Month: November 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, anyone’s still here After yesterday’s show, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I will discuss Saturday Night Live tomorrow. Original LESSONL cast member Garrett Morris is not a fan of the show’s current season. He told The Guardian, I don’t see the courage, the experimental impulses.

To be fair to Garrett, he said this before last night’s episode. Who knows what happened on last night’s episode, Well, you do, but I don’t. As I record this, mor said, I don’t see the courage, the experimental impulses. That was the whole core of what happened in the first ten years. Interesting, he says ten, not five, because the second five included the Lorne Michael less years, which were a disaster till Letty Murphy showed up.

That was the whole core of what happened the first ten years. I keep expecting it to attack in a funny way and bring out the foibles not only of individuals but of the government and all that. Nowadays, although people still check it out, I think they’re catering to too many people too much of the time. Sounds like Garrett might have liked my commentary yesterday, Morris said, I will say, to the end of my days, Lauren’s writers had a lot of racism going on. Lauren himself zero racism because remember when I was hired, I was the only black writer.

Laurene wanted to have somebody black on TV at nighttime. People didn’t want that. They were clamoring to make it all white. He didn’t. Some jokes from Late Night Stephen Colbert said, so after years of investigation into Trump’s many crimes, including trying to overthrow the US government, everything’s just totally cool.

Reminds me of that classic song I fought the law and what I won? How’s that even possible? That’s a good joke, Ronny Chieng with a strong one. Apparently you can get away with your crimes if you win the presidency. And that sound you just heard is Diddy forming an exploratory committee for twenty twenty eight.

But my favorite is from Seth Myers, who said, you think Kamala Harris was too far left she was campaigning with Liz Cheney. The only way she could have run a more mainstream centrist campaign is that she would have formed a Huey Lewis cover band with Mitt Romney and did a cameo on Lawn Order. Bill Maher will have a new special for HBO. It is called is anyone else Seeing this? It’ll be out in January.

It’s Bill Maher’s thirteenth stand up hour for the network. Yeah. Mar will tape the special in front of a live audience. I love that in front of a live audience, not just an audience, a live audience at the CIBC Theater in Chicago. In a statement, Bill Moore said, I almost called this special you won’t feel safe, because if you’re purely a team player in American politics, you won’t.

This one is for the eighty percent of Americans who want to see crazy called out, no matter where it comes from. And the last twenty minutes on my sex life, that’s for everybody. Zarna garg is part of Hularius. Not that the publicists will get back to me. Zarna Gargan a statement said, I’m beyond excited to join the Hulu family and bring families together for my comedy special.

Just make sure they get back to their math homework afterward. Hularius kicks off November twenty second with Zorona Guard, Bill Burr, Christa Stefano, Jim Gaffigan, Alana Glazer, Jessica Curson, Mitseo Laine, Sebastian Menis, galco otsco At Cotska, Andrew Santino and Roy Wood Junior. That is a good line of pro up to twelve now because they were gonna do one a month. Let’s see Zarna Bird three, War of Isa six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven. One to be revealed unless I miscounted.

Let me know. Jannis Pappas and Christa Stefano used to have a podcast called History Hyenas. It’s back baby, Oh Eric is my voice? You’re right back? Wow, buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. According to Andrew Schultz, he invited Kamala Harris on and she didn’t do his podcast either, and the other one being Rogan Schultz said, H’m smugly satisfied. This is what you all get. Y’all didn’t want to come on Flagrant. You know, they told us it was too big of a risk for Comma to come on.

Okay, you believe being loser, you know what’s kind of a risk not doing any big podcasts. The purpose of Flagrant was to build a community and a connection with the audience. I think that her fatal flaw not going to these podcast is that people weren’t able to make that connection, just as people come to shows because they build that connection with us. They came out to vote because Trump made that connection. When I said legacy media is done, I mean they can still set a narrative if people still watch it.

