing him, like, so is it okay to say that you’re homosexual? And Rich is like, yeah, I’m homosexual. Let me pull up the clips. So you don’t cancel me.

Here’s Richard Hatch explaining, it’s okay, guys. You’re not just homosexual. I know gay guys don’t like to be called that because you’re not homosexual. You’re gay. You know you’re I’m homosexual.

Do we not like to be called? No? Because it just makes no If you classify that, it’s own classifying people’s sexual lifestyle. Right, and well, there is a lifestyle associated with being gay, but it’s not something you can’t say I decided to be gay. But it’s been interesting in this new environment to kind of decide when to say what about yourselves?

I think there’s only one person you got worried about. Oh, I’m not worry about it at all. As people get to know me, they learn who I am, and then eventually over time find out I’m gay. I’ve never once in my life encountered prejudice based on my being homosexual anyway. So I want to watch a Survivor one with my daughter just to watch her freak out and cancel me for liking a show.

Twenty five years ago, I Digress. Jeff Denham said audiences can be brutal, and if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or to right, you will get nailed by the audience. They don’t like it. When all this business started rumling a few years ago, as at a point in my career where there are two different ways you can go to comedy club. You’re either paying money just to go to the club and you know who’s going to be there, you don’t care, just want a night off, or you’re paying a little bit more to specifically see a particular person.

That’s a little bit easier because the audience who pay to see you, most of them know what to expect. When I was doing theaters and arenas, it was eighty five to ninety percent already my crowd. They already loved Acamed the Dead terrorist Jose Halapino. Want a stick. If I came about those characters right now, there’s no way they would work.

As a comic. You must, as you say, temper things, or at least I’m not gonna use the word temper. I’m going to show you how I present the comedy. And because I do it as a ventrill quist, I have a little bit of a huge advantage over the other comics because I can point and counterpoint the dummy can make a joke and I can argue with him, and I can say, ah, that’s not okay. So it’s a conversation, a debate.

I like this a lot. The true ingredients of comedy are conflict and tension. I can create that on stage myself, and by the time I’m finished with whatever I’m talking about, whatever the subject is, the audience walks away going, I really don’t know what he thinks or what he believes. Friend of the Show, Ismo, remember he was on. He was a guest.

He has teamed up with a Finland based production house they’re pushing into the live comedy space. Ismo said, it’s exciting to take the next steps with ic S Nordick. We share the same ambition to build comedy of the Travels internationally while staying true to its roots. Not entirely sure what they’re up to, but I’m behind it because he’s a cool guy. Hey are friends.

At the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. They’re starting a new premium ad free service called Gorilla Comedy Plus, launching May fifth. Gorilla Comedy Plus will feature exclusive news specials, plus the full eight hundred Pound Gorilla catalog that includes more than two hundred and fifty titles. At launch, you’ll have access to things like Star Trek Ruiner, Patton Oswalt’sle Hour’s Heat in Scotch, and specials from the likes of Pete Holmes Gorilla Comedy Plus, priced at nine to ninety nine per month. The folks from CNNs have I Got news for you.

They are Roywood Junior, Amber Ruffin, and Michael ian Black. They will be hosting the upcoming Sports News and Documentary Emmy ceremonies, but individually on different nights. On May twenty sixth, Roywood Junior will host the forty seventh Annuel Sports Emmy Awards. Michael ian Black will host the Documentary categories of the News and Documentary Emmys on Thursday, May twenty eighth. Amber Ruffin will host the news categories on Wednesday, the twenty seventh, Michael ian Black the documentary categories on the twenty eighth.

All these events take place at the Jazz at Lincoln Centers, Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. Paralyzed by Hope that Maria Bamford story recently played the Milwaukee Film Festival, filmmaker Neil Berkeley said, so many comedians these days have put her on the Mount Rushmore of the Greatest of all Time with Richard Pryor and Rodney Dangerfield. She’s that revered in this industry. I’m so tempted to bog down on a Mount Rushimore of comedy that has Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield and Maria Bamford.

That’s not too bashed Maria Bamford. But you only get four on Mount Rushmore’s. And he also gave a spot to Rodney I Digress Paralyzed by Hope. The Maria Bamford Story explores Bamford’s comedy journey and the mental health struggles that have influenced her material. Neil says, I want people to experience Maria.

I want people to know there’s this person who gets up at eight in the morning and is comedy for ten people in a bookstore, and then that weekend goes to a thousand seed theater. She has this ability to turn all of her life’s experiences into these incredibly funny but also useful stories. And this isn’t always the goal of stand up comedy. But you can go to her shows and everyone in that audience can hear something or learn about one of her experiences. That they can empathize with.

The film looks at Maria’s creative process, switching between interviews, stand up tapings, and other archival footage to show how Maria’s mental health struggles and trauma have informed her comedy. And that is your comedy news for today. I will see tomorrow.