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Caloroga Shark Media. It’s been up and down the last couple of weeks in terms of how much news there is. Today’s pretty robust and Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Oscars are going to need a host. I saw my headline saying that neither Kimmel nor Mlaney were going to host.

I was like, ABC, why are you being dumb? Kim will works great, leave it alone for twenty five years. Well, apparently that decision was made by Jimmy Kimmel. ABC asked Jimmy to host it. He’s already hosted it four times, including the last two years.

In recent years, Jimmy’s talked about wanting more balance in his life. For example, he’s taken summers off on Jimmy Kimmelive. Good gig if you can get it, so okay. The obvious choice then John Mulaney. Everybody’s been talking about John Mulaney and he had hosted the Governor’s Award earlier this year and he crushed it.

So just ask John Mulaney, right, he’d be great. No. Previously, m’laney was asked if he would consider hosting the Oscars and said sure, why not? It would be really fun. It’s hosting the Academy Awards.

Johnny Carson did that, but John Mulaney has declined he would have had to give up other opportunities, possibly a stand up tour, possibly a Netflix late night show of sorts. So they need a host. Why don’t you go all in and call Ricky Travay’s that’d be amazing. Matt Rife is putting out a book. All right, time out.

I’m gonna comment here. I think Matt Rife is smart. Here’s why. I don’t think Matt Rif’s act has a shelf life. I think he’s a shooting star.

So while it’s hot, floor it play a million shows, get every project you can. Put out a book. I know I’m being jerky, but I’ve been doing this a while, and in five years I don’t see Matt Rife at the top of the comedy game. The book is called Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me. It’ll hit shelves this December.

Rife’s memoir details how he rose to comedy fame before the age of thirty. Talks about his upbringing in Ohio, his experience playing some of comedy’s most notable stages and his rap battles with x cons all before finishing high school. He’ll also detail his experience with depression and his brushes with failure before he found success. The book is described as one part memoir, one part comedy special, and one part first date. Conan O’Brien was up at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday.

He did a music gig billed as Conan O’Brien and Real Musicians that said at one point, try if the insult comic Dog took the stage to built out a Woody Guthrie inspired song about Conan O’Brien says Late nighter, there was a thirteen song cover set. Conan was joined on stage by Jack White, who came on at the end of the set to perform twenty Flight Rock and We’re going to Be Friends. White told the crowd We’re going to do a song about a friendship before playing the tune, which is the theme song to the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friends podcast. Have you been watching the Olympics? Are you watching the beach volleyball?

I love the beach volleyball. As you may have heard over the years, I do play beach volleyball usually on Wednesdays. Now, we didn’t make the playoffs. We were in a twelve team league. We finished twelfth, and of all the teams in the twelve team league, we were the only team not to I’ll remind you I’m fifty four years old.

At many of my editors are not fifty four years old, so you know, give it the old college try. We usually lose a game like twenty five eighteen. Occasionally we’ll win one, and each match is best of three, and we didn’t win any so this week we’re not in the playoffs. So I’ll be at the bar playing trivia tonight. Hi trivia, guys, And if you want to buy my friend Glenna beer, go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. Throw five bucks in the tip jar, and I’ll buy Glenn five sevens of a beer. Wow. I am losing my voice already. I woke up this morning and did not feel great, and I’m struggling here.

The row recording is five minutes and forty seconds in and I can barely speak. Oh no, especially because I need to record three episodes of five Good News Stories today. I digress. Anyway, are you watching the Olympics, or you’re watching the beach Volleyball, or you’re watching Team USA. There’s this woman.

Every time I see her, my brain goes, There’s Amy Schumer. She looks like Amy Schumer. Have you seen her? Anyway, I’m enjoying that. I’m not enjoying Colin Jost.

His appearances seem totally forced. He shared a photo of his bloody toes and this might ruin my Wiki feet score, but I just arrived in Tahiti for the Surfing Olympics and the reef was excited to greet me. He then gave an update on his foot, showing three of his toes bandages and wrapped in thick medical gauze. Joe said, you know what’s going great when you’ve been in the Olympic medical tent more than any of the athletes. NBC is using the Olympics to hype up SNL fifty.

It’s the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live. We’re gonna talk a lot about that for the next ten months. Mike Turrico was there with John Mulaney, second Milleniey Story of the Day. Mulaney said opening ceremony was great. Rub Schneider disagrees to get to that a second, very egalitarian in the sense that there were billionaires and there were interns.

In a matter who you were. You were in a clear smock getting rained on a bridge, Elon musk clear poncho, intern, clear poncho. Late Nighter points out mulaney just happened to have a story that involved SNL to tell. That’s convenient. Mullaney told Urico, one of my favorite memories is the reason that I’m here at the Olympics with my friend Simon.

Simon and I were writers from about two thousand and eight to twenty twelve, and Charles Barkley hosted. During the time, you know, you’d meet the hope and you talk about sketches. But this night we said, let’s just ask him for stories. Sparkley comes in our office, he takes up the whole couch and we say, what was the dream Team like in ninety two? And he says, boys, have you ever been to the Olympics?

And we said no, and he goes, if you ever get the chance to go, do it. So this is why when I got a chance to come to the Olympics, I called my friend Simon and said, we gotta do it. That story’s convenient, Rob Schneider, he’s boycotting the Olympics. He did not like the opening ceremonies. You may have seen the thing that some people felt was making fun of the Last Supper.

On Twitter, Rob Schneider wrote, I am sorry to say to all the world’s greatest athletes, I wish you all the best, but I cannot watch an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan. I sincerely hope these Olympics get the same amount of viewers as c SPAN. Luckily, he tagged both at Olympics and at Sea Span in the tweet. In another tweet, Schneider included a photo from the drag performance and wrote, guys with their genitalia hanging out in front of children drag queens. I wasn’t sure if I was watching the at Olympics or if I was watching a school board meeting.

You can almost hear the rim shot there, right, You could almost hear it. Anyway, Rob, You’re missing some great beach volleyball from the eight hundred pound gorilla. This one’s a little weird to me. Rob Mcalenny, you know him, as mac on It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia and Guy then hangs out with Ryan Reynolds. Well.

He has taken over Dynasty Typewriter in LA on Wednesdays for the More Better Comedy showcase. More Better is his production company, The eight hundred Pound Gorilla, says the inaugural show, hosted by Mecky Leaper, would be a hilarious night of stand up comedy featuring the comedians Leaper, Blair Soochi, Vennie Thomas, Moe Welch, Kieran Dale, Alup Noll and a special guest were promised endless laughs and wild card surprises, more entertaining than any Patty’s pub Shenanigan’s, and if you’re not in LA, you can live stream the show from home. Ego Nuotam is starting a podcast. It’s called Thanks Dad, an interview style show. Good to see celebrities interviewing people.

We don’t have enough of those podcasts. You’ll invite guests on to be a boy. I’m caddy today boy for what she’s calling her Ivan Caddy a lot lately, what she’s calling her dad for the day. She’ll have thoughtful and funny conversations about their experiences with fatherhood and solicit advice on practical dad centered matters. She tells the Hollywood Reporter, I didn’t have a relationship with my dad.

It doesn’t bother me the way movies and TV wanted to bother me. But I’m curious about it. FAX has handed a series order to something called Snowflakes and Ensemble comedy about quote a group of codependent housemates trying to be good people despite being neither good nor people. Yet that sounds like it’s also Sonny in Philadelphia, No Yes, Nick Curl. One of the producers of this one, Tim Allen, is coming back to ABC his new sitcom Shifting Gears.

In Shifting Gears, Tim Allen plays the stubborn, widowed owner of a car restoration shop whose daughter Riley You played by Kat Dennings, moves back home with her teenage kids to live with her dad and her brother, Nick Nick. Will be recast after the pilot uh oh sorry. Nick Nick now played by someone else, is described as a game coder who put his life on hold to come home and help his father at the shop. Is the shop that busy? Can you not code games?

From like five pm to three in the morning, isn’t that what game coders do? Now, the game coders are going to write me letters and be mad at me for making fun of them. Sorry, everybody, I saw a note. Pete Davidson has canceled his August ninth to Peak a gig. I don’t know why.

No reason was given. Sometimes that these things are for low ticket sales, and sometimes there because you’re Pete Davidson. We’ll keep an eye on that tomorrow. On this program, Jerney Gunderson is the executive director of the National Comedy Center. She is my guest.

It’s definitely gonna happen. We already recorded it unless I forget to schedule it, but it exists. There’s tape. I’ve heard it, I’ve edited it. We’re going to talk about the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival and learn all about the museum.

I had a really great time talking to her. So that is tomorrow’s episode. Why are you not doing it on Saturday, John, because the festival starts tomorrow. If I read it on Saturday, would have missed half the festival already. So that’s tomorrow’s episode.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you’re a gamer and you can’t stand me. Contacts are in the show notes. Everybody else see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media finally know a little naughty today. All right, if you usually listen with the kids, I won’t say naughty words, but the topics a little naughty. Maybe go listen to something else. Illom Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Oliver got all involved with this jd Vance rumor.

This is where we’re gonna get naughty. You have been warned. I don’t know if you heard the rumor. Supposedly, perhaps possibly maybe jd Vance made love to a sofa. That’s right, and John Oliver said, I’ve never seen someone with more couch effort energy On last week tonight, Oliver said, you can say that he didn’t write about doing that in his book, because that is provable.

But that’s not the same as asserting that he never banged a couch, especially because he hasn’t officially denied it. Oliver continued, jd Vance sucks so much that it says something that For a few days this week, the internet ran wild with a joke tweet that he was the first VP pick to have admitted in a New York Times bestseller to banging I’ll clean it up a couch with a citation and that was cleaning it up with a citation to a page and number from his memoir He’ll Billy Elogy, a memoir of a family and culture in crisis. Oliver said, it’s not in his book, but I think the reason it spread so fast is that it’s incredibly easy to believe. Because if he asked me to draw a man that bangs his couch ten times out of ten, I’m drawing this guy, and he showed a photo of Jade Vance. If he asked me to play two truths and a lie with this man, before he even opens his mouth, I shout the truth is that he bangs his couch.

I’ve never seen someone with more couch banging energy. Oliver continued, he looks like he watched the Tom Cruise Oprah interview and was jealous of Tom’s shoes. Oliver also talked about the EIGHTP decision to post a fact check with the headline no, jd Vance did not have sex with a couch. Oliver said that his staff reached out to Vance’s campaign last week to ask if Vance has ever had sex with a couch. Oliver says, they hung up on us, which is and this is critical, not a no is it.

Chelsea Handler also mixing it up with JD Vance. She put out a video that did quite well in Instagram. Chelsea says to put it in women hating terms. You understand you’re being hysterical. Listen up, you wingnut elegy.

This country is still controlled by men and systems that were set up by men, that are carefully crafted to continue to benefit men. Let’s be clear, there’s no correlation between childless people and the presidency. For example, our very first president, mister George Washington, didn’t have children. In fact, he had two step children like someone else I know. A reference to Vice President Kamala Harris to your point abou Kamala not being fit because she’s not a mother.

I’d like trm on you that no president in the history of the United States has ever been a mother. Maybe if she had five kids with three different men and a scandalous affair with a porn star and was a convicted felon, that would be more palatable to Republican men. Okay, So I will try and be fear here. I’m going to google on the fly here where it’s like Biden and Harris. If I find something funny, I will do it.

If not, I can’t. If you want to send me something, I’ll make fun of them tomorrow. I’m just here for the comedy. It’s one forty two pm on Monday, July twenty ninth. Biden Google search Joe Biden, my planner reformed the Supreme Court.

Not funny. Let’s type in Harris, same thing. Just news about the polls. Send me a story, I’ll keep it fair. Bad news for Amy Schumer.

Life and Beth canceled by Hulu. I’m not sure that ever had any buzz other than Amy Schumer doing a lot of press before both seasons. Life and Beth followed Beth, played by Amy Schumer, who had a cool job, a great apartment, and a boyfriend who’s in New York eight who realizes she’s not happy with her life after the death of her mother. John Stewart, who is calling out major news organizations, John said on his podcast The Weekly Show, it’s difficult for us to book pundits or journalists that are on TV. Their organizations will not let them come on our podcast.

Let that sink in for a minute. Organizations that rely on access and transparency refuse to allow the reporters to come on a podcast to talk about the issues of the day. I want people at home to let that sink in for a second. News organizations stonewall inquiries as to why their reporters are not allowed or being restricted from just being able to come on a stupid podcast and give their opinion. I understand you can’t go write articles for other papers, you can’t host a show on another network, but these types of promotional or crosspot nuning appearances should be standard fair.

He specifically called out MSNBC and CNN as particular offenders.

Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner, some people think Shane Gillis is dating TikTok …

As you may have picked up. I don’t spend a lot of time on TikTok. I’m unfamiliar with Grace. Let’s see what she does on TikTok. A famous birthdays dot com says she’s a TikTok star who is best known for her Grease Johannah account, where she posts comedy and POV videos, often about being at a sorority.

Basil on Instagram shared photos of her and Shane Gillis at San Francisco forty nine er running back Christian McCaffrey’s a Tealian theme to welcome party at Ocean House, a stunning seaside resort located on the bluffs of Watch Hill. One of the photos showed her posing closely with Shane Gillis. It went viral when someone joked that they look like an SEC couple. In her post, she also included a black and white photo of her Sheen Gillis and post malone. Hey, big shout out to Kenny.

