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Caloroga Shark Media. Arian A Corande hosts Saturday Night Live Tonight. I say that with the emphasis on the tea, otherwise of my native accent. It’s just Satnite Live musical guest Stevie Nicks. I don’t know if you know this SNL turning fifty.

We’re gona talk about ever day the next eight months. Yallar reporter asked Michael Chase, if you see on your phone that Lord Michaels is calling, what’s your reaction. I’d freak out, I know I would. Chase said something’s wrong. I’m always like, uh, oh, who did it?

And how are we gonna fix it? Or it’s something like, oh, we’re hosting the Emmys. But I have a great relationship with Lord. I think everybody’s relationship with him boils down to the fact that he’s one of the few people who you truly respect their opinion about show business because he’s seen it all. Same question as Colin Jost, Joe says, it depends on what time it is and what section of the year it is.

Jay says, if it’s three AM, and it says FaceTime video Boss has been drinking, that’s funny. Joe says no, he’s a night owl and he has different relationships because of it. He’s up to three four am every night, so he’s certain people he knows they’re always up then two, and they have communication between the hours of two and four and not in an out drinking way, just a regular new conversation. But it’s three am. Do you guys stay up all night?

Chase says, yup. Choset said, I had a long run, but I can’t anymore. I think he’s learned that I’m not gonna respond until nine am, and then he’s gonna see it at eleven AM when he wakes up. This is fun. I like this interview.

A lot interesting come in here from Lorne Michaels. Six or seven years ago. Somebody high up with the network who never asked me sn no questions out of respect, said update with Jose and Chay. Do you think that’s working? And Lauren’s answer says, I said no, not yet, and he said, oh, you know, I’m like, of course, I know.

But there’s a chemistry there and we’ve had a lot of good combinations, but these two just brought out the best of each other. Like who else could make jokes about Colin and Scarlett and the joke swap. Whatever hostility he thought was lurking below the surface, it’s all visible in the joke swap. But it’s meant to be funny, and it’s truly funny. I just like to chake and take these positions which kind of fly in the face of the values of most of the audience, and he’s funny and they laugh and they like him.

Wow, that is interesting. Are there ground rules for the joke swap? Jay says, I don’t know if there’s a line. I think anything can work given the circumstance.

And also nothing can work given the circumstance.

Jay gives great answers. He is so insightful with these things, insightful and funny at the same time. I love his answers. Jay said, My thing with joke Swap, which is the most stand up thing we do at SNLS, that the audience just has to believe that I’m trying to embarrass Colin and that this really bothers him and vice versa. And if that comes across, then they’re not thinking about the content of the jokes.

So it’s not oh, that’s a racist joke. It’s more, oh, I can’t believe he’s gonna make him say that out loud, Holly Reporter, why do you think you’ve both ultimately stayed at the show? Chay my mortgage? Now, we love it. We love the show.

It’s a weird thing because you get moments where you love it so much and drives you’re crazy and you want to be as far away from it as possible. Joe says, It’s like when you play golf. A lot of times, it’s very frustrating, and there are times you certainly consider quitting, but then you hit a good shot and you’re like, Wow, I love this game. I should do this all the time. That’s the way it is with SNL.

When everything comes together and all the costumes look great and the timing’s perfect and the crowd’s good, You’re just like, this is the best job in the world, this next door r Let me just be honest with you. I’m recording this on Wednesday to accommodate my schedule. Bert Kreischer posted on Facebook his Bert aid show was supposed to be in Tampa tonight. Now I’m in the past. You know what the situation in Tampa is right now, So if I’m a little tone deaf.

I just want to be clear. I recorded this already three days ago. But here we’ll let Bert explain Tampa. This is the least important information you’ll hear all week. But obviously my show October twelfth at Ruthhickert Hall has been pushed was for the relief for Hurricane Helen, and now we will do it November fifteenth, and apparently it’ll be for both hurricanes.

If you’re in Tampa, stay safe, evacuate if you can. And if you grew up with me, send me a text. Because my parents are staying in Tampa for the hurricane. They’re not leaving. We try to get them to leave, so I may need you to check up on them.

God bless, stay safe. I will see you soon. I stumbled across this article. I don’t know how much I’m going to get out of it. This is one of those things.

I’m just diving in the pool. I make it thirty seconds zero. We might go another eight minutes, but the first two things. Let me tell you what it is. This is from Thehrdtimes dot net.

The premise every character from Lost ranked by how they’d be as a guest on the Joe Rogan experience, so that’s fun. I was like, oh, I’ll do this. They’ll be like ten. No, there’s eighty and number eighty is Michael, and I’m not gonna read all eighty. I’m just gonna read the ones that make me laugh.

Seventy nine is Charlie and the premise from The Hard Times is it turns out that Joe Rogan hates the band Drive Shaft, and we know Charlie is always seeking approval, so the episode would be incredibly hard to listen to because Charlie would relapse on air. Seventy eight is Alana Verdansky. Hard Times has a good writer. They wrote Rogan would forget who she is, just like the rest of us. Is quite frankly, it’s astonishing we took the time to add her to this list.

I have no idea who she is, and I love Lost. I’m going to look it up. Is this Saturday filler? John? Did you tape this like two weeks ago?

Maybe? Alana is introduced in the sixth episode of the fifth season of Loss as an officer boarding a Jira Airways flight three sixteen with Sayid in her custody. Okay, yeah, I guess that’s someone seventy seven, Nikki and Paulo seventy six, David Shepherd. That’s Jack’s son that doesn’t really exist. Seventy five is Shannon seventy four, Bernard seventy three, Detective Mars seventy two, Vincent the Dog seventy one Frogert Ten minutes in Joe Rogan would casually hint that lifting weights might help Frogert get laid more seventy Sarah Wagner, who Rogan would spend the whole episode asking but seriously, why do you leave Jack, while Sarah just rolls her eyes and mothers something about daddy issues.

Sixty nine Kate’s Dad sixty eight Liam Pace. Rogan would kick off the episode with her drive Shaft is finally gonna have a reunion, only for Liam to explain, now, man, you’re thinking of oasis. That’s pretty good. Sixty seven is Phil He’s one of the Dormer crew. Sixty six is Bram.

Bram would rant about Jacob saving the world, and Joe would randomly ask, but if you tried Lion’s main coffee, Brian would shake his head, muttering, you’re on the wrong side. Joe. Sixty five is Nadia sixty four is Boone, Remember Boone? Sixty three is Aldo. He was played by Rob Mcalenny.

Rogan would be excited to drop it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia references, assuming Aldo knows about it because of the actor’s connection. Aldo, completely oblivious, would just blink and ask, what’s always Sonny, leaving Rogan awkwardly butchering the dentist system. Okay, apparently I am going to get eight minutes out of this. Sixty two is Carmen Carman would spend the whole episode trying to feed Joe, insisting he needs more home cooked meals. Joe would try to steer the conversation back to Hurley’s lottery win, but Carmen’s too busy telling embarrassing stories about Hurley.

Sixty one is doctor Pierre Chang. That’s the guy from the Dharma videos. Sixty Carl Martin. He’s a character that got tortured by the others. Fifty nine is Danny Pickett.

Pickett would go on unhinged rant about how grilling was the only thing keeping him from losing it on the island. You think I tortured people for fun, Joe. Now it’s just stressed from never getting the damn grill hot enough. Fifty eight George Minkowski. This is one of the actors that was on Succession.

The entire episode would be Rogan asking did you watch Succession? Over and over while George tries to explain he’s not actually in the show. Van Matthew abinon, same joke, but have you seen the wire? Fifty six Cindy Chandler, She’s one of the flight attendants. Rogan would ask to do the others get tsa pre check?

Or what fifty five is Lenin? Joe would peg Lennon as the kind of guy who could handle some potent edibles. Big mistake. Lenin would get way too high, turning the conversation into a paranoid miss rambling about dormous secrets and human sacrifice. Fifty four is Son.

Son would ignore all of Joe’s questions about survival in island life, instead launching into a passionate rant about the superiority of Korean’s skincare. Fifty three is Rose. After Rose reveals are cancer returned after leaving the island, Rogan would suggest micro dosing shrooms, grounding, and of course, buying a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Roseanont politely clearly unimpressed.

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All right, we have fifty two more to go, so this will come back someday as we…

But let’s move on. Stephen Rogers is taping his special today. I was checking out his comedy. He’s got some Mark Norman in it. Stephen Rogers is a Syracuse race comedian based in New York City who’s been making others laugh for most of his life.

He’s teaming with Nate Bergatsey’s Nate Land Entertainment to produce the new special, taping tonight at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. Steven’s clever, rapid fire material, full of observations about his life and the world around him, has led to him appearing on The Late Show with Colbert Cordon and Dryboor Comedy. WPR was curious about Eugene Merman’s comedy festival. What’s the deal with that? Eugene said, I did a weekly show in Brooklyn with my friend Julie Smith Klem.

There was also an event that made me joke with her and Mike Berri Bigley at the time that I was going to do a Eugene Merman comedy festival and how I wouldn’t do that because I was not a known comic. It was particularly Lucris to suggests, but I thought we should do it because it would be silly. He was really fun. So at some point we decided to do a second one, and then that grew in doing a decade at these very silly shows. Veronica Slowakowska is one of vulturous comedians.

You should and will know what comedian’s career trajectory would you like to follow? She said, maybe Adam Sandler a terrible chow actually a great choice. I mean, Adam’s rich, he doesn’t care. Do you want the money? Do you want people to go?

Well, that was a good body of work. Take the money, doing a bit of everything and doing it with your friends and family seems awesome to me. You know, she is right. And Donald Glover’s the funny shows, the serious ones, the music, very cool wor Showever, I was booked on a magic show like where magicians do magic and I’m the comedy act in between. So I thought, okay, easy, breezy, everyone needs a laugh.

Turns out these magicians were so amazing, was mind blowing and be funny. What was my turn to do some alt comedy, following amazing magicians who were hilarious, charming, and also hot. I hate it, so now I do magic in every one of my sets. Her joke writing process. When an idea comes, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, I write it down.

You think you’ll remember it, but you won’t.

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Also having stuff planned but still being able to riff and play it.

There’s a sweet spot between being prepared and following your gut best comedy device, worst comedy advice. Best the audience is as smart as you, so what would you want to see? Worst the audience is a baby and you have to teach it everything. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like this program without commercials, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Saturday Night Movie has been in limited release until now. Today it goes into wide release. The film tells the tale of the ninety minutes leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live, then titled NBC’s Saturday Night.

Yeah, there was a Howard Cosell show called Saturday Night Live. This happened October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. Young producer Lauren Michaels races against the clock to put together a live show. Director and co writer Jason Reiman interviewed lots of past and president SNL staffers and research written accounts of these sketch shows opening night. Of course, it’s a movie, so we had to take some dramatic license.

Entertainment Weekly looked at the true stories. Okay, some spoilers here, but you know, the show’s been around for almost fifty years, so you had a minute. But if you don’t want me to ruin the movie, I don’t know, skip ahead five minutes maybe because I’m going to tell you a couple of stories here. Boiler is a coming spoiler. Number one, did Milton Burrell really flash Chevy Chase.

E W says there’s no record that Milton Burle was lurking around SNL in premier Night or that he flashed Chevy. However, it was widely rumored that Uncle Milty had you know, big charisma and liked to show it off. Nudge nudge, wink wink. In the SNL Oral History book Live from New York, writer Alan’s Wybell said he was flashed in Burl’s dressing room when Milton hosted in nineteen seventy nine. Chevy had left the show by then.

Spoiler number two was Louren Michaels, the original host of Weekend Update before turning it over to Chevy. E W tells us in lesser known SNL lore, Michaels has said he was actually planning to anchor an early ineration of Weekend Update, but he didn’t hand over to Chase minutes before the show. It happened before Chase was even on the cast. Michael still Deadline in twenty fourteen. I’d done the equivalent of Weekend Update in Canada, but as we got closer to the air show, I began to realize that I didn’t think I could be the person who cut other people’s pieces and left my own inn.

Spoiler number three three, did Garrett Morris sing a song about killing white He’s at soundcheck? E W tells us. Although there are no stories about Garrett Morris singing at the show’s first sound check, he did perform the song for the movie on SNL in the first season, episode eleven featured this song. Next spoiler was Jenny Carson openly hostile to SNL, he W tells us, contrary to the film’s portrayal of Carson rooting for the show’s demise. SNL was created as a solution to the host insisting NBC stop airing reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends so he could cut his talk show down from four days a week to three days a week and air repeats on the remaining weeknights.

