Month: October 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll do the Hinchcliff stuff in the second half of the podcast to give us all a break. Let me just take a minute here, let’s just catch our breath. I had to work a little bit hard to put a show together today because if you google comedy comedian, it’s all the same topic.

And I really covered that on Wednesday show. If you want to go there tomorrow on the podcast No Politics, No Tony Hinchcliff, I can guarantee that because I’ve already recorded Friday so behind the scenes. I have learned over the years of doing this that sometimes it’s good to record one in advance because life gets on the way. Fridays tend to be a day where I can do that sort of thing because it’s album released day and they’re just predictable events. On Fridays.

I did find some time to watch some comedy specials. I watched both Tom Poppa’s Home Free and Seth Meyers Dad Man Walking, both of which I have trouble remembering the titles of. For Papa, I love the beginning about parenting. Tom and I are both fifty five years old. His youngest daughter recently went off to college mine too, so I was in the zone there and everything he was saying was clicking with me.

Then there were diminishing returns as the hour went on. It’s a nice, solid special, you know, nothing amazing about it. A lot of Jim Gaffigan vibes, like a lot like if I don’t know, if you read me the transcript and told me was Jim Gaffigan’s new Special, I would be like, yeah, obviously, it is a lot. I can’t understate this, a lot of Gaffigan vibes. I thought Seth Special is actually a better version of Papa Special, both talking about being dads.

But I did like Seth Special a little bit more. Both have made my end of the Year list, but those two will be the top two in Tier two. So I’ve kind of got fifteen that are really good, and then there’s a gap to the things that deserve to make the list but aren’t as strong as those first fifteen so far, and we have a lot of specials coming for the rest of the year. Seth told the Last Laugh podcast he was very on the fence about making the title of his new specially corny pun Seth said, I was very hesitance but dad or father in the title, but director Neil Brennan made the point that it would amount to false advertising without it. Seth said, it was nice to depart from what we do every night at the TV show, and talking about my family puts me in a better mood than talking about politics.

Tom Papa spoke to the La Times. They were curious about how he works relatively clean. There are two s bombs in the new special, and Papa said it was never a conscious thing that I think about at all. The best comedy has to be true to who you are and no matter what, and honestly, I don’t really speak that way in my real life. Set a throat into my act would seemed forced and weird.

Now. In the early nineties, when I was a younger, up and coming comedian in New York City, I did think I had to be dirty and edgy to keep up with those other guys during that time, but even the audience could sell that it just didn’t fit. My personality. Wasn’t who I was, and they got that vibe. They were looking at me with weird looks.

I just figured, hey, there’s so much vulgarity in society. My act should be something of a higher quality than some kids. I heard cursing up a storm in the playground in New York City. People laugh. Well, I think I do well with it.

It’s me just being who I am. I’ve always been attracted to talking about personal things. Family life are the bigger questions of just being a human being. I do discuss politics a little bit in my life, but I feel like in comedy there are lots of other comics out there who are more skilled of that approach, and I’d rather watch those guys who were great do that and be great at my own style. John Mulaney hosts Saturday Night Live this week.

That should be good in Malanie’s usually really good episodes, and you know the thing is happening on Tuesday, so there’s plenty need to talk about. Stavros Hacki has put out that movie last Friday. I thought there’d be a lot more buzz and press from Stavros, but not so much. He did speak to Iconverse icon and shared that we got cable kind of late, like in my teen years. We got Dish Network because they had Greek channels.

Initially we weren’t allowed cable, but as soon as my dad found out he had Greek TV on it, that’s when we got it. That’s when we got Comedy Central, and at the time, Comedy Central pretty much replayed Comedy Central half hour specials. In SNL, he says, even as a baby, I would sing songs, put on my little plays, and make my family watch. My parents bought me a little taper, was a little speaking spelled type thing. Bizarrely, I would spend hours talking into it.

It’s funny to think back on now, but I was essentially recording a podcast, which is insane. So I guess even as little kids, we know were destined for. But that’s really what it was. I’ve been doing stand up since freshman year in college. It did in an open mic in the basement of my dorms.

I’ve been pretty much doing stand up since I was nineteen. It wasn’t thought out. Then you wake up one day to realize you’re a thirty five year old man with no other abilities. You have to try and pivot to movies and turn to acting to flesh out your career. But yeah, it’s as simple as I loved it growing up, and I had the chance to do it, and I did it.

That’s the origin story. It’s not even crazy. I didn’t want a job when I was nineteen and I just did stand up instead. Hey, the Jets are on Thursday night football tonight, isn’t that exciting? Last week, after the Rams played the Vikings, Amazon brought Nikki glazerback.

Remember her first appearance was terrible. I didn’t see her last week, but awful Announcing said it was better. She had a few jokes about Ram’s backup quarterback, the very handsome Jimmy Garoppolo. Laser said, Jimmy did throw a single pass, but he’s definitely brought me to completion. And yeah, maybe Jimmy’s gonna ride that bench for the rest of his career, but I want to be that bench.

Tig Nataro is working out materials. She’s doing a residency at the Comedy Bar in Toronto. She says she’s grateful for the welcoming crowds, which she refers to as the Canadian way. It’s good to see everybody understands what a comedian working out material is. Jimmy Fallon told Howard Stern a story about visiting Belushi’s grieve Howard was curious what he said to Belushi.

Fallon said, I mean, that’s between me and John. As Fallon tells the story, he cracked a beer and sat beside Belushi’s headstone and struck up a conversation with him in the dead night and says I might go back and have another one. It was great, one sided. But you know, Andy Richter told Cinnamon Blend he was at a diner a couple years ago. It was a Sunday morning and a very popular restaurant in Burbank.

There was one seat left at the counter and I sat down. I turned to my right and there was Jay Leno eating breakfast. You may recall the whole Leno Conan rivalry. Andy said, it was like, I guess we’re gonna chat now, And it was fine. You know, all that show is rivalry is like high school rivalry.

Once you’re pasted it, it’s not that important. Jim Brewer spoke to the Jackson County Sentinel. Can you tell a deep dive to not talk about Hinchcliffe in the first half? Yeah, it wasn’t much out there today, Jim said, there are always things that can become an obstacle to our happiness, and the big three for me that I smack into most or divisions in the family, financial struggles, and health issues. For me, there’s no better feeling in the world and making someone laugh and know that I’ve inspired or healed someone.

It’s nice when people tell me I’m funny, but the ones that keep me going are the ones that go up to me and say, can I just tell you I just lost my mom and you healed me. It’s the first time I’ve laughed in ages. We’re not here for very long. We’re all stuck here together. Everybody needs to be laughing, be uplifted.

We’re here to take care of each other. I’m on a mission to lift you and the only way I know how. Late Night Or asked Jordan Klepper about John Stewart’s involvement on the non Monday daily shows. Klepper said, John is hands off. He’s here on Monday and we’re in the morning meeting.

But John has a vision for his show and then he’s hands off. We’re all hands off for the other people weeks. So when you come in for your week, it’s your week, and you’re using the other correspondence and the rest of the news team to be part of that week. That’s sort of how we see it as well. We try to be part of the other host weeks so that we’re part of the show as well.

Sometimes we’re in joke meetings in the morning to give our two cents to find something fun. I’ll send Dezzy articles, she’ll send me articles or people or stories. So we’re making the show collectively in that sense. But it’s hands off when it’s not your week. The show’s complicated enough.

It’s a lot of work when you’re hosting that you kind of don’t have time to be overly democratic with a bunch of outside ideas. You’re like, all right, it’s my show. We’re gonna all work together on this. Let’s go. Terry Garr passed away Tuesday at age seventy nine.

Terry known for many fantastic things in her career, including appearances on David Letterman’s programs. Letterman’s YouTube channel posted a clip from April first, nineteen eighty three, and a short but sweet message saying, remembering one of our all time favorite guests, Terry Garr, the rest of the show is Hinchcliff and politics. Mark Norman tweeted ironically Tony Hinchcliff could use a good pr person. Mary Well crafted Lewis J. Gomez said comedians piling on a Tony should be ashamed.

We make jokes, that’s what we do.

And also most of the comics talking crap are terrible comedians who don’t act…

If you do take a look. With the exception of Michael ian Black and Mark Marin, most of the comedians commenting are less famous. Joe Biden said, I’d like to take that guy out for a swim there anyway. Robert Smigel tweeted from the Triumph accounts he signed it off RS, so I won’t do the half ass trime from pression. Smigel wrote, the sick thing about the crude comments by the Trump rally speakers is the clear contempt they have for his supporters.

Every one of those comments bombed with the audience, But Team Trump thinks they’re all dumb, racist and women haters. The deplorables were the ones on stage. The character Triumph hit the Trump rally the other day. He was chanting with some supporters. Triumph said, this is nothing like a Nazi rally.

The Nazis were in shape. First of all, they took care of themselves. I’m like this guy over here. Seriously, when I look at you, it makes me think that grocery s Aren’s expenses enough. I need some water.

I can’t get down to the gravelly part to do a half ass triumph. It’s quarter ass triumph today. On the topic of abortion, quarter ass Triumph said, what would you say about people worried about losing that right? Aside from what is it like to have six? Steven Gobert said, the Hinchcliff joke somehow broke through the noise, and as a master political satirist myself, I’m completely jealous because what we do here is jokes all the time, and it changes nothing.

What was the difference to making here the target? Okay, then tell me which country is to crap on. I’ll do it. Okay, Australia, You’re the garbage island. Anything anyone?

Gobert continued, here’s a little pro tip when you’re running for president, try not to October surprise yourself. Ronny Chieng said, it’s still crazy to me that a joke from Trump’s warm up guy seems to be having more of an impact than Trump’s actual terrible record on Puerto Rico. I mean his administration block Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane relief. Then Trump went down there and tossed paper towels another crowd, I guessed, to help them soak up the hurricane. And to top it off, Trump tried to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.

I mean he’d rather have a frozen wasteland than a tropical paradise full of brown people with good music. What a stupid idea. No one in Greenland can play shortstop. Fantastic joke there, Ronnie fantastic Jane continued, of course Trump’s not a Nazi. Okay, they all famously served in the military.

Also a great joke, and one more from Ronnie was crushing it. You may have seen Trump claim to be the opposite of a Nazi. Ronnie said, what exactly is the opposite of a Nazi? Is it the guy who started Jade eight because they’re trying to make more Jews? Or is it the guy who is like the reverse mustache like everything else but not that part good stuff.

There no politics, no hingecliffs Tomorrow, that’s your comedy needs for today. See you here,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today is nothing but politics and Tony Hinchcliff. If that’s not your thing, if that doesn’t float your boat, and you want to check out, and I’ll see you tomorrow, no problem, I understand. For those of you who are sticking around, Let’s start with John Stewart, who maybe perhaps has added some sanity to this discussion.

Now, obviously in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before election day and roasting a key voting demographic probably not the best decision by the campaign politically. But to be fair, the guy’s really just doing. What he does. I mean, here he is at the Tom Brady roast a few months ago. The Great Jeff Ross.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff is so Jewish he only watches football for the coin toss. Gronk, you look like the Nazi that kept burning himself on the ovens. Kevin is so small that when his ancestors picked cotton they called it deadlifting. Jess. Yes, of course, terrible boo.

Yes, there’s something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. So I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and have him not do roast jokes. I’d be like bringing Beyonce to a rally, not.

Oh Joe Coy’s got to be pretty happy he’s off the hook. Both fans of Taylor Swift and the Chiefs have formed a united front against Tony Hinchcliff. One of the jokes Hinchcliff said was, I don’t know about you guys, but I think Travis Kelcey might be the next O. J. Simpson.

Not even sure what that means. It is not a good joke. He then continued, and I have played this clip. The other side’s got a lot of crazy endorsements, Taylor Swift, M and M Leo DiCaprio, Beyonce. Every day the Democratic Party looks more like a P Diddy party.