Kenny’s been a listener for a long time. By the way, today begins year six of this podcast. Growth Wise, I’m beyond where I thought it’d be. A year two, there was a pesky pandemic in the way, and then last November Apple cut the numbers. But I’m plugging away here.

But I can’t believe it is year six of the podcast, Season six, Episode one, Kenny, thank you for listening all this time. As Kenny knows, there’s a particular Starbucks out in California. I’ve made a connection with Kenny, and I always think of Kenny when I’m at that particular Starbucks. He sent me over four coffees. Thank you very much, and we will support Kenny is a coffee purveyor of choice already mentioned in this podcast, Thank you Kenny.

Meanwhile, I was at the National Donuts Chain and you know, I hold the door for people, and then I look behind me and somebody said thank you in a very pleasant voice. You know who was? Have you been paying attention? You know who it is? Right by the way, Mike from the Letterman podcast, did you just hear me going to pour Men’s there?

That was for you? You know who was? Yeah? It was evil Bill Ingvall. Now he doesn’t know he’s evil, and he doesn’t seem to be evil.

He seems like a pretty nice guy. But he does look like evil Bill Inkfall. Anyway, he’s at the National Donuts Chain a few times a week. If you’d like to buy me a coffee, you go to buy me a coffee. Dot com a slash a Daily Comedy News.

There are some money on the tip jar. I will take your money and I will go to the National Dome chain or Kenny’s place. Sometimes my daughter goes there and to make her get me something. And they’re talking about opening a McDonald’s in town, and I don’t know how I feel about that, but they have ice coffee as well. Might give me more options.

Have you been watching the Olympics. You know who’s not good at it? Colin Jost He’s terrible. Sorry, Colin, You’re awesome on SNL. You’re married to Scarlett Johansson.

You’re a good looking guy, you’re funny, you’re on top of the world. Many things can be true once you’re not good at the Olympics. His segments to me have seemed very forced. He is covering surfing in Tahiti, but it’s just not working in my opinion. Sam Maruril was talking Deadline.

He said, part of the reason I fell in love with a comedy of Chris Rock is because he’d push you away in the premise and pull you back at the punchline. It’s like a dance he did with the crowd. He’d say something provocative and then prove it to be true. But you can’t just say the provocative thing. You have to pull it off.

You have to stick to landing. When you do an hour of material, it can’t be one thing. If you’re just going for shock, that’ll run dry pretty quickly. You need levels and you need layers if you’re going to do that. The new special SAMs it’s got a lot of gears.

Are you psyched for the first annual Columbus Comedy Festival coming up August fourteenth through the eighteenth. Walker Evans is the co founder and says we couldn’t be more excited to not only bring major headliners to Columbus from New York, LA, Chicago and beyond, but also highlights are incredibly talented local comedy scene. We’ve packed a lot of entertainment in these five days and there’s a little something for everyone. Good lineup headliners include Jason Banks, Michael ian Black, who’s been super political. He’s got a super political substag.

If you’re mad at me for the first two stories today and again, send me other stories. I’ll do them. Just make sure he sent them to me by like noon Tuesday. That’s on I tend to record. Michael ian Blacks been very very political lately, Tony Rock, Irene Two fumu Abe, Diane Smith, Chloe Radcliffe, Jeremiah Watkins, Ian Finance, Sam Jay Salter, Hio, Simon Fraser, Orlando Laba, Tom the car River Butcher Rivers, fab Justine Marino, Alex Falcone, Christine Toomey, Dan Donahue, Amina Amani, Pat Butcher, Chris Allen, Ramon Revas the Second, Leah Simpson, Mary Santora, Mandy mcclevey, Calson Wilson, Alex Dragovic, satoyo Ekbo, Maddie Ryan, Kelly Collette, and dozens more.

That’s a lot of performers. There’ll be in multiple venues including the Columbus Funny Bone, The Key, the Columbus Performing Arts Center, Mad Lab, the Attic Comedy Club, the Nests Theater, the Hashtag Comedy Company, and Don’t Tell Comedy, Columbus Improv sketch video showcases, live pods, variety shows, and Moore. They’ve got a lot of sponsors, including a coffee place. Hm. I might have to connect with these guys, see if we can do some uses together.

The Columbus Comedy Festival. I was going to send Deacon Mike there. Deacon Mike’s out in New York Cleveland, but Columbus is two hours, eight minutes away. He’s not going to do that for me. Thanks, never nothing, Deacon Mike.

The National Comedy Center and the Elkhorn Valley Museum announced they will jointly exhibit documents and pieces from the archive collection of Johnny Carson journey Gunderson, who, if everything goes according to plan, will be the guest on this program on Thursday. I’m supposed to tape with her in exactly twenty minutes from now. I will ask her about this journeys. For thirty years, Johnny kept the country laughing through good times in bad while also introducing us to many of the greatest stand up comedians ever to take the stage. The story of comedy in America zipply cannot be told properly without presenting Johnny Carson’s enormous and invaluable contribution to the art form.

Great quote. Jeff Satzing is Johnny’s nephew. I know Jeff a little bit, and he is the president of Carson Entertainment, tasked with keeping the flame alive. He has done a great job. Jeff will provide various documents from Johnny’s creative process to archive in the collection.

And that is your comedy news for today again. I know the first two stories were loaded political one way. If you got the other story, send it to me. I will do it. N’t your companies for to day See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Chunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Happy Monday. Bill Maherr maybe a professional comedian, but he acknowledged that Malcolm McDowell is a better comic actor than he has. Mar said, great actors do great with comedy because they play the reality of the situation.

If it’s written well, that’s enough to get the laugh. Mar says of himself, I was just a guy who knew how to get a laugh, as a comic does. I could do sitcoms and light comedy. McDowell got it. Mar says as an actor, Mar was like Seinfeld, noting that the show Seinfeld was brilliantly written.

But as for Jerry’s acting, he was even worse than me. He’d crack up in his own scenes and you could see it on his face. McDowell’s that’s why we loved him. Mars said. Part of the charm was the guy was like, I’m not even going to pretend to be an actor.

They then talked about Gary Shanling said Gary was a great guy, but added, look, you can only get so close to Shandling. McDowell said, isn’t it the same with you? Though? Bill maher the same with me, Mar said, not me. I let lots of people in as far as you go.

Speaking of Seinfeld, Patton Oswalt appeared in the nineteen ninety four Seinfeld episode of The Couch. He played an employee of the video store where George tries to rent the movie adaptation of Truman Capodi’s Breakfast to Tiffany’s Oswalt’s character clerk informs George the tape has been rented and refuses George’s request to call up the renter and ask them to return it. Patton explains it was his first acting gig ever. Larry David later told him why he was cast on the show. Apparently, during his audition, Patten’s customer service instincts kicked in.

He tells the story. I didn’t realize he did this, but I subconsciously started looking around for what other employee can I pass this guy on to? Because I’d worked in retail for so many years, and that’s what you do when you have a bad customer, You say, who do I give this guy to? And Larry David thought, oh, I love that he didn’t get rich off a Seinfeld. He says, it got me my after membership, but then the money I made went right in to pay my after fee.

It had no impact financially or theme wise. The Montreal Cozette spoke to Dane Cook. A lot of people from the Dane Cook generation have gotten out of comedy. I know a lot of people who were new when I started at Serius XM are no longer doing it. It’s so weird to me.

Dane says, don’t ever believe a comedian who says they’re leaving because they want to. I don’t believe any comic is ever happy about putting down their mic. I think there’s something about a comedian always wanting to observe and a report and a lash out and say the thing that everyone else is scared to say. I always want to see a comedian keep that spike in their hands. That’s what I want to continue doing for the next phase of my comedy career.

Comedy has gotten easier in the last year or two, especially in the States. Comedy went around the corner from utter cancelation for saying something’sposedly out of bounds to audiences deciding they don’t want homogenized crap anymore, they want a little danger. I actually think we’re in a comedy resurgence. Now I’m hearing comic saying anything and everything and pushing the limits a little bit more. It’s not about trying to break the law.

It’s about bringing that little ding boy. I hope we get the danisance here. I’m looking forward to it. Pete Corielly, friend of mine. He spoke to the digital colonel.

No, there’s no digital kernel. Again. Sometimes I choose not to make the edit. What would the digital colonel be? It’s the digital journal, to which Pete Corioley had advice for aspiring young comics and said, do I have a I do have a half, asked Pete Corioley, But I don’t feel like doing it.

I basically have to get down and say man like, hey, what’s up man? Pete said, you have to have such an incredible passion to do this. If you don’t love doing it, don’t look for success. The commitments through the roof and the rejection is heavy. The people that have made it, including myself, cannot see a life without doing it.

If you don’t feel that way about it, do something else. It’s a calling.

Also, talk about your life because nobody else can steal that.

Don’t curse because it handcuffs you, even though I curse all the time, And then Pete laughed at that he does curse all the time. Sebastian Maniscalco he does a podcast with the aforementioned Pete Corioley. He’s on a forty seven city tour called it Ain’t Right, and he’s added bells and whistles for arena crowd. Sebastian says, I’ve always liked being a showman. I grew up with lots of bells and whistles when it came to going shows like Motley Crupser Michael Jackson, so I always loved the spectacle of it.

Although this is not music, I not only wanted to give the people a night of laughter, but something to look at. Otsco at Kotska down in Australia. The Sydney Morning Harold to caught up with her. They write, She’s known for a lot of things. An appearance.

Her ink black razor sharp bowl cut, perfected in twenty seventeen, is a throwback to the hairstyle she had as a child in Japan. When she performs live, fans often turn up wearing bowlcut tribute weeks. She says, comedy really is a cult and then says I’m just kidding. The Sydney Morning Harold was curious, is it a wig? She says, no, I’m embracing the weirdo.

That’s what’s happening. My main motivation in performing and doing comedy is for people to not feel alone anymore. A big part of it is to talk about things that are hard to talk about, like mental illness. It’s also about making people laugh a lot. I was a very quiet kid.

I was very shy for the most part, but I was learning at home the way people communicate comedically. It was very animated. I didn’t dare try that at school, though at school you’re supposed to be cool. Wasn’t until years later, after i’d and practicing in the comfort and privacy in my home that I finally came out and try to be funny. At age seventeen, a fellow church goer gave her a DVD copy of Margaret Show’s two thousand and two comedy special Margaret Show Notorious Show.

Osco said, I’ve never heard of stand up comedy. I had no idea it was even a job. In college, a boyfriend suggested she try it. She did some open mics eventually got an HBO comedy special. She says, when you’re trying to find your voice, you’re trying to figure out who you are, you should go for the thing that you’ve been trying to run away from the most, because it’s possible you’re in denial of who you really are.

I was afraid to wear bright colors and stand out and rock this haircut that I think is actually very artful in chic and I love, but as a kid, you’re made fun of for it. So now I’m finally embracing all the things that made me feel like fake or an outsider the things that actually make me feel good. It was during a pandemic I really embraced this aircut, my brand of comedy, the way a joke, and finally talking about my mom’s mental illness. It took the world to shut down and being forced to look inward. I’m not academic, I’m not organized.

I’m very unapologetically someone who makes mistakes and I have to fail to learn. Check out her a special. She is fantastic. She’s one of my favorites. I like her a lot.

Her new show Full Grown is about figuring out what being an adult is Otsko says it’s sillier and funnier than The Intruder because it’s exploring an even deeper side of me. It’s talking about how you make friends as an adult. It’s about me and my husband and my abilities as a human person. It’s about realizing that maybe you’ll never be fully grown. The more people talk, the more stories are out there, the more people feel seen.

It’s finding your community. We’re all not normal. My fans are fellow weirdos, and I love them. Deadline asked Sam Morrel. Unlike many comics, you’ve had the backing of major distributors for most of your specials, first with Comedy Central, now Netflix and Amazon.

Sam said, God bless Comedy Central for having interest in me, but I may as well have flushed my special down the toilet with how many people saw it. You do feel pretty discouraged when you work that hard in your first hour and it’s like nowhere people couldn’t even watch it. That drove me crazy. The first half hour I thought was really good, so I thought it was about time. In my mind, I wasn’t like, Wow, they gave out a bunch and I thought I should have gotten one.

Then for the second Hour. I only got it because Amy Schumer produced it. I don’t think they would have given me an hour otherwise. And same goes for Mark Norman. I don’t think they were particularly just sing us until we had that, and then the next one I put on their YouTube, so I don’t feel like I had their support.

As for Netflix, I was pretty damn late on Netflix too. I don’t think I was on any of them early. With Amazon, they actually gave me a respectable money offer, and for me, I had made enough specials on a budget. I was like, I want this to look awesome. These things live forever, and I put so much work into them.

I want the set design and the crew to really reflect that, and I thought they did a great job. Deadline followed up asking about the difference between that kind of thing and YouTube. Sam said, I couldn’t spend what I spent on this on YouTube. It would have been too much money. My YouTube one is very minimalist and simplistic, and I think it works for it.

But also I think now YouTube is oversaturated. Boy, we’re hearing a lot of that lately, right. I think I mentioned a story like that yesterday and maybe one last week too. Sam says, I think YouTube is oversaturated. I think there’s always going to be problems.

Joe List got demonetized on YouTube. Really why Joe List said it? Fahim Onwar. I mean, it’s pretty fed up that social media platform have this playbook that they keep changing. I can’t say I believe he’s saying the sea word here.