Per the book Live from New York, Carson was skeptical of the show and later openly appalled by some of its more outrageous gags, but did not make a threatening phone call to Lorne. Michael’s Lorn regularly invited Carson a guest host, but Johnny never appeared. Next boiler was NBC prepared to air a Tonight Show rerun in case SNL wasn’t ready. E W tells us, actually it was Lorne who wanted a backup plan, but not of the tonight show. Associate producer Craig Killum remembered in Live from New York, we almost didn’t get on the air because dress rehearsal went so poorly.

I remember Lauren seriously asking the network people, or having me ask them to have a movie ready to go just in case. Then I don’t think he was kidding. Next spoiler, did John Belushi he refuse to sign his contract until moments before the show went live. A W tells us Belushi was indeed without a contract until moments before starring in the cold open. Apparently John signed it five minutes before air.

That’s wonderful. That may do one more. Did Chevy and Belushi get into a physical fight backstage? He W says, similar to the film Chase was involved in a FIS fight, but now with Belushi, it actually involved Bill Murray. Bill Murray said in the Live from New York book, I got into a fight with Chevy the night he came back to host in nineteen seventy eight.

Bill didn’t join SNL until season two it was almost like I was goaded into it. You know, I think everybody was hoping for it. I did sense that. I think they resented Chevy for leaving for one thing. They resented him for taking a big piece of the success and leaving it and make his own career go.

Everybody else was from the improv world, where you didn’t make it about you. You were an ensemble, you were company. So when he left, there was resentment about that. It was a shock. Chase put most of the blame on Belushi in the same book, Chase said, in a sense, John caused that fight with Billy because we both ended up hitting John by mistake.

Billy came after me and tried to throw me off a little bit just before I was going on air. Ultimately, Billy’s still Billy and I’m still me. But it didn’t phaze me for the show. I was sure was upset, But I noticed John when I was going into Billy’s dressing room, and John was like the cheshire Cats, sitting in there like mission accomplished. Brian Reagan used to have a bit of a dem guy persona in his stand up and said, for a long time, I did feeling inferior fantasies on stage, like you say the dumb guy.

Reagan told the Burlington Free Press it was comedy from a perspective of a person who doesn’t want to put his foot in his mouth or feel inadequate in certain social situations. My brain is bigger than that dumb guy persona. I enjoy thinking about a lot of different things. It’s fun to share a comedic point of view that’s more observational in nature than biographical. But I still do a little bit of everything.

I like ancient civilizations, and I make a joke about Stonehenge, and I have jokes about space exploration, things that I think might surprise people that are familiar with my old work. It’s very funny stuff. He’s been acting a little bit. He says things are good. That doesn’t mean at some point I won’t want to get off the ride.

I’ve been thrilled to be a stand up comedian for my whole adult life. It’d be nice to experiment with some other ways of being creative. He’s working on an idea for a talk show where he would be on stage but would produce behind the scenes. He calls it a talk show with a twist. He’s also working on a Christmas production.

He didn’t want to talk about that in detail, and said it’s a Christmas idea with a twist. These are things that people might not expect from stand up comedian Brian Reagan. David Cross has a podcast called Senses Working Overtime. Cross says, I’ve started branching off to people I don’t know, and for me, the whole way I presented it is I’m just gonna have a conversation. It should be similar to I met you at a bar in a strange town I haven’t been in, and start a conversation with the person next to me.

That’s how I approach it. Obviously, a bunch of these people if I’m not fully aware of them. I know, at least your comics we have that to talk about. But I’ve had a lot of people on the show that I didn’t know before I met them when they walked in the room. I wouldn’t be doing the podcast if I didn’t enjoy it.

It certainly doesn’t pay anything. No, really it doesn’t. Maybe it would if I roge it up a little bit. We need more conspiracy theories, Half asked conspiracy theories would increase my paycheck. David Spade is taping a special tonight at the Paramount Theater in Denver.

Stephen Rodgers will tape his a special. He’s got a little bit of Mark Norman in him. Stephen has teamed up with Nate Bergatzy’s Nateland Entertainment. Stephen Rodgers, the Syracuse at raised comedian now based in New York City. He’ll record his show tonights and tomorrow at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado.

WPR spoke to Eugene Merman. They were curious about the origins of the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival. Merman said, I did a weekly show in Brooklyn with my friend Julie Smith Klem. There was an event that made me joke with her and Mike bro Bigley at the time that I was going to do a Eugene Merman Comedy Festival, but that I wouldn’t do it because I wasn’t a known comic. It was particularly ludicrous to suggest, But then I thought we should do it because it would be really silly.

It was really fun. So sometime we decided to do a second one, and then that grew in doing a decade of these very silly shows. Vaulter asked Langston Kerman, Hey, you tell a story in your special about the day you spent with your friends high and mushrooms at the park. I know your friends with Sam Jay, who also has a story in her last special about doing mushrooms with her friends at the park? Are those the same day?

Likeston said, Same day, Sam got really excited about watching the white people dance because they had set up a DJ booth randomly, and it then became this weird war between them and the other people would try and have a baby shower, were very put off by the music, and she was getting very angry at the fact that these white people had finally found their freedom dancing peacefully in the park were being told by a richer class of people that they needed to shut it down, and that became the inspiration for her story. Then, after Sam sat there watching this war happen for an hour and a half, we wanted to the ballpark and I lost my mind watching a man play softball poorly. It was great. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media tightly ho. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nate Berghatzy is working on a book. It is called Big Dumb Eyes. I think the book publicist thought I was insane when I reached out to them already.

Big Dumb Eyes was announced by Nate on social media, who wrote, I’m so excited to tell you that I’m writing my first book. Big Dumb Eyes will be an easy read of a collection of personal stories, opinions, and confessions that the whole family can enjoy. It doesn’t come out until May sixth of nixt year, which is why the publicists, I think thought I was insane. Got I got those requests in though I’ve previously told you. Nate is working on a Christmas special with CBS.

Lauren Michael’s behind that one. Nate says of the new special, I’m extremely excited to be creating this special as I’ve long been a fan of variety and we don’t see enough of it. I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together, and I couldn’t be in better hands and with this team. The ratings for Nate’s SNL episode are in. Four point zero seven million people watched it, which is pretty good for eleven thirty at night when you compare that to say, Playoff Baseball.

Yeah. Week over a week, it was down six hundred and twenty six thousand viewers from the premiere. You think Coldplay would bring in more people, right. It was also down eighty nine thousand viewers from Nate’s appearance last October on the twenty eighth. That musical guest was Foo Fighters hmm.

If you want to compare week to week last year, on October twenty first, Bad Bunny hosted, Nate outdrew the Bad Bunny episode by seven hundred and twenty one one thousand viewers. HBO released the trailer for Seth Meyer’s new comedy special. It is called Dad Man Walking. I’ve got the trailer for you here. I’ve made a couple of minor edits to it because there’s some visual jokes.

But let’s listen, and I want to point out notice the music bed. It’s like stock Music Library version of the Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again? Weird choice. It like keeps distracting me because I’m like, oh, it’s fake who Anyway, let’s listen. I could never hate my kids, you guys, I could never hate my kids with that.

I hate when they wake up in the middle of the night bad news. It’s gotten to the point that when I hear the door knob rattle, I actually think to myself, maybe it’s just an intruder who will politely steal my valuables, and then I won’t have to scratch his back for the next hour. Meyer’s jokes that critics say it’s the special my kids will be talking about in therapy twenty years from now. October twenty six for Seth Meyer’s Dad Man Walking, Tommy Chong was on Bill Morris podcast. He suggested that President George W.

Bush ordered a hit on mister Chong. Tommy Chong is now eighty six. He claimed that his criminal conviction in two thousand and three for selling drug paraphernalia online, specifically seventy five hundred bonds and water pipes, was orchestrated by George W. Bush. Chong served eight months at a federal prison in California after entering into a plea deal.

The case was initiated by the US Attorney for Western Pennsylvania. Chung says it was orchestrated by Bush. He told Bill Mahr they had a hit on me. The Bush family. Bill Maher, no surprise, was curious about the claim.

Chong said, Bush was invading a raq, so they needed some sort of hippie bs more than asked him if it was a wag the dog type play. That’s a reference to a political strategy he used to create a diversion. You know, hey, don’t worry about the war, worry about Tommy Chung. Yeah, all right, Chong said, yeah, So they attacked me and they sentenced me on nine to eleven. The judge Schwartz was his name.

He had a reputation of doing whatever the Bush people wanted done, and so that’s why he was giving my thing. They needed a face for their campaign because they were going after paraphernalia on the internet. Mar Ashchong if he harbored any bitterness towards Bush Or’s family. Chong said no, Yeah, he said no, but admitted the experience was a life changer for me. Yeah.

I would imagine newsweeks as they contacted the Bush media team for comment. No comment at the time of this recording. Interesting tag here. Chong said prison was devastating to my family, especially my wife. Wasn’t tough on me.

Actually, it was quite a nice experience. Jenni Fisher, you know her as Pam from the Office. She shared on Instagram her breast cancer diagnosis, announcing she’s now cancer free. She released a series of slides in commemoration of Breast cancer Awareness Month. She said in October of twenty twenty three, doctors found something on her left breast after an inconclusive mammogram.

That December, she learned she had stage one triple positive breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of the disease, but one that is highly responsive to treatment. They caught the cancer early it had not spread to the rest of her body. In twenty twenty four, doctors removed the lump, but triple positive breast cancer still requires chemo and radiation therapy. Jenna says during the treatment her hair fell out and she began wearing wigs and hats with hair, which her family affectionately called wigats. After twelve rounds of weekly chemotherapy, three weeks of radiation, and some other treatments, Jenna says she’s happy to say I’m feeling great.

I’m making this announcements for a few reasons. One, I’m ready to ditch the wigs. Two to implore you to get your annual mammograms. Can also ask your doctor to calculate your breast cancer risk Assessment score and get additional screenings required. I’m serious.

Caught your doctor right now. My tumor was so small it could not be felt on a physle exam. If I’d waited six months longer, things could be much worse. I’m happy to say I was recently rescreened and the treatments worked. I’m cancer free.

I will continue to be treated monitored to help stay that way. Take it from Pam and her Pam PAMs. Michael Scott was right, get them check, ladies. Some high profile animal lovers, including Ricky Gervais, attended a World Animal Day event in aid of the animal welfare charity Mayhew. More than fifteen thousand pounds were raised on the night You Are a Raffle and auction of virtual gifts to support the dogs, cats and communities that Mayhew helps.

HBO not the best timing to announce their new late night comedy series, It’s Florida Man. Hope Everyone in Florida is safe Today. The series It’s Florida Man debuts next Friday, October eighteenth, at eleven pm on HBO. It’ll stream on Max. By the way, I was playing around on Max watching the Penguin.

Have you seen the Penguin? The Penguin is very good, And I noticed in the top ten was have I Got news for you? The CNN thing that airs on Saturday Night. So maybe the Saturday night thing is a terrible idea, but the Max part of it seems to be doing well. You go, Roywood Junior.

Anyway, it’s Florida Man. We’ll stream on Max at a layer on HBO proper at eleven BM Eastern and Pacific starting on the eighteenth. The irreverent late night comedy series brings to life unbelievable rip from the headlines tales of the Sunshine State. Yeah, dude’s wrong week to announce this thing. Sorry.

I know you planned this months ago, but sometimes you got a punt. Hey Florida hilarious? Right, Yeah, that’s not going to play. And I hope I’m not even out of tone because I recorded this on Wednesday, so I hope you’re not listening on Thursday going, Oh my god, John, are you serious? Are you doing this like this is the Risk You Run.

Ripped from the headlines, tales of the Sunshine State, straight from the people who live there, featuring interviews from everyday Filaridians and playful recreations, Starring a rotating cast of actors and comedians including Anna Faris, Jake Johnson, Randall Park, Juliet Lewis, Sam Richardson, Agoneautum, and more. This hilarious and outrageous series sheds lights on the viral, wacky, and weird, covering diverse topics from mermaids to witches, extreme fantasies and feeral bunnies with equal parts and humor. It’s Florida, Man. There’s a love letter to the beaches, backwaters, and especially the people of a misunderstood yet magical state. Go carefully.

HBO Press Team. My former co worker Jamie Fox recorded his new comedy special and will eventually air on Netflix. Gail King happened to be backstage to ask Jamie some questions. Well, it’s amazing, Gail King asked Jamie Fox, I want to know how you feel after three nights. Jamie said it was an excruciating time opening those wounds every single day.