Giannis and to Stefano co hosted their hit comedy podcast History Hyenas from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one. On History Hyenas, the two comedians go wild for history and nature and tech and all things historical and natural in a way you never thought was possible. Well, all of a sudden, they’re back. The new episode covered the history of October surprises. Here’s a surprise.

I misbalanced the script today. I’m one story short. I need to do one more more. All right, let me pull up something from Monday script. Ricky Lindholm.

You know her from Garfunkel and Oates. She announced her new comedy album, No Worries If Not, and it comes out March fourteenth. Now, on the one hand, I want to go announce that kind of early didn’t you. On the other hand, I’m the guy that already asked Nate Pergatzy’s publicist could he come on my show six months from now. The album explores themes of family, aging, motherhood and more, all with Lindholm’s trademark wit and dark humor.

Ricky says, I’m so excited released my first solo album, No Worries if not. With this album, I wanted to bring humor to some of the more personally historically isolating experiences that women face, including infertility, aging in motherhood. I hope people will find not just laughter but a sense of solidarity through these songs, which aims to distill complex topics in a light hearted and honest way. Making this album felt scary and vulnerable, but also like a natural creative evolution for me, and I can’t wait to share with everyone in six months. It is the last day of the three one two Comedy Festival.

Giggley Squad at five and eight pm at the Chicago Theater. You know Hannah Berner married to my new bestie Des Bishop, Steve O’s at the Riviera at seven, Josh Wolf He’s Fantastic at Park West at seven, and skin Bone at Zani’s Downtown at seven. I’m not familiar with skin Bone. Skin Bone is influenced by legends such as Richard Pryor, Jim Carrey, Tyler Perry, Kevin Hart, and Bernie Mack. Skin Bone aspires to follow in their footsteps, blending comedy and influence to leave an indelible mark on the world.

Apparently, he had a successful viral video called I’m from the Trenches.

Meanwhile, the New York Comedy Festival continues.

I left you with a cliffhanger yesterday where I was about to click on the Mister Rogers Variety Hour, which is the Brooklyn Art House at two pm. Let’s see what that actually is because I don’t know. Hosted by Ali Levin and Emma Tattenbaum Fine inspired by the kindness of Fred Rodgers, this show features a curation of work around a chosen theme from artists who dazzle us. That’s not what I thought it was going to be at all, you know, I thought it was going to be like a Mister Rogers parody. I’m not going all the way out to Brooklyn for that one.

Sorry. I won’t read all the shows to you. Let’s see what’s interesting today. Mike Kamplan’s at KD at seven, Chloe Radcliffe at Chelsea Music called eight thirty. It’s a little light tonight.

Yeah, nothing too exciting. Let me make a second pass here a mad Ethnic a New York City variety show at Second City at nine to thirty. The New York City Gong Show at Saint Mark’s Comedy Club at nine thirty might be a night to stay in and watch Sunday night football. Front of the show, Jason Zinneman specifically called out Chloe Radcliffe show, which is called Cheat. Zinneman writes in The New York Time, I was more than a decade ago a Hollywood producer told me you couldn’t make a movie about a woman who cheats on her boyfriend, her spouse and still retains the audience’s sympathy.

The stand up Chloe Radcliffe proves him wrong in this personal solo show that explores infidelity, her own and the subject broadly with a refreshing candor and open mindedness. Bill Board caught up with Caroline Hirsch and Andrew Fox. They’ve put this thing on. They were curious what’s change over the last twenty years? Caroline said, most noticeably is the depth and length of the festival.

We started out with ten big shows and three or four headliner shows. Now the festival is eleven days with over three hundred shows and twenty two headliners. And I would attribute a big part of that to the fact that comedy is more of a staple in our lives today. Andrew Fox said, when we started, so few comics were playing theaters. New York has had such great theaters Carnegie Hall, the Beacon Theater, Madison Square Garden for comics.

In two thousand and six, we’ve put Dane Cook in a MSG for two nights. We sold thirty eight thousand tickets. Since then, we’ve put Kevin Hart, Bilburr and Trevor Noah the Garden. Fox said, when we put Dane there, it really changed the way people looked at the comedy business back at that from our humble beginnings. It was a game changer for US agents and managers in the industry.

