Month: January 2024

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Going to start with something different today. If you’ve been listening for years, you know that I gave Sarah Cooper a hard time. Anytime her name came up, I usually followed it with something like, you know the woman who pantomimes the Donald Trump videos on TikTok.

Well, Nichelle is a listener, and Michelle put a clip in front of me of Sarah Cooper doing actual stand up and you know what, this is really good. Let’s listen. I think I’m gonna just, you know, do things differently this time. I was in an interracial marriage. I’m black and my ex was a software engineer at Google.

He was white. He was hard h white. He was heartache, hardage quite. He was quite. His middle name is do Blanc.

And if you know French, you know what the blanc means. All lives matter. Good on you, Sarah, do that. Paul F. Tompkins spoke to the Last Laugh.

He’ll be live streaming his variety show riots Hopa on February tewod. Paul likes being on stage with a group. He says, if you bomb, you’re not alone. Part of the game is that you’re going to fail sometimes, and everyone understands that, and then of course there are the people that refuse to believe that improv is real. He talks about how people walk up and say, well, you must have written some of that, and he goes, no, that’s the whole point.

Paul says, there’s no one right way to do comedy. Paul F. Tompkins had an interesting quote about Patrese O’Neil saying someone had quoted Patrica’s saying a good joke leaves fifty percent of the audience laughing and fifty percent of the audience horrified. Paul said, what that’s insane. As for his own career, he said, when I was younger, I assume that success meant you’d be a household name, And then as I actually got into the business, I was like, oh no, there’s a whole other sort of middle class that you can be where you’re supporting yourself, doing what you’re loving and having a good time.

So I’m lucky that I enough of an audience that I can work. I can get enough work on TV to keep my health insurance, and I can be creatively free, which is all you can really ask for, and I’m not trying to be totally blithe about that. Of course, I’ve had moments of doubt and fear and buying into the invisible ladder of show business, like, oh no, I didn’t get to the next wrong. You know what, Actually it’s fine because I’m still here. It’s not like I lost my job as an entertainer.

Of course, there’s a lot of ego stuff that you have to go through. You have to deal with that. But I’m a middle aged dude and I’ve meted a lot, and I look around and realize I have a pretty great life. I’m also past the point where I have to worry about that kind of success. I’m at a certain age where it’s like, ah aah, I’m not gonna be the next shining bright face.

I’m into the second half now, so that’s kind of relief. And what I’m hoping for is that in ten to twenty years I’ll really come into my own as the funny old guy on a sitcom. That’s a fine life for me. The Miami New Times asked Samrell who influenced him coming up. He said, I love David Tell, I loved Greg Giraldo.

I loved Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Bill Burr, any of the obvious New York style people in terms of stand up, but you’re influence in other ways. Madam Saidler and Ronnie Dangerfield were my introduction to comedy, and I still love them both very much. Interesting tidbit that I don’t think i’d heard before. He said that Mark Norman and Sam are trying to make a movie.

Does he want to make a TV show? He says, I do, but I don’t want to be on NBC. I love Jerry Seinfeld and Ray Romano, but I’m not like them. To be true to me, it have to be more like my stand up, but have to be on an adult platform like Netflix or HBO. I emailed Louis C.K.

Two in the morning last night and I said, I’m rewatching Louis. It makes me so happy the show exists. Sam’s about to film a new special and he said, I think my style is changing. This hour is definitely more story heavy. They’re punchy, they’re not boring stories.

When you’re a brand new comic, you say whatever’s funny, even if it’s not completely you, because you’re like, well, I gotta laugh then, you get older and your type of humor is more like, Okay, this is something I would say to a guy to bar. Even if it’s still reminiscent of the style he started with, just feels more conversational. Joe Koy talked about his writing process when he’s on tour. He said, it’ll take me about a year to write an hour. But in that year, we’re talking about maybe one hundred something shows, maybe more one twenty five, and non stop working out and crafting it and just yelling at myself like why isn’t this coming together.

I love jokes I’ve been working on for like thirty shows, and I’m just like, ef it, bury it, and you give all your emotion and all your thoughts to a two minute joke just to be like, yeah, it’s not working.

And then there’s those nights where you stumble onto something and you’re lik…

Then you keep it and you work it and tighten it. Then there’s ideas where you say, oh, don’t do that again. That’s the process, and I love the process. It’s so crazy to me that people think this is easy. We all know the number one fear is public speaking, and that’s over skydiving, Like there’s people that would rather jump out of a plane with a nylon bag on their back than get in front of twenty five people in a coffee house and tell a joke.

Jay Leno tell The Hill he’s given up on touching politics in his comedy because it tends to suck the funny out of a stand up shows. He says, we live in an era now. I don’t do politics anymore. An audience is like an orchestra. You’re up there and you’re getting laughs.

Then you get into the political stuff and he goes, uh turns mean. They want to hear what the joke is, whether it’s about my guy or against my guy, but they’re not thinking of the joke. They’re thinking of the implications of the joke. So to me, I just don’t do it anymore. I just find it so annoying.

I find the audience likes it better. Hopefully they come to a comedy show to get away from politics. I think we get enough of everybody’s opinions. It’s nice to hear a singer just sing or comedian just be funny. Jay Leno is today’s item on Gossip Corner.

He stopped to grab a slice of pizza at a Safety Harbor pizzeria. Last Saturday, he went to the Nona Slice House right at noon. Owner Jimmy told the Patch, we had no idea it was coming by. It was actually at my house when my manager called and said jaylen was here. You need to get down here right away.

Other than it’s cool that jay Leto’s there, why do you need to get there? Like, we don’t know what to do. Jay Leno’s ordering pizza. What do we do right? J Probably just walked in and like, yeah, let me get slice.

It’s not that difficult. I just threw clothes on. I didn’t want to miss an opportunity. It was pretty cool. Jamie the manager tells us jay Leno was super super friendly.

It’s the last day of the last ever Snowjam Comedy Festival. That’s kind of sad. That was a cool festival. Five o’clock snow laughing matter ten comedians. If you want to get out and breathe the cold and see that, and then it’s seven o’clock, the last show ever at the snow Jam Comedy Festival ever.

Timmy Williams at Club at two twenty four. Your forecast for Soup falls South Dakota today a balmy high of twenty four at a low of seven. But it will be easy. That windshiw might be tough. Congratulations to Dan Bublets and the crew for putting on that festival all these years.

I’ve heard about this for a long time. I remember my assistant Rory at Serries telling me about it, so great job. I’m sorry to see that you guys aren’t continuing with it, but I get it.

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Meanwhile, today, at the San Francisco Sketch Fest at eleven o’clock Pacific …

I won’t read all the shows, Amber Ruffin at one o’clock, Doug Loves Movies at three, The pen Pals Podcast with Rory Scoville and Daniel van Kirk. At four, Thomas Lennon is a guest on that one. Five o’clock Dave Hills Caveman in a Spaceship, seven o’clock Stupid Songs with Kevin McDonald, the Benson Movie Interruption, Fast x Who. That’s a tough choice there, I’ll circle back at eight o’clock Triumph Hmm. Weird Al on that one too, all right, if we’re going to plan the day, obviously, at eleven o’clock we go see Moe Williams.

Then let’s hit Amber Rouffing at one o’clock. Might as well hit Doug Loves Movies at three o’clock seven o’clock. Do we do stupid songs on stories with Kevin McDonald or do we do more Doug Benson fast X That could be a lot of fun. I guess we’ll see how much fun the three o’clock Doug Benson was and make a decision there. Either way, we’re gonna leave one of those early because I want to see Triumph at eight o’clock.

No shows tomorrow at the Sketch Fest, but it picks up again on Tuesday. The Mary Sue writes few shows brought me the joy that the George Lucas Talk Show did at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Watching comedian Connor Ratleff run out every night to a David Bowie song, sitting down and saying I’m George Lucas was an experience I would not trade for the world. Have you ever watched this thing? It’s up on YouTube?

So much fun. The show was quirky, weird, often had people go into the box office asking where the actual George Lucas was. Well, there’s a documentary coming out. It’s titled I’m George Lucas, A Connor Ratliffe Story. It’s about the legacy that Ratliff and the show have left on the comedy scene.

It’s described as follows. For five years, comedian Connor Ratliffe has performed as filmmaker George Lucas and his monthly UCB New York cult comedy show, The George Lucas Talk Show. The show allows Connor to both exalt and poke fun at the vast world of Lucas, including Star Wars. However, Connor begins to question if the show should continue due to its ongoing stress with a little financial and career gain and sticking with Star Wars. Tarren Killheim spoke to a vultry about his time on SNL and they asked about the Undercover Boss sketch with Adam Driver as Kylo.

Wren. Terrence says, for whatever reason, all parties involved SNL lucasfilm filming side wanted that sketch to go as well as possible, so he’s wearing Kylo’s actual outfit that’s not a replica lucasfilm shipped out. I think mikey Day deserves the credit for the concept. That night, Bobby moynihan and I had already written a full sketch where we were the two maintenance guys working underneath the plankway where the dramatic Kylo Han scene takes place, and we’re mopping up the floor like, yeah, I don’t know, I’m hearing rumbles outside. I got time coming off, so you know.

Then you hear groan some and thud and Han Solo’s corpse lands in front of us. We’re freaking out, and then Kylo comes and checks on us and is saying, don’t tell anybody about this, nothing happen. You need to see anything. Mike was like, yeah, that’s pretty good. I think we can find something more fun for Adam to do, and then he pitched the one line undercover boss, start a stre They then segue to SNL’s upcoming fiftieth anniversary.

He says, my Eddie Murphy moment was pretty beautiful. There was a party of the night before at the top of the rock. I went from the Californian sketch rehearsal that we did that ended with David Spade doing his Bye Bye Guy. David and I went to the party together. As I was talking with him, We’re sitting at the top of the rock and he’s telling me of his experience of the look Mammy a Falling Star joke.

Then over his shoulder, Eddie Murphy walks in with Brett Ratner. I was like, dude, dude, dude. And the first person Eddie Murphy walked up to was David Spade. It was very gracious, a lovely exchange. Then I got to shake Eddie’s hand.

My first conscious memories of SNL are his best of tape. He is the best one to ever do it. The circumstances of what age he was, who he was, what he was capable of doing. The responsibility was on his shoulders as an ensemble member. Wow, that is a high praise and I won’t argue with the sentiment.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. You never know. If you want to support the show, buy me a coffee, dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or use the fountain out there or some sets my way see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and nice write up of Taylor, Thomlinson and Glamour in a really small font though it was on Glamor dot com and I had a hit control plus plus plus just to make the font legible. I’m old here anyway. Taylor’s having a good week of buzz and well deserved. And she said, look, the truth is, I couldn’t have done After Midnight four years ago, even three years ago.

What’s so interesting to me is when it came up, I was like, Oh, I think I’m at a place in my life where I could actually do that job, and I could do it well and I can enjoy it. Anyone in your twenties you don’t know who you are yet. It’s crazy how different I felt every year of my twenties. I feel like I’m finally stabilizing at thirty. I really do feel different.

Twenty nine was a really hard year, but also really good. None of that. I do feel like the best version of myself. Feels like things kind of locked into a place in a nice way. Taylor says being on the road is really fun, but it’s also really lonely.

Something that I talked about when I was interviewing for the job was I’d really love when I come back to LA to have a community. The idea of making something new every day with a group of people I really like sounds very fun and creatively fulfilling. Getting to see comedians more and getting to meet more comedians. She’s hoping she can create a fun comfort show for people at the end of the day. Always a good mission.

I agree with that. I’m excited to give stand up comedians a platform where they can be really funny and get these great clips that are not going to burn their material, which is why we’re all posting crowd work online. Really interesting twist there. She’ll probably do well if they let the comedians share the clips. That’d be smart to let them.

Paullie Shore is starring as Richard Simmons in a bio pic. The movie was going to premiere yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival. A trailer was auds. I went to pull some audio for it and it just wouldn’t work. In terms of this podcast, seems Polly listen to fan suggestions on his YouTube videos and social media, where people commented that he kind of looked like Richard Simmons, but according to Entertainment Weekly, Pauli Shore thinks the slimilarities are deeper.

He says, I am him. I like helping people. I like health, I like putting that energy out there. Through my mom and the comedy stores, she helped a lot of people, and it kind of got passed down to me. I helped comedians and people, So I really relate to Richard.

I’ve been going to the gym since I was a kid, and I think I’m a little over the top as well, So I feel like I connect with him. And I’ve known him for years. Back in the day I started in the nineties, I used to always see him, and I always giving him hugs and high fives and stuff. He says. In public, people would walk up to him and be like, Hey, what’s up.

I know you you’re Richard Simmons. Pauli says, that’s a compliment. By the way, he’s very handsome.

Also, his style and my style is very over the top.

It’s spontaneous, so that’s inherent in me. Already. All right, pay attention to this next part because it’s going to be important in a couple of minutes enter Timmy Weekly. He asked if he got to speak with Richard Pauli said. His people responded and they said that he loves me, and he loves my mom and the store and all that stuff, but at this time he just wants to lay low and not really be involved.

The film takes place in the early two thousands. Richard is getting ready to do the Yellen Show. There’s a bumbly kind of pa on the set and he’s a bit overweight and he’s kind of getting the way of everyone. Everyone’s yelling at him because Richard Simmons is there and it’s just very, very uncomfortable for him, and Richard sees this go down. Richard comes out and does his thing on Ellen.

Afterward, there’s this whole monologue that Richard has with his fumbling pa by the craft services table, where I shine some light on how beautiful he really is and how special he is and help him turn around a little bit. Kind of starts off fun, and then the last part is Richard’s message. As for Richard’s non involvement, my attitude is if we build it, he’ll come. That’s my hope. My hope is that he sees it.

It looks good, it feels good, it’s all right, and you might say I’m down. I’ll help you, guys. I’ll be part of it, and I’ll hold your hand now. Richard Simmons himself jumped on Facebook and wrote, Hi, everybody. You may have heard they’re doing a movie about me with Polly Shore.

