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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart is kind of an interesting idea. He wants there to be a Saturday Night Live Hall of Fame. He was supposedly hosting his show Heart to Heart, which I don’t think anybody’s actually seen, and the guess allegedly Andy Samberg.

As the story goes, the conversation was Kevin Hart asked Andy Samberg does that exist? Is there an SNL Hall of Fame? As if Kevin Hart didn’t already know the answer to that, Andy Samberg was like, what do you mean, like an actual organization? Hart said, Look, you know all the cast members that were on SNL, but there should be an SNL Hall of Fame. Kevin Hart says, what I mean by that is the people that did the show that were able to do multiple things after the careers that were built after the show, and then after that you have another one with the careers that have existed that are still on the show, for example Keenan Thompson.

In twenty fifteen, SNL had an offside exhibit in New York City titled SNL The Exhibition. Then that exhibition was brought to Chicago from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen as SNL The Experience. Kevin said, if there was an opportunity to give jackets and have all that comedy history in one room, I mean, the fiftieth is coming up, so I thought I would take a look. I’m on Wikipedia, and here’s a list of everyone who’s been in the SNL cast. So let’s keep this simple.

We’re not gonna do guest hosts. I know, someday, if we have the SNL Hall of Fame, like Tom Hanks will get in. We’re not gonna do musicians. I know. If someday we have the SNL Hall of Fame, somebody like Paul Simon will get in.

I’m going to put Don Pardo in first, right, He’s my first nominee. Don Parto the longtime announcer on the show. Other than that, let’s just focus on the cast. Obviously, Louren Michaels makes the SNL Hall of Fame as well. Cast wise, I’m just going to read everybody and react quickly.

Somebody take notes and let me know who I actually put in ready in alphabetical order by last name, Fred Ormison, No Aristotle AUTHORI stop, Dan Ackroyd yes, Peter Ackroyd no, Morwena Banks from nineteen ninety five No Vanessa Bay no, Jim Belushi no, John Belushi yes, Beck Bennett No Brewer No. Paul Britton was on the show from twenty ten to twenty twelve. No. A Whitney Brown No. Eighty Bryant no, Beth k Hill no, Dana Carvey yes, Chevy Chase yes, Michael Jay Hmm.

Ten seasons at the Desk Ing yes, Ellen Kleighorn no, George Coe from the nineteen seventy five cast No Billy Crystal no, Jene Curtin yes, John Cusack no, Pete Davidson no, Tom Davis no, mikey Day no, Denny Dillon, know, Andrew de Smukee’s no, Jim Downey, Robert Downey Junior, Brian Doyle, Murray, Rachel Dratch, Robin Duke, Nora, Don, Christine Eversol, Dean Edwards, Abbey, Elliott, Chris Elliott all no, Jimmy Fallon six seasons no Chavon Fallon Who once season nineteen ninety one No, Chris Fourley yes, Will Ferrell yes, Tina Fay yes, Chloe Feinneman no Will Forte, know Al Franken eleven seasons No, Heidi Gardner noh, Janine garoffalo and a guest star Gilbert, Mary Gross, Christopher guest, Bill haterr No on everybody through guest Bill Hayter. I’m gonna say no. I’ve got a pretty high bar for the hall here. Anthony Michael Hall No, Brad Hall, Rich Hall No, Daryl Hammond Yes, Bill Hartman Yes, Marcello Hernandez, Lauren Holts, Jen Hooks, a Von Hudson, Melanie Hutzell, Victoria Jackson, James Austin Johnson, Punky Johnson, Leslie Jones No, Colin Jost eleven seasons at the Desks, Chasen, jos is In, Chris Gatan no, Tim Kazarinski, Molly Kearney, Nora Kitelinger one season ninety four, Tarren Killem, David Keckner, Gary Krueger, Matthew Lawrence, Julia, Louis dreyfus All No, Michael Longfellow, John Lovetts No, Nor McDonald yes, even though he only did five seasons. Very memorable, Gail Matthias, Michael McKean, Mark McKinney No, Kate McKinnon eleven strong seasons.

I didn’t realize she was on eleven years. I thought she was on like five. Hell. Yes, Tim Meadows for ten seasons. Hm.

Was he memorable or did he accumulate stats? Is they do in baseball? No, Laurie Metcalf, No, Seth Myers thirteen seasons. I know he’s at the desk. I’m gonna say no.

Send your letters to John at the shark deck dot com. John Milliser was on the twenty thirteen season. No Dennis Miller for six I’ve had the bar above Dennis Miller. So no, Jerry Minor, Vaness, Mitchell, Alex Moffatt, G Moore, Kyle Mooney, Tracy Morgan. Interesting, see, I feel like Tracy made an impression.

I might put Tracy in, but for now, I’m gonna say no. Garrett Morris for five seasons in that early cast. I’m gonna say yes. Bobby moynihan nine seasons. Uh No, because he’s not Eddie Murphy for four years.

But come on, Eddie Murphy, Yes, Bill Murray, Yes, Mike Myers yes, Kevin Nielan hmm. Now he’s on par with some people have said no to just the subjectivity of this and your letters to John at the Shark Deck. I’m gonna say yes for Kevin Neiland’s nine seasons, Larie Newman in for those first five years, Don Novello, Father, Guido Serducci, No, Luke Nol, No Ego, Nuotom, No, Michael Brian Michael, O’donahue, Cherio, Terry, Chris Parnell, Na Scene per DoD, Jay Farrow, Joe Piscopo, No, Amy Poehler. Yes, let’s see Emily Prigger. No, Rinny Quaid, No, Colin Quinn five seasons, No Gilda of course, yes, Chris red Noo, Jeff Richards, rob Riegel and Rizzley, Tim Robinson.

No, Chris Rock three seasons, SNL Hall of Famer. Yes, No, I’m gonna say no. He’s in some other hall of fame. He’s in the Comedy Hall of Fame, but not for SNL. Sorry, Chris Rock, Charles Rocket, Tony Risotto, John Runitski.

I thought he was gonna have a better career. He was a new face in Montreal million years ago. Maya Rudolph, I’ll I’ll say no to all them. Andy Samberg, he’s in the macpacks. You know I’m putting him in.

Adam Sandler, I gotta say yes. I don’t get it, but others like him. Adam Sandler five seasons in the SNL Hall of Fame, Ratio Sands, Tom Schiller, Rob Schneider, Paul Schaeffer, Molly Shannon, Harry Shearer, Sarah Sherman, Martin Short, Sarah Silverman, Jenny Slates, Robert Smigel two seasons, No to all them, David Spade six seasons. Maybe I’ll put him in the Tracy Morgan class of Welcome back to It, but not today. Pamela Stevenson, no Ben still Or no Cecily Strong’s eleven seasons.

SNL Hall of Famer. Think about the people I’ve left off now, She’s fantastic, wonderfully talented. I’m gonna say no. Sedakas for nine seasons. I’m gonna say no.

Julia Sweeney, Terry Sweeney, Keenan Thompson twenty one years in and he gets to MC the event, Chloe Trust, Denny Trevance and Melissa Villa, Signor, Dan Vittally, Devin Walker and Nancy Walls, MICHAELA. Watkins, Damon Wayans, Patrick Weathers, Noel Wells, They’re all knows. Brooks Wheelan No Kristin Wigg Yes in, Casey Wilson, Fred Wolf, bohen Yang not in yet. I’m not ready to put you in yet. But you’re on your Wife five Seasonsers and Ellen’s why Bell.

That’s who I’m putting in the SNL Hall of Fame. Let me know what you think. Somebody who’s not in the SNL Hall of Fame is Chris Gettin. He spoke to DJ Lou and I ninety five and Chris said, a lot of my characters did have a lot of energy. Like you said, I think having energy or having whatever feeling you have put in your performance in whatever character you’re doing, whether it was the Mango character of mister Peepers or whatever you just put into the character.

You just perform as much as you can. You kind of channel the character in away because you’re not really aware of what you’re doing sometimes when you’re really involved in doing your character so deeply. DJ Lou was curious on SNL were there are certain hosts that were difficult to work with or write for. Chris said, no, nobody really difficult. People always used to say, Steven Sagal, that’s before I got there, So I don’t know that’s a hard question because everybody is so great, you know.

I remember Jamiroquai said something about the show being rubbish, and that was about it. W Magazine spoke to Hannah Einbinder. She said, before I started acting, I was still local comic. I just started featuring for other comedians on the road and being an opening act hacks. It gave me the ability to to warn my own I was doing improv in college and I had some good moments, but I was too in my head to be excellent at it.

Nicole Bayer came to my school to perform. She asked if any of the kids from the improv team wanted to open for her. I volunteer. That was the first time I ever really did a show, was opening for her. I have a hazy memory of that time, and frankly my whole life due to copious drug use, but that’s a moment I’ll never forget.

I was so nervous, I could feel my heart beat in my throat. I had crazy chest pains. The second I walked out, it just melted. I love that feeling. I don’t know if I should say love, but it was more like drug use.

This full body high and it’s equally as painful when it doesn’t go well. Who are some of your favorite comics, she said, I would say that Jacq Linovak’s Get on Your Knees and Rory Scovel’s latest special. Both comedians aren’t so unique. You can either be unique or non. Hannah can’t be so unique.

My all time great so like Steve Martin, Jim Carrey’s early work, and Richard Pryor’s live in concert special and the albums of Bob newhartnellen degenerous actually as well, Liz Meely said, I think with my new Hour, which is almost a complete story, it has an art to it, it’s going to be harder to clip it out with the callbacks in it and stuff for social media. But you kind of have to go on that journey with me as well. Of course you can stand alone. I constantly perform for people who don’t know me. But there is a difference between the emotional how you show up at a comedy club and just showing up in your real after people falling and tax advice whatever people watch.

It’s a different heads base than when you’ve bought a ticket. Sit down, I know you’re gonna see a comedian, even if you don’t know who the comic is, as someone who puts out specials for free and stuff. You put the clips out or specials out when they’re done. If you want to see what I’m working on my newest stuff, you come see me live. If you want to see the stuff that’s done and off the roster that’s online.

Like I’ve had fans say they didn’t watch my special because they’re going to see me live in Texas, and I’m like, it’s done. I haven’t done those jokes in over six months. Like, as soon as it’s out, I’m on my next hour. In August, the Iowa State Fair is celebrating ten years of Jimmy Fallon leading the Tonight Show by making Jimmy into a giant statue made of butter. Well, they’re not gonna actually turn Jimmy into butter, you know what I meant.

They’re also going to make butter out of Johnny Carson, who is dead, so maybe they are making Johnny Carson butter. I haven’t really investigated this, and Fallon’s announcer Steve Higgins, we’ll also get the butter treatment. The comedians will serve as sidekick sculptures to the fairs famous butter cow centerpiece, which has been a tradition, as you know, since nineteen eleven. Previous butter sculptures have included Elvis Presley, Tiger Woods, Harry Potter, the Gang from Sesame Street. Last year, the fair honored Iowa athletes to Jack Trice, Kurt Warner, and Caitlin Clark.

The Iowa State Fair kicks off August eighth, and that it’s your comedy news for today. If you like the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. If you would like this without commercials, link in the show notes caallerrha dot com, slash plus see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media nine Jommy Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It’s been busy around here, all right, Just to catch up on the feed. Yesterday, around one pm Eastern, I dropped celebrity reactions to the passing of Bob Newhart. There was a normal episode Friday. I know, sometimes, especially if you use Apple Podcast, you might miss an episode because it only puts the most recent one in front of you, So yesterday there were two.

Thursday night, around seven pm, I shared an episode of TV in the Basement where Joe Mitchell did a really nice recap of Bob Newhart’s TV career. Before that was the O bit and before that was the normal episode on Thursday.