Caroline Ursh gets it and says, ideally, comedy is about taking information that may be controversial or polarizing and make it more palatable in a communal setting where everyone comes together to laugh and let off steam. We live in a country where fifty percent of the people are pissed off and fifty percent are happy. How do we bring those two sides together by making them laugh? Laughing is a healing process. It soothes.

The Soul Billboard asked how a stand up comedy change since the festival started. Caroline said, it’s a lot smarter and much more political. Used to be very left leaning, but now it’s more balanced. There’s a right leaning side to it now. Women play a much bigger role in comedy now too.

Also, the number of headliners has increased. In the early days, I had maybe eighteen headliners. Today there must be one hundred comics that can headline. I think Caroline’s had a lot to do with that growth. It did.

We also played a role in the media’s increased interest in comedy. It did in the early eighties. No one covered comedy. I had to convince people to cover it at the New York Daily News, page six and on Howard Stern Show. I don’t know about that latter one.

I was listening to Howard when he came to New York in nineteen eighty two, and he had comics on. I can’t say I remember day one, but I sure remember comedians being on the show. I sure remember Jackie the joke Man, so I don’t know about that last point there. Caroline, what show should we not miss? She says, New York’s Funniest.

Every year, we survey the canvas, so to speak, and select ten promising comics to participate. Some major comedians have come out of it. Nate Berghatzy and Michael Jay won in different years. The night Michael Jay won, he got an agent’s and a manager at the Barred Carolines. My voice is shot, so that’s it.

Actually, I don’t have any more stories anyway. I was actually done, but my voice is shot. See you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I feel like being conversational today. I’ve got some stuff on my mind. I want to tell you about Back to the Future of the Musical.

I want to talk about where I think comedy is right now, and I’m not sure it’s on the mark at the particular moment, So let me just talk for a little bit. In the second half, we’ll tell you about the comedy festivals and do some stories. Thursday night, I went into Manhattan, which, if you listen to the show, you know like, oh, I have to go to Manhattan. I would seriously rather drive to Chicago. It’s easier.

I would rather fly to Australia. It’s easier. Getting to Manhattan is a bear. But I went because my daughter hooked me up with tickets to Back to the Future the Musical and it was awesome, just a good time. I’m like jonesing now to watch the movies again.

The guy that plays Marty McFly does that Michael J. Fox creaky voice thing. I don’t think I have a half assed Michael J. Fox impression, but you know the voice he nails that shows a lot of fun the actors have a good time performing their roles. These special effects are amazing.

It really reminded me of when you’re in a waiting room at Disney World and they’re trying to distract you. Standing there for half an hour, just fantastic. It’s closing in January, which stinks. January fifth is the last day for the Broadway run. I do see there’s a Los Angeles run that goes until December first.

There is a national tour of it. I also see San Diego dates in January and a world tour that will hit Japan and Germany. Anyway, if you could see this thing a lot of fun. I was high on life coming home last night. So while I was in New York City, I’ve mentioned the New York Comedy Festival, which i’ll talk about in the second half.

Is Invisible Now. I walked from thirty second Street and Seventh Avenue up to fiftieth Street and Seventh Avenue. So if you’re not familiar with New York City, that’s Times Square and the extended area. So basically I walked from Madison Square Garden through Times Square too the Broadway district. So if you’re not from New York, and you think of New York, this is exactly the part of town that you think is New York City.

No New York Comedy Festival. I saw Barker’s holding up signs with Comedy Central logos on it, trying to get me to go to see some comedy shows. That’s always the thing that goes on. But New York Comedy Festival completely invisible. They’ve been nothing but good to me.

It’s a good festival. But New York is too big, and boy was Times Square packed Saturday Night Live tonight with Bill Burr. I’m very curious to see what they do tonight, so I’ll talk about the comedy part of it in a second. I saw this clip from Conan O’Brien. This is Bill Burr reacting to Trump being elected in twenty sixteen.

