Month: November 2023

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deadline caught up with Bert Kracher, who’s talking about his twenty twenty three and he says, for lack of better analogies, it’s felt like a runaway train that I’ve just been holding on to. He compares it to a skier who gets going too fast and just praise he won’t fall. Been there, done that.

I’ll tell you a story some other time about me crashing through not one, two, three, four five, and says maybe Bert has a certain level of fear. I remember Ali Wong telling me it doesn’t go away, and I looked at her and I was like, it one hundred percent does goes away for everyone. And I’m hyper aware of just how fortunate I am. So I wasn’t gonna let go. I held onto this bowl and was like, I’m gonna ride this as long as it lets me ride, and I’m gonna go as hard as if and ken I’m never gonna say no, I’m gonna push it.

He profile points out Bert is aware of the place he occupies in the world of comedy. He says, I’m no John Mulaney and I’m no Chris Rock. He knows that his signature style of performing shirtless makes it challenging for some people to take him seriously. Before a special The Machine premiered on Showtime in twenty six, he was warned that doing the show shirtless would lose him viewers, and that special, which is now kind of famous, wound up being the lowest rated Showtime had ever put out. He credits Joe Rogan for encouraging him to get into podcasting.

Bert says, back when he was doing things like trip Flip for the Travel Channel, it required him travel all over the world doing stuff he didn’t want to do, like swimming with great white sharks, and he made maybe thirty five hundred dollars an episode. But when he began podcasting, he realized after his first one hour episode he’d made seventy five hundred dollars while just sitting around telling stories with friends. He had no overhead, and he began putting episodes together himself and didn’t need to travel, and best of all, there’d be no cut of his feet going to agents, managers and lawyers. Bert said, at that moment, I went, I will never do television again. This is what I want to do.

The Guardian went to see Trevor Noah’s show and they say most of the show reports back on countries and cultures Trevor Noah has encountered while touring, leaving you wondering what did he talk about on the opening shows of the tour. It’s quite the feat to turn these experiences into so much material so soon, but a lot of it rehash hystereotypes. The rude Parisian, the angry Glasswegian, the Londoner resisting eye contact on the tube. That we don’t have real crime in the UK is an observation US based comic has been making since at least Bill hicks hooligan routine. It’s as if Noah, whose technical brilliance isn’t in question, has challenged himself to see if he’s good enough to reanimate some of comedy’s horiust conceits.

He is. The Guardian ads he usually finds an angle on the familiar that jolts it back into the funny. But after two hours, I wanted something fresher and insights, say into the Trevornoah behind the smooth stand up operator, this detached observer of global wars. Noah’s so slick at all, this so supremely at ease on stage. That can feel like coasting, like a holiday for a man who spent seven hard years at Satsire’s Coal Face.

You can’t deny he’s earned it more that it’s fun to come along for the ride. Up Rocks asked Ronnie Ching when he called his tour love to hate it. Ronnie said, I just wanted something cool. It was a little bit funny. I’m sure you know.

It’s hard to think of titles for things, so I was brainstorming for a few weeks. It’s almost like part of me is like, why am I caring so much about something? It doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t need to describe anything. It actually ended up being a good title because it actually does describe where I’m at.

Sometimes you complain professionally as a stand up comedian, in other words, you love to hate it. As a comic, we complain about stuff, but we do it because we love doing comedy. Ronnie said, I love traveling around America and seeing towns and cities that people crap on. I go there and I’m like, oh, this is great. Everyone’s always been really nice to me on the tour.

The fans have been nice to me for the most part. That’s funny. About the most part. I wonder what the other part is. So I get to be a lot of people.

I mean, obviously different ethnicities, but different political backgrounds as well. They’ve always been cool. I like to think I’ve shown mutual respect back. It’s why I say in the show, I talk a little bit about how face to face everyone in America seems fine. Just when you go on the internet, it seems like we’re always on the borderline of civil war.

But face to face, there’s a lot of decency in America. There are more good people than bad people here. Just for last Vancouver announced their performers for the twenty twenty four edition of the annual festival February fifteenth through the twenty fourth in Vancouver. If you’ve never been, Vancouver is an awesome city. There’s an episode of my Travel Is backpodcast where I talk about Vancouver.

There’s a bike shop at least there was ten years ago across from Stanley Park that I loved. I wanted to buy it and just make that my life, or I just rented bikes and hung out in that park. Vancouver’s awesome. So if you want to go to JFL Vancouver February fifteen through the twenty fourth. The performers include Bill Burr, all right, we’re off to great starter ready, Ronny Chieng, want to Pykes, Ben Schwartz, Marlon Wayans, Bossom Yusef, Kathy Griffin, Nicole Byer, Bob the Drag Queen, Christina Poziski, Tom Papa, Jessica Curs, and Patty Harrison.

Some names you might not know, and I don’t want to read fifteen names here. Some you might know, Big Jay Okerson, Chris red Zorna gorg A partner on Trala, Joel Kim Booster, Caroline Ray Mo Gilligan is a fantastic comic, probably off your radar, Chris Gethard, Emma Willman, Jesus Trey ho Mark, Little Josh Johnson, and a bunch of others. Tickets are on sale Friday, ten am Pacific. JFL Vancouver website for more information. David Cross has announced a podcast since his working overtime with David Cross.

It’ll debut December seventh. David chared eight trailer. He’s a clip. You don’t need that one? Oh you don’t, Yeah, you can have them if you’re cold?

Are you going that I can hear you if I don’t have mine. Hi, David Cross and I have a new podcast on Headgum called Senses Working Overtime. Initially, the premise was getting a bunch of friends and family members. You know, Bob oden Kirk, Jason Bateman, Ni Gine Farsa, Steve O, Mark Maren, Jennine Garoppolo, Amber Tamblin, lots and lots of lots of really cool, funny, interesting people. I’m not trying to be funny or anything.

I don’t understand you don’t talking to them about questions relating to the five senses. So the idea for the podcast was David Cross would ask his guests to explore their best, worst, funniest, satus, most beautiful, etcetera. Things they’d ever seen, touch, tasted, smelled and heard. Somewhere along the way, it became a loose premise, a jumping off point to learn more about a variety of fascinating people. Some of those fascinating people include Bob oden Kirk, who you heard on the trailer, Mark Maron, Janine Garoffalo, John Hodgman, Joe Firestone, Eugene Merman, Steve oh amber Tamblin, and Jason Bateman.

A Cross in a statement said, I kind of went into this a bit reluctantly, thinking who’s going to want to listen to or watch another podcast? But I’m really enjoying it. It’s been a lot of fun, with a lot of laughs, with some RAYTL friends and some good new ones. I hope I can make your car, bus, subway, plane, train ride more tolerable. Russell Peters will have a new special at some point.

A production company put out a pressure lease saying they have acquired the special that Russell taped in Abu Dhabi on November twenty third. In the special covers issues such as cancel, culture, aging, and the current geopolitical state of the world, and includes Russell peters signature crowd work. Sebastian Maniscalco’s new show Bookie, is out today on Max. Roger Ebert dot Com gave it a very unenthusiastic review. They wrote, Maniscalco pushes his way through some awful writing in the premiere of Bookie, a half hour of television that can be downright archaic in its sense of humor when it’s not just lazy.

For example, one of Danny’s clients cross dresses as a way to hide from him, leading to some trashy trans jabs, because of course it does. As we’re making jokes about something as addictive as gambling. That’s fine if they’re clever, but everything here is cheap and uninspired. It’s a laugh track, a reduction in profanity, and a studio audience away from being your standard network sitcom. Roder Reaper dot Com continues and says, I don’t think most of the failures of the premiere fall at the feet of Maniscalco, an entertaining stand up who hasn’t quite figured out how to carry himself on screen as a fictional character.

He always looks uncomfortable when he’s not playing himself, But most people would with the writing in this series premiere, a show that I might have once suggested was beneath the HBO brand. But well we all know what happened to that part of the max agenda. Ouch ouch ouch. The New York Times profiled Sebastian this one a little better. They asked him about things he likes.

All right, Sebastian, what are the things you like? One of them Farmer’s markets. Sebastian says, it’s not necessarily shopping for fresh ingredients, but for me now with kids, to watch them walk around the farmer’s market and get excited about seeing that they’re making caramel corn, or get his feed the goat or the rabbits, or there’s a whole pistachial stand as a family tradition that we do on Sundays when I’m in town. Sebastian also likes his wife’s art. My wife is unbelievably positive and cheerful, and her art reflects her personality.

It’s abstract, it’s colorful of tampy. I wasn’t a big art guy prior to being my wife, but I have a different appreciation now about what goes into creating of art. We have this huge peace in the living room that you just put up, and it’s different shades of green. It reminds me of her every time I see it. They also enjoy their willy pop movie nights.

We love making pop corner. My wife churned me onto this machine which has this crank on the side that stirs the colonels. Just canola oil and salt, that’s all you need. We sit and we watch movies, and now the kids are getting older, they’re starting to get into movies I grew up with like The Wizard of Oz and Willie Walka. My daughter is into doing all the songs from Greece.

My San Antonio dot com took us to Gossip Corner, apparently fresh off his sold out shows in San Antonio, Ralph Barbosa was spotted at Midnight Swim, which is a Saint Mary’s Strip bar. So you gotta be careful here because you might assume that it’s a strip bar in Saint Mary’s. No, the location is called the Saint Mary’s Strip, but the sentence says the Saint mary Strip Bar posted snaps and the first time I was like, ooh much Gossip Corner. But no, no, no, it’s just an area called the Saint Mary’s Strip in which there’s a bar named the Midnight Swim. Got it, I’m sure you do.

The bar posted snaps from their celebrity guest on Instagram. In the photos, we see rah Off Barbosa happily posing for the camera solo, as well as a shot of him taking photos with fans under Midnight Swims. Wish you were here, Archway, My San Antonio went full gossip corner. They said, it’s not known if he grabbed a Midnight Swim specialty cocktail, but he was seen clutching a Medello. Modello right now is the number one beer in America.

I’ve been a fan four years. It’s really caught on. Ralph shared some photos on his own insta. He reshared one fan story of him up on stage at the Laugh Out Loud comedy club. But my San Antonio dot com tells us Barbosa’s Instagram post from November twenty sixth is a bit more mysterious.

You’re curious. It’s clear that the photo was taken during the comics venture to the Saint Mary’s Strip. Barbosa seen wearing the same white shirt, gold necklace, and white Louis Vuitton monogram bucket hat that he was wearing at Midnight Swim. The question is did he make any other stops on the strip before heading up to Austin for the next top on his tour. After all, they point out, there’s great food stops near Midnight Swim like worst behavior that’s with a U.

So I assume that’s some sort of so sausage purveyor you know him about to google it right, Yes, Tycoon, Flats, Burger Boy, and more. I haven’t got on a food diversion in a while, have I know? Let’s say, what is it? Worst Behavior Sausages, classic burgers, and delectable snacks, all expertly crafted and responsibly sourced. Their website says Worst Behavior is San Antonio’s first Asian inspired beer garden concept based upon great beer, great food, and great energy.

With its Neotokio esthetic and its Zen Garden sensibilities, You’re gonna want to stay on your Worst Behavior looks pretty cool. Rob Reiner talked to Variety about the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap. In the new version, Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Garth Brooks will appear The Spinal Taps Christopher Guest, Michael McKinnon, Harry Sheer return, so does Rob Reiner as the documentarian Marty. The sequel is said to mimic the style of Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Reiner said the key to making a movie with a loose script is that you get people who are good at improvising.

You have to get people feel comfortable doing that. Then you’re off to the Races. Writer added, you don’t want to overstate you’re welcome. It’s like Stanap. You leave them wanting you get off on a big laugh and go out.

The worst thing you could do is just load it up with Even if they’re funny things, they may be tangents and things that take away from the drive of the film. Kim Kardashian will start in a comedy for Netflix that’s weird. It’s called The Fifth Wheel. We don’t know too much about it other than Kardashian will play the Fifth Wheel alongside a female ensemble cast. No cast announced, no name announced, no date announced.

By the way, if you like the Kardashians, there’s a podcast called card Talk kard Talk. They’ll keep you posted on the Kardashians. His Moto caught up with Dan Harman about the Rick and Morty recasting of the voices. You know, I’ve gotten used to it. I don’t worry about it.

I still don’t think Rick starter’s enough and the Morty’s a little off. But as Dan Harmon said, I think the silent majority and the healthy majority are like, Okay, this is as good as you can manage. The characters are still live. That was a gol from the outset. Fans of the show consider them fans of the characters, and they just want to continue to watch the show and feel that these characters are still live.

And it seems we were successful in that mission. I think there’s an air of religious zelotry to the people who are insisting that the voices are somehow unignorably catastrophically different. I think most people are saying, all right, it sounds like Rick, and it sounds like Morty. Let’s proceed and let me catch you up on this thing. Joe Lycett did.

He had announced a podcast and it’d gotten a lot of pickup from the press release on podnews dot net. Joe Lycett has a brand new podcast and it’s a load of s word turd to cast. The description Joe has always been fascinated by the great leveler that is going to the toilet. From King Charles to Gary Barlow, we all need to jump to do a dump, flee to do a WII, or grit to do an s word. Literally, no one is too hot to squat.

You get the idea. Gary Lineker joins Joe for the very first episode of turd Cast, where he discusses the now legendary moment where he relieved himself on the pitch in England’s opening game with the nineteen ninety World Cup in front of hundreds of millions of people. So you got the idea. I didn’t cover it because I don’t like to play on that side of the street. Oh bo wait, there’s a twist.

Joe has revealed that the launch event for his new podcast, which ended with sewage leaking into Liverpool’s Albert Dock, was a stunt to highlight the issue of watercummpanies dumping waste into Britain’s waterways. Well played, Lisaid had set up a pop up toilet aka the Turtis, inviting fans to come down and share their most embarrassing lou based stories for his new turred Cast podcast. Joe said, what I like to do is do big stunts that get people talking about the big issues. And sometimes those stunts go to plan and sometimes they don’t. Well, on this occasion, everything went exactly to plan.

