Month: October 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media, Rob Schneider, Man, what are you doing? I’m Johnny Magne, your Daily Comedy News. Basketball player Da Kimbe Matumbo passed away on Monday from brain cancer at age fifty eight. Mtumbo, seven feet two, was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Back in nineteen ninety eight, he raised money to build a three hundred bed hospital in his native Congo.

During the COVID pandemic, he became a public advocate. In December of twenty one, Dicimba posted a video on Twitter urging people to get vaccinated against COVID. In that tweet, he wrote, this holiday season, stay informed from trusted sources like the World Health Organization and get vaccinated. Only together can we be safe and defeat COVID. Dcombe passed away on Monday.

Rob Schneider retweeted the COVID tweet and wrote, rest in peace. I’m sure this is just another coincidence, but I took a pass on the job, and I’m not going to let anyone I know who will listen get it either. You know, Rob, there’s a time to get your message across, and there’s a time to just not be a jerk and pick your spots, dude. The La Times wrote a big profile Tom Sigore and Christina Pizitski’s podcast Empire. Tom said the Joe Rogan experience paved the way I thought Joe was insane when he started JI.

I thought it was some rich guy thing where he’s talking in a room in his house and had some message board. A few months later, after seeing Christina do you stand Up? He was like, you two should do a podcast together. Brian Redband recalls when we started at Jar in two thousand and nine, it was Rogan promoting a shows and giving him an outlet to talk. Then it just blew up.

Overnight. Something clicked and I was like, what’s going on with Joe? Was helping him so much? I want to make podcasts for all my friends. It was so new.

I definitely had to do some convincing. Christina was like, what the f is a podcast? It sounded like building a space shuttle back then they finally got on board. Redband convinced them and they started your Mom’s House. Christina said, we’d go to Burdbank in the summer and sit on this gross leather couch.

All he had was a wall unit air conditioner and would have to turn it off to tapes, so it would just be sitting there sweating. Eventually they moved the podcast to their own home in Silver Lake. So Gore said. We did about forty episodes with Red Band, and then I took it over and had a huge tiic error, making it unlistenable. Christina says, to my brilliant husband’s credit, there was no podcasting.

This was a technological medium that was essentially invented as we went along. We lived in a crummy two bedroom apartment. We were newlyweds and we had no money. We got a mixing board too MIC’s and a computer. At that point we slept in one room and these the other room is in office.

It boarded this other house where this lady would cook the smelliest food and have aggressive sex. Tom said, oh yeah, she was newly divorced and very performative with her cheering. I love cleaning things. It’s more fun. I teach this to the college kids.

I could have just said the O word there. It’s not particularly naughty, but when I cleaned things up, I think it makes it more fun. Tom said. In the early days, it was like I think we can probably get to the point where this podcast pays our rent. It was such an exciting thing because we’d go into the room and talk for an hour and it actually did pay our rent.

From there, it just kept growing, which is a good time for me. I want to thank you for listening. The numbers September was really strong, and the ad sales are good, and we’re into the fourth quarter now, which is when podcasts really make their money. You always make the most money in the fourth quarter, so I’m a little excited and quite thankful. Thank you for listening every day.

John Oliver is upset with the bosses over at Max. John Oliver was on the Interview podcast with The New York Times the topic HBO announcing they’re holding back segments from last week Tonight for a few days from YouTube after the premiere. Previously, we’re able to watch the show’s main store on YouTube and the morning after episode aired. Oliver said, it’s massively frustrating to me. I was not happy with it at all.

What I love about having the show on YouTube is that we can reach beyond HBO subscribers. That feels really important to me. I really really appreciate the fact that they do that. I would rather they did it straight after the show, the way we’ve always done it, but I’m very grateful that they’re willing to still do it at all. So, John, I don’t know if you know this.