The subject matter was the story of the mysterious ailment that left Jamie hospitalized back in twenty twenty three. The show was titled What had Happened Was? Jamie says the show’s unusual because he didn’t workshop the material. Fox says it was excruciating because the worries what gets you. You got a great show in the room, but we don’t know what they may laugh at, what they might not laugh at.

Usually, when you do a stand up, specially you gought for a year and you work every nook and granny and then you take it. You don’t just show up in Atlanta and turn the camera on. It’s a personal journey and I hope I never have to go through this again. My next jokes will start out knock Knock. I’ll do an hour and a half of knock knock jokes.

Glad he’s doing well again. Having worked with Jamie in his camp for a few years, that they weren’t able to prop him up to take a photo of him sitting poolside and looking cool and being like, yeah, everything’s great. That screams to me that this was really serious, because I’m telling you, if they could have gotten one good picture, it would have hit the Internet, glad he’s doing it all right. Steph Tolev is taping her special at the Paradise Rocket Club in Boston tonight. Vulture recognized Steph as one of Toronto’s funniest exports in their annual Comedians You Should and Will Know not this year, but a previous year.

You can also see Steph tolev and Bill Burr’s movie Old Dad’s in the movie wasn’t good. Sorry, and that’s your comedy needs today. John, you end it on a jerky note. You’re more. I hate you.

I know, I’m sorry I stumbled into that, but it wasn’t good. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, this show is interesting. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis says he was asked to come back to SNL for a year to play Trump. Shane was at Skankfest, the comedy festival in Las Vegas.

We’ll talk about that in a second. Lewis J. Gomez said of Shane, nobody thought he was coming to the festival this year. Shane said, explain why? Gomez asked, can I explain why Gillis gave him the go ahead?

Gomez says, because he was offered to play Trump on the entire season of SNL and he turned it down to effing b Here Shane confirmed the story and said, they said, are you serious? You’re gonna say no? And I said, Lorne, I gotta go to Coke Magic. Coke Magic is a show where Gomez performs magic tricks. Now, this is all interesting because remember that Hollywood reporter piece I was picking away at that suggested that James Austin Johnson wouldn’t be doing Trump on the show.

But wait, there’s more. Late Nighters said during rehearsal of the Nate Berghansey episode, there was a version of the opening sketch where Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris was home watching the debate. In the dress rehearsal version, James Austin Johnson’s Trump was also watching the debate. The Trump character said, this guy’s doing great, before it was revealed that he’s not watching the debate. He’s actually watching American Ninja Warrior.

So really interesting, right, I mean, Shane Gillis goes from hey, you’re on SNL, Sorry you can’t be on ESNL to now they’re asking him to come back for a year. I mean, his Trump is really good, probably is better than James Austin Johnson’s right now. But wow, now, new topic interesting to me about skank Fest is again. I’ll remind you I host this podcast every day and as part of the prep I go to several websites and I also type in words like comedy and comedian. Nothing about skank Fest came up at all this year.

I would have mentioned it. It didn’t come up at all. I came up like six months ago when they announced it, and that’s the last time I saw it came and went. I would have told you who was playing. I would have said something about it even stranger as I put together the show on Tuesday.

If you type skank Fest into Google and then click on the news tab, as one might do when preparing their comedy podcast, here’s what comes up. The deadline story about Shane. I just told you the local patch telling us about the official skank Fest after party at Peppermint Hippo. That story from two weeks ago. David Tail spoke to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

They were curious what a sober fellow like Dayton Fettel does late nights in Vegas these days. Dave said, it’s a blur, but the beauty of Vegas is you’re always a block away from a T shirt shop. You know me, I like a good saucy T shirt. And I really like Vegas because we’re on the same time frame. You can get breakfast at two in the morning.

Even though I don’t party, it’s perfect for me. And the fear is right there as well. I haven’t been there, but I’ve been to the BattleBots Arena, which is a couple blocks away. It looks bigger in person than it did on TV. He was asked about skank Fest and said, this is the third year in Vegas, and I think Vegas and skank Fest they’re a perfect fit.

It’s a great town for the super fans to fly into. The guys from the Legion of Skanks podcast have always cool to me, and I love what they’ve done now they’ve built this fond that really appreciates live stand up. The Journal was curious about Lewis Black’s retirement, and Etel said, Lewis, of course is the road warrior. Nobody tore it harder than him, and the guy’s a class all the way. He’s been a role model for the rest of us.

I’ll be doing it thirty seven years now and I’m hoping to make it a forty, but that really depends on my bills. So if you see me after that, then I got to pay these bills. But I do enjoy it. The only thing I don’t like is the travel, and it’s a little harder when you’re older, but the shows are still really will get you going. I know, comedy in Vegas is kind of lowered down, somewhere between magic and massage, and I’m working on new stuff all the time.

He was worried about the temperature getting down of the low nineties and said he was going to bring a jacket. Late Nighter I spoke to Chris Gethard and pointed out that when mulaney did his talk show, a lot of people were comparing it to the Chris Gethard show. Chris told Late Nighter, Mullany is a cornerstone of modern comedy to a degree that no one can ignore it now and moving forward, you just can’t have another boring talk show that looks like every talk show since nineteen fifty. Mullaney has cracked that open. I mean, yeah, but it was Son of Letterman, to which Chris Gether talked about, and he said, for me, like a lot of people my age, it’s the Letterman and Conan.

My parents tell me I used to fake being asleep as a little kid, at like three to four years old. I’d pretend to be asleep on the couch. Then they’d realize I was sitting there watching Johnny Carson with them. But Letterman was the real game changer. Amen high five, says Johnny Mack.

I remember the first time I stayed up late and watched Letterman with my older brother. I was definitely on the younger side of it, but someone who was built to understand that guy’s being kind of a troublemaker. He’s not Carson. Carson’s what it’s supposed to look like. This guy’s not doing that.

Amen. On top of that, a lot of my favorite stuff was stuff that Letterman platform. Do you look at Andy Kaufman, Chris Elliott, Howard Stern. Not only did Letterman do a lot of stuff that really shook things up, he took the people who were really outlandish and gave them a national platform, and then Conan felt completely insane. Conan really felt like if you took the smartest version of me and my brother and our friends and put them on TV and just let them do whatever they want.

I’ve often said, if there’s only one piece of comedy I could ever watch in my tire life again, it would be Conan takes mister t apple Picking. I think there’s a little bit of that happens among comedy nerds when you think what’s the best sketch group of all time and you go, you know, oh, kids in the Hall, Monty Python, UCB, the Slade, whoever you want to say. But I really think that Conan’s rying staff from that area. Brian Stack, Brian McCann, Kevin Dwarf, Andy Blitz, Alison Silverman, John Glazer. If you just put that in a vacuum, that’s one of the best sketch comedy groups ever assembled.

It just happened to exist under the umbrella of this larger talk show. That’s the best of the best sketch comedy of that generation, all under one roof, operating at a super high level. As for the Chris Gathard Show, there were a lot of things I was just chasing, especially with Letterman Conan. If I could do anything as funny as Dave dumping ten thousand bouncy balls off the roof of the studio onto the streets of New York, I’ll die happy. If I can do anything as interesting or funny as a Conan staring contest bit, and I feel like it’s worth doing it.

But there’s definitely part of me that was like, these guys don’t like doing these monologues, these political jokes, especially back then, that’s just how Carson used to do it. So you’re making them do that. I wish the Late Night Show didn’t have to do the monologue. It seems like the part of the hosts like least the Chris gathered show was far from perfect. I’m not saying we nailed it even the majority, but I think some of the reason it developed a cult following was because people saw us going, let’s see what we could do to maybe totally turn down the stuff we don’t like about talk shows and then pour gasoline on the stuff that we do.

Back to Mullaney’s late night show. I’ve known John for many, many years now, but I saw those people going, whoa man, this show has the Chris Gathard Show in front of it, and I was really nervous about that, because, just to be clear, John Mulaney does not need to rip me off in any way. He’s a very brilliant guy. But a lot of it was very healthy by seeing a lot of the fans of the Gathered show going, this is cool to watch this Mullenie show, and seeing old Gathered show fans jump in and say, if you like this guy, you might really like this thing. I like back when I was in high school.

Here’s a link to the YouTube page, and they’re all still up there. I emailed Mullanie after the first couple nights of a show to say, it’s so cool to see what you’re going for It’s bringing back a lot of positive feelings for me. You’re taking big chances on live TV, and I really love it. I talked to my old show runner and he was like, the cool thing is that Late Night always builds on the history of Late Night. Carson built on Steve Allen.

Letterman was building on Erni Kovax, than Conan built on Letterman, and I never ever hide the fact that my show was worshiping at the altar of Letterman and Conan. Front of the Podcast. Jason Zinnemann reviewed Ali Wong’s new Netflix special for The New York Times. It’s going to take me a minute to get to Ali special. The Mets are in the playoffs.

There’s football. I have this life outside of doing the comedy podcast, so it’s going to be a minute before you hear me talk about it. Jason writes, Wong always reminds me of Bill Burr, because she seems funniest at her most tense, working through anger using that machine gun delivery. She pops off with some umbrage on light topics, but also displays stream This is a show that a time feels undercooked. There are bits about dating younger men and Midwesterners that are less than ambitious.

The show is the feel of someone rushing to tell us something. Her main message is that being a divorced woman in your forties is better than its cracked up to be. It’s a promising take, in part because you rarely hear it. But the punchlines slow down as she zeros in on herself, telling the crowd look at me as an alternative example of how it can be. Yikes, that doesn’t sound great.

Hanna Gasby started their live show in New York City. The Daily Beast saw it and said, in Hannah Gatsby’s latest excellent show, prepare for that sweet innocence to be left in undignified crumbs thanks to a brilliantly disgusting joke involving a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something. Tim TAM’s seemed to be Australia’s favorite chocolate biscuit. It consists of two malted biscuits, separated by a light hearted chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate. But I digress.

You may recall the joke involves a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something let’s say if you’re cleaning a hotel room, you never want to find on the floor. Gatsby’s both a wonderful joke and storyteller. A tilt of the head, a side eye, a pause can add to moments of extended hilarity while attempt at threading stories and jokes with moments of sharp self reflection and confession. In this show, at certain moments, they insist that these moments are just between us, reflecting on Tailor Swift’s fame and global predominance. Uh oh, watch out.

You know one time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift joke. I think we all know that went Now I’m not doing it. Scot Relex Speed not only confesses to not being much of a fan, but also sums up Swift as a can of coke masquerading as a sorority cult. Oh man, I guess Hannah Gatsby won’t be hosting the Golden Globes anytime soon. Gasby has previously spoken of their own autism.

Here, they talk of social media being the place where neurotypical people go to experience the worst of the condition. They joke, I’m going to be canceled by feminists. I don’t think there’s anything more feminist than being canceled by feminists. Sounds like a fun show. Trevor Noah has unveiled his latest book.

It is called Into the Uncut Grass, an illustrated story that invites readers of all ages on a journey of connection, imagination, and self discovery. Into the Uncut Grass follows a young child’s adventure in a magical landscape beyond the familiar world of home, discovering the joy of sharing connection and finding peace with the people we love. And that’s 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. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Hey. Thanks Travis Kelcey for hooking up the podcast Discovery Seo by celebrating your thirty fifth birthday alongside brother Jason Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes throw those guys in the episode title why John, Why are you talking about football? John?

Well? They went to Zack Townsend’s comedy show at the Midland Theater in Kansas City on Saturday night. They hung out in a private loungerry and took turns at taking photos with Townsend. Jason’s girlfriend, Taylor appears to not have been there. I think we would have heard of it if she showed up, although the Twitter stalkers say that Taylor or at least her plane, flew from Kansas City to Nashville earlier in the day.

Earlier on Saturday, Kelsey had hosted the second annual Kelsey Car Jam charity event. He had scheered what he wanted for his birthday. He wants I’ll take another Super Bowl if you’ve got one of those. Donnelle Fwllings was on The Breakfast Club and he commented on the whole Diddy thing, you know, I try not to play in that part of the arena, But I think this Diddy thing is going to drag this podcast into it as comedians seem to be talking about it, and who knows who’s even involved in this whole thing. Dan I always questioning about a picture of him and Diddy alongside Dave Chappelle and some others on a yacht.

