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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jack White, Byron Allen, Eminem, Steve Buscemi, Jeff Daniels, Tim Dillon, Chelsea Handler, Kevin Hart, Ben Gleib

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ return to community access TV the night after Late Show ended
• CBS issuing copyright takedown notices on Colbert’s Only in Monroe episode and subsequent backlash
• Late Show series finale viewership numbers compared to David Letterman’s finale
• Times of London comparing Tim Dillon to Stephen Colbert as new face of late night comedy
• The viability of late night talk shows on streaming platforms versus traditional TV
• Chelsea Handler backlash over criticizing racist jokes at Kevin Hart roast
• Ben Gleib’s upcoming ‘Good Night’ YouTube show and the future of topical comedy on streaming

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey here, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Back in the basement. Back to normal episodes and no more pre tapes. Let’s catch up Stephen Colbert.

The night after his show ended, he returned to television. Did you see this? He showed up on public access television he hosted only in Monroe, a community access program in Monroe, Michigan. Here’s Stephen Colbert. Hello, Also welcome, It’s time for another edition of on LIA Monroe.

I’m your guest host Stephen Colbert. Long asime viewers of OLYA Monroe may remember that back in July of twenty fifteen, I filled in for the usual hosts Michelle Bauman and Kailanie Ray Rafco Wilson. Still not sure how many people that is since I was last here in Monroe, Michigan, and I spent eleven years as the primary host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, which came to an end last night. It’s been excruciating twenty three hours without being on TV. So I am grateful to be able to be here on Monroe Community Media before they also get acquired by Paramount.

Truly a joy to be back in Monroe, Michigan. I had such a great experience the last time I was here to take a micha gander, that I just had to come back Michigan. Plus, legally speaking, Monroe is the only place in the world where you can make the show only in Monroe. It’s just like how champagne must be made in France’s Champagne region, or Milwaukee’s best must be made in Milwaukee by drinking an actual beer and then peeing it into a can. Are they sponsors?

Only in Monroe? Covers the happenings of Monroe, a town of about twenty thousand people roughly forty miles southwest of Detroit. The show’s regular hosts Michelle and Kai where his first guests, Jack White, who grew up and Detroit, served as the musical director, playing songs on a boombox. Stephen called Byron Allen and got him on the phone. He made an appearance, and so did Eminem Eminem, also from Michigan.

Steve Bushemi made a cameo and what he called a public service announcement for a local restaurant, Buschemy’s pizza and subs no relation. Colbert Taste tested Monroe style chili dogs and made peanut butter, potato chip and barbecue sauce sandwiches with the actor Jeff Daniels, who lives in Michigan. This is pretty elaborate to have happened the night after the Late Show wrapped up. Now. Interestingly, Colbert has hosted Only in Monroe before, he hosted it in twenty fifteen, a few months before taking the Late Show over from David Letterman.

That time, he also interviewed the host of Only Monroe and had Eminem on the show, who he called a local Michigander who was making a name for himself in the competitive world of music. So how did CBS react. They put up takedown notices and boy, they just looked so petty and lame, and people made fun of them on the internet. I don’t think anybody at CBS cares about anything. It was also last week the last broadcast of CBS News Radio.

H boy, CBS, what have you done to your brand? So as soon as Only on Monroe showed up on YouTube social media, onlookers noticed that Paramount Skuidance, the parent company of CBS, and I will point out Star trek Ruiners, had issued takedown claim citing breach of copyright. CBS had to react to this. A spokesperson told Variety Stephen Colbert’s return to Monroe in the Only on Monroe episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios and was posted on Stephen Colbert’s YouTube channel in collaboration with Monroe Comedian Media and the Late Shows YouTube channels. As is our regular practice, we send copyright notices to unauthorized websites that post copyrighted content from CBS and our network slash studio talent, such as Stephen Colbert.

The network set had decided to waive further enforcement of what it called a standard industry practice. The series finale of The Law drew six point seven to four million viewers on Thursday night. That is up from the Q one average of two point six nine million viewers. When Colbert premiered in twenty fifteen, he had six point five to five million viewers that night. Times have changed, but as a comparison, the final episode of Late Show with David Letterman drew thirteen point seven to six million viewers.

In a Facebook group, a regular contributor Dylan asked he was curious what I thought of the finale, and I don’t think anything of it. It just had no impact on me. You know, it’s clearly a big thing, but like Colbert’s entire tenure on The Late Show, I didn’t watch it, didn’t hate it, wasn’t interested in it. And again you hear me host the show every day. I clearly like the idea of Late Night.

I’d probably seen fallon I don’t know twice Kimmel. I don’t think I’ve ever watched an episode of Kimmel. Maybe I’ve clearly seen clips and excerpts, but I don’t think of that actually ever put Kimmel on. So Colbert, I mean I watched the clips while I was in London. I had taped the whole thing on the DVR, and like, I don’t even feel motivated to watch the whole thing, Sorry everybody.

So yeah, and from what I’m seeing online, people were just kind of like, yeah, it was okay.

Speaking of London, the Times of London put out this headline why Maverick co…

I want to say, tap the brakes, but they may have a point. Their subhetter. As the Late Show host makes his eggsit a new crop of comics. It’s poised to replace him with a modern brand of humor fit for the Internet age. They recapped a recent Dylan episode.

I listened to a few episodes of Tim on the Plane. I think the show’s not quite as good as it was two years ago, but it’s still When Tim’s on, he’s on. I just find that he’s on less often. The Times rights for this episode. It was not a late night talk show monologue.

It went on for an hour, seemed to come straight off the top of his head, and was posted on social media rather than broadcast on TV. Donnie Zoldan, I know Donnie. I know him personally. He owns stand up in New York. He’s quoting this thing he said.

The Daily Show, they do their take. Bill Maher does his thing every week, John Oliver does his thing. Tim Dillon does it his own way. It’s quite different from anyone else. Jeffrey Cole as an upcoming book called Disruptors at the Gate colds all the times younger people aren’t watching late night TV.

They may see clips on YouTube. Cole said, we know the traditional format hasn’t worked on streaming yet. Chelsea Handler did a show similar to her talk show, it didn’t work. The article also name checks the Apple TV version of The John Stewart Show. Cole said, we’re going to see innovation, but it’s gonna have to be something different than just the band and the Johnny Carson studio.

Just having a band is probably three million dollars a year. The article also quotes Jimmy Kimmel from last year’s Bloomberg screen Time conference, where kim Will talked about YouTube and said YouTube pays nothing. YouTube gets to sell it and keeps half the money. It’s quite a deal for them. It really is.

Coming up later this week is good Night with Ben Gleib on YouTube. Bill Carter said of Glebe show, it will have a band and we’ll have guests. It’ll be on YouTube. They’re saying, we think there’s life in the genre. They have an audience that’s growing enormously.

I think it’s of the viability of doing a show that is topical. Chelsea Handler not the most popular person these days. The headline Chelsea Handler faces backlash after criticizing racist jokes at Kevin Hart Roast mentioned this the other day while standing on a street corner in Scotland. By the way, shout out to Ryan. Ryan lives in Edinburgh and is a listener and when he heard me on a street corner, he reached out to me invited me out for a drink and I wish the show was live because I was already back in London by the time I got the email.

But Ryan, thank you was great connecting with you on the side, and if I make it up that way again next year, I will definitely reach out to you. I was in London for a podcast conference last week and I shot up to Scotland for the day on Friday. Most people like are you insane? And like, I, look, I’ve been to Australia and I’ve been to Antarctica. A four hour train ride with Wi Fi does not scare me.

Chelsea Handler had called out Shane Gillis and some others for their jokes at the Kevin Hart roast. Chelsea apparently completely unfamiliar with what as is. She was on Dion Cole’s podcast with the just terrible hackey name funny knowing You, get it, get it. See it’s you know, it’s funny knowing you and it’s comedy and it’s a Dion dude that is a terrible name. Let me read this sentence verbatim quote.

Handler called Gillis’s lynching joke, Kevin is so short you’d have to lynch him from a bonside tree. Worse than reap. That’s right, that joke is worse than reap, according to Chelsea Handler. Chelsea Handler told Dion Cole she’d received messages on social media about Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliff from their alleged former partners. That’s interesting.

Handler was asked what these is alleged former partner said, Andler said, just everything. We know that they’re racist, that they’re bigots, their sexist. Gillis had told The Hollywood Porter, this is a big moment for Chelsea. I’m glad she’s capitalizing. Good for her.

We’re all rooting for her anyway, Come see me. July seventeenth, at the Football Stateium in Philly, there was a New York Post opinion piece, and that columnist Kristin Fleming took a shot at Chelsea Handler a q Chelsea Handler of trying to become quote, the new white savior who speaks for all black people. Fleming’s theory is that Handler felt upstaged and wrote the abrasive abortion enthusiast has deputized herself the head of the joke police. How rich is that? Fleming then added that Chelsea’s shtick about being a liberated motherless, alcoholic, loose lady is getting old.

Comedian Steve Byrne weighed in. Steve burn said, I personally know Shane and Tony aren’t racist. In fact, I don’t think Chelsea’s racist. Sure, she’s got a long history of promise. Quie in Affinity for Day Drinking publicly stated she’s prescribed a healthy dose of antidepressants, rumored to be awful to work for or with, has a punch card to a plastic surgeon, accused of punching down in her comedy, never been married and had kids and lives alone in her fifties.

Had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein. But come on, gang, she’s not racist. Wow, And we are long this morning and especially during quiet week, But I’ve got more controversy for you. Robbie Hoffman hit with backlash over controversial comments about Celiac disease. Robbie Hoffman went on Alex Cooper’s podcast.

Cooper proposed a game in which she would give Robbie Hoffman a scenario, and Robbie Hoffman would decide whether it qualifies as great or deserving of jail. The topic went to people who are allergic to gluten. Robbie Hoffman apparently said, quote, is it real, Like I want to see the outbreak? I want to pick up a role. We’re having roles tonight, just a bag of rolls.

I don’t care if it’s the Hawaiian roll, whatever role. Okay, I don’t care if it’s a dinner roll. Butter it up and let’s see. Hoffman then explained she expects a person with Celia Act disease to have a reaction similar to Will Smith in the two thousand and five comedy Hitch. Hoffman said, if it’s not Will Smith blowing up in Hitch, I don’t know.

Alex Cooper agreed, saying it does seem kind of recent. No one was allergic gluten in our classes growing up. Hoffman said, it’s just I got to see everyone is suddenly celiac by the way they’re coming for us, And fine, I believe you. I’m also joking. That’s what I want to know with these people.

Is it an analogy or preference in case you don’t know. Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition where the immune system reacts to gluten, sometimes causing damage to the small and testin. I can tell you it is real. One person on social media wrote, really loved the part where Robbie Hoffman says the disease destroying my intestinal lining isn’t real. Gossip Conna whispers in the street, Gossip con probably repe gossip Conn where the rumors meet with Johnny Mac.

It’s always a tree. Gossip Connor Wlis Business tree, Gossip Cone, probably gossip cone where the rooms meeting with Johnny macsoll in the tree. Kevin Hart spotted in Las Vegas over a Memorial Day weekend. TMZ says Kevin and wife we’re living it up at the Omnia Day Club, Las Vegas. The couple was spotted leaving the wind before making their way over to Caesar’s Palace.

DJ Fisher had the place going nuts with booming party tracks, drinks flowing NonStop, and crowds packed shoulder to shoulder. TMZ says Kevin was super friendly with fans, chatting and happily interact with people who came up to him.

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Meanwhile, Adam Sandler being spotted a lot in Vancouver.

Dwayne Notice is a guard playing for the cebl’s Vancouver Bandits. He also co hosts the Scene DMS podcast. He said, after practice, our president Dylan Kolar came over to me. He was like, I actually got invited to this run with Adam Sandlor, but I can’t make it, and he asked me that you want to do it. It’s right now.

I sped over and when I went there, it was pretty cool. Man. Notice then teamed up with a dramatic actor, Adam Sandler for a three on three run around. Notice said, Sandlor has a high IQ. He’s throwing me lobs, He’s throwing me bounce passes, he’s throwing behind the back passes.

He’s funny man like, he’s got a real nineties baller in him. After he won each game, he’d be like, yo, like losers off. Who’s next? Is like damn, you don’t even want a water even I was getting a little tired. Notice played with Sandler last Wednesday and again Thursday afternoon.

Why is Sandler in Vancouver? He’s filming his latest movie, Time Out, a psychological thriller, a remake of the similarly titled French film from two thousand and one.

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Meanwhile, John all of Her was in Baltimore.

Hi, there, it’s John Oliver here at campdend Yadd’s me and my kids just came down here. Pete Alonzo was nice enough to say hello before the game. Were the fantastic time. Let’s go hose and Drew Carrey is getting in on the LA mayoral election. He is not happy with candidate Spencer Pratt.

He called Spencer Pratt a serial scammer. Mister Carrey suggests anyone who votes for or endorses Spencer Pratt from mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their ass. I understand being angry, slash unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and add some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass. F this guy already. Send your letters to Drew Carey care Of The price is right and that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Mandy Moore, Jerry Seinfeld, Derek Stroop, Jeff Foxworthy, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin James

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze’s ‘The Breadwinner’ Movie Release and ‘Nate Rate’ Ticket Discounts
• AMC Theaters Supporting Discounted Pricing for Comedy Films
• Clean Comedy Success and Derek Stroop’s Arena Tour Sellouts
• Jerry Seinfeld’s Car Collection and Electric Vehicle Resistance
• Family-Friendly Humor in Comedy Films

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. No matter how many years they do the show, I will never learn the lesson of don’t eat a handful of M and m’s before jumping on the mic. The Peanuts close up your throat a little bit. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Boy, what an exciting week?