The reason HBO pays you and other creators is to get consumers to give HBO money to see the programming that’s behind the paywall. That’s how this all works. If they were to put Last Week Tonight up on YouTube, there’s really no reason to pay you. I don’t know if you understand that part of the business. I get the sentiment that you want people to see it, but that’s not how this works, a spokesperson until the Hollywood Reporter a few months ago, when Last Week Tonight with John Oliver premiered on HBO, the convenience of watching on Max did not exist, so YouTube allowed flexible viewing for the main story as well as promotional exposure.

We’re now delaying that availability and hope those fans choose to watch the entire show on Max. When this was announced in February, Oliver tweeted, I know I usually share a link to our main story here on Mondays, but HBOS decided they’re going to wait until Thursday to posted them to YouTube. From now on, I hope they changed their mind, but until then, you can see our piece about the Supreme Court on HBO, on Max and on YouTube in a few days. John is currently signed through twenty twenty six and said I work with John Stewart for a long time. I saw him get exhausted, so I know what that looks like.

I saw him reckoning with I’ve done this every possible way that I can do it, and he was right about that, like, you can’t really do it any better. I’ve not hit that point yet. I still absolutely love making the show. I get excited. I’d like to your point of bouncing up and down the chairs when we feel like we’re onto something with a story.

If we worked out something really dumb to do, it’s so fun. I can’t believe that we get to ram stories down people’s throats that they might not naturally want to hear and then watch it. And I can’t believe that we get to play with HBO’s resources. Yeah, you get to play with HBO’s resources, and that’s why your show’s behind the pay wall and do dumb things on fiscally irresponsible scale. So I guess my answer to that point might come.

I don’t feel like I’m there yet. I was just thinking about John Stewart. I started to listen to his interview on Conan. I feel like the return of John, that John is somehow less endearing. His first Daily Show run, he felt like the cuddley Rascal, and this time he just feels like older, more establishment John Stewart.

I don’t know, it’s not as warm and fuzzy this time around. I can’t quite put my finger on it. I really feel bad for Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy doesn’t quite realize that Jimmy Kimmel Alive is going to be canceled. Johnny Mack, Why why are they canceling Jimmy kim Alive?

Well, here’s why. They added Andy Richter to the show. Andy Richter is the modern day Ted McGinley. Andy has taken out Conan three times by himself. Andy Richter had sitcoms Andy Richter appears on your show.

I will never have him on the show because this show will get canceled, and I own the show. I would have to self cancel anyway. Andy Richter is now playing Tim Walls on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Which makes me think in about nine months, I’ll be telling you that the Jimmy Kimmelive Show is ending. You can bookmark this cracked caught up with a guy that started the backlash against Ellen.

Remember all that the remind us the Ellen backlash came from a twenty twenty tweet posted by comedian Kevin T. Porter. The tweet appears in Ellen’s recent special, although his name is blocked out. Back in twenty one, Porter told Metro he wasn’t trying to damage the notoriously I mean talk show host. He was merely trying to find a funny way to do something positive in the early days of the pandemic.

Explained in twenty one, we are about two weeks into the lockdown. A lot of my friends were doing kind of interesting, creative things to raise money for different charities. So my version of that was to do the thread on Twitter. Bec I I thought it would be funny. Porter initially assumed he would receive only super niche applies from the La comedy scene, but the thread went viral.

Porter pointed out the consistency of the stories being posted made the claims hard to dismiss. The Gilbert Godfrey to State has revealed the title and release did for his posthumous comedy album, Still Screaming. Still Screaming will be out November fifteenth. The album is a curated compilation of some of Gilbert’s greatest bits and impressions, delivering as only he could. Some of the material comes from the twenty seventeen documentary Gilbert.

The album will be released on a limited edition vinyl featuring rare photos of Gilbert with family and friends, a heartfelt and funny historical account of Gilbert from longtime friend pen Gillette, and a vinyl side etch with Gilbert’s own original artwork. Hulu continues to be hilarious. They’ve announced another comedy special, This one It’s Chris DeStefano, which is being executive produced by Jimmy Kimmel, who doesn’t yet realize that his show’s about to be canceled. The special is called It’s Just Unfortunate Hilarius kicks off in November with Jim Gaffigan, Hulu’s head of Scripted Content, Jordan Hillman. T Tol the Hollywood Reporter, the mantra is very much quality over quantity.