Rawling said the picture was taken during a day party years ago and was an annual holiday focus get together. Rawling said, I got the history behind that that was a day party. First off, it’s a very interesting situation even to bring this up right, and I’ll tell you and everybody knows. I know, I’ll be criticized for this, and you know, but Diddy, there are some of the best parties you’ll ever go to in your life. You got this party, you got that party, and that party was a great party.

My son was on the yacht with me. We had a great time. So I understand, like now, if you say you went to any party, people who assume it was the freak cough, that wasn’t the case. We had a good time. He joked about what he drank at the party and said, I don’t know what was in that vodka because I felt like I had a whole full head of hair on that yacht.

I don’t know, there’s something special on that I felt light skinned for a second. Rawlings added that he’s not gonna say free ditty or anything, but a good time was had during the yacht party. Ali Wong specials out on Netflix Today titled Single Lady, Alli discusses her life following her twenty twenty two divorce from her husband Justin filmed at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival earlier this year, Alli tells people, I really do believe that forty is the golden age to get divorced. It’s perfect. The age range of who I can date is huge.

I can go as low as twenty five, and I can go as high as fifty five. If you’re fifty five, I’ve got questions for you, like, can you go on a brisk walk? I can, Alli, but I’m married and we not only went for a brisk walk, we ran a five k on Sunday, So leave me alone. Very sensitive about turning fifty five? Have you noticed?

I was thinking about this on the way to the National Donuts Chain this morning. When I started the show, I was forty nine. If you started a podcast in your forties, I don’t think gets that ridiculous. Now I’m like, are people like wewis this old dude hosting a podcast? And I think they are.

Tom Sigre has a big tour for tw twenty twenty five. Dates include shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Ovo Arena Wembley in London. Fancy Tom says, this is the most fun I’ve had on tour, and I’m excited to continue touring this hour of material to a bunch of great cities across the globe. If my Instagram algorithm is any indication of the state of humanity, this very well might be the last tour anyone can see on Earth. Can’t wait pre sale Wednesday general tickets.

Friday buyers and select cities can purchase platinum charity tickets. Sigor has committed to donating a portion of the proceeds from those tickets to World Central Kitchen. He’s also made a personal donation of one hundred thousand dollars to help further their work. Tom said, We’re thrilled to announce this donation a World Central Kitchen. They do incredible work to people who need all over the world.

When we announce this tour, we pledge to donate proceeds to WCK to help them continue the work we will continue to do so. Who would have thought that talking about forts and genitals could lead to helping so many people. David Cross’s current tour is called the Beginning of the End of the Beginning. If you go see David, he says, a really big chunk of the is talking about the real experience I had without giving anything away. But it’s all kind of true and crazy.

I talk briefly about going to Peru with Bob Odenkirk, we hike the Ink and trail Machu Picchu. When I use that thread in some ideas, it’s just fun. As for the title, I usually have trouble coming up with the title. Usually the first fifty things I come up with are too serious or heavy or just too punny. This one I came up with very quickly, and I don’t remember.

I wish I had an interesting, pithy answer. I know what it means, but it’s open interpretation. Just think about it for a second and you’ll come to this understanding. I’ll repeat it to you the beginning of the end of the beginning, he says, you don’t want to go to the well too many times and rehash the same idea. I definitely have a couple of bits I’ve been doing for six or seven years, but I didn’t have room or time for it in the set.

But now it kind of fits in there. But also knowing how I work, the show, you see is going to be a little bit different because more stuff’s going to happen. So I have a Nikki Glaser item for you in a second. But concurrently to the Nikki Glaser item. Sometimes when I need like one more story, I’ll go into the podcast charts just to remind me who is currently popular.

And as I was doing that, I was reminded Nikki Glaser he has a podcast, and I was like, I haven’t seen a thing about that podcast in a while. I’m not here to bash Nicki. She’s having a great year, but she does a daily podcast and it like never comes up. So I looked at the charts. I use a website called Chartable as a record this on Monday, Nicki’s podcast is around number two hundred and ten in the overall comedy category chart.

I’ll talk about that in a second in the neighborhood there around two ten or so ahead of Nicki in that neighborhood, or the Bald Brothers podcast Nurse John something called right Now with John gibbecon, then Nicki, and right below Nikki, Netflix’s a daily Joke. Now. I think part of this is that she hasn’t added a subcategory. For example, in the sub category of stand up where this podcast lives, Netflix is a Daily Joke is ten. So if Nicki were to tag her podcast with stand up, she would definitely be a top ten in the category.

This program here right now in the subcategories you can surface a little bit more is sitting in around number thirty in that a gory and it’ll bounce up and down and peek into the top twenty every now and then. So I’ll just give you relative popularity of things. I seriously imagine Nicky has at least fifty times the amount of listeners I have. The charts worked on a recency bias too. If you get a bunch of subscribers in a short window, like if you went out and got one hundred of your friends to subscribe today and they all subscribed in like a three hour window, I would actually move up on the main chart.

I wouldn’t stay there, but for a brief window, I’d be on the main chart. Just how the Apple podcast works. Anyway. Nicki is currently on seur and she posted a TikTok for one of her very best friends waiting for her backstage. Shocking, only this story has nothing to do with you know who, the singer Nicki stopped to hug at Chihuahua.

One person wrote, ohmg, we do not deserve them, you or her everything. Another fan said, oh my, she spotted you the tail wags. I can’t. Someone else said, the little friend is so proud of you. It’s Nicky’s at Chihuahua.

Back in June, she posted, I just adopted my third dog from may Day Rescue and she’s perfect, just like the other two. She doesn’t have a name yet because I’m scared of commitment. That’s also why I have a dog instead of a kid. So I’m clear to me. If she ever gave her dog a name, I hope so.

Nate Bergatzi hosted Saturday Night Live. I enjoyed the episode, thought I’ll talk about it for a second. They brought back the George Washington sketch not as good as the first one, I guess, just because not as fresh, but still pretty funny. They did a really long Sabato Jigante parody. Nate was good in that he plays a befuddled audience member pulled into the show and he doesn’t really understand Spanish.

There’s also a good sketch where Nate played an emt who’s trying to convince water park workers to let a dead body go down the slide rather than carry it down two hundred and fifty five steps. That was good. Some other notes I wrote down, So Sabado Gigante Marcelo Hernandez is funny, but I’m gonna keep giving the same note until he shows me another look. Does he do one thing? He does a variations on the character with a thick Hispanic accent, and I haven’t seen him do anything else.

I do think he’s funny, but what else do you have? Towards the end of the show a couple notes. I thought it was weird on the clock. They fired off a sketch at twelve fifty eight to thirty. You know, the show’s ostensibly ninety minutes, but I guess they were running later.

I don’t know what was going on there now. Before the twelve fifty eight to thirty sketch, they ran something from the Lonely Island, which brings up my larger theme about SNL season fifty. It’s a little weird to me. There’s like no room for the main cast. So the only island is Andy Samberg’s musical project.

And it was a wonderful pre produced video, but you know it’s taking up five minutes from the current cast.

Also in the pre produced video, not just Andy Samberg, but Maya Rudolph was i…

So again, why does Maya have to be sitting there one of the current cast? I sat there. Bowen Yang was in the sketch as well. I thought Nate was fine. I actually found his monologue a little long.

I was into it, and then I was like, okay, let’s get into the show. In the last few years when comedians hosts, they’ve tended to let them monologue a little bit longer than maybe they did for a few decades there. But you know, I watch Saturday Night Live for Saturday Night Live, which brings me back to the opening sketch. Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walls crushed it. But Jim Gaffigan’s not a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and Andy Samberg is there, and Maya Rudolph is there, and I feel like this season is quickly turning into not a bunch of twenty somethings breaking into comedy.

It’s like the All Star Show and a guess that makes sense for the fiftieth year, and a guess that’s what we’re going to get all year, and that’s fine. Makes me wonder about season fifty one when all this is gone, And that got me thinking as I watched it. You know, if I’m Jostin Chay, this might be the year to get out. If I’m Bow and Yang, this might be the year to get out. Because next year, on the other side of fifty, I could see a lot of new faces and the show almost feeling like it’s starting over, kind of sort of like it did in nineteen eighty.

I think season fifty one is going to be rough because let me ask you this, If Bow and Yang leaves, who’s the star of Saturday Night Live? Right? Yeah. Don Francisco, who hosted the original Sabado Gigante, posted on Instagram, I want to thank NBC and Marcello Hernandez for bringing back those special moments of our dear Sabado Gigante, who was not only a great television show, was much more a meaning point for families and four our Hispanic community. Cal Penn says that if John Stewart stepped away from the Daily Show, cal Penn wouldn’t mind taking his place.

I mean sure, I also wouldn’t mind hosting the Daily Show on Monday. Not gonna happen, cal Penn said, I had the chance, you guest host two weeks on the Daily Show last season, so we’ll see. They say John is back for one season. The fanboy part of me is like, I hope John stays on the Daily Show because I’m such a fan and I grew up on it. Then the agent part is one of your team and calls and is like John may be leaving after the election, Are you still interested in this job?

And I’m like, yes, of course I’m still interested in that job. It’s a lot of fun stuff happening. Anytime we’re around an election, it’s so tense. So what I love about what I do in the comedy space is you have the chance to do the opposite of like distress.

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Speaking of politics, Kamala Harris will be the guest on Colbert tonight.

Colbert was supposed to be off all week, and all of a sudden, on Sunday afternoon, Kamala announced she was doing what is it call her Daddy Howard Stern because she thinks it’s nineteen ninety five and Colbert. The Stern announcement did not go over well on Twitter. This got announced when I was watching football Sunday and people were just killing Howard for basically becoming everything he hated.

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And also the clips of Howard in blackface using the N word quite liberally st…

But Howard’s trying to clean up his legacy that he was the great interviewer and none of that other stuff happened, and most of the clips have been disappeared, but the blackface clip definitely was circulating on Sunday. Sam Walls was on Kimmel last night. At least that was the plan as I’m recording this. If you’re interested in the combination of politics and humor, check out the Ballot podcast. Look for the logo with a cartoon donkey that you know sort of is kind of possibly Kamala and an elephant with Trump like hair.

That’s the show you’re looking for there. Zack Zimmerman will tape his debut comedy special today at the Bell House in Brooklyn. That is your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercials, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works. The short version is five bucks a month.

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Caloroga Shark Media, find me home. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nice job. Bert Chrascher, Tampa native. He’s announced a benefit show for victims of Hurricane Helene or to be at Ruth Eckert Hall on Saturday, October twelfth, eight pm.

Surprise guests will be announced. I bet Burton gets some especially in Florida, get some pretty good people to show up at this. Bert said, I was born in Saint Petersburg, raised in Tampa, and went to school in Tallahassee. Anything that happens at the state of Florida, I always feel like happens to me. I think all Floridians feel this way.

Florida defined me in the Bay Areas family. I’ll do anything to help family. All proceeds from the show we’ll go to metropolitan ministries to aid relief of hurricane victims. Bert aid, is what you want to look up if you want to attend that. The La Times did a nice profile of Ahmed Ahmed.

He started taking acting classes when he was nineteen, met Vince Vaughn and crashed on Vince Vaughan’s couch. He said, I was making good money booking roles as the terrorists. The driver, the sleazy guy called my agent and said, can I audition for the friend, the doctor, the lawyer. The cop ed says, whenever there’s a conflict in the Middle East, that’s when my career either rises or falls. He got tired of the type casting and stereotyping.

He said, it didn’t feel right, and that’s when I decided to shift in a stand up comedy to have a voice. He started doing a weekly show at Dublins on sunset. They had a big metal tub of peanuts and people would throw the shells on the floor. But every Tuesday night, rain or shine, we’d fit three hundred people. This is scary.

In twenty fifteen, after performing at Palestine’s inaugural one thousand and one Laughs Comedy Festival, Ahmed was halted at the Tel Aviv airport. He said he was detained with M sixteen rifles in his face, strip searched and interrogated for twelve hours. He described the Israeli Defense Force as inhumane on Facebook, which resulted in dozens of messages accusing him of anti Semitism. He says, I’m Semitic. I wasn’t saying anything about Jews or israel I was criticizing the Israeli Defense Force.

That’s like NWA saying f the police for the La Times, Ed says, ever since I’ve been irrational, I’ve had blind range. He described some incidents as comic drama between him and other stand up comedians that have gotten and bounced from the comedy store in the laugh Factory. During one show, an audience member made a nine to one to one call. Im Ed had said, how many Muslims are Middle Easian people here in the audience? Great, there’s a small group of us in here, but hey, it only takes one.