All right, let’s move forward.

Ten years ago, Weird Al made history Mandatory Fun, his fourteenth and final studio album, hit number one. I remember listening to that for the first time. I could tell you exactly where I was. I was out for a run. I was listening to the song Foil and I’m like, this is kind of lame, like it’s Lord’s Royals, but it’s about aluminum foil and it’s kind of dumb.

And then I should have trusted Weird Al we got to the second half of the song with the wonderful twist where he went into crazy conspiracy Land. I was like, oh, gotta trust weird Al. Here, nobody’s reached number one with a comedy album since Weird Al said, I know it feels ironic to decide to stop making albums after having a number one album, but I just like the freedom of being able to really use whatever I want whenever I want, not have to be behold into a label. Al has a new release. It’s a pokem ed Lee poke Mania.

I like Al’s pokem mixes. On this one, he takes on Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy, Adele’s Hello Miley, Cyrus Flowers, We Don’t Talk About, Bruno from Disney’s and Canto Olivia Rodrigo’s Vampire, Lil Nas Exis, Old Town Road, Lewis Ponsi and Daddy Yankees, Desposito at Sheeran’s Shape of You, Mark Ronson and Bruno, Mar’s Uptown Funk, Cardi b and Meghan Fee, Stallion’s Wap Wap, Mariana Grande’s Thank You Next, and Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off. Al says with the changing of media, he doesn’t like to have to sit around and wait till you have twelve songs. He can release them all at once. Sometimes that means some of the tracks aren’t going to be quite so topical as for this release.

Over the last ten years, there’s been a lot of songs that’ve been on the charts that, for whatever reason, I didn’t take a shot at, and I thought those were missed opportunities. I wanted to circle back and pay tribute to a lot of those big hits over the last ten years. How do you pick the songs? Al Al says, I started by limiting the songs that have been number one on the Billboard charts. That narrowed it down quite a bit.

I didn’t do like one song per year, but I wanted it to be pretty spread out over the ten year period, and I picked songs that I thought were iconic, an artist that I thought were iconic with some of the most memorable songs. Did anyone decline? Al Al said, Well, we heard back from Taylor Swift right away, which was amazing. Miley Cyrus and Billie Irish both are apparently delighted they could be in a pokea Inmedley, the one we never heard back from was Sizza, we wanted to use kill Bill. She didn’t say yes or no.

She just never turned our phone calls. Joe Rogan was hosting his Joe Rogan Experience podcast Have you heard of it? It’s pretty popular? He had on Sam Talent and Joe started telling a story. As Joe says, there was a club that when Fear Factor ended, they decided that even though it sold out every show every time I’d been there for years, they decided I wasn’t a draw anymore.

Oops. They tried to decrease my amount by twenty five percent. I was like, what the afterre you talking about. They’re like, we don’t think you’re draw anymore. But I sold out a year ago when I was here, Like, what are you saying?

Rogan did not name names, but said of the promoter, it was one of those big clubs, a big company that has a lot of clubs. I think I could figure that out, but I’m going to leave that alone. Sam Morrell was talking a Decider and they brought up an interesting thing deciders that I’ve talked to some comedians who left at Netflix, specifically because they felt like they weren’t being served unless they were huge name. They were just kind of lost in the shuffle. Sam said exactly.

It’s like you hit that Netflix top ten for a minute and then you’re immediately out right because they put out a special every week, so as you said, not special. So sure, I mean for me, I didn’t leave. I would have entertained Netflix if it was a more substantial offer, but the offer was like very low where they said that’d make one with me in twenty twenty five, and I’m like, okay, that’s nice, but it’s ready now. I mean, I have no issue with Netflix or Hulu or any of them. I mean Netflix is obviously the big name, but sure oversaturation is a problem, Like I mean, YouTube specials aren’t doing what they used to do.

Netflix specials probably aren’t doing what they used to do because there’s so many, Like not everyone got that Tom Sigora Alley Wong bump when it was a desert over there, and they just got to hang on that home screen forever. So yeah, there’s a lot of crap. I assume you said crap. The transcript says s dashline. I do think if you make a good thing, it’ll hopefully get shared.

But I think you just have to work when in doubt, work harder because there’s a lot of competition. I don’t mean comics in competition, I mean like all forms of entertainment. Sam says, I have a podcast, and I’ll tell you how often I get hit up by a comic I’ve never heard of who’s got a special I’m like, Wow, there’s a lot of specials. Decider asked if Sam needs validation from his peers or within the industry, and Sam said, they all matter. I mean, it’s hard to rank them.

They all matter, obviously. I want to comics. I respect to think I’m funny. That means a lot to me. Fans are so important because they keep you going and they keep you writing.

I mean, if I went back to when I couldn’t sell tickets on the road, it’d be very hard for me to write New Hours because that was hard. You’re playing the video game on Hall of Fame mode when you’re young, and you know, then you kind of move up. It gets a little easier. You’re busy, so your brain is a little bit more mush these days, so you don’t have time to write. But yeah, having no one there papered rooms on the road, that was tough.

Reggie Watts has a special out today on VEEPS. You’re probably like, what’s veeps? I’m looking here too. Veep’s official website get unlimited access to live shows, on demand content, and exclusives from artists you love. A bad news for VIEPS.

I clicked through the link that comes up on Google and it goes to can’t find the server. That’s not good anyway. I found a deeper link. They’ve got a bunch of specials up on Nick swartz In, David Cross, Rory Scovell, Brad Williams. So yeah, good stuff here.

Reggie Watts never Mind will be available to stream on VIEPS today starting at eight pm Eastern Time. This one has a bit of a time out travel hook. Reggie says the time travel hook keeps us away from some of the divisive issues that are playing us now. It’s tapping in how I really thought it was going to be back then, and it still can be in many ways. I think the Internet is obviously an amazing tool, but capitalism has ruined it for the most parts.

Watts worked completely off the cuff. Moments before he walks out on stage, he says, I’m not preparing at all. I create the room of the environment for something going to happen, but I’m not preparing for what I’m going to perform inside the environment. Watts isn’t even sure he needs people to laugh. He’s seeking to produce a sense of disorientation or disassociation that takes people outside of themselves.

They might be laughing, but it’s more the type of laughter he associates with a psychedelic trip than a traditional comedy club. Reggie says, audiences that really know me, I can still laugh with them. I just have to not work a little harder, but maybe just be fresher in the way that I’m being on stage. This special is set in the mid nineteen nineties and points out how wild our current situation is from the perspective of only a couple decades ago. Matt Matthews will be taping his special tonight at the Alabama Theater in Birmingham, Alabama.

This is from his Newest Too, when that thing and got to thing in all right. For the last few days, I’ve been telling you how excited I was about this Hank Azaria thing. All right, Johnny Mack, what is it? This better be good. I’ve probably oversold it unless you’re a Springsteen fan.

Hank Azaria answered my prayers. Remember the other day, I said, I did this whole thing about how comedy was kind of stale right now and nobody was doing anything interesting. Hank Kazaria must have listened to the episode, traveled back in time three months and put together a Bruce Springsteen cover band. Vulture caught up with Hank, who said, my whole life is about sharing vocal impressions. This, in some ways is the ultimate of that to me.

I think of it as a theatrical performance. I’m staying in character as Bruce, even though I’m telling stories about myself. It’s a performance piece, but I’m not a Bruce impersonator. He did a gig recently that went so well he was offered to acting jobs later in the week, and he turned them both down and spent all morning pursuing whatever’s next with the Easy Street band. They’re gonna play New York City in August and maybe do a full tour.

I’m a major Springsteen fan. I have seen and Bruce fifty something times. When I worked at Sirius, I worked closely with Stephen van zandt on something called The Wise Guys Show. I’ve been to rehearsal shows. I met Clarence, I’ve met Max.

I was in the bathroom with Bruce. You don’t talk to Bruce in the bathroom. That’s awkward. You know, I’m there, he’s standing next to me. You don’t be like, hey, I really like your music.

That’s not the time to do that. Anyway. Let’s let Hank iss Area take us into the break with Glory Days and dudes. I’m a big Bruce fan and I thought this was gonna be horrific. This is pretty good.

Enjoy. I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. You can pull down street ballfire, make you the l a fool moment. So the other night out out this rone sidebar, I was talking in he was walking. We went back inside, sat down bad a few French HOLLI temps topping what’s Holy Day?

Well pass you by. Conan O’Brien is going to appear on the Simpsons co Showinner Matt Selman was on the podcast Dough Boys and said, can I give you guys a Simpsons scoop? But they say, now, we don’t want that. Of course they said yes. He revealed Conan O’Brien will be guest appearing on the season premiere of The Simpsons.

Conan O’Brien will play Conan O’Brien. It’s not Conan O’Brien’s first time as a character on the show. He makes an appearance in season five’s Bart Gets Famous. Back in nineteen ninety four, Bart appears on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, which was just five months old. Selman says Conan’s role in the upcoming episode will be much bigger.

Cheech and Chong making waves in the cannabis industry, but they’ve hit a snag when it comes to shipping in certain states. Idaho is the main punchline in their marketing. Cheech and Chong have decided to advertise saying cruise Chooser one hundred percent legal in every state except Idaho. Sorry, folks, you know what it’s like one hundred and five degrees in my basement studio right now. I’ve got three more stories, but I’m being honest with you.

I’m hot. Let’s let’s wrap it up there. More comedy news tomorrow. See you then.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack. Bob Newhart has passed away at age ninety four. This episode is about Bob. There’s the normal episode in the feed right below this one from this morning.

A friend of the show, Jason Zinneman, writes in The New York Times, Bob Newhart holds up great stuff from Jason as always. Jason writes, It’s hard to think of a stand up from that era. Who’s a better argument against the commonplace idea that comedy does not age well. His work doesn’t just live on and its influences. You can definitely hear his pregnant pauses in the stand up of Fellain DeGeneres, who has cited him as a key figure in her career.

Put on his old comedy albums and you will chuckle. The Bob Newhart shows half a century old and remains hilarious, paving the way for shows like Seinfeld. He played a straight man surrounded by eccentrics, giving him an opportunity to express endless kinds of exasperation. Later, his friendship with John Rickles gave him another wonderful foil to playoff. Here’s a clip from the roast of Don Rickles.

Bob Newhart here making some really funny jokes about Don. Don is my best friend, which just give you some idea of the difficulty I have in making friends. As some of you may have already known, Don’s hotel room was recently robbed. The only thing that was taken was the music to Don’s act. So by the Chicago police have picked up thirty three thousand people who might have had a possible motive.

So Don has not done that well in television. He’s had four series now. The last one, a couple of Don’s, received a minus four Nielsen rating. This name’s note but no one watching. But several people with our TV sets had heard about the show and said if they got one, they wouldn’t watch it.

Jason Zinneman writes, Newhart, who got started in comedy in the nineteen fifties working on bitsy taped with a friend, understood that the real partnership in comedy is with the audience and knew how to plant an id in their heads and let them run with it. That’s why the phone was such an effective enduring tool for him. It allowed him to use pauses to tell the story of what you don’t hear most comedians are in a hurry filling the room with quips. There’s a wonderful tension to this brand of comedy. But Newhart showed us there’s another way you can find surprise and adjusting speeds.

Not everyone understood Newhart’s stammer was an incredible tool, but network executives for his TV shows told him to stop using it. His response was the stammer got him a house in Beverly Hills. Jay Leno told people Bob was always very kind to young comics. Jay said, never a mean spirited bone in his body, never had jokes that were based on anything uncind, you know what I mean. And there were no gimmicks.