Of course, I didn’t spill ross sewage into the Royal Albert Dock. What do you think? I am GB News? No was fake sewage from a fake toilet to promote the fake podcast. Turd Cast was never real, although we did record one with the real Gary Lineker, and it would have been better to use a fake Gary as we would have saved a lot of money.

So why did I spill fake sewage other than because I’m desperate for tension and Instagram likes. Well, I spilled fake sewage to get people talking about the real sewage which is being spilled every year and the billions of leaders by our water companies. Last year, according to one analysis, one point four billion pounds and dividends was paid out to shareholders of the water companies. It’s a lot of money that could be used to improve the sewage network and reduce spills. If you agree, you can go on a website and send an email to your water company asking them to sign up for what we’re calling Joe’s Who Promise.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, buckle up. I’m going to tell you about the porn star that’s mad at Eliza Slessinger and how in the same story you get Matt Rife and Osama bin Laden. Yeah. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

But let’s ease into it with Late Night. Stephen Colbert had to cancel his episodes for the week. He has a ruptured appendix. Colbert was on social media and said, sorry to say after cancel our shows this week, I’m sure you’re thinking turkey overdose, Steve Gravy boat capsize. Actually, I’m recovering from surgery for a ruptured appendix.

Canceled guests include Barbara Streisan, Jennifer Garner, Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer. I assume they’ll be rescheduled at some point. Colbert said, I’m grateful to my doctors for their care into Eve and the kids for putting up with me. Going forward, all emails to my appendix will be handled by my pancreas.

Meanwhile, Newsweek tells us Jimmy Kimmel didn’t hold back when he brutally d…

Green has a new book she’s looking to promote it. She tweeted, Hey, Jimmy Kimmel, since most of your show content is your NonStop lies about me, why don’t you have me on your show. I’ll bring you a copy of my book and we can chat about what needs to happen to All caps save America. Kimmel on his show said, I guess I’m a Hollywood libtard that’s part of the celebrity pedophile Satan club. Until she has a book to promote, then I’d love to swing by.

This woman called the police on me for a joke and now she wants to be a guest on the show. Though I have to admit part of me wants to invite her here so I can let her wait for an hour down to the green room doing power squats and then bump her, even just to screw with Matt Damon. It would be fun, but I also don’t want Rabi’s. Kimmel then looked at how Green’s book was doing on the charts and said on Amazon it’s ranked number nine and forty six. It’s ranked number sixty five in the Women’s Buyer fhy category, which puts it fifty places behind a book written by Kanye’s ex girlfriend, fifty one places behind Michelle Obama’s book from twenty eighteen, fifty four places behind Michelle Obama’s other book in sixty places behind Paris Hilton’s Paris the Memoir.

Marjorie Taylor Green’s book is such a bomb, I might have to report it to the Capitol Police. On November sixteenth, Jimmy revealed he’d received a letter from Trump Media and Technology Group. That’s the organization that runs Trump’s social media site. It requested that Jimmy Kimmel retracted a statement he had made. Apparently, Jimmy had suggested that truth Social had lost seventy three million dollars since its launch.

However, Jimmy and his team went back and checked their filing with the SEC, and it turned out truth Social had lost thirty one point six million dollars. Kimmel told viewers several credible sources were reporting truth Social had lost that other amount, which eventually turned out to be incorrect. Jimmy said, in other words, and in fairness, truth Social is in a colossal failure. It’s only an abysmal failure. And I’d like to do the right thing and congratulate our balloon animal former president and his company on only losing thirty one point six million dollars for you.

That’s pretty good. That’s one of your best performances yet. Listeners to this podcast can send their letters to Jimmy Kimmel. Tiffany Hannish said about her dy, this will never happen again, She told Entertainment tonight, I’m going to get some help so I can learn balance and boundaries. Pornstar Miya Khalifa has left sashed out at Eliza Slessinger.

On Monday on Instagram, Eliza criticized people who had been targeting her with messages over speaking out against anti Semitism. In a lengthy post, Eliza Slessinger wrote, this neo liberal wet dream that’s supporting Hamaster. Using the word genocide when it comes to Israel from thousands of mile away with no context, makes you look informed or ahead of some social curve. Is an actual nightmare for those of us who can’t just set this down when the high of being a social media crusader wears off. In another section of Liza said, what living in a free country is only good when you want to safely spout code a Jewish hatred.

But your agency’s freedom to not support you back is where you feel you’ve been violated. Tell that to the innocent Jews being assaulted across the globe. What about their freedom? Guess it doesn’t count. Freedom works both ways.

You’re free to have an opinion and people are free not to support you. F around and find out that post caught the attention of Mia Khalifa, the former adult film star. Last month, Khalifa lost some business contracts after a Twitter post about Palestinian quote freedom fighters unquote On Twitter, Khalifa took a screenshot of Slessinger’s Instagram post and tagged it with I do not support all women some of you be words are very dumb. Then there’s Matt Rife. Matt was on the canceled with Ton of Mango podcast and I think it’s best if I just let Matt speak for himself.

Here are the words of Matt Rife now before I play them. I don’t think this clip was edited. I pulled the audio from a video clip and I don’t think the audio has been manipulated. I saw several sources and they all had the same audio, but I do want to allow for the possibility that the audio has been manipulated. I’m not accusing anybody of anything, but just when you hear the clip, I don’t want to just like throw a water balloon in Matt Rife’s direction and run away.

So I want to be fair, but I don’t think the audio is manipulated. That said, I’m going to do a couple edits here I once alter the context of what Matt is saying. I’m just trimming it down for flow so that I don’t play a minute and a half clip here here are the words of Matt Rife. Who do you hate? Come on?

That’s the thing. I don’t really to hate anybody. I don’t. Here’s here’s a very humbling experience that I’ve I guess epiffan that I’ve had recently because so many people hate me for really no reason. And it really made me realize that like people only hate somebody they’re jealous of.

And I’ve been I’ve been guilty of hating people. And when I really sat back and thought about it, it was because I was jealous of where that person was in their life. I felt like maybe they got an opportunity that I should have gotten. So now that I’m doing so much better for myself, I don’t have that energy towards anybody. I really don’t like.

I’m happy and very lucky to be where I’m at right now. So I don’t have like a beef with anybody. And I was gonna fight somebody, it might be like, I don’t know, it might be like Will Smith or something. He seemed to have a good right hook, right. No.

I love Will Smith, but I’m like, hey, if a he’s in great shape, it’s a great competition. And be he hit Chris Rock, So I was like, as part of the comedy community, I feel like that was a really really good, well rounded answer. I’m trying to wrap my head around. Do you think people who hate Osama bin Laden are jealous of him? Yeah?

Of course, of course they’re mad that he wasn’t the one calling the shots. Of course, everyone wants to be the one with the remote. Yeah, that’s tough. The Messenger caught up with Gabriel Iglesias. He’s forty seven and says, at this point in his life, I’m just trying to live long enough to spend the money.

That’s my motivation. It’s going very well. He jokes. He used to have hair, hope and happiness, and you know now we’re here. Gabe used to weigh four hundred and thirty seven pounds, and twenty thirteen he was told he only had two years to live.

He’s dropped over one hundred pounds in the years since. So I met Gabe when we launched Comedy Central Radio and the press release for that I just looked it up, went out on May fifteenth, twenty thirteen. So I met Gabe in twenty thirteen. You know, not these guineas fellow I’ve ever met, But I wouldn’t have guessed four hundred and thirty seven pounds around then. Cool guy, exactly who you think he is.

On his health, Gabe says, I’m very good about seeing doctors regularly, and I think that’s the biggest thing because before that wasn’t the case.

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And now I’m scheduling things, I’m keeping my appointments and taking my medi…

Some very very involved. Before I was just letting this train run crazy. Heather McMahon responded to some criticism. She said, this guy was like, man, you really go in on married life and your husband Heather said, guys have been doing this forever. Just because I’m a woman, it seems a little jaring.

Alli Wong talked about her family. Amy Schumer talks about her family, all these other families people talk about their families. When the girls do it, people have to say something about it. How long have men been talking about how crazy their wives are and how their kids are driving them nuts? Desi Leidach talked about the Daily Show being off during the strike, and you know, did she miss doing specific news stories?

An example she thought of were the Trump indictments, and she said, you think now would be a good time to be on the air and unpacked this and talk about the ridiculousness of all this. You have good news days and bad news days, and that was a damn good news day. But for me, the story that I most desperately wanted to be on the air for was when all flight passenger had a horrible number two incident all over the airplane. I believe they described it as quotes all throughout the airplane. I just went like, come on, of all days, that would be such a great day, What an easy story.

We know our audience. Okay, so no indictments, not women’s reproductive rights. No, it was the day the gentlemen had an epic accident on a delta flight that I thought that people need to know this. As for guest hosting the Daily Show, she got a shot last week after Trevor left and there was an opportunity for some of us to get to sit in and try it on for size. I of course raised my hand, went put me and coach.

Those opportunities don’t always come along, sometimes never, and certainly rarely, so of course I wanted to jump in and give it a try. See. It was like if they ever let me the scary thing. Because I’d never done it before, I didn’t know could I do it, how would it go? Would I enjoy it?

I knew that walking into it. Out of all the sport in the world. From the team, we have the most incredible team of writers and producers and colleagues that I have worked with for eight years. It’s a machine. They’re very, very good at what they do.

I loved every step of the process. I loved the morning meeting and sitting in a room with some of the funniest people in the business and the smartest people in the industry, and cracking jokes, and then the rehearsal process and the rewrite. It all moves so quickly. They’re a well oiled machine there. But every step of the process was so much fun.

So quote Evil Bill Angvall was at the National Donuts chain again at his corner, drinking his coffee, but real Bill Angvall caught up with Fox News and discussed why he moved out of California moved to Utah. Bill said, we were in California for thirty years. We had a good time. We had a great time. I always said, if you can’t find something to do in California, you’re not you know, there was nothing in California that we ever went, Oh my god, we got to get out of here.

I still have a funness for California, and like I said, if work comes, it’s probably gonna come out of LA I still go back and do TV shows, you know, talk shows, stuff like that. I’d accomplished everything I want to do in the business.

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And then also economically, I mean, the taxes were just becoming insane, and …

But I don’t hate California. I felt more at home. If that makes sense. I mean, I’m from Texas and I love Texas, but I don’t know if I could ever move back there. It’s got its pluses and minuses, just like every state does.

But I never saw Utah on our radar at all, you know. But again it was probably my narrow mindedness of judging what it was like.

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And then I got to realize, oh, this is nothing like what I thought.

In his upcoming special, here is your sign, It’s finally time my last show, Billing Vall does make some sort of joke at California and says I probably could have left that one out. Wasn’t really necessary, but you know, it was a joke. Not sure what the joke is, but billiing Ball specials out December fifth. The founder of Students for Trump is Ryan, and Ryan asked Roseann a question, who do you think President Trump should choose as his VP pick. Roseanne said me.

That started a little social media flurry. One Twitter user wrote love Roseanne, but no, Another said no, I like her as a comedian, but not a VP pick. A lot of what she says is distasteful. Trump already has a hard time getting the berb women a vote for him, with Barr they would double down and vote for anyone. But back in twenty eleven, Roseanne announced she’d be running for president in the third party.

She went to the Green Party but lost that nomination to Jill Stein. She still ran and got sixty seven thousand writing votes. Wow. Julia Luis Dreyfus told Fox she used AI to write an acceptance speech, but the AI thought Julia Luis Dreyfus was Julia Roberts j LD. Was the honoree at the Wall Street Journal magazine twenty twenty three Innovator Awards.

Her speech wet like this. As an entertainment innovator, I am very very busy innovating, So I did what any other innovator where her assault would do. I turned to chat GPT four ladies and gentlemen, is Steam guests and fellow investors. Today is a movement of profound gratitude and reflection for me as I accept the great honor of being recognized as the Investor of the Year by the Wall Street Journal. That got some laughs.

Reflecting on this milestone, I’m reminded of the unwavering support of my family and the unyielding dedication of my team that has been the driving force behind my investment strategies. And my performance is in Aaron Brockovich, Pretty Women and Mystic Pizza. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it theym I like it too, and I’ll see you here tomorrow. You can listen on Apple podcasts, Spotify, overcast podcasts, YouTube, wherever you get shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deadline did a lengthy interview with John Mulaney. John started talking about how his friends and family confronting him with addiction evolved into being in his stand up after coming out of detox. Mullaney reached out to friend slash comedian Joe Mandy to kind of get a handle on what had happened there.

Mandy said, it was extremely funny that I was giving notes on each person’s letter after they read it, and I told him after the intervention how I ranked the speeches. He helped me see how the dynamic was funny right away. John said, I’ve always been very personal, and I understand that the subject matter is, for lack of a better term, darker or more intimate, But my approach to it felt similar to the rest of my specials, honestly, so I haven’t found it more difficult to talk about. Good question by Deadline, who said you called it a wide ranging conversation. Was that meant to be code for this might not be what everyone expects.

Mullaney said that was a callback to the GQ article that I ended the special with which says, we spoke with the comedian in a wide ranging conversation. I found it really funny that my drug added self had been so sweeping in that interview, and I also just thought it was a funny turn of phrase. I thought it’d be a good subtitle for the special, and then I thought, it’s not that wide ranging of a conversation. It’s pretty much about one topic. Deadline asked when you were sitting through the intervention, did you have an aha moment about how it could be a great stand up someday?

