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

What’s in This Episode

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

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then there was Saturday Night Live.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And then Nate made a movie, an actual movie.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s in This Episode

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

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s in This Episode

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

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s in This Episode

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s in This Episode

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

Questions Answered in This Episode

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Louis C.K., Margaret Cho, Wahlberg Camal Bell, Steve Hofstetter, Larry the Cable Guy, Stephen Colbert, Rob Shooter, Leslie Jones

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler officiates Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding
• Louis C.K. Netflix special backlash from comedians
• Stephen Colbert retreat from public view after Late Show cancellation
• Leslie Jones HGTV series Roast My Rental announcement
• Podcast recording technical difficulties due to power outage

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Caloroga Shark Media. You’re not supposed to roadblock the top of a show. Well, let me set the scene for you here. Hello, I’m Johnny back with your daily Company news. I’m in the basement.

There’s no power. I’m sitting in the spot where I usually record the show, illuminated by the lights of my flashlight. Now, the power lines have been on the ground for like six days, and about twenty minutes ago a power crew from Alabama came to reattach the power lines to my house. And I’m in New Jersey, so I appreciate these guys coming all the way up. So that’s the sitch here.

But of course the power guys are on the lawn, which is making the dog’s bark, and I’m sitting in the dark. So that’s the scene today. But luckily I had prepped almost all of the show before jomping in here.

Let’s get to at Adam Sandler said yes right away when he was asked would he o…

A source tells People Magazine Sandler was incredibly on it to be part of such a special day. The source ads that Sandler was the perfect person to serve as efficient, noting that Sailor has been happily married for so many years to his wife Jackie. They just celebrated their twenty third anniversary. I mean, yeah, I’ve been happily married for over twenty five years, and I qualified. Who knows.

Sailor wasn’t just trying to find the perfect words or make it this big production. He just wanted to speak from the heart, pass along a little wisdom that he’s gained from his own happy marriage. People tells us Sandlor kept it low key before the big wedding. He was seen stepping out in the New York City heat wave hours before the wedding to shoot some hoops. As one does.

Sandlor headed out in his signature basketball shorts and yellow T shirt. You know, Sandlor and I could be friends. No, I’m not kidding. I went for a run this morning in a yellow T shirt and shorts. Weird, told Sandlor.

Right after the basketball went out to pick up coffee for his family. Back in twenty twenty five, Sandlor told Entertainment Tonight, Travis Kelsey’s like the guys I grew up with when I was with. Travis reminded me of my buddies, an eye, just being able to laugh and say the things you want to say. Taylor is incredible. Taylor so damn nice to my family and has always been.

My kids have met Taylor a bunch of times over the years, and she’s ridiculously nice to them and warm. Now see, here’s our first I could edit this out, but here’s our first victim of the power outage. Here in the two slot, I had some comments from comedian Michael Loftus who was saying that the marriage went on the last three years. But I didn’t actually paste to the script, and now I don’t have power to grab the article. See if I can get it on my phone, Why don’t you edit this out, John, because that’s not fun.

I’m sitting in the dark. This is not a bit. Nope, I don’t have enough Internet to find that story. So now we know what we’ll be in tomorrow’s show.

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Moving on, John Focus USA today asked a bunch of comedians about that guy Lou…

You know Louis C.K. He used to be canceled, but now he’s got a big Netflix special. That’s not that good, Margaret Chow posted on threads I’m gonna have to clean this up a little bit. Louis C.K. Should have just had an onlyfan so people could pay to watch him do the kind of thing Louie likes to do in front of people, instead of subjecting female comment to it.

Missed financial opportunity. W Camal Bell on his sub stack took a break from taking shots at Mega Comedian Apraghatzy Bell wrote, so many people at Netflix had a sign off on ck getting invited to the festival and getting a new special. What were they all thinking? So many people have to work the show that he headlines, whether they want it or not. So many comedians will be at events and parties with Louis C.K.

Whether they want to be in the room with a known sex pest or not. So many people who make so much less money than him will have to pretend like they’re okay being in the same room as him. This is how showbiz works. I will agree with mister Bell in this is how showbiz works. If you want to hang around with people who are cool and not at all a holes, don’t get into showbiz.