A lot of comics they have an ethnic cook or they have a catch for they have something they do when the jokes aren’t going that well that they go to it. It always works. It’s just the tool to trade. But he always relied on just clever jokes, I mean, his old gimmick. He was just an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, which is my favorite thing.

He always had these kind of really clever jokes. He had to listen to, you had to pay attention. It was intellectual enough for intellectuals and easy enough to understand for regular people. He never talked over anybody’s head, and he never used particularly big words or anything like that. It was just a very clever way of doing things.

He never had a shot joke. He always had a good, solid joke. Sometimes it slipped in over the audience’s head, but most of the times it scored pretty good. Kara Burnett tweeted, I had the great pleasure of working with Bob and being his friend. He was as kind of nice as he was funny.

He will be missed. Dean Cook tweeted, Bob was and is one of the best comedians to ever deliver, and man he delivered, always funny, always from the heart. Always a reminder to me of why I started in stand up legend, Bob Newhart, you are forever funny. Jimmy Walker dinah Miight said his comedy albums were great. His TV show Knew Heart was cerebral genius.

I remember seeing him in twenty nineteen at the Pale Honors, a special tribute to television’s comedy Legends, where Bob was supposed to get up and say a few words. He did like a half hour and kill at age eighty nine. Judd Apatow said, Bob Newhart was the kindest, most hilarious man. He asked me to make a documentary about his friendship with Don Rickles. I was so lucky to get to spend time with my hero.

His brilliant comedy and gentle spirit made everyone he encountered so happy. Bill Prady, co creator of The Big Bang Theory, where Bob Newhart guest starred as Arthur Jeffries, said, heart explain how important Bob Newhart was to every comedian and comedy writer who came after him. Working with him, ever so briefly was one of the greatest joys and honors of my life. Jamie Lee Curtis on Instagram. They’ll be laughing wherever people go when they leave us.

God, he was funny. Bob Newhart, You will be missed. Jerny Gunderson is the executive director of the National Comedy Center. Until the Hollywood Reporter, Bob Newhart’s groundbreaking work in stand up and television and his beloved deadpan delivery have lesst an indelible mark in the art form of comedy and will be treasured by comedy fans for generations to we are proud to celebrate and preserve his extraordinary work at the National Comedy Center. In a nineteen eighty six Rollingstone interview, Bob Newhart said the secret sauce of his sitcom was brevity.

It’s saying it in the fewest number of words and giving the audience some credit for being intelligent being able to figure it out. One self description of Bob Newhart’s persona is the last sane man on Earth. If you’re in the mood for some Bob Newhart, the Catchy Comedy Network might have to deep dive on your cable system there, but they’re doing a weekend binge with the Bob Newhart Show. Newhart and Bob, that third TV series that didn’t last so well. The tribute begins tomorrow Saturday at noon Eastern on Catchy Comedy, and we’ll go all through Monday until six am.

Go to Catchycomedy dot com for more about that. In this feed, I shared an episode of TV in the Basement that’s in the feed A couple episodes down now. Joe Mitchell did a really nice tribute to Bob’s TV work other Bob stuff on The Hitmaker Chronicles. A deep dive into the buttoned down mind of Bob Newhart. You’ll find that podcast.

It’s called The Hitmaker Chronicles and on five daily trivia questions. Today’s topic Bob Newhart. I’ll see you guys in the morning.

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Bob Newhart has passed away at age ninety four. You won’t hear me speak about Bob in today’s episode. I had recorded it. I was actually editing it just as the news came in the episode below. This one on the feed is an oh bid episode published around five pm on Thursday afternoon, and later this morning.

I plan on doing a follow up to talk more about Bob Newhart. So in the meantime, here’s the normal Friday episode. Caloroga Shark Media really busy again, especially for a summer Friday. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily Common News. I had pumped that Hank Azarias story till tomorrow.

I’ll do it tomorrow for sure. I’m planning on recording back to back here, maybe sneaking a beach Friday. Nikki Glaser’s publicist, you have earned your money. Nicki got one of those wax job articles in Variety. Nikki also got a wax job article in Deadline.

Wow, let’s start with a Variety. They wrote. It may have only been nine minutes in a two decade comedy career, but it was one that had all eyes on Nikki Glaser in a very good pivotal way her set roasting Tom Brady, etc. Et cetera. Yes, it was a very good moment.

Nicki said, I knew it was going well, but ride this way if you can’t relax, I can’t celebrate anything until it’s officially over. That’s what her head was telling her as she was doing the roast. You have this really short amount of time where you have to be excellent. There’s no room for error because it’s live and just the amount of eyes on you, the amount of detail that was involved in each joke, it felt like a balance beam routine. Honestly, as soon as I stuck the landing and finished it and walked back to my seat, then I just felt like it was a dream.

Yeah, she nailed that set for sure. Varidy’s wax Job says her name was immediately buzzed about and people became aware of her who weren’t aware of her before. As luck would have it, within day she hit the bullseye for a second time. Her HBO comedy special Someday You’ll Die was released and was another huge hit. I’ll push back on that.

I don’t have the numbers, but I feel culturally nobody talked about that special at all. And off the heat of her roast. That should have been a huge special, and it was on HBO. It wasn’t onlike Johnny Max’s basement streaming service should have been major. But I don’t feel like anybody saw it.

I could be wrong, Nicky says. Even though all I crave and want is attention and all those things. When I get it, I kind of cower need to undermine myself and create all the reasons why I don’t deserve this. I must have done something snaky to get this. How can I prove myself that I don’t deserve this?

Comedians don’t operate from a place of I’m amazing, look at me. It’s more like, am I amazing? Will you look at me? And when you do, do I really deserve it? It just never happened to me where something has been that critically and societally accepted and celebrated like this.

And I don’t ever want to base only happiness around if people are recognizing me at a Starbucks or not.

Now here’s where the publicist is really going for their money.

They just slipped to Variety that you know Nicky would really like to host Saturday Night Live. Boy, I hope somehow Lauren Michael sees this. Do you think he reads Variety? You think anyone will put this in his news clippings package he probably gets every morning from NBC. That’s a thing that happens in the business.

You get a news clipping package. I don’t know if Louren Michael’s gets one every day, but I guarantee you the news clipping package exists. Nicky says, I have loved the show forever and admire the cast they have. Now I’m not waiting for the call, but when it comes, it’ll be an absolute Yes. It’s like you’re dying for the call.

But you’re also like, please don’t call me, because I know that my life will be so hard. But you know, that’s what this career is. It’s just a series of hard things. Variety writes Lauren Michaels, Are you listening, so publicist? You earned your money?

Not just that one. Here’s the one from Deadline. They wrote about Nicky’s news series and development at Amazon called Unsettling. She’ll play the lead in it, opposite fellow comic Jamie Lee. Nikki Glaser said, I just love the people involved it.

They make some of the funniest most heartwarming TV there is, and I’m so excited to move forward with it. It’s slowly coming along, so it seems like something that will be happening, but you never know what is it. It’s a half hour single camera comedy about two childless best friends in their thirties who decide to go in on a baby together, navigating their lives as brand new platonic co parents. Bill Lawrence is behind this one. You know him from such things as Scrubs and ted Lasso.

Good pedigree there. Nikki received an Emmy nomination for her special We’ll talk about that in a second, says, it’s the kind of thing. It’s a big moment for an artist, just because I’ll always get to be Emmy nominated Nicky Glazer. Now, it’s like you have that title for the rest of your life, so they can’t take that away from me. I’m just excited to go to the Emmys.

I love going to award shows. It’s one of my favorite things to do as a person in this business. Publicists laying some more groundwork. They got this one and I are in deadline. I think hosting an award show is something I’ll be doing a lot of in my future, just because it’s something that falls in the same kind of category as the roast ray of this prepared monologue.

And there’s a lot of pressure on Nicky, dare you host the Golden Globes and mick a say Taylor Swift joke? You know that doesn’t go well. One time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift joke. Let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

Oh, Scott beck in front of the show. Who hates that bit? He emailed me on the Thursday morning, So Scott, you’re on my mind. That one was for you. Scott Beckett, thank you for listening.

Nicky says, I really thrive at those kind of settings when you’re an audience some people that showpen this and you have to do a really tight, tonally perfect and funny monologue. I’d love to do it. I think my name is being tossed around in those kinds of conversations, but we’ll see. Yes, please host the gold Globes. Actually, I want Joe Cooi to come back just so I can do the bit for another year.

I run out the chance to do things that generally would scare other people. I think that stand up and risting are both categories of entertainment, and other people in the business are like, I wouldn’t touch that, and thankfully I don’t have that aversion to it. Paublos is getting it more done. They got this in there. I’d like to make a movie and being a round comm at some point, I’d like to act alongside Julia Louis Dreyfus.

At one point, I’d like to host SNL mentioned again. I’d like to host an award show. I’d like to sit in the VIP box at a Taylor Swift concert. I mean, there’s little goals here and there, but I’m really just happy with how things are. And that’s been the greatest realization is I honestly want more free time with my family and my friends and my dog.

I love how she’s thrown out this list. I’ll throw out a list. I want to host the Tonight Show on a Friday night. I want to do The Daily Show on a Tuesday. I want Letterman a guest on my podcast.

I know those three things are happening, but I’ll throw them out there. I’ll also host Saturday Night Live. If Lauren asked, Lauren, are you listening? All right, you’re me. Hominees for Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded are Billy Jowels Live at Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappelle for The Dreamer, Dick Van Dyke’s ninety eight Years of Magic, Nicky Glazer Someday You’ll Die, Trevor Noah.

Where was I out of those five? I would say, well, from a comedy standpoint, Trevor was the best of those five. I didn’t see the Dick Vandyke. I did see some of the Billy Joel. You know, Billy could get a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dick Van Dyke, for sure could get a Lifetime Achievement Award. I’m not sure Nicky is gonna win this one. And award shows do love giving awards to Dave Chappelle.

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All right, Let’s talk about the intersection of politics and comedy.

Alonzo Bowden was asked, when can you make a joke about, say, someone trying to assassinate someone. Alonzo said, it’s never too soon unless it’s not funny. Comedians will always make it funny no matter what happens. That’s what we do, it’s how we communicate. In this case, Donald Trump is such a character, and the fact that he wasn’t killed the joke started immediately.

And I don’t think he minds. He’s one of those people. As long as you’re talking about him, it’s a win. Matt Friend wrote in an op ed for The Daily Beast, and he said, I dealt with my shock and sadness by posting a graphic of my social of the instantly iconic image of Trump with blood on his face pumping his fist. Under the photo, I wrote, how long before this becomes merch?

Got admit I had the same thought As expected, I received a mix of positive engagement and furious backlash. I had conflicting thoughts. On the one hand, the joke was making fun of Trump’s habit of turning everything he does in a merchandise. On the other hand, I was trying to be funny after a former president was nearly killed. I ended up taking down the post, and that caused my head to circle with questions, does this mean I didn’t stand up for comedy?

Where’s the lines that I cross it? In order to get closer into answering these questions, I’ve been turning to comedy’s pass for advice. Johnny Carson once said, I think one of the dangers if you were a comedian, if you start to take yourself too seriously and start to comment on social issues, your sense of humor suffers. Somewhere in nineteen eighty one, Carson hosted the Oscars one day after Ronald Reagan was shot. At that time, Johnny said, he happens to be in very good spirits.

After all, you must remember this as a man who, yesterday, while he was in the hospital unable to speak, wrote on a sheet of paper, all things considered, I’d rather be in Philadelphia. So tonight the show does go on, my friend said, while a delicate joke, Carson managed to gracefully touch on the attempted assassination of Reagan. Trey Crowder apparently knew jd Vance back in the day and did a three minute joke field rant about him. Trey Crowder said, you know, if you were to tell me when I was a kid that one day a white trash hillbilly would have a shot at the White House, I would have been like, what with a potato gun? No?