I have never given my permission for this movie, so don’t believe everything you read. I no longer have a manager, and I no longer have a publicist. I just try to live a quiet life and be peaceful. Thank you for all your love and support. Dana Carvey has resumed podcasting again.

He addressed his family situation following the death of his son Dex. Dana said, it’s me and my wife and our son’s private journey. We’re all together and we do a lot of fun things. We hike, we go to church. We just want to make sure that you keep moving, he said.

Ge back in the swing of the podcast will be very healthy for me as I recover. I’m kind of on the pain train with about millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, or when it’ll stop, and when it will get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy. I thought about it over the holidays and decided to come back to the podcast because I think, you know, it’s a long day when you’re not working, you get in your head, and I think it’s going to be a great break, and I think it’s really cool to laugh doing this and riffing with you, David Spate is going to be very healthy for me as I recover, because I’m kind of on the pain train with millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, when it will stop, or when it’ll get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy.

The snow Jam Comedy Festival continues in Sioux Falls today. Oh. When I last looked, today’s low had been forecasted to be minus twenty one, but in the updated forecast just a low of minus twenty with a high of six, So it’s much better than yesterday. Congrats Dan Boublitz Junior and the crew at Snowjam. They have four events today starting at one o’clock.

It’s the munch Mic Come eat some delicious food while you watch from across the country, do new material, or maybe you sign up and try it out yourself. Five o’clock, It’s Hot Cocoa Comedy with two four five ten comics. Always good to see ten comics on a bill. Sean Jordan is your headliner. At seven o’clock, Shawn co hosts the popular podcast All Fantasy Everything.

And then at nine point thirty, it’s snow Time. Ten comics on the bill. Like I said, always good to see ten comics on the bill.

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Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Sketch Fest continues, and there are quite a bun…

I won’t read them all. Let’s say at noon the State Hits and Misses, David Wayne, Joel Thetruglio, Ken Marino and Gang. Four o’clock Celebrity Autobiography with Thomas Lennon Catches My Eye. Seven o’clock David Cross and Friends, The DESI Comedy Fest Sydney Washington’s had to Start a Fire.

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Also at seven, at eight o’clock, the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band with Ken Marino…

Also on that bill Thomas Lennon and Weird Owl Yanka Vic. That alone would get me there. We’ll say Sloan at nine thirty, Locals Only at nine forty five again I’m not reading them all. Oh, and also at nine forty five Exorcistic, the unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist. All right.

If we were at Sketch Fest would hit the state at noon, then we would have several hours to have some beverages. Seven o’clock. I would want to see something different. I would go, let’s go see DESI Comedy FESTI And he’d be like, now, I don’t want to go see that, and I’d be like, come on, man, and then we would go and have a great time. Then for the late show, I’d make you go see Locals Only, and then you’d be like, oh, that was a lot of fun.

I’d be like, yeah, trust me, I know what I’m doing at comedy festivals. Another comedy festival coming up is coming to Williamsburg January twenty fifth through the twenty eighth. It is the Last Word at Comedy Festival. It includes improvised Jane Austen, The Ladies of improvised Jane Austin tell it Tale on the Spot, the style of the most beloved nineteen century authorists. That’s fun.

Hitch Cocktails creates a full length thriller in the style of Alfred Hitchcock while we’re taking in beverages. That’s Friday the twenty sixth. It’s the same night as the Jane Austin, though I hope those don’t overlap. Then on Saturday twenty seventh, Clued In. Inspired by the works of Agatha Christi and the cases of Sherlock Holmes, this is an improvised murder mystery.

Sunday the twenty eighth Riff Chicago’s improv music party. This show takes the fast paced games of whose line Is It Anyway as energized by a full band in a wild musical comedy showcase. You can find the full festival schedule at last Word Festival dot com and if you’re in Northern Ireland, put this one on the calendar. This sounds awesome. It’s the Comedian’s Darts Tournament Saturday, March ninth, Americans.

Have you ever watched the Dart Championships. It is tremendous fun. It is so fast paced. These guys go up there and they just go whap, whap wap, and then they grab their darts and the next guy’s already as fast as I’m telling this story, going wap wap wap. Next, I’m up, okay, cool, bang bang bang, And the announcers they’re like lightning quick.

I guess they do it so often that they’re like, okay, needs two eighteens and a four. They just have all the nomber combinations memorized or computers helping them. I don’t know. This thing moves so fast. So you have the darts.

Then there’s the drunk audience. Just picture the let’s make a deal audience, except they’re drunk, so it is so much fun. I saw this one guy, he needed like an eighteen to close it out, and he totally showboted. He must have been up by a lot. He goes up and he goes, ah, I just missed.

Then he just missed the eighteen throws another one like half half force, and ah, I just missed again, and then he goes bang and then basically dropped the mic, and I was like, I’m the King. The announcers are like, this guy’s peacocking darts is a lot of fun. Check it out. They’re on YouTube. Just go on YouTube and type in darts championship.

Trust me, so much fun. Anyway coming to Belfast Saturday, March ninth, Comedian Darts. The lineup includes the sharp tongued Colin Gettis, the hilariously insightful Andrew Ryan, the comedic Dynamo, Deona Dherty, the pun Master, Sean Haggerty, the Irreverend Dave Elliott, the uproarious Connor Keys, the hilarious Aaron Butler, and your referee James mckegney. Audiences can expect an evening filled with comedic brilliance, unexpected twists, and possibly some poor door throwing. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Callaroga, Shark, Media County and Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Commuters were on the train, new Yorkers, just trying to get somewhere man, and there’s this annoying thing in the way. I’m just trying to get home. I’m a New Yorker. I have no time for Jimmy Fallon and Green Day performing in the Rockefeller Center subway station.

I know you out of towners think, oh wow, that’s so cool. Green Day’s playing in the Rockefeller Center subway station with Jimmy Fallon. As a New Yorker, I’m telling you get out of my way. No, seriously, As a New Yorker, I’m telling you get out of the way. I don’t care what you want to do.

I’m trying to get somewhere fast, don’t want to make eye contact with anyone, don’t want to talk to anyone. Get out of my way. Anyway. Green Day performed American Idiot and basket Case for the excited crowd. This thing’s gonna air on Jimmy Foun’s Tonight’s show at some point, if it hasn’t already today.

Green Day has a new album out, and the reason I know that is because I did some prep as the writer on the new Trivia show five Daily Trivia Questions, and today’s topic is Green Day. So if you’re some sort of Green Day expert, why don’t you finish listening to me and then switch over to five Daily Trivia Questions and see if you can answer the Green Day questions? Huh? Anyway, get out of the way, stop doing things in the subway. The Daily Show, specifically, Comedy Central put out a mysterious statement which says, we are grateful to the Television Academy for recognizing our incredibly talented team.

I want to take this week to honor them. Next week we’ll be sharing our plans for The Daily Show’s next chapter, Variety says. One person familiar with Comedy Central’s host search says the network remains supportive of the program, but notes that executives were keeping their talent choices close to the vest. There’s been some chatter that calp Pen could remain a candidate, or that producers might opt to go with Roywood Junior. After all, So my reaction to those if next week they go cal Penn to take over.

So so the Daily Show, I’m gonna go all right and never watch it. If Roywood Junior is in that pression, lease, I’m gonna go, oh, good for him. He put in the work and he’s going to be so happy, and I’ll be happy for him, and I’m never gonna watch it. Some of the other people who have filled in, does any of this excite you? Al Franken, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, John Leguizamo, Hassan, who’s not getting the gig now, Marlon Wayans, Wanda Sykes, Chelsea Handler might be interesting, Dale Hugley, Michelle Wolfe.

Actually, Michelle Wolf would be awesome Jesus nice, right, I’m trying to remember he wasn’t good at it, right, And Charlemagne the God would be interesting as well, for whatever it’s worth, Comedy Central gave two chances behind the Desk to Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, Kalpenn and Charlemagne. They also experimented with having the correspondence host. I don’t know. I don’t have a solution for you over there either. I think Michelle Wolf would be a lot of fun.

Let’s go with Michelle Wolf, but they don’t seem to be anyway. Bo Burnham is not dead. Why are you bringing this up, Johnny Mack, why would we think Bo Burnham was dead? Burnham had previously posted on his website that he would die on January seventh, teenth, twenty twenty four, and he recently wiped his social media of any posts. In past interviews, he had said he had planned to die by suicide on January seventeenth, twenty twenty four, because his dog would die honor before that date and he couldn’t bear to live without his dog.

Newsweek has reached out to Burnham’s representatives buy email for comment. No word yet. So I guess it’s possible he’s dead, but I don’t think he is. Bo Burnham had posted an image on his website with text over it that read, I came out of my mother on August twenty first, nineteen ninety and I will die on January seventeenth, twenty twenty four.

Also, I have a dog named Bruce and I love him.

If he goes, I have to go. The interview asked, so you just estimated when your dog’s gonna die, and Bo Burnham agreed. Many fans speculate it is a sign he’ll be releasing new material. Paul F. Tompkins in that interview on the last laugh made it kind of clear he’s not a fan of Bill Maher.

Another of your really early running gigs was on Bill Maher’s show Paul Who Boy Yeah. Tompkins says, I was very hesitant to take that gig because it was not something I’d done before. It was not a political person. I didn’t do current events comedy. But I thought, you know what, Scott Carter, who was the executive producer, believes in me, and being afraid to do it is not a good enough reason not to do it.

So I said, Okay, I’m going to challenge myself. I’m going to throw myself into this, and my memory of it is it didn’t go well. I mean, obviously they didn’t have me back after the first season. I felt like it was something I could do better today, but at the time learned to do it well. The show was airing that it was difficult and not ideals.

I gave him my best shot. It was not a good fit for me, but I really tried. The follow up, would you go back and work with Bill Moore again? Paul said, oh no, I’m sorry, I couldn’t. I could do that type of thing better today.

I would never in a million years go back to working anywhere near Bill Moore. Firstly, I didn’t have any difficulties with him. I just don’t enjoy what he does and it wasn’t fun to be around. He’s not the friendliest guy in the world. And it’s not like he was ever actively rude or unpleasant to me personally.

But yeah, not an energy that I like. The last laugh said that Moore has evolved into being a leading voice against wool culture, etcetera, etc. Paul f said, I don’t think that Bill Moore has really changed at all. I think that his politics and you could say this for most people, to varying degrees, all six really are how does this affect me? Bill maher And so that’s why there’s certain things he doesn’t care about because it doesn’t extend past his bubble of empathy.

So things with kids or whatever, he doesn’t give a wood. He doesn’t have kids, he doesn’t want kids. He doesn’t like the idea of kids. But he likes animals, so animal things are very important to him. But an issue that affects somebody who has a lifestyle that’s different from his, he doesn’t really care unless it’s something that can eventually encroach upon his lifestyle.

Matt Rife starring in a new movie. It’s called The Private Eye. The trailer has dropped. I went to pull the audio for it, and in the context of my podcast, just me playing audio of that trailer just wasn’t going to work. So here’s the synopsis.

Private Investigator Mort Madison a name that somebody would have in real life. I guess Mort Madison, played by Matt Rife, has seen better days. Matt Rife is twenty eight guys. A mysterious woman. Michelle hires him to spy on David, whom he believes to be her lover.

In the detective process, Mort himself falls in love with Michelle decides the only way he could be with her is by eliminating David from the equation. Oh no. Mort hopes this will entice Michelle to run away with him and they live happily ever after.

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And then there’s a spoiler.

Why is there a spoiler here? I’m not telling you the spoiler at all, but boy, what a terrible spoiler. Private Eye in theaters February ninth. There you go, and you should go. I was excited for a second.

My eyes caught a name, but I’ll read it to you.

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Also starring in the movie Denzel wah Wittaker.

Yeah, for a second there, I was like, Ooh. Bert Kreischer will be the Grand Marshal for the twenty twenty four Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Fest on January twenty seventh. This was announced by Ye Mistic Crew of Gasparilla. The captain of Ye Mistic Crew of Gasparilla is Truett Gardner, and the captain said, there’s no better person who embodies the pirate culture and a love of Tampa than the one and only Bert Kreischer. What a delight of Bert service the twenty twenty fourth Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Fest Grand Marshall, all I have to say is, look out, Tampa Bay.

We look forward to Bert’s energy and hometown pride to lead this year’s festivities for a lively crowd along Bayshore Boulevard. Kraser and this year’s Onirari community hero. Who is World War two US Army’s Buffalo Soldier Roy J. Caldwood. How old is mister Caldwood.

He’s got to be one hundred, right, He’s one hundred and one. That’s awesome, So he’ll be there on a float with Bert Krescher. They’ll lead more than one hundred and fifteen parade floats, marching bands, crew members, and more on the four and a half mile parade route along Base Shore Boulevard, starting at two pm on the twenty seventh. Sticking with Florida News, Miami News caught up with John Marcos Siresi, a Greek comedian you should check out. John Marco majored in musical theater at the University of Miami and said, I certainly did not take advantage of going to the University of Miami.

I was not a party kid. I was not a football kid. I was not a beach kid. I was not a Disney kid. He said his experience was much different than his of his younger sister.

Within a week of her time as a Hurricane, she sent him a video of Snoop Dogg passing her a joint lot of good buzz on after Midnight with Taylor Thomlinson. I was at trivia on Wednesday night and the trivia guys they were raving about the show and asked me if I had seen it. I had not but the trivia guys, they are best men trivia. If you want to check out their various socials they host the trivia then I hit most Wednesday nights. A team finished second this week because we’re idiots.

The question that we blew that we probably could have gotten the first place, actually two questions in the final round, a three pointer that we left blank. The capital of Tennessee has a spicy meal named after it, and we couldn’t remember what the capital of Tennessee was, and I was kind of thinking Nashvilla, Haunt Chicken is a thing, but we left that blank and we lost by one point. The other point we left on the board how many months of they’re in a trimester? We’re dopes and said four. Anyway, the trivia guys liked After Midnight, and they were two of the six hundred and eighty six thousand viewers who watched it.