The Stefano will be out in twenty five, no date yet. The other hilarious comedians pretty Good run here, Bill Burr, Alana Glazer, Roywood, Junior Osco, At Kotzka, Jessica Curson, Jim Gaffigan, and Sebastian Maniscalco. Fun note here. In twenty twenty three, to Stefano became the first stand up comedian to sell out both the Radio City Music Hall and the theater at Madison Square Garden, which is not the Garden, that’s the theater at Madison Square Garden on consecutive nights. I don’t know if you know this, but Saturday Night Live is turning fifty.

Well, we’re going to talk about it every day for the next nine months. Spirit Halloween not happy with Saturday Night Live. I don’t know if you watched the episode. There was a very very funny sketch that destroyed Spirit Halloween. But as I was watching, and I’m like, this is a great advertisement for Spirit.

But the folks at Spirit apparently don’t understand the value of getting people talking about you. They tweeted, alongside a photo of a fake SNL costume, we are great at raising things back from the dead. Who’s zing the costume was labeled irrelevant fifty year old’s TV show. The packaging set it included dated references, unknown cast members, and shrinking ratings zing in case you missed it. The gist of the sketch was how Spirit Halloween is helping the economy by opening stores for six weeks and then disappringing into the night, and made fun of the knockoff costumes.

For example, a young girl wanted a Tailor Swift costume and Chloe Fineman gives her blonde singing woman. The girl points out the costume is in Taylor Swift, and Chloe says, and neither are you. The punchline, Spirit Halloween. When you need us, we’ll be here for six weeks because I remember first we’re gone and all this junk will be in the dumpster. Laugh it up, Spirit, It’s good stuff.

People like the upper episode. It got five point three million viewers. That’s the best start for a season since twenty twenty and up fifteen percent over last year’s four point six million. For episode one, Seth Myers and his grip Kenny have a bet about an upcoming Jets Steelers game. If the Jets win.

Seth Myers, who’s a Steelers fan will be forced to place a mug with the score on his TV desk throughout the end of the football season. If the Steelers win, Kenny will get a tattoo with the final score and Meyer’s signature on his wrist. Ugh, I mean the Jets aren’t going to win. But don’t even take that bet that I mean, it’s so lopsided, Myers told his viewers. Kenny set the terms, Kenny said, I want to change the terms.

If you win, I get two tattoos. Wow. A’hmed A’hmed was at the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival Awards and then suddenly event president Paul Kruz presented him with a special award. I’med said with the name I’m Ed. I’m ed.

I can’t even fly a kite in this country. I’ve only won one other award in my life. It was the Richard Pryor Award for Ethnic Comedy at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in two thousand and four. That was the first and last time they ever gave it out. And let’s take a quick overview of the finalists of the twenty twenty four Comedy Wildlife Awards.

These include an otter guru, and a squirrel stuck headfirst in a tree. The Comedy Wildlife team has narrowed down nearly nine thousand submissions to forty standalone photos, four portfolio entries, and three videos. Some of the finalists include a smiling elephants seal, an otter holding its feet up in the pose of a guru, a contemplative chimpanzee, a cheetah playing hide and seek, and the squirrel stuck headfirst in a tree. Other images capture a raccoon appearing to whisper in a fellow raccoon’s ear, a fish chasing an eagle across the sky, and a frog whose head is enveloped by a large bubble in the water. You can go to the competition’s website through October thirty first.

The winner will sive a cash prize of about six hundred and seventy dollars, depending on the exchange rates of the British pounds on that particular day. All winners of the competition will be announced at an award ceremony in London on December tenth. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like to.

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Caloroga Shark Media, Idly Home, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Big VP debate tonight. That’s right, we’ll be covering that on the Ballot Podcast. By the way, both the Daily Show and Colbert will go live after the debate. Now, what’s interesting about the Daily Show is John Stewart’s not working No Tuesday night, Buddy, No, Michael Costa will do the live postgame show. Usually John shows up for those.