Are you ready for Friday? I don’t have to tell you what Friday is. That’s right, Nate Berghatsi’s The Breadwinner is out. Now. You might be saying, John, did Kevin James turn down this movie?

And I think that’s a reasonable question if you’ve seen the trailer in case you’re not familiar. In The Breadwinner, Nate Berghatzi stars as salesman Nate Wilcox. Mandy Moore plays Katie, who’s the ultimate mom. But you see when Katie’s household invention leads to a once in a lifetime deal on Shark Tank and takes Katie on a prolonged business trip, wacky dad Nate has to figure out how to keep the house from falling apart because you know what’s dead, So, yeah, we don’t know how to make dinner or do laundery or anything. Kids soon learn that while he may not do it like Mom, he can figure out how to do it his way.

Now, Nate’s got friends in high places, including the Hollywood Reporter, who we’re getting the message out that Nate wants to make The Breadwinner affordable for everyone to watch in the theater. That’s right. You’re not just gonna sit home and watch this on Netflix. You’re not just gonna wait, I don’t know six weeks till it’s out on digital. You’re gonna leave your house and go to the theater to go see The Breadwinner this Friday.

Now, while studios can’t dictate pricing, the Hollard Reporter tells US cinema operators have indicate they will treat The Breadwinner the same way they supported discounted pricing for showings of eighty for Brady. And we all know how well that did. How well did that do? Look it up? John Okay, will boxofficemojo dot com reports eighty for Brady Domestic made a thirty nine point four million, did another one million internationally.

Anyway, AMC Theaters has announced the Nates rates. They did this on Instagram. Cinema theaters, meanwhile, may discount prices buy as much as twenty five percent. Pricing and availability will vary. You know what, I’m gonna go on like fendango right now and see if I can book a ticket for this thing.

Hold on now. To be fair, I am doing this on May fourteenth. I don’t know if you knew it was a holiday weekend. Sometimes I record in advance. Okay, Friday, May twenty ninth, I’m going to go seat at my local AM theater.

There are shows at four and six forty five pm. Nothing later.

All right, let’s do the standard reserve seating close caption recliner seats…

Let’s say click, and it appears, if I’m looking at this map correctly, it appears they have sold two tickets in advance to the six forty five showing Friday for the Breadwinner. Now again, I recorded this like fifteen days ago, so it’s quite possible that it’s sold out by now. I’m gonna click on F six and F five. Oh no, no, no, no no. I was looking at a gap, but I’m going across.

I can buy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. It appears zero tickets have been sold. If you can buy seats F five and f six for eleven ninety three. We are told the prices and feeds include estimated at tax per ticket. But I’m not actually going to go see The Breadwinner.

Nate Pergatsi posted on Instagram. It said, hello, everybody, My movie The Breadwinner is coming out on May twenty ninth, and I’ve got something very exciting that i wanted to let you know. So the Nate rate is a special kind of lower ticket price because we want everyone to come out to this movie. And John has discovered some theaters have sold zero tickets. This movie is for your grandparents, grandkids, aunts, uncles, friends, sister, anybody, your dog, cats I think would love this movie specifically, anybody that wants to come out.

Nate did a screening for The Breadwinner in Nashville. Nate said, I used to come to this theater a lot. There’s an Applebee’s right next to here where I met my wife. We’re living in Nashville in this movie. This celebrates Nashville.

I grew up here. I think we get a joy when more people move here in a way that keeps the fabric of what made Nashville a city very exciting. The Breadwinner stroop credits in Aperghatsey with influencing his embrace of family friendly humor. Now interesting. I came home from volleyball the other night.

My wife was on her phone. She goes, do you know comedian Derek Stroop? And it wasn’t like do you know him? It was like do you know who that is? And I’m like, yeah, I thought it was interesting that Derek Stroop said nabrigazzy.

He took me under his wing just a couple of years ago. This guy’s out here selling out four shows in one weekend at an arena. It’s twenty thousand and eighty thousand tickets in a weekend. But because he’s completely clean, and he’s not edgy, and he’s not up there starting a revolution with a microphone in his hand, he doesn’t get the outside love. Clean comedy is the way to go by far.

I preach it to everybody that’ll listen. These young comics, I try to save them. I will tell a story I’ve told it before. When I first met Jeff Foxworthy. He sat in a room with me.

He explained his philosophy. He held his arms out I don’t know, like say shoulder length, and he said, I used to do comedy and curse, you know, like everybody else does.

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And then I realized, if I work clean, I pick up the older people.

And he stretched out one arm and the younger people, and he stretched out his other arm and implied how much bigger his audience got. Derek Stroop said, nobody’s ever come up to me after a show and went, those jokes were really good, man, but if you would occur a little bit, you could have sent us over the top. Everybody goes thanks for being clean. It was a really fun show. That feels good to have a product that travels, and everybody’s excited to see now.

You know, if you listen to this show, you know I try and keep it clean. Sometimes with the clips, I have to let a naughty word or two through, and I kind of don’t like to do that, but sometimes this is just to keep the integrity of what was said. But myself, I try not to curse on the show, and you’ll hear me use words like stuff. I also teach my college students who are younger producers, putting yourself in that box is a better creative way to go. I always quote mister the Rock, Queen the Rock at Johnson, I will use a pseudo swear word here.

The Rock doesn’t call somebody an asshole. The Rock calls somebody a Drabbroni. Hey, that guy’s a jabbroni, And Jabbroni is just a much funnier word than just saying that other awful word that I just said. So I think that’s always a good thing to do. Jerry Seinfeld said, I don’t enjoy that many things, you know.

I like watching baseball games, and I like driving cars, and I like comedy, and that’s about it. He was speaking to Airman about his car addiction and why Jerry will never get an electric car. Jerry, how many cars do you have? I don’t know. I always say it’s an amount that if you looked at you would not say this makes sense.

Air Mil asked Jerry. I don’t know about you, but as I get older, I wonder who needs so many cars? Jerry said, Well, we could spend the whole segment discussing that word need, which is really difficult to define. It’s an interesting word in terms of a car collection. Only really crazy car guys.

We’ll talk about do I need one of these? And the other guy knows what they’re talking about. It’s interesting to me that there are quite a few cars that I’m totally emotionally attached to, and there’s quite a few that I’m not. I still like them and I like having them. But some of them you bond too, some of them you don’t.

Jerry says his car collection began around nineteen ninety one, when my TV series was picked up for its first very small order. Was that nineteen ninety one. I’m not gonna say that feels like five minutes ago to me, but uh yeah, that’s college Boy time flies, Jerry said. I think four episodes. Jerry, you know was four episodes?

Don’t say you think you know how many episodes? Come on, dude. That was when I first acquired some money I did not need. I bought annineteen fifty eight Porscha three fifty six speeds are out of Wichita. I didn’t really know anything about older Porsches, but I just thought, well, this car is a nice line.

So I also thought, I’m sure you could never drive a car like this on the street. It must be ridiculous, And I ended up using it as my daily driver in LA for years on end. Really sorry, I sold it. I believe there’s no car you’ve ever owned that you don’t regret selling that. If you could have every car back, assuming it was financially possible, you would do it.

You’d want every single one. This is a good interview because it’s, you know, different stuff. You don’t hear Jerry talk about this stuff. He said, I remember the very first time I became aware of the Yoshido Matsuda collection in Japan, two hundred cars. I saw this and went, this is one insane human being.

I got the book of his collection, and then I became that guy. I never really had any problems with addiction except this. Selling cars can be very exciting too. It’s pretty clear that cars coming and going seems to stimulate some receptor in the brain. For people that are genetically inclined, it’s powerful stuff.

As for electric cars, Jerry said, I’m not interested in electric cars at all. Anybody else wants to do it, that’s fine. I think it’s a big stupid virtue signal. Look at me, I’m saving a planet. Yeah, what about the lithium, it’s all bs.

What about automated self driving cars? Dray said, I always tell my kids that their kids will say to them, you mean, when you grew up, they would let people just drive at any speed and steer the car themselves. Didn’t they just crash and kill themselves constantly. This is fun. Ken Jung is getting involved with Shark Week.

It’s K Pop Shark Heroes. You see. You take Shark Week and you drop K Pop Demon Hunters on top, and you get K Pop Shark Heroes. The special stars Ken Jung and the woman who is the singing voice of character Zoe Casehanot, a big K Pop Demon Hunters fan like me, I’m not at all I just learned as I’m telling you the sentence, Ken Jung voices Bobby, the agent manager of the K Pop Demon Hunters, who knew the official description for K Pop Shark Heroes is after a recent series of shark encounters off the Korean Peninsula. Actor and comedian Ken Jung, We’re just dropping the doctor part.

The guy went to medical school. I’m gonna revise your copy. Actor and comedian doctor Ken Jung is determined to reshape the perception of sharks across East Asia and around the globe by Zoe. Ken is on a mission to launch a bold, one of a kind public awareness campaign that educates, empowers, and shifts the narrative around these oceanic creatures using the power of K pop. I Love It Oh.

Like most press releases, there’s credits here. Jung is best known for playing Leslie Chow in all three The Hangover movies, as well as Ben Cheng in Community Hows six Seasons in a movie Coming Along Everybody by the Way. His other prominent credits include Knocked Up, Crazy, Rich Asians and The Mass Singer, on which he’s served as a judge since season one. In twenty nineteen, to entertain myself, the Golden Globes have updated the eligibility if you want to win a Golden Globe for stand up comedy performance on television. Here are the rules.

Are you ready? Rule number one, Performers are eligible for performances of traditional stand up comedy of at least thirty consecutive minutes aired other than roles in television series, limited series, anthology series, or motion pictures made for television. I’ll roughly translate that your special has to include thirty minutes of stand up okay. Rule number two. Television includes works released by broadcast, basic and premium cable streaming and pay preview cable.

To be eligible for a Golden Globes’ award, television programs must be released on a recognized media platform. Individual social media accounts do not qualify, all right, So translating there, it’s got to be on like real TV. You can’t just put it on like Johnnymack dot com and submit it. Okay, that’s fair enough. Number three.

Only programs first aired or made available for viewing on demand in the United States during the qualifying year are eligible. Interesting first aired, so like I don’t know, say you were Ricky Gervais and the BBC gave me a lot of money. It has to air in the US first to be eligible for a Golden Globe. That’s weird. I don’t really care.

I just find it weird. And that is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Jimmy Kimmel, Eugene Mirman, Ja Rule

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Gift Shop opens in Yellow Springs Ohio
• Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David discuss favorite Seinfeld episodes on Rushmore podcast
• Seinfeld pilot received smallest episode order in TV history
• Jimmy Kimmel plans game show career after late night
• Eugene Mirman recovering from car accident and new special Here Comes the Whimsie
• Bob’s Burgers longevity and Gene amnesia crossover concept
• Ja Rule embraces Christianity and releases rap album

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Happy Memorial Day. From the basement, it’s Johnny Mac and his dog. Sometimes the dog hangs out in the studio. I don’t know why she’s here, but she is. From ysnews dot com, your home for Yellow Springs News.

Dave Chappelle has opened a gift shop. It’s Dave Chappelle’s local merch shop, dubbed the Chappelle Shop. You’ll find it a two to twenty one Zenia Avenue in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for sale or Dave Chappelle branded apparel including socks, pants, shirts, Thermoses lighters, Final Records, and more. Store manager Joe Harworth told ysnews dot Com it was a pop up that ended up lasting four and a half years. The front of Chappelle’s shop faces Keith’s Alley.

Keith’s Alley is named after longtime Yellow Springs News editor Keith Howard. Store manager Joe Harworth said that was intentional. The Chappelle Shop is directly visible from Dave’s comedy club, The Firehouse, over on Corey Street. Arwitz said the building can really work with the club. The ideas all these people can line up, look over their shoulder and see us doors are open seven days a week neon to six.

When there’s a show at the club, the store stays open well into the night. Arwith tells us there were shirts with the classic c but there’s also a lot of stuff that’s loud and speaks to culture. On the back of one hoodie is the image of a lion with the stenciled word unstoppable, which also was the name of Chappelle’s twenty twenty five special. Underneath that is a quote from Chappelle’s mother, Sometimes you have to be a lion so you can be the lamb you really are. That HOODI will run you seventy five dollars.

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David were on the Rushmore podcast and they started talking about the classic television show. Seinfeld Larry David said the show’s first episode order four episodes, was the smallest order in the history of television. The money came out of the same budget NBCUS for variety specials. When Seinfeld received the four episode order, it became someone else’s responsibility to tell Bob Hope he wouldn’t get a Christmas special that year. Wow, you gotta understand Bob Hope was a giant at NBC.

That must have been an awful meeting to have. They went over the famous reaction of the pilot. There was a memo that noted no segment of the audience was eager to watch the show again. They called Jerry’s life boring, George a loser and said Jerry needed a better backup ensemble. They were sold the show wouldn’t be picked up, Larry David said, and I was thrilled because he felt like I had no more stories to tell.

He said he had that same feeling after every season of Seinfeld and every season of Kerb. Now, if you’ve seen the pilot, and you probably have, Aline is not in the pilot. There’s a waitress at the restaurant who was decided they needed a lady in the group. Jerry said, we were single guys. We couldn’t write relationships.

We didn’t know anything about it. Larry David shared he had dated Monica Yates, daughter of author Richard Yates, and that the Alaine character was based on Monica Yates, and Jerry said if the character was an axe, it eliminated the element of will they or won’t they. They also talked about the origins of some of the show’s iconic things. As for the close Talker, Larry David said, their to them, they were two hundred in this audience right now. As for the Soup Nazi, that idea came from writer Spike first In, who shared a story about a hostile man selling soup in New York.

