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Featured: Robert Schimmel, Rodney Dangerfield, Howard Stern, Ralphie May, Brie Larson, Vicki Davis

What’s in This Episode

• Robert Schimmel’s confessional stand-up comedy style and personal life
• Schimmel’s son’s death from leukemia and cancer diagnosis
• Fox sitcom ‘Shimmel’ cancellation due to Schimmel’s stage three non-Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosis
• Schimmel’s 1986 HBO Young Comedian special appearance with Rodney Dangerfield endorsement
• Schimmel’s regular appearances on Howard Stern Show building loyal fanbase
• Schimmel’s death in 2010 car accident in Scottsdale, Arizona while awaiting liver transplant
• Deep dive series on early 2000s comedians who died young before YouTube and podcasting era

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac, and we picked up a lot of new listeners this week. So what I’ve been doing on Saturday’s or deep dives on specific tomics, specific comedians. Last week I did Ralphie May. And my point here is I’m trying to highlight comedians from earlier this century who came along a little too early for modern YouTube or social media and podcasts, and these guys died young and would have been awesome.

One of them I would consider a friend Robert Shimmel, who I got to spend a decent amount of time with at serious exam early in my run there. So that’s what we’re doing today. A normal episode in the feed tomorrow. But today let’s talk about Robert Shimmel, who was fantastic and his life, his life story. If you made it up, you wouldn’t believe it.

There’s a thing that happens sometimes in stand up comedy where comedians life is so strange and so specifically pain that the material rights itself and the only question is where the comedian has the nerve and the craft to stand in front of a room and say it out loud. Most comedians who have access to that kind of material, find ways to soften it, keep something of a private, let the audience know it’s there without fully handing it over. Robert Schimmel was not most comedians. His son died of leukemia at eleven years old. Robert talked about it on stage.

Robert himself was diagnosed with stage three non Hodgkins lymphoma, and on the day the oncologist told him, in a room with his parents and his wife, he found the joke and the doctor’s explanation before it even left the office. I’m in my doctor’s office with my mom and dad. Mycologist comes in tells me that I have non Hodgkins lymphomi. He said, there’s Hopkins disease and non Hoskins and then he says, if you’re open minded, you might consider marijuana because it helps with the nausea and the appetite. And my parents are sitting there devastated with my diagnosis, and I’m thinking this is a dream come true.

I got a guy at Mayo clinic telling my parents I got smoke pot. Where were you? Twenty five years ago? Shimill married and divorce the same woman three times. During chemotherapy, he fell in love with his daughter’s best friend.

She came to visit him in the hospital and became his second wife. Robert was sixty years old and waiting for a liver transplant when his daughter was driving him through Scottsdale, Arizona. She swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle flipped. His son and daughter survived. Robert Schimmel died from the injuries ten days later, on September third, twenty ten.

It’s kind of like Sam Kinnison. If you had guessed how these people would go, you wouldn’t have guessed car accident. Chimmell had all kinds of cancer, and that it was a car is just crazy to me. I didn’t realize he was sixty. I thought he was younger.

Robert Schimmell turned every single piece of his life into colmy that made people laugh and feel and occasionally have to put their hand over their mouth because the laugh on the horror were arriving simultaneously. The actual skill was taking the most brutal and specific facts of one particular life and making them not just funny but generous, making an audience feel, by laughing at his pain, that their pain was survivable and laughable. Too. Robert shim Well, born in the Bronx, New York City in nineteen fifty, grew up there. His sister pushed him to do an open mic night.

How many times have we heard a version of that story Shimill did. It worked well enough that a club owner in LA offered him a regular spot. So he moved to LA and found that the club had burned down before he got there. That kind of bad luck where the universe appears to be personally invested in thwarting. You followed Robert Shimmell around for his entire life.

His big break came in nineteen eighty six when Rodney Dangerfield invited him to perform on the HBO Young Comedian special. There’s a guy. I don’t know where he’s from, and I don’t care. He really makes me laugh. All right, give it up for Robert Shimman.

Okay, Robert. Floyd, he gave a comedian. I used to work for the Drug Hotline. That’s a lot of fun. People call Real Stone to get to play with their heads.

Drug Hotline. I’m freaking out on LSD. Gee, I’m sorry the guy. Do you want to talk to? What was that?

Listen? You haven’t real scary hallucinations. Yeah, seeing like pigs eating your face. Now that you mention it, yes, you don’t worry. The spiders will kill them.

If you ever want to have fun with somebody that’s really stoned, all you gotta say is it me? Or is it getting hard to breathe? In? Here they go. Rodney Dangerfield’s taste was impeccable and his endorsement met something specific back in those days.

Appearing on that special put you in front of an industry that was paying close attention to who Rodney thought was worth watching. Shimmell made the most of it. He got some specials on Showtime Hardcore, in the Big Apple, Guilty is Charged, and became known what the industry calls a comics comic. That is high praise. That is the designation for someone who’s peers think is funnier than their public profiles.

Yes they should be, Shimill wrote for a Living Color he was on Howard Stern regularly, and then after two thousand and six, I think is the math there when Howard was up as serious that would bring Shimmel into the building, which is where I got to know him. Talking about that in a bit Shimmell was named stand Up of the Year at the American Comedy Awards. I remember those then. Fox Green lad a sitcom based on his life titled Shimmel whoa. Now you may feel a little pressure.

Yeah, on the roof of my mouth. Get it out. Let’s relax. Oh that’s beautiful. So who are you liking the playoffs?

What do you get the game on that thing? Doctor Rothman needs a consultation online. One that’s not what you think. Yeah, that’s what everybody says. Hey Phil, Oh yeah I can talk.

No he can’t. Ye, he’s very busy. Fell addrestment opportunity. I’m listening. Hmm, hold on a sick if you could buy boats online, would you ro just stick the phone up my ass and we can confidence.

His daughters were played by Vicki Davis and a young actress named Brie Larson. The pilot was shot, sets were built, marketing was being planned, and during the insurance physical for the production, doctors found stage three non Hodgkins lymphoma. Fox put the show on hiatus. The chemotherapy made production impossible. Fox eventually canceled the show.

So what did shim Will do? He put the cancer into the act. He talked about losing his hair, about the specific indignities of chemotherapy, about falling in love with his daughter’s best friend in a hospital because she visited and he was lying there with nothing to dow but noticed she was kind and funny and beautiful. When he married her, she was four years older than his daughter Jessica. Talked about all that on stage, including how weird it was and how much explain it all required.

The Howard Stern part is super important. Howard was a dominant force back in the early two thousands. Shimill worked on the show because he wasn’t trying to be transgressive. Stern show rewarded the thing Robert Shimmill was doing, which was telling the complete truth about his own life without editing on Stern. The more specific and the more honest and the more uncomfortable, the better.

And Robert Shimmell had a specific, honest, uncomfortable set of material than almost anyone Howard Stern ever put on the air. Because Robert’s actual life kept generating it faster than he could use it, their audiences overlapped in the years of regular Howard Stern appearances built Robert Shimmel a following that was unusually loyal, unusually mail, and unusually invested in his specific brand of confessional comedy. So I got too serious to run the comedy channels two thousand and four or so. And in those early days, Robert would come up frequently and come over and do the Raw Dog Channel. And I remember one particular story with Robert.

So at serious, a lot of stars would come through and, like any place, sometimes a lobby, because you know, I’m not gonna stand in the lobby waiting for Robert Shimmel to show up, So you know, you take the elevator up and you tell the receptionists you’re here to see John mcdermotter, whoever you’re here to see. So one day in the lobby, Robert Schimmel meets David Brenner. Younger listeners may not know. David Brenner, a great comedian who had his peak fame in the seventies and eighties and also a regular Howard Stern guest. Was also one of the primary guest hosts for The Tonight Show in the Johnny Carson era before Joan Rivers kind of took that gig anyway, So I’m there and my coworker Phil is there and Shimmel and David Brenner start swapping stories and we go, hold on, can we do this on the air?

And they both agree to come back the next day and swap stories. So we put them in the fish Bowl Studio, which is the big studio in the lobby which has all glass and that’s where you would do show off shows. And we set up two like old timey stand mics like what Bob Hope would use in the forties, and two stools, and Shimmel and David Brenner did an hour of radio just swapping stories. Now, when I left over a decade ago, the tape still existed. I hope whoever took over my office didn’t lose that tape because it was fantastic.

Let me see if that’s online. I don’t think it is, because that was pre like YouTube, Ron Dog Shimmel Brinner. No, there’s no video. I don’t even see the press release, but you can see this happened. I’m on Howard Stern dot com and on June seventeenth, two thousand and five, they posted Robert Shimmel stop by tosing in for the news, et cetera, et cetera.

Shimill said he was there to do a show with David Brinner. So it did happen in two thousand and five. You know what, I came up here? I forgot I did this apparently on February twenty sixth, twenty twenty two, I did an episode called Robert Shimmel’s Story. So when you’re done here, go back and listen to that one.

See what version of the story I told Maybe I’ll just tag that onto the Why don’t you just do that, John, I will tag that onto the end of this episode and save everybody some work since I obviously have the audio. Oh that’s funny. Did we learn doing this show? Where were we? Oh?

Yeah? So yeah. So Shimmel and Berner came up and swapped stories for an hour and it was fan fantastic. Shimmell’s a really good guy, always like super nice to work with, Like I like working with a pro who has like no attitude and it’s just there to do the work and like just no airs about him. And Robert Shimmel was a great guy.

His specials Unprotected in nineteen ninety nine. Life since then in two thousand and eight, Shimmel since he’d been gone in two thousand and nine. Are all documentaries of his actual life. He wrote a memoir called Cancer on five Dollars a Day and in parentheses chemo not included. That got him onto NPR’s Fresh Air.

Comedy Central named him one of the one hundred greatest stand up comedians of all time. We’ll have to revisit that list every now and then, but sure, why not? That puts Robert in a group of names that most people can recite from memory, and in a group of names that should come up more often than they do. The reason he comes up less often is the same reason and they were off he May conversation goes the same way. There is a specific kind of legacy that the comedy industry is better preserving than others.

The comedian who had the hit sitcom gets remembered through the sitcom. The comedian who with the viral special gets remembered through the algorithm. The comedian whose career was built on live rooms Robert Shimmel, Ralphie May and radio appearances and a confessional act. That comedian’s legacy depends on people actively arguing for it. There’s a clip of Shimmel and Conan from the nineties that gets passed around occasionally, and then people who find it for the first time say some version the same thing, which is why didn’t I know about this guy?

My next yes HBO special Unprotected, premieres this Saturday at ten o’clock PM. Please welcome a very funny guy, one of our favorites, Robert Shimmel. Thank you, thank you very much. My wife and I just had a brand new baby, and oh thanks, thank you. I’m very excited because for the whole pregnancy she didn’t want to have sex.

I mean every time I wanted to try it, and we’re in bed, you know, She’s like, well, I don’t feel attractive. I said, believe it or not, my penis has real poor vision. Actually he’s legally blind. Only women think. Like that, not guys.

I mean really, I mean I got with her and I go, come on, honey, you think tonight, And she goes, I’m too fat. What guy would be like that if your wife said, hey, tonight, you think you want to do it? Nah, I’m too fat to do it, honey. So I’m laying in bed with her, you know, I’m on the road a lot performing and she said she said, you know, can I ask you something? She said, you know, you’ve been on the road for like three weeks.

She said, have you been taking care of yourself? I said, yeah, I’m masturbated a couple of times. She said masturbate. I’m talking about eating right and exercising. Why is any more famous?

What happened? What happened is Robert Shimill never got the sitcom. Robert Shimmell. I would call him a friend. Again.

We weren’t best friends, but like good guy to work with. And here let me dust off that other episode from how many years ago? Now, I can’t do math four years ago? And let’s see what Johnny Mac said back in twenty twenty two. Here’s past me and I’ll see you tomorrow.

With a normal episode, Today’s episode is going to be a lot naughtier than usual. I won’t use any particularly sweary words, but the topics are going to be quite adult. So if you listen to the podcast on a daily business would say children or a nun or your mom, Why don’t you bail? On today’s episode, I’m going to talk about Robert George Shimmel, one of my favorite comedians and someone I knew personally. There’s a fantastic interview and a website called mister Media that I’m going to pick at.

I’ll do a lot from that on the back end, but a quick story up top here. Robert told mister Media. I went to go see Rodney Dangerfield in Vegas and my mom and dad were there, and I want him to my parents to meet Rodney because I thought, you know what, They’re gonna meet Rodney and they think he’s really funny. They’ve seen him on Ed Sullivan, on Tonight’s Show and on Mike Douglas, and they’re gonna really believe that I’m in show business for real. So we go to see a show.