I wonder if that is a hint as to what the future of the Daily Show actually is. Hmm. After the Trump Harris debate, Colbert doubled his audience with the eighteen to forty nine’s John Stewart hosted a Tuesday episode of The Daily Show that week and got the show’s highest rating since twenty seventeen. So again, very interesting that Michael Costa is hosting. All right, we got to start paying attention to Kat Williams.

I know, you know some of us. I’ll raise my hand. We’re like, Cat, you’re crazy. Time is starting to prove that perhaps Kat Williams not so crazy. At a recent show, he went after Sean Diddy Combs Cat made fun of Diddy’s attorneys claim that Diddy had bought some baby oil from Costco.

Williams joked, they put the drugs in the baby oil. You think you’re getting a massage, you can’t even get up. He said, that’s the reason God gave me egzema. I can’t even use baby oil. That got a lot of laughs.

Earlier in the year on with Chen and Sharp, You remember that interview, Kat said all lies would be exposed. P Diddy be wanting to party and you got to tell him no.

Meanwhile, Marlon Williams was on Club Shay Shay recently and said, I’ve neve…

So I’m not rushing to take down old tweets or anything. I ain’t got stuff to hide, period. I’ve been to plenty of Diddy parties. I left early. I swear to you I’ve never seen it.

Those aren’t the type of parties I go to. I don’t frequent those type of parties. And even if I go, like I said, I’d never seen any of this, want to hear about it. I’m like, what did that happen? At?

What time did this go down? Because I was there until two three thirty. You mean it too, so they waited for me to leave, like all right, good that Wayns is gone. He talks too much. Wayins did admit that he has seen drugs at these parties, but was unfamiliar with the other reports.

He told Chennon Sharp, I watch how I conduct myself because I’m not doing this for me. I have to answer to God. I have to answer to my brothers. I have to answered to my legacy. I can’t act a certain way.

I have to answer to black people. I have to answer to kids who want to be like me. It’s a lot for me to answer to. I owe it to my fans to walk through this life and be an example as best as I can.

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Meanwhile, new topic.

Wayns was on the Shaquill O’Neal podcast joking about Magic Johnson and said, I said he had the good aids. I said, what aids do you want to get where you lived fifty years? I want those aids. He became a billionaire with aids. Give me those aids.

What kind of aids is this? Financial aids? Sam Bee has her new podcast. She talked about Diddy and said she had a chance encounter with Diddy. Ages and Ages ago and was not invited to one of the freak offs be recalled.

She was at the Democratic National Convention, but can’t remember which one. When Diddy walked in, Sam said, I was grabbing whoever I could ask them questions about what was going on. So I went up to him and said, do you mind off ask a couple questions, and Diddy’s voice was very soft. She said, it was in an area where you’d expected to be interviewed, too, so it wasn’t outrageous. After the interview, b said, Diddy immediately, like instantly, turned to his assistant.

He held out his hands helplessly, and his attendants squirted copious amounts of purel into his hands, and then he softly rubbed his hands together to extinguish whatever microbes I’d put on his hands. The way he did it was so rude. I do understand you shake a lot of people’s hands and your hands feel dirty, but you don’t typically need to sanitize while the person is standing before you expressing your disgust. It occurred to me in the light of all these freak offs, it’s always the germophobes who want to go home and recreate Caligula. Every Tuesday afternoon, let me catch up on Saturday Night Live.

Let’s say before I go to my notes, just top of mind. I thought it was really good. It felt big, it felt very show busy. The open was pretty strong. But I gotta wonder, if you’re on the cast and your name’s not Bowen Yang and maybe more solo Hernandez talk about that in a second.

How are you feeling? Because yes, Daya Carvey great, and yes it was great to see Mac Packer, Andy Samberg, and yes, Maya Rudolph is nailing the Kamala voice. But you know, if you’re on the cast, aren’t you like, hey, why has this turned into an alumni show? But I guess for the fiftieth year it’ll be an alumni show, and maybe season fifty one it’ll be a reset. I could see a lot of people departing.