Comedian Steve Hofstatter said the brief hiatus never amounted to real accountability. Steve said comics take time off all the time to work on a screenplay, to go on vacation. The idea of having to take six months off the road was somehow sentence for his behavior is ridiculous. There’s nothing America loves more than a redemption story. If he had come back with Trician, with understanding and with the desire to help prevent it from happening to other people instead of a woe is me attitude, would have been a very different response.

I’m gonna point out here because I’m friends with both Steve and Larry the Cable Guy. Steve factually put out an album one time called Cure for the Cable Guy. The cover of that album is an effigy of someone being hung that is dressed similar to the way Larry the Cable Guy does it during his act. I know that Larry was quite hurt by this and confused by his because he didn’t know or interact with Steve. And you’ve heard me say a million times on the show Dan Whitney, Larry the Cable Guy is an awesome, awesome guy.

Not sure why Steve chose to call his album that, but that was an awkward time, and if you make me pick, I’m on team Cable guy in that fight, Rob Shooter has a pretty gossipy sub stack. He often quotes sources and doesn’t put names to the sources. So take this with a grain of salt. As they say, but Shooter wrote, sources tell naughty but nice. Stephen Colbert has largely he retreated from public view as the reality of his cancelation sinks in.

I don’t know, but you know, the show’s only been over for a month. It’s summertime. What is the guy supposed to do? Like? Can’t take a break, but Shooter rates friend saint.

Colbert is heartbroken, frustrated, and struggling to imagine life after spending years at the center of late night television. One insider says, this wasn’t one insider see what I’m saying. This wasn’t just a job. It was his identity. Stephen poured everything into that show.

Losing it has hit him hard. Shooters column adds the emotional toll was hard to miss when Colbert attended Taylor Swift’s wedding over the weekend, where guest spot at the usually upbea comedian looking unusually subdued. And miserable. How do we know this? I thought nobody was talking about this wedding?

How do we know this? Even longtime colleagues are surprised by how little they’ve heard from him. Another source, again no name, says he’s always been the one holding everyone else together. Now he’s the one who needs time. He stepped away to figure out what comes next.

Yeah. An insider reveals writing is what’s saving him now. It’s giving him somewhere to channel everything he’s feeling. You may recall Stephen is working on a new Lord of the Rings film for some reason. One source says this isn’t retirement, it’s recovery.

Once he’s ready, he’ll be back. Yeah, no kidding. All right, this next segment, I’m gonna call bad ideas Bad Idea Number one. Leslie Jones is giving property owners a reality check on HGTV’s upcoming series Roast My Rental. That’s right, it’s Roast My Rentals, starring Leslie Jones.

This will be out Friday, July twenty fourth, Because you know, don’t you want to sit home on Friday night and watch Leslie Jones Roast Rentals. There’s a trailer. Let’s listen. Please take me to my vacation villa. Whoa disgusting Millions of people check into vacation rentals each year and when that great, they can make a trip unforgettable.

This is blow What in a fresh black plague? Is this? Oh? No? But sometimes was posted online?

That’s not reality? Do we need to call the authority? Snason would love this because this is definitely a serial Killers. Then I’m Leslie Jones, and as a comedian, I travel a lot and I’ve seen it all the good, the bad, and the what were they thinking? Sometimes a property just loses his way, and that’s where I come in these.

Owners now, fortunately for us, and I’m not doing a bit. That’s when the power went out as I was pulling the clip. I lost the Internet and that was all the clip I was able to pull. But luckily for us. I mean, do you want to watch that?

We are told after Leslie Jones scopes out each property and gives owners an honest roast, She then calls on renovation expert and help I wreck my house star Jasmine Roth to help with the major overhaul roast my rental Friday, July twenty fourth, at ten pm. If you have no life now you have something to watch. Bad idea Number two, Chelsea Handler is expanding her podcast network. It’s the launch of the Dear Chelsea Network because Chelsea Handlers at the peak of her popularity right now after the Kevin Hart roast. This is great timing the multi year partnership with iHeart.