John said, no, I wish I had a more wily mind, but no, it’s just a bad moment. And I’m someone who, through every single thing that’s ever happened in my life, I’ve known it to be funny. Somehow, it was more the chemical hell that took that away. I was quite under the influence when I arrived. I was both high and unable to keep using because they wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom, so I was in a very agitated state.

Did you ask your friends about mentioning them in the special before you did it? Melady said, I cleared it by performing it and then asking, hey, was that okay? A friend of mine said, how come when you tell the story, you’re cool and we’re all lame? And they were right, and I said, I’m telling it from that little bastard’s perspective when I was the coolest guy in New York City that night and you guys were completely bringing me down. A lot of people watched Mike Ribiglia over the weekend, getting good reviews for that one.

His specialist on Natflix, The Daily Beast asked him about Hasan Minhaj Ver. Big said, my feeling is I love Hassan. I love his comedy, He’s a friend. I thought his video response was tremendously well done. That’s sort of just my feeling about it.

I think he explained it really well. Good follow up. Did it make you think about your own work in terms of how you deal with those issues, like do I bend the truth here or do I exaggerate? For Big said, with my own shows, I always think of relation to when I’m telling a story, would I feel comfortable telling the same story the people who were there? So every now and then I’ll have something where I’m like, I have to get this right.

For example, I’d talk on my show about having type two diabetes and reversing my type two diabetes, and for me, I was like, oh, I gotta make sure that’s true, because what if someone saw the show and they were like, I’m gonna reverse my type two diabetes like Mike, and then they can’t. It’s impossible. So every now and then I have something like that where I’ll think about it. And of course I have these outlandish things that have hurt in my life, like jumping through a second story windows, sleepwalking, and that’s another thing where I’m like, I don’t want to mislead people with my medical issues. But then there’s this other side of me, which is I’m in some ways like an Irish storyteller, where every time you tell a story gets a little longer, and I think memory works like that too.

I think the more you tell a story, the more you remember things. And sometimes I look back and go, maybe it wasn’t like that. When I do a joke on stage, if it gets big laugh, that then tells me something about what people experienced. If the gasp, that tells me something about what people experience. If someone complains to me after a show, if they come up and they’re like, hey, that hurt my feelings that affects the way I feel about it.

Or remember years ago I used to workshop a ton of my material at Union Hall and someone came up to me after the show and said, hey, I don’t like how you said this, and I thought about it. And the other one was an email. Someone wrote to me and said, you tell this one joke and I don’t think I’ll ever come to one of your shows again. And I wrote back, here’s the reasoning for the joke, and here’s the thought process, and I might do the joke again. I might not, but I totally hear what your point is.

And the person wrote back like, Okay, I’ll return to your shows. It’s a lot of comedians aren’t interested in what the audience has to say. I’m actually very interested because ultimately the show’s about the audience. It’s my stories, it’s things I’ve observed, but really it’s about what do we all have in common. Steve Trevino was in San Antonio over the weekend taping his new special My San Antonio caught up with him.

They described Travino as the South Texas version of Henny Youngman and point out that Travino’s wife, Renee has become a major part of his last four specs titled Relatable Till Death, My Life in Quarantine, and I Speak Wife. In the latter, he jokes about how much work he puts into translating his wife’s complicated words into achievable goals. Steve said, I believe me and my wife of true love. Do we get on each other’s nerves, absolutely, But when we argue, divorces never part of the discussion. We have this attitude that we’re gonna make a work.

We’re going to do this together. They do a podcast together where they discuss life, marriage, and parenting their eight year old son and three year old daughter. It is called Steve Travino and Captain Evil. The podcast, Renee’s nickname Captain Evil, started as an inside joke because she’s so above average and so beautiful that she can’t just be evil. She has to be a Captain of Evil.

It turned into a whole thing now with merchandise and other women are referring to themselves as Captain Evil. Men will show me that they have their wife saved in their phone as Captain Evil. You never know what’s going to go viral. He picked San Antonio to record he said, you’re either a san Antonio guy or an Austin guy. And I’m a san Antonio guy for sure.

I love Austin, but please don’t tell me their tacos are better than san Antonio. If the name Steve Travino is ringing a bell, my san Antonio reminds he was on the George Lopez podcast when the whole Ralph Barbosa thing happened. As my san Antonio says, George got a little quote grouchy when Barbosa’s name came up, Steve said, if I’m being completely honest with you, it was heartbreaking on all sides. I didn’t expect it to end up the way it ended up. I want everybody to succeed.

I want no more crabs in a bucket. I wish nothing but the best for Ralph Barbosa, and I wish nothing but the best for George Lopez. I was thinking of you guys this morning. I was at the National Donut Shane get in my coffee as I tend to do, and Evil bill Ingvall was there. And Evil bill Ingvall has shaved off his goatee, so now he’s just the Bill Engvall guy.

I will keep you posted. Tiffany Hattish was arrested for dui Friday morning. A watch commander for the Beverly Hills PD said, we responded to a call of a vehicle on the roadway at five forty five this morning. The driver was asleep behind the wheel. According to reports, Hattish’s car was stopped in lanes of traffic and had not pulled over to the side.

The watch commander notes there were no traffic collisions. A spokesperson said the investigation led us to arrest her for a dui. TMZ somehow came out with a video. Hattish appears cooperative when the police put her in handcuffs and walked her to the back of their vehicle. Friday night, Tiffany got on stage at the Laugh Factory.

An audience member asked what happened last night, and hatt As joked, you tell me, I had prayed to God to send me a man with a job, a career, preferably in a uniform, and he answered my prayers. There’s nothing funny about a duy, but in terms of just a joke and having something armed to come back with, that was pretty good. Netflix has released a clip from Ricky Gervaise’s Armageddon that’ll be out on Christmas Day. I went to pull the clip, and the clip they shared it’s funny, but it takes Ricky about a minute fifteen to set up the joke. So I didn’t want to bog down this podcast in that The gist of the joke is Ricky talking about evolution and said, I’ve noticed one thing about the slug and the snail.

Let’s not split hairs. Let’s be honest. The snail is basically a slug with a shell on it, isn’t it right? But if you pull the shell off the snail, it starts going, oh, dying, I’m dying, and the slug is like, welcome to the real world. Ricky tells it much better, but I told it in about eight seconds was supposed a minute and a half.

You can watch Army again on Christmas Day. T I remember he was getting into comedy. Baller Alert your home for Comedy News says T. I lost some money in his comedy endeavor. T I said, chase the money, not the women.

I learned something else after that. I learned to chase the dream, not the money. He was asked if he declines financial opportunities that don’t match his goals. He says, I do it every time I choose to do comedy instead of go and do music. And I was on LinkedIn I’m always looking for some extra cash and saw that Heartbeat, Kevin Hart’s company has posted a job from the LinkedIn posting Welcome to Heartbeat.

We are Comedy, we are Culture. Founded by Kevin Hart Heartbeat is the global multi platform media company creating entertainment at the intersection of comedy and culture, with a mission to keep the world laughing together. Goes on to describe Heartbeat, all right, what are they looking for? Head of Live and Experiential A visionary leader who will play a crucial role in shaping and executing our live event strategies by producing world class, industry and consumer facing events. The position will be involved with all aspects of event production from ideation through execution, including sponsorship, content strategy, logistics, talent relations, public relations, p and L management, business development, and client servicing.

Some of the responsibilities negotiate hotel and venue deals. Proactively meet with the top comedic and music live entertainment providers including agents, managers, promoters, event producers, agencies, and more to source leads and further cultivate industry relationships. Cultivate relationships with touring comedians, music acts and entertainers. To have a staple of talent to feature in heartbeat festivals, tours and live events. Although events is spelled eve n E st experience and skills high EQ your intuitive and can easily work with and for diverse people with different capabilities and needs, whether they’re colleagues, talent, or audience members.

Love for live performance, comedy, music and art. Ability to work nights and weekends when needed, and the job posting room says, look, it’s called work for a reason. We show up for our teammates or partners and our audience. We are a high energy culture where everyone is a headliner that’s in caps expected to give their best performance. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun, meaningful, and inspiring.

Because if you’re not having fun at work, you’re missing a good time. So if you hate fun, never like to laugh, and hardly ever smile, we have the job for you somewhere else. Zing compensation range two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars not bad, huh, And that is your comedy news for today. You can Follow this show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocket casts. Brains a little slow pulling up that list today, huh, all right, see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Quick note, if you didn’t listen over the weekend, you know Thanksgiving stuff, totally get it. Just want to point out the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday episodes were robust with like a lot of actual news. It wasn’t a filler weekend, so you might want to go back and check those out.

SETH Myers was on the Last Culturesa’s podcast with Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers. He revealed they almost did a Stepan movie. Almost might be an exaggeration, but he said there was a moment time where the idea of a Stephan script was being discussed. There wasn’t a scene that was written, but I did have a pitch for myself and Stephan because I knew it was going to be Stephan and James Franco or whoever it was going to be me and Stephan. I said, here’s how I think it should started to start with Stephan at weekend update and when it’s over.

I’m once again disappointed that as the city correspondent, he didn’t bring up whatever Saint Patrick’s day tips that he says to make it up to you just come out of a night with me and you together Stefan’s New York, and I’m like, all right, one night. Then you would do all these super fast cuts off he and I and at the cret clubs. That’d be the opening montage, and then it would end with me in a body bag and Stefan would say he’s dead, and then the splash Stephan the movie. Myers reflected on his perception of his role opposite Bill Hayter. I thought my job was just to be Stefan’s foyle, and then Milleniy wrote this.

It was my romantic comedy. It was Hater’s final SNL sketch in which Stefan goes off to Mary Anderson Cooper, stricken with love. Seth Myers runs after him and interrupts the wedding, punches Anderson Cooper and brings Stefan back to the SNL studio. It was Bill’s last show, and I knew I was leaving next year to host Late Night. Bill and I are holding hands, We’re both starting to cry.

It was so funny because I was getting married a few months later. I was like, if I don’t cry up my wedding, Hater said, I don’t want to do a Stefan movie. It didn’t work as a sketch. That’s why I was on Weekend Update. Kelsey Grammer wants to do one hundred episodes of this new Freezer Variety spoke to Kelsey Grammer and one of the topics was Freezer’s choice to wear sneakers in jeans.

Now, Kelsey said, I think it was a natural progression for him, but also natural for me. People didn’t talk about it much during the old iteration of the show, but my feet were always at issue, and I had a couple of Podiadras years ago notice on the show asking what’s going on with your feet? I have a gate issue just because I have really, really bad ankles. It’s okay, but it’s a little easier to wear those shoes than it is to wear a bunch of custom made brogues and all that. I think we should go on for another one hundred episodes.

At least there’s enough groundwork laid between these human beings. They’re wonderful characters. I want to see where they go, and I want to see what happens to Fraser. I name check Kelsey Grammer all the time. I’ll see somebody.

They’ll get a hit show, and they’ll leave the hit show. And I always talk about a couple of people. One, Dennis Franz wrote nypd Blue never had to work again. Kelsey Grammer, Hey, you want me to be Fraser again for eleven more years. Sure?

You want me to be Fraser again again for one hundred more episodes. Sure? The other guy, Patrick Stewart, who once explained that he wasn’t really excited playing Captain mc card, but they paid him enough money to do Star Trek movies after the show wrapped up, that he could do Shakespeare in the Park for free all summer and the Star Trek paid the bills. That makes sense to me. Don’t leave a hit show.

Kelsey talked a bit about bringing the character back and said, once Cheers ended the first time, I thought, well Fraser done. Now it’s good. We’ll move on to do something else. I had a deal with Paramount to go do a different show. We worked on that for a while and then everybody suggests that maybe the best to continue Frazer in a different world, and it turned out pretty well.

Once the show Fraser ended, there was some talk to continued for a while maybe it’d add another year or two. I talked to then NBC had Jeff Zucker at the time. He told me that Joey was what they’d put their eggs in that basket, and they said that was the next Fraser, and I said, well, all right, good for you, off you go. It turned out fine. I like the idea of ending something, and then it came up a decade or so later when somebody was saying, what would Fraser be up to?

And I thought, yeah, that’s an interesting idea, and started percolating, maybe a decade ago, honestly, about what it could look like.

And then Roseanne came back with her show, and I thought the response to that…

Those two shows were contemporaries, and Tim Allen was still on TV. We’re all sort of the same wavelength back then, and I thought this might actually bear some fruit if we do it the right way. It had to be right though, it had to have contemporary value, and so we started hatching the plan. I really wanted David Hyde Pierce to join us, and I did my best a him come along for the ride, and at one point he finally said, I don’t really want to play the character anymore. That was fine.

Then it came to me in a dream, Let’s go back to Boston. There’s unfinished business there, son lives there. Suddenly I went into this new world, which of course is what Fraser did the first time. Good follow up question, had David agree to come back, would it have been a continuation of the original Fraser? Kelsey said, No, never a continuation.

A couple of other shows have basically sort of picked up where they left off, and I didn’t want to do that because the guy had been away for twenty years. It had to be a maturation. He had to be a wiser guy. It’d take a few things less seriously and take some of the serious things more seriously. And that should be his family.

Will we ever see Niles, he said, I mean, we have Niall’s son on the show. Be nice to have that happen, but we won’t force it. We’ll see what happens. We can certainly write to it. There’s arguably a lot of people in the world that have seen Frasier would really sort of celebrate seeing him again.

Whitney Cummings was on the Last Laugh podcast. She talked about how her politics have changed as quote the left tries to silence comedians, Whitney said, The Left, to me, in a lot of ways when it comes to speech, has become unrecognizable because it used to be the party of free speech, It used to be the party of tolerance, It used to be the party of weak, criticize, or at least suspicious of big pharma. Roseanne said this year ago when I was working with her. The left is just gone so far that a lot of people used to be on the left and now feel like they’re kind of in the middle. When it comes to speech.