I can’t say the sea word question mark from Johnny Mack. I’m not saying I want to, but I’m writing for the algorithm. You’re now policing language, and I think it’s really dangerous for comedy and comedy specials. That upsets me. That’s the way we’re going with social media.

They’re policing more and more language because that’s where the ad sale dollars are, and before you know, it’s going to be worse than bleeping fallon Wow, a dig at Jimmy Fallon. The Toronto Guardian spoke to comedian Most CineMo. How would you describe your comedy style? Most said fierce, brave, smart, philosophical, intelligent and human. My bad.

No, I’m still very much a newborn baby when it comes to all this. But if I had to describe my style right now, I’d say I try to be relatable, very personal for the most part, and happy vibes. I might start getting goofy and more confusing as the years go by. I feel it coming. You never know, though, I never want to force anything.

Who are your influences, he says, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Sheen Gillison, maybe even Chris Dalia. Be careful not loss on there. Don’t get two influenced. Google it. Who’s your favorite comedian?

Growing up? Kevin Hart was the one who got me to know this. If Kevin Hart does not exist, then I don’t know if i’d be here right now. I also love Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr pretty early on. Who’s your favorite comedian now?

Dave Chapelle, Kevin Hart, Louis C.K. Tony Roberts, Sebastian, Manascalco. Those are my top five personal favorites of all time in that order. Okay, let’s read it again. Chappelle, Hart, ck Tony, Roberts, Sebastian.

But I love so many comedians. Joe List, in my opinion, is the best comedian on earth at this moment. Really, Joe List. A lot of Joe List mentions today. Maybe it was demonetized.

I heard, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They mayn’t like it too. If you would like this program without commercials four ninety nine Kalaruga dot com slash plus all the commercials go away. Details in the show notes see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Tenny Man, I hear if your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon watched Biden’s speech and said it was a very graceful speech, and then Biden surprised everyone by announcing his candidacy for twenty twenty eight. Cope Bears said Trump has had a lot of crazy stuff, but there’s an explanation for that. He’s crazy.

Jimmy Fallon again, I don’t know if you saw. Milania is putting out a tell All book. We’ll see how tell All it’s going to be. He said. At Malani’s request, her book and Trump’s book will be in the same store, but sold in separate sections.

Cracked with the headline comedy has a Netflix problem. Netflix is a joke, but for all the wrong reasons. All right, Matt Solomon, what’s your premise here? He quoted Neil Brennan appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience. I’m competing with everything that’s ever been made.

Is my new special better than The Godfather and every comedy special? Rogan said, yep, all the old stuff, all the new stuff, everything altogether. It’s an insane time. Try to captivate people’s attention. Now, it’s an insane proposition.

There’s just so much available. Krack took this premise. The biggest conundrum Netflix poses for comedy is the same one that Laurene Michaels has at SNL, embracing controversial comics and broiled and public scandal. Shane Gillis tells homophobic, racist, and sexist jokes on podcasts. NBC kicks them off, but Michaels will sponsor his triumphant return, all in the name of social relevancy.

Netflix is even worse. Sure it produces pro LGBTQ plus documentaries, It’s right there in your comedy que next to transphobic specialist from Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais. Where does Netflix stand? Wherever it can to drive cultural conversation, even if that means playing both sides of the culture wars. Robbie Prau, who runs Netflix Comedy, says, some people’s favorite thing to do on a Saturday night maybe to watch a Dave Chappelle special.

But for some people it may be Taylor Tomlinson or Mae Martin, where Sarah Silverman or John Mulaney or Chris Rock And we don’t want to block those choices for our members. Cracked Rights. May be a subscriber hasn’t jumped on the service for a while, but what the heck. They’re probably curious why everyone is soap mad at Matt Rife or Thom Segor or Rob Schneider. It’s a natural desire to see what all the fuss is about, as it’s turning out Netflix as a joke, but for all the wrong reasons.

I don’t agree with the premise of the article. First of all, Netflix is a commercial enterprise. They’re going to put on the most popular stuff. If comedian X is popular, they’ll get a Netflix special. I mean, I guess at some point something would be so extreme that Netflix or a different streamer would be like, we don’t want to sponsor the I don’t know, horrible thing.

You can imagine comedy tour. You know, at some point there’s a line. And maybe I’m just living here on Old Man Mountain or White Dude Mountain. I look at the Netflix offerings and I think it’s pretty broad. And again, you don’t have to watch these things.

Is Netflix putting in front of you? Probably possibly, I don’t know. If I go to your house, I don’t think they surface the same things that you see if you log in as me. I know, sometimes I log in as a different family member and they have like a whole different list of shows. I didn’t even know exist.

Who knows Dean Cook played the Zombie Montreal Comedy Festival last night. I didn’t realize that show he did last night was free, just like the one tonight for Eliza’s Lessenger. She’s there tonight. You can see it for free at the Place Day Festivals, which is how I was pronounced in French. Dane Cook told the Montreal Gazeze there’s no better feeling in the world than sharing a career, especially one in the third decade.

You could be outrageous. He probably got dragged a few times because it was sensational and it was fun for the media to do that. You start flying steady, but lo and behold, I fall in love And not only is it a love story, but it’s one where I truly want to share the rest of my life and the rest of my journey with this woman. And I hope that feeling is mutual. Dane no longer feels like he has something to prove.

He says, I think at some point I turned a corner from all that stuff. I found myself to be a friend, to be in kind of a mentor position, be it at a club or speaking on the seminar circuit about my philosophy, and certainly the things that helped me keep my integrity during every which way. Now I get to be a sounding board for someone who was maybe where I was when I was in my twenties. There are a lot of people who try to take you someplace you don’t want to go. Feels great to give sports others.

That’s what keeps me going these days.

Also, I have a fire still raching creatively inside of me.

I’m tenacious when I wake up in the morning, I have an agenda I want to see through. But the big difference is that now I want to share all of that with my wife. It’s nice to be in this place. I think it’s time for the Danisades. Let’s get a major Dean Cook comeback.

That’d be great. Chad Daniels just had his Netflix special Empty Nester. He now stars in a new peda video with a fellow comedian, Kelsey Cook, who is also his partner. They imagine a world in which humans are treated like outdoor cats and remind viewers of the video that life threatening, dangerous two outdoor cats are no laughing matter. In the video, Chad Daniels is shoot outside by cook.

I love to fend for himself in the not so great outdoors. In character, he says, do you have any idea how many diseases I can get out here? Hookworms, ringworm, reebe’s ticks, toxoplasmosis, and some other words I can’t pronounce. I’m gonna catch something I can’t even pronounce. Oh, that’s funny.

I didn’t read that. Next sent it’s ahead. There were two words here like pasteur relosis. I might have got that in Campbell. How do you pronounce camp Why?

All right? La la la l? Is that even a word? That’s like an lol lol? Anyway, Daniel says in the videos ear mites feline herpes virus.

If I get herpes, because if you, I’m gonna be angry. This is what he says. Peta points out that, in addition to terrorizing, maiming, and killing billions of birds and other small animals, every year, cats allowed to roam out doors or at risk of ingesting poison, contracting fatal diseases and enduring violence and abuse at the hands of cruel people, being attacked by predators, being hit by cars, or falling victim to many other dangers. Chad Daniels in the video and character says, if I live inside my left expectancy is twelve to twenty years. But you leave me out here, I’m not gonna make it to my fifth birthday.

Daniels and Cook join a long list of comedians including Mark Marinkathy Griffin, Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman, and Ricky Gervais, Amanda Seals, and Bill Maher who have teamed up with Peta to promote kindness to animals. Tig Nataro talked about her twenty thirteen album. Tignataro told Vulture of that album, it was a gut punch to get when I was in the depth of my grief losing my mother death was very unexpected to lose your mother and then two days later get a survey asking how your stay in the hospital went. I was so mad. I was deeply, deeply upset.

I really can’t listen to live the name of that album now because people think it was such a hard period of time for me, But it’s more so that it was like a twenty or thirty minute open mic. When I was doing interviews, they would do lead ins with my material and I’d take my headphones off and the interviewers would be like, oh, I’m sorry, it must be hard, and I’m like, no, it’s that it’s not polished at all. I’m glad people enjoy it, but I don’t want to hear this. I remember that night. I was shocked that I was getting laughs because I was so truly down and out.

I didn’t have a lot of faith in my ability to make any of that funny, or faith in anything truly. My pants were falling off, my underwear was falling off. I was malnourished. I was so sick. I was struggling.

I was devastated. John, you just did stories about, you know, taking a sad place and a cat being killed in the street, back to back. This show’s not much fun today. Can you pull it out before the break? I will see what Sam Morrill has for us.

Deadline asked Sam about his podcast he does with Mark Norman, called We Might be Drunk. The question what has pop casting done for your career? Sam said, it’s helped my reaching my audience, but it’s hurt my stand up. I’d really love to never podcast again if I could. I do feel pressure to do them because everyone’s doing them, and I’ve had people tell me I’m crazy to feel this way, but I do feel people will forget me and move on.

And maybe that’s the case, maybe not. But I didn’t get in a comedy beat a radio type guy. That’s funny. I didn’t get in a radio to be a comedy type guy. We’re like opposite Sam.

I want to write screenplay as an act, not be an actor, but acted my stuff, and I want to make movies and TV shows. Stand up is number one, but those are two and three, and I’m gonna do it one way or another. It’s going to happen. It might take another couple of years. I have stuff in the work.

So I wrote a movie with Mark We’re Shopping that I think it’s really funny. It’s kind of a throwback nineties buddy comedy. Two good Friends, It Can’t Catch a Break, Two liquor Salesmen. There was a sitcom I was developing, and I’m working on the pilot for that now. I’ve had this one in the Q all week.

Larry the Cable Guy a friend of mine. I will truly call him a friend, not just somebody I know, and a really cool person. He’s got a Larry TheCable Guy dot shop Official merchant. I haven’t looked at this yet. I’m like, let me click on it.

See what he’s gone. All right, we can get a beer label T shirt that says Larry the Cable Guy, a nice black T shirt thirty bucks, a bowl skull T shirt, also thirty bucks, a Western crest T shirt that says get her Done in kind of a western font that looks good, one that says Larry in almost like a baseball script that looks good. Some Camo based baseball caps that say get her done. And that’s really it. Not much to make fun of there, Larry, you’re not helping the show.

It’s Sunday weekend filler bro r. Kathleen Madigan, who I’m also friends with, also has a store. Let’s click on merch on Kathleen Maadigan dot com. See if there’s stuff we can make fun of your Let’s see, she’s got a Madigan’s pobcast hat for thirty five bucks. A baseball tea.

I always enjoy a nice baseball tea mystery grab bag for six dollars, and then she’s selling her albums. Let’s see what’s in the grab bag. Pick your size and get a surprise shirt from the vault of previous Kathleen Madigan shirts. Six bucks. Boy, there’s nothing to make fun of.

This segment sucks. Why did you leave it in? Why not?

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All right, let’s go to Jim Gaffigan dot com.

Does he have merch? He’s got a store. Come on, Jim, hook me up here. Gaffigin parenting quote glasses. So I’ve made fun of this before.

You want a shock glass with a parenting quote from Jumn Gaffigan? You know you do. I mean, what’s cooler that a shotglass that says raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. I mean, how sweet is that? Thank you Jim Gaffigan for a halfway saving the bit from Late Night er.

Jay Leno revealed when he replaced Johnny Carson, he initially planned to call the program The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno, but jay Leno’s mom was like, don’t do that. To be fair to Jay Leno. The previous incarnations of the show were Tonight’s starring Steve Allen, Tonight’s starring Jack Parr, and The Tonight’s Show starring Johnny Carson. Jay quoted his mother saying, oh, starring Jay Leno, listen to you, mister big shot. You’re getting too big for your breeches.

Two weeks later, I changed it to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. That’s why I changed, because of my mother. Bill Carter, in his book The Late Shift, says Jay had steered clear of starring Jay Leno out of concern that he would look too presumptuous claiming a star title. On his first day on the job. Conan O’Brien went with The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Jimmy Fallon.

It calls his The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Sean Davies wrote a lengthy article for short All with suggestions on how to fix the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Every year, this time we hear how the Fringe is broken. Here are some suggestions. Number One, say no to the extra show, Sean says, every year at Fringe a handful of shows excel and sell out.

They’re ron what follows is a scramble to add extra shows and more people can see the show. I completely understand the show’s popular. It’s a chance that makes more money. Most comedians would be thrilled for the show to be so popular. But what they don’t realize is they’re actively taking audiences from other shows.

Their desire to make a bit more cash is taking money directly out of the hands of their colleagues and friends. I mean, good luck with that plan. You’re gonna tell a comedian, don’t make more money so other people will come see a different show. Maybe possibly, perhaps the top level famous comedians might be that cool. But somebody gets a hit show, they’re gonna sell as many tickets as possible.

Suggestion number two, name your sponsor, Sean says, Recognize your privilege and tell people about it. How can you afford to be here doing what you do? Did you win the lottery? Do you have generational wealth? Just be honest about your position, Okay, and fine, no problem there.

Tip number three offset your profits with equity, Sean writes, I recently had an email from an established act who apologized for being middle class. They said they were making some jokes about privilege in the new show and had a realization that it wasn’t enough to joke about they’d been well paid for a recent job, and asked if they can make a donation. Obviously a bit their handoff, any money coming in goes directly towards supporting working class comedians. I’m not asking everyone who makes a profit to donate to Best in Class, but you can if you want. I know some acts who directly support working class acts by paying for their PR revenue.