We’ll see the creation of several new shows executive produced by Chelsea Handler. A suit over there says, Chelsea has become an incredibly influential voice in the podcasting space with her unique ability to create community among her listeners. I will be honest with you, I’m finding out as I read that sentence that Chelsea even has a podcast. And I’m in the podcast industry and go to shows and google the word comedy every day and do this show. Not sure how popular it is, but I have no Internet, so I can’t tell you.

The first podcast launching on the Deer Chelsea Network will be You’re the Problem with Yaminika, hosted by Yaminika Saunders and longtime friended producer Syree Rush. That’ll be out July fifteenth, that’s Wednesday. It focuses on pop culture in the moment, current events, news and politics. As a podcasting expert. I could tell you from that description that means the show’s completely on foot focused and it’s we’re going to talk about, you know, stuff that never works.

Chelsea Handler says, when I started Dear Chelsea, I wanted to give people access to me and build a place where people could come for honest advice, real conversation and a lot of laughter. And my dog is parking, so quick pause here into an edit, and I think they’ve reconnected the wires because I just heard the power clickback on. So I’m going to go have to check on these guys. Were we Chelsea Handler was saying, when I started Dear Chelsea, I wanted to give people access to me and build a place where people could come for honest advice, real conversation and a lot of laughter. Building that community into a network feels incredibly meaningful, especially because I get to launch it with someone I know, love and believe in as much as Yamanika.

She’s one of the funniest people I know. I can’t wait for people to make her part of their lives the way I have. Bad Idea Number three. Fred Armison and Kerry Brownstein are headed back to Portland. Why a Podcast it’s Podlandia ao Rewatch, produced by Will Ferrell’s company.

That’s out on the sixteenth, which is Thursday. With new episodes weekly Podlandia ao Rewatch, we’ll see Armison and Brownstein revisiting their cult classic TV series, which documented the hipster fat of birds as the core unique bicycles and a tense mustache care that define the capital of Oregon for an entire generation. Now, the reason I don’t love this idea is port LANDI around for seventy seven episodes across eight seasons on IFC. I know people like it, but like it’s not exactly like the Office. I just think the audience is too small for this to work.

Brownstein said, our hope with the portlandier Rewatch podcast is to continue the conversations we began when the show first aired, conversations around community, how a place shapes and defines us, how much of life is mere performance, and how absurdity is often the best way to make sense of the world. Revisiting these episodes also reminded me of the ways Fred is singularly hilarious, We’d love getting to hang out and Reminisce saying that praises the cast crew, in the city itself and have new means of connecting with our audience. I barely made it through that description, and there’s a whole other paragraph. Fred said, rewatching these Portlandy episodes was so enjoyable. I really laughed, which is a strange thing to say about something.

I’m in. Carrie made me laugh a lot. Blah blah blah. I’m so bored. Bobby Flay says one of the highlights of returning to the American Century Golf Championship every year is to catch up with Colin Jost, especially if they end up paired together on the golf course.

Prior to the event, Flay said, I’m looking forward to seeing Colin Jost at the very least. I know if I play with Colin, it’s gonna be funny on the golf course. Lay says, the competition is anything but casual. People think we’re having fun. We are, but we’re also trying to make par It’s very, very competitive.

It’s the most nerve wracking thing we do all year. You can ask any of these guys out here. We’re grinding for pars. Listen, I’m a chef, I cook for a living. I’m playing against world class athletes all over the place.

So it’s not easy. Hey, good news, we are back. The lights are on here in the office. Now it’s too bright in here. Stop complaining, John, We got to talk about Count Binface.

The Telegraph asks, could Britain by hurtling towards its first prime Binister. There’s a comedian, John Harvey. He goes by Count Binface. So this is a guy with like a garbage can on his head. It looks like a Monty Python sketch.

Longtime prankster and elect role underdog. Count Binface, formerly known as Lord Buckethead, stands for the exasperated voter, says the Telegraph. Variety profiled this guy, They tell us. The wannabe politician who last month stood in a by election against Andy Burnham, widely considered the UK’s Prime Minister in waiting, is set to run against right wing MP Nigel Farage in yet another upcoming by election. Despite Farag’s resignation coming only a few days ago, the ballot has already descended into a circus as the politician vowed to stand for re election, resulting in all the other major political parties pulling their candidates over what they’re calling a political stunt.