When social media use tweeted, oh, this m effort didn’t only go full racist after he went after Travis Kelcey. And I’m pretty sure Taylor Swift is going to effing zue his behind for the Diddy comments. Hashtag Chiefs Kingdom, hashtag Magga cults. A lot of comedians are chiming in and for the most part it’s not famous comedians, so I think many things can be true. I think the joke was awful.

I think the environment amplified the joke being awful just as a joke in general. And I think perhaps, possibly, maybe there’s some jealousy of Tony Hinchcliffe’s success here. Samantha Ruddy tweeted, starting to think the guy whose primary source of income is showcasing every city’s most desperate, mentally ill comedians and then ripping them to shreds might be bad. Brandon Cooney tweeted, and stay with this one. One time at the roast Battle, Tony Hinchcliff was a judge and he tried to make fun of this random open micer.

But the open micer said, yeah, but what happened to your Netflix special? That really sucked? And the crowd uproariously laughed at his face, and he came back with I had a Netflix special and you’re an open micer, And the open micer said, yeah, but it was really bad, and the crowd laughty even harder. And my memory’s not one hundred but I’m pretty sure he started at Tony sucks chant that pretty much everyone joined Theanon and people were legit giving him high fives. That open micer’s name was Tim Walls.

Guy Brainham tweeted, to be fair, none of the comics had a great set at Nuremberg either. James Corden. Writer Sean O’Connor wrote, there is something so incredible about seeing the worst comedian in the world bomb so hard he changes the course of US history. Laurie Kilmartin wrote, in my opinion, roast jokes work because you have to fight your inner no to laugh at them. And the people at Trump’s rally probably call Puerto Rico afloating garbage sheep every morning before they leave for work.

It’s not a joke to them, not even a roast joke. In Carmel, who was the head writer for James Cordon, tweeted, big day on here for your favorite comedian’s least favorite comedian. Chris Estrada tweeted, more than ever we need Will Smith to slap a comedian. Michael ian Black I’ll talk more about in a second, wrote I think America just found its next Jim Brewer. Robin Tran wrote, most of the comedians piling on Tony making jokes about him.

That’s what we do when we don’t like somebody, We make jokes about them. W camal Bell said, Tony Hinchcliff’s career with Trump barely lasted a tenth of a Scaramucci, Devin Costa. Democrats are finally outraged at a bombing. The Late Night crew got involved, Seth Myers. Do you know how bad something has to be for the Trump campaign to distance themselves from it?

Trump won’t even distance himself from Hannibal Lecter. He’s bragging about how similar he is to Scarface. Colbert said, Buddy, you don’t get to call something a floating pile of garbage when you’re standing on top of Penn Station. They clean off the pe with fresher pe Kimmel. It was ugly, it was mean, It was hateful, it was racist, it was anti Semitic, it was stupid.

They really pissed off Porto Ricans to the point that Bad Bunny had to get involved. And that’s when you know you’ve got a problem. Has Tony blown his relationship with Draft Kings. Hinchcliffe at one point had tweeted about the start of the NBA season with a promo code for new betters. That post has now been deleted.

Multiple other Draft King promo posts have apparently been deleted. Hinchcliff recently was on ESPN’s Game Day and crack some jokes. I shared those with you last week. DraftKings, in a statement, said the commentsary made by Tony Hinchcliff does not reflect the views of DraftKings. I think that’s in reference to the ESPN stuff and not the appearance at the Trump rally, but I’m not sure.

The New York Post reported that Tony actually worked out the material at a comedy club the night before the appearance Saturday night. Tony was reportedly at the stand NBC News quote happened to have a news producer in the audience. Unquote. That’s interesting. I guess news producers go to comedy clubs.

No way, they were tipped off right. According to that report, the joke when told that the strand, did not get any laughs, only a handful of awkward chuckles. The Daily Beast reported Trump’s campaign had prior knowledge of the jokes in Hinchcliff’s speech, and even censored one joke for being too extreme. A campaign insider it told The Bulwark Tony Hinchcliffe had a joke calling Harris a C word. Let’s just say it was a red flag.

Four sources in the Trump campaigns said that staffers as speaker to submit draft speeches prior to the event. While reviewing, Tony said the C word remark was spotted and the convenient was asked to remove it. Campaign insiders who spoke to The Bulwark claimed, however, they didn’t notice the other controversial jokes, claiming those were ad libbed. I’ve watched a lot of comedy in my time. The island joke to me does not at all appear to be ad libbed.

Maybe he didn’t submit it for review, but it’s not like he was doing crowd work and threw that out there. No way, in my opinion. The Daily Beach reports that the insiders were divided on whether or not Tony’s immigration unprotected sex double on Tandra about how Hispanics come inside the country was pre approved. Daniel Alvarez, a Trump senior advisor, said the island joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign. The Daily be suggests that it was Joe Rogan who put the idea of Hinchcliff into Donald Trump’s breen.

On the August fourteenth episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan apparently said it would behoove him to hire a few great comics to just tour them and just write one liners about all these different effing people, if he could remember them. I like how he goes off in his own head, but if he could remember a few Hinchcliff bangers, if he hires Hinchcliff to take him on the road, you know how effing insane that would be Hingecliff writing bangers for Trump to crap on people paraphrasing. Sticking with Rogan, he explained why Kamala Harris has not been on the podcast yet. Joe Rogan tweeted for the record, the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour.

I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is just to have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make that happen. Jd Vance is scheduled to tape with Rogan today Michael Ian Black as a sub stack, he wrote about all this. Some of his substacks says, the problem is when you try to take a roast format and bring it to a mega rally.

What are the tenets of the roast format is that it’s all in good fun. Host and guests make fun of each other, no holds barret, and everybody walks away shaking hands and maybe making out, probably not making out. What makes the roast work is that it’s ironically a safe space and nobody gets bent out of shape because everybody understands the format. Not so much at a mega rally where harm is very much intended. Tony’s racist jokes by themselves or whatever kind of hackey, but who cares In the context of one of Trump’s hate of thons, though, they cease being jokes and start being just some more wallpaper with which to decorate the Eagle’s nest.

Mark Marin posted a lengthy statement on his own website, More about the Election, Less about Hingecliff Maron writes, the Democratic idea anxious, folks. We’re all anxious. I assume it’s funny. I don’t do a political show, but I am very political innately, I keep up I read too many clickbait pieces as I waver between almost uncontrollable fear and not really hope but just fantasizing for an outcome Tho’ll guarantee the process of culture and freedom of mind for everyone. Once tolerance is removed from the dialogue, democracy suffocates.

Even though I don’t do a political show, I’ve been very clear in my specials and on the podcast that I believe in a belief for years what’s brewing in the country is an American fascist movement half in grievance and half in Jesus, enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources. Skipping ahead, Marin turned to comedy and said, the anti wop flank of the New Fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics my peers. Whether or not they’re self serving or true believers and the New Fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn’t matter.

Whether they’re driven by the idea that what they’re fighting for is a free speech issue, whether they’re truly morally bankrupt racist doesn’t matter. They’re part of the public face of a fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea. When comedians with podcasts have shameless self proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their side to joke around like they’re just entertainers, even politicians, all does is humanize and normalize fascism. It may be all self serving, greedy influencers and comics and public personalities, and certainly tech companies want to align themselves with an unapologetic right wing movement. There’s no concerns for regulation or law or justice or decency or democracy to increase their earnings and put them in the seat of power.

Mark continues and signs off, and Joe love marin Vulture rights that Hinchcliff would use this platform to tell jokes if this nature would have been unsurprising to anyone familiar with his work. He is first and foremost a roast comic who revels in shock. It’s a sensibility he developed as a means to capture audience attention at the Comedy Store in la where he honed his chops back in twenty seventeen, Hingecliffe said, my style is very much arranged around the darkness and extremely late spots and having to be compelling. I had no choice. Normally, by the time I go on stage, they’ve already seen fourteen of the best comedians in town.

Skipping ahead Vulture Rights. Trump has been courting young male podcast listeners aggressively in recent weeks, with appearances on Rogan Andrew Schultz, THEO Vaughn. Most of these comedians are political agnostics. They’re too interested in maintaining their image as nonpartisan freethinkers to explicitly support one presidential candidate over another at a rally. But Hinchcliff has long been a public proponent of Trump.

Yet Hinchcliffe’s comedy style was never going to fly in the setting when broadcast to the public. A presidential rally is not a kill Tony open mic skipping ahead Vulture Rights, Hingchecliffe set in its entire beer to play fine in the room. At one point, Tony said, Republicans are the party with a good sense of humor, free speeches under attack unquote Vulture Rights. Then, like clockwork, a bunch of Democrats got mad. Legitimacy of the grievances unfortunately irrelevant.

If the Trump campaign booked Hingecliff to convey to his audience that’d vote for them as a vote to protect the uninhibited comedy that see it. It killed Tony’s show. They might have just gotten that message across the only Times dove In Lori kil Martin asked, if George Carlin was alive right now and doing a podcast, would he have Trump on it? Would Trump want to appear on it? I think no to both.

Hmm, interesting question. I would have to ask Kelly Carlan what she thinks George would do. I’m struggling to even imagine George having a podcast if I had a pick. I don’t know if Carland would want to amplify the Trump message or if he would have him on and slam with words. Kill Martin said, as comedians, I think we’re supposed to be the ones making politicians uncomfortable, not comfortable.

I never liked it when presidents appeared on SNL when the comics were impersonating them. They should be running away from you, not cozying up to you. And the ones that do push back. Trump’s not going on. Andy Kindler said, if you look at Trump now, you know the Trump will forever be seen as one of the most evil people in the history of the world.

As for podcasters having Trump on, they know there’s money and saying something’s wrong with being woke. People listen to Joe Rogan and they don’t vaccinate themselves. People have died listening to the lies. I don’t even know what you say about a company like Spotify. All they care about is the numbers of the people who listen to his show.

Mark Marin said, even if you’re a comic, when is across the line they’re normalizing fascism when they have these guys on their show. Because the Delivery System is a comedy podcast. Would you say yes, you could be on my show and talk to my people and us on platform, even if you think it’s gonna be a laugh. I’m gonna talk to Trump about cocaine. Me and Trump could talk about wrestling.

Even if you think it’s good for your show, it’s self serving. It’s going to get you a bunch of new followers and make you some money. You’re still facilitating and helping a fascist no matter what you’re claiming going to be Libertarians are apathetic or both siders. We’re just trying to get to the truth. They made it very clear Trump and his minions what they want, and it’s not democracy.

It’s fundamentally Unamerican. There’s a point where it’s not funny anymore. This is not just another election. It’s really not all right. That was a lot there.

Let’s take the break, let’s be right back in all this hinchclop stuff. I forgot to mention did I even share with you? I started watching Seth Myers. I was watching him between the end of Red Zone and the beginning of Sunday Night Football. I got maybe twenty minutes in.

I liked it. I thought it was pretty good. But I’m a suburban dad, so it was speaking to me. On Tuesday night, I was hoping to watch pop Up, but I may or may not have had too much work to do. This hinge clup stuff’s creating a lot of extra work.

And there’s been sports on seven nights a week. You know, the World Series. The Jets are on Thursday Night Football, and you know I love making fun of the Jets. So I might be Friday before I get to Papa John Stewart, who we started with. He is going to extend his time in the hosting chair at the Daily Show he’ll be there at least through December twenty twenty five, still doing only Mondays.

Stuart, in a statement said, I’ve truly enjoyed being back working with the incredible team at the Daily Show in Comedy Central, hoping to allow me to do every other Monday, but I’ll just have to suck it up.