Two cops appeared at the club the following night, but he was allowed to continue with the set. I’m at joked, is a terrorist organization good to send their headhunter to an American comedy club. I want you to fly all the way to America. I want you to learn English really good. I’m gonna put you in comedy classes.

Eugene Merman spoke to WPR about appearing on Flight of the Concords way back when it’s been a minute since that show. How did you connect with Bretton Jamine? By the way, are you familiar with the Mandela effect? That’s where, like things you’re convinced happened are true, and then the world changes. I’m originally from a world where the guy on Flight of the Concords was named Germaine with an R.

At some point teleported to where you and I are now, where the guy spells his name Jemmaine. That was not the case.

Also where I’m from.

On Game of Thrones, the lead actress his last name is Heatley. There’s no L in her name anymore. I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe that explains the Bob’s Burgers thing. Maybe where I’m from there is no Bob’s Burgers, and that’s why you guys think there is one.

Something like that. We’ll get to that a second. Eugene said, I did a show in Edinburgh, I think in two thousand and five and saw them and met them, and I believe Dmitri Martin had done a show with them maybe before that, and they were coming to the US. So we did shows together in small venues in New York, and they were at Aspen Comedy Festival when I was there. It’s like anything you meet people you enjoy and you work together.

So I auditioned for the role of Eugene even though they had written it for me. WPR said, you, of course supposedly provide Jeen Belcher’s voice on Bob’s Burgers. Hmmm, Jeene plays pranks and plays the key word. What do you and Gene have in common? Eugene mermans at a certain probably goofy warmth.

Gene is what I would be like if I were a kid, now to a degree. But I think he’s a goofy warmed jokester, So that might be a bit of what we have in common.

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Also a love of food.

Hm. Nikki Glaser was on Bill maher As at Club Random. What do you think they talked about? Here? I’ll give you a hint.

The subject is Nikki Glaser. What do you think Nikki Glaser talked about? That’s right Taylor Swift. Maris said, if Taylor Swift said vote for Trump, he’d win. That’s not good Trump with the supporters.

That’s a cult. But so is this. It’s a cult. Maybe a cult leader can be a source for good and not evil, and I think she genuinely is. I have no reason to put her down or desire to.

I always the greatest respect for a success. You don’t want to take on Taylor Swift. Joe Cooy, did that you remember what happened there? Relaxed Scott. I’m not gonna play it.

Billy Gardell said when Bob Heart’s Abashola wrapped up its fifth and final season, he decided to go back to the stage. Billy said, I thought I was done with stand up. I’d take it three years off to make some health changes in my life. And when I came off Bob Hart’s Abashol, I thought, all right, maybe I’m done with stand up. But the bug get me again.

His comic buddies, Chris Titus, Steve Byrne, Alonza, Bowden, Ian Bagg and Jay Leno. That’s a crew, pretty good show, kept pestering him. New how would you line those people up? Let’s say, all right here here, let’s play this game. R It’s Billy Gardell, Titus, Steve Byrn, Alonzo, Boden, Ian Bag, and Jay Lenol.

Right, so Ian’s got to open. He’s at Gardell’s show. Is he the headliner in this? So he’s last, So you gotta put Leno right before him. Alonzo’s a killer.

Steve Burn is not a household name. It is pretty good all right, So I would go Ian Bag then Titus Burne, Boden, Jay Leno, Billy Gardell, you’d go see that show anyway, I digress. Gardell said, I went down and saw Ian performing at the Irvine Improv with my wife, and man, it hit me. I was like, you know what, I’m gonna do this again. And so I got back up on stage and I’m like, I’m a different person.

I’ve lost one hundred seventy three pounds, I’m older, and those were things to write about, and I’m an empty nester now. So I found some inspiration again. It’s just been funny get back up not being said. I’ve gone back to the clubs because you know, nowadays, if you’re not on the internet, no one knows who you are. Man, he had back to back hit CBS sitcoms.

I hope somebody knows who he is. I’m fifty five now. The only channel I watch a CBS. Nobody else cares about me. Twenty five to fifty four year olds.

They care about you. Me, No one cares. I’ll just sit here with my disposable income and not spend it on your products. I digress again, Billy says, so It’s kind of like starting over, but with no pressure, and I’m really enjoying it. At this age, stand up was always my first love.

Elas Gordell, did I say this already. He’s fifty five, He’s three weeks older than I am, so yeah, he should be on CBS. We could watch CBS together. At this age, stand up is always my first love. I love acting just as much, but stand ups Who’s brought me the dance And it’s great to be up on stage in this place where I’m doing it just because I want to do it, like you feel that way at the beginning, and then if you get successful, there’s pressure and commitments and all that.

And I’ve come through that and I’m at this place where I’m just doing it for the love of the game, and it’s very fulfilling. He talked about having the two sitcoms. When you’re lucky enough to get a show, when it ends, there’s a lot of tears and heartbreak because you and the cast of the crew you kind of become a family. We did that through COVID with no audiences and it was just us and they are trying to make this little show about love and family and one of the great through lines of that show was when you marry somebody, you mary their family, and it shows that we’re all kind of the same. We have a crazy mother, we have a wacky sister, we have cool uncle, and it reminds us that we’re all human.

And that show did that beautifully. So when it comes to close, you can’t be two down. You’re obviously sad. We have gratitude because to have that happen to me twice is just beyond my comprehension. To this day, I’m grateful for anybody who’s watched the work that I’ve done, and they’re the reason my kids in film school, and they’re the reason I have a house late night er.

I spoke to Simon Rich, he wrote for SNL on the topic John Mulaney. Simon says, Mulaney’s success is one of the least surprising things I’ve ever seen. It was apparent from the moment I met him he was the funniest person in the world. Was instantaneous, Like, within the first five or ten minutes I was speaking to him, I was convinced he was the funniest person on earth. Truly.

We started writing together the day we met. I couldn’t wait. He talked about the writing process. The writers get together for a few weeks before the show starts to write the commercial parodies, or at least that’s how we did it in the aughts. So I met him on a Tuesday night about a week or two before the season started, and if my memory’s correct, I think we were writing together within minutes of meeting.

Did he have any favorite sketches that did not make it to air? He said, Luckily, we’ve gotten most of them on now because every time Melanie hosts, he forces the issue and gets our favorite sketches over the finish line. A lot of the sketches we’ve had on the show since twenty eleven have been sketches that we wrote fifteen years ago, like toilet Death, Ejector and switcher Root. We couldn’t get him on the air until Melanie became enormously famous. Irene two told the SF Chronicle one thing she learned about comedy in La there’s no such thing as a casual stand up show.

She explains, there could be anyone here at any time. One time, I was just doing a backyard show. I’m like, who cares, We’ll do whatever. Set wasn’t very good, which is fine. Then afterwards I’m like, oh, you guys all work at some big agency.

Oops in the bay. A backyard show was its own reward, she says. Here, everyone’s just like, yeah, we’re just trying to get good at stand up. We don’t even know if we want to do comedy. We’re just kind of hanging out.

It’s more nebulous. All right, this next thing here, I’m gonna cop to. I’m gonna raise my hand and go guilty. I think this is fantastic. I like Irene’s comedy a lot, but this next thing here, I’m guilty of this.

She talks about how she gives off Big They energy. Her tour is called the Big Vey Energy Tour, and it gets its title from what two calls people’s ongoing assumption that, even after she corrects them, that she uses gender neutral pronouns. She describes her comedy as not that gay, but still plenty gay for her core audience, but leaving room to explore other socio political topics. A recent set at Eli’s took swings at both lefty activists and fibroids. She’s also trying to use the stage more move around a little bit.

Some people use the whole stage, and I’m like, but where am I going? Portland Mercury spoke to Tina Frill. Tina said, one time I came home from an open mic and I asked my mom was in the audience, and said, were the clapping because I was actually good? Or were they clapping because I’m disabled? It was inspiring?

And she said, well, maybe a little of both, and that sent me into a total breakdown. I never thought I could be good at being a comedian. It was never something that interested me, but I fell into it on a whim. Something to do. Comedy was a bucket list thing, some way to get on stage.

I never thought i’d get a little in a stand up comedy, but that maybe it would ease my anxiety for stage and I could finally sing on stage and bring myself to perform. But the knack I had for it in the external validation people tell telling me I had something there as for leaning into disability as part of the set or not, Tina said, I remember the first couple of times doing it up with Mike get In talk about disability, and it only took a matter of a few weeks. It was one tag at the end of a joke. Oh, I’ve got a good life, great friends, great family, of this beautiful state. I got a little bit of brain damage, but that’s okay, and it hit It hit like no other joke in a way that was like an icebreaker.

And then quickly after that I wrote the joke of I’m disabled, don’t worry, You’re gonna be okay, and all the jokes orbited around that one concept. For me, it’s the stuff I wish I could say to people in person, on the bus, across the counter, and it comes from rage, the quiet rage that they would just try and go about my life and I would make people uncomfortable constantly. And that’s why I say I suffer from people. It’s got nothing to do with my disability, but all those micro reactions all day, every day. I never set out to write this comedy so people could walk out with an enlightened perspective.

I didn’t want to change them or their outlook. I just wanted to call them out and sort of like get above it. If I’m being honest, I think not wanting to be put in a box comes from some internal ableism. It’s that ronic that often in interviews. I’ll say one thing, which is that I don’t want to be seen as a disabled comic.

Yet my actual comedy a lot of it revolves around disability. Good stuff, they’re really interesting in. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Here’s a weird one and Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. They’re doing a crossover between Abbot Elementary and it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. Yeah. Rob mcalenny teased it on social media.

On Twitter, he shared a photo of him and Charlie Day with Quintin Brunson. He posts another photo of the trio with Danny DeVito, Tyler, James Williams, and Williams Stanford Davis on his Instagram story. Both Abbot and Sonny take place in Philadelphia and both are owned by Disney. That should be interesting, right, I imagined it’s an episode of Sonny who Knows Time will tell From golf dot com You’re home for comedy News. Cooper Manning, the other Manning brother, was playing golf with Larry David.

Cooper said, you want things to go wrong where Larry David gets mad and aggravated, because that’s where he shines. So you know, even on the first green he had a put and he started yelling at it. You know, are too ard, He flustered his caddy. As caddy told them, you know it’s a little uphill. He hammered it, and he’s like, don’t ever tell me how harder or how soft to hit it unless I ask.

Will Ferrell getting a lot of good buzz for his documentary, Will and Harper and they talked about how Will when he first started on SNL, the cast members didn’t think Will was particularly impressive. Harper Steele said, the first week we went downstairs to launch, and there’s something about the two of us. We were just on the same wavelength a lot of different ways. They all thought Will Ferrell was a dud. I just knew Will was not the dud.

Will said, you were an ambassador for me to be like, now, I don’t write him off. He’s actually really funny. Sometimes you look back at these casts and people go on to bigger things and become bigger names than maybe they were at the time. The nineteen ninety six cast of SNL Chris Caton, Daryl Hammond, Tracy Morgan, Will Ferrell, Jim Brewer, Cherio Terry, Molly Shannon, Nor McDonald, Tim Meadows, and a gaesst Styre. It’s a pretty good cast.

In the documentary, Will says, if you ever scratched your head and said, why did Will Ferrell make that there’s a good chance it was with Steel, describing Steel is having a super weird, creative sense of humor. Lewis Black was on with Boston Public Radio talking about politics and said, how many jokes can you make about this insanity? Every special? I have a joke where the Democrats do this, the Republicans do that, honky hank, quack quack. It’s the same over and over again.

Now it’s just gotten a little crazier. Is this really a farewell tour? Lewis said, I’m not going to do one hundred and fifty shows. He might occasionally open for his comedian friends, or do one off performances or appear on the Daily Show. Black recalled a flight several years ago where he ran into Don Rickles, who was then in his eighties.

Black recalled saying to his own opening act at that time, I’m not doing that. Black is seventy six and says, going in front of an audience where people like you more than you’ve ever liked yourself, it’s pretty remarkable. If he needs the buzz, he’ll open for Kathleen Madigan. They’re good friends and do live shows of his Lewis Black Rantcast podcast, and if that’s not enough, he says, I’m going to go on public transit and yell at people hashtag six seasons and a movie. You know, it would help if I had actually put the new story in my script.

I only have the headline here, a little behind the scenes for you. Why don’t you edit that out? John? It’s more fun this way, Evett. Nicole Brown said the community movie is going to happen, but the script is being reworked.