Enter Count Binface, the comedian dressed as a trash can variety broke this down, Subpetter who is Count Binface. Count Binface is a fifty nine hundred year old intergalactic space warrior from the planet Sigmund nine, whose motto is make Earth grade again, Love It. He has stood in five elections since twenty nineteen, including the London mayoral election, the twenty twenty four general election, and the previously mentioned one against Andy Burnham. Some of his policies include changing London Bridge’s name to Phoebe Wallerbridge, building at least one affordable house, and selecting himself as the UK Eurovision candidate for twenty twenty seven. Now I mentioned he used to be Lord Bucketed, but you see, Lord Buckethead had first appeared in a nineteen eighty four Star Wars parody called Hyperspace, so people started arguing about the ip.

The conversations were initially friendly imagine arguing over Lord Buckethheed, but the conversations broke down. He was forced to hand over the password to the Lord Buckethead Twitter account, so he evolved into Count Binface. Oh my so silly, and I’m gonna go see what the power guys are up to. That’s your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Pete Holmes, Jeff Arcuri, Seth Meyers

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Holmes discusses minimal screen time and iPhone Air preferences with Wired
• Jeff Arcuri’s viral Instagram fame and crowd work comedy style
• Jeff Arcuri’s Netflix special release and wife’s cancer diagnosis
• Seth Meyers reveals SNL cast group chats and funny names

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Pete Holmes wants you to know he’s not reading your email. He caught up with Wired and said, you can make a living. You could have a life and leave fifty five thousand emails on Red with a big f off.

Because this was Wired, they asked Pete Holmes about technology, which is kind of interesting. I like when you ask comedians about different things. What phone do you have, Pete Holmes? He said, it’s the iPhone Air from twenty twenty five. I love this phone so much.

The first thing I love about it is it didn’t do well. No one bought it, and then when I saw it, I couldn’t wait to get it. People often think it’s an Android. People don’t know what it is. I love all of this.

I love having a phone nobody else has. I mean, everybody has the same ugly spider eyeball phone. Everybody’s just getting the max the twenty eight hundred hour battery life. Get all that stuff out of here. The iPhone Air is the first iPhone I’ve seen it in a long time that looks like Steve Jobs out of say, everything else is just Apple playing catchup with Android.

Apple mimick. It’s something this saill Google do or whoever giving us a bunch of stuff we don’t need. And the flex is that it has a short battery life. You see my phone to go. Bete must not be on his phone very much.

There was a time when Apple was trying to make the eleven inch laptop. They were trying to make the future. They were trying to have things look clean, and now it’s just like, here’s everything. You look like you work at Silicon Valley. You look like you’re a programmer.

I want to look like I’m in Blade Runner. They asked Pete Holmes his average screen time. The answer one hour fifteen minutes. Pete said, it’s dream of dreams to finally, if someone asked me in a public way, what’s your screen time? I’ve been living for this day.

So today it’s two o’clock and I’m at twenty seven minutes. And every day I am for sub one hour. And I’m so aware of what a flex this is. I just got my screen report. An hour in fifteen minutes was my average for the week.

And here’s the punchline. That’s still too much. I still feel stressed out by my phone. I can’t even imagine what mine is. My phone’s upstairs.

I’ll tell you some other episode. I’m still looking at it more than I would like to, and it still gets its closet me. At some points it goes higher if I watch a movie or something. If I’ve been flying, I keep the widget for screen time on my home screen, which is good hack. Trying to lose weight, you have to weigh yourself, and if you’re trying to get your screen time down, put the widget on your phone.

Pete says, there’s no social media on my phone. It’s not natural to be in line at the airport security and finding out everything from every corner of the globe and having your own personal life just constantly. I found that if you step away, people get the message pretty quickly. You have to tell people. A lot of my texts start with sorry.

I’m not a big text person, and my phone is in black and white. It’s a nice little hack. Your phone is like a slot machine, so the more you can limit its color and sound, the less it can lull you in a lot more there. We’ll save that for summer weekends. As we go, there’s a lot more there.