My dad’s a real early bird. He goes to bed at like nine at night. So I go up to the dressing room with just my mom and I knock on the door and Rodney and where I’m not making this up. Rodney opens the door. He’s wearing a silk robe that has playing cards on it, with his stuff hanging out, no underwear just out of the crack of his robe.

He had a joint in one hand and a Miller light in the other, and he said, hey, you got to be Bob’s mom. I’m like, you gotta be kidding me. That’s not what I wanted my mom to see. And he started hitting on my mom. He said, where’s your husband?

She said, oh, he went to bed. Rodney goes, what are you doing later? Baby? From The Observer in nineteen ninety nine, Robert Schimmel was remembering the day that Barry Diller had resigned from twentieth Century Fox back in nineteen ninety two. A lot of set up there, But this will make sense to you, Robert said.

On that night, I did a big industry showcase in La, where you go in front of everybody, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney, Sony, Warner, Fox, and my opening line was, I have such bad timing in this business. I blew Barry Diller last night. My agent came over to me and said, are you out of your effing mind? Shimo says, why. The agent says, because the guy can make a phone call and I won’t even be in show business anymore.

Blow someone else. If Dielor finds out, he’s gonna go nuts. Shimmel said, why would he go nuts? I’m blowing him at that sign. Back in ninety ninety then a forty nine year old Robert Shimmel was described as the guy where people go, hey, come here, you gotta hear this, and with the book said yeah, but where’s he going with that kind of material.

Shimmel, a man with a shaved head, cool suit and eyes that look like they’re channeling the collective disbelief of his native Bronx, told jokes that often work like defibllerator battles. When his wife wonders if Robert Shimmel is suffering from premature ejaculation, he replies, does it look like I’m suffering? Those aren’t tears on your belly? After getting nitrous oxide from his deaentist, mister Shimmel hears him say Robert, you’re gonna feel a little prick in your mouth, and Shimal says, I’m not that messed up yet. From that observer piece, Shimmel has a lot of heavyweight fans in the comedy business.

He’s been on Conan six times in two years. Steve Martin wrote the liner notes to Shimmel CD. If you buy the CD, I can get this car. Howard Stern, the comedian, on a number of times when Shimmell was on Stern around this time, he talked about the allergic reaction he had to a spermicide that his wife was using. He described it as like having intercourse with a calzone.

The observer continues. If actor Jason Alexander was not a fan before the October first Friars Club roost of Jerry Stiller, he must be one now. Alexander dies spit take. During Shimmel’s set, Shimmell had started off by saying mister Stiller had played Angela Lansbury’s sea word in murder, she wrote. Shimal then stopped and quickly corrected himself by saying he meant to say cousin.

Shimill said, Jason Alexander’s lawyer called me and told me that Jason had called him after the roast and said I had made him use his asthma spray. Yet, even though Shimmel killed, some even felt he should have closed the roast. His entire performance was cut out of the hour long version of the roast that aired on Comedy Central a few weeks later. Shimmell said he didn’t find this out until he had both of his parents over to watch the show. It’s a bizarre thing to be treated like that, he was cut because of the time restraints that.

Shimmel said, that’s the worst thing that happens to me. Then I’m in pretty good shape. Shimmell then went somewhere else in the interview. He says, the next time you go to a drug store, you gotta look at this on the box of the fleet enema. This shows you how stupid they think we really are.

It says caution in big broad letters, remove the orange tip off the bottle before inserting into the rectum, which means that somebody actually stuck that up their button, squeezed the bottle and shot the cap up into their spleen and had to go to the emergency room. Then Shimmell fired off a series of discussions he swore he’d had with celebrities. Shimmel said, I went up to Jane Fonda. I met her at some party with Ted Turner. I walked over her and said, Ms Fonda, I don’t want to bother you, but I just want to say that my wife’s favorite movie is Fried Green Tomatoes.

She said, I wasn’t in that. I said, I know, but that’s our favorite movie. She looked at me like, what is your problem. I love doing stuff like that because celebrities, when you mess with them like that, you’re always expecting to suck up, and when you don’t do it, they don’t know how to react. He talked about a time he was sitting at a table with Milton Burrell, Caesar Romero, and another actor who had play I Had a Doctor on a nineteen sixty sitcom.

The actor who played the doctor was with a young man who he introduced as his ward. Shimmel said, Ward, what are you, Bruce Wayne? Your ward? You mean the kid you’re having sex with? Anyone else here?

Have award? Tonight? At the awards dinner, they were sitting with Joseph Cotton, who won an award for Citizen Kane, pretty famous movie. Cotton comes by and Shimal says, mister Cotton, I know tonight’s your night, but I just want to tell you I’ve seen Citizen Kane like thirty five times and I don’t get it. The whole thing was about a sled man.

You’re lucky you made that movie then, because I’ll tell you today that crap wouldn’t fly. There’s no special effects, and it turns out to be a sled At the end, nobody’s getting laid I got to know Robert a little bit. He would come up too serious a lot in the early days of my run and there running Serious XM comedy. Really really nice guy. When he wasn’t performing, he was pretty low key, but you’d have a conversation with him, and in his natural delivery, he would just say things that were jokes and would take a second to react to, like, wait, did you just say the most absurd thing.

In two thousand and eight, he spoke to Terry Gross on NBR. He describes how he viewed the cancer. He said, it’s like Robert Schimmel, the person whoever’s in my head that part doesn’t have cancer, and it’s like I’m trapped in a body that’s betraying me. And I don’t feel sick in my head. You know, you don’t feel like you’re dying.

You don’t even look bad when you have cancer. It’s the treatment that makes you look bad. And I feel like my body’s the Titanic and it’s going down and I’m the captain of the ship and it’s gonna take me down with it. You can’t switch to another body. So back to that fantastic interview, Robert Shimmel did with mister Media.

Still on the topic of cancer, Robert said, there’s no way it could not be funny when you go to the doctor and he says you have open source in your mouth and down your throat, because that’s what happens with chemotherapy. That’s to avoid any kind of oral anal contact. And I’m thinking, first you tell me I have cancer, and now I can’t kiss anybody’s ass. When’s the punishment gonna stop? What did he think I was gonna be doing.

I could barely eat jello. You’re not supposed to have sex when you’re in chemotherapy because the chemotherapy in you comes out in all your bodily fluids. So actually it’s all that if I had a bathroom that I could use that my wife and daughters didn’t use, that would be the way to do it, because sometimes guys be on the seat and the girl sits on it, and if any of that gets in them, it could be dangerous.

And then he said you could take care of yourself.

Robert ads, well, it’s really hard to lay in bed and pray to God and say please let me get through this, and then be taking care of yourself in the same bed. Looking up the same ceiling. It’s impossible, just really is. And I prayed and I had a really hard time doing it. I’ll tell you why.

I think I’m more spiritual than religious. I’m laying in bed asking God to get me through this, and it felt like I had a friend. I hadn’t talked to him ten years. Now the blue, I’m calling him and ask him to lend me a thousand dollars. I don’t pray all the time, and here I am asking for the biggest thing you could ask for, which is not to die.

But I prayed to everybody. I pray to Buddha, pray to Jesus. If there’d been a Gi Joe in the room, I would have prayed to him anything and everything to get me through it. There’s a chaplain in the hospital. They do their rounds every day.

When the guy came in for the first time, he said, Hi, I’m the chaplain to you Christian. I said, no, I’m Jewish. He said, well, I’m sorry that I bothered you. And I said, where are you going? I don’t want you to leave.

He said, do you want to pray with me? I said yeah, let’s go. He said okay, but I’m going to be praying to Jesus, and I said, I’m going to be right there with you. I don’t want to die and get up there and have Jesus at the gate going you where do you think you’re going? I watched George Carlin talk completely in the opposite direction about religion, and it floors me.

He makes me laugh so much when he came out with the book When will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops or whatever it’s called. I bought it. I was laughing out loud reading it on an airplane, and the next radio show I did, I talked about how funny the book was. I get home, Carlin calls me and he goes, are you plugging my book on the radio? Yeah?

He said why? I said, it’s ef hysterical. He said, Shimmel, why would you buy my book? All you have to do is ask me and I’d give it to you. I said, I’m not going to ask you to give me your book.

I was on the road and I wanted to get it. Then like two hours later, a messenger knocked on my door and handed me a package. I opened it up. It was the same book from Carlin he had sent it over inside it says, Hey, Shimmel, go f yourself George Carlin, and I’ll finish up with a great story, as told by Robert Shimmel. I’m walking down Broadway.

Jackie Mason comes out of the State Deli. He’s with two friends. They’re walking up Broadway and the two friends stop and they’re talking to somebody else, and Jackie sees me, I’m completely bald. I have a little bit of hair under my lip, no eyebrows, no eyelashes, I’m wearing a baseball hat. Jackie Mason comes over and goes, oh my god, what happened to you?

He said, I just finished chemo therapy. And he said, cheme with therapy? He had cancer? What kind of you have? His two friends walk over and Jackie Mason says, I want you to meet a real funny guy, Howie Mandel.

He thought I was Howie Mandel. And his friend says, he doesn’t look like Howie Mandel. Jackie Mason says, of course, he doesn’t look like Howie Mandel. He just finished chemo therapy. He lost a lot of weight.

And Jackie says to me, what are you doing in town? Well, I’m doing Conan O’Brien tomorrow. Are you busy tonight? No, how’d you like to have dinner with me? At two intelligent comics have a nice dinner and a conversation together.

Shimill said, all right, where are you staying at the Parker Meridian. Mason asked under what name? I said, Robert Shimmel. He said, Robert Shimmel. How do you come up with that?

I said, that’s my real name. Jackie Mason said, Howie Mandel’s your stage name, and he felt so bad for Howie. I did done have the balls to tell him that I wasn’t him. He did go through with the dinner, and Jackie Mason starts telling people that Howie Mandel went through chemotherapy. Like a month later, I’m up in Montreal for the comedy Festival.

I’m checking into the Delta Hotel. That’s where everybody stays. I’ve stayed there, that is true. And the first person I run into the lobby is Howie Mandel and he comes over to me and says, so, how am I doing? Robert Shimmel one of the greats.

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Featured: Mark Maron, Conan O’Brien, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman, Guillermo Rodriguez, Robert Schimmel

What’s in This Episode

• New York Comedy Festival announces 100 additional shows
• Conan O’Brien Must Go season 3 returns on HBO Max
• Guillermo Rodriguez launches salsa brand
• Forgotten comedians of early 2000s losing cultural relevance
• Pool robot fails to clean leaves effectively

Questions Answered in This Episode

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If you’re watching this on YouTube, these are the quick updates I do in the afternoon. This is really an audio podcast about twelve minute episodes come out seven days a week. If you’re listening to the RSS feed. What everybody else is staring at right now is my pool vacuum. This is a solar powered robot that is supposed to be skimming the top of the pool, and we’re looking at some leaves.

And I don’t really know what makes this thing decide to go into attack mode or not. It is solar powered and it does need to recharge, but I’m waiting patiently here. It’s pointed right at the leaves, and if we get lucky, it’ll go into attack mode and clean up the pool right here on exciting video. And this is this is what I’m talking about when I talk about the show about give Chris Fleming twelve thirty or the Letterman weirdness or the Conan weirdness. I understand that this is just dumb and we’re staring at a pool vack waiting for it to clean up some leaves.

But this is the kind of stupid stuff that I find funny. The Near Comedy Festival announced another one hundred shows. I’m still not blown away by this lineup. I mean, tell me who the headliner here is that? Mark Maren.

I mean love Mark, but if he’s the ace in past festivals, he would have been like the eighth best comic on the bill. Loved the New York Comedy Festival, but it’s just not drawing what it used to, especially when you compare to like what Netflix has been handing in the last few years. The new Editions joined previously announced headliners including Mark Maren, Alana Laser, Jordan Jensen, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman, and Patty Harrison. That’s one show, Daniel Sloss, ze Way, Benbankis, Mojo Brooks, and a bunch of others. I mean, yeah, okay, are you gonna move to some salsa?

Guillermo from The Kimble Show is in the salsa business now. This makes me laugh. If you’re a long time listener to the audio podcast during the pandemic, I got a lot of time killing material when George Lopez opened George Lopez Taco is a business that I think was not as successful as George Lopez hoped.