Larry said people around us would just be talking and not realize they had a storyline for the show. Jerry said a single regret as Larry David not allowing him to work the phrase Oi the Vaults, a play on Eugevelts into an episode. Jerry Seinfeld’s favorite episodes the Contest, The Soup Nazi, The MERV Griffin Show, and The Marine Biologist. Larry David said the Contest to the opposite, the puffy Shirt and the pen. As for the Contest, Larry David had the idea in a notebook for two years before pitching it, figuring no one would want to do it.

He was shocked when Jerry told him he loved the idea. Larry was so convinced NBC wouldn’t let them film the script he was ready to quit on the spot. However, that directive never came. It’s sold after the table read the ad sales team went nuts. As for the boyfriend episode, that’s the one with Keith Hernandez, Jerry said it was one of the biggest thrills of the series.

It was a long speech and I knew would get a lot of laughs if I got it right. That speech the conspiracy of the second Radar Online, which tends to be a little gossip, he says. Jimmy Kimmel has big plans for life after Late Night. Insiders say Jimmy Kimmel can’t stop bragging about he’s going to be the next Merv Griffin, who was the mastermind behind shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. An insider says, as Kimmell looks at the declining and contracting talk show world, Jimmy is preparing for what’s next.

With the right idea, game shows can be very cheap to produce, and Jimmy also sees these projects as potentially employing a lot of his family members and longtime staffers. Should Jimmy kimmelive and its run in the next few years, his talk show is important to him, but Jimmy’s now wants to prove to his bosses that he can be useful in many other ways beyond just hosting. He’s been helping to create interesting shows and unique formats for going on thirty years. Eugene Merman told Ner Trompolis that he’s recovering well after his recent accidents. He says, I’m feeling pretty good.

I’m healing and recovering and doing all right. He explained that if you saw the images of the wreck car, it looked terrifying, but the car is quite destroyed. But I was pulled from it before that it fully happened. All the very kind messages from everybody have obviously been very sweet and heartwarming. He’s got a new special.

It’s called Here Comes the Whimsie. You’ll find that on YouTube. In that special, he jokes about a club with bizarre rules about jackets and shoes. Merman said, you get the feeling they’re almost like, we’re so sorry, but someone from two hundred years ago insisted on this rule. He talked about Bob’s Burgers.

Now, longtime listeners to this program know that I am hip to the hoax that is Bob’s Burgers. If you’re new, let me ask you two questions. Have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no. And have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer is also no. No. I understand this artwork. I understand you used to hear Joe Buck promote coming up after the Cowboys game there’s a new Simpsons and an all new Bob’s Burgers, but you never actually saw Bob’s Burgers because you switched over to NBC and watched Sunday Night football. This is a hoax.

Think about the types of comedians, Eugene Merman, Kristin Shawl, These are the kind of people that would do such a hoax. Kristin won the Kaufman Award. I mean, how many clues do you need ask for the hoax? Eugene Merman said, I never expected a cartoon to exist for this length of time. I Dora making a comedy that’s both a family comedy but all so idiosyncratic in its own way.

People are like, oh my god, that’s my family. Merman says. The cast frequently records scripts has written before, experimenting with alternative deliveries, improvisations, and fresh joke ideas. He says, well recorded is written, and then sometimes it’ll be like, can we try this? He has an idea for Bob’s Burger is crossing over with the equalizer or the born identity.

The idea is Gene has amnesia and he’s like, why am I so good at making tacos? And slowly he remembers. Jay Farrow has a renewed embrace of Christianity. He said, I had a lot put on me early and pretty much had access to whatever I wanted. But I found out that that never makes you happy.

He is expounding on his philosophy in a new Venture, a rap album. One of the tracks is called life is Good when You’re Rich. One of the verses is I’m telling you how I’m rich. I said, I’m rich with my family, I’m rich with my friends. I’m rich for the love of God that will never end.

Jay Pharrow said recently, a pastor drove from Tennessee to Columbus, Ohio to attend a show. He came up to me after the show and he goes, God told me to give you this. It was a blue Bible with my name on it. The Bible is book marked at the exact mark that I had stopped reading on my Bible. App took that moment as a sign to get myself together, he said.

The Lord is real. He is real. Tiffany Hattish is on the cover of the twenty twenty six Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Tiffany said preparing for the shoot helped her reconnect with her physical strength and discipline after years of injuries and personal challenges. She said the cover opportunity stem from a dream she had when she was young when she competed in track and field.

She said she later began intentionally visualizing herself appearing on Sports Illustrated and eventually pursued the goal more seriously. The Swimsuit issue is on newsstands tomorrow and Good News from the New York Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York. Mel Brooks has donated his archives to the museum. The archive comprises nearly one hundred and fifty thousand creative in production documents and over five thousand photographs, and it offers an unparalleled record of brooks creative life and the development of works that transformed American comedy and culture, including Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producer’s Silent Movie, History of the World Part One, and Spaceballs. The archive begins with mel Brooks earliest handwritten comedic notes, creating during his service in the US Army during World War II.

It then moves through his work with Sid Caesar on TV shows like Your Show of Shows. In a statement, mel Brooks said, I’ve always been proud to say that I make people laugh for a living. So knowing that my work will have a home at Comedy’s National Archive and continue making people laugh leaves me with a deep sense of pride. I’m honored that my contributions will be preserved for future generations at the National Comedy Center, especially because it’s a place that was meaningful to my best friend Carl Reiner, who believed in the importance of preserving comedy’s history. I know he’d be happy with our work that’d be run for the next two thousand years or maybe more.

Other comedian estates, including John Ervins George Carlin, have donated their files to the Comedy Center. Jereny Gunderson said of this collection, it’s as big as it gets in the way he so fearlessly satirizes the darkest moments of humanity in the post World War two era. And with that, let’s go have a hot dog or something. Enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend, and we’ll meet back here tomorrow

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Featured: Tom Segura, Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Kudrow, Shane Gillis, Mike Ward, Leanne Morgan, Nate Jackson, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Hasan Minhaj, Ronny Chieng, Tony Hinchcliffe, Adam Ray

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts Season 2 premiere on Netflix
• Jerry Seinfeld claims Friends owes its existence to Seinfeld
• LA Times reviews Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Festival highlights
• Shane Gillis headlines Hollywood Bowl with veteran comic lineup
• Dave Chappelle three-show residency media blackout at Netflix Is A Joke
• Hasan Minhaj vs Ronny Chieng debate show at Dolby Theater
• Kill Tony at Netflix Is A Joke featuring Adam Ray as Tony Hinchcliffe

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media may the I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Are you people really sitting home Memorial Day weekend and watching television? Netflix seems to think so. Tonight is the premiere of season two of Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts six episodes I loved season one. Bad Thoughts follows Tom Sagora as he navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies within a cinematic world.

I laughed out loud at season one. Netflix describes the series as a collection of hilariously disturbing stories that push boundaries of decency in ways only Tom Sagora could imagine. Tom Sagora said, it was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and harrifi audiences with our very own bad Thoughts on Netflix. We’re all so excited to push things further. Bad Thoughts on Netflix tonight.

Jerry Seinfeld has made the claim that without Seinfeld the show, there would be no Friends. Jerry said this during the New Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival. But there was this roast of Kevin Hart and Stephen Colbreer week and sometimes stories get to sleep for a holiday Weekend. You know what I’m saying, Jerry said. I think NBC was watching my show and they said, hey, this is working pretty well.

Why don’t we try the same thing with good looking people. Apparently Jerry has had this chip on his shoulder for years. In twenty twenty two, Lisa Kudro told The Daily Beast she ran it to Jerry Seinfeld, who told her you’re welcome. Kudro said, thank you, what and he said, you’re on after us in the summer. You’re welcome.

In twenty twenty four, when promoting the movie Unfrosted, Jerry joked about when people steal your ideas and do whatever they want with them. Seinfeld said, you mean like Friends. I don’t know about that, Jerry. I don’t know about any of that now, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Sure, Friends was on after Seinfeld? When was Seinfeld on between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three?

It was on nine thirty on Thursdays? What was on at nine o’clock? Cheers? So Jerry, next time we run into Ted Danson, say thanks Jay times as a very good boy boyd look at John take a shot at Jerry Seinfeld, But come on, man, lead In’s work. That’s why we do them.

Nobody was watching Seinfeld at first, except crazy people like me who knew Jerry Seinfeld as a recurring comedian on the Wonderful Late Night with David Letterman show. There were two guys that we couldn’t get enough of, Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno. So when I heard Jerry Seinfeld was getting a sitcom, I watched it from episode one, but nobody else did. Show almost got canceled. So yeah, I went on after Cheers.

That’s how you build a network.

And then they moved Seinfeld up to nine and they threw on a show they believe…

Not once. Sorry, I don’t know why I’m riled up about this. I don’t even like Friends. I don’t care. The La Times has a very robust comedy section.

They wrote an article we watched everything we could at Netflix’s joke. This is what stood out. I thought this would be very interesting to take a look at, they wrote. Considering the amount of comedy that was dropped on La the idea that anyone could see it all is laughable. Yet, of course, like fools, once again, we tried try and fly through this Shane Gillis show at the Hollywood Bowl, Commanding a solid roster veteran comics including James McCann, Sam Jay Ron White, Dan Soder and Jim Jefferies as a pretty good lineup, Gillis took on the role of a grizzled and playfully perverse football coach, hosting the night and telling funny stories about his days as a very average high school football player on crappy all white teams before he blew up.

In comedy, they liked Mike Ward at Dynasty, typewriter, record breaker and a master of storytelling in French. Mike Ward did not disappoint with his all English crossover, covering everything from his legendary Supreme Court of Canada case to teenage lust, dating after marriage, attempting generosity and trunk love. Ward mentioned jokes translating from friends to English and how that hit. But he was definitely in his element. That’s great.

They went to see Jerry Seinfeld featuring Leanne Morgan Leanne, I hope you said thanks. The Eli Times wrote, blending the big city humor with hilarious Southern comfort. Might sound like an odd pairing, but somehow the combo of Jerry Seinfeld and LeAnn Morgan just works. Yes, we love a good rant about the terrors of technology from a comedy legend like Seinfeld, but his crotchety comedy On a Whole Night at the Greek Theater was complimented by Morgan’s ability to add warmth and sweetness to her smack talk about being a small town cheer mom and the world of competitive cheerleading, which he described as the Olympics meets honey booboo. That’s great.

They liked. Nate Jackson at the Laugh Factory Hollywood. The La Time says it’s a skill for comedian to be able to sit in the pocket of a crowd’s energy and keep a room full of people laughing and on their toes at the same time. Try doing it for six shows back to back. In Jackson’s case, that meant delivering some third degree burns in the front several rows of the crowd known as the roast zone.

Jackson prefaces every show the same way. Rule number one. If I look at you and you don’t want no smoke, look away. That is the rule in the standard I do not get people unless they lock eyes and give me consent. As a matter of fact, this is called a roast zone.

If anyone is accidentally down there, it’s time to get the f out, because rule number two is if I look at you and you look at me, and I start and you don’t like what I decided to talk about, looking away, will no longer save you. Wanda Sykes at the Adobe Theater, Politics, family, inflation, racism, wait, gain, and greed were among the multiple topics. Kill Tony at the Inn, to a Doom on the Panel, Harlan Williams and Gabriel Iglesias. The Legends bucket made it sway to the Arena in La. The polls were Ron White, Jode de Rosa, and Tony’s number one favorite comic, Tony Hinchcliff played by Adam Ray.

Oh that sounds amazing. Oh, I got to find a clip of that. Let me see if I can find something quick. Maybe somebody grabbed that. I didn’t know that happened.

Makes some noise for Brian redband everybody, and makes some noise for the best goddamn band in the land. Oh my god. On the leave a bald who’s ready for the best and out of their lives. Oh yeah, oh my god, we’re really doing it Red Band every Monday. We’re doing it live.

All right. That was fun. The visual definitely helps, but boy, that’s fuzzee. I like hosting the show, and that’s why I don’t read these things in advance so that I could react like that Tony Hitchcliff played by Adam raygeow the crowd exactly what effortless and absolute merciless veteran comedy looks like Dave Chappelle. Now this is interesting.

The La Times Rights were not allowed to say anything about what went on at the Dave Chappelle three show residency other than the fact it was an evening of music and comedy per usual. They locked up the crowd’s phones to see a show, But why aren’t they allowed to say anything like couldn’t somebody as a civilian go to the show? It’s been very weird. I’ve seen nothing about that Chappelle three Chappelle shows. Nothing, nothing has come out.

Very strange. Hasan Minhajs versus Ronnie Ching at the Dolby Theater. They challenged one another to prove who’s better suited to fix a broken America, Asians or Indians, never mind that Indians or South Asians. The two comedians got plenty of laughs backing up there absurd arguments with flow charts, graphs, curated news clips, an ai Bot called Nieri, and plenty of racist rhetoric that sounds like a fun show. They broke the down the debate in the categories Who’s better at academics, business, in the economy, cuisine.

Ronny Chieng argued that Asians are better at sports. With a list of Olympic gold medal wins over the past three Summer Games. He won’t use all of Asia, he said, just China. The result the country had over one hundred gold medals India had just won. Hasan Minhaj wondered aloud, for people who love gold so much, why is it so hard for us to win one?

Sounds like a good show. Otsgo at Coska. The La Times said her show at the Orphium is the result of a brand new hour she’s been performing on tour and includes plenty of jokes about dinosaurs and her love of Jamaican dancehall choreography. I’ve seen the show. All that is very very funny.