I am scrolling down as I babble to you here. Jeff A. Kuriy has a pretty good special on Netflix. The La Times profiled him. They said, let’s talk about the weird level of fame you’ve attained right now.

You’re the guy everyone sees on their Instagram reels at the same time, like who’s that guy? Jeff said, one hundred percent my uber driver on a forty five minute ride here. We talked the entire time. As soon as I get in, he goes, you do comedy? I go, yeah, man, we start talking.

He’s asked me questions. We’re talking about comedy. We pull up and he goes, what’s your name? By the way, he was quoting videos of mine the whole time. Then I wrote it down for him.

I was like, special comes out July seventh, to give it a watch, and he’s like, all right, man, I only have YouTube. I was like, all right, you don’t have to say that. You don’t have to lie in the airport. I get a lot of people squinting, and then I’ll see them look at their phone and try to figure out how do I know this person? The La Times ask Jeff for curi you I have your crowd work clips on social media changed your career, he said immensely.

I think it was the only way for me to put out as much content as I could and still perform live. I get to show my improvisation and yet still work on the written part personally, and it gets to repeat that joke for your touring, as opposed to a crowd work moment it happens, it’s done. There’s a lot of bad crowd work out there, just like there’s bad editing else fledgling or whatever rookie stuff. I think it’s died down, if I’m being honest, I think the main reason for the hate is because a lot of people start to try it. They weren’t doing it, and so there’s a lot of people that try it because they saw the success.

I was fortunate enough that I was already doing it, and so I just applied it to social media. No point in my career did I say I’m going to start talking to the audience. I’ve always done that. It makes me cringe when I see comedians complaining about crowd work. Why you’re worried about what you’re not doing.

Do your thing and then succeed. Don’t try and latch on whatever the success is and then complain didn’t work for you. Change gears aget a little more serious here after Netflix called what was the first thing you did to prepare for the special? Jeff said, So, that’s kind of hard because last year was a big year healthwise for my wife. She was diagnosed with cancer and everything, so it’s a lot of adjusting on the fly.

We found out about the special within today or so, finding out that she was misdiagnosed and her cancer was actually in a better place than we thought it was. So it was a great week for us. So it was very surreal. But then to switch to prepping for special because I’m not going to record a special talking about my life prior to that, it felt weird being able to talk about dating, talking about sex, life, things like that when I just got married. So a lot of special, I would say, at least half was written within a year of the taping on the road that year, going through what I was going through with my wife.

There’s jokes she’s made throughout the year that I would do on stage even after clearing it and saying, my wife said this and she has cancer, and here’s the joke. And I still get people like, oh, come on, don’t make that joke, dude. I’m like, I didn’t, she did. I’m just telling you what happened. We want to let people know that we make dark jokes about her life, about our cancer, about our situation, and not every joke, just like every couple, not every joke is meant to be for everybody.

Seth Myers was on the Hey Jonas podcast curious about his correspondent with former SNL cants mates and asked if there are any group chats and who’s in them and do any of them have a funny name. Seth Myers said, the group chat with the funniest name, Okay, this is Seth Myers, who has the twelve thirty show on NBC. I don’t think it’s that good. The President of the United States and I are a line that we need to make twelve thirty great again. But Seth Myers is doing his thing every night at twelve thirty, getting slightly more viewers than I have listeners.

And Seth Meyers said the funniest group chat name belongs to one with Amy Poehler and producer Michael Schumaker and the very funny group chat name is Seth Meyers said, we’re the Tripod, the three of us. That’s sort of a lovingly supportive one. Oh my god, that’s funny, the Tripod. Hello, oh show, are you kidding me? Man?

That’s the funny one. Meyer said. The other group chats don’t have funny names. Hey, Seth Nioth is that one. But they have some funny people, you know, Andy Samberg, Fred Armison and Bill Hayter, those guys on one.