And then there was of course Jim Gaffig and Bourbon, which I made a lot of fu…

So I don’t know what I’m talking about, so I’m not betting against Guillermo. Here, he told Food Businessnews dot net, your home for comedy news, I always wanted to have my own salsa, and I’m very happy. The sauce is so good. It’s fresh and authentic. Now, as you dive into this article, we find a guy, mister Kirby, who mister Kirby is the president of the company, and he said, quote, I made the salsa and sent it to Germo, and Garamo said, yep, this is good.

I’d put my name on this. So I don’t know. Are we just having Kirby salsa? And it’s with Ghermo’s name? Not the most important thing.

It’s a summer Friday before I forget tomorrow. On the audio podcast, the Deep Dive is about Robert Schimmel, who I got to work with a few times, more than a few times, when I was back at Sirius. What a great guy, A great comedian, Like a lot of the comedians from the beginning of this century, is starting to be forgotten. Richard Jenny is one of those. Ralphie May, John Pinnette, like a lot of really good comedians, and you don’t hear about them anymore.

I think they came along just a little before the whole podcasting boom or modern day YouTube or social media clips, and they’re getting lost in the shuffle. Dane obviously still around. He’s got the movie coming around. But you know, like Dane was a monster, and you don’t hear much about Dane these days. Conan O’Brien Must Go is out on HBO Max Today season three.

He caught up with Conde Nast and said, I was never a stand up comedian. I got started doing improvisational comedy and that’s where my comfort is. I love trying to make something happen. He talked about the fun of the show is when things go wrong or things are unexpected, and uh, you know, let’s check back in with poolbots. See what’s happening.

Hey, look, it woke up, but it’s going the wrong way. What are you doing? All right? I missed that one. No, I just brushed the pool.

So we’re going to see a cloud of green. That’s what we’re running into. But oh, okay, can you get this leaf let’s zoom in? Can you get this guy. Yeah, that is you.

Your comedy news for Poolside back in the morning on the audio feed with a deep dive onto the career of who are you doing tomorrow? Is Robert Schimmel, That’s who it is. So you want to see if we get this one more leave there’s a big one here again. We’re in the green zone here, I understand. I tell you about the vandals who got the algae in my pool.

I’m going for that little one got ’em. What happens when we crashed on the another one? Are you not entertained? See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Chris Fleming, Marc Marin, Byron Allen, Seth Meyers, Eric Andre

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien Must Go Season 3 announced with India, Netherlands, Morocco, and Philippines episodes
• Conan discusses improvisational comedy approach and finding humor in travel mishaps
• Chris Fleming profiled in Harper’s Bazaar with Late Night hosting pitch
• Chris Fleming’s philosophy on stage performance and avoiding personality-driven comedy
• Byron Allen’s 2025 late-night success at 12:30 slot beating Seth Meyers
• Eric Andre airport settlement mentioned in episode title

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Caloroga Shark Media from Poolside, where it’s eighty two degrees, portly cloudy and a UV index of eight times. Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News out today on HBO Max. Isn’t what we’re calling it This week, Conan O’Brien Must Go Season three, four new episodes. Conan O’Brien Must Go to India, the Netherlands, Morocco, and the Philippines. Conde Nas said, Hey, Conan, you seem like you were having a blast making the show.

Conan said, it was a little bit of both. Let’s say we had a terrific fan was from Cleveland, Ohio. I wouldn’t go visit that fan because that isn’t kind of the travel I want to be doing. No knock on Cleveland. Good thing he cleared that up.

Cleveland’s gonna get mad. Deacon Mike lives in Cleveland. He’ll be throwing stuff across the room. You’re like, hey, that deacon. He seems pretty friendly.

Oh no, no, no, I’ve seen him throw. We used to work at a radio station together. I’ve seen him throw a reel to reel. I’ve seen it. Hi, Deacon Mike, I digress Conan’s not coming to see you, Deacon Mike Conan says, So sometimes I’ll find a great fan and realize, oh, there from Norway.

Wouldn’t I love to go to Norway? First, it looks great, but it’s also a great cultural contrast. I’m very techtile I insert myself into people’s personal space. The Norwegians don’t like that. So then to think, well, this could be a funny dynamic, and that makes us want to meet that fan even more.

Conan explains, you want a country to be visually interesting, you also want it to be a placed where maybe it’s customs and culture are going to provide a great setting for a Fish out of Water story. A lot of thought goes into each episode, but so much of what ends up happening is very Gorilla style. They were curious how much improv comedy happens in the show. Conan explained, I was never a stand up comedian. I got started doing improvisational comedy, and that’s really my comfort zone.

I love trying to make something happen. If I just met you on the street and we started talking, I’d probably try to make something fun happen in the moment, and those moments often yield good results. That’s part of my inspiration for doing the show Pool’s Eye, aside from its eighty two with a UV index of eight, and I don’t want to be inside do I hear the landscapers? Conan said, the people I met were so funny and had a real sense of irony. They were really good comedic partners.

I’ve never shtrung up to shoot comedy at strangers. I’m there to try and get a spark between us and see what happens. What I learned from doing comedy in front of an audience every night is you may go in with an idea of what you’re going to talk about, but the greatest thing in the world is an accident. If David Bowie’s on the show and something goes wrong, perhaps his coffee mug breaks accidentally because it was cracked. That’s not a disaster.

I’ll jump in here. That sounds like a very specific, made up scenario. I’m guessing that actually happened. Gonan says, when you travel, things don’t always go to plan. They just don’t.

And if you’re ready to find the humor in it and improvise and figure out another way, you’re gonna have a great trip. Making the show as a combination of preparing for something and then preparing for things to go another way completely. I’m at my happiest when things are a little off kilter. I don’t know why, but on all the years that I was doing my late night show, I was at my commas when things got chaotic. That’ll bring us in a few minutes to my Chris Fleming premise, make twelve thirty great again.

We’ll get there. Stay with me. We’re still in the Conin article Goen it said, I always remember there’s another audience, which is the camera, so that when I fail, I can turn to them and look slightly deflated, and they might understand, even in joy seeing things not necessarily going my way, if to remind myself that it’s not just me and this person who perhaps doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Harper’s bizarre profiled Chris Fleming. Now hear me out here.

I know some of you like Seth Myers a little more than I do, but the President and I are aligned on this issue. We need to make twelve thirty great again. I mean, Seth Myers is in the middle of a seven week vacation as anyone crying out going, Oh, I really miss Seth Myers. No, it is time to make twelve thirty weird again. In the great tradition of Late Night with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, I propose to you it is time for Late Night with Chris Fleming.

Let’s give him the slot. What are we going to do with Seth Myers Dunn? Oh, he can go on Peacock, don’t know, make twelve thirty great again? Harper’s bizarre rites. It’s not loud enough for Chris Fleming.

It’s a Tuesday night in June near West Hollywood, Nearly three ind fans that packed the Largo for Chris Fleming and Friends, a recurring variety show hosted by Chris Fleming. He opens the evening, performs between sets, and brings out a rotating lineup of surprise guests. He takes the stage a few minutes after eight, dressed in a vintage electric teal two piece, a sleeveless collar top and built bottom pants. That’s a little David Bowie with a hint of evil. Can evil exactly?

This is what we need? At twelve thirty on NBC, The crowd is howling, multiple people are in tears, and yet the laughter is not quite where Chris Fleming wants it to be. He thinks he’s losing people. After the show, Chris told the reporter, I don’t have a thing that a lot of comics have where there’s an unfillable void in me until it comes to the volume of laughter. It’s almost like you’re conducting.

I’m completely in their experience as well as my own, and I’m so in my own world. It’s brutal. I can’t not say what’s on my mind about how they’re not reacting. Mark Marin said Fleming really has an amazing freedom of mind on stage. A lot of the connections he’s making in terms of how he moves around the stage and the mannic seemingly stream of consciousness and method he’s chosen.

It’s a rare thing to be improvisationally that flexible. Fleming says, I’m just delivering the news. You never want yourself to be the thing people are obsessed with. You want your ideas to be the thing people are obsessed with. No one gives a hoot about me.

They want the product I’m working on. If you’re the personality You’re cooked. That last special on HBO was me firing at the height of my powers. He decided to become a comedian. He said, my mom was like, how do you think you’re going to get cash?

You need to write your own material. Old Chris Fleming began studying performers he considered singular that list. Let’s know this list, Richard Simmons, Robin Williams, Ricky Martin, Eddie Zord, Steve Martin, Michael Jackson, Maria Bamford, and Michael Flatley of Lord of the Dance. You know what do you throw all that in a blunder? I get it.

We are told. What united them was not a style as much as a totality, a commitment to physicality, spectacle, and a persona and tyler their own. We’ll keep it with Late Night for a while. There was a resurfaced interview from Byron Allen back in May when Colbert was rinding down. Apparently Byron Allen had a heated conversation with NPR journalist Alyssa Cheng, who kept asking Byron Allen if he was asked by CBS and Paramount not to do politics.

Sounds like she didn’t do her research it is well known. Maybe it’s just because I host a comedy podcast. I think it’s well known that Byron Allen has told people as he says it. I said twenty years ago, don’t do anything political, don’t do anything racist, sexist, any of that. Twenty years ago because the stuff ages and gets dated.

Now, this was when Byron’s show was still on at twelve thirty and said we won this since September. We’re beating Seth Myers, who’s been on way longer than eighteen months. I’d have to fact check that. But first of all, let me say loud and clear, never bet against Byron all The guy’s a billionaire for a reason. He is super smart.

If you’ve listened to interviews with him, that comes across, and he’s very, very likable when you listen to him. But if he was beating Seth Myers and we An, NBC should have Chris Fleming on. On Monday, Byron Allan said, now what’s happening. You have to look at this because we go by the numbers. Remember it’s a business show, not show business.

The repeats on political humor, when you do a show, the repeats are negative, negative fifty two percent the shows that are doing political humor, the repeats negative fifty two percent, the repeats on comics unleashed negative fourteen percent. Why because I’m not talking about something that happened eight weeks ago or twelve weeks ago. Alan said for a while he wanted to create comics on leash for his comedian buddies because he didn’t feel at that time twenty years ago, and there was a good form for diverse voices, and he wanted to be super clear. CBS does not give notes quotes. I want to be clear.

I have absolutely not had any conversations with anybody at CBS or parents about what to say or not to say. Politics are no boundaries. CBS has not given any notes, any feedback about don’t be political again, don’t bet against that man. The writers from Stephen Colbert’s show have a little bit of work. Risco hargatea who is this year’s Emmy host, has revealed that she’s working with the writers from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

She told Deadline, we’re at the beginning stages, so we’re throwing out a lot of different ideas. I’m working with an incredible team of writers. The writers from Colbert. We’ve been meeting a lot and discussing a lot and pitching a lot of ideas. We’re pitching so many ideas.

She sounds like Trump. There the greatest ideas. These are the best ideas from food business dot Net. You’re home for comedy news. Guillermo from Jimmy Kimmel.

His salsa brand, Guillermo’s, is going nationwide. Now, John, you probably want to make fun of this because you made a lot of fun of Jim Gaffigan bourbon and I know I’ve learned my lesson Jim Gaffigan Award winning bourbon maker. I could still make fun of George Lopez tacos, but I’m not going to bet against Guillermo. Here. Giermo said, I’ve always wanted to have my own salsa, and I’m very happy.

The salsa is so good. It’s fresh and authentic. The president of the company is a guy named Chris Kirby, who said Guillermo’s is not just a celebrity brand. That’s obviously what gets us a lot of attention, you think, but we really think the product is the star. Guillermo might get consumers to try the product once, but taste is what gets them to buy it again.

Now, despite what mister Kirby said, here’s this next quote. I made the salsa and sent it to Geirmo, and Girmo said, yep, this is good, and I would put my name on this. That’s all we needed. So it’s really Kirby Salsa with Giirmo’s face on it, dude. Girmo s also comes in mild, medium, and hot varieties, ingredients from micro Dice for consistent texture and taste.

Mister Kirby says, you’ll find that taste in every single bite. Sebastian Maniscalco was on the tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon. He talked about the Sebastian impression that Marcelo Hernandez does and told Fallon, I’m wondering how I get on the show. My dad’s upset. He’s like, what’s going on?

They’re imitating you and making all this money off and you’re not even there. But Sebastian said, it’s good, very flattering. I don’t even know if Harry Styles knew who I was. I think they probably had to show him a video and go, could you do this? You never know who knows and doesn’t.