So perhaps this is insight into what Bill Burr’s thinking. And I don’t understand why everybody’s so upset. Yeah, get out, Like, what’s gonna happen to you? Do you liked Obama? Did he call you at all in the.

Last eight years? Did you ever put a sandwich on your table? You do that, You’re gonna keep doing that. You’re gonna be fine. Right, have you like Lona, Dude?

I have to say though, him winning is the most astounding thing I’ve ever seen. It was a surprise, surprise. Dude, Like you’re talking like like Lake Placid, the Olympics when we beat the Russian Barry sat Kirk Gibson’s home run is a joke, right, the Giant’s beating the undefeated Patriots, that’s all a joke. Through the star of a reality show is gonna run the country. I got decided if Brett Michaels or Cindy Lauper would make a better CEO for a company that doesn’t exist, it’s gonna be running stock.

It’s unbelievable. Yeah, he just reminded me like when I didn’t read the book and I’m just like just winging it. You know, how are you gonna do that? Oh you’ll say, you’ll say, did it worked. In twenty twenty two, Bill Burr, who’s hosting SNL tonight, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter.

In twenty two, Burr said, as someone who considers self liberal, it’s this point to see the left come how the right used to be when they went after the Dixie Chicks after the criticized George W. Bush. It’s not a lot of people like that. Most of them are not trying to get in trouble. But there’s this small collection of lunatics either on the right or left any given moment that causes hysteria.

You may recall in twenty twenty three, Bill’s wife was seen giving Trump the middle finger at a UFC event. I remember the events. I forgot that it was Bill Burr’s wife. Burr was on The Rich Eisen Show and said, I love my wife. You know where you stand with her.

The guy walked in the arena, everybody cheered, she gave him the figure. Nobody got arrested. That’s why his country’s great. Everybody expressed themselves, can we all be adults on threads? And I got to figure out how we refer to a threads?

So much easier saying tweeted, so triumph threaded on our mind you. Robert Smigel wrote many of the all time bits on Saturday Night Live, including Reagan mastermind Trium slash. Schnegel wrote snl open that won’t happen. Biden woken up suddenly getting visits from people he hasn’t heard from since July. All seeking preemptive Pardons, Pelosi, Shift, Liz Cheney, Stephanopolis, Lebron, Bill Maher, Beyonce plus Chris Christy and a guy who called Trump chump in college.

Biden no, now you need me. Biden cuts deals with each of them, ranging from scoring tickets to taking someone else’s shoes to smelling their hair. Somebody responded to that, saying, I got an image in my mind of Maya Rudolph sitting at a piano singing Hallelujah and now please excuse me, but I must go hurl yes, and now you’re gonna have a lot of eyes on you tonight. Before I dive in today, let me quote Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Caroline’s Comedy Club and has organized the New York Comedy Festival. Caroline Hirsch said, pay attention here.

This is very important. Caroline Hirst said. Ideally, comedy is about taking information that may be controversial or polarizing and making it more palatable in a communal setting where everyone comes together to laugh and let off steam. We live in a country where fifty percent of the people are pissed off and fifty percent are happy. How do we bring those two sides together?

By making them laugh. Laughing is a healing process. It soothes the soul. I’m glad I found that quote from Caroline because I have struggled to capture my feelings here and I think Caroline has captured them again. Comedy is about taking information that may be controversial or polarizing and making it more palatable in a communal setting where everyone comes together to laugh and let off steam.

Let’s dive in. So where I am with the election, and stay with me. If you listen to me every day, you kind of get my vibe here. I was not surprised at all by the result. Whatever my political opinions are, I was not surprised by the result.

And I think Hacks on Tap, which is a podcast, nailed the vibe. And I’m leading up to something here. You may recall Tony Hinchcliffe told a joke, terrible joke, told one joke. It was a joke in the middle of a six hour event, in the middle of a four month campaign. They drilled down and everybody focused on that.

And then I look at my friend Tom. My friend Tom has to work six days a week. I’m friends with some people who were very happy with the result. This week. I’m friends with some people who are very unhappy of the result.