I will say the funniest texture independent of a group is Fred Ormison. Just for Laugh Sydney twenty twenty six has been announced. Now I saw some reports that said this is the first JFL Sydney, and I’m like, I’m pretty sure that existed. And this article I’m Kribbigoff says it’s the fourteenth edition. Now I’m pretty sure it existed because when I was working with the Just for Last Folks AD Serious a decade ago, I was trying to figure out a way to scan my way to doing business travel to Sydney.

Never pulled it off, So that’s why I know like this existed before. So for its fourteenth year, they’ve already announced Gabriela Iglesias Task Master star Greg Davies, comedy legend Bill Bailey, and mock the Weak icon Dara O’Brien Just for Laugh, Sydney, November ninth, Through the twenty second The Guardian wrote about The Underground Monk Show, Edinburgh’s fringe cult comedy of the highest order. They tell us deep within the cavernous Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh’s Cowgate, robed monks stand ominously on stage after midnight. It’s twenty twenty four, halfway through the fringe, and nobody knows what’s happening. But in this dungeon like sweat box, we’re about to experience a work in progress that’s equal parts to joyous and utterly unhinged.

Two years later, Underground Monks Show is back. So what’s this about? Co creator John Norris said, it’s so funny because that’s what we constantly ask ourselves. If you were an attempt to explain it, you might say the show follows whimsical monks who, over the course of an hour, experience a spiritual awakening, spurred on by a magical body of water that turns their visions into reality. There are flashbacks, dream sequences, and a portal into another world.

One night, the monks latched onto objects from members of the audience. A poor man in the front row lost his cap for the entire show when accompanied by Gregorian Chance and Coral Masses. The monks deemed it sacred to their cause. See I love this stuff. I know some of you were like, what just tell us about Bill Bird?

Dude, I love this weird stuff. Co director Corey Podle said it had nothing to do with monks or nuns, but we were just stressed that way. Then from there John just kept being like, what if we were all just like monks? He said, At enough time, I guess he manifested it. Norris Hope’s audience has experienced a nice little escape for an hour.

The Underground Monk Show is at Assembly George Square Gardens in Edinburgh August fifth through the thirtieth, then in London at the Soho Theater January eleventh through the twenty third. How we doing on time? Little short good? Because I had kicked a story the other day about Michael Chay. The Minneapolis Star Tribune went to see Michael Chay and said, Chay proves he’s one of comedy’s sharpest bad boys.

Jay jumped from one politically incorrect subject to the next, using language that would never be allowed on NBC. At one point, he mused about the chances that Abraham Lincoln was gay. The joke, told much better by Michael Chay, was he was shot in the theater. That’s a pretty gay way to die. Weird told Chase.

Material is just as edgy as anything Dave Chappelle or Matt Rife has ever uttered. Is Matt Rife edgy? I don’t think Matt Wife’s edgy? Is he? I don’t know?

Is it sire? A backwards baseball cap, sweatshirt and sweatpants. Wait, that’s almost what I’m wearing. No cap today? Showered, Well, not on Sunday.

I didn’t record this on Sunday morning. John didn’t go to the doctor on Sunday. No. I went to the doctor on Thursday when I recorded this, So I showered. So I’m not wearing a baseball cap.

But it would not be absurd if I recording the show wearing a baseball cap, a sweatshirt and sweatpants. Maybe in July it would be, but in November probably what I’m wearing. I digress. Michael Jay wore a backwards baseball cap, sweatshirt, and sweatpants. He even indulged spectators who felt it necessary to comment.

Jay said, this is why I don’t do crowd work now. In the past, during these summer shows, Shay would like hint that he might not return to SNL. He did not comment on SNL at all this time, so maybe he’ll be back. That is your comedy news on a summer Sunday. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Christoph Maria Herbst

What’s in This Episode

• The Office UK 25th anniversary and global franchise success
• Why The Office format succeeded in some countries but failed in others
• Stromberg: The German Office adaptation that reinvented the format
• International Office adaptations across 15 countries and their varying success rates
• Tonal complexity in The Office: balancing cringe comedy with drama
• How local creators broke the format rather than copying it in successful adaptations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Magan on Saturdays this summer. Have been doing deep dives on the single topics and getting good reviews from you guys. Appreciate the feedback on that. With it being the twenty fifth anniversary of The Office, the original UK version, I thought a deep dive on The Office.