Another reminder I do another show. It’s called five Good News Stories every day, five things that went right in the world. No politics, no outrage, just good news. It’s like five minutes long, comes out four days a week. Those days are Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

So if you listened to yesterday, you gotta wait till tomorrow. But anyway, follow the show where if you find this one and it is Friday, it is time for the Comedy stock Market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds, Comedy stock Market. I don’t want to force this as a segment. I don’t really have a lot of ideas.

A lot of the news this week was around people like Sheen Gillis, and we bought some Sheen Gillis stock last week, so if you want to buy more Shane Gillis, sure, buy more Sheen Gillis. I do think we should buy some stock in a landscaping company. With the amount of landscapers just surrounding my house, there’s apparently a lot of business in northern New Jersey. Maybe we open a landscaping company and forget about this podcasting nonsense. Let’s also buy some stock in Dean Cook.

If you called yesterday’s DCN Live. I talked a little bit about the new Deane Cook movie that is coming out in September. I will do a deeper peace about that on Monday’s audio podcast. But let’s buy some stock in Dane Cook and a landscaping company and maybe Sheen gillis no sells this week not feeling negative and that’s a pretty boring comedy stock market. On this Friday, we have a bunch of legal stories to go over.

Comedians Eric Andre and Clayton English have reached a settlement in a lawsuit that they had filed challenging a police program at the Atlanta Airport that they said used racial profiling and coercive searches just as airline passengers, particularly black passengers, were about to board their flights. The lawsuit, originally filed in twenty twenty two, alleged to the two men were racially profiled and illegally stopped at the airport in Atlanta. The men said officers at the airport had singled them out because they were black and grilled them about drugs while other passengers watched. In the lawsuit, eric Andre called the experience dehumanizing and demoralizing. Eric Andre said in a press release.

It’s a major victory that Clayton County has confirmed that it has ended this program and is now taking steps to prevent this type of abuse from happening in the future. English said in the release, what happened to me was wrong, and I wasn’t willing to let it happen to other people. The county Board of Commissioners authorized a payment of thirty thousand dollars, half goes to each comedian. The county also agreed to require police officers as sign of the airports who use body worn cameras and to undergo training on constitutional limits. Police records sided in the lawsuit showed that between August thirtieth, twenty twenty two April thirtieth, twenty twenty one, there were four hundred and two jet bridge stops.

Of the four hundred two, race was listed in three hundred and seventy eight of those stops. Of those three hundred and seventy eight passengers, two hundred and eleven, fifty six percent were black and people of color accounted for two hundred and fifty eight total stops, or sixty eight percent. The four hundred two stops also resulted in three reported drug seizures. The board here says that yielded more than one million dollars in cash on money orders from a total of twenty five passengers over at the Fringe Festival. A venue has accepted that it discriminated against a Jewish comedian when it canceled his show at last year’s Fringe.

Philip Simon was due to perform his show last year, but the venue scrapped at its short notice after it carried out quote routine unquote checks on a social media currently. Reports last year say that the venue told short all that Philip Simon’s views aligned with quote groups associated with humanitarian violations. Philip Simon suggested he had been canceled quote just for being Jewish. And in China, a stand up comedian considered one of China’s most influential cultural figures, has been placed under investigation and had some performances canceled. Wow Djang is China’s best known comic.

He was accused of violating public morals after he improvised his own lyrics to a famous Chinese revolutionary song. He was reported to the city’s Culture and Tourism Bureau by a complainant who said that the comedian had none not only distorted and vulgarized a classic revolutionary work, but also violated public morals and accepted standards of conduct. The song in question, playing My Beloved Pipa I Believe It’s pronounced, is said to capture the resilient spirit of communist gerilla forces fighting the Japanese during the Sino Japanese War. The original lyrics are quote the sun is about to set in the west, all is quiet on the Waishan Lake. The comedian switched the lyric to all is quiet in the Forbidden City.

The Wuhan Culture and Tourism Buro said the adapted portion performed by the comedian was not included in the material submitted for prior approval and is suspected of violating the Regulations on the Administration of Commercial Performances. Dave Chappelle, remember that story next time you’re claiming you’re canceled. And that is your comedy news for today tomorrow. The Deep Dive is about Robert Shimmel. I got to work with him a lot.

It’s like twenty years ago now. He was a good guy and a Greek comedian, and like a lot of comedians from the beginning of this century. Dean Cook on that list as well. Kind of been forgotten and oak shadowed by the bro podcaster YouTube era, but there were some great comics. I’m going to talk about John Pinnette in an upcoming week.

People seem to like the Ralphie May one from last Saturday, so tomorrow we’ll do Robert Shimmel. I think I may have said in the Facebook group that I was doing Pinnett, but Pinette is probably two weeks out, maybe three weeks out, because I do want to do some Jerry Lewis stuff for Labor Day weekend. I get to do the math on that. How that falls. No, that Labor Day is the seventh, so probably Shimmel and then John Pinnette.

Anyway, follow the show wherever you get your podcasts and download it tomorrow and you’ll see who I wound up talking about. Bye,

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Featured: Dane Cook, Joe Koy, Diane Morgan, Sean Haggerty

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s brother theft scandal and ‘Funny Money’ documentary film
• Joe Koy’s sixth Netflix special ‘Blue in the Face’ September 15th release
• Stand-up comedians pivoting to text-based social media instead of video clips
• Harassment incident involving man in AI glasses confronting Diane Morgan on set
• Sean Haggerty’s Nostalgia Room retro museum opening in Ireland with Ghostbusters appearance

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From Pool’s side on Johnny maclay Your afternoon Daily Comedy News Update. We’ll talk about the Landscapers in a minute. Believe me, I’m excited about Dane Cook’s trailer. He’s got a movie coming out. I just watched the trailer for this thing.

It was awesome. The headline for people Deane Cook’s brother Daryl stole millions from him. Can you hear me over the Landscapers. That’s one of the things I have to check because I’m not using my proper microphone set up here. Deane Cook’s brother Darrel stole millions from him, hid cash and spaghetti sauce, and disappeared.

It is called Funny Money, The Deane Cook Story. It’ll be out video on demand September twenty ninth. I’m looking forward to this. This looks pretty good. People tells us that Dane’s brother, a former corrections officer, was ultimately arrested Spoilers in two thousand and eight and charged with stealing twelve million dollars from Dane Cook while acting as his business manager.

He pleaded guilty to larcene investment in forterye and twenty ten and was sentenced to five to six years in prison. He was also ordered. To repay the twelve million dollars to Dane Cook funny Money The Dane Cook Story. Now, what I think will be great about this is it’ll like we reignite people’s interest in Dane. I think people have forgotten, it’s been twenty years now how huge Dane Cook was.

Dane was selling out the Garden when that wasn’t that ball common. The guy was a rock star as a comedian. Went a nice looking guy. I know my female co workers really enjoyed him, but he was huge for you know, a good decade there. He was the top comedian and you don’t hear about him much at all.

So looking forward to the Dane Cook Story video and demand September twenty ninth. I’m also really excited. If you listen to the audio podcast, you know I love this bit. I’m excited Joe Coy has announced a new special Why John you see? And this is what the bit is.

Joe Coy remember he oose of the Golden Globes and he told a joke about Taylor Swift and she kind of made a stoneface about the joke. All the landscaper stopped good And I love doing the bit about one time Joe Coy he told his horrible meat joke about Taylor Shift and that I played on the audio podcast. So that’s a lot of fun. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL on the Goldie Gloves.

Yeah, fewer cariber shots of Taylor swept anyway. Joe Koy it’s his sixth Netflix special, Blue in the Face, Netflix, September fifteenth. And there’s an interesting article in the New York Times under the headline, some stand up comics are pivoting away from video. I finally start making video and now we’re pivoting away. Great, so is what the comedians are doing.

Instead of posting jokes, they’re doing kind of slide shows with texts. So it’ll be like a one two three, almost like a comic strip where it’s one two three set up punch. A comedian Eric Walsh explains, some people just don’t want to watch clips at work and stuff like that, and so the fact they can just scroll through the pictures it makes it way easier to consume and distribute. Another comedian said, text jokes. Work because you don’t have to have applause if you have a dead room that makes sense.

I also want to lightly touch upon this one, and I don’t want to make fun of anything other than on the audio podcast. I have said several times some podcasters have a crush on Diane Morgan, but don’t do this. The headline man wearing Perfect Glasses films himself harassing famous female comedian Diane More. Just want to be clear, not me. I don’t harass people.

Just talk about my crush on a podcast anyway, Diane’s out on a TV shoot. Some dude named Mark posted a video rising uncunk counk as the character that she plays. Mark asked Ian Morgan, excuse me? Can I get your phone number? Some of the crew come over and they’re like, hey, dude, dumb where we’re shooting here?

Can we get some space? Apparently Mark says, don’t ever touch me. We’re gonna have a problem. Okay. Another crew member said, we’re working, We’re in the middle of shoot.

This is what we do for a living now. Apparently this man was wearing what’s been known as the. Perfect glasses, the AI glasses that record people anyway, don’t harass people, and one more. I thought this was cool. A comedian, Sean Haggerty in Ireland has created the Nostalgia Room.

So my question to you will be, what would you like a nostalgia room. His retro room has stuff from his childhood in the eighties and nineties. It opens up on Saturday with a special appearance by Ghostbusters Northern Ireland famous Ghostbusters trooped. But I assume he says, in my retro everything has been carefully selected, collected over years, a lot of stuff I’ve had since childhood. It’s like a beautiful interactive museum you can touch, use and play.

Guests can expect old crttvs, a VCRs, a DVD player with DVDs, old comics and magazines, toys, posters and cassette tapes, retro consoles and much more. That’s what I would want. I would want an a Toury twenty six hundred, and believe me, I have one. I have a vintagitory and I also have one of those you know, modern fake kataris that’s just easier to hook up to the TV. I have both of those, and I would want Star Wars figures.

What would you like? Tell me in the comments, You guys think I’m doing a bit with the landscape is on the main show, right, Well, here’s the pool, so we are pool side. Yes, I know, it’s little green. We talk about the. Mantles and here is just can you see back there?

The relentless landscaping. It never ever ends. I mean, I need them to call over here and pick up my bird thing and actually cut my grass, and don’t. Worry, I’ll get to it one of these videos. We’re going to follow this guy around easier to clean up the leaves.

There’s one of the leaves you to get. To yet, And here’s the leaves, and yes, I know the pool great believe I’ve been being with it back in the morning with an audio episode. Again, if you’re listening to this on the audio feed, I’ve been doing quick three or four minute videos on YouTube in the afternoons. That’s what you’re listening to. And if you’re staring at me right now, I know.

And if you’re staring at me right now, this is really an audio podcast that comes out in the morning and those episodes are more like twelve minutes long, and catch it then

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matthew McConaughey, Nate Bargatze, Jo Koy, Steve Gerbin, W. Kamau Bell

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis beer brand controversy at Austin FC game
• Shane Gillis’ Netflix series ‘Tires’ season three success
• Nate Bargatze called ‘controversial’ by Parade magazine over Trump UFC event
• Jo Koy announces new Netflix special ‘Blue in the Face’
• Shane Gillis SNL firing and career comeback

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media friends, this show will not be stopped. Every landscaper in the Tri State area is in my neighborhood right now. There’s a guy blowing leaves behind me. There’s a guy mowing the lawn to the left of me. But it is seventy nine degrees sunny and dry out.

So we are doing a poolside edition. Come hell or high water. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We will test out my noise reduction capabilities on the MacBook. Shane gillis a little kerf Fluffle’ll been talking about this on the Quick Afternoon episodes, So just real quick, if you’re catching the three minute things I’ve been posting in the afternoon, I’m doing those for YouTube, So if you’re finding the show on YouTube, those are the videos.

And if you’re a regular audio listener that we’ve been doing this for eight years, nothing changes here, but that’s what’s going on with the afternoon episodes. I talked about this lightly, but there’s a Shane gillis kurf fluffel. Shane was at the Austin FC soccer game against Dallas on Sunday. Interesting choice. He was there with Matthew McConaughey, and on screen you saw McConaughey, and you saw Shane and on Shane’s right hand, and the cup holder was a dos Eki so which you know, a perfectly fine beer.

Everyone enjoys a good dos Equis unless you’re Shane Gillis and you’re a spokesperson for bud Light. Now, all of a sudden, you see somebody hand Shane a bud Light and he said, what what? Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And what’s making this even funnier now is TMZ is trying to clean this up, And TMZ reports a source close to Shane says the comedian wasn’t committing brand betrayal. You see the dose Eki sitting in the cup holder in Shane’s chair wasn’t his right.