If otsgoes around go see it. It’s a great hour. Before she got on stage, she got blindsided by the appearance of two comedy titans, Margaret Show and Trevor Noah. Wow, that’s a nice bonus. Who came out to deliver punchy, political driven opening sets that got loads of laughter and set the tone, and she announced to her next special will be on Netflix.

In twenty twenty seven, Australian born comedian James McCann at the Hollywood Improv Top the Bill’s Saturday Night high energy was the vibe m looking flawless, poems and tow and dark humor, Dialed two and eleven. He questioned LA’s homeless crisis may have questioned the audience a bit too much and tore through his thoughts on a census overhaul, the insanity of the TV show Survivor, the glory days of drinking, and having visions of finally being successful enough to hire his dream team. The La Times also hit the Two Bears five K They tell us whether you kicked off the Magical day of athleticism and a Downward Dog with Ari Shafir, if he went straight for the starting line with Bert Kreischer, Thoms Agora and jelly roll. They were stretching, pacing, sweating, and rejoicing to be had a bunch of comics on hand. The finish line led runners directly into the Rose Bowl, where there were plenty of poor osos, flowing snacks, interactive games and recovery stations, and a live taping of Two Bears, One Cave.

Sunday, May tenth, Marcelo Hernandez, they didn’t really say too much. You’re gonna think I’m doing a bit here, they wrote on Saturday Night Live, he plays a Latin lover named Tomingo. But at the Hollywood Bowl on Mother’s Day Sunday, headliner Marcello Hernandez riffed on his real life as a mama’s boy growing up in Miami and duly invited out his mom is Isabelle, who has met with the standing ovation. Then they discussed the roast of Kevin Hard. I think we’ve covered that enough, And then at the Greek Theater, Flight of the Concords, looking a bit more like silver foxes than young birds that made the timeless chuckle inducing tunes like robots, The most beautiful girl in the room hurt feelings in business time Land with even more impact as the crowd enjoyed some long awaited nostalgia.

Did they forget a few of the lyrics, miss some solos, mess up in sire songs. Sure, With a dose of Kiwi banter and the ability to laugh at themselves, the mistakes only made the show funnier and a reminder of why they’ve missed them. You can find of that show on YouTube. Don’t tell anybody, and I want it to disappear. I enjoyed it, all right.

It’s a holiday weekend. Let me get you out of here. Let me tell you one more thing from the BBC. Hundreds of comedians have reportedly gone unpaid after the Lesser Comedy Festival. The festival attracted around a hundred th spectators and featured more than five hundred acts, including Stephen Frye, Sarah Pesco and Rosie Holt.

Organizers said performers were expected to be paid after the event, which ran in February, but payments have been delayed because of cash flow problems. Comedian Benjamin Alborough said he was owed just short of two thousand British pounds. It’s very frustrating. I got bills to pay like everybody else. Between festival registration fees and travel and accommodation and production costs AFT to invest several hundred pounds per individual show.

I want the Lester Comedy Festival to succeed because it’s a brilliant thing. But in order to do that, everyone needs to get paid. Artists needs to be paid money. Canadian comedian Zoe Brownstone said she was owed around two hundred and twenty five US dollars. I guess they did a conversion here.

I’ve done a few festivals, this, by a mile was the most prepared. People donated more for tickets. Leaving the festival, I felt great. I never felt so positive. It’s astonishing to me that a big organized festival can’t pay me at the end of the day.

Michael Harris Wakelam, chief executive of the nonprofit organization Big Difference, which runs the festival, said it’s a case of the cash flow problem. But we’re trying to communicate with the artist is this is a case of a small delay rather than you won’t be paid. He said the organization was still waiting on money from sponsorships, third party ticket sales and commissioned shows, and was exploring bridge financing with banks. That is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Robbie Hoffman, John Mulaney, Sarah Sherman, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers

What’s in This Episode

• Current Affairs article ‘The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon’ by John Greenaway goes viral
• Johnny Mac’s personal encounters with Jimmy Fallon on set
• Trump’s criticism of late night hosts excluding Fallon
• Robbie Hoffman Guardian profile and tour announcement
• John Mulaney quote praising Robbie Hoffman
• Sarah Sherman Newsweek profile and SNL experience
• Jimmy Kimmel taking the summer off

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Caloroga Shark Media. Wow, I’ve been sitting on this first one. Hello, I’m Juddy Mack with your daily comed news. So you know, it was kind of cold Bear’s week, so I didn’t think it was a good time to share with you This one that’s been making the rounds on social media. From Current Affairs dot Com.

The headline the banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon, John Greenaway writes, there’s a distinctive, deeply uncanny horror to the way Jimmy Fallon laughs. I’ll jump in right there. My wife recently stumbled across a Fallin bit. And by the way, just to show you how much the normies don’t pay attention to things, she starts telling me a story and she says she was watching a clip with Jimmy Kimmel and she said he seems really fake, and I went Kimmel or Fallon, and then she realized she meant Fallon. So she’s even mixing up the Jimmies.

I digress. John Greenaway writes, there’s a distinctive, deeply uncanny horror to the way Jimmy Fallon laughs. Look it up. There were literally hundreds of videos showing him breaking out into laughter at the slightest provocation. It is not a reaction.

He sometimes won’t even wait for his guest to get to their carefully scripted punchline. Rather, it is a performance. A sudden corporeal convulsion. Fallin leans in his chair as if pressed back by some unseen force. It’s accompanied by the ritualistic slapping of the desk.

You can picture this right as this guy nailed it. A sound that echoes like a gavel in a courtroom watching the Tonight Show in the deep hours of the night, beaming out from a phone screen or laptop. Wait, who’s watching the Tonight Show on a phone or even a laptop? You people are doing this. There’s an unshakable impression that this is not really entertainment but a desperate kind of ritual.

Fallin acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism. His rictus grin What is rickdus? I’ve never seen that word in my life. The Cambridge Dictionary says rictus is an expression in which someone shows their teeth and a smile, but looks strange or in pain, rather than looking appy and relaxed. Okay, good use of words, sir, His Rick Grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the reel.

Now, does this guy just know the word rictus? Or like, was he like? How do he describe? I’d love to know how he even came across the word rictus. Again, I’ve never heard this word in my life.

I think it’s the perfect word for that sentence. I just want to know which came first, the chicken or the egg, His rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the reel. Here in the sanitized, overlit art of the American culture industry, there is an inescapable horror. But it isn’t a monster lurking in the shadows. It’s in the manic, unblinking insistence that actually there are no shadows at all.

If the Gothic tradition of fear teaches us that the ruins of the past haunt the present, the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon offers the inverse a present so forcibly flattened, so aggressively quote unquote fun that it has exercised history entirely, leaving us trapped at a sterile, eternal loop of viral games and celebrity limp singing while the world slides into climate collapse and fascist politics. We are just getting started. And when I do these articles, I try not to read every word. But this is just amazing. Again, this is in current affairs, and you’re going to look for the banal horror of Jimmy Fallon.

A typical episode of Falence Tonight Show has the usual staples of the late night format, the ones introduced by Steve Allen and perfected by Johnny Carson. An opening monologue, couple celebrity interviews, and musical performance closed out the evening. But what’s made Fallon so popular has been his use of endless, repetitive, shareable games. Night after night. He invites you to watch people you know from other shows on TV, or who just coincidentally have a movie or an album to promote.

Play pictionary, watch them lip sync battle? All right? I mean yes, but what do you want them to have? Who’s supposed to have on? People that aren’t promoting anything.

People aren’t going to do that. I have celebrity friends. I only ask them to come on when they’re promoting something. Skipping ahead. Watching the Tonight Show as an exercise in cultural deja vu.

It’s the endless repetition of the already familiar. It is setting that’s designed to gain our attention, but makes no other demand upon us as a viewer. The familiar cry I’ve let people enjoy things might come in response, but this, this is what we’re supposed to enjoy. Fallon presides over his rituals of play like a vampire feeding not on blood but on enthusiasm. Boy, this is brutal.

I have said the fast I work with Jimmy a couple times, the share of story. Recently, someone used to send me some bits from the twelve thirty show. I don’t say I know Jimmy Fallon, but I’ve been in the room with Jimmy Fallon two three times. No, I’ll call it three hours. Over the years he was his public persona very easy to work with.

John Greenaway writes he doesn’t really converse with any of his guests. They all know what they’re there for. Rather, he extracts, he demands relatability from them, draining the authenticity from the interaction until only the husk of a viral moment remains. The horror lies in the repetition, the feint, shock, the hysterical laughter at unfunny mishaps the relentless golden retriever energy. It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover.

Again, let me remind you there’s only two eleven thirty shows. Now, it’s this or Kimmel, and Kimmel’s taking this summer off. It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection. What Fallon offers is a standardized production of quote unquote fun that feels increasingly like a desperate plead to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls. Now do you see why I waited till Colbert was over to do this article?

It skipping ahead. Fallon doesn’t do politics, or if he does, he wants to keep his head down, because we hit both sides equally. Telling Lee, Donald Trump has called for the firing of almost all the other late night hosts. Colbert came all even Seth Myers, but excluded Fallon from his hit list because Trump recognizes that there’s nothing about Fallon’s empty banality that could be anything close to a threat. Fallon is so desperate to keep the real world out in his interviews he barely seems to be listening to his guests, waiting for them to finish speaking so his rituals can begin.

Anew boy, not totally unfair, but boy. The Guardian caught up with Robbie Hoffman. They quoted John Mulaney, who said, once in a while you get to see a legend at the absolute top of their game. By the way, that was the first time I was able to go into a half assed Millennie impression without having to do to my French nighter set up. It’s as big as a whale.

Robbie talked about a tour and said all of us are going to live the life of happiness, pain and suffering and joy and all of it. I just don’t think it’s my job to spare anyone of anything. Necessarily. My job is just to be me. I’m trying to allow myself to be as me as possible.

Sarah Sherman got a big time profile in Newsweek. Sarah said, Sarah squirm is obviously the thing I’m most comfortable with, and I think that sometimes comes out on SNL. But it’s also a less vulnerable persona. I don’t know if I would out of a career out ofside of doing bar shows as Sarah Squirm. Whenever I’m in a blonde wig on SNL, my friends call it Sarah normal activity because for people watching the show at home, that’s more what a human being looks like.

Even though it’s alien to all my friends. SNL is a really hard job. I always feel like it’s the first day of the job every day. So if anyone’s pitching me anything, I’m so open minded, which pushes me in an area as I necessarily would have thought of myself. I’ll send Lewis, the head of special effects makeup of Crazy Drawings, and say, can you make my eyeballs look like this?

And then in like five seconds he already as a clay sculpture of my head with eyeballs bugging out. I feel like my range is so limited that anything that can help me expand my range is welcome. Even getting fangs for no sparatu. It made me change my and my physicality. That’s why I love hair, makeup, costume props so much, because they give you new things to play with it you wouldn’t have come out of the gates with.

As for being a shocking stand up, she said, I’m in an interesting position because I deal with a lot of repulsive subject matter, So I’m purposely repelling people away from me, whether it’s talking about my butthole or looking like a freak. My form of artistic expression is repulsion. But also miam a comedian. I want to be a comedian my whole life. So it’s a black, bottomless void inside of me that needs constant validation because when I’m on stage, I do need to hear an audience laugh or I’m gonna slice my own head off.

Wow. The sf Gate caught up with Ashley Paedia. She talked about working at a movie theater while a teenager and said, I was a very bad employee. I didn’t know that schedule was like your schedule, that was more of a decision on your own behalf. I was lost as hell.

My mom was like, you’re pretty funny. You could try, you know, taking some comedy classes. That led her to the UCB and the ground links. We all want to laugh, and my form of comedy is like laugh at me. I’m an idiot, so I love performing kind of a dumbass.

I think that makes people all overlaugh. That got it’s not really niche to California, or New York. It’s just like you, a person who has experienced embarrassment, then you’ll love this from Vanity Fair. The headline read all over in the Trenches with LA’s comedy Comrades. They talk about Joel kim Booster doing a fundraiser for an LA City Council candidate who’s been endorsed by the LA chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Joel kim Booster said, hopefully you’ll laugh, but ultimately we need to make our bit of money. Other folks on that show Zanab Johnson, Nordy Reid, and Chris Estrada. The sf Gates says, the tone of the show was unmistakably left. Joel kim Booster asked a guy in the front row if the straight community ever says the word orgy. He asked the guy ever been to one.

The straight dude said no. Joel said, then let someone cool answer you, nerd. That’s pretty funny. And at another point, Joel kim Booster said straight male flight attendants aren’t allowed to be rude, only the gay ones we were told. Both jokes killed, and the SF Gates says after the show ended, Johnson drove off on a black Porsche Cayenne as a plump rat scurried by the venues entrance.

I’m curious how much such a Porsche runs. Oh, this is fun. You’re gonna love this answer. I don’t know what number was in my head two seconds ago, but it was not this number. So again, let’s just recap this story here.

This was a fundraiser for the LA City Council candidate who’s been endorsed by the LA chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The sf Gate tells us Zanam Johnson was one of the performers and that Johnson jumped into Porsche Cayenne. I am now on finder dot Porsche dot com, slash us slash a bunch of things. A twenty twenty six Porsche Cayenne chromite black metallic goes for are you ready? One hundred thousand, five hundred ninety five dollars excluding taxes and fees estimated dealer fees nine hundred ninety five dollars.

That is the price at Paul Miller Porsche in Parsipity, New Jersey. So perhaps your dealer has a better deal, and that seems to be the low end. The hybrid goes for one thirty five. The Cayenne s coop goes for one forty three, but maybe it was a used to Porsche Cayenne. Who knows.