The left wants to silence people in a lot of ways. So I think comedians do find themselves criticizing that part of the left. I do think that in their minds they’re doing it to protect people and they make the world safer. But I don’t believe that’s how the world is made safer. I just want to make people laugh.

But I do find that people that probably would consider themselves more conservative these days have a better sense of humor. For sure. People always talk about censorship, but there’s a lot of self censorship that just happens because we’re scared. And I take the stance of if comedians are scared, we’re in trouble. It’s our job to be fearless.

It’s our job to push back and sometimes say things that we don’t mean, or say things that we know are wrong and offensive, just to make sure that we’re not turning into some totalitarian country. This whole thing where I only believe in you having free speech if you agree with me. I think that’s a really scary place to be. And I think sometimes I go too far in the direction of like it’s on us to make sure everybody still has free speech. Sometimes you can just go on stage.

Should be funny. You don’t have to be a free speech warrior all the time. I think sometimes I martyr myself a little too much where I go. Everyone should be able to make fun of everyone. This is America, Gosh durn it.

Gabriel Well Aglacias is in the Santa Clauses. He enjoyed connecting with Eric stone Street behind the scenes from New York Verified. Gabe said, Eric and I would sit there in Christmas gear and just sit and talk about wrestling. We’re both big wrestling fans. We both started playing though who knows more wrestling game.

It’s funny because We’re supposed to be in this Christmas environment and here we are talking about who got slammed. It was crazy. They started talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin. Gabe said, I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with him, and my biggest bragging moment is that I got to use his toilet. That’s right.

I did the podcast at his house and I think he since changed that since having those issues. But yeah, we were hanging out afterwards and I’m like, hey, dude, can I use your you know? And He’s like, yeah, go ahead. Gabe started talking about Christmas movies and said, if people are saying that Diehard was a Christmas movie, then I think you have to say Gremlins was also a Christmas movie because there’s Christmas trees or snow, and you know, the Gremlins destroying Santa Claus statues. This is amazing.

This is the second straight Monday. I remember to cross plug the weekly comedy thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. So what’s this, Johnny Mack. It’s kind of like this podcast, except the stories are shorter and I can play a bit.

So say I tell you a story about Master Brownie. I could play a clip by Master Brownie. All right, intrigued, how do you get this? Grab the app. It’s called Live one.

Grab a free account, look for the Weekly Comedy Thing. There you’ll find me telling you stories about people like this week, Eliza Selessenger, Sebastian Maniscalco, Master Brownie, Lewis Black, Whitney Cummings, Rodnie Dangerfield, Nate Pergatzy. Some comedians who might be off your radar are Andy Hendrickson, John Taylor and DJ Dimmers, Bill Burr. You know that is, Jim Gaffigan and Brian Reagan. The Weekly Comedy Thing.

On the Live one app, Vulture profiled Kathy Griffin. She talked about her new tour and said, this show is going to be more personal because I’ve been going through so much crazy stuff, really in front of anybody who’s paying attention. I actually do have PTSD, and I’m laughing because I thought that was only for combat veterans. But apparently if you’re put under investigation by the Department of Justice and the President wants you to be charged, and you put on the no fly list and your tour is canceled because of bomb threats, and then your phone doesn’t ring for six years, and then you get cancer and lose part of your voice because half your lung is gone. You gotta laugh about it.

I do something called cat cow. Were curious. What’s cat cow? She says, Well, it’s when I get on all fours like a kitty cat, and then I arch my back and I’m instructed by my teacher to say the word meow. I feel like a fool, but I do it.

Then I unarch my back and wait for it, I move like a cow. PTSD is a bitch, and when I get PTSD attacks, I can’t stop vomiting. So if I have to meow like a cat and move like a cow, I’m gonna do it. I’m laughing at her joke, not her situation. When I talked about it in Vegas, I could hear a recognition type of buzz in the audience, and I went, wait a minute, I’m not the only one who does effing cat cow.

Like half the audience collapsed. I had no idea that in times of trouble, other people were walking around their homes meowing like a kitty cat. Her tour is called My Life on the d List, which apparently she bought back the rights to Kathy said, all right, you’re gonna laugh. I’m watching TV one night and I see remember those Carol Burnett ads where she was like by the Carol Burnette Show on DVD like an idiot. Took years in tons of money, but I bought back my life on the d list, the Kathy Talk Show and all of my nineteen specials from Bravo, NBC Universal.

It cost me a fortune and lots of lawyers. Then I own my library right, very proud of myself, and I feel like a kick ass businesswoman. No one wants to buy it, not even Peacocks. I’m just gonna start putting it on YouTube, and I think on YouTube you get like a dollar per million views. God help me.

People profiled some of the best voice actors in the industry. They are, of course, Sadie Sandler and Sonny Sandler, who happened to be related to Adam Sandler and happened to be in his new movie Leo. At the premiere, Adam Sandler spoke to people about the advice he has shared with them about their career so far. Adam Sandler said, I tell them to make sure you feel good about what you do and how hard you worked, and you judge yourself. Don’t let too many people try to get in your head.

If you feel like you gave it, you’re all. That’s all you can ask. It’s always fun to be with my family. Adam Willee Sandler’s work together on any other projects. He said, you never know.

We had a great time at that bot mits of a movie and this one. We started doing this four years ago, and they grew up a little bit while doing this movie, so it’s been really nice and cracked. Asked, can Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills cop axl Fully be the top gun Maverick of comedy? My initial reaction was no, and then I thought about it and went, hmm, maybe. Empire Magazine released a photo of Eddie as axel Fully.

He’s giving off serious eighties vibes in a Detroit Lions lettermange jacket, swaggering around when it appears to be an overturned car. Everyone’s back Eddie Murphy. Judge Reinhold, Paul Reiser, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said, any time Eddie Murphy walks on set, and you never know what you’re gonna get, and it’s always pretty brilliant that’s your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too, And you can follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Laugh Factory hosted its forty third annual free Thanksgiving fees for the community. I was hoping to tell you about this one before Thanksgiving, and I’d googled it several times because I know they do this every year, but I hadn’t seen anything. Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada said, the key thing for us is everybody getting together and helping.

We give them an opportunity to forget about their life and just laugh. Some of the people dishing out dinner, Tiffany Hattish Ding cook Tom Dressen Dane has done this a few times and said, I came down here with my wife and I said, this is an experience like no other, and we have to come by. Tiffany said she’d experienced the event from the other side. She came to the Laugh Factory for Thanksgiving in nineteen ninety one. In those early years, she was the one who needed the meal.

Tiffany said, when I first started here, I was sitting at the tables eating. I was receiving a meal full circle, and I’m glad to keep doing that. The club is inviting the public to attend or volunteer at the next evening of dinners and shows that will be on Christmas Day. The Wall Street Journal magazine profiled Travis Kelsey. You know him, football player guy that’s dating Taylor Swift.

If you live in America, you’ve probably seen his face in the last two months. Why are you talking about this, John? Because Travis Kelsey talked about his love for comedy. J R. Moringer wrote the article.

He’s also the person who co wrote Prince Harry’s Spare cross plug for Pallace Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer on. We talk about the Royal Family. We’ve definitely talked about Spare anyway, Jr. Says Kelsey hauns clubs for open mic nights, and he’s gotten friendly with several rising stand ups.

I wonder who they are. Kelsey cited Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell is some of his comedy inspirations. He loves to rewatch movies with Chris Farley, Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler and intends to share those with his girlfriend, who I’ll remind you is Taylor Swift. Poor Taylor Swift is going to have to sit through Jack and Jill isn’t she. I’m sorry, Taylor, you might want to just break up with Travis and write the song now.

Actually, don’t sit through Jack and Jill, then write the song, Moranger wrote. Kelsey has warned to Taylor Swift she’s gonna have to reckon with that part of his personality. Kelsey’s quoted as saying, I told Taylor that I have the world, and I’ve got to introduce it to her. I let her know this is my jam right here. I’m so sorry.

Taylor. Up Rocks spoke to Ronnie ching the question do you want to host the Daily Show because then you don’t have flexibility to do other things. Ronnie said, I think John Stewart set the standard for how much dedication you need for the job to do it properly. The machine of the show is so strong, meaning the sports staff and the producers, the writers, the editors, the institution of the Daily shows. Probably it’s great a strength because they know how to do that show so well.

So you can make a show of news with jokes and ain’t get by on that pretty well. You can have a good life whatever, But if you really want to make that show great, you need a point of view, and you need to be very dedicated to the show, anticipating where the culture is right now and commenting on it. I’m happy with whatever they choose. I still think working at the show’s the best job in comedy. I don’t want to speak for the other people working there, but correspondent is I think, for sure the best job in comedy.

You come on, you learn a lot. Always said it’s like the Harvard Business School of comedy. Forget the fame, even if you don’t become one follower more famous. You learn how to write comedy, you learn how to perform, you learn how to edit, how to produce, how to direct, how to do improv TV production. Every field piece is like an indie film, and you have a lot of support.

All right, But you know, if we gave you the show, you might not be able to tour so much. Ronnie said, it would have to be a choice. If they came to me and they asked me, it would be giving up that tour work. Yeah, I’m not sure. I’m lucky to be in a position where I’m not just on the show, but outside the show, I’m doing the stuff that I like.

It would have to be something i’d consider I don’t know. It’s hard to answer. The follow up there as well, you’re clearly not campaigning for the job, and Ronnie said, I’m not Americans. I don’t know how to campaign for stuff. I look up to all the other correspondents, all the correspondents I ever worked with, I think are much better than me.

It’s very un American. But if you asked me from a purest skill set point of view, all the other correspondents were way better than me. When I first joined the show, it was like, Man, if I could be ten percent of any of the correspondents who’ve ever been on the show, if I could be ten percent as good as them, I’ll be extremely happy with myself. So that was my goal. So the other correspondents in AWE.

I look at everyone in AWE, everybody currently on the show. I like to think I’m pretty hard on myself. I think all comics are all the good comics I know. I can’t remember who told me this. I think Sam Maurel said this.

He said, all the good comics think they’re a hack. All the good comics hate their own routines, are just like I made them laugh. It’s the same old stuff I’ve been doing for months. Now, where’s the new bit. It’s almost like only the bad comics will walk on and be like, I’m the freaking greatest of all time.

Obviously that’s public persona, and then how you feel internally, So publicly, if your stand up persona is the grace of all time, then that’s different. How you feel inside. Do you believe your own actor? You’re just saying it for comedic effect. So I think all comics are just trying to write better jokes.

They feel like their own material isn’t the best. I think that’s a fairly common denominator among all the good comics I know. Good interview there, David Spade opened up the Fly on the Wall podcast, that’s the one he co hosts with Dana Carvey. Spade made it clear that the interviews are recorded in advance. Dana’s sun Dex passed away recently, and therefore there will not be any new episodes on the immediate horizon.

Spade said, Dana is obviously going through something semi unimaginable right now, and I can’t even put into words. Dana is one of my best buds, and it’s hard to watch this and of course, Dana really really appreciates the outpouring from every possible angle. Everyone I think understands how difficult it’s hard even talk about. They have a few episodes in the can, including one with Dana Ackroyd, then some best ofs comedic troop. The State playing the Riviera Theater in Chicago tonight.

The Chicago Sun Times caught up with them. They’re right At New York University. In the late eighties and early nineties, Michael ian Black was on an eleven member campus comedy group that he said scheduled rehearses for every single day, always for at least a few hours. That group is now called The State and largely still intact. Thomas Lennon, another member of the group, said, I don’t know what’s wrong with us.

We obviously have some weird codependency. We’re terrified to be without the other ones. If you go see the show tonight, they’ll be handing out stickers as a callback to the nineteen ninety five EHS compilation release of The States skits and stickers that included the note stickers not included. That’s hilarious, Michael ian Black said, so much of this tour has been about just being with my friends and doing it a way that’s supportive. Because the State in its early days wasn’t always the most supportive group.

We’re very cutthroat. It’s nice to revisit this group in a kinder, gentler way. Thomas Lennon said, I don’t think anyone ever thought would get rich and famous, And if you look at the numbers from the recent State tour, there’s still a lot of us in the group, so we kind of didn’t. Man, it is a million degrees here in the basement studio today. I just took my hoodie off.

Now understand that I’m one of those old people who has thermostats said to like eighty seven. My family hates me because I’m always cold, But boy, it’s warm in here today. I’ve been meaning to tell you, as many of you know, I hit the National Donuts Chain every morning. There’s a guy there that I have nicknamed Evil bill Engvall. He’s been there every morning for like the last month or so.

Why is he Evil bill Ingvall? And this is why I’m sharing the story this morning, because I made myself laugh. I nicknamed him Evil billying Vall because he looks like bill ing Vall. But he has a goateee, which is like the evil Spock joke from Star Trek and Community did that with Evil Abed, So he’s evil bill Ingvall. But then I remembered for a while there actual bill aning Vall had a go tea, So I’m not sure if this guy’s actually evil.

Anyway, if you like Sport the show, one way you can do it. You can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw a couple bucks in the tip jar. I will take your money and I will go to the National dont chain. I’ll get you one of these.

Well, I won’t get you one. No, I’m not getting you anything. I’m getting me one. Why did I say I was getting you one? That’s a complete lie.

No, it doesn’t work the way if you send me money. I’m not like buying you a coffee and going to your house and delivering you a coffee. That’s not how it works. Was that funny or do I sound like a jerky face? Anyway?

Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Phil Wang fantastic comedian. Where’s his special? I want to say it’s Netflix. He’s really good.

He apparently is in the new Wonka film. Is that thing going to bomb hard or what? Yes, it’s gonna bomb hard. No one wants this thing. Phil was on Graham Norton Show and said, I can’t tell you much about it, but I get to sing and dance.

It’s very exciting. I can tell you that I was dancing on a table and a cracked in half and I broke my arm. Apparently Wang was in a sketch group called Daphne, and they once had a skit featuring Wonka as an evil slave driver. Hm. I have a story here that I had pushed to the Weekend.

