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Caloroga Shark Media. A lot going on, especially for two story week, which is Netflix and Seinfeld. But Late Night had a bunch of good jokes about the former president both being cold and falling asleep. Stephen Colbert said, so, either he’s falling asleep again, or he’s doing that little kid thing where he thinks if he can’t see you, no one can see him. Kimmel.
Eric Trump attended his dad’s porn star hush money trial, which in the Trump family is as close as he gets to playing catch in the yard. Colbert, so he paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars so his wife wouldn’t find out he didn’t have an affair. Milania, This is gonna be hard for you to hear, but you’re not the only woman I’m not having sex with. Fallon Trump was so cold he came this close to hugging Eric for warm. Fallon again commented on Trump calling the room an ice box.
Even Biden’s like, it’s called a freezer, you old man. If you want to keep up with all that stuff, listen to the Ballots podcast. We’re having a lot of fun putting that one together. Jerry Seinfeld had the Red carpet for Unfrosted. That’s the pop Tarts movie that’s out on Netflix tomorrow.
Jerry reunited with Michael Richards. You know Michael. He was Kreamer on the sitcom Seinfeld. You may have heard of that sitcom. This was their first appearance together since April twentieth, twenty sixteen.
Michael Richards has kept a pretty low profile after that whole thing at the Laugh Factory in November of two thousand and six. I at one point in the script was going to recap that incident for you, and I’m like, I don’t want to even dance with that devil. Look it up. Look up, Michael Richards, Laugh Factory. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re wondering what Jerry wore.
Well, Jerry wore a black dress shirt and black tie under a gun metal jacket. He also wore gun metal pants and shiny black dress shoes. He also had a black watch. What did Gramer wear? He’s not Kramer, He’s Michael Richards, but picture Creamer.
It’s more fun. Michael Richards wore a white and light gray Paisley dress shirt under a dark gray suit coat, matching pants and black shoes with some lightly hinted glasses.
Also on the Red Carpet, Seinfeldt’s family, wife Jessica, the three kids kids…
Now, Jerry was asked a hack question, what kind of pop tart do you like? Jerry not sugar. Cinnamon’s the only one I eat since the beginning. I don’t like other flavors, and I really don’t like the chocolate. He ones are the ones that are s’mores I hate.
I don’t like when they overdo it.
Also on the Red Carpet, Jay Leno and his wife Mavis.
You may recall that Mavis was diagnosed with dementia. Jay now has conservatorship. Jay said, thought it’d come to something fun for change. Everything is so controversial. Just come to a fun, silly movie.
It’s great. I think people have a great time. We hang out every day. We have a great time. Forty four years so we’re doing good.
Jay Leno is now seventy four. He, like Jerry, didn’t do anything special because he’s not a big birthday guy. Mavis said, neither of us are. We just have each other.
Also at the Red Carpet, Melissa McCarthy, Bill Burr and bourbon entrepreneur …
I didn’t get to this yesterday because we were getting long. Here’s a really fun clip. Jerry and the Pop Tart people got together during this clip. I don’t want to spoil it, you know what, Let me just let it roll, mister Seinfield, and I’m Kelmen P. Gasworth, the president of Pop Tarts.
I just read a whole movie about pop Tarts. Did you know? Well, isn’t that something? Do you think maybe that’s why you’re here? It’s me.
It’s my understanding that you neither sought nor received permission to use our product in your movie. Is that? What Tarty is asking is are you familiar with the concept of trademark infringement? That sounds complicated. Actually it’s quite simple.
You see, mister Seinfield, you took something of ours, Now we’re going to take something of yours. Show him Tarty, Swoopy Jackie Chas the Soup Nazi my characters. They’re my characters now, mister Seinfield, tell me, how does it feel when people steal your ideas and then do whatever they want with them, I mean, like friends. Well, I gotta get going. I got a show.
Tonight. No, you don’t. You’re not a comedian anymore. I am. Why is Frankenstein wearing a sport jacket.
It’s not a wine tasting. We’re terrorizing villagers. I mentioned yesterday, Jerry did an interview on In Depth with Graham Benziger. Some people notice Jerry’s hand is trembling during that video. I haven’t seen any follow up on that.
During the conversation, he discussed his marriage and said I was a very successful comedian. As a comedian, you think I don’t need anyone. That’s what a comedian thinks. This is not a good partner. Someone who doesn’t think they need anyone isn’t a good partner.
That’s why most comedians either fail at marriage or don’t even try. It’s really not for us. I wanted to see if I could do something I’m not really cut out for. He enjoys his children, saying you just want to watch them live, and the entertainment value of watching them try to live is the kids are very entertaining because they’re very primitive humans. You may have seen some press this week about Jerry’s about edgy comedy.