So I’m here on Edmunds dot com. I get a twenty seventeen Porsche Cayenne for sixteen nine and eighty five, so maybe she was driving a nine year old car. The sf gate was unclear, and I want to be fair here, a twenty twenty three used one A is going for ninety nine five ninety nine, but you can get a twenty fourteen for just eleven one ninety nine, So who knows what she was driving? I drove a ninety two Civic for thirty years, and I’m not kidding anyway. I don’t know what today’s show was, but it was different that your company news for today, Holliday.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Paul McCartney, Shane Gillis, Chelsea Handler, Tony Hinchcliffe, Kevin Hart, Sheryl Underwood

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s Late Show finale at the Ed Sullivan Theater
• Paul McCartney as the final guest on Colbert’s Late Show
• Chelsea Handler criticizing Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe over Kevin Hart roast material
• Shane Gillis’s lynching joke controversy at the Kevin Hart roast
• Tony Hinchcliffe jokes about Sheryl Underwood’s late husband
• Johnny Mac broadcasting from Edinburgh, Scotland during the Podcast Show in London
• Edinburgh Fringe Festival headquarters sighting on the Royal Mile

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media from Scotland. I’m Johnny Mac with a catch up episode of Daily Comedy News. As I mentioned on Friday’s episode, I am traveling. I’m coming to you from Edinburgh, Scotland. But let’s catch up.

Stephen Colbert wrapped up the Late Show and let’s have fun with today’s episode. I’m doing this from a street corner. I haven’t actually listened to these clips I’m about to play. I’m gonna pull them from the hotel later. But Stephen Colbert hosted the final episode of the Late Show and apparently he said.

This, folks, we have done over eighteen hundred of these shows, and most nights I come out here and I talked to the audience beforehand, and tonight I thought I’d talked to the audience in here and the audience out there at home. This show I want you to know, and you to know, has been a joy for us to do for you. In fact, we call the show the joy Machine. All right. Lewis stole it from us and we are currently in litigation right now.

You better lawyer up, buddy. We call the joy Machine because to do this many shows, it has to be a machine. But the thing is, if you choose to do it with joy, it doesn’t hurt as much when your fingers get caught in the gears. And I cannot adequately explain to you what the people who work here have done for each other and how much we mean to each other. So I will just say I would just say to them, I would just.

Say to them, you are all the great Achilles whom we knew. Now. On night one of the Colbert Rapport back in the day, I said, anyone can read the news to you. I promised to feel the news at you. And I realized pretty soon in this job that our job over here was different.

We were here to feel the news with you. And I don’t know about you, but I sure have felt it. Oh and that wasn’t all Stephen Colbert had to say. Apparently he said this too. Welcome, Welcome, one and all to the Late Show.

I’m your host, Stephen Colbert. Set out. If you’re just tuning into the Late Show, you missed a lot. Tonight is our final broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater, where no, no, we were lucky enough to be here for the last eleven years. All right, that was can’t take this for granted.

So actually, technically our first show back in July of twenty fifteen, was from a public access station in Monroe, Michigan, for an audience of twelve people, and show business being what it is these days, it’s probably where you’ll see me next. There is so much history here in the Ed Sullivan Theater, and we’ve been honored to have been just a small part of it. Nichols and May played on the stage. The Beatles made their American debut here, and. This is true.

This is true. Backstage, Elvis used the bathroom and didn’t die. We’ve had so much fun in this theater, so many great segments. I’ll miss doing first drafts, where I show the final draft of a green card and then show the playfully wrong first draft. So we made one for tonight.

It’s this. One’s pretty nice. This is this isn’t goodbye, it’s see you later. Yes, but the first draft said this isn’t goodbye. How do you start an OnlyFans?

The final guest on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show who turned off the lights was the Pope? It was not. It was Sir Paul McCartney. Same same say hello, hello, I don’t know say goodbye. I don’t know bye Hell.

When I get back home, I’ll do more of a recap on Colbert. The other thing I see brewing is this thing with Shane Gillis and Chelsea Handler. I don’t know if you saw this one. Thank you for AI for pulling this together because that I mentioned. I’m on a street corner in Scotland.

Comedian Chelsea Handler kicked off a pretty major comedy world argument this week. She blasted Shane Gillis and Tony Hingecliff over material from the roast of Kevin Hart. Chelsea was on Dion Cole’s podcast Funny Knowing You. She called some of the roast material gross, racist, sexist, and bigoted. We’ll get into this in a second, specifically targeting Shane Gillis’s lynching joke about Kevin Hart and Tony hingchecliff jokes about Cheryl Underwood’s late husband.

Handler said jokes involving lynching across the line and argue comics were leaning too hard into anti woke shock humor. Shane Gillis responded online with a statement He said he was happy that Chelsea Handler is capitalizing on the moment, and then plugged his upcoming stadium show in Philadelphia. Cheryl Underwood said some jokes did go too far, especially references to George Floyd and Lynching. She noted that comics had contacted her before the roast regarding jokes about her late husband Johnnie Mack. Always likes a good controversy, so we’ll keep an eye on that one and I’ll recap it a little better than that when I get back.

Let’s just hang out. This is just an extra episode. I’m on the Royal Mile now. I just left Edinburgh Castle. The reason I’m here at all is this week was the podcast show in London, so US professional podcasters all mets, and that’s why I had to tape a few episodes there.

But I missed you guys. And I was walking down the street here and I saw the headquarters of the Edinburgh Fringe and heard the guy playing the bagpipes and I’m like, oh, you have a afordable recorder. Why don’t you use it? But hey, that is your catch up episode live on tape from Scotland. Somewhere in the feed.

There’s a normal Saturday episode and a normal Sunday episode. Do you know what to do? You’ll figure it out and we’ll catch up on stuff next week. Seea

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Byron Allen, Josh Johnson, Jimmy Kimmel, Mark Maron, David Letterman, Weird Al Yankovic, Henry Yann

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s next project: writing a Lord of the Rings film with Philippa Boyens
• CBS airing Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen in The Late Show time slot
• Josh Johnson’s HBO comedy special ‘Symphony’ premiering Memorial Day weekend
• The future of late night TV and what could replace The Late Show
• Stephen Colbert’s Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor getting a new look
• Comedy Stock Market picks: buying Weird Al Yankovic and Henry Yann, selling Stephen Colbert
• Comedian Otsco partnering with Home State restaurant chain on the Otsco Bowl

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. How about that Colbert finale? Huh, let me deal you straight here, I’m in London. Yeah, not really the best time to play on a trip with a major comedy story.

So uh, deally straight. I have pre taped the weekend. I will catch up on Colbert. I did bring my microphone with me. I’ll either do a bonus episode or it will wait till next week.

Now, on tomorrow’s show, I’ve got this piece, this hit piece on Jimmy Fallon that you gotta hear. I already recorded that one. So make sure you don’t skip tomorrow show. Now tonight on CBS, if you put on CBS at eleven thirty five, it’s Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen. Yeah, really exciting.

Huh. Now, I just tried to look to tell you which comedians are on Comics Unleach tonight, but the information was not available to me. Stephen Colbert had been asked by the Hollow reporter what he thought about all this. Colbert said, God bless him. I know Byron.

We got to know each other last year. Actually, he’s fascinating Colbert’s next gig is writing a film set in the universe of the Lord of the Rings. He was asked why fans of The Lord of the Rings should trust Stephen Colbert with the keys to the car. Colbert said, I mean, there’s no reason to. There’s no value in me addressing that, because all you can do is, I’ll use a load of term here.

An artist is follow your heart in the craft that you’ve learned to try to turn this into something that is not fandom but drama. Colbert added, Luckily, I don’t have to do this alone. He’s working with Lord of the Rings writer Philippa Boyans, who co wrote all the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films, and those are beloved. Colbert said, I will just say that every moment has been a joy so far. With the death of The Late Show, there’s also been a major shift in the ice cream universe.

Stephen Colbert has revealed that his nineteen year old signature flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, called the American Dream, is getting a patriotic makeover. In the old packaging, Stephen Colbert wore a talk show host typical suit, but now he’s casual with a button down and no tie. USA Today wondered what could go in the time slot if Comics Unleash doesn’t last. I could see some kind of podcasty thing going there, right, Like that’s the current trend. By the way, which one of us wants to tell Mark Maron he gave up six months too early, like Mark gave up last October, and if he had hung around another three months, he probably gets Netflix money.

Mark, you blew that. Mark, you could come back, you know. I’m not sure that put Mark Maron on at eleven thirty five, but I could see some sort of podcast going on in that slot. USA Today says things are not as simple as ratings, TikTok views and dollars and cents. Whether we tune in live every weeknight or not, late night TV is still one of the biggest places we go to process major cultural moments, from the shooting death of Charlie Kirk to the release of a new Taylor Swift album.

This article brings up the David Letterman quote to The New York Times. I’d be surprised if it lasts more than a year or so, meaning late night well maybe specific shows. I don’t think it’ll ever go away. Jimmy Kimmel said, it would be very surprising to me if it ever went away entirely. Maybe it won’t be as big, Maybe there won’t be a big band welcoming the host of the stage.

Maybe they won’t be fifteen writers. But I think there’ll be some version of the late night talk show we will see out today, the HBO comedy special Josh Johnson Symphony that’ll be on HBO Max tonight at eight o’clock. I’m not sure dropping that on a holiday weekend is the best idea. I don’t know me. Maybe it’s me like I love to be outside and boy, the greatest feeling in the world back when I had like an office job, was five oh one pm the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.

You have the whole summer in front of you. The weekend is just limitless. You have the whole summer. Everything is possible at five oh one pm. Today, I of course booked a trip to the United Kingdom, and I’m missing one of my favorite weekends.

There’s a town parade on Saturday of Memorially weekend, and it just I just realized the other day, like, oh, I’m gonna miss the parade. I love the parade, So I don’t know. Maybe the rest of you like to watch TV on Memorialday weekend. Not me. I would be outside the whole time anyway, HBO tells us.

Josh Johnson Symphony highlights the comedian’s unique point of view and his signature creativity as he refer on strange child experiences, the perils of being labeled nice, challenging family dynamics, and navigating life’s most awkward moments, leading the audience to laughter the way a conductor guides musicians relax. Josh johnson civity showcases the comedian’s humor, warmth, and relatability to offer a truly original and unforgettable experience. There’s a trailer. Shall we listen. Let’s listen, y’all.

Ever wonder if the first chiropractor was just bad at murder? I hurt my back. I went to the chiropractice. I even really know what chiropractors do. I just know that they’re supposed to fix facts and stuff.

And this man put one hand here and one hand here, and I was like, I’m a god. I can’t take my uncle anywhere if you take him out to eat, and he has some good food. He has too audibly loudly cat call his food. He ordered the lobster bisk This man goes. Oh sick.

Otsco at Costco one of my faiths. In her current hours fantastic. Go see her. She has teamed up with Home States. Home State has a Texas inspired menu.

The Otsco Bowl marks the restaurant’s first multi ingredient bowl and its initial use of rice as a primary component. I’m not familiar with the Home State chain. Is there one anywhere near me? Let me look Home State? Well, their website says Home State is a Texas kitchen in southern California, sharing breakfast, tacos, queso, brisket, house made flour tortillas, margarita’s, and genuine hospitality.

Now it looks like there’s one in Princeton, New Jersey. I could go there. Okay, I don’t have to go all the way out to Los Angeles to get this. Oh no, I was faked out. That’s Homestead Cafe that has nothing to do with this.

Home State has locations in La Culver City, El Segundo, Pasadena, Santa Monica, and Sherman Oaks. Sor right, I’ll have to do this. When I’m on the West Coast, I’m not going to be to get an Osco Bowl, which was developed as part of Home State’s Band Taco program. The dish blends to hano and Japanese influences, featuring California grown Kuho calros rice season with lime juice that actually sounds awesome. The bowl is layered with marinated chicken, black beans, roasted mushrooms, cabbage slaw, and pickled jalapenos, finished with a miso Chipotle sauce.

I would actually get this. This sounds amazing. One dollar from every bowl sold through June fourteenth will benefit the Immigrant Defender’s Law Center, and nonprofit providing legal aid for those impacted by the immigration system. If you’re in California, get one of these. Let me know how it is.

Comedy stock Marketngine, thank you Bert Reynolds. Every Friday on the Comedy stock Market, we take a look at where the value is in various comedians. We’re not saying they’re good to bad. We’re just saying some people are a little over hyped at the moment and some are a little under hyped. Let’s buy some weird al I mean, we always love weird Al, but a weird Al Broadway musical.

Yes, and check that into my veans. We’ll buy some weird Al. And let’s buy some Henry Yen. Now you’re like, who’s Henry Yen? You listen to Tuesday’s show.

That was the guy at the New Zealand Comedy Festival. I tell you a clip of him. It was pretty funny that guy. Let’s buy some Henry Yen. Nobody else is buying Henry Yen.

That’s like buying a penny stock in comedians. No offense, mister Yann. I’m saying, you’re really funny and you got a lot of upsides, So we’ll buy some Henry Anne. We’ll buy some weird Al. And I’ve got one cell for you, and my cell is Stephen Colbert.

I mean right, we gotta be past peak here. What’s he gonna do like One Man Show podcast, Broadway musical. I mean that’s it. We try and sell at peak value. Peak value was last night, Get out on Stephen Colbert.

Buy weird Al, buy Henry Anne, sell Stephen Colbert, and that is your comedy stock market for today. We’ll do some international stuff into the holiday week. And I always like this Stuff. Award winning Greek Australian comedian Eloise fd Dos says she’s never been in love. Her latest show is called Aphrodite.