In the final season, James Gordon’s show averaged eight hundred and six thousand live plus same day. So we’ll see if she picks up some additional viewers in the DVR realm. I don’t know she’s going to pick up one hundred and fifty thousand anyway, good buzz on it. She really liked it. Mark Francis, the host of Palace Intrigue.

He texted me about it and said it was really good. So check out after midnight, Taylor. I’ll talk more about Taylor tomorrow. Paste Magazine reviewed Dusty Slay’s special, currently the number one special of twenty twenty four and also the only thing on the list so far. Pete Davidson did not make the list.

That’s how bad Pete Davidson’s hour is. Following up in the conversation the other day hour special, I’m just going to use the word special because that’s what people call everything. So even if I don’t think it’s a special, I’m going to say special because otherwise I’m gonna have to do this rap every time all year. Jenny Mack is Dusty Slay’s thing a special or an hour? It’s an hour because he doesn’t have the body of work.

Even though I’m a big fan Paste Rights, Dusty Slay becomes an instant classic with his Netflix special. Working Man Dusty tweeted, all right, I always wanted to be a classic hits Paste Rights. Only a handful of comedians feel like an immediately classic stand up when you watch them, there’s just something about them, the way they care themselves, their jokes, the report of the audience that makes these comics enduring no matter where they are at their career. Dusty Slay achieves this enviable status handily on Workingman. Part of what makes Sleigh feel so classic as his style, both his manner of dress and his delivery.

Sleigh cuts a distinctive figure with a signature trucker hat, long hair, and big glasses. I’m glad they write this because I was gonna say, uh, you know, signature you might want to look at you to Freelander, but pays to address that. Yeah, I’m there’s definitely a similarity there. The Alabama Rays comics cadence on stage is so very much his own. He manages to both see him completely at ease yet throwming with nervous energy.

He’ll adjust his glasses, play with his mic cord such as nose, and rock from foot to foot, habits which he references in working Man. And it’s called working Man. I’m not dropping the g because I’m from Queen’s working Man with an apostrophe at the end of the working and yet you’re never in any doubt that Slay’s a natural up there. Yeah, he does rock. I kept staring that rock rock, rock, like he never stops movie.

He’s just left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. During most of Working Man, it feels like you’re watching a special that could have come out at any point in the last forty years. And that’s a compliment. Slay’s comedy is solid and relatable, not a fix to any gimmicks or topical bits that age rapidly. The only moments that take you out of his timelessness are some smartphone references and a very fun bit about weed getting stronger.

On the new podcast The Top Eleven this week The Top eleven Seinfeld episodes, What do you think number one is? Hmmm? I know because I listened to it. Will you debate the list? Do you think the list is stupid?

The Top eleven Where if you get your podcasts? On Gossip Corner, Jim Carrey celebrated his sixty second birthday with David Spade and Adam Sandler. Spade posted on ANSTA a picture of himself standing between Carrie and Sandler. He captured it. Happy birthday to Jim Carrey, who has made me laugh on and off the Field so many times, such a cool dude.

I really bust out the Keike emoji, but I will today. Jeff Ross separately posted at Instagram a group shot of entertainers who apparently also were out for Jim Carrey’s sixty second birthday. Not sure why this was such a huge event, but at the party Jimmy Kimmel, Howie Mandel, Bill Burr, Craig Robinson, Seth Green, and Ben Schwartz. Weird crew there. The Snowjam Comedy Festival continues two shows again tonight seven pm.

The Snowjam Comedy Fest presents the LGBTLL Showcase with Ryan Rodgers at Remedy at six one one or six eleven At that same venue at nine thirty, Snowjam presents The Hiring Crisis one, two, three, four, five, six, seventy eight nine ten comics on that show. I mean, it’s always great when you get see a bunch of comedians like that. The forecast in Sue falls for today a high of two, a low of negative twenty. Oh my goodness, that’s that wind chill. It’s not celsius.

It’s minus twenty, minus twenty. Oh my goodness. It gets worse tomorrow enjoy that. See falls, Dan Bublitz, I’d actually love to experience minus twenty. I’m from New York.

I don’t think I’ve been under anything, maybe like a minus four or some point. I don’t think we’ve ever had anything. We look that up. Well, the record low for New York City is a negative fifteen, but that was a nineteen thirty four. I missed that one.

I found this helpful website that has the yearly low. Let’s so I’ll go back to I was born in sixty nine, eleven, three, four, five, seven, six, fifteen, two ten zero one negative two in nineteen ninety four. Not too bad. I bet Dan Booblitz, who’s running snow Jam and is in Sue False, would kill for negative two right now. It is probably warmer in San Francisco, boy, I hope so otherwise that would definitely hit the news.

Sketch Fest kicks into gear seven o’clock Britannic Different Show, Joe Kimbooster, Different Show, Marie Fausten in Yuck, David Wayne’s World of Wonder that features Dulce Sloan and Kevin Pollack. Interesting Jepper Gay with Spike Einbinder. Jepper Gay is a wonderful title. We go through the whole list before we start picking. Seven to fifteen, A Tale of sketch Fest, Hilarious Habibes sold out eight O’clock’s at music show nine thirty Joel Kim Booster Again, I’m not reading everything here.

Nine forty five David Cross. Okay, so if we were at sketch Fest tonight, it’s seven o’clock, let’s do something different. Let’s go see Jipper Gay because that just sounds fun.

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Paul Danky has a new album out today. It’s called Mad River, recorded live at the Savage Henry Comedy Club, a venue he once accidentally set on fire. Oh No. Jokes include a take on the Donner Party, his enjoyment of road Rage, the aforementioned fire, and more. If you’re a collector, there’s also a limited edition seven inch vinyl that has two music tracks on it.

On Sunday, he’ll have an album release show at Permanent Records in LA that’ll be hosted by Eliza Skinner. Paul Dinky’s Mad River and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, don’t forget go check out the top eleven Seinfeld. Do you like the list or not? See you tomorrow

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I think my dog saved the days. Here’s what happened. Before I start any show, I always go check, check, check, and I tapped the mic a bunch of times like this to make sure the MIC’s actually plugged in and then I start. So I did about ten minutes, and then as I was doing the Taylor Thompson story that you’ll hear, my dog walked in and was like, hey man, I gotta go out. And I was like, all right, So I hit stop.

And then when I came back to your cord, I always checked the file, and somehow the mic had unplugged. So the first few minutes of this podcast today, the audio is a little walky. I used some tricks to try and bring it up. But after Taylor Thomason, I’m on my usual setup. Thanks Dog, Caloroga Shark Media.

It’s one of those days where all of a sudden there’s a bunch of stories out of nowhere. And I love days like that. And Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy. Knew his quick stop off at late night. Most of the country in a cold wave?

Is that a thing? Cold wave? Jimmy Fallon went two for three. This first one is pretty bad. But then he recovered fell and the entire country’s getting hit with an arctic blast.

It’s so cold in Times Square, the cooks over at Bubba gump Er warming their hands in the gumbo. That one’s lame, but I liked these. Next to today, I tipped to Katy was shoveling outside thirty Rock and he said, thanks, mister Fallon. I said, no, thank you, mister Ramaswami. That’s good Fallon again.

It’s so cold. Ron DeSantis is burning books just for the heat. New topic, and I’m not even sure why this is funny, but I like the punchline from Kimmel. Donald Trump got fifty one percent of the vote in Iowa. And even though it doesn’t mean much, you know, in twenty sixteen said Cruise won the Iowa caucus and now he lives at the bottom of an aquarium.

I don’t know why that makes me laugh, but it does. Jason Sidekas went on Twitter and he started liking tweets calling him a loser during the Emmys. Some of those tweets the bear sweeping at Jason sidegas You’re done. One simply called him loser. Another asked how could Apple TV and Jason Sadekas, screw this up so bad another Remember you’re not getting nothing, Jason Sidakis, I like that.

He liked all those. So it looks like Lauren Michaels is floating his successor saw a couple tweets about it, and Variety picked up on it. Lorn Michaels, who’s got to be upset that SNL didn’t win any Emmys. This kind of reminds me of Oh say it, Bill Belichick that had this awesome career in the last couple of years haven’t gone as well. I’m sure Lauren is gonna really want to make sure the fiftieth season is awesome, the forty ninth season been.

I mean last season was terrible. Anyway, Who will succeed Lauren Michaels when he retires. Lauren said it could easily be Tina Fay, meaning it’s Tina Fay. It could easily be Tina Fey, But you know, there are a lot of people who are out there. You know, Tina’s brilliant and great of everything.

She’s a very important person in my life. My take, she’s the right choice. She clearly understands the show, clearly understands comedy clearly has been successful, and she’s tight with all the stars who’ve been on SNL this century, so she’ll be able to call in the favors. I think Tina fe is a no brainer here. Tina joined the series as a writer in nineteen ninety seven before becoming head writer two years later, so she understands the writing.

After she left SNL, she became the showrunner of thirty Rock, which she also started. Obviously, SNL will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with a special in February twenty twenty five. Lauren says, I will definitely be there for that, and definitely be there until that, and sometime before that we’ll figure out what we’re gonna do. So it sounds like Lauren’s gonna do fifty and out. Tina Fey is the right choice.

Deadline covered the launch of Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnights. They say the decision to keep the after midnight premiere low key was by design. They want to allow the show to find its voice over the next few weeks prior to the Super Bowl. Probably smart, Like any show, including this one, it takes a while to figure out what to do with it. I was coaching the daytime job for podcasts.

Every podcast listen to the first couple. It’s not quite there yet. That’s also true of TV shows, so kind of smart to slow play it a little. Taylor came on and said, I’m Taylor Tolinson and this is After Midnight where three comedians enter, one wins and two will grant participating. We’re taking the Internet and desperately trying to make it fun.

It’s gonna be fun, right, comedians. You’ll be competing for the grand prize of my father’s approval. It’s rare but winnable. The First Comedians where Whitney Cummings a partner on Tula and Kurt Braunaller. Taylor asked the panel did they watch the Emmys.

Everybody was silent, and she said there was no obligation. It was on Fox. We don’t care here at CBS if you watched it. I was just making sure so nobody watched the Emmys. TV’s dead great.

Broun Aller quipped, this will do well on the Internet. Thomason said, I don’t even know what awards our show could possibly win because it’s kind of a talk show where there’s no conversation. It’s a game show, but the points are fake. It’s vanity project, but it somehow makes me look worse. Panelists what award went after Midnight went at the Emmys.

Kurt Brouneller buzzed in and said best female late night host. Sorry, only female late night host. Had a segment called chick Chopped Tomlins Send. The panelists riffed on terrible TikTok cooking videos. A game was called what I Can’t Live Without?

They were shown random products and asked to describe why they need it. Suburban Dictionary featured real slang, like Bussin asking the comedians he’s the word a sentence. Another segment to smash or not to smash? She had to pick between Mario or Luig, Patrick Starr or Sandy Cheeks Garfield or chun Arbuckle gritty or the Quaker oah, it’s mascot obviously gritty. And the elimination game Is this still cool?

They had to explain why or why not? Animal prints are still cool? Bron Aller said yes, but the lesser known animals. Non Turlis said yes because with climate change we could remember what they look like. That’s good.

Whitney Cummings as an aspiring cougar. I need animal print to be in style, and if you don’t agree, you’re not a feminist. Cummings was the first to be eliminated from the show and was asked to apologize for losing. In a segment called for the Wind, bron Aller and non Turli were asked to create new holidays. The audience voted on the winter, and bron Aller said, today is Harbor Day, a celebration of America’s harbor’s the parking lots of the sea.

That’s Harbor Day, not Arbor Day. Everybody knows what a tree is, so what as an arbor Day? Just shut the f up and go with Tree Day, sincerely, Harbor Day up partner Naturli said, Ashley Wednesday, it’s ash Wednesday for girls with bangs, nor Turlie won. I like that one. Deadline says it was a bit of a slow start as they were feeling the room.

Then everyone got more punchy and edgy, letting the bleeps start flying. That’s an interesting note, but I have to assume that did test shows right. They probably recorded a bunch of these and the booking falling off a cliff already Wednesday, Paul F. Tompkins, Sophie Bottle on Carl Tart. I’m unfamiliar with Carl Tart.

Wikipedia tells me he’s an American actor, writer, and comedian, best known for being a featured player on the twenty sixteen Fox Gets show Party over here. That’s show number two. Tonight’s guests Max Greenfield, Ike Brenholtz, and Robbie Hoffman. You know Max Greenfield from Veronica Mars and Ugly Betty. You know Ike from roles like Eastbound and Down and The Middy Project.

And you know Robbie Hoffman quote American Canadian writer, comedian and talk show host. Robbie’s known for her work on The Chris Gethard Show. That’s show three. I feel bad for the Bookers and now I’m on the proper Mike. John Oliver spoke to Deadline about his relationship with fellow late night host Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Myers.

They all hosted Strike Force five together. Oliver said honestly that and I had less to do with the podcast and more to do with the fact that the strike was so stressful. It was nice to be able to actually lean on each other a little bit, not even necessarily anything to do with the podcast, just talking to each other regularly. On Zoom, John talked about back in two thousand and eight when the late night shows returned on the air one by one, it was so fractured because the hosts hated each other, and it was really helpful to be able to just lean on each other during that difficult time. The most useful thing being able before and during the strike to constantly be in contact with each other and make sure that we were all on the same page and we could keep the shows off the air.

For that, it was massively useful. Oliver was asked did his American counterparts use the text chain to congratulate John on his latest Emmy wins? He said, of course. How does he feel about SNL being in their category and beating them? He said, I don’t think of it that way.

It just feels so weird to beat these events anyway, The whole thing just feels very confusing. TMZ found John Oliver and they asked him about Elon Musk’s recent shot at John. Elon had tweeted, because it’s called Twitter, Elon about John Oliver the reason he’s not very funny these days is because he’s too keen to pander to wokeness, which is fundamentally a lie, whereas great humor requires revealed truth. Oliver told TMZ, I cannot possibly pretend to guess what’s in that man’s mind at any time. He seems wounded.