But I’d like to see production companies, PR companies and venues setting special tariffs for working class acts. It’s not that’s like, Hey, Joe Rogan, I know you’re making a lot of money. You know, would be kind of cool if you could throw some money over to support Daily Comedy News. Come on, Joe, we’re both talking about comedy on our podcast. We’re the same, you’re just more famous.

Come on, hook me out. It doesn’t work that way. Stop. And I’m seeing some buzz on Matt Lyons for poking fun at outdoor stereotypes. His videos are doing well in the algorithms.

Lions roast outdoor enthusiasts like hikers, skiers, and people who can afford to live in Aspen. He has half a million fans on Instagram, another two hundred and fifty thousand on TikTok. Lions says, my videos are about things that I’m guilty of myself. I totally have a tattoo of a mountain on my forearm. It’s so cliche.

I threw hike. I also poke fun at what I’ve observed over the years. I understand sometimes they don’t realize how niche our communities can feel, and how inaccessible we can make them seem to outsiders the way we talk. I want my jokes to make people feel a little more self aware, rather than making them think they’re wrong for the way they act. Which outdoor community gives you the most feedback?

Lyons says, the past winter was crazy with Colorado skiers chiming in. I did an East Coast versus West Coast video and another one about people who live in Aspen. I noticed that ski culture really last Stutther was videos and people started going at each other in the comments section. For every one order comics that are like, oh man, this is totally me. There is one person who seems like they’ve had hurt feelings.

Look, you say enough words into the mic. Somebody’s gonna not like what you said. So Lion says, there’s one person who seems like they’ve had hurt feelings. Oftentimes I’ll click on that person’s profile and they end up being the exact image of the person. I’m not trying to be mean about the way I portray these groups.

Again, I’m the exact person I’m making fun of in my videos. I always try to be family friendly. I don’t curse or make crash jokes that you couldn’t watch with kids. I want people to be able to send it to their family members without it being weird. My whole vibe is to stay lighthearted with my critique.

Amen, brother, And that’s true comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, or if you still enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. If you think I’m a jerky face, tell other people I’m a jerkey face, they say all publicities. Good by Melissay. So Johnny Mac is a jerkeyface dot com.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know, normally I record the entire weekend in one shot. I’ve been down here in this studio I recorded at my guest appearance on The Letterman Podcast. If you haven’t heard that yet, that came out yesterday The Letterman Podcast Special guest Johnny Mack.

Then I did Friday’s episode. Now I’m doing Saturday. But this room, it’s kind of small, and I feel like I’m running out of oxygen. So I’m gonna wait a day and record Sunday. I need to breathe.

On the interview on The Letterman Podcast, I mentioned how I put the show together, and I’ll put a shiny name in the title and move that to the first story. So I was happy when Bloomberg wrote a lengthy article that I haven’t read yet. I’m reading it cold here to you how Joe Rogan became comedy’s new king maker. Okay, let’s see what Bloomberg has to say. One day in March, during the taping of his podcast, Joe Rogan looked over at his guest comedian Kevin James, and delivered a will Paula Shales pitch it was time Kevin James consider a permanent change of scenery.

Rogan said, come to Texas. Come on, buddy, I got you. The article then tells us how Austin is now being pitched as the new center of the comedy universe. Rogan had a podcast studio, a sauna, a bow hunting range, and most importantly, a new club, the Comedy mother Ship. Rogan says, the club is always available.

You’ll have fun, we can work out together. We’ve got a beautiful gym. Rogan is a fan of Texas, saying they’re not interested in controlling what you buy and where you go and what you do on your land. You can own a zebra. Kevin James declined, I wonder where Kevin lives these days.

He definitely doesn’t live in Queens. Even I don’t live in Queens anymore. Queens is nice, but you know, sometimes you gotta move to the suburbs. Get a pool. Over the past two years, a glowing cadre of comedians and podcasters have heated Rogan’s Sirens song.

They include Shane Gillis, Brian Simpson, Duncan Trussell, Matt mccuster, and Tony Hinchcliff. Within the industry, Joe Rogan is widely believed to be the most popular podcaster on Earth. Now, Rogan is cranking up is Austin comedy podcasting machine to magnify the talent, wealth, and influence of his recruits and allies. The rewards of securing a close spot and the Rogan Verse are significant. Is blessing, guaranteeing a nice boost and audience share, and in advertisers looking to sell their products to consumers.

Bloomberg tells us it’s a good sign to be investing in comedy infrastructure. You know, maybe advertised on a daily comedy podcast. That’s all I’m saying. Stand up comedy gross ticket sales between twenty twelve and twenty twenty three nearly tripled, going from a three hundred and seventy one million dollars to nine hundred and nine million dollars according to Pollstar. Steve Adler, the former mayor of Austin, Texas, says, our tolerance for taking risks is higher than any other city than I’ve been to in the world.

The article then tells us what Rogan tends to talk about on a show and his bio fear factor UFC. You probably know that if you’re listening to me. Bran Gar, a Cap City regular, says, before Rogan, Austin was a good place for smart comedy, known for comedians who didn’t do a lot of easy jokes. Most stuck around and enjoyed the low key community. It’s always been a little bit of a sibling to the music scene.

Rogan decided build a club of his own. First, he considered buying a ranch, constructing an amphitheater, and throwing outdoor comedy shows featuring barbecue and a gun range. He scrapped that idea and overhauled The Ritz, a historic theater on Sixth Street. Since opening in nineteen twenty nine, the Ritz had evolved several times. It was the city’s first integrated movie theater, a center of Austin’s country music scene, a rock venue, a punk hotspot, and a porn hall.

Most recently had been a two screen movie theater. Is that different than a porn hall? Was the porn hall not showing movies? I mean, we can argue about the equality of the movie Is a pornhole not a movie theater? What’s a porn hall if it’s not a movie theater?

Brogan spared new expense. He wanted a comedy club designed by a comedian, four comedians, with state of the art lighting, sound system, and camera, a place where Netflix producers would be thrilled to film and from which new and influential comic voices would emerge. He had the ceiling lowered in the main performance room and make it feel more intimate. That was a suggestion from Louis C.K. Which Bloomberg calls the semi canceled comic Louis c.

K. At the door, customers must hand over their mobile phones, which are sealed in pouches and made inaccessible. Rogan is set on his podcast this helps improve the audience’s focus. Of course, it allows him to control what the public seeds from inside the Mothership. Social media can cut both ways.

This article is long, and I’m skimming it. The Mothership takes no chances. During a recent visit, a security guard not only inspected a Business Week reporters perse, but also her sunglasses, explaining that sunglasses can be outfitted with recording equipment. Joe Man, if you’re worried about me wearing like Google glasses to bootleg a Tuesday night show, stop, just stop The only images from inside the club that make it to social media are the ones sanctioned by the Mothership’s producers. This article just went sideways on you, Joe.

This started off as a wax job, and now we’re getting into the oh, Joe Rogan exposed a part of this. The tight control also allows Rogan and his colleagues to work on new material without having to worry that’ll get out into the world prematurely on the wrong hands. Comedians of the Mothership get paid from one hundred dollars to five hundred dollars, dificly more than what they’d make at other Austin clubs. According to one comic, that’s not why most comics are there. The money is made by hosting ads, supported podcasts, tory arene is, and selling stand up specials top acts.

Selling such specials can get anywhere from five million dollars to at the very high end, twenty million dollars. According to comedy agents. Rogan typically performs three days a week at the Mothership, making jokes about such things as Neanderthal jeans, the pregnant man emoji, donkey sperm, and Jeffrey Epstein. Rogan says, I think we need another club. It’s mobbed every night.

We then get into kill Tony, a wonderful podcast that’s every Monday night of the mother Ship. Hingecliff sits at a table flanked by fellow comedian Brian Redband, the original producer of Rogan’s podcast. They’re joined by a rotating guest entertainer or two, such as David Spade or Post Malone or theo Von. They then explain how kill Tony works. Since the show’s relocation of the Mothership, new episodes of kill Tony typically get more than two million downloads.

It’s currently ranked number nine on Spotify. On YouTube, the show has more than a million subscribers. In August, Kill Tony will do two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York. I didn’t know that, Wow, Which is not to say the club is for everybody. There are plenty of established comedians who will probably never perform at the Mothership, whether because they belong to other less aggressive schools of comedy because an association with Rogan would feel too off brand.

At some level, it’s a club for joke tellers who are already in Rogans circle or do whatever it takes to work their way in Wow, there’s a lot more left to this article. So this is what I was talking about with Mike on the Letterman podcast. He said, you know, do you plan to do these special episodes? This is a perfect example of I thought this was just going to be story number one. As I mentioned the beginning, I didn’t preread it.

Could I preread these things? I could, but I like to react to them as we go. If I pre read it, then not that I’m faking it, but I don’t react the same way as whereas I go, oh wow. I like to hear these things first try. But boy, there’s a lots of this article left, and as I mentioned, there’s no oxygen in this room.

So I’m going to take a break, literally, go upstairs and have a drink of water and breathe, and I’ll come back and we’ll do more of this. It is not a slow news day, I could tell you. Now. I’m gonna bump five, six seven stories into tomorrow and Monday, which is great from a creator standpoint. I like having extra stuff.

But yeah, this is Bloomberg’s look at Joe Rogan. I’ll be back in a second. This article we’re looking at is from Bloomberg. It is titled How Joe Rogan Became Comedy’s New King Maker. Bloomberg tells us when local comedians first heard Joe Rogan was coming to town, some grumbled.

One local comedian, Ariel Isaac Norman was not a grumbler, but says the downside to the Rogan invasion is a boom and open mic nights around town that are borderline unwatchable thanks to a certain strain of amateur who thinks aggressively attacking wokeness, no matter how ham handedly amounts to comedy gold. She says, it can be really awful to listen to men making disgusting reap apology jokes, that kind of stuff, saying big getting things, talking disgustingly about women. I’m not one of those people who’s easily offended, but it needs to be funny. Inside the mother Ship, on the top floor is the green room and inner sanctum, where the regulars of Rogan’s clan can catch up with visiting comics, trade gossip, chomp on cigars, shoot tequila, crush chackos, or watch whoever’s performing. From a balcony overlooking the main stage.

A private tunnel system allows comedians to arrive at the back entrance and travel up to the green room. When somebody like Chappelle stops by, the crew can get him into the club and on stage without spoiling the surprise. That’s a good thing. On the main floor is the bar Mitzi’s, named after a comedy store owner, Mitzi Shure, mother of poly Shore. The club will hold auditions from time to time.

The most promising comedians get jobs as door guys. They get paid hourly to help around the clubs several nights a week and frequent opportunities to perform at cast shows. Up and comers get to work on their show, grow their stature, and if they’re funny enough, were in a rare slot alongside Joe Rogan himself. Tucker Carlson dropped by the club and said, I remember what a big deal it was to fly out to burd Bank. Can do Jay Leno?

Who’d bother doing that for a linear TV show? Now we’re in a Rogan moment. Wow, What an article. Langston Kerman has announced his next comedy special, Bad Poetry, on Netflix August twentieth. Langston Kerman hawks parenting a top tier baby teaching mean teens and managing his mother in law’s dating apps.

Directed by John Mulaney, The new hour was taped at The Green Meal in Chicago. Mullaney said Langston is a champion, said is ridiculously funny. The Guardian profiled some shows you might want to say the Edinburgh Fringe. These are six of the funniest comedians. Number one Joe Kent Walters, who grew up on a diet of the Mighty Boosh and Vic and Bob, started out running an alternative comedy night in the basement of his Leads student house.

His show immerses Us in Frankie’s Mad Place as he stalks the stage, playing with the audience and singing catchy tunes. Number two Andrew Dherty, the man behind this year’s most striking show title Gay Witch Sex Cults Love It. He’s making his solo debut with this queer folk horror comedy. The already hopes he leave thinking anything like that before. Number three Kate Chica.

Her style is chatty, sarcastic, like you would tell stories to your mates, A bit gossipy, expect top tier sexual anecdotes, dissections of race and gender, and insights from her travels. Basically sex and colonialism. Number four Marjoralina robertson I’m putting the numbers here. They didn’t rank them. I’m just trying to keep track of if I’ve gotten them all.

Folk tales have always influenced her work. She spent lockdown nights telling stories on Twitch and weaves them throughout her stand up. She’s a compelling narrator. Every show has a folk tale to illuminate the story, but there are moments where it’s brutally real. I want to make people laugh but also potentially help people.

Number five Sarah Roberts who five years ago is a scriptwriter and arts journalist. After her first successive stand up, she says, I was so delusional, I quit my job the next day. She’s crafted a compelling persona, a deadpan delivery, and knowing girlishness that give her punchlines a sharp but chrimming edge. She admires Catherine Coen and Kate Blant and says there’s an element. I think it’s amazing, but nothing’s going right.

And Number six gin hal Lee Jin how Lee was inspired by Eddie Murphy’s delirious He honed his craft in the clubs of Singapore and Scotland. His stand up is sweet, calm and reflective, just like Eddie Murphy with tail spanning army conscription at Singapore, Scottish seagulls, recurring nightmares and childhood dreams. Jin how Lee says it’s like a violent children’s story book. There are moments when animals come alive, but moments when it’s grotesque and scary. Oh and today up at the Zombie just for laughs, Montreal Comedy Festival, Dane Cook.