After she signed on to reprise her role as Surely. She told the Rap I think it’s being reworked, but we’ve all read an entire full script, so script exists. I’ve heard that we have the big credit in LA that gives you money to make the film, so we’re definitely gonna be doing it in La. Joel McHale it took responsibility for the movies delay, telling GQ that fans can fully blame my schedule. That followed speculation that it was Donald Glover’s schedule holding up production.

Ivett said, for a minute, I wasn’t confirmed, so they have to now change some things because I am confirmed, and they can now change some things for Shirley’s character as well, So it’s gonna be a really good time. It’s just now trying to get all these puzzle pieces together of everyone’s schedule. We were scheduled to do it, and then the strike happen, and now it’s like trying to figure out when is so and so done with their show, and when is so and so done with their movie? When is so and so off tour. It’s all those things that we’re trying to get together.

But it’s gonna happen. We’re gonna do the movie, and we’re all on board to do it. For the script, she says, a lot of it’s probably gonna change, but it’s really well, it’s very reverent. It’s silly. As for that LA tax Credit community.

The movie that seems to be the title was announced as one of nineteen projects that will benefit from fifty one point six million dollars in incentives from California’s Film and TV tax credits program. Contact your local politician if you have an opinion on that. Blond Medicine and Alan Strickland Williams have announced the release of Allen’s debut full length comedy album, ran Through. It’ll be out October twenty fifth. Ran Through as a culmination of ASW stand up since he started up till the night he recorded.

The album is filled with absurd, dark one liners, those well structured pieces about the selestial bodies that hang in the sky above his Florida roots, relationships, dating, and being single, parenting are lack thereof viseectomes and guns. I like that because it didn’t follow the copywriting rule of three that was like seven. Love it. ASW 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 just a bit much. Born in Texas, raised in Florida because my parents really wanted to do a number on me, Asw now lives a totally normal life in the small humble town of Los Angeles, California.

Mandell is one of vulturous comedians you should and will know. Worst show ever, Mendel says, I’ve had my fair share of awful interactions with audience members, and most of them are my fault. My worst work to date was when I used to tell a joke about my six hundred pound life. It was a newer joke at the time, and I’m trying to figure out how to get in it. So I decided to unnecessarily ask the audience who watches the show.

This lady responds instead of saying, you look like the type of person would watch the show, considering you’re the target demographic for TLC television programming, meaning she was a mid thirty suburban woman with a mid thirty suburban husband. I just say you look like it, and everybody in the audience, including her, thought I was calling her fat. Now that wasn’t my intention, So it takes me a while to process. While everyone in the room gats and started mugging me, I hear a comic from behind the curtain say, oh no, and then it clicked. I spent the rest of the set apologizing to this lady and was able to squeeze out a big laugh at the end and got off stage.

Who everything should be cool at that point, But then a comic later on in the night decides to bring the situation back up and says, ain’t nothing wrong with being a big girl. Big girls make some noise, and now our husband is full blown red and ready to fight by the end of the show. Afterward, I saw her crying, oh no, Johnny Mack, you just laughed. You’re such a chirk. I don’t know.

I didn’t know where the story was going. Mendel says, I tried to apologize again, but of course they weren’t having it right LYA she bought a ticket a comedy show in the hopes of having a nice laugh, but I got met with a bunch of folks calling her fat. Truly a rough night. I think about it at least twice a month. What comedy opinion Hill will you die on?

Mendel said, I don’t believe in funny is funny? While I do believe a lot of the best jokes speak to the human condition in a way that every person can understand, identify with that does not undermine the idea that we are unique with our own interest sensibilities, et cetera. So sometimes we’re not gonna find the same thing funny. That’s okay. A person can identify as a music lover and very much so hate country music.

I’m that person. Best advice, worst advice, best have fun? Worst stop yelling Hey, are you in Cleveland? I bet you are? After church?

Once you head on over to the seventeenth Annual Cleveland Comedy Festival. Yes, I’m shouting out Deacon Mike. Everyone then say hi to Deacon Mike. Hi to Deacon Mike. Deacon Mike, this story’s just for you.

The Cleveland Comedy Festival November sixth through ninth, Wednesday through Saturday, fifty comics in Cleveland for the four day event. The festival will be centered at Forest City Brewery, twenty one thirty five Columbus Road in Cleveland. Maybe I should go because I could pick up the bar tab and write it off for us. Yeah, let’s hang Deacon Mike. Additional venues at market Am.

No, it’s a legit. If I go to a comedy festival, that’s a legit expense. I didn’t schedule that at a brewery. What do you think of doing here? This is a business.

Steve Guys the executive director of the Cleveland Comedy Festival, and says the annual event shines the spotlight in Cleveland’s incredible comedic talent. We’re proud to partner with other venues to offer curated open mics and local showcases, giving fans a glimpse into the different levels of stand up comedy. Kicks off Wednesday, November sixth, with Cleveland’s best female comedian, Sabbatha Jones. She’ll be at Spotlight Cleveland. You know the place, eighty seven oh one, Madison.

Some of the other shows include Roast to Battle Cleveland and Your Arts Suck, a roast of fine arts. 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.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Saturday Night Live, which we’re going to talk about every day for the next eight months, is back tonight with a new episode. Nate Bergatzi is your host. He did some promos.

Let’s listen. Hi, I’m Niborghetsy and I’m hosting SNL this week with musical guests Coldplay and live from New York. No, sorry, you don’t do that right now. But we’re on the stage. Yeah, but there’s nobody here and it’s Thursday.

A lot of rules in this place. Hi, I’m Neigborghtsy and I’m hosting SNL this week with musical guests Coldplay. He’s in fifty Less Gout. So can you have been on the show fifty whole years? That’s amazing?

How does it feel? No, No, I haven’t been on the show. I mean you had to be ten probably when you started. You think I’m sixteen years O. Look amazing for your age.

Yeah you do. Thanks Coldplay. Nate was on with Seth Meyers and explained how he struggled with the Q cards last year. Nate explained that he has trouble distinguishing between black brown, green, and red, which are all colors they use on the Q cards to distinguish who says what. Nate didn’t tell the team about his color blindness.

Everybody figured it out when he was rehearsing the last time around. He said, during one of the rehearsals, I was reading all of Heidi’s lines in my head. I thought the whole card was me. He said. He was surprised how many lines he seemed to have.

It’s not really making sense, but I’ll trust Saturday Night Live. Who am I to know? Heidi let Nate run with it, thinking it was just a case of a host calling the shots. This time, they have it all figured out in advance. The Hollywood Reporter had done that big article with Lorne Michaels and asked Lorn was there.

Host Lorn wish he had snagged, but never did. Lauren said, we tried very hard for Clint Eastwood, particularly in the seventies. Movie stars in that period did not do TV. Occasionally they did with us, but there’s a real chance of being humiliated in front of millions of people. We don’t pay anything, so you’d have to do it because you were game for it.

In the end, pretty much everyone has come on, so there’s no one out there where I’d go, Oh, if this person would just do what, my life would be complete. Michael Jay chimed in and said, my white well at this point would be Denzel Washington. He’s like our brando, and it’d be amazing just to see him be silly and funny. Lauren discussed how he is not going to step away after the fiftieth anniversary. You know, I still think it makes total sense Lauren’s getting up there and it would be the right time to get out.

But Lauren says, I think there are not many network shows left and this one has taken on in importance. It’s more about keeping it on course than anything else. And obviously I really love it, and every year there are more and more people that I rely on for other things. But in the end, you really need someone to say this is what we’re doing. So I don’t really have an answer as to when he’ll go.

I just know it’s kind of what I do, and as long as I can keep doing it, I’ll keep doing it. There’s no immediate plan. Jo just chimed in and said, you’d think there’d be a lot of speculation about the succession internally, but there really isn’t because no one who works there thinks he’s leaving. Everyone’s busy figuring out what the bigger problem is this week. I think everyone thinks we plan way more ahead than we do.

But you have to deal with all the speculation from the outside and everybody asking you who’s it gonna be. Jase says maybe a lot of it has to do with being a child of divorce. But I don’t want to think about Lauren leaving. I mean, nobody wants to face the reality that it’s at some point he won’t be doing it. Honestly, I don’t think it could ever be done by one person again.

I think it’ll be a full committee. The show is in his image. I think people appreciate when he’s not around anymore how much he actually has done for comedy. Any other show loses a star like Will Ferrell and the show’s not the same s Andl’s lost maybe thirty of the biggest comedy stars of all time and it’s still on irrelevant. Joe said, it’s actually humiliating for Will Ferrell.

The Phoenix New Times spoke to Mark maron the question, do you think a woke world, kills comedic creativity or makes it more intelligent. Maren said, I don’t think either of those things are true. I’d tell you what happened. You know, everything’s become more fragmented. I don’t think there’s a common culture dialogue going on.

I think because of the fragmentation of the media universe, people are able to build their own bubbles and serve their own people. The Phoenix New Times follow that up with a fart joke will always be funny, right, Maren. I don’t think anybody’s anti fart humor. I think it might be considered a little easy in a little base. But I do think the idea comedy that basically tells vulnerable, marginalized people to suck it up and take a hit, that’s a different thing.

New Times Dave Chappelle tried it with the trans community. It didn’t go well, Maren. After thinking about it long and hard, outside of his obsession with the trans reality, I think, ultimately, if he’s methodical about what he does, which I think he is, I think initially what he was most upset about was there were a bunch of anonymous and angry voices through social media. Had the power to destroy people. I feel like he had people close to him that were affected by that, and I feel like he felt that was wrong.

I really think that’s the base of his attack, was to keep comedy free. Whether that got misdirected ultimately, which I think it did. Ultimately, it’s about encouraging your freedom to live the life you want to live if you’re not comfortable with somebody else’s way of living. The democratic idea is you figure out a way towards tolerance and acceptance. And once you remove tolerance and acceptance from the conversation, it really throws a wrench into the gears of the democratic idea.

So if you’re a wrench, you should at least know what it means to be doing what you’re doing. Jim Jefferies has the cover of Rolling Stone News Zealand not all his diehard fans are stoked about Jim changing a little bit. Jim says, people write to me all the time going he used to be much funnier, and I feel like going what are You was much funnier and other people I’m much funnier now. I’m just trying to evolve. I think it would have been very sad for me to be in my fifties wearing the tight leather jacket with a cigarette hanging out of my mouth, saying effing at sea word all the time, and someone’s a bitch or something, you know what I mean.

So he just evolved to where you are as a person. Jim is clinically depressed and said, I’m not on meds for the first time in many, many years, so I must be in a pretty good state. But I always keep an eye on it. Find therapy is the key for me. And marrying my wife helped a lot.

Is she makes me happy. But just the fact that I know that somebody’s got my back all the time, and how bad things have got, we got my best friend with me all the time. Hasan Minhaj profiled by Esquire in his new stand up special, He says brown people are more racist than white people. Quoting Hassan, what I was doing was saying, let me bring you in our community. You think they’re the problem.

Oh, we got some problems ourselves. We don’t talk about beige guilt and the idea of beige guilt and reconciling paradoxes like simultaneously, I’m fighting the problems and I’m part of the problem. I’m here to evoke what we’re really saying. On WhatsApp after this special, he says, I’ve already written my next stand up show. It involves the stage in another comedian in an interesting way.

A line producer looked at it and said, I don’t want to budget this, but I’m excited. I felt this before, and it’s exciting because it feels new and weird. Shane Brendan good buzz him right. He talked about the crowds in Portland and said, as much as I appreciate the Portland crowd, I’ve also had shows where I walk away thinking they’re being overly sensitive. You got to take the good with the bad.

I embrace all of it because it helped me get to where I am now and move forward. His new album is called either Way Pretty Funny. The title of the album comes from a joke Brendan tells about being biracial with a black father and a Filipino mother, and of a comment someone left below on an online clip. Shane remembered the comment, which says, this is either the blackest Asian dude I’ve ever seen or the most Asian black guy I’ve ever seen either way pretty funny. Over the years, I’ve had conversations with buddies other comedians.

They ask, how we don’t talk more about your parents. You’re basically a first generation and an American born with immigrant parents. There’s a period of time when a lot of comics that’s all they talk about. That’s all people wanted to hear. More power too them.

I’ve got buddies who talk about race and identity stuff. There’s so many things I talk about that I want to talk about. I guess I never really crossed my mind and put that in the forefront. Over here, just trying to talk about how to handle this kid, or whether or not to get fussed at my wife and daughter. That’s where I’m at, trying to write a joke as hard enough as it is.