This week, hacks on Tap talked about the optics. So say you’re standing on a stage with Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen. Hacks on Tap said, you got to understand how off putting this is to so much of America. It feels very comfortable if you’re having a dinner party at Tina Face House, but out there where they’re bending metal and parking squad cars for a living, it’s not only a shortcoming, and it’s an off putting vibe. That’s how I feel about comedy right now.

I get where the late night hosts are coming from. I get that comedy is supposed to comment on the current situation. I think Late Night is not helping themselves this week. I’ve mentioned here we have a podcast called Ballot, which makes fun of politics. I’m working with AI to take stories and make fun of the stories.

If there’s comedy to be mined, we make fun of it, pure comedy. Trump is a more colorful character than Harris was. Joe Biden. You can make old jokes. Jade Vance is a bit of a character.

Tim Wallasle is a bit of a character. So we throw those things in there and we make fun of it. All Since the election, we’ve taken the point of view of us. We never made fun of Trump. What are you talking about?

We love Trump and we’re having fun with that, and then we talk about how much we love Trump while making fun of the stories. I think the late night guys are off tone. This week, Jimmy Kimmel said, let me tell you, that was the worst Taco Tuesday of my whole life. We had the choice between a prosecutor and a criminal, and we chose the criminal to be the president of the United States. More than half this country voted for the criminal who was planning to part in himself for his crimes.

The Borto pick out there is more than half the country voted for the guy. And Kimmel I thought this joke was terrible. Donald Trump is like the Emperor from Star Wars. He’s old, he’s evil, and he keeps coming back with no reasonable explanation whatsoever. So a supertopical twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen Rise of Skywalker joke a better joke, Kimmell said.

Kamala Harris called Trump today, She conceded and then explained what the word conceded me. And see that’s funny, Kimmel joked, I can’t stay for another four years of this. My only request to President elect Trump is that he let me share a prison cell with Taylor Swift. I’m really good at making bracelets, and I think we get along just fine. Stephen Colbert said, Hey, there, how you doing.

If you watch the show regularly, I’m guessing you’re not doing great? Yeah? Me neither. Some people said to me, sorry, you have to do a show tonight, which is nice for them to say, but I don’t have to do a show. I get to do a show.

They’ll be jokes because it’s what we do. And I’ll let you in down a little secret. No one gets into this business because everything in their life worked out great. So we’re built for rough roads, you guys ready. Seth Meyer said, I don’t think Donald Trump’s a good person.

I’ll even go as far as saying he’s a bad person. On my defense, I’m only basing that on everything I’ve ever been taught about what makes someone good or bad. This is real and something I accept. Half the country thinks he’s a good person or don’t care that he’s not, and thinks he’s a good person and because of that, he’s going to be our president again. Jimmy Fallon hacked joke.

Well, guys, last night in America decided to get back with a crazy X and elect Donald Trump as the forty seventh president of the United States. No matter who you voted for, I think we can all agree that it’s going to be a rough Thanksgiving. I assume there’s a punch line in there somewhere. Kim Oll then the next night went on about Elon Musk and said, at least my children like me, which, again, I guess there’s a joke in there somewhere. Now you probably just heard that segment and think you know who I voted for.

You’re wrong. Just from a comedy standpoint, I think it’s off tone right now. Joe Rogan had on commie and libertarian Dave Smith, who does a political podcast of sorts. I like listening to all sorts of things, and I have a brain. I can listen to things.

Whether it’s Joe Rogan or Steven Colbert. They might have different takes on things, and I listen to things and sometimes I go, huh, interesting point, and other times I listen to things, and I go, that’s crazy talk. Rogan has advice for Trump and said, this is one of the first times ever where there’s a real chance to make real, tangible change that’s going to be for the good of everybody. He’s got to unite people. He’s got to not attack the left and not attack everybody.