He’s definitely sensitive. That is a biological fact. As for wokeness, Oliver said, I don’t know what that means. I don’t think he could explain what that means, and I think it means nothing. I don’t know literally what he’s talking about.

From Atlanta Blackstar t K. Kirkland has called out Cedric the Entertainer for stealing jokes Love this Stuff. Cedric made headlines earlier this month after Kat Williams claim that Cedric stole one of his jokes. Kirkland was on the Art of Dialogue podcast. He reacted to footage of late comedian Message Taylor and Cedric the Entertainer performing the same joke.

Kirkland was asked, I want you to tell me if he stole the joke or not. Kirkland said, that’s stealing. He saw bit and took it and flipped it, but he was supposed to flip it, but he did it word for word. That’s called laziness. He believes it’s okay to draw inspiration from other comedians as long as you change it up.

He says, you could take a bit and flip it to your I give an example. I can watch a football game. I can watch a basketball game and create a joke just like that. That’s the ability to have when people ask me, TK, when do you know you’re a good comedian? And I know this goes over people’s heads, but it’s like a monk telling another guy who’s teaching karate kung fu, he’s gonna be great one day.

The day you could look at a doorknob and make it hilarious. You know you’re funny. If you’re going to take something, at least change it to make it really you. Does that make said not a great comedian? Nah, it’s one joke.

I shared this one in the Facebook group. Paul F. Tompkins is on the Last Laugh podcast this week, and I’m gonna pick away at this interview the next few days. Paul was asked, do you feel like there’s a divide in this country where politically there are comedians on either side of the line. Paul said, like most things, I think that it’s always been there, but it’s really been set up by a crazy degree by social media.

Because before social media, when I was coming up, there were always dudes who want to tell you what real comedy was, and it was always one dude with a microphone. It’s a club comedy and that’s the way it is, and that’s the real comedy. And what we’re seeing now is that it’s just jacked up to one thousand people saying a comedian’s duty is to offend, and it’s like, what are you effing talking about? That’s not true. The idea comes from speaking truth to power, which has completely fallen by the wayside.

You’re pretending these people are in power, like trans people saying hey, I prefer you call me this, and they’re like, nope, can’t let this happen. It’s just bullying. You’re just being a troll. You’re not speaking truth of power. It’s all doubling down.

Like Ricky Gervais won that Golden Globe and the clip is him talking about his previous special. That’s what people are doing now. The comedy is all about me and my personality. My cult to personality. If you didn’t like me saying this before, now I’m gonna say more of it.

It’s just gonna get cheers from people, because the idea is that offends someone else or it hurts someone else’s feelings, and it’s a drag. It’s not all of comedy, but it’s the comedy that gets the most attention now, which is really unfortunate. I think there’s a thing where you get so wealthy that you don’t like anyone telling you that you’re wrong, and you have a platform, and you’re gonna make it all about telling people that you don’t get to tell me that I’m wrong and you’re worthless. And in the case of Ricky Gervais, it’s such diminishing returns from the office to now. It’s a great interview with Paul.

The Jervas special didn’t bother me. I kind of got what he was doing there. The Chappelle stuff. I just can’t figure out why Dave has now quadrupled down on it and this last thing that it released on New Year’s Eve. I mean, there weren’t even jokes in it.

I don’t know what that was. I’m guessing he owed Netflix a Special and it was New Year’s even time to hand in the homemark. I’m guessing because it was pretty subpar for Dave, but the you know, I’m on the record. I liked Ricky Special. I thought it was pretty good.

I was pretty busy yesterday, back to back bulletins on Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the British royal family. Kate Middleton had surgery and that got announced all of a sudden, and then we’re finding out Prince Charles and me in the hospital next week for prostate stuff. So pretty busy over at Pallace Intrigue, the podcast about the Royal family. Where we get your shows.

The snow Jam Comedy Festival kicks off today and Sioux Falls, South Dakota forecast high today and Sue falls seven degrees with a low of zero yikes. Two shows tonight, one of them the well titled Frostbite Comedy at eight thirty.

Meanwhile at nine o’clock the equally well titled Let It Snow.

Also kicking off today. San Francisco Sketch Fest, which is amazing. I had the pleasure of going out there. Oh it’s over a decade ago now. Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall said, it’s just a very great festival.

They take really good care of you, that is true, and there’s all kinds of comedy, improv, clown shows, stand up. It’s probably the biggest most diverse comedy show I’ve ever been involved in. A sidebar. I remember where we were in some theater Marxis High. The host on Sirius and I were getting ready, maybe with testing equipment, and suddenly from behind me, I hear a voice.

I clearly recognize it’s Jim Rash. You know him as the dean from Community. I really wanted to say hi, just because I’m a fan. I love his work. But when I’m in work mode, you got to be professional, and it’s just not cool to be like, hey, Jim Rash, I really like Community.

You can’t get to Shelfie. There are people who do that, but it’s not cool. Scott Thompson said, comedians are so often on the road if such itinerant lives, We’re all over the place, and these specials are really good when you get to connect with people you haven’t seen in a long time. The Kids in the Hall have two shows this year. One the Kids in the Hall Unplugged on the twenty third that will revisit favorite sketches from over the years.

Another one next day is called Scenes they Wouldn’t Let Us Do. Those are stage readings of sketches rejected by the networks and censors. Scott Thompson himself is doing a solo show on the twenty fifth called King that is in the persona of Gay Lounge Lizard Buddy Cole. Scott says, I always like when the five of us can get together, and I’m extremely excited about doing these sketches that we weren’t allowed to do. I’m really looking forward to performing these sketches and from an audience to see if they work.

I mean, I know the work, I guess. I’m just looking forward to vindication. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article ten mussy events at Sketch Fest.

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All right, let’s see what they picked tonight, Eric Idol, But Jeff B.

Davis talk about that one at a second. I’ll circle back to that. They have picked middle aged Dad jam Band with Ken Marino and David Wayne Tryumph, The Insult Comic Dogs, Let’s Make a Poop Scam got Us with Lacy Moseley Paul Giamatt’s Chin Wag. Paul Giaomotti plans to host a live taping of a podcast, We’re Deep and Riching Conversation The Only Goal, Redroom Orchestra tribute to Kyle McLachlan. The Fast and the Furious, a musical parody Love.

Michael Shannon and Jason Rducci play RIM’s Murmur That’s Different, Mosha Kasher’s Subculture, Vulture, and Evening in six scenes Mark Maren’s All in separately. The East Bay Times did their article twelve shows at Sketchfest you don’t want to miss. Well, let’s see. They’ve also picked Eric Idol, They’ve picked David Cross and Friends. The Slate Hits and Misses celebrity autobiography, comedy stars act out some of the funniest bits from celebrity memoirs, and this perennial festival favorite, Tinder Live.

Comedian writer and musician Lane Moore brings her hit show where she browses dating at Timber and audience phosts to whether she swipes left or right. That could be fun. Exorcistic Where Gasmick Go. Theater Companies unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist. Next up, we have Mo Willims and the story Time All Stars, Live Belove.

Children’s author Moe Williams teams up with a passel of comedy stars to act out some of his stories. W Comal Bell and Weird Owl will be on that show. All Right, Good One, an Afternoon with Amber Ruffin, Stupid Songs and Story with Kevin McDonald, some more kids in the Hall spin offs Triumph. The Red Room Orchestra plays the music of Twin Peaks and Puddles Pity Party. Luckily for me, there’s only one show tonight, because otherwise this podcast would be a full half an hour.

The one show is Eric Idle. It’s a show he spent two months working on with Jeff B. Davis. According to Eric Idle, the show will feature his favorite sketches, songs, film clips, sing alongs, and a Python premiere. He then adds, and maybe the last show I ever do.

Please come say farewell Wow. Eric Andre as a special tonight on Adult Swim tape to Terminal five in New York last year. This is Eric Andre’s first comedy special for Adult Swim. He says, we’re spilling ranch covered nightmares across America and now we’re entering your home thanks to adult swim and I let the dog out when I switched Mike, so she’s been out in the cold for ten to twelve minutes. Now I think i’ll go let her in.

So let’s call that your comedy news for today. If you like the show, you know what to do. Tell somebody about it se tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Most of the news is related to the after parties at the Emmys. I’ll cover that in the second half. That leaves me some room for something I wanted to address.

Zach joined us on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. You are highly encouraged to join us. Just post something and I’ll approve you relatively quickly. We had to put up a gate because we were getting a lot of porn bots joining the conversation. We don’t want them.

But Zack’s not a porn bot. And he said, I have a question. I’ve been listening for a while. Maybe I missed an episode, but what makes something a special or not a special? And I loved this question, and I put some thought into it, and I posted a response in the Facebook group, but I wanted to talk about it on the podcast.

I do think there’s some subjectivity here. You know. It’s kind of like, I’ll just mention for the second time today, porn. You kind of know what when you see it, A naked statue is not porn. And at some point, I guess if you pose this, that’s you in a certain way, it would become born to ish.

So I started with what’s not a special? And I think the word special is being thrown around to mean anything where somebody is holding a microphone and telling jokes. The words being thrown around by comedians for anything that’s over ten minutes. You’ll see comics on social media. Go check out my special on YouTube.

And I think on a sliding scale, at some point we cross over from hey, my friend film my club set and I posted on YouTube. That’s at one end of the scale, and on the other end of the scale, Chris rock is live on Netflix addressing the slap right, so that’s clearly a special. And me going up with the chuckle hut and filming ten minutes on a single camera and posting it on YouTube not a special. So along that grade, where does it cross the line? I think we almost have to use a points system, and I’ll explain.

So the words special to me goes back to the eighties when HBO would be like, here’s a special, and it’s George Carlin at Carnegie Hall and it’s on HBO and you got to pay to get HBO, like that was a special, or even something like Bob hope doing four of them a year around the holidays. But it was on NBC and they promoted the heck out of it, and it was a big deal. Those were specials. A lot of the things that are out there now should probably just be called hours, all right, So what makes it a special to me? And you’ll have to assign some sort of points here.

It’s some combination of the theater and often a legacy theater in a town like the Fox Theater in Atlanta, or if say you did a show at the VIC in Chicago or the Chicago Theater like one of those Radio City So I think the theater factors in a stadium clearly would help make your cause for a special. The production values, How is it shot? Is it just a single cam at a club? Is it multi shoot? Did somebody put some work into it?

Possibly where it airs? I maybe unfairly take something more seriously if it airs on HBO or Netflix as opposed to just YouTube. But that might just be the old man in me, and things are changing. That said, I think if YouTube went all in and said, hey, Jim Gaffigan has a live special at eight o’clock on Saturday night on YouTube, I think that would be a special, and add to this some subjective ranking of how established the act is. So the examples I use in the Facebook group, if you told me Jim Gaffigan Netflix, Fox Theater in Atlanta, that’s a special.

Matt Rife on Netflix that might be more of an hour because he doesn’t have the body of work. I’ll give you an opposite example. If Jerry Seinfeld did an hour and it aired on Netflix and he filled it in my garage, that to me would be a special. Is my garage a legendary venue? Not yet, but I think because it was Ooh, Jerry Seinfeld filmed something in a garage that would make it special.

Dave Chappelle in my backyard would be special. Joe List in my backyard, that’s an hour. Great question, Zach, appreciate it and I’m not saying I’m right, And I’d love everyone else’s thoughts on this again. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. The South China Morning Post got in on Joe Coy.

Seems some Filipinos have turned on Joe after the Golden Globe’s fiasco. One Twitter user said, my grandma stervived World War two and she’s never seen a Filipino bomb this hard. That got eight thousand likes. Another said Jokoy brought her deep Filipino shame. Another user declared Joe Koy an embarrassment to all Filipinos.

Why because he made a joke about TV covering Taylor Swift at football games? Really, or turn on this guy? I thought he was a hero. A post on Facebook got one hundred and thirty two thousand likes for Joe Coy’s got Cajone’s made of iron to accept that hosting responsibility. That alone deserves a round of applause.

Another influencer on Facebook set accepting the task in the very first place, displays Jocoy’s Filipino courage. Courage is a little strong too. Like I said, I’ll host the Golden Globes cold call me twenty minutes before I’ll throw on a baseball cap and I’ll read the cute cards and you guys can tell me I sucked. I’ll take the gig. I don’t think it’s brave.

Athena Presto is a sociologist at the University of the Philippines. Athena says Joe koy success comes from the fact that Filipinos want representation, especially because of our colonial history. For the longest time, some Filipiinos have been finding it hard to think about a distinct cultural trait that we can call our own. So any affront to Joe Coy is seen as an affront to one’s identity. Cal Fabe, a comedy magician, said Joe Coy was out of his death saying where some of his jokes inappropriate, Sure, but that never stopped people like Ricky Gervais before.

Edward Chico is a Manila based lawyer and a stand up comedian. Edward said, to a certain extent, Joe Coy was responsible for mainstreaming point of view comedy as Filipinos prefer insult based and slapstick comedy. Because of Joe Coy, it’s now easy for stand up comedians like me to find an audience. He paved the way, and I’m thankful to him for that. Daniel Toash commented on Taylor Swift.

This was in December, this before the Golden Globes. Tosh said, here’s what bothers me about Taylor Swift. I love everything about her business, savvy, all of it. I think she’s a genius. But What I want to say is her song, the one song where she goes, we can leave the Christmas lights up till January.

I’m like, that’s only effing five days after Christmas. It’s not a big deal. Five days after Christmas is not worthy of a lyric. Can you believe it? They left their Christmas lights up until January?

Second, he’s referencing her twenty nineteen song Lover. Mark Curry is on Team Kat Williams. Mark was on the Willie d Podcast. At first, he didn’t talk about Steve Harvey by name, but he was addressing a people stealing material. Mark Curry said, if you steal his material, I’m a step to you.