It was July ninth, two thousand and one BBC two, The Warnham Hog Paper Company, Slough Trading Estate. Fourteen episodes, only two short seasons the way the Brits did back then, which was weird to us and now I guess we’re used to it in a Netflix universe. But yeah, only fourteen episodes of The UK Office and a Christmas special. Modest ratings on the first broadcast, almost no one outside the industry paying much attention to a mockumentary about a middle manager in one of the most boring towns in England. Twenty five years later, The Office has been adapted in fifteen countries, spawned one of the longest running American sitcoms, generated a franchise still producing new content in twenty twenty six, and launched the careers of several people who became genuine stars.

Ricky Gervais marked the anniversary this week by releasing a YouTube special counting down his twenty five favorite David Brent moments. But here’s what people don’t really know about the Office story, not the US version, that’s the one everybody knows. What’s interesting about The Office is how it’s traveled. I’m not talking about the US version. Everybody knows about that.

What about when it went to other countries? The Offices format is strange. It should not be universally adaptable. It depends on a very specific kind of cringe, a very specific kind of social embarrassment that is rooted in British workplace culture, British class anxiety, British ideas about dignity and the absolute terror of not being liked by people you’re not even sure you like yourself. If we talk about the US version, the US pilot is pretty much a shot for shot rebake of the UK version.

And if you watch the very short season one of the American Office, Michael Scott isn’t as likable as he comes to be later in that series. They had to soften the character a little bit.

And then there’s that early run episode where they’re at Chili’s and Michael’…

David Brent less redeeming British cringe doesn’t automatically translate, and yet fifteen countries have tried it. In the countries where it worked, they did something more interesting than just copying it. The ones that didn’t work are almost textbook examples of why copying without understanding is a trap. Let’s start with what Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant actually built That will help you understand why the adaptation succeeded or failed in the ways they did. The Office premiere, July nine, two thousand and one.

Ricky Gervais plays David Brent, general manager of the Slough branch of Wurnham Hog, a man defined entirely by the gap between how he sees himself and how everyone around him actually sees him. He thinks he’s a visionary, a comedian, a restaurance man who just happens to work in paper. He’s none of those things. To Freeman plays Tim, a sales rep who’s clearly too smart and too aware for surroundings, and is slowly calcifying in a job he stumbled into and can’t quite bring himself to leave. Mackenzie Crook is Gareth, assistant to the regional manager.

Gareth has fully committed to the authority, structured a way that makes him both threatening and absurd. Lucy Davis plays down the receptionist. Tim is in love with Dawn, the receptionist, but she’s engaged to someone else. Sound familiar, US fans. Yes.

The documentary format no laugh track, handheld cameras, characters who occasionally glance at the cameras was not invented by jervasan merchant, but they used it in a specific way that hadn’t quite been done on British television. The absence of a laugh track means the audience has to decide for itself whether something’s funny or just painful, and a lot of what happens in the offices both simultaneously. The show doesn’t resolve the attention for you. Brent is funny, Brent is also genuinely sad. The Christmas Special, in particular, TAM’s fully into something closer to drama than comedy points and the show earns that shift because it’s spent two series making you care about the people rather than just make you laugh at them.

That tonal complexity, not making the audience choose between laughing and feeling, is the specific thing that made the office matter, and the specific thing that every international adaptation has tried to figure out. Germany figured it out, not immediately, and not by copying. They reinvented. Their version is called Stromberg How German. Stromberg premiered in two thousand and four and ran for five seasons, forty six episodes, and then spawned a crowdfunded feature film in twenty fourteen, Burned Stromberg, played by Christoph Maria Herbst runs Capital Insurance PLC.

He’s not David Brent trying to be liked. He’s something darker and more specifically German. A man who’s openly sexist, occasionally bigoted, politically incorrect in ways that are not softened for audience comfort, and surrounded by a workplace that reflects a cynicism about institutional life that runs deeper and sharper than anything in the British original. Brent’s tragedy is that he desperately wants to be loved Stromberg’s tragedy is closer to the idea that the system itself is the problem, and Stromberg is simply its most honest expression. That’s a different joke built on different cultural material, and it worked for eight years of TV in a film because it wasn’t trying to be the Office, it was using the Office’s architecture to build something German.