It belonged to the girl sitting next to him, who wasn’t in her seat, just as the cameras shot Shane Gillis and Matthew McConaughey, Because why would you want to see the pretty blonde girl drinking a dose Egi’s Now, TMZ is really trying to clean us up, they say. In a different video, you could see McConaughey’s on Shane’s left and a blonde is on his right. In that clip, Shane’s can is in a woozy and she’s empty handed, but you could see a bit of a butt light peeking out from Shane’s grip.

Meanwhile, on the Wall Street Journal, Shane got a nice tire rotation from th…

They wrote about the new tires show a very favorable article towards Shane Gillis. They reminded us of how he was fired from Saturday Night Live in twenty nineteen. Oops. Shane said, I was doing stand up that night, like while I was getting canceled, I thought it’s the one thing I can do as for tires. The character of Shane, played by Shane Gillis is learning the big funny guy bit isn’t working so well anymore.

He is a vision of his own mortality. While eating chicken wings, he pictures an instant family with a freshly divorced woman he once had a thing within high school. My character’s a lot like me in real life. It’s kind of time to grow up. I’m almost forty, so I don’t know how much long I can do this whole frack guy thing.

Not that that’s what I’m ever going for, But you know that’s the perception. At least Shane is self aware of the perception. I was texting with my son the other night. Did you see the thing with what do they calling this kid out at Penn State? Pablo pledged Scobar.

Did you see this thing with the college students in the cocaine? Look it up anyway? I texted tom My son, what is the frat doing? Why don’t you guys just drink bud light and pretend to be Shane Gillis while you’re trying to be cocaine dealers? I digress.

So apparently Shane and Crewe were pitching Tires to Quibi, remember Quibi, which was short vertical videos, which in retrospect was the right idea. They just tried it seven or eight years too early. If they try that idea again in twenty twenty seven, it’ll probably work, The journal tells us. After Shane’s SNL firing, Quibi didn’t want him involved in Tires, but his friends refused to make the show without him. Shane made some money in twenty twenty three off the Netflix special Beautiful Dogs, and he decided, hey, let’s just make it ourselves.

Nobody was gonna buy our show without a proof of concept, so they made it themselves. Tires premiered on Netflix in twenty twenty four and went to number one. They ordered more, and now we’re into season three. I’ve been watching several episodes a night. I had to catch up in season two.

Not that I didn’t love season two. I just got distracted. You know, sometimes there’s just too much on TV. Like right now, haven’t watched Reacher at all. How to make time for It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia, which was great.

How do you hear the leafblour? How much leaves are there? It’s August stop. This is why I do the show pool Side. I like the distractions and the randomness.

Steve Gerbin, who co stars on Sire’s, had been working as a paralegal. Wow. He said, for Shane to have the success he had and then come back for all of us is something I wish I could say that I would do if I were in but I don’t know if I would. The other thing cracking me up I talked about this is on the short YouTube live shows, this whole thing with Nate Brighetzy, And you know, I’ve been doing the bit. You know me, I love a recurring bit.

So I’ve been leaning into the mega comedian in Aperghetzy, which is how the Daily Beast keeps referring to Nate. Well, apparently it’s getting sticky Parade magazine, you know, Parade magazine like your grandmother reads that. Remember that that’s still around. It’s pretty mainstream. They are now calling Nate Brigetzi controversial their headline and I shared it on the video yesterday.

Controversial comedian Nate Brighetzy. What is controversial about this guy? I mean, okay, he went to a UFC fight once. We’re going to cancel him because he went to a sporting event at the White House. Stop don’t be And I’ve talked about this, as you know, the President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues.

But if he wants to come on here, he can get sit poolside. The Secret Service can clean the pool. While I’m interviewing the President, I’ll ask him about Saturday Night Live and comedy and what comedians he’s into. I’ll start talking about Seth Myers and how we have to make twelve thirty greet again. By the way, we’ll get into that tomorrow with there’s a good Chris Fleming article.

But I would have the president on, you know, and if the President advites me to UFC fight, I’ll go anyway. Nay, Brighetzy controversial comedian. It is just so ridiculous. So here’s what Parade wrote. Although Burgetzy has become the highest grossing stand up comedian, making an astounding seventy seven and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five, his career hasn’t come without controversy.

After a photos surface of Burghetzie attending President Donald Trump’s You Have Ce Freedom two fifty fight blah blah blah. W caamau Bell criticized Burgetzy, saying, don’t be in a photo with fascists. Send your letters to w kamau Bell or n A. Berghatzy. I don’t care what side you’re on.

Oh, the landscapers are getting closer. Thanks guys. Here’s what I’m really really excited about. Joe Coy. Joe Cooy has announced a new Netflix special.

It’s called Blue in the Face. It’ll be out September fifteenth, which means we’re gonna have a lot of Joe Coy press, which means I’m going to be able to do my favorite bit. What’s your favorite bit? John? Hey, remember that one time Joe Coy told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh, I am so happy that that bit is back film before a sold out crowd at Stockton Arena.

Joe Coy’s new hour seems him relive a wild dental disaster, recount getting fired from McDonald’s, and celebrating his veteran stepdad. Oh, there’s a trailer. I forgot to pull the trailer. By the time you hear this, I will have pulled the trailer. Here it is.

I assume dogs live on a different energy. They’re on another frequency. Ever you ever, you ever bring someone to your house for the first time and your dog’s ever met that person, and right when they walk in, your dog’s like, who is this? Who are you? Who are you?

Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Whoso who are you?

Who are you. Who are you? Who are you? Stop it? Stop it?

Who are you? Dude? Here? You due? Wore you dude?

Who are you to get over there? Get on? Looked at? Who is this car? Who is this car?

Who is this car? Who is gonna sit out? Oh? I didn’t make an edit there the landscapers stopped. Do you hear how quiet is?

I don’t know what you can hear it out with the noistroduction, but oh my god, as I say that, so it’s the guys on the left. Stop. The guys behind me just started up again. Please stop. This has been going.

I’ve been It’s one twenty one as I’m recording, I’ve been out in the yards since ten am. It’s been three and a half hours of landscapers. Because I do have to write the shows before I record the shows, you know, I have to look this stuff up by digress. Once again, you’re a little loose today, John, Yes, that’s why we’re poolside. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so we’ll talk about her new project, which I just look at this and I just wonder about the decisions some people make.

Maybe it’s just because I’m a reserved person, but Amy Schumer’s new movie is called Best Divorce Ever. Feels a little soon to me, but what do I know? Best Divorce Ever follows Amy Schumer’s character Clarissa and Franklin, who, after twenty years together, decide they’re done with marriage, but not with each other, determined to pull off the world’s most amical divorce. This sounds familiar, Amy Schumer amical divorce, trying to get along. I feel like I read that in the news several times.

I wonder if Clarissa takes bikini shots on a boat and post them on Instagram. I digress once again. Determine to pull off the world’s most amical divorce, they throw an untying the non party and eagerly embrace their newly single lives. But when disastrous dates, suspicious children, and spectacularly misguided attempts at conscious un coupling throw their perfect glen in a chaos, Clarissa and Franklin discover that getting divorced is the easy part. Figuring out how to stay a happy family is where things get complicated.

There is a lot of news today. Robbie Hoffman is putting out an album of Robbie Hoffman Special Weak Up produced by John Mulaney. This is the special that aired on Netflix last December. Now it is an album from legendary indie label Secretly Canadian. I was unfamiliar with them until I saw this new story, but I’m sure they air Legendary.

The album will be available in a digital format as well as a limited run of signed vinyl. Robbie Hoffman said, I come out very rockstar like. It’s almost like this old Andrew Dice Clay way of doing comedy. On tour, I’m in a lot of historic music venues and we’re bringing the house down with comedy instead of music. Our fandoms have really collided.

She’s excited to sign albums, she said, you always see those pictures of artists signing stuff. They want me to do that now, so I’m going to do that. I’ll take a picture and then press release. Robbie Hoffman jokes that putting out a physical album is the only way her mother will finally hear the special. When Robbie got started in comedy a decade ago, her mother started sending her comedy records.

Now, Robbie hits record stores in towns. So far, she’s got about fifty records she said, his mom’s been sending me Carlin and Joan Rivers. There’s a lot of Carlin. She says, she also has some Bill Cosby. Seems like her mother doesn’t know the latest news with Bill Cosby, and then mom is going to be quite surprised when I finally tell my Bill Cosby story after the death of mister Cosby at some indeterminate point in the future.

Can’t tell that one yet, folks. She says her mother doesn’t pay attention to pop culture to know anything about what’s going on. She just knows the work. It’s actually a great way to live. When I got into comedy, she’d be like, Oh, you should listen to Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason, and I used to think those people were hacks.

Right then I went back and I’m like, those guys are awesome. She’s totally right. So much news that this is like the eighth story. Today, the New York Comedy Festival has added more than one hundred shows to the lineup, which is good because I wasn’t impressed with the lineup so far. The ten day celebration of Comedy takes place in New York City November sixth through the fifteenth.

The new editions joined previously announced headliners including Mark Maren, Alana Glazer, Jordan Jensen, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman and Patty Harrison. That’s One Show, Daniel Sloss, ze Way, Ben Bankis, Mojo Brooks, and a bunch of others. Caroline Hirsch said, we’re through to continue building out this year’s near A Comedy Festival lineup with an incredible range of shows, et cetera, et cetera. I still don’t see, like, like, who’s the A lister there, Marin. I mean, it just feels like a drop off from the past.

All right, real quick. I gotta be better about promoting my other show. I also a show called Five Good News Stories. Here’s how it works. It’s me and I tell you five stories and they’re good news, right.

So it’s like cute stories or smile stories or world records or dogs coming home after seven years being lost like that kind of stuff. No politics, no outrage, Just search for five good News Stories wherever you found this show. It comes out four times a week. One of the four days is Thursday, so you’ll find a new episode in your feed right now, and if you like it, there’s like four hundred you can go back and listen to. Brett Goldstein is touring.

It is the Sex, Death and Small Talk Tour. I thought his last comedy special was actually really strong. I might actually go see him. John, You’re gonna leave the house, I know right. It kicks off October twenty third in Madison, Wisconsin.

Let’s see where he’s near me. I could drive down to Philly and see him at the met Philip Day Elia on December third, which actually from where I live is easier than going to Venue TBA in Brooklyn, New York. On December fifth, the tour wraps up in Boston and November sixth. He’s got a website. You can check this out.

This one I’ve wanted to get to all week. I’ve mentioned in the past. Some podcasters are known to have a crush on Diane Morgan, and this headline caught my attention. Man wearing Perver glasses films himself harassing famous female comedian. That famous female comedian is Diane Morgan, which some podcasters have a crush on, but do not harass people nor wear Perver glasses.

So some social media user named Mark filmed himself annoying British comedian Diane Morgan. In the video, we see Mark asking a taken aback Diane Morgan, excuse me? Can I get your phone number? This was uploaded to social media. I don’t want to promote the video, but the title is rizzing on Kunk.

If you’re not hip to it, Dian Morgan plays filhmina Kunk on some very funny videos. Mark said, I saw the cameras on you thought you wereked gorgeous. A crew member said, hey, can we get some space. Mark apparently says, don’t effing touch me. We’re gonna have a problem.

Okay. Another crew member said, we’re working. We’re in the middle of a shoot. This is what we all do for a living. One social media user said, I don’t know how you filmed that video.

Watch it back and decide. This is how I want to present myself to a globally connected population. Leave Diane Morgan alone. If you have a Crushunner host a podcast on Gossip Corner. Pete Davison has taken his upstate New York home off the market, two months after he slashed the asking price.

Pete initially purchased the four bedroom three bathroom house for one point nine five million dollars in twenty twenty three. In February decided to sell it. Listed the home for two and a half million. A few weeks later he dropped the price to two point twenty seven and then in April dropped it to two point one five million. It is now back off the market.

Perhaps Pete likes living there and I’m not the only person who likes to be pool side. Apparently Kevin Hart was pool side. This came out of an African newspaper. They were very excited. Kevin went viral after a clip surfaced of Kevin Hart and moving to the I’m Gonna butcher all the words here ampiano track Whozizwa Kanjohn was shared on social media by the Hype channel.