If you’re stealing my crap, fu, I stepped to you. That doesn’t mean it has to be a physical thing. Then he named names and said, take the Steve Harvey thing. It’s a B word move. Maybe he’s not stealing my material, you know, and maybe give him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe one of his writers did it, but they know we all know whose material it is. It ain’t about the money. Steve Harvey’s got enough money. So it looked like you want some of me, you want to be me? Therefore you ain’t got enough money.

I look at it like, all right, I’m a g in the game. You want to be me, you want my style. In twenty twenty, Steve Harvey told Mark Curry then he needs to grow up and quit with the accusations. Harvey said at the time, Mark Curry needs to grow up. Steve Harvey ain’t been on stage since twenty fifteen.

He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s making stuff up. So I’m in peace. The only reason I’m commenting is because he keeps running his mouth. Grow up.

Never stole a joke in thirty five years. Come to me like a man and tell me what the joke is. Mark Curry is currently booked on Cat William’s Dark Tour. That’s Fun, Here’s a weird one. Joy Bayharr was on the view.

Joy Bayharr said she was approached to play the role of Ted Lasso’s mother, and she said she passed on the gig because she didn’t want to travel to London during her heat wave. Joyce said, it was too hot. You remember there was a heat wave going on at the time, like one hundred degree weather, and I have to get on a plane and go to in the middle of the heat. No well. Jason Sidekis and Brendan Hunt were asked about this.

Sadaikas went Joey Bayhart from the view. Brendan Hunt said, respectfully, it’d be news to us. We just worked there, so I’m gonna claim I’m trying to get in a fight with everybody. I was asked to play ted Lasso’s older brother, but I declined it. It was too hot in London night didn’t feel like getting on a plane.

In filming, Jelly Roll has started a train for a five K. He says, I’m in the woods walking every morning. Why are you bringing it up, Johnny Mack? This is the five K that Bert Krascher and Tom Sagora declared. They’re actually doing this.

Michelle Wolf is in. She said I could get my crap together for five K. Stavros Halkius said, I want to get back in the zone. I’m going to be healthy. Louis C.K.

Said, I’m gonna tell you that I’m gonna do it, then I’m definitely not gonna do it, and he calls the five K by the name. This is watch Bert Die. Jelly Roll is trying to get Zach Bryan to join the five K. Zach Bryan said, We’re all here with you, brother. If I’m not playing, I’ll be there.

Netflix has released the trailer for Adam Sandler’s upcoming sci fi film. It’ll be out in theaters on February twenty third, and then on Netflix March first. It is directed by the guy who directed Chernobyl Chernobyl’s Terrific, But I think director Johann Rink is slumming here. I have shared the trailer in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’m gonna play an excerpt here.

I have scoped this down, meaning I made some edits so that it doesn’t drag, because there’s a lot of very lofty sailor dialogue followed by some pensive shots that’s just music. So I scoped this down a little bit to give you the feel of the excellent dialogue in Adam Sandler’s upcoming film. On behalf of the Eurospace Program, one hundred and eighty nine days into your solo journey, Commander Prahatska, how are you feeling? What I’m doing is for everyone back home and that makes me very proud and your wife Lenka, of course, I’m looking forward to having your home safe and found. Six months of isolation, you’re start thinking, good morning, I’m getting an appearance.

I did not intend to frighten you, skinny human. Do not be afraid I’m losing my mind. You wish to know if I am real. I’ll like you an explorer. Your loneliness intrigued me.

A are you here? I might be of help. I wish to assist you in your emotional distress. I don’t ease your help, but you too. In space, man Adam Sandler is six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the Solar System.

He realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his life, he’s helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. The mysterious creature works with Jacob to make sense of what went wrong before it’s too late. Really all right, let’s look at the Emmys. People noticed when The Daily Show was winning the Emmy and Trevor Noah was speaking, Roywood Junior was behind him and mouthed please hire a host.

He later responded it to post on Twitter, saying, chill fam, I was trying to do that. In the low he included several laughing symbols. The Hollow Reporter tracked roy Wood Junior down after the show, and he said, I was saying, please hire a host. I probably shouldn’t have done it, but it’s been going on too long. Get it together.

But I’m so happy that Trevor won. Trevor said when they announced that we had won, I was like, Ah, Who’s going to replace me? It’s the second thing I thought of as well. I’m still thinking about that and I will continue to think about it as I celebrate this amazing achievement. Does Trevor have any regrets?

He says, when I see everybody here in the same place, I’d gladly come back and work with everyone. However, when I see what my schedule is on Wednesday, I wouldn’t do it. Joel McHale and Ken Jung had some fun at the Emmys at Joe Coy’s expense. Joel McHale joked that the former doctor Ken Jung left his medical career not for acting, but because he’d killed a patient was still facing a lawsuit over it. Ken joked back, the instruments that almost killed that dude were the ones the nurses left in, Okay, the ones that saved his life for the ones I left in.

And besides, I only had the gig for ten days at that point. There’s some debate about the bait. The Bear swept all the comedy awards. I’m a big fan of The Bear, and you know, I’m thinking about it. It’s not a comedy.

Might be the best show on TV. I’m a big fan, but it’s not a comedy. Maybe we’ve gone full circle here to the beginning of the post, and I have to declare, all right, what makes something a comedy? I would say to be a comedy, you have to at least be attempting to make jokes. Like Adam Sandler’s work is terrible, but he’s at least trying to be funny.

I’m not sure The Bear is even trying to be funny. Ivan moss bacharak one supporting actor in a comedy series for the show, and he argued, quote, these ideas about comedy and drama are a little bit outdated. No they’re not. No, they’re not, like, you can’t tell me like True Detective is a comedy. It’s not, he suggested.

We’re all just trying to reflect the mess of being human, which is deeply hilarious, and we’re all suffering. Yes, but that’s not a comedy. Like I’m not about to tell you a story about murders. It’s not what we do here anyway. Your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag and it’s halftime in my world of Eagles Bucks and there seems to be enough Emmy’s News that I can now hit record. If somebody gets up later tonight and slap someone, I’ll do a bonus episode. But pretty quiet from the host chair. Anthony Anderson seems to be doing a good job.

People seem to really dislike the bit where if you go too long, Anthony Anderson’s mom chases you off. That’ll come into play in a second. Congratulations to John Oliver. Some background. Both Saturday Night Live and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver came into the Emmy Awards on a winning streak.

Oliver’s show switched categories this year and knocked off SNL, which had been on a six year streak. This is a new category Scripted Variety Series. The category was created last year. There was a rule change that group last Week Tonight with shows like SNL and A Black Lady’s Sketch Show. The change move last Week Tonight out of the talk show category it had dominated.

And then I’ll also come to play in a second anyway, So John Oliver won, And I told you about the bit with Anthony Anderson’s mom, and I’ll let John Oliver take it from here. I am not leaving without getting played off by Anthony Anderson’s mom. So I’m gonna start reading off the names of the Liverpool football team in goal Alison Becker. Then you got Trent Alexander Arnold’s. Then you got Virgil Van Dyk obviously, oh she’s not here.

I can get through the whole team then, baby, I’d like to thank Jesus and my family thing. Okay, the category switch opened the door for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. I mentioned yesterday I was rooting for Trevor to win because he hasn’t been in the chair in thirteen months. Good for you, Trevor. And I really like Trevor.

I’ll play a lot of his speech here. He’s just so charismatic, good jokes at the beginning and the end. He gets a little serious in the middle. I told you we would beat John Olive it if he wasn’t in our category. We did it.

We got rid of John Oliver. Yo really quick. I’m so glad everybody’s coming up here. Can I just say this story has been so long, It’s been so crazy it’s been so wonderful. I stopped by thanking the crazy Africans who followed me to this country.

David Kibuka, Joseph Opiel, thank you so much, David Meyer, my partner crime, and then the writers and the team, Roywood Junior from the very beginning, Jordan Kleppo, who’s flight got canceled, the showrunner of Jen Flans, this woman rode with me through the trenches. Thank you so much to the team, to everyone who gave us an opportunity, and honestly the person I always think because he’s just a crazy genius for think of it. Hey, John Stewart, where where are you are? My friend? Thank you for calling me up, thank you for asking me to come and join you on this crazy journey.

And thank you to everybody else in this category. Thank you to these people. We did it, baby, we did it. It was really good to see Roy Wood Junior on stage behind him. The award was presented by the crew from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Rob mclaney had cracked me up.

Around eight oh five or so, he tweeted a picture where you saw Rob at the Emmys holding a phone watching the Eagles game. And the caption was something along the lines of who scheduled the Emmys up against an Eagles playoff game. Winner of Best Comedy Series, Abbot Elementary Quinton Brunson wins Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Jeremy Allen White Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

Also, there was a scene where the cast of Cheers reunited, Ted danceen Ria Pe…

Some wondered why Shelley Long wasn’t there. I don’t know.

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Meanwhile, over the weekend, the Critics Choice Awards Best Comedy nominees A…

The nominees Abbots, Barry Missus, masl Poker Face, Reservation Dog, Shrinking on Apple TV. What We Do in the Shadows the winner The Bear Best Actor in a Comedy Series. The nominees Hater Steve Martin Kevin Novak for What We Do in the Shadows, Drew Chart for the other two tofarow Woonna’s high for Reservation Dogs. The winner Jeremy Allen White for The Bear. Best Actress in a Comedy Series the nominees Rachel Brosnahan for Mazel, Quinta Brunson for Abbott, Bridget Everett for Somebody Somewhere That’s on HBO Max Max Max Max HBO HBO Max, Tovary Jacobs for Reservation Dogs, and Natasha Leone for poker Face.

The winner, io at a Berry for The Bear, The Bear Sweeping a Lot of things here. Best Talk Show the nominees The Graham Norton Show on BBC America. I didn’t even realize they were still showing that Jimmy Kimmel, The Kelly Clarkson Show, seth Colbert the winner, John Oliver. Best Comedy Special the nominees Berbiglia for The Old Man of the Pool, Alex Borstein for Corsets and clown Suits. John Early is now more than ever.

Trevor Noah, Where was I Wanda Sykes, I’m an entertainer. Trevor should have won, but the winner was John Mulini’s Baby Jay. The host of the Critics’ Choice Awards was Chelsea Handler, the ex girlfriend of Joe Coy. She told a joke that got some laughs and said thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.

Chelsea and Joe dated for one year between September twenty one and June of twenty two.

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Meanwhile, Joe Coy himself was back on stage in Saint Louis.

He was greeted with a lot of applause, and he went, holyes right, this big hug that he gave me is all I need, swear to God effing whirlwind. Prior to his arrival on stage, the report says, the crowd had been warned, no heckling, you were interrupting the show for everyone. Just don’t do it. Heckler’s will be removed from the venue. Coy addressed the Golden globes and said, lots of marshmallows.

Man, They’re delicious, but they’re soft. I just came from a different time. I see the changes that are happening. I get it, But can we effing laugh at ourselves. One spectator, who apparently didn’t need the warning, yelled out fham on Netflix today Dusty Slay’s new special working Man.

I think Dusty is fantastic. I hope the special is as good as I hope, and I hope you check it out and enjoy it as well, Taylor Tominson’s and it’s not at Midnight After Midnight. The new title of that show After Midnight debuts tonight. Jason Zinneman, who writes for The New York Times, apparently followed her for ten months. He spoke to Dustin Nickerson, a friend of Taylor Tomlinson, and said, if you want to make yourself feel sad, compare your career to Taylor’s.

Watching her this past year has been watching someone become a celebrity. Hannah Einbender described Taylor as the voice of our generation and then and this is going to keep happening because of the first name and their relative ages, before calling her the Taylor Swift of comedy. It’s such a lazy thing to do. I get it, her name’s Taylor, but like really, she talks about universal experiences, relationships, love, but in a new way. She’s the most of off comic out there.

She’s for everyone. Mind Bender pause and said it’s hard to be for everyone. Nickerson said that Taylor’s the kind of person who wants to get invited to the party but won’t attend. When asked when she’s happiness, he molded over and said, when she’s making a connection with one person. I did watch Kevin Hart’s Lift.

I think the reviews were unfair about it not being funny. It’s not trying to be funny. It’s Kevin Hart basically saying I want to be Vin Diesel and make a fast movie. It’s a heist. There are definitely some aspects that seem a little convenient and unrealistic.

I mean, he’s got this super team that can I don’t want to spoil it, but they’ve got some magic gadgets that are just so impressive. But it was watchable. I told a couple of people to watch it. Not amazing, it’s fine. If they make heist too, I’ll watch it.

It’s you know. In Netflix movie Honeymooner’s actor Joyce Randolph, who played Tricksy, passed away over the weekend. Age ninety nine Natural Causes. Jeff Dunham has announced his eleventh special, this one called I’m With Cupid. It’ll be OUs February third, John, What do you think of the title?

It will be February, John, Really, what did you think of the title? Bushwhacking their way through the topics of love, relationships and all things Valentine’s in the special are Jeff Dunham and his beloved dummy Corportz, Walter Bubba, j Panuts, Jose Halipano and he suspiciously familiar new guy Achmedes, Greek god of keeler love. Here’s a clip you I’m Walter, damn it. How’s your first dake? Go clean?

Dues in the lac seat of the car, your car on the squad car. Jeffs Donham said, if you hate Valentine’s Day, you’re really going to hate this special. Watch it with someone you love or alone with someone you hate with a beer. This was filmed in Tampa. It is the third and a three special deal with Comedy Central.

I wonder if Comedy Central will keep pumping out specials or if this is just a relic from a previous regime. If you’re in a Jeff Done A mood, they’ll show all over the map at eleven o’clock on the nineteenth, then Unhinged in Hollywood on the twenty sixth at eleven, and Jeff Done on Me the People on February second at eleven. Not sure how comedy this is, but it’s amusing. There was an auction for the props from Succession. You may recall, there’s an episode where cousin Greg brings his girlfriend Bridget to a party.