It’s about a comedian whose name rhymes with Bat’s life. I think I get a skip it today. I’m a little bat lifed out, aren’t you. Let’s skip that story. John Variety profiled Sarah Sherman, who said, I just like outrageous things.

I come from a loud, Jewish, outrageous family. I grew up liking, you know, crazy cartoons, and I love Joan Rivers and the Nanny and Garbage, Pale Kids and red and Stimpy and stuff like that. I grew up liking crazy stuff and then I came up doing comedy in Chicago more of a performance art community. I learned from all these crazy performance artists around me. Had to blend visual art and performance style.

They asked her about her talking meatballs a sketch. Sarah said, Dan Bulla who I write with on the show regularly, I seeing my stuff outside of sn Allan said, I have an idea for you. What if you’re a girl covered in singing meatballs. Sarah’s reaction, no problem. Absolutely.

Some people were like, that’s sketches, so you and I’m like, here’s the magic of the show. It’s actually not my idea. It was a blend of special effects in physical puppetry. The meatball heads were cast members putting their heads inside of a meatball puppet made by Monkey Boys Productions, who do all the puppets for the show and had real puppet arms and legs, And then the VFX team worked around the clock blending physical puppets with special effects and putting little shadows underneath the meatball arms and legs. Sounds like a lot of work.

They talked about the Colin Jo just chopbusting segments on Weekend Update. They haven’t done that in a while I like that a lot, Sarah said, Oh my goodness. The only reason I’m able to do that is because we’re friends and he can take it. He’s so supportive. The show’s amazing, of course, but it’s hard finding something that works.

Your first season gonna be a challenge, and I was like, hey, mind, if I come on, we can update and emotionally terrorize you. He’s like, yeah, no problem. Variety also had some fun facts about Sarah sherman favorite SNL sketch, Massive Head Wound Harry in nineteen ninety one, sketch that features Dana Carvey as a partygoer with a horrific injury. Comics who make Sarah Sherman laugh are Tim Robinson, Eric Andre and Tim Heidecker. She says, those guys are masters of being freaks, and she’s happy that Fran Drescher enjoyed her impression of Fran.

Sarah said, I saw her post about it on Instagram, which felt like a chef’s kiss, Fran’s stamp of approval. Do you hear my voice getting frogg a good thing? I have this iced coffee here because I’m about to record Monday as well. I’ll be back tomorrow, assuming I actually record tomorrow’s episode, and that’s the plan for thirty seconds from now, so hopefully nothing horrific happens in the next minute. Come back tomorrow we’ll find out.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Congratulations. Bo Burnham making history on the Billboard Charts. The soundtrack album to his Netflix comedy special Bo Burnham Inside has spent a record breaking one hundred and twenty second non consecutive week at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album charts.

Those charts don’t move around a lot. It’s not like the music charts. You’ll see things stay a really long time. The comedy charts started in two thousand and four. The most weeks at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album’s chart Bo bernerm at one twenty two, passes Little Dicky’s Professional Rapper at one twenty one, then a gap to Dean Cook’s retaliation with forty nine, Weird Al’s Mandatory Fun at thirty four, Lonely Islands, Turtleneck and Chain at thirty four.

That was a huge album that year. Flight of the Concords at twenty three weeks, Lonely Islands and Credit Bad twenty two. Actually, I thought in Credit Bad was the more popular when the Turtleneck and Chain, hm, my memory is getting fuzzy. Dan Cook’s rough around the Edges was up there for twenty two weeks, weird Al straight out of Lynnwood for twenty two and wait, what is this? The Bob’s Burgers music album soundtrack was number one for twenty weeks.

Now, let me ask you a couple of questions here. If you’re a new listener. Right, regular listeners know the two questions can ask, But if you’re new, let me ask you a couple questions here. First question, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t.

I know you haven’t. Nobody has. This thing has supposedly been around for fifteen years, and apparently there was a soundtrack of the show. I believe the soundtrack exists. I believe merch exists.

I’ve definitely seen the merch. I’ve definitely seen the promos for the show. But have you ever actually seen this show? Like, have you been home and you’re sitting in front of a screen of some sort and Bob’s Burgers actually comes on? I don’t think you have.

Second question, and this one is the really weird one. Have you ever met anyone, anyone at all who has seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t. Now, isn’t that weird for a show that’s been on for fifteen years. The Bob’s Burgers Music out twenty weeks on the charts.

Bo Burnham has been at the top every now and then he gets kicked off. Four of those weeks he got kicked off by And this will totally show you how the comedy charts work. The Monster Mash Yeah, the one from nineteen sixty two annually that charts in October. Another thing that kicked it out of the number one spot Mouse Rats, the awesome album, the band led by Chris Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer from Parks and Reck that kicked it in November of twenty one, and Steel Panthers on the Prow kicked it in March of twenty three. The album became Bo Burnham’s fourth number one album on the Comedy Album’s chart.

The only other artists with four or more number ones. I’ll remind you this only started in what I say two thousand and four, so you’re not gonna hear George Carlin, Richard Pryor, but Larry the Cable Guy has seven. Steel Panther If you don’t know what it is, parody metal band picture Van Hallen, but comedy that seven Jim Gaffigan with six, Weird Out with five, Nephew Tommy with five, The Lonely Island with five, Dean Cook with four, Doug Stanhup with four, Flight of the con Chords with ford, and Patton Oswalt with four. I’m unfamiliar with Nephew Tommy. Apparently he co hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show where he makes prank phone calls.

Some of you were screaming your podcast right now. I don’t know. I do this every day. Never saw his name before. You’d be mad at me.

It’s okay. Naperghatsy is still talking about his October nineteenth appearance at the Hertman Arena why he shared a video. The video starts with Naperghatsy walking through Hartman Arena and mentioning he’s going to do a sound check and go for run. Then it cuts to him flopped in a chair with a hoodie on his head, not looking nearly as perky as he previously did. Nate says, well, I think the lesson we’ve learned here running is bad for Gassie describes how his hands and feet started itching and he felt his lip swelling.

Kansas allergies, most likely due to Ragweed it hit him hard. Next he starts talking to some dude who supposedly was a doctor. Nate says, we don’t know who this guy is. He talks a great game though. Well it turns out it was Sean Wadsworth, who’s a physician with Atlas MD.

Wadsworth was home getting ready to go to the show for fun and he got a call that somebody needed help. Bergatsy said he resisted taking Benajoe because would make him sleepy, but that’s what Watsworth suggested over the phone. Wadsworth said he didn’t know who was helping un till he showed up and was shocked to find out of his neate he had put some other medicine in his pockets as he walked out the door, and he had made fun of him, saying he brings all his medicine in his pocket. Doctor Sean, guess he’s legit. A lot of people watching Mike Birbigley as Old Man and the Pool on Netflix this weekend.

For Biggs was on The Last Laugh podcast. Mike said, it’s weird sometimes with these shows they get so personal. I’ll be on stage thinking am I saying this to strangers? What am I doing. It’s almost like I sometimes become the people who are criticizing me in my personal life who were like, what are you doing?

And I’m on stage and I’m thinking, Yeah, what am I doing? He talked about anxiety and journaling. Burb Big said, when I was in high school and a lot of college in my twenties, had a lot of anxiety, would have this shortness of breath. I’d talk about a little bit in the show where I feel like I can’t catch my breath. Through the years, starting my twenties, I started to see a therapist, and then at a certain point I started to write it in a journal.

And that was when I made that observation. When I started writing in a journal, I felt like, oh wow, I actually I do feel better afterwards.

And now I always recommend it to people because I’m like, it’s the least expe…

Writing in a journal. Write down what you’re the stadtest about angry, it’s about feel most strongly about, because more often than not, you start to go, oh, actually it’s not so bad. I’m furious about this. I’m angry, but this and the grand scheme of things not too bad. Mike also talked about aging, and he said, one of my favorite comics, Taylor Thomason, came on a podcast and she says, my sister and I used to watch you when we were in middle school, and she’s a fully realized, fantastic comedian.

The idea of middle school that’s a long ago, right, But in some ways I feel like I have a foot in both universes. I’m at the comedy seller quite a bit working out jokes, and I cross paths with a lot of people in their twenties I feel a kinship with, and then I cross paths with people like Chris Rock and Colin Quinn, who I feel like I have a certain kinship with. Two. I don’t feel like I’m in one camp or the other. I just feel like I’m somewhere in the middle of those two things.

Amen, ver Biggs. My breed is young, and you know, I recently did the Reese and then my body reminded me that I’m fifty four. I feel you. Adam Sandler spoke to Indye Wire some details about his reunion with the Safty Brothers. The Safty Brothers are the creative forces behind the best actually good, Adam Sadlor movie Uncut Gems.

Uncut Gems is a fantastic film. If you listen every day, you know, I’m not the biggest Adam, Saidlor fan, but Uncut Gems is solid and clearly the best of the Adam Sandler films. The Safty Brothers are working with Adam Sandler on untitled Netflix film. It has something to do with baseball, Sailor said, we’re not sure right now. We kind of missed the opportunity of baseball season because of the strike.

A lot of it was gonna be shot during live baseball, So it’s gonna take a minute. We’re figuring out right now. I’m not sure when it’s gonna happen. Saandlor has previously teased that the script was inscene and originally three hundred forty pages. They’ve been writing this movie we’re supposed to do together for a couple of years.

They just write hundreds and hundreds of pages. I’ll read them and say I like the part when this and they’ll be like, oh, that’s not in it anymore. We did a whole other thing. We’re gonna send you a new draft. They just don’t stop writing and thinking, coming at every angle they can in this movie We’re Gonna Do is pretty amazing.

John Lovettz doesn’t like all this political comedy on your late night shows. Lovetzi was talking to Fox and said, I don’t like it. They were comedy shows and now, except for Jimmy Fallon, they’ve all become very political, and for me it’s too much. I mean, Johnny Carson, would you know he would do two or three jokes about whoever was president and what was going on. That was it.

But they were entertainment shows. I know all these guys, and they’re very nice guys, very talented. I know Seth, I know Stephen Colbert, I know Jimmy Kimmel. I think they’re funny. You know.

Then they started doing political stuff like so one sided, and it’s like it’s this whole thing. It’s just like, it’s not the shows I used to go on. You know, it is The Tonight Show and David Letterman, it’s their show. They could do whatever they want. But if you’re asking me do I like it, I’m like no.

If I want the news, I’ll watch the news. I’m not watching those shows. They’re late night entertainment, but it’s all political, except for Jimmy fallon. They keep getting mad at Jimmy, why are you going to politics? Because he’s doing a silly like escapism entertainment show.

They just hammer it to death and they become here’s my political agenda. They’re very open about it, and I’m like, well, all right, I have no saying that it’s their show, you know, but I don’t particularly like that they’ve become that that’s where the comedians and the stand up of the bits, you know, like Letterman, who’s comedy. The Guardian asked Eliza Slessinger with her current show, Hard Feelings is about, and she said, up top, I use my experience going through a bizarre strip club as a lens to examine how little women actually have to do in reality to turn men on. It’s a fast paced, super energetic, poignant, at a times whimsical, social commentary on BS standards, cancel culture, freedom of speech, plastic surgery, pumpkin spice lattes, and my red hot take on gen Z versus millennials. Eliza touring while pregnant, she said, I don’t think about it much.

A body in motion stays in motions, so I get out into the city and never miss my one alloud, cup of coffee, try to target one or two cultural things, eat as many local snacks as I can before the heartburn catches up. But do workouts when available, and I always allow myself time to rest. What else would she like to try in the future, Eliza said, what people don’t see or all the projects that fail or forever in limbo. Basically takes an act of God to get a movie or a TV show made. Like any hard working artist in entertainment, I’m always writing a screenplay, a pilot, shooting something, pitching something, or meeting with someone.

I’d like to have a movie or TV show come to fruition at twenty four. It’d be great to get a series on the air, be able to create a universe and have more than a season with it. All I ever want is from my idea is to see the light of day in a meaningful way. Leanne Morgan spoke to Forbes about when she was starting out, and she said, well, Brian at Zani’s in Nashville told me, Leanne, you’ve got three babies. This is gonna be very hard for you to do.

Because I wanted to do comedy clubs. I did a few clubs every year, but I just tried to get anywhere on stage that I could but raise my children number one. So if you needed someone for a fundraiser, I was your fundraiser girl, or the Rotary Club. Then I got a tour early on with Karen Mills called the Southern Fried Chicks. I was really the opener, and that was two thousand and four.

That was really kind of like my comedy club. I really developed my first forty five minutes on that tour. We did about fifty dates a year. It was on the weekend, so I didn’t have to have a babysitter. I was always working.

It just wasn’t always the traditional path. Westward spoke to Jay Farrow, who said, it’s a blessing I have the SNL name on my resume. After you’re in an institution like that, all the other jobs are in as hard. That one is so mentally and physically demanding that everything else is a cake walk. I got to be there at what time?

Eleven am, and I’m done at five. Oh yeah, I’ll be there at SNL. The writing happens late at night. For example, on Tuesdays, I’d be there from two pm till about eleven am the next one. It’s a grind man, but grind makes diamonds.

If you can get there and make something for yourself, then your set. I mean, look at Pete. David said, He’s in like twenty commercials right now. And that is your comedy news for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ope, you had a good Thanksgiving. I want to thank Matt Rife because this should be a slow newsweek. It’s not at all.

We’re going to talk about Matt Rife again, Johnny Mack. You never mentioned him but before that’s some leftovers from late Night. President Biden turned to eighty one recently. Seth Meyers said President Biden celebrated his eighty first birthday, but not as much as Republicans did. Jimmy Kimmel pointed out Joe Biden’s sixtieth birthday is now old enough to drink.