But I don’t think I’d purposely sit and be like, let’s talk more about my race and identity here in this next chunk. If you missed it, he was my guest on last Saturday’s episode. Got good reviews of that one. I liked it, hope you check it out. LA Times had profiled Tom Sigora and Christina peas podcasting Empire.

Christina talked about how the show has always been a showcase of the couple’s ability to push every boundary. Christina says, we’ve a children, we’ve moved a bunch, and now with these middle aged people, and the fans have been there the whole time. We have these relationships with fans you’d have with your friends or family. The crazy thing is you forget how much they know about you. So when someone walks up to you and it is like, is Charro good?

You forget that. You relay all the stuff on the air, and now this guy knows so much about me. Tom says, we have a no ahole policy here. I have the same policy at Serious. There were some people that were just annoying and I just chose not to work with them.

It’s a good policy to have. High five Tom Sagora. No one who works here as an a hole, and that makes it a pleasure to come to the studio and work. Yeah, you get you start working with like poisoned people, it just ruins everything for everyone. It’s just not worth it.

I don’t care how famous you are. A Christina says, we seriously love everyone who works here, all of the hosts and the staff and of course, all the fans. It’s like a family. Kevin McDonald, you know, kids in the hall. He’s going to make his directorial feature debut.

The film is called One Week Left, written by Kevin. One Week Left is about an aging rock star that’s headed to jail for committing fraud against his best friend. Having one week before he heads off to the big House, he gets in his car and takes off on an apology tour. Kevin said, wait, I’m staring in this too. I must start reading the contracts.

In that case, I guess I’m excited for all the hard work it’s going to take for me to bring this script to life. This is a story that literally couldn’t be done without me, so I’m excited to be working with myself and far Point Films on it. Alice Adeg is taping his next comedy special let me check out here today and tomorrow he’ll bet the Majestic Theater in Dallas. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercials, there’s a link in the show notes today.

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Caloroga Shark Media hardly. Oh, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website, a fantastic website. Asked to Nick swartzon a Nick Wartson how long you spend between your hours? Nick said, the new one I wrote pretty quick.

He was pretty surprising. I couldn’t believe it. It came out really fast. I’m already chipping away at a new one. I think I have maybe ten minutes.

I try to write as much as I can. I always trying to tell young comedians that they go, what device do you have? Write NonStop? Even if the joke doesn’t make sense now, ten years from now, you put it in your notebook or on your phone and you’ll figure out how to crack a joke. That’s happened to me several times.

The Gorilla said it’s amazing how people work at different rates, like Jim Gaffigan and has a new hour every year. Swartan said, I know, it’s super annoying. I love Gaffigan, He’s an old friend of mine. I’m just saying it puts so much pressure, like f I’ve got to turn out another one. Gaffick, it’s a machine.

Guys like him, Brian Reagan, Luis c kse at Bash and they keep dropping it. Look at somebody like Chris Rock. Chris Rock’s been doing it forty years and what does he have? Four specials? Maybe five and forty years.

Gaffigan’s been doing it as long as I have. He is what ten? It’s amazing. I plauw them. I’m a fan of all of them.

I asked David Spade, why don’t you have more specials? And he was like, because you burn that material. I’d rather just tour it for as long as I can because it’s so hard to write a new hour. Vogue interviewed Nikki Glaser. No, when you interview Nikki Glaser, what do you ask her about Taylor Swift?

Nikki, other than meeting Taylor Swift backstage, have you spent much time with her in person? Nicki said, we had an interaction on Instagram that you’re probably familiar with where I apologize for talking out of line and then she wrote a comment back. But nothing since that, Nicky, how many concerts have you been to? The final number, unless she adds more shows, will be twenty two. Right now, it’s seventeen, so I have five more to go, and I’m so excited.

I feel like she’s the Beatles in terms of a once in lifetime performer artist and songwriter talent. I don’t have liked to see The Beatles live, so I just need to capitalize in this while I can, and it’s the most fun thing I’ve ever done. Initially, when she announced the tour, I wanted to go as many as possible, but it’s kind of embarrassed by how much I like her. I’ve been mocked for it by my family and friends, and I’ll add people recording a podcast in their basement. My boyfriend was the one who actually said, I’ve never seen you happier than when you’re at these Taylor Swift sing alongs.

I’ mean going to a few of the Taylor Swift nights at different clubs and music venues when they just play Taylor Swift and you dance and sing with everyone. And I’d done some Taylor Swift day parties on Zoom. He said, you should go to every show you possibly can. I’m almost slipping in a triumph here for some reason. I might look ridiculous and people can make fun of me, but I honestly think anyone who’s making fun of Swifty’s is jealous that they don’t like something that much.

I really think that’s at the heart of it, like they’re too cool to let themselves like something that much and they’re not even capable of it. I do think it’s a special kind of personality that I have that leads me to be obsessed with things this much. But I’m so happy that I have that personality. It’s brought me so much joy. I make the joke that being a swift eye has brought me so much joy as being an ant.

It’s probably brought me more joy. To be honest with you, your niece is gonna love this article. In about ten years, I’m not gonna have kids, and this just felt like the right time and spent thousands of dollars in something I love. When all my friends were spending thousands of dollars on fertility treatments and kids, I was like, let’s do something fun with it. I’m always impressed by how on point Taylor Swift is and how she can just nail everything as well.

Listen to this. I’m always impressed by how on point she is and how she could just nail everything I really find similarities between how I do my act sometimes and how she does her thing. I’ll love a joke written. I like to make it fun for myself and to change it up for myself, but you still get the essence of what it is. So yes, I see differences in Taylor’s shows, and it’s been well documented, but her dancing has just become more free.

She’s become more comfortable within the steps that she’s learned and memorized. I’ve seen the comfort level grow. There seems to be more easy with her performing, and I respect how much fun she’s having every time. I’ve really never been able to sense any kind of performativeness that makes me think maybe she’s hiding something. I don’t think you’ve ever seen her pretend to root for a touchdown talk about performative geez.

People always ask how the concerts are different, and I’m like, they’re really not. She’s always ten out of ten perfect with the thing she says in between songs. You can tell when she likes a crowd more than another crowd. Boy, I’m gonna hear from the Swifties now, you don’t want to make fun of Taylor Swift. I mean, one time Joe Koy was hosting the Golden Globes and he made a Taylor Swift joke.

Here, 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 climber shots of Taylor Swift. That did not go over well.

That joke was so poorly received that Scott Becker right now is banging his dashboard because I brought up the Taylor Swift recurring joke. Hi. Scott phil Wang spoke to the Indie one hundred and said I would not be a comedian if I wasn’t mixed heritage. Of his new special, he says, it’s the trifecta of my material Asian ness, food and some kind of smut. When I got in a comedy at seventeen eighteen, when I first did stand up for me, was a way of dealing with my alienis of owning it.

If putting in front and center, in front of everyone, in front of this new country I was trying to assimilate into. Without that point of difference, I felt like if I fitted in, I felt like I was just like most other people. I don’t think I would have done that. So I think my heritage is central to me being a comedian. I think it’s why I am a comedian.

Hasan Minhaj had that big profile. In Esquire, his new specials out on October twenty second, he tells the story of when he started performing stand up twenty years ago. He wouldn’t get home until late at night. His parents thought he was on drugs or dealing drugs. Are both.

His dad said, I don’t think you’re pursuing a career in comedy. Hassan said, I wish I was cool enough to be dealing drugs. I was actually performing at a bar in front of eight people. They discussed his YouTube rebuttal to all the back and forth about his previous special. Hassan explains why he made the choice in the first draft, which he wrote to convey how scary the incident was.

His comedian friends thought that his wife came across as a knack when the envelope with the white powder arrived at their home. Being up, became upset about what it might have happened. Expressed her fear that her husband’s career put the family in danger. By altering the anecdote to have the white powder land on their daughter, he was able to convey faster and more sharply how the consequences of his career choices at something and they become very real. Plus Minaje, not his wife, was now the butt of the joke.

He says, it was a shortcoming on my part. I could have made the exposition better. I didn’t need to pull in my daughter. That’s the one thing where I’m looking back at it and like, hey could have changed that, but kept it the way it was. Our daughter was right there and we had this full on thing.

Write the scene, keep tweaking it. That’s the toughest thing about being a performer is that everyone has a character in your life. I have to balance that. They have to win and I have to lose. You never get it right, you know.

Taylor Tomlinson was recently in Portland at Helium. She posted a video celebrating this girl on National Daughter’s Day. In the clip, she’s talking with a member of the audience who says, my dad’s a bong. Tomlinson’s like, your dad’s a what? Oh, your dad’s ashes are a bong.

The audience member says no, they’re made into a bong. Tomlinson says, God, we’re in Portland right now. If you’d put me in this room right now and we’re like, we won’t tell you. If you’d put a sack over my head, put me in a big suitcase, driven me around for three days, put me on the stage and been like, guess where you are? And I heard they turned my dad’s ashes into a bong, I’d be like Portland, Oregon.

Molly Kearney, who’s no longer on Saturday Night Live, which, by the way, I don’t know if you know, this is turning fifty this year, and we are going to talk about SNL every day for the next nine months, including this sentence. Molly is joining that sitcom DMV that’s the one that stars Tim Meadows. DMV’s a workplace comedy set at the place everyone dreads going. Most the DMV are quirky and lovable characters and making minimum wage doing a thankless job where customers are annoyed before they even walk in the door. Good thing they have each other.

Carney will play Barbara, the boss, who considers herself one of the gang, even though the gang does not. Barbara is a glass half full oversharer who’s incredibly inappropriate and terrible at reading a room, so she’s Michelle Scott from the Office. Barbara cares deeply and tries very hard but misses the mark, so she’s Michelle Scott from the Office. Tim Meadows plays a driving examiner. JB.

Smooth is getting a game show. Apparently Prime Video was all about the game shows. They’ve already announced pop Culture Jeopardy with Colin Jost, who’s on Saturday Night Life, which I don’t know if you know, is turning fifty and we’re going to talk about it every day for nine months, and Wishless Games with Nick Cannon. The JB. Smooth one is called Buy It Now.

It’s a business competition where entrepreneurs get ninety seconds to pitch their product to an audience of potential customers. They’re called the one hundred. If the one hundred like the product and price, then the entrepreneurs get to a panel of Amazon executives and celebrity entrepreneurs. The panel selects which products join Amazon’s exclusive Buy It Now store and award one entrepreneur twenty thousand dollars whoa Jeff Bezos Way to open up the wallet. There twenty thousand dollars.

Woo, big spender wy Gred al Roker was on Instagram and he announced his comedy crush. It’s Kate McKinnon, who was on Saturday Night Live. I don’t know if you know this SNL’s turning fifty. We’re going to talk about it every day for the next nine months. In the picture, al Roker is smiling at Kate McKinnon, seemingly listening to her as she spoke to him during a break.

He captured the post I had here Kate mckinn and she is my hashtag comedy crash. One word. Her inventive goofiness and goodness shines through and is genuinely nice. Here’s an idea you didn’t think was gonna happen, and maybe it’s not a terrible idea. The UK is thinking of doing their own version of Cheers.

You may recall Cheers Ted Danson played Sam Malone. Now some of you were like, yeah, we know what Cheers is, and then some people are like, I was born in two thousand and four, I have no idea what you’re talking about. All right, So Cheers was a sitcom in a bar Ran for eleven seasons and two hundred and seventy five episodes on NBCC. Back in the twentieth century they made more than six episodes of things. I mean two hundred and seventy five episodes on something on Netflix would have to run what thirty years Kelsey Grammer was on this show Cheers.

He played a character named Frazer. You may have heard of him. A quick overview of some shows that have crossed the pond, as they call it. You may have heard of The Office. Yes, that was a British show.

Originally Ghosts was a British show heading the other way. They tried to make a British version of The Golden Girls called The Brighton Bells didn’t work. The seventies show called Days Like These didn’t work, and Married with Children called Married for Life didn’t work. One of the suits over there said the British pub is an endangered species. So there’s an answer for the why now about it.

The attitudes of Cheers of the eighties are very different to the attitudes of today, so there’s a massive amount of work to be done around taking inspiration from the original characters but creating something fresh. The daughter of one of Australia’s most famous comedians claims her stand up gig was canceled because she makes jokes about trans people. Biddy O’Laughlin, who was due to perform at the Cranker Comedy Show on October fifteenth in Adelaide. Biddy’s mother is the famous comedian Fiona o’lachlan. Biddy has been kicked off the lineup following a complaint made by a pub staff member.