They captured it Kevin Hart vibing to Uzizwa Conchon song. In the clip, we see Kevin Hart dressed in an open white linen shirt, shorts, sunglasses and sneakers in front of what appears to be a breezy beach front. Backdrop me I’m dressed like Adam Sandler and that is your comedy news for today from poolside. All right, it’ll be back in the afternoon with the quick video version of this, and then back in the morning with the full audio version of Daily Comedy News. See you then

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, W. Kamau Bell, Joe Rogan, Matthew McConaughey, Ricky Gervais, Jane Fallon

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze ‘MAGA Comedian’ label controversy
• Nate Bargatze UFC White House event attendance
• Shane Gillis beer brand controversy clarification
• Ricky Gervais marriage and tax strategy announcement

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We’re at the lake today. I keep thinking about this Aperghazzy thing. The idea that he’s controversial, obviously is absurd. The guy works clean, he hosted the Emmys. There’s not a scandal about him except he went to a UFC fight at the White House.

And the Daily Beast, if you’re not him to this, here’s what’s going on. The Daily Beast for some reason started referring to him one hundred percent of the time as Maga comedian in Aperghazzi, which is hilarious, right, So I’ve been using that in the podcast, but now I’m seeing in print everywhere, specifically Parade Magazine, which again is hilarious. But Parade Magazine is pretty darn mainstream and like your grandmother probably reads it. So now they’re gonna be like, who’s this Nay Burghecy guy? Is he controversial?

And out of worrying if Nate’s gonna have to somehow do damage controllers, people are going to have to get this out there because this is becoming a thing. I find it quite quite hilarious. So let me read you the Parade piece because it is funny. Although Burghezzi’s become the highest grossing stand up comedian, making it a stounding seventy seven and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five. His career hasn’t come without controversy.

After photos surfaced of Burghatzy attending President Donald Trump’s UFC Freedom two fifty fight, the comedian became the subject of conversation between fans and celebrities alike. In a substack essay, comedian W. Camel Bell criticized bergainst he saying, don’t be in a photo with fascists again. Send your letters to w comeout Bell or Nateperghatzy, whatever side you’re on, leave me out of it. I’m just having fun with the non controversy controversy.

One fan wrote on threads, Nate Berghetzy was by far the most shocking a disappointing attendee for me. One of my favorite comedians had a genuinely decent guy. Dude should have known how bad it would look. Shane Gillis was at this thing. He seems fine, Rogan seems fine.

I don’t know. Someone else wrote, Napergazzy can support Trump, Nate Berghazzy can attend Trump’s White House UFC party, and Aperghazzy can pose for photos with political figures.

Speaking of Shane, I got to clean something up from yesterday.

Shane’s people apparently went to TMS. There are some people who accused Shane Gillis of drinking a dosakie. No no, no, no, no no no, he was drinking a bud Light. Yes, A source close to Shane tells TMZ the comedian was not committing a brand betrayal. Love the copywriting there, the source tells TMZ the dose EQI sitting at the cup holder next to him.

It belonged to the girl sitting next to Shane Gillis, who wasn’t in her sy. Just as somebody shot a video that happened to go viral with the Dosakis in it, which totally was not Shane’s, of course, because Shane one hundred percent of the time drinks bud Light as well. Know the folks, let TMZ know that. You can see in a different video that Matthew McConaughey is on Shane’s left and a blonde is on his rate. In the clip, his can is in a koozy and she’s empty handed, but you can see a bit of bud light blue peeking out from Shane’s coozy I love this.

This is so silly. TMZ has reached out to Shane Gillis’s rep at this time no word back. I will keep you updated on this. This is important. Ricky Gerveys is saying he will get married eventually.

He’s been with Jane Fallon for forty four years. Why would Ricky Gervas do such a thing to reduce his tax pill? I did a big interview with Saga magazine. I’ve got it scheduled in the audio podcast for Sunday, so we’ll cover this on Sunday at length, but real quick. Ricky Gervas said that taxes are a good reason to marry, and said, and that will be the reason I marry because if it wasn’t for that, why how more married can you be?

We share all our money. We’ve been together for forty years. Some marriages don’t last a year. He makes a good point, all right. If you’re catching these on the audio feed, I’m doing these short videos for YouTube just to try and promote the show a little bit more.

Nothing’s changing on the audio feed. On the other side, if you’re catching these on video, there’s an audio podcast that comes out at three oh five am every morning, and come back tomorrow at three oh five am Eastern. There’ll be an audio podcast to see you

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Featured: Christina P, Stavros Halkias, Theo Von, Zayquin Jang, Chelsea Handler, Bill Maher, Kara Swisher

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Dating Show at Comedy Mothership featuring Christina P
• Stavros Halkias discusses performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival and ethical concerns
• Theo Von criticizes U.S. military presence in Iran on This Past Weekend podcast
• Chelsea Handler incorrectly claims Attorney General Todd Blanche will overturn Roe v. Wade
• Bill Maher argues immigrants must assimilate to American values including LGBTQ rights and free speech

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Caloroga Shark Media. You here, I’m shiny Nack with your Daily Comedy News. Maybe I’m just getting to be an old man, or maybe I’m from a different time. I don’t know. You know what’s happening in Austin tonight at the Comedy Mothership, which, as you know, is the popular club in Austin owned by Joe Rogan.

The Comedy Mothership is hosting the Comedy Dating Show, and the show promises the comedians will quote shoot their shot with Christina p for a chance at love. Now. Everyone should find someone to love, and you know, I wish Christina the best. This just feels soon to this old man recording a podcast in a basement. Christina filed for a divorce from Tom back in May.

They only recently confirmed it on the most two recent podcasts, So sure, go ahead and live your best life. It just feels a little a little soon to me. We’ll also talk about Amy Schumer tomorrow. She’s got a new movie about divorce that also feels a little soon. We’ve got a lot of other stuff to cover today.

Starvro’s Halkius was on the Popcast. I spent Saturday sitting on the beach boy, Saturday was one of the all time great beach days. It was like seventy nine, super sunny, super dry. The ocean was as warm as it ever is going to get in the New Jersey area, and it was wonderful. And I listened to podcasts and the popcast and Stavros started talking about one of my favorite topics.

The Riyadh Comedy Festival edits here for pacing, and quite many edits for language. And this is somewhat a long clip, but here’s Starvro’s Halkias taking the money. I kind of understood and understood, but I could see a way where these people that don’t really think about you know, they get a lot of these all and look, oh, let’s be honest, we’re at the top. You think that’s the most evil place some of these guys have performed. You don’t think they’ve gone Northrop Grumman, but you know what I mean.

Like and by the on record, I would never do any of that. But I think when you’re at the highest levels, you probably you start to get a little comfortable with you’re evil, because when that’s where all the money leads, right, anyone is successful, it’s like there’s no you can’t wash your hands of this if you exist in this society, and the more successful you get, the more the closer you get to whoever the illuminati is right like, and so I think there’s a there’s I could see how it just becomes normalized. It doesn’t make me doubt myself at all, because I know it was wrong to do that. I don’t care what those counter arguments are. And I’ve heard people like, well, we’re bringing freedom.

It’s like no, it’s like and they’re like, well we’re evil. It’s like, yeah, America is where we are the we really there’s our foreign policy since World War Two has what’s has been ruining the world. I mean, there’s no way to look at it any other way in my opinion. But I’m just saying like, like, yes that I see their point, where, well, you perform in America, but it’s like, but I’m not performing for Donald Trump and his kids, you know what I mean, Like, I’m not like. And the criticism is that it’s culture washing that it allows exactly.

It would be like doing an ice benefit, you know what I mean. It’s like, like I get that there’s good people in Saudi Arabia. I understand that, and I understand there’s people want them comedy, right, and I want that, but it’s like I don’t want them. By the way, how many of those people were there really is another question I have. My guess is it’s probably the upper class.

But again I don’t know. That’s pure conjecture. I would love it if there was a public. People. Yeah, and this idea that you could say, no, you couldn’t say what you tell me, you could say whatever the Saudi king was had was more lax than like, like you know.

This was Chappelle’s argument. This was Chappelle’s bit about it was he was like, actually I had more freedom there than I did. That’s not where I can’t theovonn. Is getting critical of the President of the United States. On the This past Weekend podcast, the Yvonne asked, why are we putting our troops there there?

Being Iran? It doesn’t seem like we have a real interest. I know, there’s rumors of weapons of mass destructed. Again, there’s rumors of nuclear weapons held by Iran. But I think people a lot of people feel like we’ve fallen for that trap before in Iraq and Kuwait.

It could just be the same sort of fools errand again. THEOVONN then added, you can send your letters to theovon.

Also, Trump, our president, said that we would not go to war with Iran.

It seems that theovugh has noticed that sometimes the president says something and doesn’t follow through. For example, remember when gas was going to be two dollars and fifty cents a week ago Monday, Yeah, that didn’t quite happen. Vaughan was interviewing geopolitics expert Zayquin Jang, which I don’t know, just makes me feel like maybe THEO was out of his depth here. Mister Jeng said, everyone’s looking at Donald Trump. It’s like the war’s lost already.

Just make peace with Iron, just get out of there. And what Trump is doing, he’s doing taco. If you’re not familiar with this, some people say taco means Trump always chickens out. Mister Jang continued, saying, like one day he’s like, we’re gonna end your civilization. The other day he’s like, let’s make peace, guys, let’s just be friends.

And the next day he’s like, now I’m gonna nuke you. Now next day he’s like, oh, you know what, I didn’t really mean that it’s just weird. Theovaugh said, the war feels pointless and bizarre, continuing our theme of maybe perhaps possibly comedians are not the sharpest people out there, like it’s possible they’re not the most well educated people, the most knowledgeable people. Chelsea Handler was upset, Chelsea No, not this time about Joe Rogan making eighty two million dollars. Chelsea was on Kara Swisher’s podcast, which isn’t exactly a podcast for the regular people.

If you’ve ever listened to Kara, Kara might be a little out of touch with the regular people, but I digress. Chelsea Handler shared her concerns about Attorney General Todd Blanche. Chelsea’s concern is that Attorney General Todd Branch might overturn Roe versus Wade.

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Roe versus Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in twenty twenty two. Chelsea Handler said about Attorney General Todd Blanche, We’re going to get Todd Blanch. He’s going to be confirmed, and he’s going to overturn Roe versus Wade. We’re all sitting around. All these men who have these powerful platforms are sitting around and watching this happen to women, to communities that you could instead be supporting.

You don’t have to like turn over a whole new leaf. It’s just about being a decent human being. Well, here’s the thing about all that the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Weight in twenty twenty two. It was a big deal. You know how much of a big deal it was.

Jlsea Handler was filling in for Jimmy Kimmel and talked about it, as I said, comedians might not be the smartest people we are political today, Johnny Mac, I know. Bill Maher on his program, argued that immigrants must assimilate to American culture and accept certain fundamental values like gay rights, women’s equality, and free speech, saying those principles are quote not white values unquote, but liberal ones. Continuing to quote Bill Maher, he said, if you want the American dream, you have to take the American values. Biden’s policy of open doors and then Trump’s policy of broken windows. Now I’m on the page of America doing what it used to do so well, stealing hard working, talented immigrants from around the world and making them Americans.

Bill suggested things have changed, quoting Bill again, Now most immigrants still want to assimilate. But I have this other attitude of melting pot. If you you melt. Look, you don’t have to love everything about America. We don’t, said Bill Moore.

That’s why yelp was invented. But you know, if you do get past ice, America is actually pretty cool. We say, you do you eat the food your grandma cooked, speak another language at home, celebrate religious holidays. We welcome your food, your art, your fashion, your first ladies. That’s a good joke.

But you have to answer one question. Do you like Western civilization? Because that’s what we are. That’s not negotiable. Dave Chappelle was upset about people.

I think Dave needs to start reading the contracts when he does shows, because this is not the first time Dave Chappelle has been upset about a curfew. Sometimes you play a venue and there’s a curfew. Dave, you should know this because I feel like once the summer there’s a story like this. Dave was one of the attendees at Lauren Hill’s Diaspora Calling Festival in England, where the headlining set from the Fujis was cut short by producers after an hour. Dave Chappelle was upset that Lauren Hill’s microphone was disabled, as though we’re attempting to address the crowd in regard to the noise ordinance, quoting Dave Chappelle, you’re effing up his you turn the mic off on Martin Luther king Man, you all fed up.

I’ll never forget this. Tell them whoever’s in charge. At the end of the show, a message appeared on the screen reading, thank you everyone. We’re sorry for the abrupt finish. As part of our license, we are legally required to finish the show at eleven PM and cannot continue beyond this time.

On social media, He’ll said to the surprise guests who came ready to rock with us but didn’t get their moment because we hit curfew, We’re gonna have to do this again and make sure the audience gets all that we had planned for them to me and I wasn’t there. It sounds like like is there were what’s the opposite of a curfew? Like are you allowed to start earlier? Like it just feels like this was just misproduced, Like you know how long ish your set’s gonna be back time from there? Maybe don’t take the stage at ten o’clock and be surprised when you can only do an hour and Dave Chappelle, calm down, dude, just calm down.