Speaking of Seth Meyers, on a recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Me…

And we did kind of hop back at the studio and made some songs. Unclear how many, because we’re not sure how many we deem releasable, Lakiva Shaffer said, and there’s still a bunch that are half songs where it’s like, if we could get some time to go back to the studio, we might be able to crack the rest of that one. Samberg said. It’s harder now because they don’t have the outlet they once had on SNL to get songs written and recorded. They have to go out of their way to make time in their schedule, and you have to get them out there somehow.

And that is your comedy news for today. That was a lot, see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Idy Home Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Papa back on Netflix with his new special Home Free. It’s his third four Netflix. In Home Free, Papa holds nothing back as his kids are finally out of the house and it’s just him, his wife, and a bunch of animals ready to return to their glory days.

Tom is seeing a lot over the years, from close calls with a pachinkle ball to late night seven eleven runs, and he’s sharing all his thoughts as he parties under the next stage of his life. I can relate. I don’t know if I feel like I’m an empty nester, but none of the birds are home. Man, It’s just me and the wife and the dog. And you know what I do on Saturday now, I don’t know either.

I’ve been going to soccer games for a decade and a half. Now I’m like, oh, I don’t have anything today, and I wind up taking out the laptop and making seven hours of podcast for the various things here on Calaruga Shrek Media. By the way, you can get this show and all the other is commercial free, so it’s not just this one. When I hit you up for the five bucks. This one you get like twenty shows.

Link in the show notes for an Apple podcast, click the banner. Papa jokes. Now that they’re all gone, nobody tells you how hard it’s going to be pretending to be sad. It is sad, Tom, you know it’s sad. You know it’s a little lonely Papa till the la times.

I guess I had a typical experience with my daughters going to college. That’s so called empty nest syndrome. But I’m not sure when the first one went. We were crying for a month. It was a two year time span.

But then the second one left and we found ourselves making dinner reservations and kind of excited about the whole thing. Like I thought to myself, I could do what I want and I can actually enjoy things once in a while without being on someone else’s schedule. In case you missed it, on Sunday, I dropped a bonus episode which shared the clips of Tony Hinchcliff. You’ve probably seen Tony in the news right now. As I suspected his set got a lot of attention, Tony Hinchcliffe tweeted, these people have no sense of humor while that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his busy schedule to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist.

I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone, watch the whole set. I’m a comedian, Tim might be time to change your tampon. Some comedians weigh in. Andy Kidler replied directly to that tweet, writing years ago, when I did your kill Tony show at a festival, I didn’t know who you were.

I just assumed you were a highly unpleasant a hole. You certainly weren’t funny. You’re a grifter hack that wants to cash in by catering to your Maga Nazi friends like Rogan Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi. Three separate tweets, One, he wrote, it’s never a pretty sight when an Austin comic tries out his material in New York two politics aside, there are so many better racist comedians who deserve that RNC gig over Tony Hinchcliff. Third one, you ever notice when there’s a debate about the acceptability of a joke, it’s almost always over one of the worst jokes you’ve ever heard.

Mike lean Black wrote, are you bleeping kidding me? And you work? Has this guy never seen West Side Story? But sure no racism within the Trump campaign. And I like this one from Jesse Case who wrote the really sad part is that Tony works six months.

Is MSG’s door guy for that set? All right? Some folks are looking for me to comment. Now, Look, it’s political season. I’m not I’m trying to lose half the audience.

All I want you to do is vote whoever you’re for. You vote. I will comment on the joke itself. As a joke, it’s a bit hack. For example, you could sub in Ireland, Long Island, Epstein Island and the joke works the same.

For example, say we’re in Los Angeles during the World Series and I said this joke. I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a floating island of garbage. I think it’s called Manhattan that would probably play in Los Angeles. Now you’re already writing me notes. I get it in context at the event.

Sure, in context at the event specific choice of Ireland. It is not the same as my World Series example. Congressman Richie Torre is Democrat from New York tweeted, pretty good line. As Puerto Rican I’m tempted to call Hinchcliffe racist garbage, but doing so would be an insult to garbage. The Trump campaign has distance itself from the joke.

Campaign senior advisor Daniel Alvarez said that this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign. Tim Walls asked, who is that? Jack wad comedian ANDREWS Slater. If Tony Hinchcliffe cost Trump the election, then him becoming rich off being an awful hack was all worth it.

Meanwhile, an educational nonprofit that had planned a pair of comedy shows i…

Okay, well we did, wouldn’t think so. I don’t know why you brought that up. What’s the story here, John? The Gala Venue in San Juan posted a social media announcement saying they were canceling an appearance by Tony Hinchcliff. Ports are that that statement said we announced the cancelation of the Tech My School event where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was set to perform due to disrespectful comments towards Puerto Rico at gala.

We value respect for our culture and community. Puerto Rico deserves respect. But tech My School, the nonprofit that had planned the two comedy shows at gala, said Hinchcliffe was never scheduled to perform. On their page, they said they were featuring two comedians, Enrique Chicone and Heath Cordes, both of whom have previously appeared on Kill Tony. Says Tony Hinchcliff has never been invited nor included in the programming of our fundraising event.

Podcast newsletter podnews happened to share on Monday that new data from Tubular Lab shows that Kill Tony is now the number one podcast on YouTube, with nine hundred and thirty three point five million US minutes watched across YouTube and Facebook, up twenty one percent month over month and two hundred and thirty eight percent on the year. This was prior to the rally on Sunday. Some folks on social media are sharing this joke George Lopez made at a tim Walls rally. After the word overnight, Lopez walks away from the microphone. Donald Trump said he was gonna build a wall, and George Lopez said, you better build it in one day, because if you leave that material out there overnight.

The argument there is that Lopez made fun of his own, whereas Hingecliff took a shot at others from Yahoo. Eyewitnesses who are at Jamie Fox’s now net Flix taping said Jamie made some claims about Diddy. Three separate people claimed that Fox made comments indicating that Diddy was responsible for his hospitalization in twenty twenty three. According to page six, Yeahoo writes, though a source tells in Touch that there’s no truth to Diddy putting Jamie in the hospital, or remains unclear whether the comments were a joke or not. One of the eyewitnesses said he didn’t think Jamie was joking.

Y’all can determine whether he was joking or not when you see the show, because to me, I’m a new comedian. I’ve learned, and I know when somebody setting up a punchline, and I know when you’re serious. After he said, yeah, Diddy’s the one that did something to me, he said, and I’m the one who called the FEDS on him. Comedy Hype assed are we saying that Jamie responded and alerted whatever activity Puff had going on to shut him down as his get back director Choke No Joke said, Jamie was scared, right, he disappeared, right, He’s out in public now as soon as Puff went to jail. Well, that’s all kinds of interesting.

Meanwhile, on gossip Corner, Pete Davidson’s surface looking healthy and in good spirits. He was at a Clippers game with his friend mischie Gun Kelly. Eyewitnesses notice that Pete is now largely tattooed less. The tattoos that once covered his neck and arms appear dramatically faded or completely gone, perhaps due to laser tattoo removal. In May of twenty one, Pete told Seth Myers, it takes like three hours.

You have to get there three hours early to cover all your tattoos because for some reason, people in movies they don’t have them that much. So I’m burning them all off. But burning them off is worse than getting them.

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Also, tonight the Cool Comedy and Hot Cuisine fundraiser, This is the one Bob…

Jeff Ross will host the event. Both Jeff Ross and John Mayer will be honored with the Bob Saggat Legacy Award, recognizing their commitment to continue Bob Sagget’s sum mission of raising awareness for the Scleroderma Research Foundation.

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Also performing Whitney Cummings, Alex Edelman, Chris Hardwick apparently out…

Ali Wong was on Hot Ones. Sean Evans was curious, saying, I read the first place you ever did stand up was at the Brainwashed Cafe on Fulsom and San Fran. Can you paint the picture for us? Kelly said, oh, my gosh, this is a deep cut. The place has been closed since twenty seventeen.

She said it was literally like half cafe, half laundromat one hundred percent homeless shelter, and the show had start at five pm and you do three minutes to people doing naughty things to themselves and folding their laundry and a lot of comics judging you. It was great. She then talked about the tender loin neighborhood, saying those loins are not so tender in that neighborhood. Like if you step outside of our little theater, you will step in human feces. For sure.

It was gross and scary to enter an exit every single time.

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And then my god, the audience, the poor audience, they got trapped.

They got catfish into being there, and they knew it and I knew it, and I felt bad for them. Hey, did you know that Saturday Night Live is turning fifty? Did you hear about this? Well, we are going to talk about it every single day Today. I will tell you that Bo and Yang did not want to play JD.

Vance. It was that Lorne Michael’s guy, insisting. Yang said, up until the show, I tapped Louren on the shoulder and I was in the full beard and I was like, you can do a buyback if you want. Yang explained he initially had trouble getting into the character because he found him to be hollow. Then Bowen watched Hillbilly Elogy and learned that Advance had questioned his sexuality when he was younger, but was quickly shot down by Mama.

Yang said, I was like, oh, this guy doesn’t have a personality because he’s never had the spine to claim it. Send your letters to bow and Yang and I will remind you it’s going to be really hard not to be political these next nine or so days. What do we down to? No, it’s a week now, eight eight days, I guess. North Star News spoke to Lewis Black, who’s retiring at the end of the year.

Any regrets, Lewis said, you’d be nuts if you didn’t. But I’ve had a really good career, so I can regret all I want. But people will be going, really, you’re gonna cry about that. Everything just kind of worked out. But I did deal with some jackasses I shouldn’t have.

I was never good at business or show business, and I’ve worked with some real a holes. He had good advice for aspiring comics, actors and writers. Lewis says, just do it and do it again, and then do it again and do it again. Get a group of people you like to work with. So if you want to be a comic, at three or four people who like you, and pick your spot to do an open mic night we’re reading of a play.

But work and work. The shortest distance between two points is to keep doing it. If that’s it. If you’re writing, wake up and write. If you’re doing stand up, doesn’t matter.

If you’ve got three people in the world you’re still doing stand up. It doesn’t matter if you’re five people in the world, you’re still reading a play. You can do all that together as one thing. What’s lewis most excited for in the future, he says, not having to do a lot of stuff. Jimmy Fallon, He’s been in the news a lot lately.

He’s getting an hour long holiday music special air in primetime after the annual presentation of Christmas and Rockefeller Center aka the Tree Lighting aka thing New Yorkers hate. Do you have any idea what lighting the tree at five point thirty does to traffic in New York City? Do you have any idea what it’s like to walk anywhere between Times Square and that tree? Come? I don’t know.

Thanksgiving to about January second Nightmare Well, bah humbug Jimmy Fallon’s holiday seasoning spectacular, We’ll see Jimmy Fallon reunited with many of the performers is featured on his new album, including Megan Trainer, Dolly Parton, JB Smooth, The Jonas Brothers, Timberlake, ll The Roots, and We’re Now. December fourth, ten pm. Jordan Klepper specials on Comedy Central tonight at eleven thirty pm, I will be asleep.

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Also, the people did the press release screwed up.

It says the special premiere on Comedy Central at eleven thirty pm Eastern Standard time. We’re still on eastern daylight time, folks. People try a little too hard with that standard thing. I see people mess that up all the time. Major pet peeve of mine because I work in broadcasting, and when you do national programming and satellites and whatnot are involved, you have to be exact.

So if you mean eleven thirty pm e DT you say that, I digress. The terribly titled The Daily Show presents Colon Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Colan Rally. Together, we’ll see Jordan travel to Trump events in swing states over the elections crucial closing days. This time he’ll bring along some curious friends at experts in their fields to help unpack and understand why so Americans are supporting Donald Trump. Yesterday I recorded with Dez Bishop.

By the way, his new special is Fantastic. It is called of All People. You will find it on YouTube. I having in my top specials of the year pretty high up. I think around number eleven that will be the Saturday episode.