Jerry said, we did an episode of Seinfeld where Cramer decides to start a business of having homeless people pull rickshaws because, as he says, they’re outside anyway, You think I could get that episode on the air today, we would write a whole different joke with Kramer and the rickshaw. Today, we wouldn’t do that joke. We’d come up with another joke. I agree that joke would not get on NBC these days now. Rob McIlhenny kind of did a backhanded Instagram post or something suggesting that on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, they do that thing all the time.
That is true, But an NBC sitcom rickshaw joke wouldn’t happen these days. I agree with Jerry. If Larry David was thirty five, he couldn’t get away with watermelon stuff and Palestinian chicken. And HBO knows that’s what people come here for, but they’re not smart enough to figure out, how do we do this now? Do we take the heat or just not be funny?
And what they decided to be as well, we’re not going to do comedies anymore. There were no sitcoms picked up on the fall season on all four networks, not one. No new sitcoms. Vanity Fair talked about one of Jerry’s jokes, a pop tart joke that shows up in the special twenty three Hours to Kill. Jerry said he spent ten years testing the joke or finding it, making sure every beat hit just right before he committed it to film.
Over the years, Jerry would joke about making the pops Arts movie. Another co writer, Andy Robbins, suggested making the money like the right Stuff, except set in the serial world. That idea tickled Jerry, so they all started writing it. The cast Jim Gaffick and Amy Schumer. She’s actually doing press.
We’ll get to Amy, and got more about Amy on Saturday. Melissa McCarthy, Hugh Grant, John Hamm, Sarah Cooper, who you know I’ve been the biggest fan of in the clips, looks pretty good in this. James Morriston, Peter Dinklage, Bill Burr, Dan Levy, Christian Slater, Sebastian Maniscalco, Cedric d Entertainer and Moore. I’m Cherry called out all the favors. But yeah, if Jerry As should have been a movie, you’re gonna go.
Yeah. I bet directors get mad at Jerry. Jerry said directing is nothing when you have an idea as a writer, you know how you want it to be. But most writers are not good at talking to people navigating a layered social situation. But as a comedian, I’m able to do that.
It’s just a way to streamline, just a writer making a movie. It’s all director is for me. Minor minor, minor or spoiler. I’ll give you three seconds here, oh babbel, but I’m not going to ruin the pop Tars movie for you. In the movie, Jerry’s character appears on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in a scene set in nineteen sixty three.
Jerry said, that was too fun because we made it the New York Tonight Show where Jimmy Fallon is now. We got Kyle Dunagan to do the Carson impression and then we did the CGI face replacement thing. It’s pretty flawless. The hardest part was getting the hair right, the set and his exact duplicate of his old set which we took from old video, and obviously the face is his face. Yeah, it’s really funny to go on The Tonight Show in nineteen sixty three for me.
Obviously, it was a dream come true that is a lot of fun looking forward to seeing that scene. That’s when I was first watching comedians and falling in love with them. Did Jerry write the film with certain actors in mind? The only person we knew was Jim Gaffigan was gonna play Edsel Kellogg, mostly because I thought he looked so perfect. He’s such a food guy, such a funny guy.
Because it was my friend, I knew he’d say yes. So we just knew we had him, but we didn’t know what anybody else. Now this is making me think Tom Poppo, who’s friend with Jerry, he needs to open for Jerry. Tom Papa’s like everyday look is like straight out of nineteen sixty three, Like he looks like he could have been in an episode of The Phil Silver Show. Is Papa not in this because he’s got the look more than Gafficking Another long podcast today, Amy Schumer doing press.
I’m guessing Jerry Beckon. Amy has clarified her stance on the ongoing Israel Hamas war after receiving backlash for her social media posts. Amy said, I don’t agree with anything that Netanya Who’s doing, and neither do the Israelis. I know, of course, what’s going on in Gaza’s sickening, horrifying and unthinkable. And I don’t think it’s okay to hate anyone because they were born Jewish.
It’s gotten to this place where you can’t speak up for other Jews without people feeling like it’s a slight to the conditions in Gaza. On Gossip Corner, John Stewart was at the next game. He did not have fun tyrese. Maxi scored forty six points against the Knicks seventy six Ers one twelve, Nicks one oh six. There was a screenshot of John Stewart’s reaction at the end of regulation time the game went to overtime, Maxie strained at thirty five foot three pointer to side the game at ninety seven with nine seconds on the clock.
Stuart was clearly unhappy, and his reaction showcase did. He went on Twitter and wrote, respect to Maxie, but damn, I’m clearly getting too old for this stuff. So I don’t want to confuse you guys, but I’m confused. I believe cant Williams Live Saturday night, ten pm Eastern. However, as I’ve been going through the Netflix schedule, I see the concert is at five Pacific, which is ACE Eastern.