Let them all talk their crap, but unite now. It’s time to unite everybody. Rogan said, it’s Donald Trump as the messenger was so polarizing that people lost what’s really going on just based on who this guy is. Just like Tony Hinchcliff is an insult comic, Donald Trump’s entire career is you’re fired. You’re a loser.

Rosie O’dnald’s a loser. Like that’s this whole stick. Recently, Rogan talked about Obama and said he didn’t come through on a lot of things, but as far as like a representative of the United States, who better than Obama? He’s the best of all time, the most educated and eloquent and even keeled, and he was a statesman and the way he spoke inspired confidence that truly the wisest among us is the king. I listened to a bunch of Rogan’s.

I don’t know if it was the Dave Smith one or if it was Tim Dillon, or maybe a different one. But he pointed out Harris, who did not appear on the Rogan podcast. According to Rogan, Harris one ad Rogan to go to him. Rogan pointed out Obama was the sitting president and went to Mark Maron’s garage. Jay Leno thinks the election was a great day for democracy.

The nice thing about the election is it was fair, was honest. I was not a fan, but that’s okay. It’s the president of the United States. Let’s all get together, thank you very much. In his view, the election was done professionally, there was no cheating.

Everybody says it was honest. I mean, it’s a great day for democracy. In my day, you kind of made fun of both sides, I agree with jay leto. Jay Leno had a very successful run hosting that Tonight show. Make fun of both sides.

Wherever the comedy is, find the comedy there, Leno said, you’d get angry letters from both sides. Now you kind of have to take a side. And yet it’s a little bit different. Dad Letterman’s social account, it’s unclear if David Letterman himself handles it. It’s unclear if David Letterman approves these things, but David Letterman’s Instagram account posted a video of Green Day performing America Idiot just hours after Trump was declared the victor.

Anyway, back to the future of the musical. It’s really good. You know, this one got overshadowed the three to one to two Comedy Festival in Chicago, and they’ve got great artists. Note it’s been going on since Wednesday, and I’ve talked about this during the week. Weird week to schedule things, guys and I did prep the show.

It didn’t come up. You got no Google results, and I forgot that this thing was going on. But tonight at the Chicago Theater at five o’clock Larry David Nate Jackson plays at seven at the Riviera. Ryan long As a show at Zany’s at seven, Angelo Colleen at Park West at seven, Kevin Herrera at zany seven to fifteen, Mark Norman at the Chicago Theater eight o’clock, Lisa Triggers at Zany’s, Kevin Herrera Well the Late show at Zany’s the New York Comedy Festival. I don’t want to read every show.

It is a pretty big festival. But let’s see what’s interesting here. What’s bot a swing? That sounds like a show that Trenmarcos Siresi and I were making fun of when I had him as a guest recently, Michelle Chan Bennett and Josh Nasser are Bobby Bingis and Tommy Laguini to nineteen sixties cruiters whose careers, livers and opinions have seen better days. That sounds like a good time.

We’re allowed to make fun of things again, right, Yes, we’re not going to freak out. The Italian American Defamation Society’s not going to showup because somebody did a character named Tommy Laguini. Right, I don’t know. Maybe they are, And I think this is back to the vibe we used to be able to just get along and kind of have fun. Not everything has to be a big deal.

It’s a comedy show. Jimmy o Yang Carnegie Hall at seven o’clock. Awesome, Joe List at Town Hall at seven, Jordan Jensen at Grammercy at seven, Sophie Duker at Union Hall at seven thirty, Joe Kim Booster at the Billhouse at seven thirty, jud Appatoo and Friends at eight o’clock. It’s a fundraiser, right, I’m asking you as if I’m not hosting the show. It doesn’t actually say and it doesn’t say who the friends are either.

It’s a little hard to you gotta tell me who’s on the lineup, guys. Don’t tell comedy at eight o’clock. What’s the location? That’s how don’t tell comedy works. It’s a secret indoor location.

B Yob show. That’s all we know. Sam Morrison and friend Sam is really good. That’s the name you should know at the Little Field at eight. Sophie Buttle at Second City at eight thirty.