No is the vice president. Damn, that’s wild. Tell me more about this hero. What was he? A man of the people, civil rights attorney, no Ivy League educated venture capitalists who first rose to fame by selling us all out.

Oh well, that’s disappointing. From the Guardian, a twenty eight year old German comedian got in trouble with Trump supporters and then Elon Musk after a series of tweets. Sebastian Hats, who posts and performs as el Hatso, lost his job as a broadcaster this week for the tweets. He apparently tweeted something along the lines of that the attempt on Saturday had been like the last bus. Unfortunately just missed those of the words of Hats, not me.

He also published a post saying it was absolutely fantastic when fascists die. Hatts has seven hundred thousand followers on Twitter. He deleted the original post, but screenshots of them we were published on social media. He then wrote absolutely no one forces anyone to sympathize with fascists. You can do without it without the slightest consequences.

The controversy prompted the Berlin based public broadcaster RBB to cancel Hots’s involvement with one of its radio shows, which he had co hosted since twenty twenty two. The program director said his remarks are not compatible with the values for which RBB stands. I always like hearing from you guys. My email is in the show notes. The Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast groups another a great way to hit me up there.

You can hit me up in Facebook Messenger. I always love hearing from people. Heard from Tom yesterday around lunchtime. Always good to hear from you, Tom, and Tom is a supporter. Buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Coming News. Much appreciate it. Always great to hear from you. Out today a new song from weird Al. We don’t know what it is yet.

Well we might by the time you’re listening to this. As Johnny Mack records this, Johnny Mack doesn’t know if it’s a parody or an original. Will it be a physical release. His last new song was called now You Know, played over the closing credits to weird the Al Yankovic story back in twenty two. In twenty twenty three, weird Al told comicbook dot Com, I don’t think I’ll do another conventional album.

The soundtrack came out last year, but that’s a various artist album. I’m not giving up music. I’ll probably put out at least one new track next year. I guess he didn’t lie, but I don’t really like the business model of waiting until I have twelve songs and then putting them all out at once. I like coming up with an idea and if it’s good enough, I want to get it out immediately.

And now I can because I not be holding to any contract of business model. Roywood Junior will put his next stand up special on Hulu. He’ll tape in in September at the Lincoln Theater in Washington. Hulu is bringing the comedy This Falls. So far, they’ve announced Jim Gaffigan and Bill Burr.

They’ve also licensed a bunch of specials from eight hundred Pound Guerrilla. See we’re hearing a lot about those guys now in Comedy Dynamics. Netflix will have Matt Riffe’s next special. This one going to be all crowd work. Rolling Stone reports for a full hour at the Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Matt Rife alied solely on his audience to keep the show afloat Rife’s off the cuff performance was captured for his upcoming Netflix special Lucid out on Netflix August thirteenth.

Matt Riife says that this show is going to be completely different from anything you’ve ever seen live or on Netflix before. This is just me and you guys. There is a trailer. Let’s listen to the beginning of it before he gets a little too naughty. This show is going to be completely different from anything you’ve seen live or on Netflix before.

This is an entire crowd work special. This is just me and you, guys. I don’t know what you’re gonna say. I don’t know what I’m gonna say. I want you guys to be aware you are equally as at fault for how this goes as and that istra comedy news for today tomorrow normal episode.

Ran out of interviews. That’s fine, there’s plenty of news. I bumped a lot of stuff from today’s show. So tomorrow’s a normal episode. Monday’s a normal episode.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it. To see you tomorrow and I’ll have a new hard thing mid morning. See you back in a bit

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Caloroga Shark Media. Today we’re taking a break from our usual recaps to pay tribute to a true television legend, Bob Newhart, who sadly passed away on July eighteenth at the age of ninety four. Let’s dive into the incredible TV career of this comedy icon. Now, when you think of Bob Newhart, you might first picture that deadpan delivery, that signature stammer, or those one sided phone conversations. But today we’re focusing on how this stand up comedy genius translated his unique style to the small screen and became a sitcom star for the Ages.

Before we get into his TV work, let’s set the stage a bit. Newhart’s journey to stardom was anything but conventional. Here was a guy who, at thirty years old, was still living with his parents, working as an accountant, and looking more like a junior executive than a comedy superstar. But his nineteen sixty comedy album The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart changed everything. It soared past Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley to hit number one on the Billboard charts, making new Heart the first comedian with a chart topping album.

This success catapulted new Heart into the spotlight, leading to frequent appearances on TV variety shows, but it wasn’t until nineteen seventy two that he found his true television home with The Bob Newhart Show. Running from nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy eight on CBS. The Bob Newhart Show was a game changer. Newhart played doctor Robert Hartley, a Chicago psychologist dealing with a quirky cast of patients and an equally eccentric group of friends and family. The show was part of CBS’s Powerhouse Saturday night lineup, alongside classics like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and All in the Family.

What made The Bob Newhart Show stand out was how it perfectly captured Newhart’s understated comedic style. His character was often the straight man, reacting to the chaos around him with that trademark deadpan delivery, and let’s not forget his on screen wife, played by the incomparable Suzanne Plachette. Their chemistry was off the charts, and they created one of TV’s most believable and lovable couples. Newhart was insistent that his character not have children on the show. In a two thousand and one interview with The Newark star Ledger, he explained, I didn’t want to do a certain kind of show, which was the dumb father who keeps getting in these pickles and these precocious children and mother get him out of it.

This decision allowed the show to focus on adult relationships and situations, setting it apart from many family sitcoms of the era. The show tackled some pretty progressive topics for its time, including sexuality and mental health, but always with Newhart’s gentle, understated humor. It ran for six seasons and one hundred and forty two episodes, earning Newhart two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. But Newhart wasn’t done with TV sitcoms yet. In nineteen eighty two, he returned to CBS with Newhart, a show that in many ways was even more surreal and absurdist than his first series.

In this show, Newhart played Dick Louden, a how to book author who moves with his wife Joanna Mary Fran to a small town in Vermont to run an in. New Heart ran for eight seasons from nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety, and it allowed Newhart to play the straight man in an even zanier world. The show was populated by some truly unforgettable characters, including the dim witted handyman George Utley, Tom Poston, and the backwoodsman brothers Larry Darrell and Daryl, William Sanderson, Tony Papinfuss, and John Voldstad. One of the most memorable aspects of Newhart was how it leaned into absurdest humor. The show often broke the fourth wall and played with TV conventions, culminating in what is widely regarded as one of the greatest series finales in television history.

In the final episode, Dick Louden is hit on the head by a golf ball. The screen goes black, and when the lights come up, we see new Heart in bed, but not with Mary fran Instead, he’s next to Suzanne Plaschett, his wife from The Bob Newhart Show. He wakes up and says, Honey, wake up. You won’t believe the dream I just had. The entire eight year run of New Heart is revealed to have been a dream of doctor Bob Hartley from the previous series.

This twist ending was a stroke of genius, catching viewers completely off guard and cementing New Heart in TV history. It’s a testament to Newhart’s comedic instincts and his willingness to take risks, even after decades in the business. But Newhart’s TV career didn’t end with New Heart. In the nineteen nineties, he starred in two more sitcoms, Bob nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety three and George and Leo nineteen ninety seven to nineteen ninety eight. While neither achieved the long running success of his previous shows, they demonstrated new Heart’s enduring appeal and his ability to adapt his style to new premises and co stars.

In his later years, Newhart became a welcome presence as a guest star on various TV shows. He had recurring roles on Desperate Housewives and Er, showing his range by taking on more dramatic parts, But it was his role as Professor Proton on The Big Bang Theory that introduced him to a whole new generation of viewers. This performance earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award in twenty thirteen for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. What made new Heart such an enduring TV presence. I think it comes down to his unique comedic voice.

In a landscape often dominated by loud, brash comedy, Newhart’s understated style stood out. He didn’t need to shout to be funny. His carefully timed pauses and stutters could get bigger laughs than any punchline. New Heart’s TV characters were often the calm in the center of the storm, the voice of reason in a world of chaos. This made him incredibly relatable.

We all sometimes feel like we’re the only sane person in an insane world, and new Heart captured that feeling perfectly. Moreover, Newhart’s comedy was always intelligent and observational. He found humor in everyday situations, in the absurdities of modern life and human behavior. This approach gave his shows a timeless quality. While some sitcoms from the seventies and eighties feel dated now, new Heart’s work still holds up because it’s rooted in universal experiences and emotions.

It’s also worth noting how new Heart influenced the sitcom format. His insistence on not having children in The Bob Newhart Show allowed for more mature storytelling. The surreal elements of New Heart paved the way for more experimental sitcoms in the future, and that finale it’s still being referenced and parodied today, over thirty years later. New Heart’s impact on television comedy can’t be overstated. He showed that you don’t need to be loud or crude to be funny.

He proved that intelligence and subtlety have a place in prime time comedy, and he demonstrated that a strong comedic voice can translate across different shows and formats. Many modern comedians cite new Heart as an influence. You can see echoes of his deadpan delivery and reactive comedy in the work of comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan. His ability to find humor in everyday situations pave the way for observational comedians like Seinfeld and Ellen DeGeneres. As we remember Bob Newhart’s incredible TV career, it’s important to note that he never really left the medium.

Even in his later years, he continued to make guest appearances and take on recurring roles. His love for television and comedy never dimmed. Bob Newhart’s passing marks the end of an era in television comedy. But his influence lives on in the shows we watch today, in the comedians who were inspired by his work, and in the countless reruns that continue to make new generations of viewers laugh. So the next time you’re watching a sitcom and you see a character react to the craziness around them with a deadpan stare or a perfectly timed stammer, think of Bob Newhart.

Remember the man who showed us that sometimes the funniest reaction is no reaction at all. Before we wrap up, I want to share a personal anecdote. I remember watching New Heart reruns with my dad when I was a kid. At the time, a lot of the jokes went over my head, but I was fascinated by this mild mannered man who seemed perpetually bewildered by the world around him. As I got older and rewatched these episodes, I began to appreciate the brilliance of Newhart’s performance.

He could say so much with just a raised eyebrow or a well timed well. I uh. Bob Newhart’s TV career was a masterclass in comedic timing, in finding humor in the every day, and in creating characters that feel like old friends. He may be gone, but thanks to the magic of television, we can still spend time with doctor Bob Hartley and Dick Louden whenever we need a laugh. Bob Newhart was ninety four.

I’m Joe Mitchell. Rest in peace, Bob

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Caloroga Shark Media man Bob Newhart has passed away. I was just sitting out on the deck seriously putting together Friday Show. I had just published an episode of Ballot Our political podcast, and texted Mark Francis, my business partner, to tell him I really enjoyed the episode, and he wrote back, I thought you’d be working on Bob Newhart and I was like, oh new and jumped on the internet and I see the news here. Bob has passed away at age ninety four. His death announced by his longtime publicist Jerry Digney.

Jerry Didnight’s cide a cause of death. Bob’s wife, Virginia, passed away in twenty twenty three after sixty years of marriage. They had four children. The Washington Post wrote, Bob Newhart was still living with his parents when he was thirty. He was a balding, sylshied former accountant who talked in a calculated, halting stammer.

He was no one’s idea of a superstar, Yet within a year, his understated comedy routines had made him a national sensation. Yeah do you know about the Newhart’s first album got him a Grammy. He became the first comedian with a number one record and the star of two long running sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show and New Heart. There was a third one. It didn’t last long, and that one was titled Bob.