I continue to speculate that that was booked when they were going to have a traditional festival I’ll call it, but here at the zombie version of it, Dane Cook. Tonight it just for laughs in Montreal. I missed going this year. Hopefully they could do a traditional festival next year. With the way it was, I understand what happened this year, and I want to put down their efforts this year.

But you know, it’s not the same as say the fortieth aniversary just for laps where they showed off trying not to be vulgar. What I was gonna say, showed off, you know what I meant, trying not to use that phrase. It’s kind of crass, isn’t it. Yes, sir, and that’s your comedy news for today’ see tomorrow

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Callaroga, Shark Media. Tidley Holme, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know whose pubblicist deserves a race today mine. I’m the guest on the Letterman Podcast. Apparently Mike the host, everybody must have said no to him.

Everyone else must be dead or on vacation. It is the summer. He had no one to turn to, and he had asked me to be the guest. And we didn’t even talk about David Letterman. Have you heard of David Letterman hosted a late night show for thirty years, does a thing on Netflix.

He’s not that famous anyway, If you’re a fan of me and you want to hear me talk about me for eighty ninety minutes with Mike the Letterman Podcast, I will attempt to remember to put a link in the show notes so you can one click it. There’s also a YouTube version. So if you listen to this podcast every day and you’re like, you know, Johnny Mack’s got a sexy voice. He must be a handsome looking dude, even though he admits to being fifty four and could lose a couple pounds. Well, if you watch the video, there’s two of us the guy that looks like George Clooney, that’s me The Letterman Podcast Wherever you get your Shows.

Had a lot of fun talking to Mike. One of the topics we talked about is how I build this show and how I will put in the first position a story that has famous names so that people click on the podcast. For example, say you had a story where Jerry Seinfeld could have been on south Park that would be good for a headline. You would use that as your headline and make it story number one. Well as the story goes.

Supposedly, Jerry Seinfeld reached out to the creators of south Park back in nineteen ninety seven, was like, Hey, I’d be on the show, and the south Park guy said sure, and they asked Jerry to voice Turkey number two. Lines would have included things like gobble gobble. Jerry declined. The role of Turkey number two was played by one of the usual south Park voice actors. My favorite headline of the day from Entertainment Weekly, the Facts of Life revival was spoiled by a greedy bitch.

According to co star Mindy Cone, all right, let’s break this down because it gets really interesting, really fast. Mindy Cone says she and two of her castmates were betrayed when the fourth member of their friendly quartet spoiled plans for a revival of Facts of Life. Now, first of all, what would a revival of Facts of Life even be in the twenty twenties for sixty year old women living together? Do we want to see this? I don’t think we actually want to see that.

If you told me you were bringing it back in. Miny Cone is now in the Missus Garrett role and they’re like some new college age girls. All right, that makes sense. But four sixty year old women living together? Did they never get married?

Do they just have sad lives? Are they four widows? Isn’t this just the Golden Girls? What are we doing? Don’t make this, Minny Cones said, And during the pandemic there was a round table with Octavia Spencer and Amy Poehler and Jennifer Aniston.

They all said, yeah, our parents grew up with all the family, but we grew up with Facts of Life. That’s the Norman Lear sitcom that we love. Well. Norman Lear heard that and he reached out to the main cast of Natalie Cohne. Lisa Welcher, who played Blair came fields as Tuty and Nancy McKeon, who Johnny Mack has a soft spot for, she played Joe Lea reached out to them, they hired a writer, they started meeting the revival over zoom.

But what happened next, con says was not cute. One of the girls went behind our backs and tried to make a separate deal for a spinoff just for herself and devastated the rest of us. Okay, let’s speculate. Who do you think it is? Do you think it was Blair?

Do you think it was two Dy Do you think it was Joe hmm. I don’t know what any of them have been doing since. Which one of them do you think double dealt the other three? On the podcast where Mindy Cone told the story, actor Michael Hitchcock was one of the guests. Hitchcock said, there’s always a greedy bitch.

Mindy Cohn replied, you know what, Michael Hitchcock, greedy bitch. She was a greedy bitch. I’ll say it. She did not name names, but she did suggest that a scroll through her Instagram account would give a clue about which former cast mate she spends time with and with whom she does not. I’m tempted to whip out my phone right now, but I got a record the weekend, so I’m not gonna do it.

You guys, do it and tell me in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group who Mindy Cone interacts with on Instagram and who who she doesn’t. Mindy said, a couple of people can’t move past it, don’t want to move past it. We’re not as united. We were united for forty years over not talking about each other, not doing dirty, you know, all for one, one for all. All this kind of wreck that which is sad, really sad.

Now I kind of want to see the four six year old women living together with their sad lives that didn’t work out. Ugh, don’t make the facts life. What are you doing? Vince Vaughn is set to become a majority stakeholder of the Pickaball team, the Coachella Valley Scorpions. No, it’s not a slow news day.

I’m just amused by the stories today. The Coachella Valley Scorpions were launched in May. They’re one of twelve teams competing in the National Pickaball League’s champions Pro League, which welcomes players fifty years old and above. So Vince Vaughn owns a senior league team pickleball team. Vince Vaughn said, I’ve always enjoyed the game, and in meeting co owner Kim jagged I was impressed with her not only as a player, but her passion and style of coaching.

I’m excited to support her and the Scorpions on their journey. Kim Jaggs said, when you’re on the court with Vince, you can feel his energy and excitement for pickleball. His involvement is an exciting development for the team and will help the Scorpions continue to build their brand both in Coachella Valley and in the broader southern California arena. Hey, guys, have you seen Welcome Torexham, Vince Vaughan pickleball? Do it?

Film it? You know what? Give a piece of this team to Ryan Reynolds. That dude likes to hustle to the point where Kevin Hart is like, yo, we take a day off. Alison Reese getting some buzz for her Kamala Harris impression.

Now, if you listen to the show every day, you know sometimes I’m a little tough on TikTok comedians. Let’s see Alison Ree as Kamala Harris picking her VP. Let’s listen who should be my VP? Oh bars Kay Barrack and he’s never been Vie John Stuart White. People like him, Monopoly guy.

People like money. They also like cartoons. I’d love to get Michelle. This is troubly busy writing a book or whatever, not Corey book or his cousin ru Paul. As I said earlier in the week, the impression is pretty good.

Not sure the material is there, and I’m not sure that’s going to get old or really quickly. But I’ve been wrong about such things, and I’m not from the TikTok generation. I don’t understand it. I’m up here on old Man Mountain where I get excited about things like Dave Chappelle playing a concert tonight. He will feature rapper fifty Cents, known for the worst first pitch in Major League Baseball history.

The show’s at nine PM. Tickets went on sale yesterday at noon. I told you about it as soon as I heard about it. I guarantee it’s sold out, and he wouldn’t let you bring your phone in anyway, So who cares? Sam Marillo talk to crackt No, there’s nobody named Sam Marillo.

It’s Sam Morrill. But my talkument has corrected it to say Sam Marillo, and I just read it. No, Sam Marillo. I don’t know what Sam Marirello is doing. Let’s google who’s Sam Marrillo.

You can tell him loose today because they just did ninety minutes with Mike on the Letterman podcast. Let’s see, this is a guy named Sam Marillo who has an Instagram account. There’s a guy who’s a news producer at NBC. But I’m going to click on Samarillo dot com, which says Sammarillo hair, and a click on Samarillo dot com tells us the hair you always wanted, with the confidence you always deserve. Let’s click on about Sam.

Sam says while most stylists offer a great first service, I see my role as a stylist a little differently. When I’m not in the salon suite, I’m more than likely with my husband and son enjoying some quality time. All Right, I have quite aggressed. Let’s not talk about Sam Mariillo.

Let’s talk about comedian Sam Morrell, who talked to Crack and shared that I …

He was crushing at that point. It was cool to see somebody in that zone. It was a very different type of comedy. He was doing a character. It was also a well oiled machine of a TV show.

Sam explained the flow of a comedy act and said, there’s a reason you can’t tell certain jokes at certain places. I can’t open on an abortion joke. I can’t open on a really dark premise. You have to earn it, just like in a friendship or life. That’s why it’s easier now for me to do stand up because the audience that comes out usually trust me.

But then you’re pushing it even further. Even now, I still need to put a dark joke later in my set. And no matter what, I call them hard to follow jokes. A lot of comics get off on being like I said it. But anyone can say it, you have to say it cleverly.

That’s literally the job to make it funny. There’s an obsession now with being shocking for the sake of being shocking, And sometimes people will show me someone and they’ll think I’ll find it funny because it’s edgy in their mind. But you know, I like clean comedy. I like good comedy, darker light. I don’t give a whot People get a little too caught up and what is taboo rather than what’s funny.

Continuing with today’s theme of doing stories that are amusing to me, from the Johnson County Post, your home for comedy news, the headline KC comedian starts a new endeavor with Johnson County food truck. That’s right, Jake Triplett’s publicist would win Publicists of the Day. But I’m winning Publicists of the Day for my eighty ninety one and it’s on the Letterman podcast, available wherever you get your shows. But Jake Triplett plans to open his Bondai Bulls food truck later this year. This is why this publicist deserves a raise.

The food truck’s not even out yet. It’s coming out later this year. We’re told. Between touring as a stand up comedian, podcasting, and creating YouTube content, Jake Triplett is used to giving people a laugh. With his newest business endeavor, He’s hoping to make people smile, albeit in a different way, by handing them a fruity treat.

Now, if you don’t think this pulsit deserves a raise. The details of the story tell us. While an exact address for the food truck has not been pinned down yet, Triplet hopes to open the Bondai Bulls by late summer or early fall. Once it opens, it’ll likely operate from eight to eight daily. Okse you’re curious.

Customers can create their own bulls or smoothies. You can add a vast range of toppings. Those toppings include blueberries, chia seeds, and homemade vegan granola. The bulls are vegan, gluten free, dairy free, and sugar free. You can also get other items like frozen lemonade, shaved ice, and granola power balls.

It’s not a slow news day. I’ve actually bounced stories already from today. I’m just amusing myself. Triplet is a self described smoothie bowl enthusiast. He says it’s a growing industry.

I like them so much, I just thought what if I made my own. By the way, if you’re in Johnson County, they point out new healthy eatery Bonsai Bowl has opened up in Overland Park. A new exhibit at the Catskills Borsch Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York. This weekend. It’s Borsch Belt Fest Tonight through Sunday, with heaping portions of nostalgia and comedy, music and panel talks at several locations throughout Ellenville, which is not too far from New York City nor my house.

I don’t think I’m gonna make it. I’m back and forth. I kind of want to go see Van Hagar. You know what I mean, if you’re paying attention. If not, it doesn’t matter.

On Saturday night. I also kind of want to go to the beach. I don’t know what I want to do this weekend, so I’m probably not gonna make the borsch belt Fest, which is an annual event maybe all by next year, produced by the museum, which bills itself as dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Borsch Belt resort area. In addition to street fair vendors, Hey, maybe they’d be a guy with a smoothie trek who knows food, trucks and artisans. They’ll be all sorts of events and discussions, including a game of Simon Says and a screening of Dirty Dancing.

I don’t know why I find this story is so funny today Today’s silly. So yeah, you know, if you got nothing to do, maybe this week and drive up to Ellenville and play. Simon says, Tonight at seven it’s cocktails and comedy. Kickoff Tomorrow at eleven thirty A m. Borsch Belt talks My Daddy the Comedian with the children of some borsch Belt comedians.

Twelve thirty. Simon says, down at Liberty Square eight thirty pm, Dirty Dancing. Sunday nine thirty am. You can’t get into Meet the Archivist Sunday Brunch and field trip. It’s sold out.

Borsch Belt Archivist Alan Frishman conducts a tour of his home, but it’s sold out. No brunch for you. One o’clock My buddy cousin Brucey. I worked with Bruce several times in my career. Very good guy.

Well. At one o’clock, Belt talks, This is Sunday cousin Brucey’s Dirty Dancing affair. The Radio Icon talks about his role in Dirty Dancing. Five pm. The Jackie Mason Musical Cabaret.

Oh yes, all this ninety Canal Street, Ellenville, New York. It’s close to a lot of big cities. You should go. Details at borsch belt org and that is your silly comedy news for today. Don’t forget check out the Letterman podcast if you want to hear me talk about me for over an hour, and normal episodes here on this feed all weekend.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big news for Tim Dillon coming back to Netflix with something being described as a political talk show type special. According to Deadline, Dylan’s new hour will focus on the most important but often overlooked element of our political system, the people. It will pose the question do we get what we deserve?

Topics will lead to conversations no one wants to have at the holiday table, but Tim Dylon isn’t afraid to lead. He’ll host the special in front of a live audience. Interesting title, location, and date yet to be announced. It’s an interesting play. If you’ve been listening over the years, I’ve been very enthusiastic about Dylan’s career.

Recently, he had on Alex Jones and it kind of sapped my enthusiasm for Tim. I did check out the episode to see what they were doing, and Tim wasn’t being goofy or doing his usual shtick. It was like a normal conversation with Alex Jones, and I’m like, do you do you not? And it just, I don’t know. It left a bad taste in my mouth.

So my Tim Dillon enthusiasm is lower than usual today. Did not enjoy that. Not sure why he had mister Jones on other than a download grab, so uh yeah, move on. Patton Oswaltz is also in business with Netflix. They are developing the live action adaptation of Minor Threats, the hit comic book co created by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt You know, Minor Threats the hit comic book, Yeah, What’s Coming to TV.