A lot of shows to night. Believe me, I’m skipping a lot. I’m not reading the whole thing here. Jimmy Yang a second show at nine to forty five, Joe Kinbooster, second show at ten, the Mister Rogers Variety Hour. Oh that’s tomorrow, all right, Well that’s the Golffhanger.

I don’t know what it is. I almost clicked on it. We’ll see what that is tomorrow, and I think it’s time for me to go. If anyone is still listening, I probably lost everybody in the first half. What are you gonna do?

I’m gonna leave you with this TikTok that somebody sent me. See tomorrow. So you know how those lids all right, because this is fun speak, Okay, so this is it. So you know how those lids on the Starbucks cuts, they’re white, right, and so if you were lipstick, they get all over the lid. And so then I find myself in meetings if I’m the only woman, and that’s kind of until I keep taking the lid off and having my cub out so that I don’t have that big lipstick.

So I said, can we do something about the color of the lid. So that was that conversation.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. In case you haven’t noticed, everything in the world has to be a controversy. Well, they’re putting the Seinfeld Show out on four K blu ray. Seems like a harmless thing.

What could go wrong? Fans are hoping that the four K release doesn’t ruin the show like Netflix did. Crack dot com looked into this. First of all, the box set will cost two hundred and fifty dollars. What are you insane?

My DVD set is perfectly fine. Fans are worried about which aspect ratio the four K disc version of Seinfeld will be in. You see, the Netflix version, not unlike the HD ramaster that aired on TBS, reframed and cropped the original four x three box image to accommodate modern widescreen TVs, but in doing so they’ve ruined certain jokes. For example, in the episode The Couch where Jerry discovers that Poppy has pete on the sofa. In the Netflix widescreen version, they edited in a blatantly manufactured close up shot of the pea stain because it wasn’t clearly visible in the cropped wide shot, which completely throws off the subtle timing of the reveal.

Good news we are hearing. The new four K Blu ray of Seinfeld will feature the original one point three to three by one aspect ratio, but that version will only be released as a limited edition. The standard Blu ray will be one point seven eight by one. Another concern, Netflix’s four K scan employed color correction that looks different from the original show. For example, in the Netflix version, Jerry’s apartment looks way greener.

By the way, if you want to deep dive in this feed, somewhere down there, I went into a rabbit hole one day about Jerry’s bookcase. Now that the stuff is in high depth. In one of the early episodes, you can see Jerry’s bookshelf where he’s got VHS movies. They’re clearly porn movie if you read the title. Somewhere there’s an episode about that, but we don’t have time for that today.

I have to tell you about Paul Sheer in the ketchup controversy. Paul Sheer was on the Subway Takes web series and said restaurants need to stop with the artisanal ketchup. Heines has perfected it. We don’t need your mango chutney ketchup. I just want the sugar.

I want the taste of Heines. Sheer went on further, Instead of restaurants are going to be serving burgers, fries should not be extra host Kareem Rama agreed, said, if I go to place and the burger doesn’t say burger and fries, you have to buy the burger for eight dollars actually eighteen dollars in New York City, plus another seven dollars for fries, and then they bring out the artisanal ketchup. Paul Sheer said, in you’re recking the experience. I don’t even enjoy the fries, and the fries are the best port You can give me a little thing of fries like this. Don’t treat me like an animal.

They then express sympathy for the restaurant employees who were in the kitchen crushing tomatoes to make the from scratch ketchup. She said, I don’t know how you make it, but I don’t think anyone knows. That’s why it’s so bad. The Heinz factory has figured out something that no one else could duplicate. By the way I’m doing this like borderline, half assed, angry Jerry Seinfeld and like Paul Shear was pretty soft spoken.

Hey, Sarah Silverman, who do you feel like is killing it right now? Sarah? It’s told the Columbus Dispatch. Taking a torrow, she goes at a joke from every angle. When you think she’s exhausted at every possible angle, she finds a new one.

There’s nobody like Robbie Hoffman, Moe Welch and Naomi Expergan, Tim Robinson. He has a show on Netflix. Sketches are about fifteen to sixteen minutes each, just hilarious. You have to watch it, Sarah. How does it feel to have a multi generational audience now?