I appreciated the joke and calling it Bob. His debut album, The Buttoned Down Mine of Bob Newhart, sword past the recordings of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley to reach number one on the Billboard Charts for fourteen weeks in nineteen sixty. It was also the first comedy album to sell more than one million copies. Bob Newhart remains the only comedian and win Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Album of the Year. It’d be hard to imagine that happening ever again in modern times.

Newhart best known for doing basically a straight man, often in the form of a phone call. In one of the phone calls, he imagined a press agent telling President Abraham Lincoln, listen, a what’s the problem you’re thinking of shaving it off? Hey, don’t you see that’s part of the image. The Bob Newhart Show ran on CBS from nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy eight. Part of a lineup that included listen to this power house lineup, the Bob Newhart Show, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, and the Carol Burnett Show, which is the quote unquote worst of that lineup.

I don’t even know how to rank those. Wow. On that show, Bob Newhart played a Chicago’s psychologist coping with his patients and all their quirks. Suzanne Pluschette played his wife. On that show, Bob insisted the couple be childless, saying I didn’t want to do a certain kind of show, which was the dumb father who keeps getting in these pickles and these precocius children and the mother get it out of him.

That was one of the few conditions that I insisted on, and I think it was one of the factors that made the show work. The other show, New Heart, ran from nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety. That finale famous because Bob is knocked unconscious by an errand golf ball and he awakes aside Pluchette and the bed of their Chicago bedroom. From the other show, Bob Newhart and character says, Honey, wake up, you won’t believe the dream I just had Suzanne Pluschett is in the bed and goes all right, Bob, what is it? Newhart says, I was an innkeeper in a crazy little town in Vermont.

Bob Newhart was proud to receive the Mark Twain Price for Humor because the first person win the award was Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor had told Bob a story in which Pryor had stolen a copy of The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart. Newhart thought Prior meant he had stolen part of routine. Pryor said, no, I stole your record from a record store in Peoria, Illinois. Newhart said, Richard, I used to get a quarter an album in royalties.

Prior turned and said, somebody give you a quarter. Prior handed Newhart the quarter as if repaying a debt. Bob Newhart all time great age in ninety four. I’m bummed about this. I’m sure you are too.

All right in the morning the normal episode, and I’ll probably wind up doing a bonus episode in the late morning as the reactions come in and more is said about Bob. Right now, I just did a quick search on Twitter at his four p fifty two PM Eastern on Thursday afternoon, and the only thing I’m really seeing is from Al Franken here, who wrote Bob Newhart was a giant to genius and a great guy. I’ll always remember when he hosted SNL and did a stellar show. He was, as you might expect, a joy to work with. May his memory be a blessing.

See you in the morning.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Chiniac who with your Daily Comedy News and it’s a good one today. A lot going on. Let’s start with Late Night. They had some pretty good jokes.

Stephen Colbert said Trump entered the arena like Rocky belt Boa if Rocky fought for Russia. Anthony Anderson, subbing it for Jimmy Kimmel said Trump entered the convention like a heavyweight champ with the swagger of Mike Tyson in the ear of a vander Holyfield. John Stewart talked about JD Vance and said it’s like for Vice President Donald selected the actor who would be hired to play Don Junior in the Lifetime movie. That was pretty good. Seth Meyers said JD Vance looks like teen Wolf graduated and came back to coach the team.

Seth added, I got a bunch of these, but it’s a long campaign, so I’m gonna save some. Jimmy Fallon pointed out in a new interview with Lester Holt, Joe Biden admitted that he hasn’t watched the whole debate with Trump. Fallon said, oh, so that’s why he thinks he should stay in the race. If you like keep political jokes, go check out The Ballot podcast live from the Republican National Convention this week. Numbers are up on that one.

We’re having a good time doing that one. Another thing you absolutely want to check out is kill Tony. No, that’s not a violent act. That’s the name of a podcast slash YouTube series. You know, Kill Tony.

Tony Hinchcliffe, the guy that you thought was funny at the roast of Tom Brady. He has amateurs come up, they do one minute of comedy and then he has celebrity friends come by. Anyway, on Kill Tony, Shane Gillis showed up as Donald Trump. Adam Ray showed up as Joe Biden. The clip is hilarious.

Let’s listen to Shane Gillis do Donald Trump while dressed up as a pretty convincing Donald Tony. What an unbelievable experience it is. What a great show this could be. Instead, we’ve got an absolute idiot here running the show. As the clip goes on, Shane can be seen breaking character as he couldn’t hold in his laughter while reacting to Adam Ray’s Joe Biden impression.

The Biden impression is I’m not sharing any audio, because it’s really just a guy staying off into space and then says something vulgar, and we don’t do that here. John Stewart explained why they didn’t go to Milwaukee and said, well, obviously we were supposed to be doing our shows for Milwaukee for the R and C this week, but because of the attempt on the former president’s life, the venue on which we had planned to do the show, a theater, which was originally located in the soft perimeter, as they called it, security wise, was shifted understandably to the hard perimeter. You don’t really want to be in the hard perimeter. Less facetiously, he explained that crowds wouldn’t have been able to get to the theater, so there was no reason to do a live show without people. That all makes sense, John Stewart, all right, Two big stories came out.

The first one Variety’s Comics to Watch for twenty twenty four. This is an annual list of some people to keep an eye on. Let’s take a look at the list. First up, Asif Ali, I’m not familiar with Asif, Variety says, Ali’s been making his rounds in the acting space for some time. From appearing on shows like Wanda Vision, The Mandalorian, and BoJack Horseman.

He’ll soon be seen starring in the upcoming Hulu comedy series Deli Boys, where he leads an all South Asian led show. He’s a member of the sketch group Goatface, alongside Fahim Anwar, Aristotle Athari, and Hassan Minaj, all of them who I know, all right, that sounds a good recommendation. This next guy. If you listen to me every day, you probably know Ralph Barbosa. He’s had a couple specials out and that was the guy George Lopez took a shot at, right, So Ralph we know.

Jackie Fabulous has been hustling in the comedy game since realizing her log gig at Caltech wasn’t doing it for her anymore, and at thirty five Stand Up Comedy. She was on America’s Gut Talent in twenty nineteen. Next up, and I’m gonna have to try to not go on a total rantier Rachel Feinstein, why would you rant? John Well? Many years ago back at Sirius XM, we had Rachel and Steve.

Who’s Steve? Steve’s just some guy but Rachel and Steve were hosting the morning show. The Rachel was Rachel Feinstein, who’s now a comic to watch. Back in the day, we were pretty good at identifying talent. The boss is no long term vision.

Hey, boss, would you like Amy Schumer to do a show for you know? Who’s that? Get us? Chris Rock? I’ll get you, Chris Rock.

Do you have a million dollars? You know? So that kind of thing would gone. So we had Rachel doing mornings, and then when it was time to redo the budget, a boss said to me, well, why would we compete against Howard Stern? The reason you compete against Howard Stern, Boss is because Howard Stern isn’t for everybody, And over time people age, including me the boss, Howard Stern, and younger generations come along.

And if you talk to Howard’s been behind the paywall now since two thousand and six, it’s almost twenty years Howard to anybody under I don’t know, forty forty five. Nobody listens to Howard. Old people listen to Howard. So I think there was a case to Rachel do mornings now here ten fifteen years later, I’m not sure Rachel would still be doing mornings on the Raw Dog channel. But anyway, you could have given us some bucks for this one.

Rachel Feinstein, one of Variety’s ten comics to watch, Johnny thought you said you weren’t going to do a slow burn. I can’t help myself. Do you want to hear about how we wanted to give Deane Cook a show and there was no budget. You know how popular Dame Cook was there ever a while. Serenity now Krimmel originally attended college to study journalism.

She signed up for a stand up comedy class at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington. She spent years working on her craft and since discovered that her disability was a strength on stage, realizing it wouldn’t make people uncomfortable. Now, the article didn’t address her disability, but I found this wonderful quote from her. She says, I get that I’m unconventional. I’m disabled, but I’m not totally committed to the lifestyle.

A lot of people when they see me, they think I suffer from cerebral palsy, which I don’t. I have cerebral palsy. Tony Awata is one of the latest additions to the Daily Show News team Tony started earlier this year. Preacher Lawson first broke out in the comedy scene on America’s Got Talent in twenty seventeen and now one of the comedians to watch. Leslie Lao went from working in human resources at Netflix to appearing on Netflix’s Verified stand Up this past year.

Hmm. I want HR to investigate that. Did you go through all the resumes of potential comedians who wanted to appear Unverified stand Up? I wonder if that was a proper HR search. I might report Leslie loud at HR and she’s the HR.

Hmm. Nathan McIntosh, I’ve been telling you about him lately. His special up on YouTube is awesome. Check out down with Tech on YouTube. Saw true.

Heo first realized his comedic sensibilities when his classmates at culinary school told him his future was not in the kitchen. Hey, he would have been perfect on the bear. He started in comedy in twenty ten, has most recently appeared on Comedy Central Stand Up Presents, and has an hour long special in the can. He’s working to find home for well after this article, I bet you already have one. The other big story for today the Emmys.

The nominees are out for variety talk series. The nominees are The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Seth Myers, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Interesting there people thought John Mulaney would be nominated. He was not all right. Who would I pick out of Daily Show, Kimmel, Seth Colbert, I’d pick kim All.

I think Best Comedy. The nominees Matt Barry What We Do in the Shadows, Larry David for kerb, Steve Martin for Only Murders Martin Short for Only Murders, Defarow Woon a tie for Reservation Dogs, and Jeremy Allen White for The Bear Love the Bear. I know this is a very hack conversation everyone’s having, but my take, the Bear is not a comedy. Have you watched The Bear? Season one might have been a comedy, Season two and three not a comedy.

So as awesome as Jeremy Allen White is, he’s not getting my vote. Let’s say out of Barry, Larry David, Steve Martin, Martin Short. Oh that’s tough. I don’t want to give it to Larry David. I didn’t think the last season was that Strong.

Should we give Matt Berry a Lifetime Achievement Award? We could do that. Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Quina Brunson for Abbott, io at A Berry for Non Comedy The Bear, Selena Gomez for Murders, Maya Rudolph for Loot, Gene Smart for hacks, Kristen Wigg for Palm Royal. I’m giving that to Gene Smart and not thinking for a second about it.

That’s the winner there. Outstanding Comedy Series, Abbot Elementary, The Bear, which is not a comedy curb only murders, Palm Royal Reservation dogs. What we do in the Shadows, huh, I don’t want to pick any of those. I like shadows. Let’s give shadows a victory lab.

I was looking more at the nearer comedy festival lineup, especially after listening back to yesterday’s show, and it caught my ear the second time around. They’ve already announced a bunch of the Carnegie Halls shows, so if more names are coming, they can’t put the big names at Carnegie Hall because they’ve already used that venue. So unless there’s like I don’t know, Sebastian of Manascalco is gonna play the Garden or something like that. Coming a bit of an underwhelming lineup. Oh, I’m so excited about this next.

I’m gonna save this next thing for tomorrow. I’m so excited about this. It’s about Hank Azaria all right, but I’ll save it because we’re getting a little long here. Oh so pumped about it though. You need something to watch, all right?

Head to the eight hundred pound Garriilla YouTube channel at seven pm Central Time. I’m still mad that I didn’t ask those guys what the Central time stuff’s about. Nick Swartzon’s make Joke from Face premieres today. It’s seventh Central, separately on YouTube.

Also at seventh Central, Laura Murley’s Belly slapin Fun I love that title.

Eight years in. It’s Laura’s debut comedy special. Her half hour consists mostly of non sequiturs and seemingly random observations in a distinctively disjointed, hilarious style inspired by Mitch Hedberg and Maria Bamford. That sounds like it’s in my wheelhouse. Maybe I’ll channel flip between that and the RNC tonight, Hey are you in Cleveland?