At the beginning, she says, I don’t know if it’s real. Oh there’s a part of me that wants to believe it’s real, but I don’t know if it’s possible for me. She says her show is not making fun of women. I’m making fun of how you see women. You guys can go on stage and say you’re hot.

F Dos’ first show in twenty twenty four was called Australia’s first Attractive Comedian that got a mixed reaction. She said, I’m not making fun of women. I’m making fun of how you see women. You guys can go on stage and say you’re hot. I never said female comedian.

It’s a marketing thing. It’s funny and it grabs people’s attention. Elwy says I don’t watch women who self deprecate on stage and feel and power. And I watched so many women talk down about themselves when I saw men go on stage and talk crap about women. So everybody talks crap about women.

It’s a silly joke, but it’s almost me being like, if I tell myself I’m hot, and I’m smart and I’m funny, I’ll believe it. America’s first attractive comedian made Efdos the first Australian woman to land a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe. She said, I cried right away. The Fringe was the most physically and mentally exhausting thing I’ve done in my life, but it was amazing. It changed my life.

She says. The New Hour is both Greek comedy and tragedy. She’s the hero who’s supposed to fall because of my hubris and my pride. I want to teach myself that it’s not embarrassing to be vulnerable. Maybe when I first started, my character was a little bit more like the girl who bullied you in high school.

Now I feel like it’s more like me. I’m more silly and playful. But I find it really funny that I went from being bullied to personifying this powerful woman who says it like it is. If you’re in Brisbane, Australia, can go see Aphrodite at the Brisbane Comedy Festival.

Meanwhile, at the New Zealand to Comedy Festival, the spectator tells us Susi…

Susie Cato walked out on stage wearing denim overalls on a giant dangly heart earrings and sang and this was a comedy show for kids, but it was also a show for adults who are frankly sick of being adults. Want an antidote to laugh at bum jokes, to hear knock knock from the stage, and watches a theater of excited children yell back, who’s there? But wait, there was more? What a revelation to discover performance so talented that you, the parent don’t have to put on laughter for your children’s sake, but instead needs to cross your legs so you don’t risk accidentally weeing a bit. Wow, who knew we needed to see a puppet do one handed press ups and imitated duck.

Let me tell you, oh we effing did. The spectator also liked Stephen k Amos. The show went over a well traversed territory, the COVID pandemic, his parents, and that comedy subjective COVID jokes. It’s been six years, five years anyway. Some of the lines had first trotted out more than a decade ago.

If the crowd had been looking for fresher edgy, they would have been out of luck. They called the show an oldie but a goodie.

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Meanwhile, Amanda Knox yes that.

Amanda Knox is going to perform a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe. Her show is called Cartwheel, a reference to the exercises that Knox was said to have performed in custody after her arrest in the suspicion of murdering her twenty one year old a British flatmate in Italy. Remember that case, Knox says, despite being exonerated, people still debate whether she’s guilty or innocent, and suggests that makes her the human equivalent of the white slash gold, blue slash black dress controversy that played out on the internet. She said I was patient zero of social media cancelation. At a gig in the US earlier this year, she told three thousand people, here’s how I look at it.

If I bomb God forbid on a comedy set, what’s worse he can do to me. I’ve bombed in a courtroom and they sent me to prison. I’m just saying I’d rather be heckled than shackled. Last year, Knox open for Nikki Glaser. After Nikki Glaser spotted footage of Knox performing on Instagram, Knox said, I think finding the ability to laugh at the bad things that have happened to you and find the absurdity and the human condition is important.

I really love how comedy allows me to feel connected to other people. My past is the context. I can’t pretend that it isn’t there, but ultimately it’s a show about bringing female life into the world that is very prone to judging and violently harming women. Cartwheel by Amanda Knox will be the Gilded Balloon August seventh through the seventeenth as part of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. And that is your comedy news for today again tomorrow.

You gotta hear this fallin thing, all right, I’ll see you then.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Taylor Tomlinson, George Cheeks, David Ellison, James Dixon, Byron Allen, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• Final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airing tonight
• CBS and Paramount’s decision to cancel the number one late night show
• Paramount’s $16 million Trump lawsuit settlement and its connection to Colbert’s cancellation
• Stephen Colbert’s Hollywood Reporter interview revealing how he learned about the cancellation
• Johnny Mac’s Taylor Tomlinson conspiracy theory about the 11:30 late night slot
• George Cheeks delivering cancellation news through Colbert’s manager rather than directly
• Stephen Colbert’s plans after The Late Show ends

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Calarugashock Media. Well, we are at the end. It is the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight. It was last July when Steven Colbert looked straight into the camera and announced that this season of The Late Show would be the last. Tonight the final episode.

You may recall CBS, whose parent company, Paramount, was in the midst of closing a multi billion dollar merger with David Ellison’s Sky Dance Company that required the Trump administration to approve it. CBS insisted it was purely a financial decision. The choice to cancel the number one show in late night raised more than a few eyebrows. The Colbert decision came just two weeks after Paramount had agreed to pay Trump sixteen million dollars to settle a lawsuit over a sixty minutes interview. In the time between, it has been suggested that The Colbert Show loses forty million dollars a year.

As I’ve said on this program before, I find it curious that they went straight to cancelation and not any sort of budget adjustments. Do you need the Ed Sullivan Theater? Do you need a live band? Can we tape two on Monday. Do you need ex writers?

Can you do it with fewer writers? Could you take the summers off? Can we do guest hosts on Monday? There’s all kinds of things they could have looked at, and they chose to go straight to cancelation. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Stephen Colbert back in April, and I have held on to that for today.

They asked Stephen, what will tomorrow look like. Stephen Colbert said, my brother’s getting married, so my whole family’s going to be here tonight and then we’re all going to get on the train and go to DC for the wedding. So immediately after the show’s over, there’s something much more important going on. He told the story of getting the news. His manager, James Dixon never visits in person, and people were like, James wants to talk to you, and Colbert said, I’m like, he’s here in person.

What’s going on? James says, this is going to be the last season? So I sat up and said, really, huh, well this comes as a surprise, and he goes, I can imagine. So they said it’s not making any money. I’m like, okay, I mean it’s their business.

I’m a company man. I understand that people here to make the green stuff. We’re not here to do free form polyrhythmic jazz poetry. We’re here to sell some breathewright strips. And I have no qualms about that, and they’ve been great partners.

But I went, I don’t understand. It hasn’t been two years since I signed my last contract, and they were feverish to lock me down. It was the best negotiation we’d ever had. I only do one hundred and sixty shows now, only all that kind of stuff, Dixon said. They said they could show me the numbers if we want, But I’m not going to ask them to open the books.

I’m not here to talk anybody to me. The Hollywood Reporter asked Colbert, does the forty million dollar figure sound accurate? Steven said, came as a surprise. Look, there’s no denying that the broadcast models in a huge trouble. But our model Late Night, within that overall model has been very profitable for like seventy years, starting with Steve Allen.

But maybe we were the first show to be a detriment. Maybe we were the first one to flip in the other direction. I don’t wish to litigate it. It’s their shop and they could do whatever they want. I’m grateful for the time I’ve spent here.

As I’ve said to Dixon eighteen months ago, they could not nail me to this building hard enough. But maybe everything changed after the strike. And if that’s the case, I accept that entirely. There are many people who believe there was another reason. And as I said in the most measured tones I could muster, there’s a reason why people believe that the network clearly had already done it once by cutting that sixteen million dollar check.

I like this one. He said. Causality is not the same thing as correlation. And I understand that not just because I learned from the RJ. Reynolds Tobacco company, which reminded us that, yes, you smoked and you got cancer.

But you know, correlation is not causality. So maybe my cancelation was just a naturally occurring tumor that just had to be cut out of the corporation. I mean, that’s entirely possible. I would also say, and this is what feels most true to me, that two things can be true. It can be that the broadcast models collapsing.

And while we’re at it, as long as we’re collapsing here, what if we shove this one out a window first. I mean this, Lamb’s got a very cutable throat. Let me chime in there. I’ve talked about this several times on the show, but I think today’s a good day to repeat myself. This is my Tailor Tomlinson conspiracy theory, and anytime I go into this, I cannot scream loudly enough.

I’m not blaming Taylor Tomlinson for anything, but let me just remind everybody of a timeline and my theory. Taylor Tomlinson’s twelve thirty show had been picked up, it had been renewed, and then Taylor decided she didn’t want to continue hosting it, and then CBS went, eh, maybe we shouldn’t even have a twelve thirty show, and they sold the time to Byron Allen. Now I’m wondering, did that start a conversation where somebody in a room somewhere went, you know, if we don’t have twelve thirty, what if we didn’t have eleven thirty? And I imagine the first time somebody said that out loud, that was crazy talk, but maybe perhaps possibly As they started a look at that, they went, yeah, what if we didn’t have eleven thirty? And again, so let me ask you this question.

Had Taylor Tomlinson said yes and signed some sort of contract, would they have a twelve thirty show and no eleven thirty show or would we be looking at starting next week Taylor Tomlinson hosting the eleven thirty slot, which would have been differently interesting if, among other things, a woman hosting the eleven thirty show on a major broadcast network would have been news in itself. So maybe you’d have Taylor at eleven thirty and Byron Allen at twelve thirty. That would probably discussed people a little less than what’s going on right now. The Holland reporter said to Stephen Colbert, your boss paramounts George Cheeks delivered the news not to you but to your manager, which didn’t sit well with you. Did you ultimately have a conversation on your own?

No. Here’s Colbert’s very short answer. He called me eventually. The Hollywood reporter followed up, what did that call look like, Stephen? I don’t think George would mind if I characterized our conversation.

It was later in the summer and he called to express that he wished it had gone down a different way, and I said me too. I’m not over here grinding a knife, but we’re going to make jokes about how this one down and about the forty million dollars and about CBS the parent check cutting spree. To the president, that’s the show I want to do for ten more months because I like working for CBS and I’m not going to change that relationship between now and the end if you’ll allow that to happen. And he said, I promise you that’s what will happen. So that was it.

What’s the use of being mad? All I want to do is go have fun for an audience that appreciates it. And that’s what my goal has been for ten months. When this is all over, I’ll probably have a different or rather fuller perspective on all this. But I really don’t have time to be mad about anything right now.

THHR has the Brandanny outreach from David Ellison since the Paramounts Guidince merger closed in August twenty twenty five. Steven’s answer no again. This interview was in April. I don’t know if they’ve spoken in the meantime. Thchh R.

You’ve said a few times you’ve been about to re enter show business. Have you been approached with scripts? Steven, Yes, immediately and listen, people have been patient because I’ve had to say, like, I’m sorry. When I no longer have to think about this show all the time, I’ll have a better idea of what I want to do. But it’s been very nice.

He was asked if he’s talked with people like Conan or John Stewart about what life after Late Night looks like. Stephen apparently started laughing. THHR was curious why. Steven said, because I’ve been having those conversations with them for a long time. John Stewart’s like, you like ice skating, but you know how great it feels when you take the ice skates off.

It kind of feels like that. And for years, Conan’s like, I’m been telling you there’s so much other fun to have, to the point where I’ve been like, do you not like my show? THCHR. Conan has built his own empire podcast, travel show, some acting. John went back to the Daily Show.

Those are two very different paths. Steven, Yeah, and I don’t think I’ll do either one of those. So he seems to like podcasts, but has said a couple of times he doesn’t want to host a podcasts. I’ve said on this program, I am highly confident, knowing how serious ExM works, that they’ve either reached out to him previously. We’ll reach out tonight in the wee hours at twelve thirty seven AM, when Steven’s a free agent, or however his contract works.

All right, Stephen Colbert, if you had gone out on your own terms, what would have looked like? Stephen said, I mean a lot like this, just be a little older, and it would have been my choice, and I probably would have known what the final show was going to be a little earlier. I’m a Colbert rapport. I picked that Dad. I didn’t tell anybody, but I knew two years ahead of time.

Well, we didn’t pick this day, but maybe they gave me a gift because I had a lot of jokes I could make about the end of the show, and if I decided in the show, then I’m the bad guy. Hard to make jokes about that. Dhr Lenell left late night and added more dates to the road. Trevor Noah did the same. Does that hold any appeal, Steven, I didn’t come up as a stand up.

Improv is collaborative in its nature, and all the shows I’ve done have been collaborative. It doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t do a live show at some point, but it’s not like I’m going to go out somewhere night and do a tight tened zenies. Is it better or worse being replaced by Byron Allen than another traditional late night comedy show? Stephen said, none of my business. Stephen.

How are worried to you about the future of late night? Stephen said, I don’t know what’s going to be and I don’t know what I can do to help other than what he did last eleven years. But one night I’ll turn on the TV and probably no one will be there. Stephen Colbert recently discussed with President Obama the idea of Colbert running for president, which I don’t think is the craziest idea. He’s well spoken, he doesn’t seem like the sort of person who pops off emotionally, not the worst looking guy, looks good into suits.

I mean, there’s a lot there to consider. What does Stephen Colbert run for president. I’m looking for a new gig soon, and a lot of people tell me I should run for president or you certainly have the look, thank you, you have the hook. Well, for the. Record, I think it’s a stupid idea.

How dumb. How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? Well, you know, the bar has changed, that is true at times subterraneous, So I don’t have to limbo so low this way. I think that you could perform significantly better than some folks that we’ve seen. All right, Yeah, I have great confidence in that, Thank you very much.

Yeah. Is that an endorsement? It was not. If Colbert is not your thing, Well, Jimmy Kimmel will air a rerun tonight. Kimmel is doing so out of deference to Colbert’s send off.