She’s not really accepted. Tom says it’s because she brought a ludicrously capacious bag. Greg. It’s mantros, it’s gargantua, and you could take it camping. The bag inspired an Internet meme and now was auction off for eighteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

A costume warned by cousin Greg in the first season that of a goofy knockoff mascot for the Roy’s family theme parks went for seven eight hundred change. You could have also been on the dead Scorpion paperweight, fake Forbes and New York Magazine covers with Roy family members, and a framed ATN News poster. The most expensive item the pink index cards from Roman Roy’s eulogy of his father. Those won for twenty five thousand dollars. Really, Twitter is having some fun with Kat Williams.

One person wrote, Shannon Sharp and Ocho talking Cat Williams claim that he can run a sub four five forty sprint is the comedy sketch of the year. The length of a basketball court is less than thirty two yards. To prove Kat’s claim, R and B icon Lil Moe posted a video on her Instagram page showing Cat Williams run from one side of a basketball court to another at two am. One person wrote, while a basketball court is actually only thirty yards, he runs way faster than I thought. Evan Hart made a related comment, not about that video, but this is about Cat Williams.

He said, you don’t entertain the circus. You watch it when a lion comes out and rides the bike. You don’t think about it too hard. You just go, Okay, that’s crazy, the lion’s riding a bike, and then you go home and enjoy the rest of your day. Just for laughs.

And CBC have Russell Peters Irresponsible Ensemble, an eight episodes stand up series featuring Russell Peters alongside a fresh lineup of comics. Each week. You’ll find that on the CBC Tuesdays at ten thirty pm. In the UK, Radio four announced a bunch of new comedy shows, among them one of my favorites, Phil Wang. Phil and Susie Dent will challenge guests to help create the new Ultimate Dictionary on Unspeakable that’ll layer on February eighteenth, and Randy Feldface, who’s a puppet, has a new series about what we can do to speed up climate change and bring a sweet end to life on Earth as we know it.

That is funny. You can find Randy videos on YouTube if you hunt around. I say it like it’s hidden. Go to YouTube and type in Randy Fildface. It’s not like you have to go be Indiana Jones to find this thing.

It’s not hidden, but there’s a bunch of the videos up there. They are fun. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, buy me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna go to the smooth Place.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Quick note, I may possibly on Tuesday put the episode out a little bit later so I can talk about the Emmys at the beginning. If I do that, it’ll be out probably by eight am Eastern. Usually it comes out of three am Eastern.

The Emmys are tonight. Anthony Anderson is your host. Comedy Wise, the nominees for Actor in a Comedy Series are Bill Hayter for Barry, Jason Siegel for Shrinking, Martin Short Only Murders, Sadeikas, Ted Lasso, Jeremy Allen White, The Bear. Everybody seems to be on a bear kick hm. Is it the Year of the Bear?

Or will they give Hayter really deserves it, though, We’ll see Actress in a Comedy Series Christina Applegate, Dead to Me, Rachel Brosnahan, Missus Masel, Quinta Brunson, Abbott, Natasha Leone, Poker Faced, Jenna Ortega Wednesday, Quinta Brunson will probably win that one. Is My guest and talk series Trevor Kimmel, Seth Colbert on Stewart and Yes, It’s The Daily Show with Trevor nominated. Didn’t he leave like in January? Last? When did he leave?

Trevor left in December of twenty twenty two. These are the twenty twenty three Emmys The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Please give it to that so it can be completely absurd. Nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series Abbot, Elementary, Barry The Bear, Jury Duty, Missus Masel, Murders Lasso Wednesday. Hmmm, Abbit’s gonna win that one.

From Car scoops Your Home for Comedy News, Jerry Seinfeld sold his car for one hundred and sixty four thousand dollars. Jerry only revealed that he owned the car the day before the auction ended. This is the nineteen ninety six portion nine to eleven that Jerry Seinfeld drove to his show, twenty six thousand miles on it for a nineteen ninety six car. That’s impressive. Nowhere on the auction page was it listed that the car belonged to Jerry, a decision that he implied was intentional, but apparently Jerry went on Spike’s Car Radio podcast and said, this is the car that I would drive to work when I was doing the series in the nineties.

So if you’re a fan of the show and you want portion memorabilia for the show, this would be the piece. Spike’s Car Radio is a show. Let me see, Oh, Spike is gonna be I’m typing as I talk. Spike’s gonna be Spike Fernst, then his friend Yep. Spike firston Cars, Coffee and Comedy, hosted by comedian and automotive enthusiast Spike Ferriston and featuring Jerry Seinfeld and some others.

Let’s see. The Jerry episode came out a few days ago. Reggie Watts was on in January. It’s three hundred and forty episodes of this. All right, I’m gonna check this out.

Spike’s Car Radio is the name of that one. Jerry explains that after buying the car new, he drove it to the set of Seinfeld every day from ninety six to ninety eight. Those were the show’s final three seasons. Jerry added at the target Top, which was frequently cited as the source of issues by owners, presented no problems for him in his time with the car. The only concernive notice that the front fenders and the fuel door show evidence of paintwork.

It’s unclear why Jerry sold that car. He said he sold seven cars last year and he teased that’ll be selling five cars this year. Hmmm, looks like Conan O’Brien is finally filming that travel show for Max HBO Max Max Max Hbo Hbohbo Max. Conan was in Ireland visiting where his great grandfather lived before great granddad emigrated in the late eighteen seventies. Conan shared some video and let’s listen, this is pretty cool.

I’m just outside the town of Galbali and this is where my great grandfather, Thomas O’Brien lived. This was actually his view and he left his peace of land, came to America with Central Massachusetts and all the rest is a disaster, but anyway, cool to be back.

Speaking of traveling, Trevor Noah caught up with Sean Traveler.

He said he was really excited about Paris. I’d spent my whole life wanting to go to Paris and finally went for the first time a few years ago. I’ve been dying to go back and do shows since, and I’ve always want to do comedy Japan, so that was on my bucket list as well, right now and selfishly traveling back to the places I enjoy. I’ll travel anyway just to go and have one of my favorite dishes, see one of my favorite sites, or hanging out with some of my favorite people. Seeing Traveler was curious how he adapts his work for different audiences, like a joke that works in Tokyo might not work in London.

Dreffor said, to be honest with you, that’s the joy and curse of doing stand up all over the world. I think a lot of my audiences have come to know me as a comedian who caters the show to them when I visit. So if you see my show in London, then you see my show in Scotland. It’s completely different. There may be a few things that overlap, but I really try and cater to the place I’m in.

It’s hard. I try, and I do my best to understand all the cultural nuances. But comedy is all about context, and if you don’t have the context, you might find the joke doesn’t go the way you want to. It’s a tightrope walk and I think that’s what makes stand up comedy fun. Live audiences understand that travel always makes me aware that there’s no one way to be There’s no one correct answer to every problem in life.

You go from one country to the next, and people drive on the other side of the road, and they’re traveling on the other side of the car. They’re eating their meals at different times, in different orders. They speak to each other in different tones and different ways. Traveling is a wonderful way to realize even though you’ve been brought up thinking there’s one way to do things, there are actually many other ways that are just as valid. Jenny Slat has a new stand up special coming out in February.

It is called Season Professional. You’ll find it on Prime Video with the New Hour. Jenny Slat hopes to prove that being brave for love is worth it, even when it comes to pushing out a baby, stalking your therapist, or comedy rule of three, trusting your partner to not destroy you. There is a clip available, but she swears a lot and I couldn’t make it work enough to cut up the whole thing, so I won’t do that. Paul Sheer has a new book.

It is called Joyful Recollections of Trauma. It’s about quote Paul’s often shocking, admittedly messed up childhood and how the experiences of his youth have reverberated throughout his life. Paul has always been unafraid to go there to play naive, cringeworthy characters and viewing them with a disarming charm in humanity that during openness is on display in the pages of this memoir. Nothing’s off limits, from reckoning with his stepfather’s alcoholism, finding self acceptance, to becoming a good father himself. Dennis Miller has a new gig for Fox Nation.

He’ll be the host of The Infomercials That Solda, a nostalgic and poignant look back at the years when infomercials ruled late night TV, featuring interviews with the colorful characters who made these ads so entertaining. Dennis says, I’m very proud to be part of this project. It’s easy to dismiss the Willie Lowmans who hawk products on late night TV is nothing more than easy punch lines, but the infomercials that sold us shows the humanity of these pitch people came from nothing, norm with self belief and perhaps a fine mop made themselves wealthy and famous. It’s the ultimate American success story. Three episodes.

Ester Pivitsky will star in a new comedy film called drug Store June. The log line after the pharmacy in her small town is robbed, a girl who still lives at home with her parents takes matters into her own hands to solve the crime. Well at the same time trying to get over ex boyfriend become more of an adult. Why are mentioning this? Johnny Mack while Esther’s a comedian, so our co stars Bobby Lee, Matt Walsh, Christina p and Al Madrigal Okay, Bill Burn Al Matricol are the executive producers on this.

And I saw a note in an interview with pe Corielli with The Independent Rhode Island. Pete mentioned I’m going to be heading out on a tour with Sebastian Menascalco as well in twenty twenty four, and we’ve been talking about doing a bit of a reality show on our own based on being out in the road. Interesting. That would be cool. Piete’s a good guy.

Worked with him for seventy eight years Natural Comedy News for Today. Like I mentioned, I may or may not put out Tuesday’s episode a few hours later, but I will be here see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media CBS profile Taylor Thomlinson. Now, I live in a world where many things can be concurrently true at once. On the one hand, Taylor Thomlinson is wonderfully funny, super talented, going to be a great host of After Midnight, and a comedian you should pay attention to.

Also, what could be concurrently true is After Midnight airs on CBS, which ki…

If you’re familiar with Tomlinson’s story so far, she retold her for the CBS crowd and said, I grew up super sheltered and very Christian. I didn’t even really know what stand up wasn’t until like middle school. All my jokes have really been rooted in my real life. When I first started, obviously I was very clean. I was sixteen years old, very sheltered.

I mean I hadn’t dated, I had had sex, I hadn’t done much of anything, and so I think the jokes I were doing were probably a pretty observational and be very self deprecating, probably to like a point where it might have been a little sad. Actually, Taylor lost her mother to cancer at the age of eights and says, I started writing jokes about losing my mom when I was much younger, but they were very like hit or miss as far as how often they would work, because I was doing them, you know, on sunset Friday night, and everybody was like, we’re kind of here trying to get laid. As for the new gig, she says, the thing I’m most nervous about is the social aspect of it and how many people I’m going to be interacting with, because that’s a skill. It doesn’t come to me naturally. But again, I feel like I’m in a place now where it’s something that I’m better at and want to continue to keep getting better at, and it’s the thing I’m most nervous about.

Really Enough After Midnight premiere is Tuesday. She also has a new special coming out on Netflix, Taylor Tomlinson’s Haven’t All That’ll be out February thirteenth, Esquire profiled Gary Gulman. Gary had the best special of twenty twenty three. In my opinion, Their mind is that about five years ago Gary turned himself into something of a Twitter comedy guru. On the morning of December thirty, first, twenty eighteen, he was having coffee with his wife and he posed the question, what do you think people do if I offered a comedy tip every day next year.

She liked the idea, so he tweeted out he was going to do it, and then for three hundred and sixty six consecutive days, Gary came up with fresh pieces of advice and every once in a while strong opinions about what not to do as a comedian. The first tip January first, twenty nineteen was record every set the hard part. Listen to it and transcribe everything you want to say. Again, it’s sometimes depressing, but it gets you to do the hardest part, which is to sit down and writes. Usually you’ll think of something to add or change.

This works for me. That is great advice. Gary Goldman. Tip number six is that words with the sound buff uh and cus, especially at the beginning end, or funnier. No one knows why Buick is funnier than Nissan.

I learned this early. I assumed everyone new. They don’t. Kathleen Madigan spoke to Tulsa World and said, my dad didn’t know I was left handed until I was fifty two. That gives you an idea of what I’m talking about.

We were fishing and he’s like, why do you keep doing that? Why do you keep switching hands like that? And I go because it’s a right handed reel, and he goes, you’re left handed, and I’m like, yeah, since the day we met. He says, well, you golf right handed, and I said, because I didn’t want to learn how to golf, and you said, use the clubs in the garage, so I used my brother’s clubs. Kathleen says that her parents didn’t take the comedy thing seriously.

I was only twenty three when I left for the road, maybe twenty two, I don’t really remember. I was like, I’ll give it five years. If it doesn’t work, I’m sure at twenty seven I can regroup. It’s not like I’m forty seven. I’m gonna quit a good job.

I probably made thirty eight grand a year at that magazine, and I still bartended for real money. I made way more money boardtending. As we’re making comedy a career. Kathleen says, like, yes, I probably thought when I was making more than my rent comfortably, I thought, okay, this is good, and I could do the clubs till you know, whenever I’m sixty, and then I could go work at a bar, t’ll sixty five and get on social Security and stuff. I mean, I really looked at it like a job.

A friend always looks at it like it’s art. I’m just too Midwest and too practical for that. I’m like, no, still a job, and you still have to have enough money to make a living. When you’re making two fifty a week as an opening act, that’s not a living, that’s a hobby that brings you beer money. So I think once I got to the point where I had the whole year booked out in front of me, and I knew the money was decent enough for me, I thought, Okay, this is cool.

Thels A World asked Kathleen. Is there an art to picking an opening act? She said, I don’t think there’s an art to it, but there’s a sensibility about it. You have to be practical. There’s one guy I really like, but he’s not right for my audiences.

And the better he gets, the more he’s not right right for them. He can get political and challenging and all that. I pick the good time Charlie’s the ones that are just silly and funny, and I really work hard at picking good openers. I’ve had that discussion with other comedians where they’re like, I don’t care omens, and I’m like, I care because A these people pay and they shouldn’t be forced to sit here and listen to somebody that’s inappropriate or not funny, and b it sets the tone. Pete Holmes got very introspective when speaking to Collider.