But we did talk about Tony Hinchcliff, and I thought i’d pull out a rather long clip here, So here is Dez and I talking about Tony. Has Tony Hinchcliff made the news in Ireland yet? Well, it’s hard for me to know if he’s made the news in Ireland because I’ve very much been on top of that story. So, I mean, I have a lot of thoughts on all that stuff. Can I just make a quick disclaimer the reason why I know that you’re not really a video guy, but I’m outside because fun fact about Ireland.

Ireland does its fireworks. For Halloween, not for the fourth of July, and it’s leading up to Halloween, so there’s a lot of fireworks. So the dog goes insane. So I’ve had to go outside and leave the dog inside, so you may hear faint barking, but it could be a lot worse. And trust me, when I’m not recording, it’s so much worse with me and the dog in the house.

But anyway, on the Tony Hinchcliff front, I mean, where do we start? So I try not to hang myself on this show. You know, people don’t come to this thing for politics. They come for me to speak with comedians. So my take on it, if I break it down just as a joke in no context, for example, during the Subway series, if I go to Los Angeles and I go, hey, there’s a floating pile of garbage on an island, it’s called Manhattan.

If I do that during the World Series in LA that joke might fly, But in the context in the room it was done, it takes on whole other connotations and it’s really not a good joke. It’s a one out of ten, two out of ten joke, max. It’s dated on top. Of it, and I’m not like one to come after Tony Hinchcliff. But in the context of the importance of the week and a half that we’re in leading up to.

An election, like, why you would choose like a. Dated target like Puerto Ricans, Like because obviously you can, like you just did, you can insert whatever island you want onto that joke. It’s it’s pretty basic. At the roast of Tom Brady, if they’re roasting like a Puerto Rican comic that was on the DACE, then you might go, Okay, you know, there’s a lot of that type of joke at roasts, but like when the world’s cameras are on you and you’re a comedian and it’s fine, you’ve been hired to make some jokes leading up to it, Like why you would choose that as your joke? I mean you want to make that point, like, oh, you can joke about anything, but it’s actually kind of like it’s juvenile, it’s immature, and it’s.

Actually it’s really stupid. Like I actually think Trump is kind of stupid, So. I think that like he would never think broad enough to go Maybe I shouldn’t have a risky comedian on like this close to an election when certain states votes might literally hinge on twenty thousand people, Like it didn’t Georgia twenty two thousand people. He may have shifted enough votes to change a state. That’s insane.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like this thing without commercials, check the link in the show notes. Short version there five bucks a month.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, well, well, the Lorne Michael Shane Gillis SNL story keeps changing. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Lauren said it wasn’t his decision to kick Shane Gillis off the show. You may recall Shane Gillis was going to be in the cast and then wasn’t.

Lawren Michaels told The Wall Street Journal, Shane said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world. I was angry. I thought, you haven’t seen what we’re gonna do and what I’m gonna try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing. The Shane thing was twenty nineteen. It’s been five years, Lauren.

I don’t know now that he’s popular. Oh yeah, I always love Shae Gills. What’s going on here? According to Lauren, NBC made the call that was very strong from the people in charge, and obviously I was not on that side, but I understood it. Michael said he has stayed in touch with Gillis as Shane has now become one of the country’s top acts.

I don’t know if you know this SNL is turning fifty and we’re gonna talk about it every day. Rigular Vase has a news special. You know, I was tempted. I saw on Friday that he added a second show to Radio City, and I was like, maybe I should go see Ricky Gervas.

And then I was like, I’d have to go all the way into Manhattan.

It’s easier to get to LA from my house than Manhattan. Manhattan if from New Jersey is a nightmare. I’m serious. He gets somebody to drop you at Newark Airport, You get on a plane, you listen to podcasts for six hours, you’re in LA. You know how annoying it is to take a train or a bus or to drive heaven forbid to New York City.

And then once you get to Manhattan, there’s nothing to do with your car, even if you have one thousand dollars, there is nowhere to put it. Slight exaggeration. Don’t hass on minaj me. There I have digressed. Ricky Gervais has a new tour.

It is called Mortality. Lewis Chilton reviewed it for The Independent and didn’t like it. He writes, few comedians have been altered so drastically by the sickly mirror of social media than Ricky Gervais, the man who was once comedy’s great television innovator. What makes Jerves such a curious case is that little of his work feels particularly modern. There’s nothing really about any of his TV projects, brillantly Biting the office, sin extras, mawkish care home dramedy, Derek Warwick Davis fronted cringe sitcom Life’s Too Short, award winning grief comedy After Life that really situates it in the era of Twitter feeds and Instagram filters.

I don’t think we had those when the UK Office started, But again I digress. His stand up comedy Too, which has remateialized this week with the launch of a new UK tour, is in its choice of material almost doggedly at a vistic hope. I said the word right, and I don’t know what it means. I’m looking it up. Looks like I pronounced it correctly at a vistic relating to or characterized by reversion to, something ancient or ancestral.

If you go to a Ricky Gervas’s show, you will invariably see him fixate on age old subjects such as religion, science, or philosophy, his frames of reference would not be so very out of place half a century ago, and yet Gervase’s recent work is utterly immersed in the discourse churn of the Twitter sphere. His routines now devote considerable energy towards ridiculing those online dissenters who have called him out for ableism or transphobic comedy, and goading them with more of the same. The Telegraphs review says that Ricky seems like a man who used to be the funniest bloke in the pub, delivering material written after spending too much time online. It’s a damning assessment, perhaps because it feels so plainly true. Then this article gets into Ricky being on Twitter all the time, and Twitter being owned by Elon Musk, and some Elon Musk commentary that I think is for somebody who is digressing a lot today.

I think we’re a little far afield here. Let’s get back to the comedy part. Ricky has not been canceled, not even close. What value then, is there in molding his entire persona around opposition to a force that has no material power by aiming his munitions at a nebulous enemy online back lashty quote unquote ooke mob. He’s waging a battle that can never be won or lost, so he’s free to keep shooting again and again and again.

I was gonna talk in the second half of the podcast about Hasan Minhaj’s special, but I guess let me jump into that here. So I’m all over the place today, right, So now we’re talking about Hasan Minhaj’s special, which is fantastic. I’ll give you a review in the second But where my brain went is Hasson makes a good point about how he got, you know, hung out in the media for exaggerating things for comedic effect. Maybe Ricky is just crafty and realizes, oh, this persona works and people laugh at it, and I make money and then I go home and donate money to animal charities. Maybe he knows exactly what he’s doing, and maybe you’re thinking way too much about what the on stage persona is.

I’ve never met Ricky the man, but maybe it’s an act, you know, all right, Hasan Minhaj. While I brought it up, I really liked it. The first thirty minutes of Hassan is compelling but not funny, high energy speech giving. Then around the thirty minute mark the jokes start coming fast and furious and some laugh out loud stuff. He has at that point set the crowd up for a lot of pins that he knocks down on the second half of the special really strong.

I’ll come back to him in the second half of the podcast. Back to Ricky Gervais. The Daily Mails review said Ricky has admitted he may have finally gone too far the joke about Jimmy Seville Sir James Wilson Vincent’s vill was an English media personality and DJ. If you google Jimmy you will see words like sexual abuse and the most disgusting human being I’ve ever met and survivors, so you can get what’s going on there. I’m here to do a comedy podcast, so let’s not go there.

But Ricky Gervaise claims he may have gone too far with a joke about Jimmy. The Daily Mail tells us the hour long show includes some controversial gags, which is unsurprising given Jerva’s unapologetic attitude, with jokes about disabled children Gandhi and another about Pakistan’s sharial laws. Another approach to comedy is what Sebastian Manuscalco does, and Hulu likes it and they’ve added him to Hularious. Hey, Hulu publicists, get back to me. Man looks like whoever did this press release had a tap dance.

The special, which is not yet dated, is now listen to this. This is the most generic Sebastian Manuscaco description possible. Is expected to tackle what Manuscalco sess the absurdities of modern life, from non existent manners and wallet wins prices to the chaos of social media. Yeah, that’s what he does. It’ll be filmed during his current it Ain’t Right tour.

Sebastian gave a statement, how many times do you catch yourself thinking it ain’t right? This special is my way of uniting us. That’s so hacky. This special is my way of uniting us to laugh at the ridiculousness of the world around us. And I’m thrilled to share with my fans.

So get your sweats on, pop yourself some popcorn, and get ready to laugh. No date on this, but Hulu is not messing around. So now we have gaff again. Bill Burr, Sebastian, Christa Stefano, Alana Glazer Jessica Kurson, Mittel Lane, oscar At Kotska, and Roy Wood. They’re gonna do one of these a month, So let’s say that’s one, two, three for Isaac seven eight, so we’ve got four more to go.

Fortune Fimesir will get a Netflix special on December third. This one called Crushing It. Fortune shares hilarious stories from her life, including her romantic honeymoon with her wife and her reflections on no longer being her mom’s surrogate husband. The special will be packed with Fortune’s take on navigating relationships, personal growth, and the hilarities of everyday life. Sasha Baron Cohen was on The Tonight Show and dust it off both Borat and Allie g I’m not going to attempt either impression here, but Borat facetiously asked Donald Trump, you say in Ohio that people eat the cats and the dogs.

What at restaurant do they serve them? Matt? Can you get me a reservation? Please? In my country, we have KFC Kazakh fried cat.

He then made a joke about it being I don’t even know how to clean this up. Body part looking good? Think about it? Cats? You got it?

Move on? Fallon asked Borat what he would say to Kamala Harris. Borat not. Johnny Mack said, you are a woman, a person of colors, and married to a Jew. I advise you not to come to Kazakhstan.

You’ve already made three out of four crimes punishable death. Please do not tell me that you have also made sexy time with an underage bear. Borad added, mister Trump, sir, that remind me after your visit five years ago to the almighty beautiful Bear pageant. We paid the hush moneies to gather the grizzly problem solved. Thank you for your nuclear secrets.

In return, Fallon asked ali G what he would say to Trump again. No impressions out of me today, ali G said, Yo, mister Trump, you’ve been convicted of thirty two crimes, you still classified documents, You bone enough porn stars, and you never pay no taxes. Respect you, my hero. Alig to Harris, when me look at you on the television, me get a massive election, Olig assured both candidates. Whatever happened, me is just glad that the next president won’t have white skin.

Johnny Carson has rolled over in his grave. I do have one more, Sasha Baron Cohen item and I just wanted to get into the commercial break on the Johnny Carson line. Sasha pledged five hundred thousand dollars in donations to the International Rescue Committee and Save the Children USA to aid in airwork in war torn Sudan, where eleven million people have been displaced and estimated seven hundred and fifty five thousand people are living in feminine conditions there. Nice job by Sasha. The National Comedy Center has launched a special exhibit to honor Norman Lear’s legacy of civic engagement.

There’s an installation inside the Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, and an online companion exhibit featuring rare archival materials and curated excerpts from Leader sitcoms. On Lear’s ninety ninth birthday in twenty twenty one, he reflected, the right to vote is foundational. It is the heart of everything I’ve fought for in war in peacetime. Protecting voting rights should not be today’s struggle, but it is, and that means it is our struggle, yours and mine, for as long as we have breath and strength. As I’ve been saying on recent episodes.

It’s going to be really hard not to talk about politics for these next ten days or so. I will strongly encourage you to vote. Vote for whoever you want, but vote. And this next story makes me sad. The Back to the Future musical is ending its Broadway run.

I immediately texted my daughter, who’s much more to the Broadway shows than I am, and I said, we got to go see this. You’re in charge, so she’s getting us tickets. Back to the Future the music will end its Broadway run on January fifth. The musical opened in August of twenty twenty three, will have been on Broadway for eighteen months when it closes. It has sold eighty million dollars in tickets, but received mixed critical reviews and as seen a gradual decline and engrosses and attendance.