The project is described as being in the early stages of development. Minor Threats centers on low level super villains usually find themselves bound in front of a police station with a note saying courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Batman. Spoilers the initial story arcs averted Superhero Convention, kicking off with the psychotic stick Man murdering the young hero kid Dusk, who’s the sidekick to Twilight, Citi’s premiere crime fighter, the Insomniac. With that vigili anti heroes teammates turning the city into police state in a desperate attempt to capture Stickman. Small time Dalist villains find their lives turned upside down, thus with a bounty on Stickman’s head, a former villain assembles a ragtag team to find Stickman and kill him themselves.

Apparently, Minor Threats was a big surprise hit for dark Horse when it debuted in August of twenty twenty two. Sounds interesting. Hannah Gatsby has another show, Woof. We’ll Make It to New York, debut this fall at the Abrams Arts Center. Hannah says, I get the impression of the world is ending, so I’ve decided to go down the nostalgic route over the ambitious one.

So New York City, you’re part of a tour. I’m revisiting many of my old haunts, such as the Edinburgh Fringe of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and my cousins in Sandy Bay. Woof begins performances on September twenty seventh for four weeks. Hannah says, this is my best ever show, hands down. I might quit after it for fun this time.

Kevin Hart, who Will Remind You, is out promoting at least three different things this week, is getting some headlines over the roast of Tom Brady. Sure, why not? Kevin Hart said, I like when the jokes are about me. I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way they affected my kids.

It’s the hardest part about like the bittersweet aspect of when you do something you think is one way and then all of a sudden you realize I wouldn’t do that again because the way it affected actually the people I care about most on the world. I’d have to go back and watch. I don’t recall what Kevin Hart’s kids would be upset about, but I’m sorry that they’re upset, I guess. But on the other hand, that’s what a roast is. Kevin Hart says when Tom Brady says he regretted doing it, I think what he’s referring to is saying I could have tapered it a little differently, or had a conversation of pre like guys, let’s go and do this, but let’s not touch this or that.

I think like the idea of going all in and just saying f it. I don’t care, because I know the world would love to see me being on the receiving end of stuff, because I’m Tom Brady and I’ve been at the highest stage all my life. I think it was that Kevin said what it did for comedy and our climate of sensitivity I think was necessary and valuable. Although I can side stop doing both sides. Pick a stand, Kevin Hart, Come on, I’ll pick a stand.

It was the best thing of the year. Pick a side, Kevin. Kevin said, although with Tom and see where he’s coming from, and just him wanting to protect the idea of family and conversation attached to that, that’s probably where that’s coming from. Tom Brady. Nobody made you do a roast.

Nobody put a gun to your head and said, hey, we’re going to roast you. You signed up for it. Kevin said, I’m not privy to what he dealt with after, so I know his response and saying something about it was a result of possibly that. But that thing made people comfortable with the concept of a joke being a joke. That’s what a roast is.

Everybody, you don’t accidentally wind up on a roast. People are commenting on Lilrell Howary’s appearance. He has lost a lot of weight. How He says his new body is the product of a radical lifestyle overhaul, daily workouts, and therapy. In an Instagram post, he said, this is my own appreciation post for myself.

I’ve worked really hard on myself the last five years, physically, mentally, spiritually, professionally and personally. I’m so proud of myself. This is the best I’ve ever felt and looked in my whole life. Honestly, to stop drinking, eating better, working out almost every single day, writing, building a closer relationship with God, therapy, and honestly accountability has taken my life to the next level of pure happiness. Whatever you do, please do for yourself, and if you can, don’t take the short cut.

Really put the work in. This is just a whole straight, hard work stuff that’s the honest to God’s truth. Let me be an example of truly putting the work in. Some people were suspecting he had taken ozepic, which he says he has not.

Also, coincidentally, he’s out promoting his new film, Harold in the Purple C…

Hey, weird Out, it’s been ten years since Mandatory Fun. How do you think it is? Is it your best album or what? Weird Al said, that’s a good question. With every album I’ve put out, I’ve said it’s the best thing I’ve ever done, and I’d always believe it at the time.

Now at ten years of distance, if I’m looking over my entire career, I don’t know if it’s my best album, but I would say it’s still one of my best. I would say for sure that the last six albums that it produced are better than the first six, and I’d like to think I’ve gotten better over time. I think the songs are better crafted and better overall. So if it isn’t the best album, I’d like to say it’s one of my best. Joe Rogan is refusing to travel to Canada.

Okay, fine, he won’t do it while the nation’s prime minister is Justin Trudeau. Rogan was talking on his podcast with Sam Morrel. Rogan said, some people they’re always just trying to define themselves to you. They always wanted to find themselves in a very nice way. Sam said, I do kind of miss types of people who are like, hey, let’s bond over something else other than the world ending.

Rogan responded, yeah, but you know, when people don’t have any legitimate conflict in their life, they manufacture conflict. Rogan and mocks people who say they have PTSD from the last four years when Trump was in office. Sam Maurel said, not to mention, I’m moving to Canada, and I’m like, you think Canada wants all our whiners. Rogan said, not only that, but Canada has like ridiculous hate speech laws. They can come down on you for a lot of things.

The people were donating to the trekkers, they seize their bank accounts. That’s not a good place. It’s not a good place under this administration. At least they went sideways. Newsweek has contacted the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada via email for comment.

I’ll let you know if I see any comment from Justin Tchoudeau from The Cambridge Day. You’re home for comedy news. It was the inaugural addition of the Heck Yeah, heckle My Show. I was on Tuesday at the Rockwell in Summerville. The Cambridge Day asked co host Caroline Moore, how would you describe the concept of a heckle mic to someone who’s never heard of it.

Co host Caroline Moore said, if you’ve ever seen one of those videos where an audience member just shouts something out, that’s the basis of a heckle mic. Sometimes you’ll get a person who’s too drunk or too high and they feel like they want to be part of the show, and in the moment I realize you’re ten minutes to listen to Daily Comedy News, you probably know what a heckler is. I’m going to skip ahead. The comedians get on stage, they have one minute to do their standard material. After that one minute, they have four minutes where people get to ask them questions or roast them.

It depends on what the audience feels. If the audience is, ah, this joke sucks, they’ll let you know. Everyone knows what they’re signing up for, except possibly Tom Brady and maybe Kevin Hart, depending on which way the wind’s blowing. Politically, we got business deals to make people are expecting to be heckled. It’s not a surprise like it is at a normal open mic.

Even as an audience member before it was doing stand up, I would think, oh, that’s not a funny joke. You’ll hear jokes at open mics and you go just get to the point and you want to say that aloud. It’s a very aggressive feedback mic, but it brings camaraderie too, because you’re connecting with people and joking around. You can positively heckel too. A lot of people think there’s only negative heckling.

There are so many ways of heckling. It’s for people who are open to that experience. It’s a chance to be goofy. If you’re in Somerville. It’s at the Rockwell two fifty five Elm Tuesday, seven o’clock.

Hell yeah, heckel Mike. The show is free and I’m a little cynical today. Here’s this next headline. Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld have a date with the Greenwich International Film Festival. You see, Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld will receive the change Maker Award honors at the Greenwich International Film Festival’s gala event on November thirteenth.

The change Maker Award honors artists like Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld who have used their public platform and the power of film to further positive social change. Previous winners Lin Minwel, Miranda Eva Longoria, John Legend, Ashley Judd, Harry Belafonte, Mia Farrow, and now Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld. GIFF founder and cheerwoman Wendy Stapleton said Jerry and Jessica are the perfect fit for change makers in this momentous year. Jessica has used her platform for decades. No, i’dn’m blowing at it.

Let me read that again. Jessica has used her platform for decades to advocate for the disenfranchised, underrepresented, now the Jewish community in their battle against the rising tide of anti Semitism around the world.

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And then she added Jerry having created the iconic comedy show her lifetime.

I mean, is he even famous? That guy is the perfect balance we’ve always had looking for a change maker. He’s a celebrity who is able to tackle difficult topics while making us laugh. What an incredible gift laughter is to carry us through challenging times. Boy, they are lucky that Jessica has such a wonderful husband and that he’ll balance the events.

So yeah, that’s November thirteenth. If you’re rich enough to live in Greenwich or visit Greenwich, you can go see Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld. That’s your comedy needs for today. I think I’ve said it all between the lines to day, don’t you see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Jimmy fallon joke, Joe Biden is now getting credit for guiding us through the pandemic, creating millions of jobs, rebuilding our nations crumbling infrastructure, and eliminating billions of student loans. Democrats heard that and we’re like, hey, this guy should run for presidents. Allen also said, typically on Sundays, everybody thinks about quitting their job. Biden’s the first person to actually go through with it.

There is actual news today, unlike yesterday’s podcast. Taylor Tomlinson has announced a tour. It is called Save Me. It’ll kick go off this fall. Taylor will deconstruct her faith, explore her sexuality, and decide whether or not having children is worth it.

Taylor has previously said I took After Midnight hosting gig because they were like, we film Monday through Wednesday. You can tour on the weekends, and once you’re on tour by yourself, you don’t see other comedians. So I was like, oh, you can play around with other comedians on TV for half the week. That sounds that’s great for the Save Me toward Taylor Thomason will perform on Fridays and Saturdays so she can be back in La on Monday. The New York Times has profile TikToker Alison Reese.

It seems Alison Reese has the Kamala Harris corner of TikTok. The Time says she’s known for her impression of Harris and that Reese puts on pearls and a distinct vocal effect for the satirical sketches she posts on TikTok. She has more than two hundred thousand followers. I’m sure she’ll have a lot more soon. She gained another ten thousand of them on Sunday.

I checked it out. I went through several clips because I wanted to pull one for you, and then I was like, none of these are really that funny. I think the impression is good. I think the impression is better than the material. I’m not sure she will be the definitive Kamala Harris of our generation, but she’s off to a good start.

Like I said, I pulled a couple clips and I couldn’t find anything hilarious, But let me share the impression with you to check out anyway. A lot of people be like she laughed too much. Have you ever seen Donald Trump laugh? I don’t think he can’t. He don’t land, he can’t last.

I bet if he did land to be something. Here’s my impression of Donald Trump lamping ready because he must. It’s pretty good. But I think doing the laugh every five seconds is going to get old pretty quick. But what do I know.

I’m recording a podcast on my basement and I don’t have two hundred thousand followers. The Times spoke to Reese on Sunday night, and re said, it’s been a weirdly crazy day. I can’t imagine what Kamala’s actual day was like. Reese first stepped into the role of Harris during an SNL showcase. Re said, I was like, wow, as a half black woman, when am I ever going to get the chance to use this skill.

I could do a lot of different vocal impressions, but it was never applicable to be the voice took a couple of tries to get right. Harris’s delivery is musical with a touch of vocal fry. She lifts the pitch of a phrase when she feels it’s important, and splits long words into equally enunciated syllables. After that, the laugh, it’s like you’re surprised I have laughed, and then you’re really settling into enjoying that you’re laughing. It’s a very difficult time to do these impressions.

You can’t just be like, I’m a silly goose. You have to be intentional and thoughtful because some people take it very seriously. I think she’s got a good head on her shoulders. I don’t agree with everything, but who would. Re says she’ll be watching Harris’s next moves, a thing will happen, and I’m like, all right, get the wig.

Speaking of political humor, check out the Ballot podcast. We’ve been putting out at least two a day. We’re kind of in a rhythm right now of a morning episode and one around I don’t know, five thirty six pm Eastern. There’s just been so much going on. I want to get that back down to once a day.

It’s a lot of work. I mean, it’s not torture. It’s riffing jokes about the plutal news of the day. We still have to make the thing, but so much going on, and hard work is rewarded. The numbers on ballot are way up.

It actually outdrew this show, and this show’s five years old. Ballot where you get your podcast? Pete Davidson making headlines, everyone including me, going with the headline the one drug Pete Davidson can’t quit The Daily Mail reported in Atlantic City. On set, Pete david said on stage said I can’t quit weed yet. It’s all I have left.

I did coke and ketamine and all the pills and all that stuff. All I have is weed left. So it’s almost over, but I’m holding on for a bit longer. Pete Davidson talked about his car accident. I guess that was last year, earlier this year, who can remember.

Pete said, I saw the house and I was like, I don’t think you could die if he hit a house. Usually in sitcoms they go right through it. So I swerved and I aim for the house and actually hit the garage pretty good. Even at my worst, I’m pretty spot On March twenty twenty three, this happened. He slammed into a Beverly Hills house after driving one hundred miles an hour down the street, despite me understanding that he was doing stand up comedy.

There is nothing funny about a speeding accident. Pete said, the cop came and he was all mad because I drove into a structure. I was freaking out and I had to calm myself down. He said he was scared of potentially going to jail. Kevin Hart never afraid to work.

He’s got yet another gig. Well, he’s got like five gigs. This week He’s doing an Olympics thing on Peacock. I think that kicks off Friday. But for this story.

As part of Airbnb Icons, Kevin Hart will become an Airbnb host for one weekend only. He will welcome visitors to the Corimino Live Lounge, named after Grand Coromino, which is his tequila brands. So not only is he working, he’s tied two things together to make some money. This guy knows how to make a bucks. During the evening, Kevin Hart will join guests and enjoying stand up comedy from surprise guests teased as a listers, as well as a tasting of all three Coromina tequilas with a bartender Chai Lee.