Summer Slam’s coming to Cleveland? Why are you mentioning this? Johnny mack Well WWE has announced a Sammy Zen stand up comedy slash storytelling event. It is called Sammy Zan and Friends do Cleveland Friday, August second at eleven pm. You know you could go to Cleveland.

You could stay over the next day you hit the Saturday five pm mass Deacon Mike’s doing the homily. You could tell him you heard about his preaching here on Daily Comedy News. You’ll make his day. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’m going to do another minute or two here on another subject, but that’s your comedy news for today.

If you don’t want to hear me talk about commercials, you are dismissed and I’ll see you tomorrow. So every now and then somebody will post something on the Apple podcast website with a comment about there are too many commercials on the show, and I just thought i’d explain how this all works. First of all, most transparently, this podcast is here to make money. This is how I make a living. How it works is the ads you’re hearing.

They’re called dynamically inserted ads or dynamic ad insertion DAI. Now what happens is when you download the show, your phone or device goes Okay, where is Mike. Mike is in Cleveland, Let’s serve him some ads that are targeting Cleveland. So, for example, when election time comes around, Mike in Cleveland might hear some ads for a local Cleveland congressional race. Here in New Jersey, I won’t hear them.

Mike in Cleveland might hear some commercials for a local business here in New Jersey. I won’t hear them. So what happens is the computers are bidding on the spot. So on this show, I’ll tell you I’ve got two open spots before the show, three in the middle and two on the end. In those sometimes I internally bid.

For example, this week we’re pushing the artist a Killer’s Canvas. I’m running an in house spot at a thirty dollars bid so that it wins the spot more often than not. Now I don’t actually have to pay the thirty dollars because I’m paying myself the thirty dollars, you know what I mean. It’s a fake bid in some ways so that it outbids, say the Ryan seacrestchump, a casino spot that I get all the time. So the computer goes, hey, who’s bid the most things?

And then whatever has bid the most dollars goes to the spot. Now, the person in question mentioned that they were hearing the promo for the TJ Show a lot. The promo for the TJ Show is a favor with the people that I’m in business with. They asked me if i’d help promote the TJ Show. I said, sure, happy to help, and I have that in as a lower dollar amount.

So this one listener who’s frustrated that whatever combination of device you’re using, location you’re using for some reason, the TJ Show is winning that bid, whereas here in New Jersey, I haven’t heard the promo for the TJ Show on my own podcast in weeks it’s running. It’s just being outbid by other things in my locale. So does that all make sense? So again, when you download the show, your phone goes where are you? And it sees if anybody wants to serve commercials too specifically you Anyway, I just felt like sharing how it works.

I have not increased the commercial load at all unless I do an hour long show. When I do an hour long interview on Saturday. And by the way, I don’t have one this weekend unless Hank Azaria throws me a lifeline and writes me back. I can’t wait to tell you about Hank tomorrow. But when I do an hour one, I throw in a second break because again, I’m here to make money, just being transparent.

Hope you understand. Oh, and that’s why we’re pushing the subscriptions. Like, I get that you don’t like commercials, but like something’s got to pay the rent. So four ninety nine gets you the show commercial free. Help support the show much appreciated.

If you don’t want to do that and you like things quote unquote free, totally get it. But then there’s going to be commercials. Hope that’ll make sense. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with you Daily Comedy News. I don’t think I’m in a mood, but I just have this feeling today as I record comedy is a little boring right now. I just feel like there’s a rhythm of Hey, it’s Tuesday. There’s a Netflix special, okay, fine, and HBO does one a month, and the comedy podcast there’s like a circle of ten people and they all go on each other’s podcasts and that’s all fine.

We’re doing some comedy festivals every weekend, and there just seems to be nothing new, and there’s not a new face. There’s no one shaking things up. There’s no one bringing anything new to the format. I don’t know what I want, but I feel like it’s been a minute, you know me. I’m always looking for a good controversy or something to goofon at George Lopez, Tacos, at Jim Gaffig and Bourbon.

There’s just nothing. It’s just very workmanlike in the industry right now. So let’s see if that’s just summer doldrums. There has an announcement that I think maybe fed my malaise. The New York Comedy Festival will put out their initial lineup the twentieth Anniversary New York Comedy Festival, and this November will feature more than two hundred comedians in more than one hundred shows throughout the city.

I’ve spoken about this festival in the past. The people who work with it, especially back in my serious XM days, nothing but great to me. But New York is so large that this festival, it’s New York City. Man, it disappears. It doesn’t have the presence of, say a, a Montreal comedy festival, or a comedy festival in a smaller city.

This one. They all hang a couple banners up. But if you don’t know about it, you won’t know about it all right. It’s November eighth through November seventeenth. The headliners include Judd Apatow.

This is alphabetical order, David Tel, Bill Moore, Tracy Morgan, JB. Smooth, and Jabuki Young White. I mean those are your headliners, mar Morgan, JB. Smooth, at Tel. Yeah.

Other headliners include Jeff or Currie, Zorna Gorg Gabe Iglesias. I’m surprised he’s not that topless there, Joe List, Matt McCusker, Nurse John, Miss Pat, Adam Ray is Doctor Phil. The rest is history, justin Silva, Dan Soder and Jimmy o’yang. The New York Comedy Festival is the largest and longest running annual comedy festival in the United States. That’s kind of stunning, but probably also true.

Launched in two thousand and four, not that long ago, festival founder Caroline Hurst said, from up and comers to a less stars, a diverse town lineup brings laughter to a wide range of comedy fans and venues all across five boroughs of New York City, with even more shows to being out soon. At a time when we need laughter more than ever, We’re thrilled to make New York laugh once again. Here’s the lineup so far, Friday, November eighth. You can hear my excitement and I’m trying not to be a Debbie Downy here, but just like like I said in the open, I just feel like comedy’s going through the motions right now. Seven o’clock Jeffy Currie, seven o’clock, Miss Patt, nine to forty five, Dan Soder at town Hall.

Okay, Saturday Night Joe listed Town Hall Jimmy o’yang and Carnegie, Jed Appatow and Friends at the Beacon and Justin Silva at town Hall Sunday the tenth, Nurse John Wednesday the thirteenth, The Rest is History Live at town Hall, Thursday the fourteenth, JB. Smooth of town Hall, Jabuki Young White at the hard Rock, David Tell at town Hall Friday the fifteenth, Tracy Morgan at town Hall, Jubuk Young White Again, Gabe Iglesias at the King’s Theater, Adam ray Is Doctor Phil Live at the Beacon Saturday, a podcast taping, Matt Moncusker, Jibuki Young White Again, and Bill Maher at the Beacon, and then on Sunday Zarna Garg. That’ll clearly fill in more. But I’m on the New York Comedy Festival dot com history page now I wish they went a little further back. The farthest background go is twenty thirteen, and as they write, the festival marked its tenth year featuring Now listen to this lineup?

Is this a little more exciting? Maria Bamford, Hannibal Burs, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Jim Jeffries Anthony, jessinek Nick Kroll, Bill Maher, John Mulaney, Charlie Murphy, j Farrell, Nix Wardson, and Wanda Sykes. There was a stand Up for Heroes show, which included Bill Cosby all Right, Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld, and musical performances by Bruce Springsteen. You see what I’m saying Like I’m having trouble getting too excited for this one. I’m sure it will fill in.

I don’t know. Sorry to be a downer. There is a controversy. Jack Black says he was blindsided by band made Kyle Gas’s remark, and Jack Black has canceled the Tenacious D tour. Kyle Gas made a comment after the assassination attempt on Saturday.

Tenacious D band member Kyle Gas joked, don’t miss next time. Jack Black said, I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form, amen, Jack. After much reflection, I no longer feel its appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour and all future creative plans are on hold. I’m grateful to the fans for the support and understanding this is a great job by Jack.

I mean, it sucks for the fans, but I like someone having the courage of their convictions. And no one should advocate violence, and obviously no one should say something about, you know, not having someone killed. Does that not go without saying. We can disagree on the politics of stuff, but I mean, come on, Gas apologize for the comments and an Instagram post on Tuesday morning, he said the line I improvised on Sunday night and Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous, and a terrible mistake. I don’t condone violence of any kind in any form against anyone.

What happened was a tragedy and I’m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgment. I profoundly apologize to those I’ve let down and truly regret any plane I’ve caused. Don’t forget someone was killed on Saturday. Today’s st was planning to perform seven shows across Australia and New Zealand over the next two weeks. Sounds like that partnership may be over.

Taylor Thomlinson’s publicist deserves a raise. A coworker used to call these articles wax jobs, and Taylor got quite the wax job from Variety the headline how Taylor Thompson overcame debilitating fear and became the sole woman of late night with After Midnight. Some publicists worked real hard to get this one in. At the center of a simple but colorful stage stands the thirty year old Thomlinson, the picture of calm in a pantsuit that manages to tow the line between professional and hip. Thomason, the only woman currently hosting a late night network series, will later reveal that when she first took the job, Steven Colbert gave her some value of advice, which was You’re not going to be amazing right away.

He let me know that this would take a while to learn and not to expect to nail in the first week. And that helps so much because I still feel like I’m learning how to do this job every day. That is true. Like any profession, things get better with reps, including this dumb show here that you’re listening to. Tomlinson was a natural since it’s January seventeenth debut.

To this day, she reads like a season pro, rolling with the punches, putting her guess at ease, and keeping the audience entertained. Again, I’m not here to make fun of Taylor Thompson. I’m making fun of the publicist deserving a raise for getting Variety to print this thing. Even Colbert is impressed by how quickly she seems to have adapted, as why he first selected her for the job. He says, I like that she’s young, grew up in social media, and can work at a high reference level world, but still seems suspicious for what social media feeds us every day.

What I didn’t expect was how someone so young can be so confident in the role and adaptable to changes so fluidly. She’s thirty years old. Let’s not act like she’s twelve. She’s an adult woman. Disguise the limit for the comic who seems up for any challenge.

Asked if there’s anything about Tomisin that might surprise people, Steven Colbert says she spends her free time racing motorbikes and can bench press two hundred and fifteen pounds. She also doesn’t mine when friends lie about her to the press. If you enjoy what I do here, one way to support the shows, go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I will take your money and I will get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. I haven’t been getting any of the processed sugar products lately, and I just feel a lot better.

That’s not a crusade. And I’m not anti processed sugar products. Believe me, I like them. I just when I came back from Los Angeles, I got on the scale and I was like, ooh, you need to chill out, buddy. And I’ve been chilling out and I’m down six pounds.

How about that? Huh? I mean I’m up five pounds, but I’m no longer You’re up eleven pounds. But I do get my coffee every morning. I need my coffee to get going.

Have you downloaded The Artist a Killer’s Canvas yet? Come on? Hook us up. That’s our new limited series for mature audience. Is rated.

Are about a serial killer that’s called The Artist a Killer is Canvas. I like this lead from the Stranger. They wrote Joe Para is the ace knuckleball picture of comedy, and I think they nailed that there. What do they mean? They say, Joe Parra’s jokes come at you slowly and unpredictably.

While they may initially see maunderwhelming compared to those of high velocity comics. They invariably wind up in the strike zone and make you shake your head in disbelief and amusement at their off kilter trajectory and their revelatory thud they make in the catcher’s mid of your mind. His deadpan oki oki delivery belies a sharp, sneaky wit. You nailed it. They’re the Stranger.

The stranger was curious. They asked, Joe, hey, Wikipedia, is your birth year is either nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine. Can you set the record straight or do you prefer to remain a mystery. Joe Paris said it doesn’t matter. The stranger said it might matter to so people, And Joe said, am I thirty five, thirty six at thirty seven?