Bowen got like nine sketches. Nine might be an exaggeration, but I felt like the whole night was Bowen Yang and he was great as always. And Marcela Hernandez, I’m wondering, does he do one thing but he does it really well where he does the one thing with an over the top accent that worked really well. In the Pyramid sketch. It worked really well in the I Love Lucy sketch, will try.

I enjoy it a lot, so he’s fun. I just don’t know what else he can do. The Daily Beat spoke to Dana Carvey, who showed up as Joe Biden and did a very good Joe Biden. I mean, he’s Dana Carvey after all. Carvey said, it’s been top secret.

I kept it under wraps for weeks, but I was asked by Lauren to come on SNL to do Biden. He said he began developing his take on Biden while producing his podcast YouTube clips, and said mimicking Biden is trickier, but the rhythm of the impression comes from the President’s high energy moments. The true North stars to try and make it funny and not really get it to be a political message per se. Bowe Yang caught some backlash from fans of Chapel Rowan. Yang grown on Instagram.

Everything she has ever asked for has been reasonable. Bowen was dressed up as Pigmy Hippopotamus of MoU Dang, and in character, he referenced Chapel Rowan’s past comments about maintaining boundaries with intrusive fans. On Instagram, Bowen wrote, everything she has ever asked for has been reasonable. If my personal stance and the piece aren’t absolutely clear in terms of supporting her, then there it is. I guess everything she’s asked for has been reasonable, and even then we can connect it to another story about boundaries or whatever.

In character as Moo Dan, he spoke with Colin jo just about setting some boundaries with Zoo attendees. In character, he said, when I’m in my enclosure, tripping over stuff, biting my trainer’s knee, I’m at work. That’s the project. Do not yell my name or expect a photo just because I’m your parasocial best year, because you appreciate my talent. Last week, Rowan canceled her weekend performances at a festival, saying I feel pressures to prioritize a lot of things right now, and I need a few days to prioritize my mind health.

Bringing this full circle. Separately from all this, Bowen was recently on the Dana Corvey podcast well along with David Spade. He shared some behind the scenes details about when Sidney Sweeney was on last year that was a great episode, Bowen said, I get caught up in the meta narrative. Sometimes I’ll get roped in like a headline or some pickup every now and then I’m like, oh god, this is so unfair, this is so stressful. That’s not what I meant, or this is not what I was doing.

Like when Chappelle was standing on stage with me, Yang said, Lauren knows this is what the show is now. I think Lauren has an awareness of it. I think Lauren knows how that it’s a reality show. He said. Sidney Sweeney was an example of a host who came in and understood how she was being consumed and perceived already.

She came in and was like, please, everyone make jokes about my boobs. John Stewart, who’s not hosting The Daily Show tonight, was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, and he told Conan, we’ve created this incredibly eccentric business where you need an agent and a manager and a lawyer and they’re going to take about sixty percent of what you make. But without them, there’s nothing you can do. And you join the studio and the studio will give you a deal and you’ll sit in your room it’s the most inefficient way Silicon Valley walked into entertainment, and the way that Elon Musk walked into Twitter and went, how many people work here? Ten thousand?

Make it two? They go writers’ room. Wait, you’ve got fourteen writers and they’re with you from start to finish on the production. Well, it’s important for the writers to be invested.

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And also we’re showing them how they’re on the page, because it’s different a…

They got to understand how that works and understand how we interact with the props. Amazon and Apple hear those arguments and respond with something like they can have three weeks and it’s got to be on Zoom, and you can have four of them. I can’t function like that. My writers, like what Conan said, I’m friends with so many comedy writers, many comedy writers of my vintage. You’re younger of trouble getting work now.

It’s changing radically. Stewart said. The large tech companies don’t believe in institutional knowledge that allows people to grow and get better and create more. As for Apple, I couldn’t help them in the way that maybe I had been able to help Comedy Central, But I think in their determination, I could hurt them. Themes of comedy names of tech often do not align.