Even Jim Gaffigan is like sounds kind of lame bro. The visit will also include music from a live DJ, four signature cocktails, and a plant based appetizer. Why a plant based appetizer? Oh yeah, Remember Kevin Hart’s got his hand in some fast food chain that’s a plant based Yeah. This guy’s tying it all together.

Why not record a podcast and a TV show and recap the Olympics while you’re doing it? Kevin On Kevin Hart’s official Airbnb host profile, his page reads, what’s up, world, It’s Kevin Hart. You might know me as an actor and comedian, but I’m also a producer, media mogul at a one time underwear model. Not a joke. I’m also a lifelong lover of tequila and the founder of Grand Cormino.

It may sound like a lot, but hard work tastes different. I’m excited for you to get a taste of all that hard work at the Cormino Live Lounge. Market calendars. It’s about to go down. Jim Gaffigan may have said, dial it down, buddy, Come on enough.

How much money do you need? Kevin Hart’s Lounge would cost zero dollars to request. Bookings will open August twenty first at nine am Pacific, and you can visit to Kevin Hart’s Airbnb if you are selected September twenty fourth through the twenty sixth, twenty twenty four in Los Angeles, California, this weekend. I had forgot about this. It’s the Zombie just for laughs.

Montreal Comedy Festival. Remember the fest went bankrupt and then they got new owners, and the new owners slapped something together. Well, you can see quote famous American comedian unquote Eliza Sluzenger for free as part of the closing nights. If you’re in Montreal, head over to the place Day Festivals. That’s how it’s pronounced in French, and that is Sunday at nine fifteen, and we’re told, don’t miss this unique and free opportunity to see Eliza live, because missing her show would be a big joke, but not a good one.

I appreciate you all listening every day, especially as the show comes up on the fifth anniversary. I think Monday, I’d have to go back and see when I publish the first one, but July twenty ninth is in my marine. But anyway, we’re coming up on five years, and I wanted to shout out to Isaac who dropped me a note. Hello, Isaac, appreciate you thanks for listening. Ariel Dundas gave Broadway World her tips to doing the Fringe over in Edinburgh.

Ariel says, the fringe is kind of like a marathon you have to run. At Sprint, I’ll be doing an hour long solo show twenty four times over the course of twenty five days. During those days, I’ll be seeing as many shows as I possibly can. In between performing on shows with multiple performers. I also need to be constantly promoting my own show at the fringe.

It’s customer, I’m ready to promote your show by doing what New York comedians would call barking. That means handing out flyers to people as they passed you on the street. In Edinburgh they call this flying. Let me talk about that for a second. Back when I was really deep into this, at the prime years of running zero s X on Comedy, there would be these poor comedians handing out flyers in Times Square and I’d walk through Times Square to catch the bus on the way home every day and I’d be like, do you like comedy?

And I wanted to. I never did it because I’m not such a jerk, but like, I wanted to have a famous comedian on the phone and be like, actually I do here talk to my friend Larry or something like that. I never actually did it. I don’t know why I wanted to do that, but it was just I don’t know, somebody handing me a flyer when I just like would have walked out of a room with Deane Cook and somebody going do you like comedy and be like, m yeah, anyway. Ariel Dundas says, I think the biggest benefit of doing the Fringe is getting to do the fringe.

Like, personally, can’t imagine anying more fun than getting to do stand up for at least an hour every day. On a practical level, it means you improve by leaps and bounds. It’s basically time dilation, a year’s worth of improved in just one month. On top of that, you’re meeting creative people from all over the world. Pro Tips applications open in January, and while most of them are on a rolling basis, I would suggest having a description of your show, a marketing plan, and an artist bio ready to go in December, so you can apply as soon as they open.

Once you’re selected, usually in February or March, I would immediately get started making branding for the show, get pro pictures taken and hire someone to make the posters and flyers for you. You’re also going to want to post about the show on social media. I recommend just incorporating reminders that you are going to be in Edinburgh to your current social media presence. That reminds me I got to update on my email signatures. That’s on the list of things to do for today.

Luca Zelnik has announced a thirty plus city stand up tour as the headliner of the first ever Java Monster Highly Laffinated Comedies. You know, the publicist sent this over this morning and I was like, oh, I’ll put that into the show. And I read the Luca Zelnik park and I never got to the Java Monster Highly Laffinated Comedy Tour poard pretty good. I like at The tour launches in North America on August eighth in Brooklyn. Is that how we describe Brooklyn?

Now it’s in North America, not even New York, it’s just North America, Brooklyn. It’s over thirty cities before wrapping in North America. On one of the dates this year known as New Year’s Eve in Buffalo, North America. Other cities include North America’s Washington, d C, Dallas, Atlanta, and Boston. Lucas Zelnick As an NBA from Stamford, I have one out of Saint John’s What does that get you?

You host a podcast in your basement? On stage, Lucas’s conversational stand up challenges his cushy Manhattan upbringing with punch heavy material, while his quick witted crowd work in death maneuvering with hecklers and outtakes has gotten him over one hundred million views on socials Nice. He gave a quote, could be more excited about partnering with Java Monster to debut the Highly Elafinated Tour. Their tasty drinks will be a perfect combination with my tasteless comedy. Get your tickets before they sell out.

Hey, Java Monster, I know a guy that this was a daily podcast about comedy who’s been known to drink coffee. Anyway, if you want to see the Java Monster Highly Laffinated Tour, Brooklyn, North America, August eighth, Tempe, d C. Richmond, Jersey City, Hampden, Connecticut, Charleston, Wilmington, Columbia, South Carolina, and Naples, Florida, Johnia, Beach, Florida and New Orleans, Nashville, San Antonio, Dallas, Las Vegas, San Diego, Cleveland, Philly, Salt Lake, Denver, Lincoln, Nebraska, Springfield, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, Athens, Georgia, Atlanta, Boston, Vancouver, Buffalo. I was wondering why we were being so specific about North America, and that’s because of that one. Actually it’s two pesky Vancouver shows, but it’s not like he’s playing New Zealand.

And that’s the comedy news for today. I have one more thing I want to talk about, but it’s not comedy news. If you only came for the comedy news, you are dismissed for everybody else. Remember last week I talked about the commercials, and there was one listener who’s like, going to keep hearing promos for the TJ Show to drive me nuts. So I heard back from him.

Turns out the listeners in South America, which sounds pretty cool until you realize Lucas Zelnick’s tour is not going there. It’s a North American tour starting in Brooklyn at North America anyway, so he’s in South America, which explains everything. As I pointed out last week. A lot of the ads are geographically targeted, so a lot of American advertisers probably don’t run ads in South America. So you were hearing the TJ Show.

Now, once I put this all together, you know I probably shouldn’t promote the TJ Show in South America. So good news, listener, I have blocked the TJ Show promo from running in your country. Unless you travel, you should never hear it again. Now. Interestingly enough, I was listening to a ballot earlier today.

Oh, this is what I want to share with you. There’s this weird glitch in my neighborhood when I drive around. If I download a show in my house, it thinks I’m in New Jersey. If I drive around the neighborhood specifically an Apple podcasts and I stream a podcast rather than download it in advance. For some reason, Apple Podcasts think I’m in Ireland.

So I get all these spots for like Irish TV shows and the Irish Lottery.

And then driving around this morning on my way back from the National Donus C…

I guess I should block Ireland as well. All right, that’s your podcast for today. See you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with a podcast called Daily Comedy News. But I gotta be honest, I’ve been doing this. It’ll be five years next week, and this might be the slowest news day I’ve seen, you know, other than something like Christmas or something.

Now. Normally, when I put together the show, I’ll google words like comedy and comedian. There’s a couple of websites I hit. I went through all that. I have one real story for you, and the rest is filler.

Another thing I’ll do is i’ll give you an example. So last week there were a bunch of articles about Sam Marrill. Sometimes I’ll take half the article and i’ll take the other half and I’ll push it into the future, because you don’t want to hear me talking about the same comedians every day. So I’ll take say half the samurial article and put it three weeks from now on a weekend, and use that to pad out a weekend episode. But for today, I’ve got one real story and I had to pull everything else up.

I’ll walk you through it as we do it. The big news over the weekend. I don’t know if you heard President Biden not running for reelection. Now, as I record this on Monday afternoon, nobody from Late Night has done a show yet. John Oliver got caught with his pants down.

They pretty openly record last week Tonight on Saturday Night, and the news broke Sunday at about one forty six pm Eastern, So Oliver got stuck with this immediately dated show before it even airs. Ouch. I feel your pain. As for me, I was in the pool at one forty five and I came out and I checked my phone and I saw the news and I was like, oh, I have to get to work, and I got to work on the Ballot podcast. So if you would like some snarky late night commentary, check out Ballot wherever you get your shows.

From a comedy standpoint, John Stewart put out a one sentence statement that said, legend and the other thing everyone’s talking about is Maya Rudolph hypothetically returning to SNL to play Kamala Harris. I think that would be a smart six week sprint for both the show and Maya. All Right, the one piece of actual news. On Saturday Night, John Stewart and Dave Chappelle did a show together at the Apollo Theater, and I was stunned to see this because I do prep this show. Maybe there’ll be a day where I don’t jump on the internet.

Like Saturday, I went to the beach. But I pretty much keep up on everything six days a week anyway, and Chappelle is definitely a name I googled daily to see if there’s any news. I saw nothing of this, but they played the Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Saturday night like any show involving Chappelle, yonder pouches, put your phone away and all that, But somebody has reported on it. The Hollywood Reporter said John Stewart was in great form as he dropped his unfiltered and very funny takes on Biden’s debate performance in candidacy and Trump’s Trumpiness. The Hollywood Reporter writes, there’s something about that moment when Dave Chappelle grabs a mic, stands or sits on stage before live audience and just riffs.

Some of the best gags of the night came early in his set, when you explain that fame is like running up a hill with bullets constantly whizzing past your ear, a reference to Trump’s recounting of the assassination attempt, and he joked about Sean Combe, saying, oh, they got puffed daddy, in a reference to mister Combe’s legal issues, which include accusations of assault and sex trafficking. Some of Chappelle’s topics were told included Trump, Biden, Fame, Ohio’s men, and Gaza. On politics, Chappelle pointed out how the entire process is a snake eating its own tail. He also joked at twenty twenty four is the first year that white voters got to feel as hopeless about no good candidates as blacks do every year. CHR says the set grew unpredictable at times, with Chappelle’s shouting back at Heckler’s who had beefs with Dave?

I wonder what that’s about, Hopefully Morall coming about that. I wonder if that’s about Gaza or why would you accidentally wind up at the Apollo Theater seeing Dave Chappelle if you don’t like Dave Chappelle. The two comics were on stage together to close out the show. No details and what they talked about there. As I mentioned Slow News Day, I pulled some stories up from future weekends.

David Cross spoke to Entrepreneur magazine about staying motivated, and Cross said, sometimes it’s tough. I’m tired. We were out until two in the morning and we had to get up and go to Spokane and make it connecting flight to Oklahoma City and you don’t get into late and it’s just needing free doos. But I mean it’s professionalism. You have to figure out how to get yourself ready to go, whether it’s doing a bunch of bush ups or whatever.

One thing I pride myself on is I give one hundred percent every time I’m up there, and even if the crowd sucks, which doesn’t happen that much anymore. I always imagine a sixteen year old kid in the balcony who’s at his first comedy show. That’s stolen from Joe Demaggio. Joe Demaggio said that there might be a kid who’s seeing me play for the first time. I know your trick’s David Cross.

Cross says, all he or she wants to do is stand up. I want to do the show for that kid because I was that kid at one point. As for taking criticism, Cross says, the people whose criticism I always listen to or my wife Amber, Bob Odenkirk, and a handful of people including John Benjamin, when they give me a compliment. I know it’s not bs and I know it comes from an intellectual place, but some people like my stuff way too much, and some people just hate my stuff. I try not to listen to those extremes.

If the criticism is something like you’re offensive or you shouldn’t talk about that, those things aren’t really criticisms. But if somebody has a critical take on a bit and I can see their point and where they’re coming from, that’s a criticism I’ll take and acknowledge. Whether I choose to do anything about it, it’s a different story. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. He also cleared up any confusion about the end at times.

Dave A. Cross said, aliens are not going to be the cause of the apocalypse. We’re in a very very very very very slow, yet absolutely real apocalypse. Apocalypse doesn’t necessarily mean a bunch of fireballs to send on planet Earth and in seven seconds we’re wiped out.

And now we’re going through the apocalypse right now, in real time.

My plan go out on tourstell some merch and then just invest in fresh water. The Hollywood Reporter had done a round table with a bunch of comedians and they were asked, do you guys have a third rail? Taylor Tomlinson said, I don’t do jokes about people in my family, are friends of mine, or people I’m dating without running it past them, because I just don’t think it’s worth destroying relationships for ninety seconds. When I was twenty one, I was like, burn it all down to be a legend. But then you get older and you’re like, oh, I’m alone.

Mike Birbiglia told The Hollywood Reporter in his twenties he wanted to be a star. Then at thirty, I was given my own sitcom at CBS and they shot the pilot and Bob Odenkirk, by the way, if you’re playing Bob Odenkirk bingo today Drink played my brother and Nick Kroll played my cousin. And was like, Oh my god, I can’t believe it.