But good news, producers plan open four productions in the next eighteen months, including Germany, Japan, and an eight year deal with Royal Caribbean to play the musical in its full physical form on the Star of the Seas Ship. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the show without commercial interruption.

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He’s still here. Think of all the people that heard me heading for the lockout and they like bailed on the podcast. They’re going to miss this part. Now. I could edit this into the middle, but I like doing these things like the way they actually transpired.

It’s more fun. Hasan Minhaj’s is special. It’s really good. Like I said, first thirty minutes, he’s kind of setting up the pins knocks him down in the final thirty. Liked it a lot, high energy, he looks good, and I was watching it going, you know this, I should probably just host the Daily Show.

I also watched Dez Bishops of all people, that was on YouTube. It’s really good. As soon as you hit play on it, the very first thing that happens in the special, you’ll be like, oh okay, it’s a really strong opener that immediately made me go, oh wow. I was going to watch Ali Wong, but I was tired and didn’t get it. I was falling asleep in the comfy chair.

What was I watching? I had something on and I passed out during it. I think it was just a YouTube video and I woke up and suddenly it was today. But I do want to watch Ali all right. Here’s my list right now.

Best of twenty twenty four rose to Tom Brady two A Tail three Triumph four, David Cross five James A Doomian Path of Most Resistance. Go find that on YouTube. Six, Dusty Sleigh seven, Kanaane eight, Matt Rife was Good, nine, Samurell ten, Dmitri Martin eleven, Dez Bishop. Okay, you paid attention. I have that at eleven, and right behind it Hasan Minhaj twelve, both better than Jimmy Carr, Phil Wang and Chad Daniels.

That’s the end of tier one. Some other things that I liked, but there’s a bit of a gap here down to these Ellen, Greg Fitzimmons, Kat Williams, Hannah Gatsby, Connor, O’Malley, Bryan Simpson, tiknataro Taylor, Tomlinson, Rachel Feinstein, Joe Rogan. Remember his Live special in August, And I even liked Adam Sandlers. Love you. I know right now, I already said goodbye, so I’m not gonna do that again.

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Callarogashock media. Okay, this is a bonus episode. It’s all political, and it’s all political on the Trump side. So if the political stuff’s going to tick you off, just you know, to us both a favor and skip it. The reason I’m doing the episode, Tony Hinchcliff appeared at Trump’s rally on Sunday, and this is going to make news, you know, the news Trump was on Rogan jd Vance went on Tim Dillon.

I will talk about that, but the lead story here, Tony Hinchcliff showed up at the Trump rally and did some material that is absolutely go to get some pickup. The thing in particular is this joke. I will let the words of Tony Hinchcliff speak for themselves. A lot going on, like I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah.

I think it’s called Puerto Rico. Okay, all right, okay,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Taylor Tomlinson has a dream guest for her show After Midnight. The dream guest is Conan O’Brien. Taylor told CBS Mornings.

I think he’s one of the funniest people on and off stage and screen. I’d love to get him on the show. Taylor says she has a lot of freedom working that show. You’re able to try new things and be weird, and our shows very weird. She explains.

They have a team of writers who prepare jokes for the guests, but the format also allows for plenty of improvised moments. Taylor says, I think people go in feeling so prepared that they feel ready to riff and do stuff off the cuff as well. Taylor was trying to explain the point system on the show. Gail King was confused until Taylor. I don’t understand the scoring system, Taylor said, and you shouldn’t.

It’s absolute nonsense. I’m giving away the points. If the points meant to anything, they wouldn’t trust me with them. It’s just me with a button. Her current tour is called Say and explains I grew up at a church, and so I have a lot to say about that, both positive and the challenges of growing up that way.

I had a lot to work through and deconstruct over the years, and I wanted people coming to other live shows to know that it was a lot about that election day Around the corner what happens with John Stewart on the other side of the election Late Night Er thinks John will stick around, pointing out that de Look is very happy behind the desk and totally in command. As they call it. The once a week arrangement seems to be working for everybody. John’s taken all this well. My feeling is this election will never end, So why would I leave?

How could I leave? I won’t be allowed to leave until we’re all ground to some sort of calcified nubs. The one thing I will say is I walked away nine years ago because I was burnt out, and I don’t feel that right now. I feel reinvigorated. Deal.

Hughlee finds that political jokes are low hanging fruit, but he had something to say about Elon musk Dl says, when you’re really, really rich, what do you buy media? And why do you buy it? Because you want to control the narrative. You want to be so rich that you tell people what to think. As for Toyter, he says, instead of X should be three ks.

Hughglee talked about reports that ex is struggling to make money. Even that tells you how much money you have and how important it is. I’ll lose money to shape a narrative. I’ll lose money to shape minds, to tell people what to think. Like he’s literally the chief of dispensing misinformation, the chief of it.

He’s ai all these kinds of things, he said, all that kind of stuff. But that’s how valuable having information is, the access to information. Tim Meadows has gotten a little more political and said it started when he sold his Tesla. Tim explains, I love that car. It was not an easy decision to go, Okay, I’m gonna get rid of the best car I’ve ever driven?

Why do he sell it? Tesla? Ceo Elon Musk and his donations to Trump’s campaign, Tim says, I just thought it’s wild that this guy can donate that much money. But when it comes down to it, he only has one vote, just like me. We’re equal in that way, so I can’t give forty million dollars or whatever it is.

But I can give something, I’m gonna try to do more than just give my limited donor amount. So he sold the car. He used that money to fund a comedy Caucus event. These days, Tim is driving my old beat up Mercedes, which both my kids drove through high school. It’s a two thousand and seven two thirty Tim As the political rhetorica’s so ugly now, I was just thinking it’d be fun to have a political night where it’s just comedy.

Donald Rawling spoke to The Chicago Defender. Donnelle explained why his tour is called the Black and Mild Tour and says it was inspired by a bit of conflict with the Chicago comedian who said my comedy wasn’t hot, calling it mild. It got me thinking, I don’t even like hot sauce as much as I used to, thanks to some digestive issues. But really it’s more about making comedy digestible. My style is sharp, but it’s something everyone can enjoy.

I’m not here to be disgusting or insulting, so I took what was meant as an insult and turned it into something that works for me. You’ll get a loud, fun performance with a diverse crowd at my shows. Gang members, regular folks, everybody. It’s become a brand that reflects my style and people love it. Donell talked about growing up in DC and said I wasn’t the biggest or most athletic kid.

Growing up, I had to find my way in other areas, and being funny became a defense mechanism. You’re out in the schoolyard. If you don’t know how to roast people, they had roast you. It was survival in a way. But honestly, I never thought about pursuing comedy as a career.

Wasn’t something I set out to do. I was a military police officer in the Air Force, and when I got out, I was waiting to become a DC police officer. I was a security guard at a grocery store when this guy who worked for a promotions company gave us free comedy show tickets. Would go just for fun. But one day people started saying I should get on stage.

The club owner challenged me to perform. Next thing, you know, I’m up there. Thirty three years later, I haven’t looked back. I never gave myself a plan b or C. I just stuck with it, stand up of all for me.

Over time, I realized it was more than just telling jokes. It was about bringing characters to life and showing different size of myself that eventually led me to acting. So no, I wasn’t one of those comedians who always dreamed of doing this. Opportunities came my way. I recognized them and went after them.

If you want a good listen, check out Stavros Hawgaiz on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast. I thought Stavros was really honest about what his career and money and what motivated him. A really thoughtful. He’d clearly done some soul searching. He told Neil.

I kind of was always working towards the Netflix special because I was an Internet guy. From first. It was just like was podcast guy, then became a clips guy, and then it was like I need one. My first TV credit is an hour long Netflix special. I never had anything else, so I was like, I need that, And once I got that, I was like, all right, you did it.

It’s funny how these things that don’t help you that much get you, like industry attention, like some list that I was well past getting my agents were like, let’s just get you on this. I was like, I’m so beyond that, but you get that, and then some executives are like, oh, I saw him on Vulture and it’s like, I’m on a list. I’ve been selling out theaters and I’m on a list like people who just started doing comedy. Jimmy Carr will host Last One Laughing at UK. It’ll be on Amazon in twenty twenty five six episodes.

Jimmy Carr says, I’m thrilled to be making Last One Laughing UK with Prime Video Shorty deliver and if it doesn’t, it will leave the fun with your neighbors. Usually when I make a TV show with ten brilliant comics, I’m expecting everyone have a bloody good laugh. But not in this series. The Last One Laughing wins. It’s a great format and it’s been a huge hit around the world.

I can’t wait to see who cracks up first. When Matteo Lane isn’t doing comedy, he’s eating pasta. He self describes as an Italian, Irish Mexican homosexual, and he brings all that experience to his new cookbook, Your Pasta Sucks. Matteo says, I started making things I knew how to make and just chatting while I would cook on camera. Then people started making my recipes.

They were sending me pictures and really letting me know that they were into it. Your Pasta Sucks is part cookbook, part autobiography. Mateo explains, I’m trying to let somebody know that if they don’t know how to do pasta, and then they’re in the cookbook section, it probably implies that their pasta sucks. And two, I’m trying to make a joke that this is a quote unquote cookbook because I’m a comedian and the book is a mix of stories and genuine recipes. It’s not Martha Stewart with eight hundred and seventy recipes, including three hundred and sixty recipes for Christini.

It’s fewer recipes, but the ones I’ve chosen are authentic to my family, both in Italy and the United States. Mateo explains the main component for eating a perfect bowl of pasta is to be eating that pasta in Rome. But if that’s not an option, it’s really about taking pasta more seriously. Pasta’s been sort of watered down as it’s traveled around the world, it’s seen as more of a fun sponge and everybody’s obsessed with the sauce. But when you go to Italy, the pasta itself is the star.

The shape of the pasta matters. You have to care about flavoring it. You want to treat cooking pasta almost like you would cooking a steak. There are a lot of little things sitting under your nose when it comes to cooking pasta that most people overlook.

Meanwhile, The Vernon Morning Star cut up with Brent but he has become a cele…

He was at a celebrity burger tasting event at the Vernon Lodge and said, I was pretty keen. I’m a big burger guy. He tried five of the twelve burgers in this year’s challenge, cutting each burger placed in front of him in half to share with a local businessman. He tried the rest of the burgers the next day before a stand up comedy show. This was all for the Golden Burger Challenge, where Vernon restaurants create a special burger with five dollars from every burger sould donated to a local charity.

Between bites, But said they’re all really good burgers, no overlap between them. Sometimes, when they’re given a lot of freedom to be creative, they can almost step outside the bounds of what a burger’s supposed to be. But these are all burgers, but they’re all very different from each other, and very And that is your comedy news for today. Are you hungry now? I am.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Here’s the meal. If you like Seth Myers, you’re gonna like today’s podcast. If you don’t like Seth Myers, hit thirty second skip, I don’t know ten twelve times. I got a lot of Seth today.

Hi, I’m Jinny Mack with your daily coming. He was Seth Meyers dad Man Walking out tonight ten pm on HBO. Yeah, they’re still doing that thing where they think I’m gonna sit around till ten o’clock and then watch the thing live. That’s over HBO. What planet are you on?

Just put it up. Seth Meyers dad Man Walking dives in a Myer’s personal life with stories about raising three children, living in New York City, and reflections on his family dynamics. Seth did like a group press conference rather than individual interviews. Walt had a recap of that. He told a story about laughing hard at SNL Table Reads.

He said, Andy Samberg wants that to meet the press sketch where Beetlejuice was filling it for David Gregory as the host. It was such a ball attempt by Andy to do his Beetlejuice impression on SNL. I laughed, very hard, and I think Lorn laughed. Not at all toughest hosting gig to kill at, he said, Weirdly, the Emmys was the toughest. I thought the SPIE’s would be really tough.