Kimmel did the same thing in May of twenty fifteen for David Letterman’s final show. Jimmy Fallon also will air a rerun in a sign of late night solidarity. The Washington Post wrote, this isn’t how things were supposed to turn out when Colbert was hired to take over for Letterman. You could tell from the last episode of The Colbert Report, which aired December eighteenth, twenty fourteen, that Colbert wanted to unite, not divide. In the final segment, he began to sing We’ll Meet Again as a comically absurd number of celebrities from every corner of entertainment and politics joined him on stage, from Kareem Abdul Jabbar to Mike huckabat a cookie Monster.

To watch that segment today is to be beamed into a different universe. Can you imagine a world where Michael Stipe is singing and dancing alongside Henry Kissinger and four star General Raymond Odierno, David Remnick with Mike Tabe, George Saunders with Toby Keith. That’s the world Colbert wanted to live in. It is his misfortune, then, that the one he found himself in was the world of Trump, where everything, and especially late night television, would become instantly polarized. When a joke about the president went from being satirical to immediately personal and globalized.

Colbert recognized the change quickly. It’s why his show got more political after struggling in the ratings his first year. But to use his own jacket metaphor, never quite fit him right. The skating improv comic and the smiling talk show host didn’t mesh. The Late Show was a perfectly fine talk show, but it was never transcendent in the way the Colbert Report was.

It was just another show in which an older white guy told safe jokes from behind a desk. Wash Pro writes the thing about late night TV today, it really aren’t any big tens anymore. Everyone’s in the culture war, whether they like it or not. It makes me grateful that David Letterman retired when he did. His late night career came before Trump’s political one, before the entire world was required to engage in political discourse.

Letterman had his political beliefs, but he didn’t have to be ruled by them the way everybody in the culture arena now seems to be a de illustrate Washington Post point here. And when Dave does speak, he’s very political. Now when he goes on things like the Barber Gain Show, I don’t know about very political, but somewhat political. I think Dave’s made it clear he’s not a fan of the current administration. Back to wash Poe, Dave was just able to do a show he wanted to do the big tent show that somehow never felt either compromised or defanged.

Letterman himself seems to recognize this. He once joked that if he were still hosting The Late Show, he’d talk about trumpettil people have to come and take me off the stage. Colbert wanted a Late Show in the era of Trump that could no longer exist. The show he replaced it with was a rating success, but it never approached the creative heights of the Colbert rapport. And that’s it single topic today.

Stephen Colbert of The Late Show, congratulations sir, and best of luck to whatever happens next. And boy, what a shame that that franchise dies tonight. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Nikki Glaser, Chelsea Handler, Marcello Hernandez, Keenan Thompson, Stavros Halkias, Jason Zinoman

What’s in This Episode

• CBS cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and what the institution’s end means
• Letterman legacy and the Late Show’s history as counterprogramming to NBC
• Nikki Glaser announced as headliner for University of Florida’s Gator Growl
• Chelsea Handler on modern dating struggles and her preference for non-commitment
• GQ profile on Marcello Hernandez dubbed ‘Boy Prince of Comedy’
• SNL cast odds on who may leave or return next season
• Byron Allen reportedly taking over CBS late night slot after Colbert

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Caloroga Shark Media. I don’t know if you heard Steven Golbert Show is coming to an end. Soun hello. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Friend of the show, Jason Ziddiman writes for The New York Times.

Jason asks the question, what do we lose when the Late Show goes away? Jason writes, Ever since Bette Miller made Johnny Carson sniffle with a farewell song, I have that on VHS. It’s upstairs somewhere the VHS’s label Johnny’s Last Jam, which is what TV Guide called it on their cover that week. Ever since Bett Miller made Johnny Carson sniffle with a farewell song, the long emotional goodbye has become its own late night tradition, clowing to some moving to others. It’s enough of a recognizable trope to be a reminder that with CBS’s cancelation of The Late Show, we’re losing not just Stephen Colbert, but also an institution.

You know, now that this thing is right in front of us, it really is weird that this show’s just going away. I mean, Dave up on it the other day, gave it a little bit of legacy, Like, like, I never really felt like the Late Show had the weight of the Tonight Show. But when I saw the two hosts together, and then you imagine a future where Colbert hosts another five, ten, fifteen, twenty years, and then someone else takes it over. I mean it was thirty years. It’s weird that that’s gonna be on, and that that just putting on Byron Allen, which somehow just feels worse than if they like completely punted and were like, Eh, we’re just gonna run NCIS reruns.

I digress. Zenman points out, believe it or not, the Late Show will been on the air longer than the coarsin version of the Tonight Show. It’s giving ahead Zenmun rights. When Conan O’Brien quit The Tonight Show on twenty ten, Jerry Seinfeld poked fun at the idea of late night tradition. Jerry told Bill Carter, how do you not get that this whole thing is phony?

There’s no institution to offend Zinneman rights. I’ve long been sympathetic to Seinfeld’s position, Comically exaggerated as it may have been. A healthy art form requires dynamism and new blood. No institution ever made me laugh, And yet as the Late Show approaches its end, I find myself as sentimental as the guest singing melancholy melodies. What exactly are we losing with the end of the Late Show?

Jason takes us back to the origin of the Late Show. If you listen to me every day, you’re probably familiar with the story of Letterman and Leno. Jason wrights fairly. With the diminished state of late night in today’s fragmented culture, it might be hard to understand the passion behind this competition between men in suits joking at desks. But make no mistake, it was the Kendrick Lamar Drake drum of its day.

Late night host to find sensibilities inspired toxic fandoms. Take me Jason for example, Back then, on the cusp of college, I assumed anyone who preferred leto was not worth knowing. Yeah, I mean I was heavy team Letterman and Boy. When Day was on at eleven thirty that first year, I watched it, and then I don’t know if I watched any of the remainder I’ve spoke about this before. It just became establishment Letterman and I like the counterculture Letterman at twelve thirty.

Be careful what you wish for. I always wish the show had been on earlier. Oh, as you know, I don’t read these things ahead. I like to react. Jason wrote, the Late Show meant an earlier to times, a lot for Letterman, but it signaled something broader than that, a test, a public taste, a chance for justice to be served, a cause to get behind.

Jason talked about going to see Letterman back in the NBC days. The line outside had the feel of a tailor Swift concert. The crowd responded to every joke. At Fever Pitch, I was surrounded by fellow true believers. Steven Colbert is a very different performer from Letterman, but when he got the job as Letterman’s successor at The Late Show, it represented a kind of continuity.

Since it was built in opposition to its NBC rival, The Late Show was both an institution and anti institutional. Colbert kept that dual spirit alive. The most obvious way Late Show remained counterprogramming involved current events, while the Tonight Show, led by Jimmy Fallon since twenty fourteen, has aimed for light a political fair. Colbert has responded to our moment by becoming forceful in his comic attacks on President Trump. Talk show hosts like Letterman have always made fun of presidents, network executives’ bosses, something Colbert became too portisan and predictable to be funny, But even if true, this was an attempt to not just engage with our politicized era, but also to fill the role of topical hosts.

In a recent GQ interview, Obert said he was more conservative than people think. Jason says, I believe him all all very sad time does more Sean though. Nikki Glaser will be the headliner at this year’s Gator Growl. This announced by the University of Florida. Gator Growl is the school’s annual student run event.

So in the span of a week here we’ve gone from Nikki Glaser’s soft campaigning to host the Oscars to hosting the Gator Growl. The event is Friday, Actober ninth. Students can get early access to tickets beginning today. Chelsea Handler is not holding back when it comes to modern romance. She was on Howie Mandel’s podcast.

She said it’s very hard in today’s world to meet straight guys that have their stuff together. Something’s wrong. I don’t know what’s wrong. I think with dating apps and social media, there’s just so much abundance and so much choice that nobody really feels like they have to lock it in. They could swipe through fifty women a day, so they’re not making the effort that people used to make to date.

Meanwhile, Handler herself said, I wouldn’t say I’m in a relationship. I would say I’m dabbling in different areas of my life. I don’t like to be tethered to one person. You may recall ten seconds ago I told you Chelsea was commenting on men’s swapping through fifty pictures in one day. Chelsea said, I love the idea that I don’t have to check in with anybody about anything I do.

I don’t have to consider or consult with anyone if I want to get on a plane and go to Paris, which I’ll do at a moment’s notice. Marcelo hernane has got a big fluff piece in GQ titled How Marcello Hernanez Became the Boy Prince of Comedy. Guys, is Marcelo Hernandez the boy Prince of comedy? Clearly, the answer is no, What are we basing that on that he does Domingo. Come on, stop.

Keenan Thompson describes Marcelo Hernandez and says he’s just a very bright soul, loves to laugh and loves to find what’s funny about each laugh. He likes not only laughing, but finding a formula to what’s making us all laugh. I’d say, oh, this guy serious about comedy. Well, the formula is he does Domingo and characters very similar to Domingo. They point out he is speaking voices far less theatrical, his Latino accent much more faint than the way he often talks in his comedy.

He says he’s in a circles keeping him humble. My friends are not like every Sunday being like, dude, you killed it last night. Once in a while you get that. But that’s nicer than anything, but it motivates the work a little bit too. Wow.

I didn’t realize he’s been on the show for four seasons now and the boy Prince of comedy has done what again in four seasons. Ashley Pitty and Jane Wickline are more memorable. Come on, guys. He gets asked for a lot of selfies and says, the only thing worse than taking pictures is when no one wants one. Now, GQ says, being around Hernandez a clearest day extrovert feels like hanging out with the Tasmanian Devil if Taz had more polished comedic chops Stavarro’s Hawkius just so happens to walk by, s ays GQ, and Hernanez frantically waves him down.

When Halkius recognizes this isn’t some crazy fan of his podcast, but rather fellow comedian Stavarro stops Spideriff for a little bit. He’s asked about being a heart throb, and he says, how do I feel about being a heart throb? Grateful Late Nighter had some odds on who may leave and who may return for SNL season fifty two. They say, most likely to depart, Cam Patterson odds of returning minus four hundred. Most likely to return, Ashley Padilla.

I think everybody agrees she was season one’s MVP. And this reminds me because someone else pointed this out. You know who was on this season, bow and Yang? Remember bow Anden Yang walked around a Christmas time to go do something else? How’s that going?

John McGinley has a pitch for Scrubs Season eleven slash two. By the way, we’ve learned that there will be ten episodes in the upcoming season. McGinley said, I think it’d be awesome in the revival of Scrubs. It’ll never happen because we’re up in Vancouver. But if Hugh Jackman came and was sick and he had to come to the hospital and Doctor Cox would be like, what the f That would be genius.

That’d be so great, you know, would be really good. Doctor Cox has become sick and season ten, Cox gets a kidney problem, so he’s going to be a patient for a while. Now, what would be genius is if Hugh Jackman was in a bed next to him in the hospital and they were just chirping away. McGinley explained why doctor Cox hates Hugh Jackman. It all comes from the writer of the show, Bill Lawrence, is jealous because Hugh Jackman is a great actor.

He’s a great singer, he’s a great dancer. He does Broadway musicals, he does Marvel, he does everything, and Bill Lawrence is jealous of him. So we made doctor Cox jealous of that. That’s where it comes from. I’ve never met Hugh Jackman.

By all accounts, he’s the nice guy on the planet. He’s very handsome, but I’m not jealous of you. That’s all Bill Lawrence and Bill Lawrence had fun with that. Cox wonders about the new dynamic between his character and j D. McGinley said, as we see in the eighth episode of the new season, the last thing on earth that doctor Cox wants is to expose JD to what I think Doctor Cox perceives as a fatal malady.

And he doesn’t want to drag JD down with him until he realizes he’s so scared and us to tell JD for the first time in ten years, I need you and to me, it’s the best episode we ever did, next to one. Brendan Frascher came on. We were all crying on the set and the camera picked it all up. It’s very moving and I didn’t see that one coming. He explained how his return happened.

They called me because I was doing the Steve Carell Show and currently with what those guys were in Vancouver shooting and I was in Burbank and Zach called and I said, I have a great story idea, and I’m like, what because in the first episode, I give Zack the hospital, I make him the new chief of medicine. So I didn’t know I were going to reintegrate doctor Cox from the show. Rooster stopped and I could go back up to Vancouver. McGinley says his idea for Cox’s return was very different. I thought, what if we make Cox the worst patient in the history of patience, you know, somebody who just wants to micromanage everything.

But Zach said, even better, let’s make them really sick and scared. That was great. I think my job with Zach in that episode, and I’ll say to him a couple of times, is to protect him from what’s going on with me. I want to protect you from this. This isn’t your journey, this is my descent to this malady.

That’s really rich to say to somebody. I mean, we mostly only say that to who our best friends or people in our families. We could try, but it’s a big thing to try and protect someone. And so for Cox repeatedly in that episode saying I’m trying to protect you from this, that’s as good as it gets. And that is your comedy news for today, We’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Stephen Colbert, Will Ferrell, Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Mike Epps, Trevor Noah, Mo Amer

What’s in This Episode

• Grown Ups 3 in development at Netflix with original cast returning
• Will Ferrell’s golf comedy series The Hawk trailer released
• Nick Kroll’s new Netflix comedy series Eight Hundred Percent announced
• Wanda Sykes Netflix special Legacy now streaming
• Mike Epps gets two-special Netflix deal after Delusional success
• Trevor Noah’s World Tour travel series coming to YouTube
• Mo Amer to host 86th Annual Peabody Awards
• Stephen Colbert responds to questions from fellow late night hosts about show ending

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Caloroga Shark Media. Yes, we’re gonna talk about Stephen Colbert, of course we will, but we got some other stuff to do up top. I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler is making a comedy new Yeah. I don’t know about this one.

Boy, you can tell how I’m excited. I am all right? What is he making this time? John? Grown Ups three?