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And then by the time it went through the factory, that is, the studios and th…

It wasn’t my creative vision, and it didn’t get picked up to air and thank god I went back to New York. I made Sleepwalk with me. Nathan Lane put his name in a reputation behind it, and it changed my life. Otsco at Costco was recently in Manila. She wrote a jeepney for the first time during her visit, and an Instagram post she shared a video of that experience and said, what’s up, guys, I’m in a jeepney.

That’s pretty much their public transportation a bus. You ever been in a bus where the windows are all open? Hole? You ever been in a bus there’s a hole in the back. Welcome to the Philippines.

She compared the jeepney to a roller coaster that’s more than just a ride, and said, this is like a roller coaster, except it gets you to work. Come on, how fun is that? Slow? News Day, John Slow Newsday listener. So this would have been the lead story it was.

David Letterman was scheduled to do a fundraiser for Joe Biden. I guess he’s not going to do it anymore unless he’s doing it for Harris or other candidate. The Mortha’s Vineyard Gazette had announced the event as part of the Biden victory fund as President Biden makes his bid for a second term later this year, invites to the event hinged on donations of twenty five hundred to twenty five thousand dollars. Interesting that Letterman was going to do that, and I assume now it’s not happening. I’ll let you know if I hear more.

As a deep dove of looking for things to tell you about today, I type the words Adam and Sandler into Google, and I’m kind of glad I did because I saw this one from film critic Mick Lea sal in the San Francisco Chronicle, who was doing a Q and A and one of the cues asked him about mister Sandler, and film critic Miklasal from the SF Chronicle said, I used to think Adam Sandler was one of the worst things on earth, not just one of the worst actors or comedians, but one of the worst things period. Now, let me clear something up. A lot of people think I am secretly Miklasal from the San Francisco Chronicle. I’m not. We’re two different people with apparently the same opinion.

Mick said, not just one of the worst actors or comedians, but one of the worst things period. Not quite up there with the most horrible things like war or femine, but still one of those awful nuisances that are impossible to escape, like the flu. But then there’s a twist. Mick lasl San Francisco Chronicle Film critic rights, but I started liking him with click with click, and my positive opinion of him was solidified by funny people, and just go with it. In retrospect, I must have, at least in part, been wrong about the guy.

But he also changed. He went from being a comic to the person who gets laughed by reacting to other people being funny. His talent is not to be lu Costello, but to be Bud Abbott. He’s an excellent straight man, maybe the best out there. One of the not so great aspects of being a film critic is being forced to watch movies made by people you don’t like.

But the flip side is that seeing everything allows you to not get stuck in an opinion. Hmmm, I don’t know about that. I mean, Adam Saylor movies are inherently terrible, except for uncut gems, the basketball one, what’s that called Hustle? The Spaceman one that came out last year, wasn’t terrible and the ones with Drew barrymore everything else complete garbage. Frankie French’s new special is out today.

It’s called let Me Be Frank with a key at the end. There you’ll find it on YouTube. The description We’ve all heard tales of just how unpredictable and wild the Big Apple can be, and New Yorker Frankie French fully embraces that in her new special, Let Me Be Frank, particularly when she weaves a colorful yarm about a man. Num. I guess I could say this pleasuring himself.

Whatever you think that means. Maybe was having a slice of pizza, going hmm, this is good. I’m glad I bought myself a slica pizza. Anyway, whatever the man’s doing, he was doing it on the subway, and you shouldn’t eat on the subway. I mean, that’s something.

Just do it at a restaurant. Word belongs. Frank’s emphatic delivery and keen, comedic timing bring her jokes to the next level. And it short doesn’t hurt that she’s got an amazing singing voice as well. And that’s what passes for your comedy news today.

Hopefully we’ll have something tomorrow. Now, What’s good for Me is as stretchy as that was. I didn’t burn my Sam murl story, so I’ll save that for another rainy day. See you tomorrow. Go listen to Ballot.

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Hi, Ai, Johnny Mack. Here. Today’s show was recorded a few hours before Biden announced he wasn’t running. I thought it would be weird not to mention the story anyway. Here’s real Johnny Mack with today’s Daily Comedy News Caloroga Shark Media.

Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Is Andrew schultz career almost over? He took on Taylor Swift. You know what happens when you do that, right? Apparently there’s a YouTube video around where Andrew said, Taylor is the greatest artist I’ve ever seen live.

She’s truly brilliant, and she’s incredibly genuine. The power of when someone is genuine is when they say something, you believe it to be true. All right, John, what’s wrong there? Well, nothing’s wrong. But where he might get into trouble is Andrew theorized that the reason that Taylor Swift had fans target Scooter Braun is because his name gets no clout, so she starts referencing Scooter.

Andrew said he could understand her frustration with the situation. It’s all about royalties and stuff, and then added, has there ever been anyone in history that is a billionaire? The most successful in their field and also unanimously thought of as a victim. To manage those two things is masterful the emotional iq to have all your fans still see you as a victim, while everybody who’s aggrieved he has been punished and thrown to the wayside. I told Scooter, nobody’s going to feel bad for you because you’re a billionaire too.

I understand where you’re coming from. Where you like people think of me this thing that’s not true, Like there are facts and evidence and emails that show that she is lying, that is not a true thing, and people think of me this way, and that would frustrate the f out of me. Scooter announced on June seventeenth that his music manager career was coming to an end after twenty three years, and he’s also parted ways with Justin Timberlake and Kanye West. Mark Norman spoke to the Gazette about growing up in New Orleans and said it’s a weird place to grow up since we were constantly getting robbed. It definitely had an impact on me.

I would often walk into the house and somebody would be in my dad’s office stealing a computer or something. But our house was usually a disappointment for criminals that wanders who are weird home and found that that was really not much worth stealing. I love New York. You have to love it to be in New York. I’ve been mugged three times, but that’s what happened when he lived in Brooklyn before sections were gentrified, and you’re young, dumb and drunk.

I’m personally frustrated. If you listen every day, you know I drop into what I call half ass impressions. My Mark Norman has totally drifted back into doing the Seinfeld everyone does, and I can’t find it again. I’m gonna have to work on that. Norman’s comedy heroes, George Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, I could see that, Bill Bird, Gregg Giraldo, and Steven Wright.

All those guys are comic legends to me. George Carlin could do it all social commentary jokes. I’ve been in a comedy ever since I was a little kid. I was a big Groucho Marx fan. He was the funniest, weirdest guy.

Who ever thought I’d follow in their footsteps as a comic. David crosspoke to Entrepreneur and said, like most comics want you to do a special on your stuff’s out there. Unfortunately that stuff is done. Stand up is the only place where this exists in the arts. The materials done, you burn it.

You’ve got to start fresh every single time. When I start out, I don’t have a particular theme in mind. I riff a lot and then bits will expand. I write on stage of the stuff I’m doing at the end of the tours different than the beginning. When it comes time to make a special, I always need to cut some stuff I’ve developed because I don’t want to be up there for two hours.

I’ll always have about twenty minutes of stuff that I haven’t done yet that I can carry in to the news show, so I’m not starting completely from scratch. Then they asked him about insulting parts of the country he performs in. David Cross said, when was the last time he went to Phoenix? Because I was there recently. I had really fun shows.

But those people aren’t under the impression that they’re living in a place that doesn’t suck. We know this place sucks. I have to be here for school, I have to be here for work. Look, a third of our country lives in areas where they’re required by city ordnance to put out cooling water misters, otherwise half the citizenry will die. Believe me, people who live in these places know it sucks.

If you haven’t listened to Kiltonia with Shane Gillis doing Trump, it is hilarious. There is a compilation video of just the Trump parts that I want to share in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, but Facebook locked me out and they were like, hey, you got to log in on your phone, and my phone was inside charging and I just moved on with my day on Sunday because it was nice out. But I may or may not have shared that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. By the time you’re hearing this weird. Al said when he was trying to get into his friend’s rock bands, they thought it was very funny when I tried to play a rock song on the accordion.

To them, everything on accordion sounds like poka. So I decided to lean into that idea and start doing Poka ed leys of rock songs and people think it’s funny. Case you missed it out put out a new Poka on Friday. Al explains as the pok has evolved. They started taking more inspiration from Spike Jones, the nineteen forties band leader who did like funny versions of songs, and he’d always incorporate gunshots and slide whistles and cow bells and weird sound effects, and I started incorporating that as well.

So yeah, the pokem Dleys nowadays is sort of like a cross between traditional poka and old school Spike Jones from Late Night Er. They tell the story of how Bob Newhart could have possibly, perhaps maybe succeeded Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Newhart telled the story to Kriick Ferguson in twenty fourteen. Back in nineteen sixty seven, NBC was having one of their arguments with Johnny about salary. Johnny wanted to raise an NBC said that’s it no more.

He’s not gonna hold us up anymore. So they were trying out other hosts, and I did the show for three weeks in New York. Newhart did three weeks as guest hosts in the summer of nineteen sixty seven, a few months after Carson had temporarily quit the show over contract dispute. That dispute was about NBC’s decision to air reruns of the show during the after strike. Carson felt it violated his contract.

Jimmy Dean hosted the show for two weeks during that dispute. By July, Johnny was taking off three weeks to perform in Las Vegas. That’s when new Heart subbed. New Heart subbed for another three weeks that November, when Carson did more shows in Vegas. New Heart told Craig Ferguson, I was kind of being groomed, but there was no bad blood.

Mark Malkoff, host of the Inside late Night podcast We Know Mark he was a guest a few weeks ago, said Newhart and Johnny were friends. Newhart did it the right way and checked in with Johnny. Newhart said at the end of the three weeks, I was a blithering idiot. It’s the toughest job in the world. Malkoff says new Heart was one of the rare guest hosts that could have hosted the show permanently.

He definitely was in the conversation before, like when they were going to replace Jack parrge out to deb Debs joined the two dollars club at Buy Meancoffee dot Com. Slash Daily Comedy News, John, what’s the two dollar club? You sign up and you’re in the club, and I shout you out, Hi, Deb, and then you support the show by spending two dollars in my way every month. If one million people do it, I will have two million dollars minus fees. Not quite at a million people yet, but Deb much appreciated, and even more appreciated than the two dollars.

Is you listening every day? So hope you’re having a good day, Thanks very much. The Daily Beast pulled out some more quota from Trey Crowder. I think this is from the rant that I mentioned the other day. The words of Trey Crowder are according to the Daily Beasts, y’all.

In twenty sixteen, Trump rose I went viral. JD’s book came out. We got to know each other a little bit. He came to my show, hung out afterwards, went to a bar. All we talked about the whole time was the existential threat we agreed Trump posed to the American people.

While I was not charmed by the man, in fact, it was like pounding beers with a spreadsheet, I did leave there thinking, at least there’s some saying Republicans left, Crowder says, nobody tongue polishes a boot heel like this m effort. The only reason any of us know who JD is is because he’s bought, paid for, and wholly owned by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel, the billionaire whose current pet project is military AI. So yeah, if you thought Dick Cheney and Halliburton was bad, you just wait till my boy Jim Dave unleashes his sugar Daddy’s or mona of autonomous murder drones on Gaza. F JD vance the laugh Out Loud Loveland Comedy Festival, returning August first, which is not too far away.

If you were friends with me in real life, you have to realize, I panic that summer’s over. I start worrying on July third, that summer’s over. I live in New Jersey. We get ten weekends, and I start doing the countdown immediately. So the threat of August first to me, Oh, August first is like the two minute warning of summer.

I understand that I’m crazy in this four or five weeks left, and I work from home and it doesn’t really matter, and I can record the podcast early and go to the Beach on a Tuesday and September. I get it, but boy, I’m panic when August is coming. But at least this August will have the laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival. It’s in its second year to bring over twenty five comedians from across the country to perform at various venues in downtown Loveland for a four day event. Friend of the show, Dan Boublitz Junior, is behind this one.

It said, the response and support received in our first year was overwhelming. We were unsure how this new comedy festival would be received, but every show sold out. That’s very impressive, and we had to turn people away. That’s a good problem to have in our first year, and we hope to have that same problem this year. Headliners include Adam Clayton, Holland, Georgia Comstock, Elan Stribling, Hannah Jones, Shaney, Ross Zach Reinert, and Rosalie.

The festival will also feature some of Colorado’s finest up and coming comedians, along with comedians from across the country. Details at laugh Out Loveland dot com. Dan was kind enough to send over bios of the comedians. I have them here in my show notes, but this morning, Johnny Mack had some bagels and there’s something in the Bigel ingredients giving me allergies. I’m having trouble even speaking today, so I’ll dive in on these comedians maybe tomorrow or maybe closer to the festival.

But Dan, thank you for sending that over. Bill Maher has switched agencies a few months after a report that he had grown disenchanted with CAA. Bill Moore now with WME. Ronny Chieng is part of a new ad campaign with something called Ratio. Tiffany Cealin is a senior manager of brand Experience for Dairy at General Mills.

Tiffany, the senior manager of Brand Experience for Dairy at General Mills, says, our Ratio portfolio makes it super easy for people to hit their macro goals. Oh souit much, but we also know that process can sometimes feel super serious. We decided to work with Ronnie because he brings the exact mindset that embodies the Ratio brand, embracing the small winds with a lighthearted approach and a delicious snack in hand. No quote from Ronny Chieng, though, hmm. Paychecks are nice and that issue.

Daily Comedy News for Today I have to go drink some water or something clear. These allergies, I’m all stuffed up. No, I don’t have COVID. I had bagels. This happens every Sunday.

Why do you have the bagels? John? Have you had bagels? They’re good? See you tomorrow