Congratulations to mega comedian Naprighatzi. He has set a Guinness World record what’s it for Sean most tickets sold for a stand up comedy tour, surpassing the record held by who did you listen to the Monday Ups? I did from the pool? That’s right, Jeff Dunham. Nate sold the two point zero one six million tickets, beating Jeff Dunham’s one point nine to eighty one million tickets.

But it sounds like Maga comedian Nateperghatzy blue Jeff Dunham out of the water because Jeff sold the one point nine million tickets across three hundred and eighty six venues over thirty five months and eight days. Magga comedian Nateperghatzy’s Big Dumb Ice tour, and you can tell how much going to a UFC fight ont of the White House Lawn is hurting Nate’s career. He crossed two million after just sixteen months and ten days and across only one hundred and twenty eight venues and of course, he is now the record holder and does not work with puppets. Despite going to a UFC fight at the White House along the way, Nate broke eighty four venue records. According to his reps, I put the spin on the word his, as if the reps are lying having fun with you, Nate.

He became the only comedian to sell out three consecutive performances at Nashville’s Bridgetone Arena in a single calendar year, a feat matched only by comedian Taylor Swift and comedian gorth Brook. The Maga comedian was crowned by Pollstars the highest grossing stand up comic, with seventy seven and a half million reported twenty twenty five alone, and he still, for some reason, wants to build a theme park called Nateland. I am having fun today. I think it’s because everyone else is home, so I have the door closed to my tiny studio, so there’s probably no oxygen in here. I probably have carbon dioxide poisoning, which is why I’m a little loose.

I do want to remind you I do host another podcast. It’s called five Good News Stories. Here’s how it works. There are five stories and they’re all good news. So I’m never gonna come on and tell you about like murder or horrible things of the war.

It’s all fun stuff, like lost dogs that return home after seven years. We’re Guinness World Records. There’s a lot of those. Just fun stuff. Comes out four days a week.

It is called five Good News Stories. Wherever you get your podcasts, Where have you got this podcast? You’ll find it there. Out yesterday, Danadute has a new stand up special. It’s called Yes I Am Falafel Phil.

That’s out with Comedy Dynamics. They waited until late Monday to announce this. I don’t know why. They were like, oh yeah, tomorrow, we’re putting out a special, Like dude, release these things, like the nice folks behind James Austin Johnson’s special. He’ll have one out August thirty.

First. It is called heal Yeah, not hell Yeah, heel Yeah, which is going to confuse everyone. It will debut on Gorilla Comedy Plus and then be on YouTube proper September twenty second at five pm Pacific, a very very specific time of release, September twenty second at five pm Pacific. In Heel Yeah, we see James Austin Johnson performing at a variety of venues, including The Den Theater in Chicago, Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco, Zenie’s, and Nashville. The trailer tells us James Austin Johnson is one year no wait one hour to change comedy forever, or he will be chemically castrated.

There is a trailer, and I got to tell you I hate this trailer. I think this trailer is awful. I think I can see by watching the trailer that’s a good special in here. But as trailers go, this is terrible. Let’s play a little of it.

I’ve clipped it down for pacing, but here’s some of it. You ever been playing a video game and your guy gets into some fire? Okay, so this is a video game guy burning alive. A pretty crazy show I got planned for you, guys. I’m going to talk about my life a little bit, some social commentary for a little bit.

All of this was pre written down to the blocking. Maybe the health is going down by two for some reason. When will you be in golf? Y’all? Ever think about if the president is going to start talking about you specifically, he’s he’s so you know, my stuff was always more roots kind of roots, Maraicana kind of root, more new grass than bluegrass, but definitely old time.

Definitely in that old time jam sort of feel. Oh brother, We’re Art Thou soundtrack kind of by way of Cold Mountain soundtrack. Heel yeah. On Gorilla Comedy Plus August thirty. First, I need to go walk my dog.

So that’s your comedy needs for today. I’ll be back with one of those afternoon episodes later today at a normal regular episode every morning. That’s kind of what I’m doing for now, doing the video thing. They’re like three minutes long to see what happens on YouTube. But I’m not going to stop doing this, just trying new be where the kids are.

The kids are on the YouTube, so that’s what that’s about. Hope you’re enjoying those, and if you hate them, if they’re clotting up the feed, let me know. I have no ego here. I’m just trying to figure this all out. Tell me on the side.

My email is in the show notes, or you can do it publicly in the Daily Common News Facebook group. And I’m not offended, just trying to get this right. See tomorrow

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Featured: Robby Hoffman, Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, Kelsey Cook, Stavros Halkias, John Mulaney, Chad Daniels, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Robby Hoffman vinyl album release on Secretly Canadian label produced by John Mulaney
• Daily Beast calling Nate Bargatze a controversial comedian
• Shane Gillis new show praise and beer swap incident at soccer game
• Kelsey Cook Netflix special and upcoming wedding to Chad Daniels
• Stavros Halkias criticism of Riot Comedy Festival and Dave Chappelle on podcast

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Hey, what’s up today? We are at high Point State Park in New Jersey, the highest point in New Jersey. You can see the Obelisk rade there. We just hiked two point one eight miles uphill. As you can see.

I am sweaty, but quick a check in. I’m going to turn around so you can see the view. Robbie Hoffman is releasing her new album on vinyl. Robbie Hoffman Wake Up, produced by John Mulaney, will drop as a vinyl tomorrow from the legendary indie label Secretly Canadian Love. That title available in a digital format which.

Is not a viol at all, as well as a limited run of signed vinyl. In the press release, Robbie Hoffman jokes that putting out a physical album is the only way her mother will finally hear the special. My mother, who’s a musician an avid record collector, probably has ten thousand records. Robbie says she hits Ricket stores in towns when she tourist. She’s got about fifty.

Mom’s been sending me Carlin and Joan Rivers. There’s a lot of Carlin and adds that she has some Bill Cosby. Okay, now look at this controversial comedian makes history. I told you about this yesterday. This is a Nateprighatzy like.

I’m joking with the Magga comedian Nate Pergazzy thing, because I think that who is a Daily Beast is just absurd with that Nate Pergazzy controversial comedian. Are you kidding me with this? Catching up with some stuff. Shane Gillis Tires is really really funny. I am enjoying the heck out of that show.

And there’s a new episode of It’s Always Sunning at Philadelphia and out he let me walk you around a little bit. There’s a funny story with Sane Gillis. He was caught I think it was at a soccer game and he was drinking a dose Ekies and then he realized he was on camera and somebody quickly swapped out the beer for a bud light. So that’s a funny video making the rounds. How’s it out on Netflix?

Kelsey Cook’s a new special. I didn’t realize that she is getting married to Chad Daniels this weekend, but that’s a pretty big week in her life. So check that out as well. The other thing and we’ll cover this on Wednesday’s audio podcast, Stoppers hawkis if you haven’t listened to him on the popcast yet, really interesting. He got into my favorite topic, the Riot Comedy Festival, and basically was not too kind to Chappelle, specifically called out Chappelle and some of the other comedians who appeared there, paraphrasing starv Ros like, I get it’s about the money, but it’s not about the money.

So that’s pretty interesting there. That whole thing was a good listen. He really mixed it up. So if there’s something you want to listen to this week, the podcast What’s star Ros haukis and that’s a short version of DCN Live for Today from High Point and again we’ll have a normal episode in the audio feed on Wednesday. Enjoy your Tuesday

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Ari Shaffir, Mark Normand, Stavros Halkias, Mike Birbiglia, John Mulaney, Kelsey Cook

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis avoids White House VIP photo at Trump UFC event while Nate Bargatze attends
• Joe Rogan discusses crypto and Trump’s involvement in crypto business dealings
• Stavros Halkias criticizes comedians for becoming too political and wealthy-focused
• Mike Birbiglia cancels John Mulaney tour dates for unnamed dream project
• Kelsey Cook’s Netflix special ‘Happy Hour’ acquired after self-financing

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man. The Daily Beast doesn’t like Nate BRIGHATSI, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Joe Rogan had on Shane Gillis, Ourry Shafir and Mark normand the Daily Beasts listened to it and their headline was Mega friendly. Comedian Shane Gillis may have been willing to attend Trump’s UFC birthday cage fight at the White House, but he also drew the line being photographed inside his VIP room, unlike Nate BURGHATSI, all right, here’s the gang.

In discussing this on the Joe Rogan experience, I have clipped it for both pacing and language. He was at the White House. Yes, so was I. So was Shane. You know what I’m saying, Like, that’s the problem.

To go in the VIP rome. I said, no, I. Went in there. Photos are gonna be taken and were in there, I know, and that I stood outside in the rain. I was like, I’m not getting my picture taken.

I took zero heat for that event. But you took with Trump a couple of years back a photo that was. Great photo where you were wearing the Pablo Escobar shirt. A lot of things. That’s true.

That’s pre pre world record. No no, no, not me personally. I mean. Back then when I was taking that picture, I was like, this guy is going to release the Epstein files and. It was a killing Americans.

On that episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, we also learned that communism is gay. Some mean needs to look into how gay communism. But it isn’t crazy that it’s making a comeback. Yeah, it always does. It’s a cycle.

There’s a cycle. Is if we cannot call it communism. If we get free health care, that. Would be a good move. That would help a lot.

We’re calling everybody communist. Pre health care is cool. We should have that. It’s normal. That’s not communism.

You should treat the entire country. Look at the community. If you have a community, would you want the sickest person to die, who could be very valuable if you could like take care of them, and do you have the resources to take care of them. You should take care of exactly what the library. This is the problem with don’t feel like the community with This is the reason why people turn on all these billionaires.

They turn on them because they why do you have so much when people have so little. But it’s because it’s the game. It’s the game that they’re playing, and you’re playing the game too, you’re just not playing it at that level. Joe Rogan, who I’m going to point out before this clip, seems perfectly healthy. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that’s suddenly gonna drop out of a heart attack.

You know, it looks very very healthy. Takes care of himself anyway. He has some thoughts about crypto that I’ve clipped for pacing in language. The crypto stuff’s nuts. It’s like Trump has made billions in crypto, like, and then you got his sons, and his sons are involved in all these weird business deals where the business deals have to do with some things that Trump put and then the sons are involved in these businesses, and like there’s a lot of money flowing that you could dig in and start arresting people.

Another good listen is Star Wars Hockey Is. On the pop Cast podcast, he discussed comedians getting political. A lot of stand up comics happened the last couple of years to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth. And they are my friends and I’m like, all right, guys, can we talk about this. When you look back at twenty twenty four, in the run up to that election, you saw how the right was activating or maybe in some cases weaponizing, totally comedy in the podcast space.

Were you having behind the scenes conversations with those folks about what was happening, and did you at all feel like you have to issue some kind of corrective in what you’re doing. I do kind of resent it because I do feel like they’ve forced a lot of my contemporars have forced me to be explicitly political in a way that I’m not interested in doing. Even something I said today, it’s like, I don’t want people to know I know who Muhammad most said that was. The brand. No, no, I want I don’t want them to know how to polycide degree right, Like the most charitable reading is uh, some people thought their platform was important enough to host either the President of the United States, the vice president whatever, and they want to do a public service.

And I think that is that was naive. It’s either you’re either naive, which some people think were, or you’re so arrogant that you think that’s true. I think it’s either that or it’s cynically again part of the problem of wanting to be as famous as possible and being like, well, just this will get clicks, or they thought culture was going to go to the right and they’re like, we want to I want to get out in front. And by the way, I do think it did feel that way. And I do think if the trub administration hadn’t gone full blown fascist right out of the gate, I think that is the way things would have gone Cultruly, I do think there’s whatever the answer is.

I think it was a mistake. On the podcast also called out how wealth and fish or changing a list comics. The New York Times went out of their way to do an article just on that point. The transcript reads as Stavro saying, people just want to be as successful as possible. They want to play arenas for arena’s sake.

They want to be the kind of guy like they want to be on a private jet that sucks. I really want adversity because nobody gets funny or on a private jet. At one point, do we have like a responsibility? Isn’t that the whole thing? But stand up?

Isn’t speaking truths of power? Which I found corny. Isn’t that theoretically part of it? I don’t like that we’re trying to get as famous as possible. Mike Birbiglia has canceled some of his shows that he was doing with John Mulaney.