The Mary Sue asks a good question, why has Matt Rife turned against his female fan base? The Mary Sue writes, so you want to shout out to testosterone or something. To be fair, Matt Riife said he’s incredibly grateful for women for basically making him famous, but he wants men to be his fans too, and thinks comedy is quotes more for guys than Mary Sue says. It’s a weird energy I don’t really understand, made even weirder by his comedy special where he kicks things off with a domestic violence joke and more. It’s one thing to know that your work found a phantom online that it might not have found otherwise.

On one hand, I guess I could see oh Rife would have to pivot, But then to decide let me use women and then turn on them when I found fame really does feel like the worst possible move. Rife again only really posted his crowd work online, and women defended him in comments and online when people would criticize him for focusing on CrowdWork over jokes.

Now for you page is filled with people turning on him for his actual jokes, a…

The Mary su continues and says in a special he also goes on to try and uplift women, I guess by mocking our obsessions with the zodiac and crystals. I’m so tired of you lady’s blaming your poor decision making skills on planets that don’t even know you. Get this through your head. Astrology is in this magical life guideline that predetermines your future in the stars. No, none of that.

Your future future is dependent on your own thoughts, opinions, and actions. You’re in complete control of how your future turns out, it’s not up here, It’s in here the whole time. It’s up to you the mary who writes, is that meant to make me happy? Why do men constantly feel the need to trash those who look to astrology. There’s not a joke in there.

I don’t care what his end goal was, even if his intentions were purity, just meant to simply show his comedy was not just crowd work. That’s not what he said. He said he wasn’t just for a female base. Women helped to make him. I hope he likes his male fan base.

I hope they love his gross jokes and support his little tiktoks, because whatever the intention is behind this, it’s an absolute betrayal of the people who helped to sport his work as a comedian. In Glamour, Kathleen Walsh writes under the headline Matt Riife tried to impress the guys with his misogyny. It bankfired. Kathleen writes the idea that Riife is trying to change his brand isn’t a leap by the way, Riife has literally said he doesn’t want to make comedy for women. The week before special began streaming.

Rife told Variety one thing I wanted to tackle in the special was showing that despite we think about me online, I don’t pander my career to women. I would argue this special is way more for guys. Rife was also on the Chicks in the Office podcast. He says he attracts audiences of ninety percent women who aren’t fans for the right reasons, who quickly realize his shtick isn’t for them, so they bring their boyfriends or husbands, who are always reluctant because they probably bought the tickets they didn’t wan to be there, and then like twenty minutes into the show, they realize, my comedy is so much more for guys than it is for girls. A fellow comedian on TikTok and a video said, imagine throwing away millions of dollars and fans who like you to cater to unfunny white dudes.

Collett’s Fountain wrote for The Daily Beast under the headline Matt Riife wants men to like him, so he punches down at women. Collette wrote about a recent interview with Matt Rife where he weighs in on the age old question of where to draw the line in comedy, how dark is too dark, and what can modern audiences withstand. Matt’s take was you could say whatever you want. Now you have to prepare for the repercussions. But at the end of the day, it all comes down new how do you sleep at night?

Collett writes, and for Rife, the repercussions have been swift and harsh. Notorious nice guy Hank Green. I’m not familiar with who Hank Green is, and then I looked him up. But I still can’t tell you who Hank Green is. But he’s a notorious nice guy.

Seems cool. This Hank Green person, wrote, a comedian ruining his relationship with a large portion of his fan base because he wanted to be like all the other boring as Netflix special you can’t tell jokes any more. Crowd is actually just depressing, but Collett writes, it doesn’t have to be this way, and James Casters coldlasign he hate myself nineteen ninety nine. A Caster opens by saying, edgy comedians, no one tells them what they can and can’t say. They walk straight on stage, do ten minutes, sometimes just slagging off transgender people, people on the internet.

Get that upset about it. The comedians always like bad luck. That’s my job. I’m a stand up comedian attempting to join the lights of Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervation, Jimmy Carr. Matt Riife seems to care more about a status among other men they did us about his own career.

For him to be taking seriously as a comic is to punch down passable crowd work does not make you a great comedian. On Short All, Sam Serrano writes under the headline Matt Rife in the Trouble with being a TikTok Comedian. Serrano writes, it’s not hyperbolic to say matt Riife is the most successful comedian working today, with six point four million Instagram followers, eighteen point two million TikTok followers, and a world tour that sold six hundred thousand tickets in forty eight hours. He’s undeniably successful, but his latest special isn’t doing him many favors. Serrano says, as a comedian, I’ve recently started putting out stand up clips online to try to build a following, and there’s certainly pressure all comedians do the same.

We’ve seen circuit veterans such as Jeff Innison be able to tour for the first time relatively new acts build fan bases. They can perform too and sell out arenas. It’s been great to see comedians now have the ability to create their own audiences, even when TV in the industry isn’t backing them. However, social media does create a culture of if you’re not constantly on people’s phones, you’ll be forgotten, and I think this could become a problem creating content. How many good pieces of an art can somebody make it a year.

If a musician puts out four full albums in a year, or an author puts out four full novels, it’s going to be hard for them to keep up their quality. As creative people, we’re supposed to take time and be perfectionist about what we make. But as content creators for social media, it’s recommended to put something out every day, so the two can clash. I don’t think it’s completely out of the question to say that. Matt Ryfus also felt the spression to put content out, but on a much larger scale.

So when people say the material in the latest special is under cooked or weak, it’s because he hasn’t given himself the amount of time necessary to make it as good as it can be. I can quite safely say if he had given himself another six months to get this special ready, then he would have taken the joke out and replaced it with a better one. From how I I see it, the pressure to put content out and continue growing your audience as left Matt with a comedy special getting slated when it could have been decent if given the time to be fully formed. Ricky Gervaise has a controversy of his own, although this one pretty harmless. You see, Ricky in a recent tweet, referred to himself as middle aged.

Ricky is sixty two. People are debating whether or not sixty two is middle aged. A fan asked, Ricky, is it suitable to watch his new special with his nan and gramp on Christmas Day? Ricky joke depends. Do they enjoy watching a middle aged man swearing, joking about the Holocaust and pretending to do something nasty with a nasty person.

You don’t need to know what the rest of that joke was, trust me. And that was the controversy. Somebody said, calling yourself middle aged at sixty two is a bit of a stretch. You consider yourself middle aged? That’s funny.

But somebody else said I thought he was forty five. Sixty two is crazy. Another added he could pass for forty five. Somebody settled this with a screenshot of the Google definition of middle aged, with states it refers to a person aged between forty five and sixty five. The Guardian spoke to Eliza’s lessenger and said, I’m thinking what many women are thinking, but saying it out loud.

They asked her if she could recall a gig so bad that it’s now funny. Listen to this, She said, I was probably around twenty four. A country club outside La requested all female comics. When we got there was a room full of fifty to sixty year old men having a party where they had also hired strippers who were dancing and sitting on laps. While we told jokes awful, we were told who ever did the best one two hundred dollars.

At that time, all of my material was about La traffic and pizza. I didn’t win the money. I’m still sorry about it. All right, Eliza, where do you find your material? She said?

The most relatable juiciest stuff is what’s in all our minds. The craft of comedy comes from realizing that what I’m thinking is probably what many people, many women are thinking, and it just takes saying it out loud. I get a lot of matereer if from being honest about my own feelings, my fears, and embarrassment. I’m also constantly fascinated by the science, biology, and sociology behind why men and women act the way they do. Everything we say when we date, are in relationships, relating to each other is based on a need to feel scene, to survive, to feel heard, and I love talking about it best.

Heckle all eyes a messenger, she said, I have a joke about how ubiquitous the term bitch has become boss, bitch, bad bitch, et cetera. And I posit that women become bitches because of systematic mistreatment and discomfort. But no woman wants to be a bitch. No woman wakes up and sets her morning attention to bitch mode. So some guy once yelled out, you never woke up next to my sister, And I was like, why are you waking up next to your sister?

Any pre show rituals Eliza said, I go to the green room and any sugar around I will inhale. I start to get excited for the show and it makes me hungry, so I’ll eat a bunch of snacks and then check on merch to make sure it’s set up the way I like. We’ve been doing one of a kind signed polaroids of me, and fans love them, so I do those. Then I try to remember to drink water. I pee five or six times, and I always walk my feature act to side stage for the start of the show.

I call it walk into the school, but I like to be there when the show starts to see them take the stage. I think it sets a good energy. Salon recapped Mary Trump’s appearance with Kathy Griffin. Mary Trump is the niece and frequent critic of Uncle Donald. This took place on a video conversation available only for paid subscribers to a newsletter.

They started mocking Joe Rogan listeners for believing Joe Rogan is the news. Kathy Griffin said, I have to wonder because when I first met him back in the day, he was a freaking road comic. He had a good act. He was the best of the best. I don’t think he would even say that, but he wasn’t horrible.

And then something happened where he decided to get all like writ it up. And I haven’t seen him in many years, but the last time I saw him, I didn’t even recognize him. And he became a UFC announcer, which is just Mary Trump said. The idea that somebody like Joe Rogan, who you know, has like the IQ of a turn up, is so influential it’s kind of terrifying. I was catching up on Trevor Noah’s podcast.

A couple comments here. First of all, Trevor Noah Podcast Company, why don’t you put more commercials in? I know people sometimes tell me I have a lot of commercials. Why don’t you listen to Trevor Noah’s podcast and then come back here and tell me I have too many commercials? Okay?

I also noticed the show starts with ten minutes of Trevor’s talking to people. It’s not clear to me who the people are. He may have set the table and explained who they are. Maybe they didn’t, but it’s the host job to get that into your brain, and not only do this podcast. I’ve worked in the industry for thirty years.

I’m a professor. I’ll point out to people to this day. Howard Stern will say things like Gary, you’re the producer, and everybody who listens to Howard knows Gary’s the producer. But that’s for the one person who might not get it, or you’ll qualify like former President Barack Obama as opposed to just saying Obama that kind of stuff. So I don’t really know who Trevor’s talking to, but he talks them for like ten twelve minutes.

Skip skip skip skip skip skip skip skip skip the interviews. I know what Trivor’s going for, and he’s not looking to do a comedy show. But I’m already finding the show not fun. Might hit unfollow, We’ll see. Chelsea Handler was touring New England and told the Western Mass News, I live, eat, and breathe comedy.

That’s me. I’m an East Coasters. Every time I come to the East Coast, it feels like coming home East Coast, all the way, food, culture, all of it. She was looking forward to eating fried clams. I like fried clams.

Lots I’ll probably get after that. Her new set is based on stories from her childhood. She said, I started my own babysitting company when I was ten, and I lied and said it was fifteen. So I ended up babysitting for a fourteen year old boy for two summers who was about seventeen when I got done with him, and I was twelve. Yeah, it was an interview with a comedian, so they had to talk about cancel culture, and she said, there’s so much ugliness going on around the world.

So it kind of feels more purposeful and more important than ever to be a comedian and be able to bring people together in a sense of togetherness and joyfulness. I’m a powerful woman that’s demonstrated throughout my stand up, and this is the takeaway. I think the most effective way to impact other women is to also feel the same way about themselves. I don’t think anybody’s ever too young to watch me. But if you’re watching me when your parents were telling you not to, you were doing the right thing.

It’s important for me to get near brains and psychees early. A federal judge has dismissed most of Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against Meta This about the unauthorized use of author’s copyrighted books to train AI models US District Judge Vince Chabria offered a full throated denial of one of the author’s core theories that metas ai system is itself an infringing derivative work made possible only by information extracted from copyrighted material. In July, Sarah had also joined a class action against open Ai, accusing the company of copyright infringement. We’ll keep an eye on that one. That is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. Although I am recording this on Wednesday afternoon, I will admit I have my foot off the gas today.

Thanksgiving might be slightly fewer listeners than usual Tomorrow all about Matt Rife. I just recorded Friday before I did this one. There’s a ton of Matt Rife controversy. We’ll cover that tomorrow. If you’re a new listener, don’t judge me by today.

I’m about to do some awful Thanksgiving jokes. Normally the show is not this hacky, but I’ve been doing this the last few Thanksgivings and it’s just fun and makes me smile. All Right, you already hacky Thanksgiving jokes? Why did the turkey bring a microphone? He was ready to roast?

Which side of a turkey has more feathers the outside? What did the turkey say when he met the president? Pardon me? How does a turkey travel by grievy train? And what do you call it?

Turkey? The day after Thanksgiving? Lucky Jim Gaffick wrote about Thanksgiving back in twenty fourteen. Jim wrote, back then, everyone seems to gain weight during the holidays. Unfortunately, the way I eat, I often find myself gaining weight for the holidays.

This positive spin on my approach is that it makes the holiday weight gain seem less dramatic. Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Sure, the Canadians have a Thanksgiving, but I think they have theirs in October. Something weirdos I don’t think they even celebrate Fourth of July. Thanksgiving is intended to be about gratitude, a day of gratitude.

Thank God, there’s a day for us to focus on being grateful, because I’d hate the idea of having to be grateful year round. We express this gratitude by over consuming turkey and assortment of side dishes and of course pies. Jim wrote some dialogue here. Again, this was a print article, but I can imagine him voice painting this. He talked about what little effort went into the planning?

How about it? Thanksgiving we just eat a lot, but Americans do that every day. Well, what if we eat with a lot of people that are only the hell out of us? Thanksgiving is all about overeating. Even one of the main dishes is actually called stuffing.

What names did they turn down cram it in. I hope the turkeys never find out about this practice of stuffing turkey. You guys are gonna kill me human. Oh, it’s gonna get a lot worse. Back in twenty eighteen, Jerry Seinfeld was on with Jimmy Fallon and Jerry said, everyone loves Thanksgiving, but let’s remember it’s an absolute horror.