Pete said, becoming a parent is a death, and I mean that in a good way. It’s a change, especially for a woman who really goes through that physical transformation. The part of you that’s not a parent goes away, and then the part of you that’s a parent arrives just as suddenly as the other one left, and it’s a transformation. The way that I’ve sort of thought about it is way more interesting. It’s deeply healthy, especially for comedian whose job is to sort of display as wares of personality and his thoughts and his feelings and stuff.

Left unchecked, you could become like a gollum. I thought I was the star of the movie, like most of us do in our youth. It’s a movie about you. It fades in every morning when you wake up, it fades to the credits every night when you go to bed. When you have a baby, you’re like, oh no, I’m a supporting character.

The movie didn’t even start until Lila was born. There’s a line in the movie Interstellar that says, as a parent, it’s your job to become the memories of your child. That is a great line. Pete continued, I don’t mean to disparage anyone else’s comedy, but the comedians that have kids, or that have something outside of themselves, even if it’s not a child, that’s very important consuming for them. I prefer that to jokes about weed and Xbox.

That’s just gonna be a preference I have. In my forties, Samuel spoke to the pitt News and they asked him if he had any memories of Pittsburgh, and sam said, one that definitely sticks out to me is that had a morning show appearance where I really I’ve never ticked off a morning show that much of my life. I was on two hours of sleep and I was in kind of mood. They asked me, so, have you always been funny? And I said, with a straight face, no.

As a young kid, my uncle was funny, and he molested me. Then I was funny. It was like Spider Man. I delivered that line very straight faced. They didn’t know what to do with it.

They kind of froze because it was live TV, and I think he said something like, Okay, I don’t know what to do with that. Tips for up and coming comedians from Sam Morrel Live, try to live and try to have experiences. Write constantly. You need to constantly write and constantly try to get on stage if you want stand up. When I started, there wasn’t TikTok.

At the risk of sounding old as hell, I was sending comedy clubs, VHS’s and DVDs to get booked, which took a long time. Holy crap, I’m not that old, but I guess I am. What it’s say is maybe you’re good on one of those or on TikTok or Instagram, and you’re good at sketches or jokes. The world is there for you to make jokes at if you want to pursue this. I once heard Bill Burr say, be careful posting your first few sets on social media, because do any of us want to see de Niro’s first audition.

It kind of kills the mistique of de Niro. The New York Times spoke to Susi Eddie Azart about her getting into politics. The conversation went here, with his Art saying comedy is not a good political weapon. There are people doing anti trans comedy, maybe because they would have laid into other areas and now they’re feeling it’s a fair game to attack trans people. I don’t know why.

So they asked Eddie about Dave Chappelle. The answer, I don’t want to get into a scrap. I think Dave is very talented, and I’ve met him and when we met and it was great. The Times asked Chapelle said, I’m curious how you understand that material. There are a lot of people doing anti gay men and anti lesbian woman material at the moment, Eddie said, not so much.

I don’t think. Twenty years ago, yeah, before marriage, there was a lot of oh my god, we’ve gone to with a tipping point. When I came out in eighty five, how many discussions, how many jokes were there about being trans? None? Now the discussions are happening.

It’s interesting why some people just say trans not just LGBTQ. Plus it’s quite a wide arena, and they’re just concentrating on one part of it. It’s sad that people feel they want to attack it. Why not attack power groups rather than vulnerable people. Some people like to do that.

You de spare about the little parts of humanity, but most of humanity is good. I knew I was transgender when I was five, and I didn’t tell anyone for a long time. Think of the negative mental health I came out of twenty three, Think of the positive mental health since then. It’s a good thing. Be honest, be open, let’s talk about it.

I didn’t notice that the Times referred to the comedian as Eddie in this one. I believe that she’s going by Susie these days, and I know why I went back and forth there. Her website is eddie azor dot com. So that said, the last time that that website was updated was December of twenty twenty, so I don’t know. Mindy Rickles talked about her dad, Don Rickles legacy with the National Comedy Center.

Mindy says Don was a very loving dad. He never insulted us, and he started something with this insult humor, but it was always done in a way that was kind in his act, he always sang a song I’m a nice guy to show the audience that even though he was insulting them, it was done with warmth and a little bit of kidding in it. He always made a joke keep my name alive, Mindy, So this definitely does that. Meaning the Don Rickles exhibit at the Comedy Center, just to know his memory is alive for my kids and their kids to come and the fans. I mean, I’m so happy for the fans they’ll be able to go and see something like that.

Mindy says there’s a YouTube channel called at Don Rickles featuring some of her dad’s shows. I didn’t know that. That’s cool. And if you can’t be bothered to go to comedy club, what if the comedian comes to you. Howie Wayfish is the founder of House Calls of Comedy.

Customers can hire comedians. They’ll come directly to your home. No occasion is off limits. Comedians will venture out to perform at country clubs, wineries, dispensaries, charity events, holiday parties, birthdays, and small gatherings. How He says, if a client asked, they’ll even do comedy at the foot of someone’s bed.

This will run you between seven hundred and fifty to one thousand dollars, but how he says, I’m always negotiable. We’ll perform wherever the setting is. You can eat your breakfast and we’ll give you some laughs. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I mentioned yesterday I’m trying to get into a celebrity beef with Taylor Swift, Pat McAfee or Kat Williams, or perhaps all three. I just asked the chat cheetpt to write a joke about all three of them. It’s pretty good, and Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The joke, Taylor Swift, Pat McAfee, and Kat Williams walk into a bar.

Taylor says she’ll sink for their drinks. Bad offers to commentate the performance, and Kat says he’ll add some punchlines. The bartender looks at them and says that’s nice, But who’s paying the tab? And Taylor says, don’t worry. We’ll just shake it off.

You can icce me all you want, Taylor, just make sure you get the podcast name right. Some good jokes from Late Nights the topic former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial. The judge had initially denied Trump’s request to speak during the closing arguments. Stephen Colbert said, but as twenty seven women can tell you, Trump doesn’t take no for an answer. Ouch.

Another one from Fallon, Yeah, the judge let Trump speak on the condition that he sticked to the law in facts, two things that people on trial for fraud are famously great at. The LA Times caught up with Joe Koy. They found him in his office in the Studio City, and they mentioned that his space has a top of the line recording studio and mini stage set with his logo on it. It’s a space designed to help JOKOI prep his material as well as develop new comics. He hopes to make it a space where you can give back to the community.

Joekoi said, I want people that are coming up struggling right now to be able to go to a venue that’s sick. I used to do coffee houses, and I just remember how I would ate going there because it’s like trying to tell the punchline and this mother effort is grinding coffee grounds during my punchline or washing dishes. I don’t know, what are you gonna do. You’re gonna go to Joekoy’s office and work out material. Don’t you need an audience?

I don’t know. I’m not a comedian. Joe Koy was talking about the Golden Globes and said we were still riding it up until they said, we’re live absolute cold reads. Never got a chance to work out anything. And this is not an excuse.

I’m just trying to paint the picture because I don’t think people understand in any situation, how is that geared towards winning. If you were to write that situation down on a piece of paper and go, do you want to do this? I guarantee everyone would be like no. I’m happy I did because I accept that challenge. I’ll host the Golden Globes.

I won’t even prep I’ll just show up and read the cue cards and you guys can make fun of me. Let me know, call me. The La Times asked Joe Cooy what grade would you give your performance? Joe said, I think I did well given the circumstances. I don’t want to give myself a rating because that’s subjective.

You can give me whatever rating you want. I’m going to give myself an A plus. I thought you just said you don’t want to give yourself a rating. I’m going to give myself an A plus, just based on the courage to do it. Courage is a little strong there, my friend.

I’m going to hit it over the head a million times. Whoever you could think in your head that could have done it. I’m telling you right now, they said no, and I didn’t. I looked at it in a different light. The history of the show’s eighty one years.

That’s eighty one hosts, and some repeated I’m the first Asian to ever solo host. It’s twenty twenty four. I’m the first out of eighty one years. Sandra Oh was the first co host, but I was the first solo host. Imagine if someone said yes before me, would still be at the eighty second Golden Globes.

I still no Asian as a solo host. So if I didn’t say yes, there still would have never been. La Times said there was a sense that you threw the writers under the bus. Joe said, I love my writers. I love all three of them, and I shouted them out and I told them there was a moment right there where I’m just grasping I love them and I can’t stop talking about them.

In every interview. They busted their behinds. Man, there’s a lot of greats that make rookie moves. That was a rookie move. Those writers are dope, and that was not my intention at all.

They were amazing they had my back and I need to make sure I fix that, and I will. I always will. It’s so crazy because the day before we’re all sitting right here is the first time we all met in person. Wait, the first time he met the writers was the day before. Nah, one time.

That’s all we had. It was the most insane thing, and all we did was just sit and go over it. And you know, there’s suggestions. I went up on my stage here at my office and just verbally ran through it. But it was running through our group.

Of course we’re gonna laugh at it. Yeah, that’s what I was saying before, about you’re gonna go to Joe Coy’s office and work out your material. How’s that gonna work? It’s honest feedback for us. But I didn’t get to run it on stage anywhere I your office play might be flowed, Joe Cooy, listen to yourself.

I didn’t get anywhere where I could just sneak these things in. That’s what it’s all about. It’s working things out. So given the circumstances, that’s what I had to go through, and that’s fine. Next question, during your monologue, what was the joke you thought would land and it didn’t.

Joe Coy said, I didn’t understand the Taylor Swift tiff, mind you, that one was just getting rewritten fifty million times. Never ran through it all the way till we had to walk out. It’s just weird. Where do you place it? And we kept hairing it and cutting it down.

But the whole intention of that joke was to make fun of the NFL. It’s like, the cool thing about the Golden Globes is we don’t need to do cutaways for ratings. Actually, if you had cut away to the football games, I was watching the football game that night, that might have helped. What hurts the most is me just supporting Tailor. I support her, I love her work.

I got nieces that I bought tickets for. There’s no ill intent in that joke. The joke’s about the NFL and how they keep using cutaways to her. I agree with Jokoy there. You’ve heard me talk about that all week, and it’s an obvious reason why I’m not saying anything that no one’s saying.

And it’s obvious what the joke was. It’s about the NFL. It’s like, out of everything that’s happened, this is the one you choose to go after. I didn’t understand why, because it was fun. When I walked out, Robert Danier was dying and I’m looking at him.

His wife was smacking’s back and smiling and laughing, and he was laughing. And when I did the whole thing about him being eighty, he loved it, and that was fun. I was like, this guy’s so much fun.

And then I did the Taylor Swift joke, and I’m like, what just happened?

Yes, That’s why I titled an episode earlier this week something along the lines of did Taylor Swift just murder Joe Koy’s career? Joe Coy continued, then, just the reaction of the Barbie choke, the things that are being said, It’s like, man, I don’t understand who I am as a person. You know what I mean, because if you’ve ever seen me, you’ll see just how much I praise and shine light on women, from my ex wife to my mom. That is true for every interview I’ve ever seen with the guy. My whole goal is to try and change that type of narrative, just to that look of being part of a divorce family.

I’m telling a joke what happened to society when we can’t even joke with each other anymore? I bought that movie. I supported the movie. Yes, that’s the story that the doll needed. And I’m glad because now there’s people that look like my mom that can support that.

Boy. He sounds damaged. Some other comedians were discussing Joe Coy. Laurie Kilmartin tweeted, this is a terrible job. This audience sucks.

They’re famous, nervous, and humorless. In ten days is generally not enough time to write about five hundred jokes, which is how many you need to find fifteen suitable jokes. Comedian Eliza Skinner told The Rap she’s right, if not lowballing it a little. It’s a wildly specific crowd, huge celebrities that are braced to be roasted on camera. You could see it on their faces.

They’re like, oh what now as soon as they’re on camera. Comedian Lee Cohen went on TikTok and did her version of what the monologue would have been. According to Lee Cohen, she would have went with Taylor Swift is here tonight, which means the property value this building just increased by ten trillion. Dollars. I think we all need to leave within the next five minutes or will legally be declared squatters.

All right, I took up the challenge and had the chat chept write a joke, and I think this one’s pretty good for the Pro Bowl. I heard the NFL is considering implementing a Taylor Swift Challenge, where teams compete to see who can get the most camera time from Taylor during a game. I also like this one. We were gonna invite Tom Brady the Golden Globes just to mess with Taylor, and then I asked it to go a little snirkier. This is probably too mean for the room, but not bad.

I heard track us Kelsey isn’t tuning into the Golden Globes. He’s afraid to see if Taylor Swift would finally win an award for Best Breakup Song inspired by an NFL player, Kevin Hart commented on the awards. He spoke to Sky News He’s not doing it. Told you about this yesterday, but he spoke a little more and said, whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now. Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics.

It’s no shots of the oscars, no shots of the globes or anything else. Those just aren’t comedy friendly environments anymore. I think they got it right one year where it was just like a bunch of personalities acting as the host. And that’s a nice thing. It’s a collaborative thing, different people getting to be responsible for aque, Act two, Act three.

But you know, the days of it being a room for comic, those days are done. Shout out to those who have cracked the code and done it right early on. You know, the Chris Rocks of the world, the Billy Crystal’s of the world, the girls we’ve had like Tina Fey, Amy Polar, Ricky Travas. I didn’t misread that. The girls we’ve had like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ricky Terva’s okay.

There’s a lot of people that understand that if you’re not an industry comic, meaning a comic that has the relationships of all and these rooms are very cold, so me doing it is of course, I had an advantage because I know the room and for me, I’m familiar with so many, But for others it’s not the same. It’s not the gig it was of old it’s too much pressure on the idea of a comic and what jokes and not jokes? So it’s tough. Collider reviewed Lift. That’s Kevin’s new Netflix movie.

I was planning on watching it on Friday night. Their headline’s pretty harsh. Hey, Kevin Hart’s pretty funny, right, wouldn’t it be great if we made a movie where he wasn’t ouch? They wrote. Kevin Hart is funny.