Let that keep them up at night. The stranger says, does it seem like an advantage for your comedy to not have everyone know other thing about you? Joe said, it’s different nowadays. Before the TV show Joe Para Talks with You, it was nice to go on stage with a complete blank slate and win an audience over reveal a little about yourself bit by bit. But I feel like it’s not even possible nowadays, because people know a decent amount about me through the TV show and my other work.

It’s a different feeling. At the beginning of the shows, there is already a kind of a background of who I am, what kind of comedy I’m gonna do. In some ways, it’s nice not to start from zero the audience. At other times it’s kind of less fun. You can’t get to know each other together.

At the same time, I love this too. The stranger said, I haven’t seen every minute of your comedy, but I’ve seen a fair amount. Do you not dip into the well of your Italian upbringing? Joe said, well, I’m no Sebastian Maniscalco, but I got a couple of jokes about my Italian upbringing this time around. There were some mild mentions of it on the TV show, the way the grandmother made the meatballs, the way she was always cooking.

I’m not an immigrant myself. I’m a few generations removed, so I don’t feel like it’s part of my everyday reality. It’d be a little weird if I was a blonde guy talking about being in Italian the whole time. There’s a new comedy album out today from Mickey Overman ROUBM is called This is Me. You can get that on the eight hundred pound Gorilla.

Dave Chapelle has announced an intimate New York City show. It’s this Thursday at the Grammarcy Theater. Tickets went on sale by the time you heard this. Sorry, I try so. I imagine it’s sold out and it’s one of those cell phone free events, which is just a pain in the hat.

I wouldn’t even want to go. I need my phone. I don’t want to deal with your stupid pouches. A message from the venue reads, with your confirmation, you agree to place your phone in a lock pouch, which you keep throughout the evening. If you need to use your phone, return to the distribution tent at the entrance.

Anyone caught using a cell phone during the show will be immediately ejected. Stop it’s just annoying. It’s a twenty first century dude, So someone’s gonna put some crappy cell phone video of your joke on the internet. Whatever. That’s your comedy news for today.

Let me know your thoughts in the Facebook group A Daily Comedy News podcast group. Am I just in a mood today. It is comedy, a little flat right now, and I’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Shoenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I got to see where I am with the political comedy right now. Obviously it is an intense time. However, I think comedy is best when it’s reflecting on society.

So I’ll probably just do what I’ve been doing, which is following where the news takes me, and the news today takes me to the Daily Show. They were supposed to broadcast from Milwaukee, and then after the attempted assassination on Saturday night, they changed their plans. John Stewart was expected to host a live show following the convention’s conclusion on Thursday. On Sunday, the Daily Show put out a statement saying, our apologies for the inconvenience, but due to logistical issues and the evolving situation of Milwaukee, we need to reschedule our events on the ground in Wisconsin and we’ll look to make those up in the coming weeks. They’re never going to make those up.

Stop lying about that The Daily Show was supposed to record from Uline Hall. Hope. I pronounced that right at the Marcus Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee. Not sure what made them make this decision. I could speculate security concerns, but I found that very curious.

But I’m kind of surprised that they made that move.

Also, Bill Moore canceled his Sunday night show in Milwaukee.

He posted on acts it’s not gonna happen. I can tell you first, they said it’s gonna be impossible to get to the theater because downtown Milwaukee is going to be closed off for security reasons. Mars said he wanted to go to Milwaukee anyway, and maybe things will change. I hate to cancel shows. I was really looking forward to it.

Would do anything to be there, but I just can’t fight this. Another possible reason is that his plane broke and he was in Minneapolis and tried to get a commercial flight, but that was not possible. So I don’t know what’s going on there either. Shifting gears, Ari Shafir was on with Tucker Carlson. I don’t even know where Tucker Carlson has a show right now YouTube Twitter.

Who knows the topic Joe Rogan and Ari Shafer said, I mean he’s the best, the amount of support he has. Ari said, all Joe looks for a guest is whether they are funny or not. He’s just like, I’m the name, I’m Joe Rogan, So I want to put this guy on or that guy on, And if this guy’s funny, I want to push him to a big platform instead of like, what’s going to help me book my show. It’s interesting how he’ll be. Just the casual talking of the outlawness of stand up has helped all of us, whether or not you’ve been on a show or not.

He’s made stand up more popular. So now it’s all just succeeding on a crazy level. You know. I thought this was interesting. Back on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Neil Brennan spoke to Joe about Netflix specials.

I had missed this. I just haven’t gotten around to that episode yet. Oh by the way, top of mine, Tom s Goora had on John Stewart probably a month ago. But it’s a pretty good listen if you want to check that out on two beers, one cup? Is that called that one?

Anyway? The gist of the problem with a Netflix special, and I hadn’t thought about this before very interesting. In a live event, comedians are able to build up to the jokes instead of shortening the jokes and reaching the climax faster. The point being in a live event, the audience doesn’t want off. On Netflix, you can hit click Today’s Will Ferrell’s birthday.

Happy Birthday, John Will Ferrell. Decider caught up with Sam Morrell and they were curious, what’s the deal with comedians starting their own liquor brands? And I love this? Sam said, well, who else is there? There’s not many of this.

Bert Kreischer and Tom Sigora avaka Mark Norman and I have whiskey.

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And then who else is there?

And Decider said, Jim Gaffigan just came out with his own bourbon. If you listen, you know I’m a big fan of Jim’s bourbon, and so SA have said, he copied us. You got to talk to Jim about that. Like, I love Kreischer and Tom because they were like, we don’t want to step on their toes. We’ll go clear spirits Gaffigan it didn’t seem to care.

It started as some limited edition thing, and now I think he’s going all in and we’re like, all right, he sent me a bottle. I’m not promoting it. If it was clear, I’d promote it. Sam, Why did you and Mark Norman do your deal with Padiga? Cat?

Sam said, Mark and I are old drinking buddies. That’s why we started a drinking podcast that is called We Might Be Drunk when we were young comics. That was the premise of the show, was that drink at the end of the night where we never get to see your friend, because that’s what happens at first. You get to hang out and drink all the time when you’re an open micro. But then we start hitting the road and that would turn into like one or two nights, and all that cashing up is caught up in one night, and every time we’d be like, all right, we should go one more drink, and then that one more drink turns into like six more and we be like, uh, it’s gonna be a rough Tuesday.

Because a comedy seller would just stay open, had to be blackout curtains and you’re like, I don’t know what time it is and you leave at six am. So we ended up doing a drinking podcast, and we talked about all these celebrities who have their own liquor and like it was cool to have your own liquor, and Mark’s like, too bad. We can’t do that. Wait, why can’t we do that? We have listeners who run distilleries.

I bet you have a good listenership of drinking people, service industry people, distillery people, And sure enough we got hit up by so many people and it went from there. If you want to do something, there are ways to do it. You might have to do a little bit more of the work and it might be annoying. But I’ll tell you sometimes you go with the bigger people and they don’t know how to do. They do it yourself type stuff, and they could use a little more of that.

You know, when things are all buttoned up in corporate sometimes there’s forty people on an email and nothing gets done. Oh my goodness, boy, I’ll tell you, having worked at some big broadcast companies, I’ve worked at a mom and pop and now I’ve got my two man shop here in the basement. Two man shop is the easiest. Mom and pop is the second easiest. The big corporation.

You have forty people on an email, nothing gets done. I hear you, Sam, And when it’s just you, we have to make sure it gets done. So you know, there’s benefits to do it yourself, but also to a point, it could be stressful both ways. Nikki Glaser was on the Jimmy Kimmel Liss Show last week Come outnn Gianni was the guest host. Nicki started talking about going to see Taylor Swift and said, I was on a break from tour and I was seeing Taylor Swift.

That’s what I do with my free time. I was following Taylor around Europe. Europe just happened to be there when she was there. When I have weekends off from my own tour, I fly to go see her. She compared herself to a divorced dad doing his best to see his daughter.

Nicki says she’s been to seventeen shows in fifteen months and has never taken a bathroom break in any of the concerts, and average at Taylor shows around three and a half hours. Nicki said, for me, it’s either that or cocaine, and luckily I can afford both. Ricky Gervais is working on an animation about cats untitled show We’ll see Ricky Reunite with seven Stars of Afterlife. Ricky said, we started it and it’s going to take a long time because it’s animation. It won’t be finished until later this year.

I don’t think there’s anything like it. I did animation because I thought I’m getting old now and filming is a hard slog. I thought animation, that’s easy. It’s not. I’ve been a fool.

So this morning I was at the National Donuts chain getting my coffee and Evil Billing Vall sitting there in the corner, and I almost said hi to him, and then a couple of things. I’m like, One, I don’t actually know Evil Billingvall. And two, perhaps even more importantly, he doesn’t know that he’s Evil Billing Fall. He’s in his life. He’s just a guy at Dunkin Donuts.

And this guy comes in with a baseball hat every morning around seven am. So I have to remember I don’t know the bad, but Evil bill Ingvall was there this morning. Did you check out the artist A Killer’s Canvas. That’s the new podcast from the Caloroga Shark Media Network about a serial killer. You definitely want to check that one out.

Also, all this political stuff if you like it with some snark, pay attention to ballot. That show’s been in a real nice groove since the debate, the whole Iden stuff last week. You know now we’ve got the Republican National Convention. The stuff over the weekend clearly not funny, but Ballot did find a way to make a joke about it, and that joke was and I was involved in the writing on it. So we were trying to figure out out how do you cover this and be a smart ass but not be a douchebag about it?

And we found that the Asbury Park Press went with the headline this was real stars of the Jersey Shore react to Trump shooting and we’re like, oh, okay. So the joke that came out of that was when the situation gets serious. The situation gets serious, Ballot, wherever you get your podcasts? Oh, I want to talk about the audio chain too. I mentioned last week I got a new MacBook because the keyboard on the old MacBook broke.

Specifically the letters C, D and E. All of those appeared in my last name. See also appears in commands such as control C for copy. So it was getting really hard to make any shows. How about a new MacBook?

And I haven’t totally got the audio chain back to match what I used to have. I had a step. There’s a program called aphonic that it would used to level the audio as the last step, and the auphonic program doesn’t run on these new M three chips that Apple has, so I have to figure out a way for that. So if the audio has been like a little different, that’s what’s going on there. Let’s hit gossip corner.

Pete Davidson spotted in Yellow Springs, Ohio. You know who’s often spotted in Yellow Springs, Ohio? Dave Chappelle. Well, somebody on Facebook captured them both in the same photo. We see Pete Davison walking next to Chappelle with a large smile on his face, both of them wearing all black outfits with white shoes.

Mariah said she saw the comedians walking across the street from Peach’s grill, and said she and her husband briefly exchanged pleasantries with the two while driving by. Wait, it’s one thing to like walk down the street and be like, oh, hey Dave, hey Pete, Hey, how you doing great. It’s another thing to kind of what slow down, roll down the window, hey dad, And then they nod back and they go hey, and they go back to the corners. I don’t know what happened, and I don’t know. I’m speculating I’m making things up, but the story does say briefly exchange pleasantries with the two while driving by.

Chris Getten is getting a podcast. This one’s called Idionically Speaking with Chris Getten, a weekly comedy and variety podcast. It’ll launch July twenty fourth and feature guest chatting with Chris and his co hosts Andy and Joseph, and then participating in an improv comedy scenario. The podcasting executive and me noticed that the story says they signed Chris Cattan to a multi year contract. I don’t know what to read into multi Let’s assume it’s at least two multi year to me suggests three, but let’s say it’s two.