Jesus, Come on, man, you were so good at JA Kelly. You’re so good at the dramatic stuff. We stop. Grown Ups three is in development at Netflix. Netflix announced this at their upfronts last week.

The script for Grown Ups three is by Adam Sandler and Tim Hurley. Producers include Adam Sandler and famous producer Jackie Sandler. In case you haven’t seen the Grownups films, the franchise revolves around a set of childhood friends who were brought back together as adults over the course of a summer vacation. The friends include David Spade, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, and Chris Rock, all sets a return for the three quel. Really, Chris Rock, I’m impressed if they get Chris Rock for this, Chris Why would you do this film?

Paycheck? Okay, I get it. It’s been thirteen years since Grown Ups two. This time it is believed the Friend group travels to Europe along with their families to spread their deceased friends’ ashes. Is this like a different friend or is Chris rock at this thing for two minutes?

That would all make sense. We’ll see, we’ll see. I can see that now, Johnny Mac. You can hate all you want, but Grownups and the sequel, Grown Ups two have grossed over five hundred million dollars at the box office. Grown Ups has a ten percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Grown Ups two was even more poorly received. But that’s not gonna stop Netflix. And if you like that kind of humor, boy, you’re gonna love The Hawk. That’s Will Ferrell’s upcoming golf comedy series. If Will but comes unavailable, you can drop Adam Sandler right in the middle of this one.

There is a trailer. I went to pull the audio, but it’s too visual because it’s got yuck yuck jokes like people being hill with a golf ball hilarious. In The Hawk, Will Ferrell plays Lonnie Hawkins two thousand and four’s and number one golfer again. This is so saidlor Hawkins struggles on the back nine of his career, trying to recapture his magic. His body says retire, but his heart says he’s not done yet.

His ex wife and his son, Lance, who happens to be golf’s new Golden Boy, know that Lonnie is through, but with one more major to win to complete Golf’s Grand Slam, Lonnie refuses to believe he’s anything other than one stroke away from the greatest comeback in golf history. Molly Shannon plays Lonnie’s foul mouth ex wife Stacy, Also appearing This Thing, Fortune Fimester, Luke Wilson, Chris Parnell, David Hornsby, who’s usually great in things, and some others can’t wait. Nick Krole has a new comedy series, this one called eight hundred Percent. It stars Nick Kroll, Sam Richardson, Jason Mitzukis, and vi Us a Bear. Hopefully that’ll keep her away from the Scrubs reboot.

The cast portrays a group of friends working inside the thought leader industrial complex. Their books, podcasts, and morning routines might help us live our lives more perfectly, but away from the screens and mics. These characters are most definitely far from perfect. You know, I do think this fits into Jason and Krohl’s wheelhouse. This could be good, Krol said, I’m thrilled to make this show with Gabe in this insane cast.

I can’t wait to explore this high functioning group of friends who endeavor to live their weird lives. That could actually be good. Want of Sikes as a special ad on Netflix today. It is called Legacy. I want to pull the trailer.

She swears a lot, so I passed. Netflix tells us with the trademark wit and fearless insight that have earned her multiple Emmy wins and nominations. Want of Sikes delivers an hour of bold, smart, and laugh out loud comedy that cements her legacy as a comedy icon. That is the most generic description I’ve ever seen anyway. That’s on Netflix today, and by the time you’re hearing my voice at three h five am.

Friend of the show and Facebook group regular Dylan, He’s probably watched it, maybe twice. Dylan and I keep very different hours. I think. Apparently Mike EPP’s Netflix special Delusional did really well. It was his fifth for Netflix, and they’ve given him a deal for two more.

Netflix is playing the long game. They plan to release specials by Mike Apps in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty. The press release tell us that Mike Epp specials have racked up twelve and a half million views. That doesn’t even include Delusional, which ranked as the number five English language TV title globally on Netflix and its debut and roasted number three on the US Top ten list. YouTube had upfronts of sorts.

Trevor Noah was your host. He said, some of you may recognize me from stand up comedy, some of you may recognize me from my podcast, some of you might recognize me from The Daily Show, some of you might recognize me from the Grammys. But there’s one place where you definitely see me. That’s on YouTube. These days, everything is on YouTube.

Everything, sports, entertainment, interviews, podcasts, you name it. Well. Coming to YouTube is Trevor Noah’s World Tour. Premiere Day TBA. On Trevor Noah’s World Tour, Trevor ne invites viewers along for the ultimate global hangout in this prestige travel series on YouTube.

You know I like travel and I like Trevor. I’m gonna wind up watching Trevor Noah’s World Tour, where comedy, culture, and spontaneity collide as Trevor Noah journeys from city to city on his World Tour with friends, collaborators, and surprise guests joining the fun. Each episode blends Trevor Noah’s signature humor with authentic, on the ground experiences that spotlight local people, food, and culture. So it’s Anthony Bourdain minus Anthony Bournine plus Trevor Noah. Is that what I’m getting here?

Not the worst idea? Along the way, Trevor turns his discoveries into sharp, hilarious observations that weave into his live performance, creating a fresh window into his comedic process and into the places that inspire him. That actually sounds pretty good. Mo Amer will host the eighty sixth Annual Peabody Awards May thirty first, at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Peabody Executive director Jeffrey P.

Jones said, Moe Ammer is the comedic voice we need now. His comedy is bold and refreshing because he minds his own personal, heartfelt experiences a refugee and blends them with cultural Commentsary that is powerful, moving and very funny. Johnny Mac, you said you were gonna talk about Stephen Colbert. All right, I mean give me nine minutes. I’ll get to it.

Stephen Colbert answered some questions from the other late night hosts. I’ve clipped this down a little bit for pacing, but let’s listen. You got a question from Jay Leno. I’ll tell you when I got this gig. Jay Leno called me right away, and Jay goes, yayt the you got the Pope job, you got the John c you dead.

You’re wrong on that one. Jay, all right? From Jay Leno. As a road comic, I’ve always enjoyed live audiences. Have you ever thought about a road version of your best jokes for a live audience still waiting for the best jokes?

Jay, I think that’s a great idea. Jay. Please send me a list of what my best jokes have been, and let’s hit the road together. You drive from James Cordon, how are things at CBS? Should I come back?

One hundred percent? James, one hundred percent? Hold on, hob, I see what Cordon actually asked? What have you been doing to mentally and emotionally prepare for your daily life after the show. Trevor and I can send a zoom link if you need a good question.

I don’t know about you, guys, but there’s no I don’t think there’s any prepping for it. Look, I try not to make eye contact with the people in the building too much. I’ve always discouraged it, but now I’m really being a heart ass about it. Don’t look me in the eye because I’m a weeper and I like the show a lot, but I love the people I work with and that’s going to be hard, and they’re so physically attractive. From Trevor Noah, is there anything you were never able to do because you had a late night show?

And do you see yourself doing it now? Exercising? That’s what I would like to do. I think my wife was waited long enough. It’s time for abs.

Okay, honey. From Knor and O’Brien, just who the hell do you think you are? Sometimes I wish I was Connin O’Brien because I’ve never been able to dunk. From Jimmy Kimmel, is it true that hospitals are sometimes forced to send patients who are two obese for their MRICT machines to be scanned at the zoo. Okay, sometime at once.

It happened once, but then after that I got the shot and I don’t have to go to the zoo for my CT scan anymore. From Jimmy Fallon, you’ve had the best seats in the house for over ten years. What’s the one musical performance on your show that you and the crew still talk about. I mean, we just recently had a Hosier and Lake Street dive do Joe Cocker’s Woodstock version of with a little help from my friends, that’s pretty fantastic. The Times they asked even about why the show was canceled, saying that some are skeptical there was for financial reasons.

Colbert said, I do not dispute their rationale. I do make jokes about it, but I also completely understand why people would say, hey, that doesn’t make sense to me, and be this seems fishy to me because the network did it to themselves by bending the need of the Trump administration over a twenty billion settled for sixteen million, completely frivolous lawsuit. It’s possible that two things can be true broadcast can be in trouble. They can’t monetize because of things like YouTube, because of the competition of streaming. They’ve got the books.

I don’t have any desire to debate them over what they say their business model is and how it doesn’t work for them anymore. But less than two years before they called me to say it’s over, they were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So something changed. By the way, oops, who knows what they offered him. It is believed Colbert’s current annual salary is around fifteen million dollars, and I think I have it somewhere in my head.

They wanted him for five years. As Johnny Mac likes to say, if somebody ever offers you seventy five million dollars, just say yes. Steven said, I’ve really like work with CBS. They’ve been great partners, and I’d like to end it that way. Eleven years is a long time to work here, and almost ten years before that, almost twenty one years together in Late Night.

I feel so much better to be grateful for than to be mad about. The discussion move to taking over for David Letterman in twenty fifteen, Boy time flies. I feel like I just watched that, remember watching that on the upstairs TV. Stephen said it was my instinct to be less topical because I didn’t want to have to engage with what I saw is an increasingly contentious public discourse. And I thought, aren’t there other ways to have fun with the audience.

But in twenty sixteen, Colbert went all in on News The Time said that change worked right. Colbert said, I was like Clint Eastwood and Unforgiven or said some other movie. He buried his guns, and I’m like, you know, I buried those guns. I was talking to Paul Denello, he’s one of my oldest friends and one of my producers here, and he’s like, you’re having fun and people like to see that. And I said, but that means I got to go dig up the guns.

And he says, Buddy, that’s the part the audience wants to see. They asked Stephen Colbert why he thinks the FCC and the Trump administrations are so focused on him. Stephen told The New York Times authoritarians don’t like anybody who doesn’t give them undue dignity. Comedians are anti authoritarian by nature and authoritarians are never going to like anybody to laugh at them. The number of newspeople have said to me or John Stewart or any of the guys who do this, God, I wish I could say what you say on air, and we can.

I think that upsets them. I think it might be upsetting and we really don’t live in their world of principalities and powers. Continuing about Trump, and send your letters to Stephen Colbert, he said, I don’t have any problem with Trump being a Republican. I have a problem with Trump being a complete north who’s only working for his own interest and doesn’t appear to care if the entire world burns. That’s not a partisan position.

I have eyeballs and ears, and I think calling Late Night partisan is just roughing the ref And we don’t even want to be refs, but they perceive us as refs. I reject the partisan description. Partisan means you’re never ever going to make a joke about a Democrat, and that’s just not true. There’s just no comparison of how fertile the fields are. What’s next for Colbert.

He’s working on a script for a Warner Brothers Lord of the Rings movie. He loves podcasts and spends more time with podcasts than any form of entertainment. That could be a clue there now in the past, I think I have in my brain that he didn’t want to do a podcast. But doesn’t that seem like a no brainer? I’m sure just knowing the internal workings of serious I’m sure they’ve either been on the phone with him, or on the phone with him right now, or will be on the phone with him at twelve thirty eight am Friday morning.

Stephen says he wants to do comedy, but he’s not sure what’s next because the show takes ninety five percent of his brain. I don’t think I can give you a good answer until I can really think about it. It Will it be your relief to not have to think about Trump in the same way Steven said, Oh yeah, Now, I could be as interested as I want to be on a daily basis, as opposed to interested as I need to be, to do a show about what our national conversation was about. I can opt out of the national conversation for day two. I mean, I’m American, I still care about my country.

I’m still going to care, But I could do that recreationally. You know we’re privately out on the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube page today. Now you gotta pay attention because they’re going back and forth between Gorilla Plus and the YouTube page. This is on the YouTube page. Shane Moss trips Parentheses Second Dose.

The Ish Edinburgh Comedy Awards will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in twenty twenty six. James Cordon is backing it. He said, I am honored to support the brilliant Mish Edinburgh Comedy Awards again. Now in their fourth year, the awards continued to direct all sponsorship and come straight to performers through prize money. Last year’s prizes included four thousand pounds each for Best Show and Best Newcomer, three thousand for the Panel Prize, one thousand for Better Tech, and a five hundred four Best Joke.

The winners are decided by a volunteer panel who attend every eligible comedy show with the Fringe, giving performers an equal chance regardless of venue background, industry backing or audience size. The twenty twenty six Awards are expected to retain the same five categories website. The spinoff is covering the new Zealand Comedy Festival. They say Henry Yen is the best bad date at the NZ International Comedy Festival. They tell us Wellington’s Cavern Club is a bit of a dank hole in the wall, but it’s a cozy place to catch some comedy.

During a set focused on the highs and lows of life as a perpetually single thirty year old, you really start to feel like you’re on one of those bad first dates. He’ll never stop telling your friends about the spectator says. They write this in the most complimentary way possible. The strength of Yen’s comedy is in his awkwardness, The way he says haha crazy after every other line, The way he takes a joke bombing and turns it into another opportunity to make another joke appealing to the audience is pity. You know what?

Who has inspired me to find a clip? Let’s listen. My parents are here. I love you. Hey, your turn?

Yeah, I left my computer for this. Yeah, so it’s gonna be so fun. I’ll just tell you, guys, if someone walks in here like aggressive, I’m telling you that I’m not gonna protect you. Yeah, because recently someone asked me to protect them, and I was like, from what like nowhere. It’s crazy because what happens on the street right in the city.

These two guys were fighting and the girls standing next to me. She turns me, she’s like, aren’t you gonna stop the fight? I was like, oh, thank you for believing in me. Yeah, but I don’t look I’m not a fighter. I’m a snitch.

Wow, he’s pretty funny. Like that a lot, The spectator tells us. Henry Anne’s audience work was also impactful. He seemed to make a genuine connection with a fellow spreadsheet obsessive in the crowd. Good stuff, Henry Ann, And that is your comedy news for today.

See tomorrow.