Even if you don’t particularly like him, you have to admit that, at the very least, he is sharp comedic timing, which is of course essential for anyone telling jokes. So why would the new Netflix action comedy movie Lift make him the only serious character and delegate the comic relief role that everyone but him. On the off chance that this was a great or at least unexpected idea, it would need a tremendous amount of work to make sense. This is far from the case here who I watched Pete Davidson special at least about ten minutes of it. It’s not good.

That’s my review. It’s not good. That’s all you need to know. As I watched it, I it sounds to me like somebody added some laughter. I programs comedy radio at Serious XM and had the radio on twelve hours a day, five days a week for a decade.

And I know what the rhythms of a comedy crowd sounded like, and this just sounded like the audience was laughing a heck of a lot. Pete.

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Also, it’s in black and white.

Why Happy Days turns fifty on Monday, And there’s something called the Catchy Comedy Network, and they wanted your attention when it worked on me. They’re featuring eighty six back to back episodes. Their marathon starts at eleven am today and continues until six am on Monday. Then you can watch Happy Days every day at two thirty Eastern on whatever catchy comedy network is. Lavernon Shirley airs at two o’clock, so it’s a nice little hour of retro TV there.

Aprigancy’s in Cincinnati tonight. City Beat asked Nate’s what kind of stuff he grew up on with comedy whyse and Nate said, yeah, Saturday Night Live was big, especially in my high school years with Adam Sandler, David Spade and Chris Forourley and then Will Ferrell. So yes, and I’ll definitely stand Up, Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, Sinbad, the ones that were clean I could listen to. I wasn’t able to watch Eddie Murphy special, so I just end up watching the clean things. Would do some Bob Newhart, Andy Griffith, a lot of stuff like that.

They were curious did he have any mentors coming up and stand up, and Nate said, there’s been many. Jimmy Fallons saw me at a comedy club in New York, and so our relationship kind of began there and it’s continued for ten years now with going on a show. I talked to Seinfeld now too, so it’s nice to get to talk to some of those guys that has done this stuff before me and just learn just to hear some stories and learn from it. Nate, do you have any interest in becoming an actor? Nate said, I’d like to.

Trying to figure out a few things now and kind of seeing where it goes. This tour has been a very big tour, so it’s just finding time to be able to do something like that. I definitely do. I definitely want to create some stuff outside of just pure straight stand up. They’ll do stand up forever.

Being able to create this stuff. We’ll kind of live on. That’s the plan. I’d like to try and shoot some stuff in Nashville so I could be home and Nashville’s exploding. They asked if he has any news he wants to drop, and Nate said, yeah, I’m doing Forrest Gump too.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash daily company news. I’m going to take your money and now I’m gonna drive right past the donuts chain. They be getting my order wrong.

I’m going to the smoothie Place, still looking for a clever name for the smoothie place, and I’m going to get a peanut butter. What is it? I don’t know what they called it, but it’s peanut butter and chocolate in the end, delicious. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media another busy one. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Just before is about to record the People’s Choice Awards put out their nominees. I’ll get to that towards the end of the first half. Here.

Bill Burr announced the annual Patrise O’Neill Benefit Concert. It’s the eleventh annual a night of stand up comedy to honor the memory of Patrise O’Neil. This year’s performers Bill Burr, Michael Jay, Tim Dillon, Who’s Great, Marcelo Hernandez, Bonnie McFarland, Sean Patton, Robert Powell, the Third, Cipha Sounds, and Rich v Oz. They’re really going out of their way to let you know. The event will be a phone free experience.

Use of cell phone, smart watches, smart accessories, cameras or recording devices will not be permitted inside the theater. The website says, on November twenty ninth, twenty eleven, one of the greatest stand up comics of all time passed away. If you never saw him live, the genius of Patrise O’Neil is not something that can be described. He was beyond a comics comic and this next sentence makes me laugh. They write, for anyone who ever met him, I’ll raise my hand, saw him perform, or was on the receiving end of his signature trash talking, I’ll raise my hand.

We’re simply past him on the street. It was an experience you would never forget. I agree, as I’ve said on the podcast before, I like his comedy. I did not enjoy the time I spent with the man. He just would never turn it off.

He could walk in and be hello, and he would come right at you. It was like, dude, I’m just trying to work. Kevin Hart’s got a new film out today on Netflix. It is called Lift. The stories centers on the realistically named Cyrus Whittaker played by Kevin Hurt.

Cyrus Whittaker is the leader of an international heightst team who gets enlisted to steal five hundred million dollars in gold from a mid air passenger plane before the fortune ends up in the wrong hands. That sounds like fun. That could be a good thing, right, Kevin Hart told Entertainment tonight. For this movie, it’s a stunt filled role, and he thinks he was in the best shape of his life. I was probably at four percent body fat through the course of this movie.

I wonder if he texted that to Harry Ford. It’s like, yo, hair, I’m at four percent body fat. And you know Harrison Ford’s on that group chat I told you about yesterday with Tom Cruise and the Rock. Yeah, they’re all looking at this, and Kevin probably texted them said I was probably at four percent for fat, body fat. Come on, Kevin, I’m not buying that story at all, the body fat.

Sure you were in shape the group text, No way. The director is the same person who did The Fates of the Furious. So that’s fast eight. That’s the one where the Rock drarex a submarine that makes me less hopeful. Plus, Netflix is not known for their quality.

Quantity, yes, quality, not so sure when it comes to the movies. We’ll see Kevin Hart watch it. What else you do? And that’s football this weekend though, all right, And in a surprise appearance, the fourteenth Annual Governor’s Awards whipped out John Mulaney. No one seemed to know this was coming, and suddenly John Mulaney was hosting this thing.

All the various entertainment websites gave mullany good reviews and said maybe it was an audition for hosting the Oscars. You might want to ask Joe Coy if that’s a good idea. There’s a clip. It’s a little long and a little slow, little longer than usually do with the clips. But I think if you just hear John checking and jiving, I think it backs up how tough these rooms are.

Just like I said with Joe Koy, the material John’s doing here is better than what he’s getting back. Let’s listen, ladies and gentlemen, find your tables. We have to be out of here by ten pm. There is a corporate event for some personal injury attorneys coming in. They will be using the same decorations.

Please find your seats, everybody, Let’s all sit down. If you don’t sit down, I’m gonna bring Terrence Howard up here and he’ll explain his new geometry and it’s not fun. Everyone sit down. Let’s do this. Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

It is an honor and a favor to be here. This is a strategic obligation. It is a pleasure to stand here on this temporary stage. For those of you that don’t recognize me from the Tuesday night AA meeting in the Palisades. Name is John Mulaney.

If you don’t know, thank you. That’s very nice. If you don’t know who I am, that’s totally fine. I’m like Lewis Farakahn. I mean a lot to a very small group of people.

You know, It’s such an honor for me to be hosting this. Growing up as a boy, I would always watch the non televised Governor’s Awards, even though they only started fourteen years ago. My family we’d gather in front of the turned off TV. It was the only time I ever saw my dad smile, and I think, someday that’s gonna be me. John’s here has grown out a little bit, little longer.

He looks pretty good. Kelly Carlin has reacted to the George Corlin AI. The media is just running with AI. George Corlin release a special A couple of things. Let’s not just accept that AI George Carlan is a thing that puts out specials.

Also, let’s not use the word special for everything, including a thing that is a computer generator voice speaking, which I meant to bring this up yesterday. The computer generated voices are really good. I have my own voice trained on this podcast, and occasionally if I misspeak, like let’s say, instead of I don’t know, Kevin Hart, I said Billy Hart. I have a program where I can open up a text document and replace where it says Billy Hart and type in Kevin Hart and it’ll generate in more or less my voice Kevin Hart. I use it probably three four times a week on a word here and there, and you probably don’t notice.

The more words I use it for, it starts to fall apart, and my voice will get flatter as it goes along. But for one word, two words, it’s pretty good. And that’s the consumer version. So I can only imagine what the pros have Isaigress. Kelly Carlin posted on Twitter because we’re calling it Twitter, elon, do whatever you want Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, she tweeted, because that’s what we do on Twitter.

My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products or clever attempts to trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again, Let’s let the artist work speak for itself. That we can’t let what has fallen into it. Stay there.

Here’s an idea. How about we give some actual, living human comedians to listen to. But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has fourteen specials that you can find anywhere. She followed that up on Thursday with another tweet, again, thank you all, except for the few who want to tell me that I’m a greedy b word, for your understanding and support with this AIBS. I need to regulate my nervous system a bit after all of this, so I’ll be back tomorrow to say hi and get back to posting other stuff.

Kelly’s a really solid individual. She’s not doing a money grab here. I’ve spent a lot of time with her. She just wants to keep George’s legacy out there and if you dive in the feed. Oh, sometime in the summer of twenty twenty two, I did a lengthy interview with Kelly if you want to check that out.

Joe Coy is still making news and I’m starting hashtag. Johnny mack was right Joy behar joining team. Johnny mack Joy said when Joe Coy made a joke about Taylor Swift, that was a mistake. Because no one laughed and Taylor took a sip I noticed in the moment, which indicated she was not happy with that.

Meanwhile, she needs think it over it.

Also, it’s like, come on, it’s just a joke about how many times we see you on award shows. That’s not what the joke was about. The joke was about how many times we see her in football games. It wasn’t that funny. But you need to play along with the comedian.

Joey Beyhoer feels only a select few or capable of handling award show. She says, Ricky Gervais is the only one. Maybe Steve Martin could do it because he’s part of the community. But if you’re going to have a stand up comedian, they have to be outside the big people, the adults. We have to be the ones who will take no prisoners and say what everyone else is thinking.

They don’t care if you don’t laugh. Ricky Gervais does not give a flying you know what if they don’t laugh and they don’t approve. At one point, I think even blamed his writer, as Johnny Carson never did that when his joke’s bombed. He never said thanks writers. He’s a full responsibility when they got a laugh, and he took it when they bombed, I’ll chime in.

Johnny was also good at getting a laugh at bombing. He would just mug for the camera. He was great at that, all right. The People’s Choice Awards the nominees for the Comedy Act And I’m wondering did the People’s Choice Awards put any effort into this at all or did they just look at who was nominated for a Grammy. The nominees for the Comedy Act People’s Choice Awards are John Mulaney, Baby Jay, Amy Schumer, Emergency Contact, Marlon Wayne’s God Loves Me?

Is this list sound familiar? Wanda Sykes, I’m an Entertainer, Trevor Noah, Off the Record, Kevin Hart, Reality Check, Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love Real quick. I pulled up the Grammy nominations. It is Rock, Silverman, Trevor, Wanda Chappelle. Of course the answer should be Gary Goleman.

But out of this crew, well, it’s civilians who are gonna vote. They’re gonna pick Chris Rock. There’s a category called the Host of the Year. It’s Gordon Ramsey Jimmy Fallon, but not for the Tonight Show. It’s for That’s My Jam, Nick Cannon, Steve Harvey, for Celebrity Family Feud and Terry Crews.

There’s also the Nighttime Talk Show of the Year. The nominees are Heart to Heart. Is that a nighttime talk show? It’s not. It’s a show on Peacock.

But that’s not a late night talk show. That’s something else. But whatever, Jimmy Kimmelive, John Oliver Seth Daily Show, that’d be weird, right, it doesn’t have it a host Stephen Colbert Fallon and watch what happens with Andy Cohen. It’s the civilians who are voting. They’re gonna pick Candy Cohen.

Aaron Rodgers. You may recall you some thoughts about Jimmy Kimmel. Well, he will not be returning to the Pat McAfee show for the remainder of the NFL season. And I’m reading this quote from Pat, Pat, did you throw Aaron Rodgers under the bus? I’ll get into a fight with I’m taking on the Swifties, Pat McAfee and Kevin Hart.

I’ll take you all on at once. And Kat Williams. Kat Williams you’re not funny. I’ll take on all four of them at once. I want some downloads.

Pat McAfee said, I’m pumped. Actually, Kat Williams is hilarious. I just want to get into a celebrity beef. Take some shots at me. Cat, you’re pretty funny.

Pat McAfee said, I’m pumped that he Aaron Rodgers is no longer to be every single Wednesday of my life. There’s gonna be a lot of people that are happy with that, myself included, to be honest, the way it ended, it got real loud. I’m happy that he’s not gonna be in my mentions go going forward, which is great news. I’m not sure Pat understands how much attention he got on the way up from having Aaron Rodgers on his show. Am I defending Aaron’s comments about Jimmy Kimmel?

No, but I think Pat was pretty quick to throw somebody who helped him out a lot under the bus. There we’ll see fake Johnny Mack here with an update. Aaron wound up on Pat’s show on Thursday, after all, so who knows? Now? Back to real Johnny Mack.

Gail King asked Charles Barkley about rogers Gate, Charles said, I would have punched him in the face. That’s not funny. Johnny Mack and Daily Company News. We do not advocate violence. I think when you’re in the limelight, people get to say things about you that goes with the territory.

But when you start comparing people saying you’re hanging out with, you know the kind of stuff. Aaron suggested, that’s dangerous.

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Moving on, Kelsey Grammer wants Shelley Long to return as Diane on the Fraser…

You know that is not the worst idea I’ve ever heard. The worst idea I’ve ever heard is an Adam Saylor movie with an alien in it. But this is not that, Kelsey said. The ket to Frasier for me was that he loved her with his whole heart. He loved with all his being, and that actually defined who he is.

He’s been that way ever since. He just goes in wholeheartedly with everything, and that’s what makes him funny. Shelley made two appearances on the original Fraser as part of Dream Sequences, and an appearance in The Flesh in a season three episode of the show where Diane comes back. You know what put her on the show. Let those two get back together.

Why not. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. But I got a new thing for you. Two things, donut Shane.

They’ve been screwing up the orders left and right. I’m getting a little frustrated. Plus I’m on a kick. Can you even hear this? Smoothies?

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I’ll post a picture of me with it and then you comment on that. Okay, so you go buy me a coffee dot com slash daily Company News and I’ll take your money. I’ll buy one of these anyway. See tomorrow.