But the fun thing about the SPI’s I realized that no one there actually cares if they win ANESP or not. So if you have good jokes about sports, you can crush. Where is it the Emmys? I felt a Titanus there. Dumbest weekend update joke, Seth, I will tell you the dumbest joke that definitely didn’t work.

A man in Washington State was arrested for animal cruelty after he was caught having sex with the family dog. Even worse, it was makeup sex. Seth says, What I love about that’s a good joke. What I love about that joke is every time I tell it, no one groans until the punchline. So even after sex with the family dog, the audience is still like, okay, we’ll hear the man out.

The delayed groan is why I will never tire of telling that very dumb punchline. Best Lorne Michael’s advice, Seth. When I started late night, he said, it’ll take you eighteen months to figure it out. I thought that was too much time, but he was one hundred percent right. I think it was almost eighteen months to the day that I realized I shouldn’t be standing for the monologue.

He maybe has a reputation for being an impatient person, but I think he does appreciate the process and that you sometimes need to learn by doing worst. Lauren Michael’s advice seth my first summer on SNL. He told me that I should take tap dancing lessons because he thought that would give me more confidence as a performer. In fact, it was so important he told someone else to tell me. I never took those tap lessons, but maybe I should now do something special for him.

At the fiftieth Ultimate Andy Samberg writing Hack, have him say a very dumb thing with total confidence. Ultimate Amy Pohla writing Hack. She’s very funny when she’s frustrated and trying to convince people. She’s right. Most effective trick to make a boring talk show guests seem interesting.

If you can project to an audience that you’re listening, they’ll also want to listen. You can’t get caught looking like you’re thinking about your next question. Most important lesson he learned about running a writer’s room. If you’re rewriting anything, don’t pitch lateral moves. If a writer’s put all his time into writing a piece and they have a joke, you can pitch a joke if it’s twice as good, but if it’s as good, they’ll probably want to use their own joke.

Seth was asked if he will aboard his bait in the fiftieth aniverse of SNL. Let me answer for him. Yeah, like he’s not gonna go. What kind of question was that? Seth said, I just officially received my first reach out from Lorne saying would you be available in February should we need a hand.

Seth was on Andy Cohen Show and was asked to rank his top five favorite SNL characters, a list with which I really disagree. He sets list number five Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer for Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat that is a good choice. Three Kate McKinnon’s Colleen Rafferty, two Will Fortes mcgruber, and number one Bill Hayter’s Stefan, a character I never got. Did you listen to Stavro’s hockeyist. On Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, Savro said, I don’t know if you have this, but I definitely had the it’s going to end tomorrow disease of like for the first time I started doing well and started making money, I was like, we’re gonna lose all our subscribers tomorrow.

And then I got a little internet heat, but no one’s gonna watch my special to like, all right, the YouTube special did well, but no one’s gonna watch the Netflix special. I could sell out comedy clubs, but I don’t think my agents are wrong. I’m not going to sell theaters. And it’s like I just finally allowed myself to be like, you’re fine, pretend it’s a different guy’s career that you’re analyzing. It’s not going to fall apart tomorrow.

And so once I kind of did that, I was like, Okay, I don’t have to say yes to everything. I’ll only do stuff that I think is cool from now on, Like, I’ll do my own stuff and I’ll do anything that’s cool. But I’ve turned down a couple, like some acting stuff. I’ve turned down some other opportunities because I’m like, I just don’t want to do it. I just want to hang out.

I recognize that I kind of won a generational lottery of like a guy with my skill set born five years earlier, host born five years later. I’m trying to make man on the street. Tiktoks, you know what I mean. But I was in the sweet spot where we might have been the first comedy podcast on Patreon. Calm down when we started, and it was like I just got in on podcasting.

I thought podcasts were dead. I had the wrong business. I was like, well, marin this American life comedy bang bang, those are the only ones.

And then like god, we were wrong.

Joe Rogan on his podcast set, I remember the first check I got a real check. I got a development deal from Disney, of all people, I guess I was like twenty six, and it was the first time I ever had a good chunk of money, like six figures in the bank. And I felt like the weightlift that off me, like a physical feeling because my whole life I was like, how am I gonna eat? How am I gonna pay my rent? Then all of a sudden, I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Cristelle Alonso was upset with a comedy venue in her hometown of McCallen, Texas. She shared a story on Facebook. As Cristella tells it, she was backstage at the local theater and then the staff kicked her out at midnight. She was in the middle of a meet and greet. Her family was there.

She said that there was no warning that she needed to leave by midnight. She had to pack up everything and ask her fans to meet her outside the building. That’s awkward, Alonso posted. The disrespect is something I’ll never forget. Then once we were outside taking pictures, they came to apologize and said we could go back inside.

No, thank you. I will not go back inside when you forced us to leave, I will not go back inside that building again. I don’t know when I’ll come back to McCallan, but I’m gonna have to figure out another solution. The fans were great. The venue sucked.

Sounds to me like a junior staffer was enforcing the midnight rule and not knowing how to deal with talent. Didn’t look the other way. That would be my guess. I did see a recap JD. Vans with THEO Vaughn.

They talked about cocaine THEO said, I don’t know if it’d be sober if this stuff weren’t killing people. To be honest with you, I know that’s sad to say, but it keeps me out of the risk of it. JD said, makes it a little scarier. THEO. Yeah, but it’s also sad that somebody.

I mean, this is ridiculous to say, but you know, you can’t even do cocaine in this country anymore. You know that seems like a crazy thing to say, And don’t say that, but I said it. JD left and told THEO he was gonna steal that line. But after the election, I’ve got to win first. As I keep mentioning, it’s going to be hard not to do politics these next ten days or so.

Are you in Texarcana here, it’s a good place to drive a truck in a trans am. Bring some cores back east? Jay Leno’s there tonight. Jay said, it’s just a comedy show. There’s no lecturing, there’s no Here’s what I think, you know.

Rodney Dangerfield and I were friends for forty years. I have no idea if Rodney was a Republican or Democrat. I had no idea. We just used to talk about jokes, and that’s what I’ll be doing, no obscenities or anything like that. While in town, he’s serving as the Grand Marshal for the Four Estates Auto Museum’s annual Fall Auto Show.

Jay said, so I’m one above normal marshals. I’m the Grand Marshal, which, of course I have the right to arrest or detain anyone for any reason at any time. He says he enjoys hanging out with fellow car enthusiasts. You know what, when you’re in California, I meet like one or two guys and each have like one hundred cars. And when you go to Texas, Oklahoma, you meet one guy who’s at a car he’s been working on since he got married, and he put it away when the kids went through school.

And the kids are in college now, so now he’s back working on fifty seven Chevy. So it’s kind of fun. I really enjoy it. If you’re in Texarcana the auto show today from eight to four, Carlos Mencia told Denver’s six thirty khow if you’re easily offended, please leave. It’s because I care.

I care about your time, I care about you. I care enough to know that I’m not for you, that’s who I am. Once you buy into it, it’s such a beautiful, cathartic thing to watch everybody just give into the laughter and see the difference between comedy and anger, between racial and racist. All this stuff becomes comedic fodder. And I think that’s where I’m living right now, and I think people need that.

People need to be told out a bad person because you laugh. It’s a mechanism that we use. The host brought up Dave Chappelle’s War against the Woke, and Sea said, think about the phrase itself, punching down. It assumes presumes that you either place me above those people or I do. And I don’t understand punching down.

I don’t get it when I do my jokes about me or my family. It’s okay. Self deprecating humor can be just as hurtful sometimes as anything else. I can go up there and talk about how I’m overweight, but the midnight I talk about how you’re overweight. That’s where the line gets crossed, and that’s the hypocrisy.

We the truth tellers, are needed. We’re also the valve for people who are angry, who are taking life a little too seriously. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Chudny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Stavros how he has has a movie out today. It’s called Let’s Start a Cult, say throwback comedy. The press release describes the film as centering on an obnoxious loser who is missed out on his cult’s long awaited ritual suicide.

He finds his bogus ex Messiah, and they set out to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through Middle America, the constantly bickering duo inductive military want to be a mentally unstable mom and a mysterious foreign hitchhigerno their cult. But will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny or decide this life might be worth living after all. Stavros plays Chip, the misfit member of the cult. He told The La Times.

Getting the opportunity to make a movie like this is almost like living out a childhood dream. The La Times was curious how Stavros has become so confident. He said, I really don’t know. I think not having confidence. As a kid, I was the shirt and the pool kid, and I was just like, there’s no reason to be like this.

Maybe I’m not the sexiest guy out there, but there’s such a small percentage of sexy people. So I got over that lack of confidence very early on. Being the class clown as a kid came naturally to me, and I got a lot of attention from that. When I started getting positive attention just from doing on as good ad, it kind of fed into the confidence of it all. It’s like a classic clown origin story where being the funny kid got you noticed.

Once I got a taste of that, I didn’t need much to get me going. And luckily I had a very supportive immigrant mother who thought I was gonna be one of those kids that goes to Harvard at age twelve. She was way too supportive of me. I was a show off from birth. I think the first time I got a buzz was from a school play or doing something funny.

Up until sixth grade, I went to an acting program. Then after that I decided I was going to be a jock, and that was one of the worst decisions I ever made. I was like, no more acting for me. I’m gonna go in a pro football or basketball. I couldn’t even start from a Greek church league, but I thought I might make it to the NBA.

That was a big mistake. But then I got into comedy through classic movies like Animal House or anything with Adams Seandler, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Danny McBride or Appato. Movies would stand up. I was a very set up, punchline comic, and I think a lot of people know me from crowd work, which develops over time. But it’s not like I’m giving a huge performance.

It’s more just being quick and stuff like that. I think acting has really helped because it makes me so much more aware of my face, my movements, and just the way I appear to someone else. Acting is the visual medium, and you’re so aware that somebody else is going to watch it. Stand Up is visual two. But when I’m doing stand up, I’m just trying to be as funny as possible.

Tim Heidecker has a new album out. This is a serious album, not a comedy album. The album is called Slipping Away. Tim explains my job the past eight years or whatever has been to push my audiences to have a more open mind about what to expect from me. I felt like it would be more rewarding as a fan if I happen to like a comedian and their music.

I think that would be cool. Rolling Stone was curious. Is it different from how people have connected with your comedy? Tim says, there’s not a lot to relate to necessarily with comedy. You can love it and be a fan of it, but this is much more personal, and I think people are connecting to it on that level.

I’ve been doing this long enough that I’m letting people know it’s okay not to be drenching in irony all the time. We can still have fun. I still want to laugh, but it’s okay to cry or to be moved, to talk about real stuff. And I think it’s important, especially for men, to have that allowance, give them the permission to be like we could be upset about something or moved by something, or feel the need to reach out and talk about stuff. Crack dot com does that.

Awesome stories about Robin Williams that I found interesting and it wasn’t about joke theft For once, Joe Piscoball told a story about the New York Improv There was a door next to the stage. Joe said, the running joke was there’d sometimes be a knock at the door. In the middle of the show. Whenever it happened, I’d open it and it would usually be Robin, and I’d hand on the microphone. Paul A Poundstone said, whenever Robin walked in the room, whoever’s on stage at the time knew they might as well get off.

I don’t think his attitude was ever get off because I’m here, But even so most of us had the good sense to say, Robin’s here, have a good time. Robin’s manager David Steinberg, said Robin liked to go on last because he didn’t like to bump other comics. He said, there was never any fifteen minute rule for Robin. It just go on and on and on without notes. Robin wrote while he was talking, it was always a stream of consciousness.

Gilbert Godfreed one time said, once I was about to go on the Improv in New York, literally down on the second they were getting ready to announce me, he was still doing more Coan Minian like any other club. Their attitude was get robed on stage. But then he did the most incredible thing. He said, I’ve got people coming to see me, but I want them to go see Gilbert. First Daily Show Senior correspondent Michael Costa has written a new book.