But as I thought about it more, I guess there are openers and Cat himself will come on at ten o’clock. Maybe that makes sense. I already pre taped Saturday, so if you hear me getting confused on Saturday about that, I think the show’s actually on at ten, but just to be sure, you might want to tune in Netflix a little early. Sunday is the Roast of Tom Brady. We found out a few more people are going to be on the roast.
I’m a little worried about this event. I’m not seeing too many comedian names. Bill Belichick will be on the roast. Okay, that’s a lot of fun. Randy Moss, Julian Edelman, Drew Bledsoe, and Ron Gornkowski all famous comedians if you follow the comedy NFL, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck is probable, and Kevin Hart.
Where are the comedians? Is this thing a bomb? The comedians not want of roast Tom Brady? I’m a little worried here. What’s going on?
More from that Vulture profile of Robbie Prau, who runs the Netflix Festival in Netflix Comedy, they asked, were you surprised how well Matt Rife special did last year. Robbie said, I can’t speak to the specifics of each individual deal in that way, but if you look at the profile Matt Rife, there are very few comedians that are young. He’s coming to this marketplace and is speaking to an audience that most other comedians aren’t speaking to. It’s very cool to watch the next generation of comedians kind of pop up right in front of our eyes. Two other examples Andrew Schultz and Shane Gillis.
We did a special Chane last year. It took a flyer on it and he’s going to sell out the Crypto Arena, the Forum and the Greek follow up question, is the festival designed to spotlight newer acts? Robbie said, We’ve had a steady stream of multi comic specials. I’m in my office right now and I’m looking at the first multi coomic special that we did in twenty seventeen, which is called The stand Ups. There were six comedians, but the first person was Nate Pergatzy.
The same night we were filming a Fortune Fimester special. She was one of the six people on the stand Ups. The next person was Dean Cole. Then we had Nicky Glazer, who’s gonna be on the roast of Tom Brady. Oh look, well we just learned, as well as Beth Stelling, who we just launched a special with about six months ago.
We see somebody film something, we look at it and say, hey, we have a real opportunity for this person to explode on Netflix with us. A few years ago, we did a show called The Comedy Lineup. One of the stars of that show was Michelle Butteu. Another star was Taylor Tomlinson. He was asked about Chappelle, Robbie said, I respect the fact that certainly some folks won’t respond to certain things, But the end of the day, we want to give people options.
Part of that is, some people’s favorite thing to do on a Saturday night might be to watch a Dave Chappelle special. For some people might be Taylor Thompson or May Martin or Sarah Silverman, John Mlaney or Chris Rock And we don’t want to block those choices for our members. We want to give them the option. Our members have the ability of clicking on something, they have ability to shut off something. A lot more to that, I’ll get into that more next week.
Let’s see who’s at Netflix two nights on Thursday, All Time Specific seven thirty, Jerry, Jim, Nate and Sebastian want of Psikes at eight, Ralph Barbosa seven and nine forty five, Dian Cole six thirty and nine thirty, Joe List at seven, Gary Owhen at seven thirty, John Marco Cireesi at seven, Steph Toleve at eight, Master Brownis seven thirty nine forty five, and some other shows. I didn’t read to you, all right, I know what I’m gonna make you do tonight. You’re gonna follow me, and I’m gonna make you go see John Marco Cesi and then we’re gonna go see Moz. That is a good night over at the Sydney Comedy Festival. I won’t do clips today as we’re getting a little long, and I’ll save them for next week when there’s less going on.
Andrew Maxwell’s show is called Live in Sydney. He’s been a very busy boy. He’s grown a beard, made more people on loads of Telly, supported Jim Jefferies in front of around one hundred thousand people on his European tour, and he’s even started a podcast. The Daily Mirror said, if you can only see one stand up backed see Maxwell. That’s how I praise five stars.
Australia’s Funniest Lawyers are at the Comedy Store. Australia’s Funniest Lawyers features a lineup of criminal prosecutors, barristers, government regulators and corporate solicitors who are also funny. Four comedians who will each perform twelve to fifteen minutes of material. Daniel Town’s show is called Let’s Go the way the young Us do that whole Let’s Go thing. The description new show big Comedy Times with one of the best stand ups the Australian scene has birthed.
GQ said, pound for pound one of the best Australian stand ups going around. Oh I forgot to tell you yesterday Jim Gaffigan mocked Governor Christy nom You know the puppy killing governor that one. Jim said, I just hope Christy Nome’s doing okay. Are the people in the country that are like, you know what, she should have shot two dogs. There’s a way to wrap a podcast with a good laugh.
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