The BBC threatened the legal action against Stromberg before settling on a compromise where Jerves and Merchant received credits to tell you the show was recognizably doing something Office like. When Ricky Gervas found out about the German adaptation, he said, I was surprised. It’s not like the Germans that just marchin and take something that isn’t theirs. The longest running Office remake outside of the US is from Israel. Thomas Rod four seasons, thirty episodes.

Dvere Benedek plays Avi Muschulm, the equivalent of David Brent, but the show around him is doing work that goes well beyond the incompetent boss formula. Here we look at Israeli office culture, the humor around hierarchy, around workplace identity, around the particular absurdity of bureaucracy. France did one season, six episodes, Giles Traque, played by Francois Berlund. The French version has been largely characterized by people who’ve written about the adaptations is a case of the format resisting full translation. The specific social comedy of cringe embarrassment doesn’t map as cleanly onto French cultural dynamics, and the show struggled to find the place between funny and painful.

One season done Finland, three seasons, Sweden two. Poland did a version set out a mineral water company India two seasons of twenty eight episodes at the Delhi offices of Wilkins Challap Paper Company. I’ve actually watched some of that. Critics have described that version as closest in spirit to the American adaptation. Ye.

I think that was on Hulu warmer, optimistic, less willing will let the boss character be as comprehensively sad as David Brent was in the original. Chile did one season. Saudi Arabia did a version set at a courier company in Riodd in twenty twenty four. The Australian version, I found that a little underwhelming. That had the franchise’s first female lead character.

Not sure if that one is over or not didn’t come back quickly regardless. The adaptations that ran for multiple seasons Germany, Israel, Finland, the US, of course, are all the ones where the local creators took the underlying structure seriously enough to break it rather than copy it. Stromberg asked what the office would look like if you removed any sentimentality about the boss and played him as genuinely toxic. Gervas himself has had an interesting relationship with the show’s legacy. We talked all this week about he wasn’t part of the BBC anniversary special.

The David Brent character came back in the twenty sixteen film David Brent Life on the Road. Yeah, that’s a bit of an odd spin off. Stephen Merchant not involved in that one. David Brent Life on the Road was a smaller, quieter film, less interested in vindicating Brent than it Wasn’t following him to a bleak place. It didn’t have cultural impact, but Jervase seemed less interested in revisiting the character for commercial reasons than in following him to wherever he actually ended up.

Some fun facts Martin Freeman, who played Tim, could have been Gareth. The audition for Gareth, Freeman said it was only as I was leaving the audition that Ricky asked me to read for Tim. Fun fact, in the Canadian version, the manager is named David Gervaise. I see what he did there. The show almost had a narrator, John Nettles.

It would have been something like David Brent works at Warnham Hog. Fortunately they dropped that idea. One scene took seventy four takes. It is the scene with Tim’s appraisal for David Brnt. Martin Freeman struggled to get through the dialogue when David Brent said you could be in the hot seat like me and had finger guns at his chair.

Gervae said, I changed the way I did it for every take, and Martin just couldn’t cope. He’s such an actor too, he loves his craft. He probably sat there thinking, who’s this fat of food? It’s never acted before. Why is he in charge?

Martin Freeman this week said I remember hearing at the time that Paul McCartney used to get it videoed. Mackenzie Crook said we were treated like rock stars for a bit we were bigger than the Beatles. Martin Freeman said it felt like being in a band. It was like being in a cool indie band who had a crossover hit. The show that almost nobody watched in July two thousand and one has fifteen official adaptations.

A spin off, The Paper, currently airing fourteen episodes at a Christmas special twenty five years Slough, England Warnham Huge Life is stationary and that is Daily Comedy News for to day. Back tomorrow with a normal episode See Then.

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

What’s in This Episode

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

Questions Answered in This Episode

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To a round of mini golf, you cowards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All right, let’s buy some Pete Holmes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s in This Episode

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

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also, the rules this year are weird and stupid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I will see tomorrow.