Biddy told the Advertiser, I know some of the bartenders see me as a churf that’s trans exclusionary, radical feminist, but I don’t consider myself a feminist. Biddy’s Instagram involves clips of her making jokes about trans women, along with photos of her and a red cap with the slogan make Women Female Again and giving off some Trump vibes there. She caption one photo fighting for you ladies and for your daughters, she continued. Even if you don’t think it’s an issue, and you want to call me a hateful bigot, I’ll take the hit. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and men are not women.

They call me the JK Rowling of the Adelaide comedy scene. There’s put that on a poster, which is weird because I’ve never written a book. She also shared a clip from one of her stand up gigs where she responded to a heckler, but he said, I saw trans comedian once and he was so bad that I thought for a second he might actually be female inside.

All right, let’s wash that off with this from The Toronto Sun.

Comedian Ben McKay, a rising star on the comedy scene, blend’s lighthearted fun and punchline heavy humor with personal stories and spontaneous moments. So again to recap here and The Toronto Sun’s done this before. He is a comedian who blends stories, spontaneous moments and punchlines hmm, innovative. He’s influenced by Sean Mlandy, Gary Goldman, Hannibal Burris. How would you describe your comedy series, Ben McKay, Ben says, I’d like to think my comedy is lighthearted and fun, yet precisely written and punchline heavy.

Plus I get distracted easily, so there’s lots of in the moment stuff as well. John Mulaney’s probably been my biggest comedic influence. He was the first comedian I really identified with. Beyond that, I’d say Gary Goleman and Hannibal Burris were also influential to me early on growing up, Mullany was always my favorite. Wow.

Imagine growing up to Mullaney. I saw it like Mulany’s new to me. He’s like new wave to be Wow. I’m old. When I was young, I just fell in love with stand up in general.

I’d take any opportunity to see stand up, so I was always watching Comedy Now specials just for laugh galas and anything i’d get my hands on. Who are you into these days? Some Canadians Alex Wood, Andrew Barr, Nigel Grinstead, Adam Christy and Jarrett Campbell. They’re all fantastic and I feel fortunate to get to work with them. I’ve also discovered a lot of American comedians that I really like from the Don’t Tell Comedy tapings on YouTube.

We’re hearing only great things about Don’t Tell Comedy. I might have to get out to one of those shows, but then I would have to leave the house. That’s 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. Hello, they are Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I have not yet watched this Tim Dillon thing on Netflix. As I’ve mentioned the past, I like Tim Dillon a lot, although I’m not sure this particular special that I haven’t seen is what I want out of him. Why haven’t you watch it?

Johnny Mack? The Mets are in the playoffs. There was the debates Wednesday night. I played trivia, so I’m not home. I will get to it.

The folks at OutKick spoke to Tim Dillon and they called Tim Dillon legendary, tap the brakes legendary. Really, I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you walk down the street and ask the next five hundred people you meet who Tim Dillon is. I am willing to wager you you go zero for five hundred, not even one for five hundred, zero for five hundred. Now, if you’re at a college or something, you might get better numbers, but you know, go to the mall and ask some people who Tim Dillon is.

Legendary? A little strong there. The La Times did see Tim Dillon and special. Let’s see what they said. Apparently, the conversation with Netflix was never to do a comedy special.

The conversation was, what do you want to do? Netflix wanted something unique and unscripted. Tim says, initially they brought something political and I wasn’t really into that. I wanted to bring back nineties trash TV. That’s what we did, and it’s a nineties trash TV talk show.

So I don’t know if i’d call it a comedy special. I mean, they’re going to call it that on Netflix, because I don’t think they have a term for it, but it’s kind of what it is. It ends up being a better satire of America than a political special or anything like that, doing something at a convention or doing some kind of daily show ripoff. I think it ends up being a really good satire of America because they’re all real people that have come to talk about things that are real cultural themes. There’s no script and we basically don’t know where any of it’s going to me that’s what makes it fun.

It’s not really knowing what’s gonna happen. We shot a bunch of segments and we only use five because we thought they were the most interesting and the funniest and the best. That’s the thing. Not knowing what’s going to happen is what I like about the format. This project was about learning to be a good interview where it’s learning to work with the crowd, which I know how to do from stand up, but it’s learning to integrate all of those different elements into it to make it feel like it’s got a flow and the crowd is to be it.

The people on stage have to be into it, you hope the people watching it. Obviously you are into it. So you’ve got to make sure that it’s not only entertaining in the room and interesting in the room, but that it’s going to translate when it’s on Netflix. I’m confused because everybody keeps asking if these are real people. I’m morning, if anyone’s been outside in the last few years.

I mean, what a lovely view of the country that you almost have. The hollerand Reporter caught on that Michael Chay is working on a late night talk show. You listen to this podcast, so you knew that because I mentioned it, because I read Late Night Er, which is where the Hollywood reporter is catching wind of all this. The working title Don’t Sleep With Michael Chay. Jay says he’s still sorting it out.

Sometimes you just got to motivate yourself to get on stage and try things, especially me, because I’ll come up with an idea and that I’ll get bored and it dies in my imagination. So I have no idea where this goes. But you never know. Maybe nbc’ll put it on at three in the morning. Jay has stopped short of shopping the show around a lot of s’s in that sentence Johnny Mack, you’d like to keep testing it with audiences, Jay explains, I always think comedy fans select what they want to see, and so ideally I just do it live for a while and listen to what the response is and find the identity of the show that way, and then have something to say, well, is this part of an SNL exit strategy?

Chase says, you get moments where you love it so much that is Drasha crazy, and you want to be as far away from it as possible. Will he come back for the fifty first season? I don’t know if you know this. SNL is turning fifty this year, and we are going to talk about it every day for the next eight months. I’ve updated the calendar.

It’s only eight months now. Jay says, I try not to think about that because I think it ruins the morale for the rest of this year. I don’t know, you never know. As for the talk show, I’m having fun, but it’s like any relationship that’s new, you can’t start talking marriage too soon. The second Gentleman, Doug m hoff enjoys macpacker Andy Samberg’s portrayal of him on SNL.

Doug Emmahoff was on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday, which Johnny Mack just learned to exists. Doug said, I’ve been watching that show my whole life, and I think somebody’s playing me. First of all, it’s wow, and then I got a hand it to Andy Samberg did a good job. He also likes Maya Rudolph as wife Kamala Harris. Doug says, she’s so good as Kamala.

She did a really good job. Nate Bergatzy hosts Saturday Night Live this Saturday. I don’t know if you heard. It’s the fiftieth season. We’re going to talk about it every day for eight month.

He has another gig. He has joined the advisory Board of Directors at the National Comedy Center. In a statement, Nate said, I’ve immersed myself in the exhibits for hours each time I’ve explored the National Comedy Center in Jamestown. It’s the only place that truly celebrates the essence of what we do. For an artist, It’s a tribute to this thing we work so hard at, and for the average visitor, it pulls back the curtain on what elevates it to being an art.

The experience is just awesome.

Also on the board of directors Amy Poehler, wkmal Bell, Lewis Black, Tiffany …

Seems like you all enjoyed Shane Brendan on a Saturday’s episode of this podcast. That’s good. I enjoyed him a lot. His new album is out either way, pretty funny, Brendan told The Portland Tribune, and I can’t speak for the entirety of the comedy community, but for me personally, I have to find something funny. Comics are regular people.

They go through emotions and everything else, but the comic brain never shuts off no matter how dark things get. I acknowledge the darkness and the same breath. There’s an angle here in this moment of not feeling great. What makes me feel good? I’m not on the edgy and devisive side.

A lot of my stuff is personal. Spoilers for that Jimmy Fallon a Halloween thing. The av Club had it over there. They say, you are in Jimmy Fallon’s bedroom. It’s a dark, dank at chili space, bathing an eerie, musty fog that laps up your ankles.

You’re taking your surroundings, noticing a half open picture book and shivering at the sight of the murky green glow emanating from under Jimmy’s bed. Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave. You hear Fallon’s voice echoing around you, but you cannot see him. This is terrifying. Jay Leno dies and rolls over in his grave.

You feel the need to escape, to hide. See a high tail it into Jimmy’s closet, is hung up clothes hitting you in the face as you push through, Steve Allen rolls over in his grave. The closet was a mistake. It leads to a small black ante chamber, and now you find yourself somewhere far more terrifying. You are in Jimmy Fallon’s mind as Jack Parr rolls over in his grave.

Nowbe’s the premise of Tonightmares, the av Club. It’s a concept so demented that it could only have come from the twisted imagination of the man who brought you all about that base performed on xylophone. I’m going to guess it came from the mind of NBZ executives who were like, Hey, we make a lot of money here at Christmas time, what can we suck the tourist in with at Halloween. I’m gonna guess that’s where it came from. And Jimmy just went, yeah, sure we could do that.

But what do I know. I’m recording a podcast in the basement. I’m also aware I name checked all the Tonight Show primary hosts except Conan O’Brien didn’t have a ConA joke for you, Zari. I’m a guy in a basement recording a podcast. Jimmy found Tonightmare or this is a new haunted attraction.

You see up until now Rockefeller Center with its skating rink, music hall, roquettes and the Big Tree has owned Christmas. It’s a logical next step to turn the complex into a destination for another major holiday, filling a Jecklin Hyde Club shaped hole in the city’s Halloween market. Despite me mocking this thing, it is not the worst idea. Know that area very well. I worked across the street for quite a few years.

It’s not the worst idea, And the tourist kind of it sucked away like it doesn’t bother the real New Yorkers. If the tourists want to go over there and do this, fine, Wow, this sounds like a big thing. Av club rights. After descending the escalator, I went through a metal detector and took note of the warning sign which cost visitors not to enter the experience if they have a medical sensitivity to strobe lights or fog through the doors spoilers. We found ourselves in a pre show room themed like a decrepit elevator loading dock.

It was filled with rusty pipes and flickering lights, complete with a wall of old control switches. The vibes of Oke the loading zone of Disney World’s Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Right, this doesn’t sound horrible. After Jimmy set the scene, the down light lit up, the elevator doors open. We were ushered inside into a room that simulated a moving elevator.

Av Club rights. I think people who like Orlando coated things in the heart of Midtown, who appreciate the immersive thrills of forty X and the Top of the Rock Beam and the stupid fun of Margaritaville Times Square, we call those tourists. We’ll find this worth the cost of admission. People who want a truly haunting experience can visit the American Girl Doll Store just upstairs. Hey, it’s always great to hear from you all.

I’ll put my contact in the show notes today. A friend of the show, Scott Beckett, and I were emailing the other day. Appreciated that, and I heard from Travis who hit me a note on the side and tell me yakof Mernoff’s podcast is pretty good. So I’ve added that to my endless qu of things I’m never going to get to, which reminds me I have a substack and every week on Wednesday, I do podcast listening recommendations, so if you want to check that out link in the show notes. I caught up on The Simpsons the other night between the Met’s playoff game and the VP debate.

That was the Simpsons series finale. Very very good at times, even touching. I think they absolutely nailed it, although I’m shocked Conan O’Brien can’t deliver lines a little better than he did. The Office Ladies have made it to their end of their rewatch, so were they ending the podcast? No?

Jennif Fisher and Angela Kinsey will now have the podcast twice a week asterisk. As of early November, Office Ladies will have two episodes. The Wednesday episode will be called Office Ladies six point zero, a reference to the season one episode Hot Girl, when Michael Scott insults Pam by comparing her to Amy Adams character. New episodes will feature new interviews, more stories from the set, and they’re patented deep dives into random topics and in depth of character studies. So what’s the second episode?

They’re just rerunning the rewatch as somewhat of a podcast expert. Rerun episodes are lame, so why are they doing it? Because they want the inventory. I get it, but it’s lame because if you’ve listened to the show, you’re just gonna delete all those It’s gonna goof you up in the charts. It’s gonna make people actually unsubscribe to the show because they’re gonna be like, I’ve heard all these I’ll just download them manually and then you break the habit so bad move office, ladies.

I’m just telling you now. Bossom Usef is taping his at New special tomorrow. He’ll be at the Wiltern in La also recording tomorrow and on the fifth at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco. Irene TiO her show in twenty twenty four was named one of the funniest by the La Times. I like both of those comedians a lot, but I’m on the East Coast, so I won’t be at either taping, and that is you’re co many news for today.

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