It’ll be out in twenty twenty five. He put out a YouTube video announcing the book, saying, how did I end up in comedy? If all I ever wanted to do was win Wimbledon, which I didn’t even come close to, It’s in the book. Costa is a former tennis pro. He once ranked eight hundred and sixty fourth in the world.

He spent two years as a pro on the ITF and ATP tour from two thousand and two to two thousand and four. In two thousand and five, he started pursuing comedy Lucky Loser Adventures in Tennis and Comedy March eleventh, twenty twenty five.

Meanwhile, Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show has announced a new special, The …

In The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper her Fingers the Pol’s Rallied Together. Hey guys, can we shorten that title a little bit? What are we doing? In afore mentioned special, Klepper says he will travel to Trump events in swing states over the election’s crucial closing days. This time, He’ll bring along some curious friends and experts in their fields to help unpack and understand why so many Americans are supporting Donald Trump.

The special premieres on Comedy Central October twenty eighth. That’s Monday, at eleven thirty pm Eastern Time. I will be in bed. You got plans for New Year’s Eve? Michelle Buttell will have a special on Netflix.

Last year they gave us Dave Chappelle. Michelle recorded the special back of June, when she became the first female comic to record a special at Radio City Music Hall. In the special, she reflects on subjects including motherhood and marriage, all while slipping rose through a straw. I don’t know how well that’s gonna do. Lavelle Crawford has an album out today.

The video component came out earlier in the week. It is called I Could Eat Part One. Lavell jokes about how my six hundred pound life could go for fifteen seasons and he’s still underweight. What kind of racist you have to be not to take a free holiday specifically Juneteenth? And explosive consequences in a Taco Bell bathroom.

I pulled the trailer a couple things Lavelle’s voice has gotten a little thinner, So the audio wasn’t great. I don’t think it was gonna work for the podcast.

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Also, wouldn’t surprise me, trying not to hang myself wouldn’t surprise me.

If possibly, perhaps maybe someone accidentally had added some laughs to the trailer and it just made the whole thing sound cheesy. And again, let me read that last rule of three thing explosive consequences in a Taco bell bathroom. Comedians who listened to the show Hack Hack, I like Lavell, but not a good trailer. John, you’re making friends today. I know sometimes it comes out also out today another comedy album.

Maybe one of these will win the Grammy for Comedy Album. You know my whole stance that best comedy album should actually be an album. Alan Strickland Williams Allen’s album is called ran Through. The album is filled with absurd, dark one liners, as well as structured pieces about the celestial bodies that hang in the sky above his Florida roots, relationships, dating and being single, parenting or lack thereof, vasectomies and guns. We’re told asw absolutely excels at crash jokes about sex drugs and residual trauma, the kind of jokes that you can’t help but laugh at while also relating to it just a bit much.

Born in Texas and raised in Florida because my parents really wanted to do a number on me, asw new, lives a totally normal life in the small humble town of Los Angeles, California. And let’s check in with friend of the pod John Marcos Serasi. He was on Vulture’s list of the Comedians You Should and Will Know. Vulture Astro and Marco to tell a story from his childhood that might explain how he became a comedian. He says, I had a stepfather.

He scared the crap out of me, and he might hit me way more like he might make me go with him to home depot for six hours on a Saturday and not let me bring a game boy kind of way. As such, I timidly followed all his rules, whether so what reasonable. I wasn’t allowed to listen to Eminem We’re absurd, I wasn’t allowed to watch The Simpsons or odd shoes were to remain on while inside the house. But then, on the night of my fourteenth birthday, after a wine infused post pictionary fight with my mom. My stepdad told me I would now be going out with him and him alone to get some salvatory ice cream.

The way to the car with my mom out of ear shot, my phone rang and it was my dad calling for the first time that day. I went to pick it up. My stepfather said, leave it. I did not get you that phone to talk to that man. So I got in the car and my dad called again.

Don’t answer it. My phone ping from a voicemail. Fine, he’d call him back, but I did not get you that phone to talk to that man. I called my dad back before a minute had passed. My stepfather gestured for me to wrap it up, so I promptly ended the call, turn on my stepdad and said, you’re just mad because my dad banged your wife before you did.

There’s war here, but I’m getting out on that. And that’s your daily comedy needs for today. Jevarco’s awesome. See you

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Caloroga Shark Media. He and Aaron Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. As I’ve been mentioning, it’s going to be really hard not to do anything political these next two weeks. I will attempt to go down the middle. Not here to make any enemies, not here to take anyone off, not here to tell you who to vote for.

I’m just here to tell you should vote vote for somebody, please. So I’ll pick my spots and try and stay on the silly side of things. And i will remind you we have a daily political podcast called Ballot, so that is nothing but snark if you want to check that out. I haven’t done a late night recap in a bit, so let’s see what they’re up to. Jimmy Fallon noted that Trump canceled a Tuesday event that would have been titled Make America Healthy Again.

Fallon said’s tough to make America healthy again when you were just making them French fries a day ago. To make up for the cancelation, Trump had his doctor write a note and said that America is in perfect shape and weighs two hundred and fifteen pounds. Seth Meyers. Trump told reporters, I love McDonald’s, I love jobs. I like to see good jobs.

As said, wow, I realize if you replace I with me, Trump has the same vocabulary as Cookie Monster, ME love McDonald’s, ME love jobs. Colbert points out there’s only one Taco Tuesday left before election day, and you should savor it because if Trump wins, he’s pretty sure A Project twenty twenty five outlaws Tacos. Elon Musk said on Saturday that he would give one million dollars per day to a randomly chosen registered Pennsylvania voter who signs an online petition. Michael Cost hosting The Daily Show, said Elon is so rich he bought Twitter just to drive it into the ground for his own personal pleasure, and now he’s thinking, well what if I did the same with America? Cost again, I know what you’re thinking right now.

How could Republicans sink so low?

And also can I sink low enough to register for this?

Reports are that Trump will do Joe Rogan’s podcast. They will record it on Friday. Supposedly that will be a big deal. Whatever you feel about either Trump or Rogan, that will be a big deal. Theolvonne had JD.

Vance on Tuesday’s episode. I just noticed this myself, haven’t listened to it yet, and I haven’t. I’d seen a recap from a non political website. There’s some poll quotes with JD talking, you know, issues and stuff. I don’t want to go there.

I’m sure THEO probably had a silly conversation with him at some point, so when I find a recap of that, I will share it. Dave Chappelle has announced a tour. Killer Mike will be on tour with Dave Chappelle. The show’s go on sale Friday ten am, get online. One of the shows Madison Square Garden, November twenty first, I’m not going because I like my cell phone more than I like Dave’s comedy.

Switching from Killer Mike to Deacon Mike. Dave Chappelle was in Cleveland on Saturday. Cleveland is the home of Deacon Mike and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They inductated a tribe called Quest. No, not Deacon Mike.

Deacon Mike had nothing to do with inducting a tribe called Quest Chappelle and the Rock Hall of Fame. Did. Pelle gave a lengthy speech. Part of it he said, it’s an honor to induct this next band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Years ago and a tough time in my life, I read a Chinese proverb that changed my life.

And the proverb said that the best meal you can cook is made with ingredients they already have. I like that, And this roverb reminds me of hip hop. And this proverb reminds me in particular of tribe, because tribe was born out of friendship. Being in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it’s not something that a black kad in New York in nineteen eighty five, whatever imagine a dream of And I don’t believe that was ever the point of a tribe called Quest. And they met on a train.

They met at school, They played basketball together, they played around and run with each other, and the first thing they had was each other as friends. Switching over to Gossip Corner, there was an after party. Dave Chappelle was there. Party was at Cleveland’s House of Blues on the second floor. Chappelle’s prize guest by jumping on stage and did a concert, a music concert.

Chappelle was backed by a jazz band, Dave saying R and B and hip hop classics interspersed with jokes. Chappelle asked the crowd to shut off their phones. The crowd dispersed at four am with bags filled with warm doughnuts. Have you seen Hasan Minhaj’s new special. I haven’t gotten to it yet.

I’ve seen two interviews, one with the in house Netflix and one with the La Times. I wonder why he’s either laying low or Netflix didn’t blow this one out. Very interesting to me as a watcher of such things. The Eight Times was curious did the fallout from the New Yorker article cause Hassan to change the way he approached writing and performing the special. Min As said, no, I already put out a twenty one minute video about what had happened.

I show the receipts in the material of things that I provided that didn’t get included in the article. So it was kind of interested into the public record, and that allowed me to say, Hey, if you want to go discuss talk about a litigate, there’s a whole deep dive on a tape. Emails, receipts all there, beat by beat by beat. Now we can just focus on this piece of work. I gets approached this hour as its own unique individual piece of work.

Maybe other comedians would have tried to integrate into the show. So I talk about this, I don’t have to make that calculation. It’s a dorky controversy. It’s not even a good one. I didn’t bang a porn star.

I didn’t diddle a boy. I caught embellishing for dramatic effect. Same crime. Your aunt is guilty over thanksgiving new topic. Good line from Hassan.

For the longest time, culture in the framing of the American cultural narrative has existed in a black, white’s economy. But there’s this third thing in America called Bejistan, which is like Indians, Latinos, Filipinos, Arabs and wherever Bruno Mors is from La Times after the article came out, where you’re concerned that other comics might pull back on artistic license in their work to avoid the same kind of scrutiny Minas, I’m gonna be honest. The fact checking thing happened to me. I don’t think it’s gonna happen to other comedians at large. I think it was a conversation point for that period of time.

Sometimes you’ll get a good review. Sometimes you’ll get a bad review. Sometimes a gig breaks your way, sometimes it doesn’t. Kind of shakes out all right. If you need something to watch.

Angela Johnson Race Is Technically Not Stalking, debuts on the eight hundred Pound Gorillas YouTube channel at seven pm Central Time. Jimmy O Yang, a favorite of mine, the stars in Hulu’s Interior Chinatown. The trailer’s out and the show follows Willis, who’s a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black and White. Willis goes through the motions of his on screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown, and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown while discovering his own family’s very history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.

Ten episodes out on Hulu November nineteenth. Adam Ray is getting a Netflix special, also out November nineteenth, So we’ll be busy that day. Netflix calls untitled special a one of a con comedy show featuring celebrity guests, crowd work, and outrageous hijinks and a Gagsby told The New York Post, I’m not saying anything cruel off on a criticism of Taylor Swift or Barbie’s misogynistic, and that’s not how I’m coming. It’s more of a playful I don’t fit in. There’s a few little textures, but I don’t think anything that makes so much money off us should be uninterrogated.

Yeah, like that time Taylor Swift almost murdered Joe Cooy’s career over this innocent joke. Let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

Listen. Scott Beckett shows a little short today. I had a pad ten seconds there. Okay, it’s funny. It’s a good bit.

People like it. Anna says, my purpose is to tear anything down. It’s just to shift people’s perspectives slightly and then they go home and have something to chew on. I don’t think I have that much power to do anything so that. It always amuses me when people take me so seriously to the point that they feel anger.

As for their relationship with Netflix, Anna says, I don’t know what the relationship with Netflix can possibly be. It’s a data form. They made it quite clear that they stand on the side of absolute freedom of speech and any jokes of fair game. There are no real world consequences. I just like stirring the pot and shifting a perspective or two.

Patton Oswalt with a terrible opinion on Twitter. I hope he was being sarcastic here. He tweeted, what makes season two of The Rings of Power? You know that’s the terribly boring Lords of the Ring thing on Amazon that Lords of the Rings fans hate. What makes season two of The Rings of Power deeper than season one is seeing the Orcs more than they’re dead, struggle to find a home in the world, and worry about their families.

Makes the battle sequences more exciting and heartbreaking. They’re not just a faceless Horde. Uh yeah, okay, sorry Lords of the Rings fans. Now, I’m a Star Trek fan, so I feel you. I won’t go off on that dangent.