The warmth in the horror of this day like itself warm and wonderful underneath horror and tragedy. From twenty twenty two, Kamil Nanjianni doesn’t understand why Americans eat turkey. His parents recent immigrants and wanted to participate in the tradition. They came up with a solution. Kamel tells a story.

They’re like, we have to put a lot of macella on the turkey because we don’t like how it tastes. I’m like, you don’t have to eat turkey, and they’re like, it’s Thanksgiving. Kmeil said, turkey tastes like chicken having a bad day. Tweenty years ago. Let’s face it, Turkey’s not that good, and people were like, go back to your country.

Heather McMahon spoke to the Messenger and said, I’m over turkey. I want a filet. I want surf and turfer Thanksgiving, a blooming onion from out back Steakhass would be perfect. She’s hoping to turn off football and force her family to watch her special for the ten thousand times. Don’t worry, my mom will criticized me in a funny way and tell me I shouldn’t have worn that shit, that makeup wasn’t flattering or whatever.

That’s what it will be watching for the holidays. I’ll be honest with you. I think Black Friday is for sociopaths. However, I’ll probably be an old Navy down by my host because I’m an old Navy gown. I love it.

If they put those Rockstar jeans on sale, I’ll be there. I’ll try and be lazy and laight in bed all day and relax a drink while I’m cooking all day, and then my mom, who’s seventy five and sassy, You’ll be like, get in the car. It’s an extra seventy percent off. And I’ve done this a few years in a row. Rolling Stone broke down Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving song back in twenty nineteen.

It is an amazing breakdown. The Thanksgiving song debuted on November twenty first, nineteen ninety two, on Saturday Night Live, then appeared on his nineteen ninety three album They’re All Gonna Laugh At You. Rolling Stone wrote, to truly appreciate the song’s inherent brilliance, we must examine Sandler’s free associate of lyrics, one rhyme at a time. Right, you’re ready. First one love to eat turkey because it’s good.

Love to eat turkey like a good boy should. Rolling Stone wrote, one of the most important rules of songwriting is to open with the line that your listeners can immediately relate to. And who doesn’t love to eat turkey? Lesus? Of course you’re vegan, in which case you can easily substitute tofurkey without messing up the rhyme scheme.

Genius. All right, next couplet turkey for me, eat turkey for you. Let’s eat the turkey in my big brown shoe. God. I love Adam Sandler’s comedy.

I mean, right there, that is just brilliant, rolling Stone wrote, after finding common ground with his listeners. In the first verse, Saanidlor throws a curve with a non sequitor clearly influenced by the surrealism movement of the twenties and thirties. Andre Brayton sure would be proud, all right. Next couplet, love to eat the turkey at the table. I once saw a movie with Betty Graebil.

God, I love Adam Sandler’s comedy so much. Rolling Stone brilliantly wrote. One of the most popular actresses and pinups in the nineteen forties, Betty Graebel famously had a million dollar insurance policy taken out on her legs. By twentieth century Fox Sailor may be here, subtly comparing the flavor of a roast turkey leg to the deliciousness of Grabel’s gambs. Next couplet, eat that turkey all night long.

Fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong, Rolling Stone rites, it’s no coincidence that Adam Sandler’s Salutes perhaps the greatest of the King’s Greatest its compilations. Ninety fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong. Elvis’ Gold Records Volume two. Thanksgiving was a big holiday for Elvis. Not only could the man put away some serious grub, but six of his films were initially released on Thanksgiving Day, m Well played, sir, oh, there’s more turkey lurky dew and turkey lurky dap.

Eat that turkey, then I take a nap, rolling Stone says saidlor again, finding common ground with his listeners, Sandler invokes the time honored Thanksgiving tradition of sacking out after dinner and a trip to fan and carbohydrate Hayes love this next couple. Thanksgiving is a special night. Jimmy Walker used to say, Dino might Now this song is from nineteen ninety two. Here thirty years later, do you kids even know what we’re talking about? Rolling Stone reminds us Sandler humbly acknowledges the fleeting nature of fame with his touching shout out to Jimmy JJ Walker, a popular actor and comedian of the nineteen seventies.

Another dated reference turkey with gravy and cranberry. Can’t believe the Mets traded Darryl Strawberry. Well, first of all, the Mets didn’t trade Daryl Strawberry. He left as a free agent. Rolling Stone analyzed that fun fact and said, this cup but may be meant as a fly on the wall.

Snippet of a conversation evolving a father or uncle whose opinions on sports are really grounded in reality. Turkey for you and Turkey for me. Can’t believe Tyson gave that girl VD speculation that this is another fly on the wall conversation. Next up, white meat, dark meat. You just can’t lose.

I fell off my moped and I got a bruise. Rolling Stone says an important public safety message from sailor who knows firsthand the dangers of operating a vehicle. Turkey in the oven and the buns and the toaster. I’ll never take down my Cheryl Tigg’s poster. Not much analyzed there, other than Cheryl Tiggs being the first model to appear multiple times on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

Next up, Warning, couplets a little naughty. I’ll clean it up. Wrap the turkey up in aluminum foil. My brother likes to do stuff with baby oil. Rolling Stone then analyzed the baby oil reference.

You either know you don’t happy Thanksgiving Turkey and sweet potato pie. Sammy Davis Junior only had one eye straightforward reference to Sammy Davis June Yes. Next up, Turkey for the Girls. Turkey for the boys. My favorite kind of pants are corduroys.

God. I love Adam Saylor’s comedy It’s brilliant. Gobble gobblego and Gobble Gobble Giggle. I wish turkey only cost a nickel, Rolling Stone says, of course, as turkey dinner costs much more than nickel these days, there are many people living below the poverty line who can’t afford to put the Thanksgiving meal on their table. With this concluding couplet, Sailor asks us to remember the less fortunate during this and every holiday season.

From the ASU website. Comedia Christina Wong is drawing laps as a food bank influencer. She’s got a humorous show called Sex Lies and food Banks, reimagining the future of emergency food. She does parody songs one two Welcome to the Jungle, which is welcome to the food bank. We got groceries if you got no money, honey, we take ebt.

Using humor to make her point, Wang asks the audience reveal the things they’ve done to get a free meal when they were food insecure, and they answered, including attending on campus events, going on boarding dates, volunteering to pack boxes at a food bank, and exchange for a hot meal, and going to a church you don’t believe in. She says, I’m not curing food insecurity. I’m curing food going into a landfill. Will you be eating spam today? Probably not.

But The Guardian has reviewed the revival of the Spamalot Musical one of my favorite musicals. I’ve seen it. I saw the original run twice on Broadway, I’ve seen a regional presentation of it, and I’m looking forward to seeing the new one. Four stars out of five from the Guardian, and they wrote, if you saw the Broadway production the first time, of course you’re going to go back. Who would pass up a chance to relive Eric idols hilariously dark spoof of the Middle Ages.

They particularly enjoy the song that goes like this, which includes the promise I’ll sing it in your face while we both embrace. Spam Alot open November sixteenth at the Saint James Theater. You should go. And that’s your comedy news for this Thanksgiving. Hope you have a good one meets you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. My friends, Matt Rife has flewn too close to the sun and is being canceled. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. So much going on all of a sudden that I had to rip up today’s script and entirely redo it. Let’s start with the Baltimore banner.

Their headline matt Rice Netflix special takes aim at Baltimore and utterly misses. Oh, this is the least of Matt Rife’s problems, but let’s start. They wrote, Oh, look a joke about Baltimore. How groundbreaking. In the special, Rife, who is perhaps best known for appearing in sixteen episodes of Wild and Out.

We’ll get to that as well. Andrews Washington, DC’s Constitution Hall to fifty cents. Many men track. He says, this is so cool, man. I wish my grandpa could see this.

Man. I always wanted to bring him here to visit. He knew how much I love DC, and he loved Maryland. It was like his favorite state. The crowd cheers, and he says, which, no is a valid response unless you’ve been in Baltimore, because, dude, what the f is going on in Baltimore.

Dude, bro, Maryland as a state cannot pick a tone dog, just pick one. It’s so beautiful and so ratchet for no reason. Can you all just pick a tone? Man? All of Maryland, y’all will drive down to the beach with your top down and then go to Baltimore and lock all your doors.

No middle ground ever, man. Okay, so now the Maryland people are upset. But wait here we go. Matt says, I’ve only been to Baltimore one time, eight lunch there and the hostess who like seats you at the restaurant had a black guy a full black eye. And it wasn’t like one happened.

It was pretty obvious what happened. And we couldn’t get over the fact that we were like, this is the face of the company, this is who you have greeting people. And my boy who was with was like, yeah, I feel bad for a man. I feel like they should put her in the kitchen or something where nobody has to see her face, you know. And I was like, yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.

The audience groans, he gets some laughs. Rife says he was just testing the water, seeing if you’re all gonna be fun or not just wanted to see. I figured we start the show with domestic violence, the rest of the show should be pretty smooth sailing after that.

And now all the headlines that popped up Tuesday kind of midday viral comedia…

Creator Katie I’m asked over two hundred thousand views in a matter of hours after sharing that she decided to watch rife special because she’d seen clips of him online found him funny, but she had to stop watching after she heard his first joke. Katie said, if that man thinks the opening joke is funny, I’m sure I’m not the first woman he is disappointed. In less than three minutes, creator Kira called out the joke and said, is this what he means by he made this for men? You want to make fun of domestic violence with men? One woman wrote that his pretty privilege shouldn’t be enough to excuse his jokes.

I’m genuinely trying to figure out how this can be spun as funny, like he’s victim blaming. Then the men chimed in. One dude wrote, Matt Rife gets a lot of hate because his audience can’t take a joke. Another said, just a dark joke. I could see so many comics getting away with it.

Another said people need to relax and accept that this is comedy. Another praised Rife as a good comedian that just isn’t for everyone. But wait, there’s more. Matt Rife decided to apologize. You ready.

Matt posted an Instagram story and he said, if you’re offended by a joke I’ve told, here’s a link to my vish apology. If you click the link, it takes you to a place to purchase special needs helmets. I click the link and it says special needs helmets are lightweight, soft, durable, and well ventilate and offer a unique, comfortable fit plus extra protection and convenience to the client. These are real products. I’m in no way trying to make light of that, just telling you what happens when you click the link.

We’re in full on backlash mode. One of the articles says reviews have deemed Natural Selection as underwhelming thanks to the recycled use of penis jokes and other mundane attempts to incite laughter twenty one percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. One user said, of course the joke Matt Riife told about domestic violence was set in Baltimore, because it’s ratchet. A few hours later, Riife returned to Instagram Stories and wrote, we on the naughty List. He captured a new image with a Winki smile emoji.

The link was labeled this one’s real, this time with a crying laughing emoji. I’ll keep an eye on this one. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so tomorrow’s episode it’ll be somewhat generic. You can understand why I going to talk about Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving song. But as this heats up, I’ll stay on it.

If you’re relatively new listener, this show does not take a day off. I’ll be here every day. But wait, there’s more from pink Valla. They write Matt Riffe’s earlier contact with Zendeia in twenty seventeen is resurfaced online in the aftermath of the new controversy. People have dusted off a clip that has three million views on YouTube.

In it, there’s a game in which Matt Rife and Sinndea take part. Riife delivers a series of jokes designed and make Sundaya a puke out her water. Raife introduces himself as the host while kneeling down by Nick Cannon’s chair, before taking a different approach with Zendaia. He says, look, you’re mixed. I want to be black.

Let’s make a lifestyle movie. Spit that water out so I can get your number. Zendeia did not laugh at the line. Her cast mates were irritated by his decision to grip her chin. One cast member said please keep your hands off for Matt.

At that time, Raife shared a selfie with Zinday on Instagram just before the programmer that said watch me get it in Zendaa’s personal space tonight. On Wild and Out, another controversy, a comedian has left the Internet divided after his Matthew Perry joke. This from Unalad. This is Hans Kim. You either know exactly who this is or you’ve never heard of Hans Kim.

There is a podcast called kill Tony currently records at Joe Rogan’s Austin Club. On kill Tony, amateurs get up to do one minute of Comedy. Hans Kim is a regular on that show. He broke out of the audience, started getting regular gigs, and they almost always bring him up. I haven’t listened to kill Tony about a month or two, but Hans is a regular on the show.

You know, funny enough, but you know, I’d call him an amateur. Maybe he’s a pro now, but you know he’s not somebody who’s been doing this for thirty years. Hans Kim posted a clip of his set on TikTok. In the set, he says, sad to hear that the great Matthew Perry died alone in a hot tub for a guy on a show called Friends, he could have used a couple The audience laughed. A couple of groans from the audience social media users.

One said too soon, Another said hans Kim is the savage anyway. I’ll keep an eye on that one. This should have been the lead story. David Letterman returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater on Monday Night for the first time in eight year. Stephen Colbert said, my guest tonight certainly needs no introduction.

Crowd went nuts. Letterman said, I will say this is the most enthusiastic audience. I’ve been near since the night I announced I was quitting. Colbert asked Letterman if he missed anything a Letterman said everything. Mostly it’s fun.

Very few things in life provide the opportunity. And I can’t speak for you on this topic, but for me, if you muck one up twenty four hours later, you get to try again. That’s a pretty good device. They talked about their meeting in twenty fifteen. Colbert was picking Letterman’s brain on the show.

Letterman said, Colbert makes the job look easy. Colbert said, I’ll pass that on to the entire staff, but you and I both know it’s really the host. That’s a good joke. Apparently, Letterman’s one regret is that he never had the desk on the other side of the stage. But you said he wanted to try it over here because Johnny had his desk on this side of the stage.

Letterman, that’s right. Johnny’s configuration was exactly as yours is. Thinking about it, who gives a goddrn Towards the end of the conversation, Letterman said he spends a lot of time googling symptoms. They also gave a small shout out to Dana Carvey, whose son Decks passed away last week. Letterman cheered how he was key to bringing the National Onto perform during his return to the Ed Sullivan Theater, noting his request was able to get the band a step away from their tour to appear on the show with something he had only gotten one other band to do, and that band was the Foo Fighters.