You think they’re backstage going, Hey, you know that guy, Gianmarco Soresi SIRESI he’s ripping you off, John, which Gianmarco Soresi is not. That is just absurd. I like making fun of the idea that Gianmarco Soresi is somehow doing Mullany. He’s not. I digress.

Birbiglia has canceled a bunch of shows to pursue an unnamed quote unquote dream project. So if you were planning to see him at the Great Outdoors Comedy of Them Calgary, or perhaps in New Hampshire or some other dates, check his website. I’m not going to read a list of canceled dates. Burbiggs said, I wanted to let you know that a dream project of mind came together for the September, which is great, like really really great. I can’t wait to tell you more.

I think you’ll love it, but I can’t tell you yet. That says I’m no longer able to perform Some dates on the John Mulaney mister whatever tour. As you know, this is something I always try to avoid, but in this case, there’s no way around the schedule overlap. So go see John’s show. It’s epic.

It’ll be John’s best special. In my opinion, you will love it. Love in all caps. Top of his Game out on Netflix today, Kelsey Cook has a new special. She shared that she was on the phone with her agent.

He was just being casual and said, by the way, Netflix is buying your special. Kelsey said, I’ll never forget that moment. I was on cloud nine. She financed Happy Hour herself, hoping to sell it to a streaming platform, but knowing she could always upload it to YouTube or whatnot. It took a few months and now Happy Hour is on Netflix.

Filmed in the Twin Cities. How does that work? Did she film half of it in Minneapolis and half of it in Saint Paul or did she just film it in one of the Twin cities? I like to nitpick language. Cook said, I wanted to make sure that this, especially because I was hoping it would go on Netflix, would be like anybody who watches it can feel like there’s something for them sometimes if you do too much local stuff at a special, it can feel not quite as interesting and you want to open so strong.

In Happy Hour, she talks about her fiance’s road rage, pooping in airplane bathrooms, sobriety, depression, and her mother’s experiences with dementia. Putting the special together, she said, you’re always trying to find that happy medium between feeling confident in the joke. You’ve gotten to the point where they feel ready to shoot, but you also haven’t run on them in the ground. We were really sick of telling them. Did you watch Rory Scovell’s special out on Netflix last week?

It is the number two special of the year, in my opinion, the only one better so far as Chris Fleming, I thought Rory’s was fantastic. He was asked how he would describe the market for comedy specials today. Skoll said, for me, it’s like where do you get the eyes? And it’s probably in Netflix or YouTube. My last one was on HBO and that felt so cool because as a kid, it was like, oh, here’s HBO.

And also they don’t do one hundred a year. They’re very selective. But in terms of globally, who has access to stuff. YouTube is probably the best, Kui, dude, dude, shut up, turn up, you shut up. You’re messing with Netflix.

Take the Netflix money. It’s just such a gamble because now you’re hoping you make ad money, and if you do and it hits, as we’ve seen, you can really explode. It can change your life. Netflix is probably up there as well in terms of, hey, we press a button and now everyone has access to it, and if that works, then good. But I think word of mouth is still the strongest force in me.

When I hear someone tell me that I should see something or read something or check something out, that is so much more weight to me than anything that I get served. Honestly, if I get their own something too much on my phone and this goes against my own publicity efforts, I’m like, why are you trying to talk me into this? Yeah, dude, just take the Netflix money and let their algorithm put into the big box and people click on it. Do you see this? Notf people watch on Netflix.

Don’t mess with YouTube, take the Netflix money. Say good things about Netflix. Netflix rules, right, Yeah, we don’t know Netflix rules. Rory talked about leaving LA. He said, yeah, we got out we were there for fourteen years, and I do love this job, but I was like, I got to be around less people.

Not that it’s affordable anywhere, but I need more affordable. It’s also fun to live in a place like Colorado where there’s not so much industry of one kind, and it feels good. I feel very inspired to want to create more, as though it will be seen. Rory discussed the business today, said, I guess I’m most excited that it seems to be a landscape that keeps changing. And that really used to frustrate me because I thought, no, we’re all supposed to do this, and the next happens.

And I think a great lesson in revelation for me and probably a lot of comics when I started, was Hey, everything that you thought you needed to do, maybe that still works for you, but it isn’t necessarily going to get you attention. Now, this is interesting, Rory said. And someone had just started who figured out this other format of showcasing their humor is already crushing it and selling more tickets. And it’s frustrating. It makes you feel like someone’s cutting in line, even though that’s absurd.

But I’ve come to the realization of well, it’s actually easier to get an audience now. The frustrating thing is it gets oversaturated. But if you do come out the other side, you’ve gained an audience. You’ve really proved that what we have is a valuable product. I just hate having to work that hard.

Having to work hard is frustrating. However, people keep showing up, and I’m fortunate that Netflix we want to show your special and that only leads to more eyeballs and bigger and better things. I hope, and I can’t really be upset about any of it. I’m in a spot where if you’d told me when I started that i’d be here in twenty two years, I’d be like, well, that’s the goal. They were curious how his merch sales are going.

If you know, you know, and if you don’t, it’s just a question about merch sales. Goebal said. If people buy the shirts, one hundred percent will go to charity. So I’m hoping that people just lose their mind and really want the T shirts. One of them has this dope picture of my dad.

I did ask my siblings, like, are you guys okay with me putting Dad on a T shirt, because I think it would be really funny if this thing caught on a lot of random people have our dad on a T shirt. That is funny. All right, I’ve sat on this, but you had a week to watch Rory Scholvill. I mean even I watched it, and you know I’m always late on watching comedy specials. Vulture had their spoiler laid in reviews, so spoilers ahead, you had a week.

The hour’s opening section says Vulture is an optical illusion of guy yelling about politics. Goebel’s not sincerely trying to sell himself as a guy with right wing viewpoints. It’s all a set up of right wing brorage baiting, but he continues to toy with the reversals. The game of it is how quickly he switches back and forth. They say, show must go on is a legitimate achievement for Skulvill.

You’ll find it on Netflix. Late Nighter did their weekly recap of the Late Night ratings. Who won the week? Jimmy fallon both in total viewers and adult eighteen to forty nine. Now, the Kimmel Show was in repeat, so we got to grade this on a bit of a curve.

But again, as Johnny Max said at the beginning of the summer, I think Kimmel should have worked this summer. You’re letting Fallon in the door. Jimmy’s working, And again, believe me, I like summers off. Right now, as I’m recording, it’s eighty and sunny outside, but the landscapers are out. As much as I like the bit of un recording pool side, it’s too loud to do that.

I had to come inside. I’m sitting in a windowless basement, and to be honest, I wanted to go to the beach today, but I have to record my other show, Five Good News Stories, because I have no episodes left, so I actually have to work. Sometimes you have to work, right, Jimmy Fallon, That’s right, right, Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel says, no, we will see. The tonight show average one point five six one million total viewers, up a bit from the week before, eighteen to forty nine two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers.

Kimmel repeats of guest host repeats averaged one point zero zero six million. Wow, that’s a pretty low number for that particular show. Again, you know, it’s a repeat, and it’s not even a repeat of Jimmy hosting it. The Late Show at Stephen Colbert had zero viewers because CBS got rid of it. Comics Unleashed averaged six hundred and fifty four thousand viewers, down two percent week to week, and sixty seven thousand whole people eighteen to forty nine, which isn’t even a good number for a podcast.

At twelve thirty seven of funny, you should ask to average about four hundred and thirty thousand viewers and in the eighteen to forty nine forty six thousand. Yikes. Seth Myers is in repeats for seven weeks for some reason. So that got seven hundred and forty thousand viewers down twenty two percent, and he’s got one hundred and nine thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. We’ll see what seven weeks of repeats does to that show.

Out today on the eight hundred pound Guerilla, Reese Darby’s specials called twenty five Years coming to Netflix soon. Second City Television better known as SCTV, all six seasons will be on Netflix September first. Now that should be interesting. We’ll see if that show catches on with the youths. I haven’t watched that in a million years.

It’ll be nice to just have it right in front of you. I think that will be great, And I got some other stuff, but like I said, it’s nice out that can wait for tomorrow. Let me know if you’re enjoying the little three minute four minute things I’ve been doing pool side. So part of that is I’m just trying to get more eyeballs on YouTube. You know, the youth today are all on the YouTube, so I’m just trying to record some casual video there, and while the video exists, I’m ripping the audio.

So hopefully I’m not cluttering up your podcast feed here or you’re getting annoyed with it, but you can let me know. My email is in the show notes or jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I’m also finding it’s a way to quickly comment on things, both casually and more timely. As I do record the long form audio podcast ahead sometimes, but the short YouTube things I can just jump on and get something out in a matter of hours. So let me know.

If you hate it, I can stop. If you like it, I can do more. And that is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow

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Featured: James Austin Johnson, Dana Dude, Christina P, Tom Segura, Amy Schumer, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Dunham

What’s in This Episode

• James Austin Johnson ‘Heliah’ Special Announcement
• Dana Dude ‘Yes I Am Falafel Phill’ Special Release
• Christina P Comedy Dating Show at Comedy Mothership
• Amy Schumer ‘Best Divorce Ever’ Movie Announcement
• Nate Bargatze Guinness World Record for Comedy Tour Tickets

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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I just watched James Austin Johnson’s trailer. I hated it. Now I think the special is going to be good, but the trailer I hate. I will play for you on the audio podcast at some point this week, but boy, I really can’t stand this when they just announced it. It will be out August thirty.

First, it’s called Heal. Yeah, with the apostrophe there. I’m just checking on my screen to make sure that that’s not like a crumb. But it’s not Helliah. It’s Heliah.

And in Heliah we see James Austin Johnson performing at a variety of venues, from the Den Theater in Chicago to Cobbs in San Francisco, to Zenies and Nashville. The trailer says James Austin Johnson has one year, no wait, one hour to change comedy forever, or he will be chemically castrated. They also announced this from Comedy Dynamics. I don’t know why they waited till Monday afternoon to announce that Dana Dute has a special coming out on Tuesday. But there you go.

Yes, I am a falafel. Phil will be on Prime Apple TV wherever you get your stuff tomorrow In Yes I Am falafel Phill, Dana Dude talks about post break up, fitness, foody culture, dating, family, and the absurdity of becoming a minor celebrity to children as he chases adulthood and Hollywood validation. One Disney Channel role keeps following him fulfilled from the show Kicking It. I must be too old for that one. I’m sure some of you are like, yeah, everybody knows kicking It.

I have no idea what we’re talking about, but I’m been familiar with Dana Dude’s comedy for twenty five years, so the big one, and maybe I’m just getting a little old mad about this. Christina pee and again, I wish you and Tom Siguori, who wish you both well. But here’s what Christina Pea has decided to do. The Comedy Mothership on Wednesday is hosting the Comedy Dating Show. The show promises that comedians will quote shoot their shot with Christina pe for a chance at love.

I don’t know vantishes to me. It feels too soon. I get how comedy works, I get it. This just feels a little soon.

Also feeling a little soon is the title of Amy Schumer’s new movie Ready for …

It’s called Best Divorce Ever. Yikes. In Best Divorce Ever, we follow Clarissa played by Ammy Schumer and Franklin, who, after twenty years together, decide they’re done with marriage, but not with each other. Determined to pull off the world’s most amical divorce, they throw an untying the Not party and eagerly embrace their newly single lives. It sounds like they’re making the Christina and Tom Zigura move.

Oh boy, congratulations to Maggi. Comedian Nate Praghatzy, as the Daily Beast loves calling him every single time. He has set a Guinness World Record for most tickets for a stand up comedy tour, breaking the record held by who. You won’t guess. I’ll tell you in a minute.

So whose record did Nate Pergetzi break? I’ll tell you in a second. Nate’s Big Dumb Eyes tour has sold approximately two man six and fifty four tickets. So you can tell the Daily Beasts hole Maga comedian thing is really really hurting Nate’s career. People are just so offended that he went to a UFC fight at the White House that he’s nuts.

He I mean, come on, all right, the previous record was held by who, Jeff Dunham. You wouldn’t have guessed Jef that I could give you three hours. You’d never come up with Jef Dunham. Jeffdunham sold one million, nine hundred and eighty one thousand, seven hundred and twenty tickets across three hundred and eighty six venues across thirty five months and eight days. Nate’s tour across two million, just sixteen months and ten days, across only one hundred and twenty eight venues.

So we’re comparing red apples and yellow apples or something. I don’t know, but anyway, congratulations to Magnet comedian Apraghassie. He’s got the new record. And yes I did get an aircut all right, audio podcast every morning, and I’ll keep doing these little casual things in the afternoon until life gets in the way. See you tomorrow,

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