Lily Gladstone and Sharon Stone have joined Mark Marin in the Indie co In Memoriam, it’s the story of a veteran Hollywood actor played by Mark Merrin, who becomes obsessed with securing a spot in the Oscars. In Memoriam Montage after receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. That’s a good role for Mare and that’s really good casting. His campaigning leads to a heartfelt journey of self exploration. Mittel Lane tapes his next special, that one for Hilari is.

He’s taping it tonight in Santa Monica. And my favorite story of the day. Comedian Fern Brady’s tour poster under investigation by an advertising watchdog. You see on the poster she’s standing by a stained glass window. Deacon Mike, you’re listening.

Stained glass window. That’s your thing, she says, I give you milk to drink, which happens to be the name of her new comedy tour. The advertising watchdog is investigating following a point that it mocks the Christian faith. On social media, fern Brady wrote, whoever complained about the poster, thanks a lot. I’m that’s true comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’d leo Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Anthony Jesslinek will have a new special on Netflix. It is called Bones in All November twenty sixth. That’s that factor.

And with Thanksgiving that’s two days before Thanksgiving, all right, something to do Thanksgiving night. This one, like so many, was filmed during the Netflix as a Joke Festival back on May tenth. The official log line Anthony Jesslineck celebrates twenty years of delivering witty, boundary bushing comedy in his new Razor Sharp stand up special. Oh boy, there’s some specifics. Thanks Netflix.

Tom Papa has his special coming out. As I pointed out yesterday, I think Jerry Seinfeldt did Papa a favor and made some news on Papa’s podcast. Now we’re all talking about Tom Papa anyway. Tom Papa Special Home Free, his third for Netflix, will be out next Tuesday. They have shared a trailer.

Now let me jump in here in the past. Not the last special, the one before that. That’s when I first started using the term clapter. Tom Papa was doing some material and I noticed that the audience was not laughing. They were clapping and as you listen to this trailer here, especially this first joke, note the audience reaction.

Hmm. I’ve been going through some changes at my house. We dropped off my last daughter, my last child, my youngest off of college, and they’re all gone now. And nobody tells you how hard it’s going to be pretending to be sad. Not one tier, not one tier.

I really thought I was gonna cry. I feel so bad, but I think I might be happier than. I’ve ever been. Papa taped the hour this summer at the Warner Theater in Washington, d C. Great Theater, Tom, Papa, I’m not Free.

October twenty ninth, on your Netflix, Mittel Lane has joined Hularious. I’m warming up to the term. Guys. Hularius not messing around Bill Burr, Lana Glazer, Roywood, Junior Osco at Coska, Jessica Curs and christ Stefano and now Mittel Lane. This one will be taped tomorrow at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

Mittel Lane said, I am thrilled to be part of the Disney Hulu family. This is the closest I’ll get to becoming the fifth Golden Girl. We now have a title for Jim Gaffigan special, which will kick off Hularius that is called The Skinny and that launches November twenty second. More specials Virdas will get one for Netflix in Untitled Special. Viardas is inspired by the ancient philosophy of sharing happiness.

Untitled Special offers a unique narrative of self discovery and global connection. Viewer embarks on a thrilling adventure performing in multiple cities worldwide, from iconic venues to hidden gems. Vier says comedy as the power to bring people together in no matter where they are. With this special, we are trying to bring something fresh to comedy by sharing stories and experiences that celebrate love and kindness, while showing that laughter really is the universal language. He’s really good.

I like him a lot. Got a little SNL controversy. Comedian Demetrius Fields wrote, somebody it’s Saturday Night Live ripped off my bit last night. So here’s a recording of me doing it last May. I’ve been doing it for five months and a lot of the same rooms people who work on that show are in.

Maybe it was parallel thinking. The sketch in question from the Michael Keaton hosted episode Imagine’s an interracial Couple in nineteen fifty five for Professor their love to their two respective families. AGO’s father and brother are accepting in the romance, Andrew dus Muche’s mother and father are not. The crux of the perhaps parallel thinking or the lyrics of Hay Soul’s sister. Back in nineteen ninety five, SNL settled a lawsuit with Rick Shapiro after j Moore was accused of stealing one of Rick Shapiro’s bits word for word in a sketch called O’Callahan and Son pob.

Over the years, others including Tick NATARO Tim Heidah, and The Groundlings have pointed out similar thinking. NBC has not commented at the time of this recording. Trevor Noah was on the Diary of a CEO podcast and talked about his diagnosis of ADHD. Trevor said, I would have the inability to choose where to place my focus right on one of the things, so it would either be hyper focused by something that I shouldn’t or I’d have no focus for the thing that I should So I could be having a conversation with you, and let’s say there’s a car outside reving its engine. At some point I’d be all I’d think about, even though you’re speaking to me.

That’s all i’d be able to think about, Like who’s reving this engine, who’s driving this car, what’s going on out there? What kind of car is this? It sounds like a V six? Is that a truck? But you’d be talking and at the end of the sentence, I just hear the last three words you said, and then I’d try to put it all together and act like I was paying attention.

Two years ago, my friend got diagnosed. He told me about it changed his whole life. Then when he was describing some of the symptoms, I was like, well, that’s weird. That sounds a lot like me, and we’re very different people personality wise. Than I asked him, I don’t understand.

I’ve never noticed these things in you. And he was like, yeah, he’s very good at hiding them. He’s very good at masking them. Me. He ate home so much that it made me think I need to get diagnosed.

It is going to be very hard to not get littical on this program. Between now an election day, we are two weeks out. Eddie Griffin shredded Kamala Harris as a liar. During a podcast appearance, Griffin said, I don’t know what the f you thinking voting for Kamala. She’s a puppet, y’all.

She has zero experience, Nobody respects her on the world stage. Everybody I talked to don’t like you. Ain’t nobody gonna vote for you. He referred to the Vice president Askalion Harris and asked his listeners, how are you gonna vote for a lion stinking b word? Here’s your choice?

Is America the liar or the crook? I think I might be going with the crook. God darnit. Fox News points out quote. Griffin then offered a humorous argument that Trump has certain credentials with the black community and that he’s got three Baby Mama’s forty three felony cases in counting selling high top tennis shoes just like Michael Jordan got shot, just like Tupac.

That mfer gonna drop an album next. Comedian Gary Owen shut down a heckler at a recent show who was a Trump supporter. Gary shared a ninety second clip on social media in which an unseen audience member interrupts Gary the audience member, yeals out, give me five minutes mfor. Gary said, no, you know what, you’re not going to get five minutes mfor. That was the whitest mfer I’ve ever heard.

Build your own career B word? What do you want my five minutes for? No refunds? Oh, I still got your money B word? So technically you work for me tonight.

Ho o. When cursed out the heckler, the crowd laughed. The man yaled out FU. The crowd cheers and booze. When venue employees escorted the mega hat wearing instigator out of the building, Gary Owen said, he looks exactly like I thought he was gonna look too.

Oh yeah, there’s a lot of child porn on his laptop. I guarantee that stuff here at Daily Comedy News, we want to be clear we have no knowledge of that laptop accusation. They are making a documentary called Playing a Potus. It stars Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Alec Baldwin, Keegan Michael Key. They will discuss the arts of the presidential parody.

No date yet on that one elections two weeks. Guys, keep moving. Oh what else can I tell? You about I Have so much Comedy Fantasy Camp is back for its third installment with Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, and Natasha Lazeiro January twenty third through the twenty six that will also feature Brad Williams and Patrick Warburton. You Know Putty, Why Putty?

I Don’t Know? The official description. Set for January twenty third through the twenty six the unique event offers comedy hopefuls of all skill levels the chance to learn the ins and outs of the industry from those who know it well. Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, Natasha Lazio, Brad Williams and Patrick Warburton are set as headliners, with digital special guests expected to be announced in the coming months. The comedy pros will mentor coach and guide participants in different aspects of the art form, from writing and stand up to timing and performance and more.

With all due respect to Corolla, Lazio, Williams and Warburton, just stand next to Jay Leno the entire time. He’s in a different class from those other four. Lazio is set in a head counselor role that will see her correlling campers and sharing expertise with them across four days. Participants will be divided into small groups while they zero in on developing comedic styles. Under guidance from their professional mentors.

They will create, refine and polished material throughout the camp, all leading up to a grand finale. In a statement, Jay Leno said, I like to talk to comics, and comics like to help other comics. I have more in common with comedians than some people have known my whole life. Writing jokes is the hardest thing in the world. Words of power.

You need to learn how to use them. Adam Carolla worked hard. In his statement, he said, so happy to be back in biz for our next comedy Fantasy Camp and with my pal Jay Leno. Must have spent hours on that one, whereas publicists spent five seconds. You should see the grin on my face right now.

I make myself laugh sometimes. What else we got here today? Kate McKinnon will host the seventy fifth National Book Awards Ceremony and benefit dinner Wednesday, November twentieth. John Fatiste will perform live at the in person awards ceremony, to behold at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. I saw a Batiste open for the Rolling Stones this summer.

He was quite good, Ken Jung’s publicist Getting it done Today Ken Jung’s story Number one. Ken Jung set for award named for comedy icon Rodney Dangerfield. Today is the Los Angeles City College Foundation’s gala. Actor, writer and producer Ken Jung will be faded with the Rodney Respect Award. Lacc’s Rodney Daingerfield Institute was founded in his honor and cooperation with widow Joan Dangerfield.

The institute offers four classes, including a stand up work shop, joke writing, and an American Film Comedy Genre Class. Oh but mister Jung is having a big day because today at eleven thirty a m. Pacific time, Ken gets the two thousand, seven hundred and ninety fourth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Guest speakers include Randall Park, Joel McHale, and special surprise. Anna Martinez is producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, who says the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to honor Ken Jung with a well deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ken’s incredible journey from medicine to entertainment is a testament to its remarkable talent and dedication. In short, the doctor is in. I believe you could fetch, but I believe if they do offer you a star, you have to pay for the star yourself. Roywood Junior. I guess people are enjoying the American version of Have I Got News for You.

It’s always trending when I open up the HBO Max app. He’s going to guest host the British version on November eighth. He gave a good quote here. He said, thank you to the Hignified team for giving me gainful employment as a TV presenter in England, a country that I hear has no issues whatsoever with immigration. To seek asylum in England, one must have left their country of origin due to a well founded fear of persecution.

Depending on which way the presidential election goes in America, I might be hanging around England for a while. Have I Got News for You originated on the BBC in nineteen ninety. For the show’s first twelve years, it was hosted by British actor Agnes Deaton. Since two thousand and two, different guest presenters have hosted the show every week. The daily show will go live November fifth, That is election night.

John Stewart and team will be prepared for a no resolution outcome. That should be a fun watch.

Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert not going live that night.

I guess CBS is prepared for a no election outcome, you know, when you’re going like, yeah, you know, we’re waiting for this last dight to come in. It’s really close, so we don’t know who’s gonna win. Anyway, here’s Stephen Colbert interrupting our news coverage. I was not impressed by the CBS host on that last debate. So you know there was a time well you know this, right, Edward R.

Murrow, Walter Cronkite, even Dan Rather, CBS was the Tiffany brand, Like there was a time when CBS News was it after what’s her name going? You’re out of time, sir, I’m kind of done with CBS News. Sorry, guys, you might as well air Colbert. I’ll be watching. Jon Stewart.

Jimmy Fallon will air a special Sunday Night episode on November seventeenth, following Sunday Night Football. His guests will be Jon Ham, Lindsay Lohan, and Farrell. Jimmy Fallon will tape the episode earlier in the day on Sunday, before heading out to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to watch the Jets. Oh Terrible Sunday night football. You think a Jets game is going to prop up that tonight show ratings?

Have you seen the Jets? Eh, let’s get out there. Bashing the Jets is always a great way to end. That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.