Letterman said, the people who booked these acts were great producers and in touch with a wide variety of music, and it was a tremendous gift. When you don’t have that in your life, you miss it. At the end of the interview, Letterman asked if you could take a photo behind the old desk, and Colbert said sure and snapped a selfie of the two. Letterman said, by the way, in my day, I would have never let this happen. The Hollywood Reporter watched Leo, the exciting new Adam Sandler lizard movie.

They said it’s solid. The animation work in Leo is solid, and the music is more winking theatrically than memorable rhymes. It’s the narrative in Sandler’s comedic timing that’ll keep you watching the actors, joined by his daughters here, of course, because they are some of the best voice actors in the business. Sadie Sandler and Sonny Sandler. They play Jada in Summer, two girls on opposite sides of the popularity spectrum who share more than they realize.

Wayne Brady was involved in a two vehicle crash on Sunday night and allegedly involved in an all altercation after the wreck. According to the La County Sheriff’s Department, Wayne Brady one of two parties involved in the collision on the pch According to people, Wayne and the other driver allegedly had a physical confrontation after they argued. The incident allegedly occurred after the two drivers pulled over to exchange information. Authorities were unable to confirm whether a fight occurred. Fax announced a new series.

It’s called English Teacher, created by and starring Brian Jordan Alvarez. English Teacher follows a high school teacher in Austin who’s trying to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seemed to change every day. I’m bringing this up because it features comedian Sean Patton, who I like a lot. No word on a date yet, Uh, Hollywood just got back right. The Hollywood Reporters spoke to the new voices of Rick and Morty.

They are Ian Cardoni, He’s Rick, and Harry Belden is Morty. Harry Belden, who is Morty, said, it’s been super surreal waking up every day for the first month after landing the role. I genuinely kept asking my girlfriend if it had really happened, if I was indeed the new Morty. So to keep having that realization was like, Yeah, this is real. You’re playing a character we’ve watched and love for years and been a huge fan of.

It’s indescribable and brings such joy. Beldon, again he’s Morty, said, I emailed my agent and said, if you get any request for this Rick and Morty thing, I’d do a decent Rick and Morty. So I’d love to be considered and send them my stuff. Like most fans, I had done impressions of Rick and Morty for fun with my friends. Over time, I guess I was doing it enough that had turned into something I thought I could do.

Cardoni, who voices Rick, said same, I already had an impression real that I’d given my managers that included Rick and Morty voices. But as Harry mentioned, it was like, Wow, this could be a big opportunity. So the Holly reporters like, wait, they were asked about the criticism of the new voices might take the Rick is pretty good. He just doesn’t stammer as much as he used to. Rick us to stammer.

He would stammer Morty. He would go back and he repeat a sentence Morty and it’d start over. He doesn’t seem to do that anymore. The Morty is a little deeper. I guess we could say Morty has aged a little.

It’s fine. Once you stop thinking about it, it is fine. Cardoni, who plays Rick, has been avoiding or reading the criticism. He said, I avoid going down any rabbit is online. As a fan, I know the show touches people worldwide and the characters meet a lot to the fans.

I share that level of the show and care of the character. Wanting to be my best Rick is with me every time I record. Belden says he’s not allowed to look at the online comments. My girlfriend won’t let me. I completely understand people being nervous change is scary, especially with something so iconic that many people love.

But nobody’s going to be a harsher critic than yourself. They were asked the toughest aspect to get right Cardoni as Rick says, I’m sure you mean vocally, but more than the voice itself, it’s doing justice to the writing we’re given. Everything in the script is so deliberate and intentional. We’re not always privy to where the story’s going to go, but there’s a story that we’re responsible for telling, and each time I record, that’s the chief responsibility in my mind. But vocally, during an early session, I got the note that I needed to be more of an a hole than the other characters.

Having to open up that side of myself to access those parts of me that live in Rick and vice versas was my big challenge. Belden, who was Morty, said, it’s a challenge for mind myself. You might want to do it this one way, but let’s make sure we explore the other possibilities. For me, vocally, it was the F word. I had a little bit of vocal going lower on the U.

So I spent dozens of hours and dropped thousands of f bombs, drilling the F word over and over and over again. That’s your comedy news for today. If you’re looking for me, I’ll be a trivia night. Hope everybody has a happy Thanksgiving. I’ll be here tomorrow with a new episode.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I am Chenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a date for Ricky Gervas Armageddon on Netflix. That date is Christmas. Ricky Gervas said, for the next two thousand years, people will remember the twenty fifth of December as the day Army Geddon was released on Netflix.

Army Geddon, recorded at the London Palladium earlier this year, features Ricky Gervas talking about the end of humanity, political correctness, family weddings, funerals, and artificial intelligence. The show won Ricky a Guinness World Record for the highest gross for a single stand up performance ever one point four one pounds. Wow. And that was just one of eighty five arena dates he did on the tour. Back in twenty twenty, Ricky signed a reported forty million dollar deal with Netflix which included the third season of Afterlife plus an unspecified number of stand up specials.

So that’ll be a good one to watch Christmas night. I don’t know. If there’s a football game then I could look. Let’s look, Oh, there are three games on Christmas Day, the Raiders and the Chiefs. That’s not bad, Giants and Eagles, Giants a little rough, but the Eagles are a good team.

And the night game the Ravens and the forty nine ers, and I’m a forty nine Ers fan. I won’t be getting to Ricky Travas. On the twenty fifth maybe. On the twenty sixth, Bill Burr commented on was it last week or the week before? Remember?

Missus Burr showed up at the UFC and Donald Trump was there and she gave Trump wore perhaps Kid Rock or perhaps Stana White at a two fingers salute. Bill Burr said, I love my wife. You know where you stand with her. The guy walked in the arena, everybody cheered, she gave the finger. Nobody got arrested.

That’s why this country’s great. Everybody expressed themselves. Can we all be adults. I don’t know about you, but I came there to go to the fights. I didn’t know I was going to the Republican National Convention.

It’s like those Trump guys are always going you snowflakes, after your feelings and all that, and then you make fun of Trump and they’re like, oh my god, they’re so disrespectful. Send your letters to Bill Burr, Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Matt Rife. Believe me, I was trying not to mention Matt Rife.

And then I saw this headline Matt Rife accused of swiping jokes from Ralphie …

I was friendly. I almost said tight. I wasn’t tight with Ralphie May, but I was quite friendly with Ralphie May quite so I was like what Twitter user at really though, posted two stolen Ralphie May bits from the Matt Rife Netflix special so far and I’m halfway in. This is nearly a direct lift, at least to use a different cadence for plausible deniability. Embarrassing, really though, posted the clips back to back.

They’re a little too long for me to share. In the first clip, Ralphie is talking about a student he went to school with. He’s using the R word that has fallen quite out of fashion. Has cracked put it. Ralphie riffs on the special needs kid from the high school, who also happens to be extremely well endowed.

Then the Matt Rife clip, same thing, Crack says. If I give Rife the benefit of the doubt here, I’d say he and Ralphie simply shared a remarkable coincidence in their lives. Both comics went to a high school with a likable special needs kid who also happened to have a large endowment. Could happen? I guess button both bits, the comedians reference the other student wearing a helmet.

In both bits, the comedians observe that when God taketh away in one area, he giveth in another, and Krack says it’s not the first time someone has accused Rife of borrowing a joke or to Oh, I did not know this. Let’s do some more googling. What came up is a TikTok titled Matt Rife Steele’s erro or Joke from the Barcode Network podcast. I went to play on it and it’s a TikTok, and I’m not logged in, and I don’t feel like letting the Chinese have all my information on this particular computer. So let’s just move on.

Today one of the great days of the year. Why, Johnny Mack, Because it’s a day where we get a new Adam Sandler film, Leo, out on Netflix today. Cancel all your plans, stay home. In Leo, Adam Sandler voices a seventy year old lizard named Leo, who for decades has served as a class pet for a rotating group of fifth graders. One day, Leo learns he only has a year to live and plans to escape to freedom, but instead, twist spoiler, he has to rescue the students from their mean substitute teacher.

Listen to this? Uh who listen to this? Can you hear it? Can you hear me? Losing it?

Can you you hear me? Right? Sandler tells the Hollywood Reporter he was inspired to do a version of Are You Ready Grease for the last year of elementary school? Tap the brakes, Adam sailor Let’s not go, comparing this to Grease. Sandler stars of the voice cast, alongside coincidentally best choices for the voice acting his daughter Sonny and Sadie no one better wife.

Jackie, also one of the best voice actors in the business, is also in the film, But Sadlor says, don’t expect family projects from now on. They want to do their own thing too. Uh huh, Yep. I’m sure they’ll get a project, and I’m sure if we look at the credits, it’ll say executive produced by Adam Sandler. This will be one of those deals where Netflix is like, hey, we throw us a special and yeah, you can have two projects that we don’t care about happens all the time, and showbiz that will happen.

Write it Down, Johnny Mack, November twenty first, twenty twenty three, Write it Down. When it came to crafting the voice of Leo, Adam Sandler revealed that he channeled late manager and producer Bernie Brilstein, who helped launch SNL and served as manager to SNL stars including Adam Sandlor, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Martin Short, and Lorn Michaels. Robert Smigel is part of this project. He himself also used to do an impression of Bernie Brilstein and remembered how he would give advice in a way that would suit the film’s wise lizard. Smigel recalled, Adam said, let me do Bernie for this one.

I thought he might do Peter Falk, but he said, I want to do Bernie for this one. Sandlor already had started to work on a movie set during the fifth grade. Sandler says it was a very different movie and it had a narrator who appeared two or three times and the last time it appeared, it was revealed at the very end of the movie that he was a snake at the back of the classroom. That sort of triggered this whole idea for me, Like, what if the class pet’s been stuck in this room for seventy years seeing every kind of fifth grader who was incredibly jaded, then finds out he has a year to live, and then he decides he’s got to go make more of his life. Then he ends up giving advice to kids.

Sounds great, Adam. By the way, I was curious and a googled lizard lifespan. Google tells me the lifespan of a lizard depends on the species of lizards. Take a guess. Well.

According to Google, geckos survive for about ten to fifteen years in a typical home, chameleons five to seven years, iguanas twenty years, and komodo dragons, the biggest of the reptiles, live for an average of forty years. So there could be some creative stretching here in Leo, but that’s okay. Adam Sandler says kids have such heightened anxiety about the smallest problems. Sometimes when they were that age, and I thought it was a really funny thing to put together. Kids with really tiny problems that are huge in their minds confided with a wise old lizard who has the lifespan of three to four times the normal lizard lifespan.

Bill Burr is in this thing as well. He plays Squirtle, who’s a turtle who shares the classroom terrarium with Leo. Burst said it was surreal to be in the booth with Sandler. He’s the greatest guy ever. Bill Burr goes song free, joking.

I’m actually disappointed they didn’t ask me. I’m one of the great bad singers of all time. Robert Smigel’s sons also coincidentally in the movie. They also are among some of the best voice actors of the business. Leo streaming on Netflix today, Hooray.

Also out on Netflix Today, The Old Man on the Pool Mike Burbiglia. The show is a take on life’s big questions, why are we here, what’s next? Exactly? How much chlorine are they putting on the YMCA Pool. The Old Man on the Pool on Netflix Today, Good SNL This weekend.

I saw Vulture didn’t like it at all. I thought it was probably the second best episode of the season because of the weirdness of Sarah Sherman and the greatness of Bow and Yang. They were both in a lot of sketches, and their sketches tend to stand out. Sarah brought the weird on Saturday Night, which was good. Now I was going to mention her anyway, and then I saw a Variety happen to profile her.

Good for me, because it’s a slow news week. We learned from Variety that Sarah has been working with colleagues for months on new technology that would make the act of pretending to throw up on stage a lot easier and more comfortable. You see, for years SNL cast members have relied on a tube tucked alongside their arm and usually inside a jacket’s sleeve, that spews out liquid approximating vomited blood. At just the right moment, The actor holds an arm close to their mouth and the vomit rig does the rest. Dan Aykroyd used this in nineteen seventy eight when playing Julia Child.

Sarah sh Sherman’s idea is an advanced vomit rig that’s hands free, kind of like Bluetooth style. She and mikey Day wrote a sketch that would have used it, but it was cut after dress rehearsal. Sarah says, just know that we have some of the most brilliant minds and special effects working around the clock to develop live gags. I’m trying every day to make great things. Talk more about Sarah later in the week.

It’s a pretty good profile. As the show wrapped up, you know at the end there where they all stand on the stage and the music plays out, Colin Jost was seen holding up a sign that read we love you Dana and Paula, a shout out to the couple whose son Dex Carvey died last week from an accidental drug overdose at thirty two. Dana posted on Instagram and Twitter over the weekend saying this is just to say thank you. He said he and wife Paula have been overwhelmed by the love, compassionate and personal stories that people have shared with them. We receive so many beautiful messages from people who knew Decks.

These touched us more than we could ever express in words. Dana added, I’ll be taking a break from work in social media, trying to figure out what life looks like now that we’re a family of three, well heal the best we can and carry on our darling Decks would have wanted it that way. Some more detail around the original announcement. Last Thursday, Carvey had posted twice about his son. Alongside a photo of Dex, he wrote, f the tabloids, this is my boy.

He also shared a snapshot of father and son teaming up on a project, saying, Dex and be working together. What a joy. Jim Gaffigan tagged it and said, what a great picture. Love the focus you’re putting on telling us about Dex. Such a lovely tribute to your boy.

Kevin Nalan commented love the picture, Dana. It tells so much. God bless you, Dex. That’s your comedy news for today.