And that’s when I knew we were in trouble. Wow, very interesting. I haven’t listen to that one. I’ll add it to Mike Queue. During the SNL premiere, Amazon announced that Colin Jos Pop Culture Jeopardy will debut December four.

You’ll get three new episodes a week on Wednesdays. Bill Hayter is developing a comedy pilot for HBO. Untitled project stars a woman in a small town who has a big secret revealed and then massive colossal spoilers for The Simpsons. I didn’t even know this happened. I’m gonna spoil the heck out of Sunday’s episode.

I’ll go slow here, all right, So I’m gonna I’m gonna give you a minor spoiler in a second. Then I’ll take a beat, and then I’ll majorly spoiler it. Medium spoiler. Okay, you’ve been warned, right, medium spoiler for The Simpsons. They hand it in the series finale.

But the show’s not over yet, all right. That’s that’s the headlined spoiler. If you want particular details, hang out otherwise, you’re dismissed. See you tomorrow, all right, more spoilers coming up. You’ve been warned.

Bart’s Birthday is the Simpsons take on what a finale might look like. Inspired by the season seven clip show The Simpsons one hundred and thirty eighth episode Spectacular a great episode, Bart’s Birthday is formatted like a hosted special, but instead of showing clips from the past and making up fake ones, Conan O’Brien introduces a brand new, AI written episode designed to be the series finale. The episode within the episode follows Bart as he watches the show’s characters go through cliche over sentimental finale type storylines with increasing consternation. Showrunner Matt Selman explained why a finale and said, when you’re write for The Simpsons, you get asked a lot about what a finale episode might look like. It’s a tricky question.

He’s worked on the show since nineteen ninety eight. He says he can go on forever because it doesn’t have a hard canon or dense continuity. During the twenty twenty three Strikes, it hit him, what if we did a fake finale that makes fun of finales? Wrap itings up? But then rejects it in the simpsonsy way.

They brainstormed what Fox would actually do if there was a Simpson finale and landed on the idea of a grand Starfield celebration that would serve as a meta takedown of showbiz self mythologizing and poke fun at the reverence. Some fans have a certain era of the show. You know, if you heard Sunday’s episode, I pointed out, the show hasn’t aired in years. Bob’s orgiz doesn’t exist at all. The Simpsons, I think stopped in season nine.

When’s the last time you watched Simpsons? Come on? Is it even on? Did this finale even in Bart’s birthday? Conan O’Brien serves as the host of the finale celebration.

Conan, you may know, worked as a writer on The Simpsons for two seasons and wrote what is one of these series all time episodes, the Monorail episode don’t start me. I’ll start singing the song you Never want to be near Me. If the word monoail comes up, ask my children monarel. Since that represents these shows so called golden age, the writers were interested in poking fun at that. They roast Conan Conan delivers jokes like it’s such an honor to be here for the series finale of The Simpsons.

They knew I was right for the job because I’ve hosted the last episode of three of my own shows and counting. Selman says Conan was smart enough and funny enough to know he was one hundred percent the best person to tell the story. All right, what happens to everybody? More spoilers. Principal Skinner announces he’s leaving to become the headmaster of a school in Sacramento as a delightful mid season replacement, adding all no doubt, find a whole new, eclectic cast of characters to interact with, and also groundskeeper Willie will be my roommate.

That’s great. Bittersweet music plays as Skinner says, I’m going to miss this place while’s turnning off the lights. That’s a Nazi. The Mary Tyler Orphinelle comic book Wife’s Guy Comigo gives birth. Mister Burns dies first as a prank, then for real.

His fortune goes to the power plant staff. Bart attempts to stop Krusty from taping a final show. Selman discusses if they’re trolling the audience conan in the show jokes. When the very first episode aired in nineteen eighty nine, viewers agreed on one thing. It wasn’t as funny as it used to be.

That is 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 program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes that I’ll tell you how that works. Don’t forget.

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