That’s aggressive, guys. Some of the guests on Idionically Speaking will include Fred Armison, Dana Carvey, Rachel Dratch, Tim Meadows, Bobby moynihan, Chris Parnell, and Cecily Strong. So it sounds like this is playing on the same corner that the Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast is playing on. Chris Catten said, Andy, Joe and I are incredibly excited to launch the show with such a joy to interview old friends reconnect and chat about our journeys from our days on SNL to our lives today, and we can’t wait for fans to hear the hilarious new sketches we’re cooking up with these comedy legends each week. And that is your comedy news for today, right Go download the artist to Killers Canvas.

Download it, come on, do it. And if you would like this program without commercials, if you’re on Apple, click the banner no commercials, thirty day free trial. At least go for the thirty day free trial. If you’re not on Apple, say you’re on Spotify or you have an Android phone, go to the link of the show notes, which is calaruga dot com slash plus. Don’t forget to check out Ballot, the political podcast with some snark and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Callarogashawk Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Oh man, some high risk poker here. Nikki Glaser dared invoke the name of Taylor Swift while performing comedy. You gotta be careful doing that.

I mean, one time Joe Coy did that, who did not go well. Nikki Glaser was at the SBS. Let’s listen. But I’ve actually been a huge fan of sports ever since I first watched Taylor Swift watch a football game. It really changed my life because now I know who Patrick Mahomes is.

I mean before I only knew him as that guy in the State Farm ads and based on his acting, I just assumed he was the CEO’s son. But truly, it is such an honor to present the award for Best Male Athlete. The nominees include peak athletes who push their bodies to the limit, and also a golfer. I’m sorry, Scotty, I do know that golfing is hard. I mean there’s putting, chipping, and driving over a CoP’s leg.

I mean, what I’m trying to say is that nothing will stand in the way of these incredible athletes in their pursuit of greatness. I mean except the Florida Panthers. But boy Connor, that must have hurt to lose a game of ice hockey to a place that doesn’t even have ice. For now, the only Stanley Cup Connor will get to hold is the one his wife asks him to grab out of the cabinet. But let’s get to it, because no one is more excited to find out the winner than me.

Well except for show Hayes interpreter, because he’s got a lot of money riding on this so good clip there by Nikki as she is riding high. Normally, I lead off with the late night jokes. There was one from Jimmy Fallon that I think illustrates the point I was getting into with Alex Bennett a days ago, nine days ago on this podcast, if you missed it, I interviewed Alex Bennett, who’s eighty four years old, and Alex doesn’t appreciate old jokes, and I said, I like a good old joke that’s not really about anything. Here’s one from Jimmy Fallon. This is what I’m talking about.

Joe Biden hasn’t seen this many people jump ship since he took that vacation on the Titanic. It’s funny. Is the Titanic a tragedy? Yes? From one hundred and ten years ago.

Was Joe Biden on the Titanic? I don’t think so. I’d have to check see the same thing there. It’s just a joke. It’s silly.

Obviously Joe Biden wasn’t on the Titanic. He’s not that old. It’s okay. You can make jokes about things sometimes. That Louis c.

K documentary came out to The Washington Post didn’t love it. They gave it two and a half stars out of five. I believe the New York Times had a similar mi review. Apparently the gist is people aren’t sure why we’re dusting this off again. The Washington Post did right.

Perhaps the most dismaying sentiment in this gloomy film is delivered by an anonymous comedy fan who apparently bought a ticket to watch Ck perform at Madison Square Garden last year. On camera, the young man explains away his guilty pleasure, saying with a shrug, everyone lives with a certain amount of hypocrisy, and this is the amount I’ve allocated for myself. Wow, this thing’s ninety minutes I wish it were just streaming somewhere. I would definitely watch it. I don’t know if I’m going to purchase it, but it’s on the video on demand.

Sam Morrill, did you watch it? A special from last week? That was pretty good? Unfortunately for me. One of Sam’s a big comedy influences where the movies of Adam Sandler Slam’s brother, showed me Billy Madison and I couldn’t believe it existed.

I was like, oh my god, this was made for me. Adam Sandler is so immature and outrageous. Then you grew up and you watch it as an adult and you love it for different reasons, or you watch it as an adult and you go, I can’t believe anyone likes this movie. Sam says one of the first albums that I really got into was Chris Rocks. I couldn’t believe it.

I thought it was so thoughtful and intelligent, even at a young age. I didn’t get all the jokes, but the ones I did get, I was like, Wow, Rodney Dangerfield reminded me of my grandpa, So I love Rodney Daingerfield. Back to School remains my comfort movie. Dam’s first set I drank four beers during my first stand up set. I was only on stage for like five minutes, so not good.

It was an open mic. I had a friend come with me, and he laughed at all my jokes. He was the only one laughing. It was pretty brutal, but I did feel good that I did it. I got over it.

I’d go into Barnes and Noble and just read joke books and I’d be like, Okay, that’s how you write a joke. I would study the structure. I can make my friends laugh, but it takes a while to figure that out on stage. One of my first jokes was my teacher told me I reminded her of a young Hemingway. I was like, why because I’m a good writer, and she goes, no, you’re an alcoholic who’s going to kill himself.

That is a pretty good joke. Sam says some of my jokes stunk, but I had a couple that were like, all right, not bad. If you don’t have any stories as a kid, you haven’t lived life. There’s nothing interesting that you’re gonna say. Friend of the show Scott Beckett, who’s probably very thankful that I didn’t play the Joe coy clip.

But there’s plenty of time left in today’s podcast, Scott, and it is a summer Monday, so it’s possible the show’s a little short. We’ll see what happens here. Scott sent over this clip of Jerry Seinfeld talking about manliness. I’ve always wanted to be a real man. I never may, but I really thought when I was that in that era.

Again, it was JFK, it was Muhammad Ali, it was Sean Connery. Howard goes hell, you can go all the way down there. That’s a real man going to I want to be like that someday. Well, no, I never really grew up. It’s that’s a I mean, you don’t want to as a comedian because it’s a childish pursuit.

But I miss a dominant masculinity. Yeah, I get the toxics, but still I like a real man. Jason Alexander, you know him from Seinfeld, pretty popular sitcom back in the nineteen nineties. He was talking about the George Costanza babblehead. Recently, the Yankees gave out eighteen thousand of these bobbleheads.

People bugged at Jason Alexander on social media about it and Jason tweeted, I’m so glad Bobblehead George was a fan fit. Nope, I don’t get anything for it except joy that thirty five years after putting on those glasses, people are still enjoying our work. The show was a gift from you to us. Thank you for keeping it alive. By the way, if you watch the early episodes of Seinfeld, Jason Alexander as George Costanza is how old?

He’s twenty nine? Yeah, twenty nine. I also learned if you watched the first season of Gilligan’s Island the Skipper, he’s forty three. Mister Howell, he’s fifty one. I could lose some weight, but compare to all that, I look pretty good.

Mackpacker and Mackpacker. Andy Samberg was on Kevin Hart’s A Peacock Show, which is called Heart to Heart. I’m gonna put Heart to Heart in the bobs Burgers category. Have you ever seen Hart to Heart? And have you ever met anyone who’s seen Hart to Heart?

I’m sure Peacock thinks it exists, and Kevin probably tells him that they film episodes, but has anyone ever seen this thing? Samberg said he left Saturday Night Live in twenty twelve to prioritize his physical and mental health, telling Kevin Hart, for me, it was like I can’t actually endure it any more, or physically and emotionally, I was falling apart in my life. He explained that the schedule for S ANDL involved working long hours to write for the live show while making new digital shorts weekly, and it became difficult physically. It was taking a heavy toll on me, and I got to a place where I hadn’t slept in seven years. It’s basically like four days a week, you’re not sleeping for seven years.

I just kind of fell apart physically. Brad Williams spoke to Trip Live and said a lot of people ask about a comedy career, and it’s kind of like when someone loses a lot of weight. Someone says, hey, had you lose the weight? They know the answer, but they’re hoping at the time you say, oh, I took this magical pill, woke up every day, kept eating junk food, kept not exercising, and all the weight just fell off and now I have a six pack. It’s kind of like that with comedy, when people are like, had you make it in comedy.

They’re waiting for you to tell them. Oh. I decided to be a comedian one day. So I went down and met with the vice president of show business and I said that I’d like to be a comedian, and they said, great, here are your jokes, here your tourity. It’s go be funny.

That’s not how it happens. It’s a long grind. I haven’t done the international stuff. In a minute. Over on Shortal, Tim harding under the headline you’ll struggle to find a better overview of what’s good in the stand up right now, Okay, let’s see what’s going on.

Tim headed over to the Actually Rather Good Comedy Festival ARG stands for Actually Rather Good Comedy Festival Torotal Rights. As usual, ARG gave us a roadmap for the fringe, highlighting some great new acts and building some buzz around promising shows. Here’s some of Tim’s favorites. Clown King John Luke Roberts is putting on a retrospective this year of all his previous shows. It wasn’t my favorite of his shows, but I love when comedians mount old work, and I’d love to see it happen more.

I’m guessing that’s more of a British Australian thing of where you’re doing more themed hours rather than I don’t know, do we want to see Chris Rock get up and do his greatest hits? Maybe we do want to see Chris Rock get up and do his greatest hits. Who knows. Lou Wall really bowled me over when I saw him for the first time last year. Lou Wall Versus the Internet was an incredibly full on multi media experience.

Their new show, The bisexuals Lament is even better, slowing things down to a rate where it can now be perceived by the human head and turning a genuinely horrific sounding year into a tragic comic musical epic. This is the most excited I have been about a new comedian in a while. All Right, Abby Wamba made a promising the impression with their work in progress. The first three minutes of seventeen shows. What a great eye concept for a debut hour.

It’s such a fun way to keep the show dynamic and entertaining when you’re regularly switching between my musical props and other styles of stand up. Milo Edwards new show Howard Volting Sorry to Offend once again using his family history as a jumping off point while launching into a rangy explanation of the British class system and hmm, a word I don’t want to say on the show. It’s like say you really enjoy something and then things get sticky that trying to keep the clean Now. Yesterday I was telling you about the Edinburgh Fritten shows that The Guardian was excited about, and I realized I shouldn’t read twenty in a row. Some of the shows are excited about Dan Tiernan’s stump.

I’ve seen Dan’s name a few times recently. I guess the Gorilla guys mentioned Dan on Saturday, didn’t They quite the debut last year from Dan, whose show going under raged at Tunan’s lot in life, gay but straight, seeming at odds with his sickingly nice stepdad. A Best Newcomer nomination followed, and so expectations are raised for his follow up. John tot Hill lies on a sofa, wearing zebra striped boots and holding a rose in one hand, a wineglass in the other, and looking rice surrounded by balloons. Teacher turned stand up made an impression at last year’s Fringe with an Unlike anything else.

Faux sermon on hedonism and transcendentdence through history. Camp Flirty and Delighted with Everything. John tot Hill returns with something to do with Biblical plagues.

Also from short Ole, Comedy club owners hit back after venues branded their c…

That’s right. The folks at Nottingham’s Just the ton Of Comedy Club are not happy at being named the second filthiest entertainment venue in the UK. Some reviews on trip Advisor found that more than one in ten visitors mentioned dirtiness in the comments. The only club dirtier is the Heaven Nightclub in London. In case you’re curious, some comments the floor is so dirty that my shoes stuck to it.

That’s half the bores that I spent my twenties in. However, that comment was left more than a decade ago, when the club was in another location. Club founder Daryl Martin told Chortle, all this report shows is how stupid trip Advisor is and how you can’t do anything with it, even years after change has been made. Analyzing reviews from twelve years ago and assuming they’re relevant today is similar to looking at photos of Britain in the seventies and saying that all British people today seem to have really long hair. Another visoner mentioned, despite the toilets being filthy and the hand dryer being broken, we had a good night.

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