Sarah said, I love it. I’ve always loved that. I do a bunch of odd jobs. Sometimes it’s good whether you know me from Monk or stand up or wreck at Ralph. I have r rated stuff and g rated stuff.

It’s cool, Sarah Silverman, What if you weren’t a comedian? What we’d be doing? Sarah said, I can think of three things. I’d work with animals, elephants or chimps. Those are two things.

Or I’d be a teacher. That’s the third thing. Part of me likes the idea of high school kids. This is ego talking. I feel like I can really shape them kindergarten for the same reason I really like kids talking to kids.

Their lives are so different. Hour is feeling like you have grown to be someone who would protect you as a child. That’s huge, Or I’d work with mentally challenged adults. I don’t know if you know this. Saturday Night Live is turning fifty this year, and we’re going to talk about it every day.

Ago Nuotam says, we literally work in an office building, which he spoke to The Wall Street Journal. I’m talking to people coming in for their nine to five scanning their badges as I’m doing the same thing to go make hahas and put on a costume. How does the week go? Monday, the staff meets the week’s host and floats ideas. Tuesday group dinner with the host, followed by night time writing sessions.

Wednesday a readthrough followed by an initial selection of sketches, which triggers production on everything from props to costumes. Thursday and Friday a rehearsals and filming of pre tape promos and sketches. A Saturday night and eight pm dress rehearsal that determines what makes the live show. At eleven thirty, mikey Day explained how the roommate thing works. He says, we just get paired there randomly, like college roommates.

Heidi Girdner said, my first year was really hard for me to knock on doors and think anybody would want to write with me. Not because people weren’t welcoming, because I thought I was following the rules of senior junior, sophomore freshman Keenan Thompson’s Where’s by the rule of making himself available. He says, I remind people, hey, I’m always down to be the hot dog vendor. Will Ferrell has a new project. It’s called Street Justice.

Will will play dirty Harry type who goes about taking justice into his own hands. I don’t know, I could say that working. I also think the days of Will Ferrell doing Will Ferrell’s style comedy have passed. I could be wrong. Jimmy Fallon talked about his new comedy album Holiday Seasoning features some big names like the Jonas Brothers and Megan Fee Stallion and Dolly Parton.

There’s also some non music people from comedy like Will Ferrell and Chelsea Handler and then checking both boxes weird out. Fallon said, I’m so excited about this. I’m proud it’s a good one. It’s a fun project to have. I can’t believe I have my own Christmas album.

It kind of makes no sense, but here we are. Somebody had put the thought in a Jimmy’s head to do an album. He said. I recorded one song and it wasn’t good. It was corny.

I don’t know what it was. It wasn’t me. I was like, I’m not good at this. Michael Boubla is much better at doing this, Kelly Lark’s and Mariah Carey, the real singers. That’s not what I can offer.

So I go, I have a comedy song. I was working on my iPhone. I had a song called Chipmunks and Chestnuts, which is a Roy Orbison inspired Slim Whitman Monty Python type of song where a guy hits a giant high note that’s almost annoying. It makes me laughs. I recorded that and I started adding tracks to it, and then I go, maybe I won’t do any covers.

I’ll do all original songs. I thought that was more of a challenge if you can write a comedy holiday album. I don’t know when the last one was, but we’re overdue for one, so might as well just do it now and have some fun. You get this opportunity to create new stuff and just put it out there and see what sticks. You know, there’s a Bob Dylan influenced one.

There’s a couple college radio type of keyboarding jams where I go, yeah, I don’t know if anyone’s going to get this one, but I think it’s funny. The couple pop jams on there that hopefully can get radio play. I like those. It’s a roller disco type of song called Holiday that I think everybody can get behind. He talked about the evolution the lyrics being it’s a holiday time to celebrate, we’ll stay out all night.

Then you had bass, and you make it more Jackson’s more chic. Then it turns to that and I go woul. The Jonas brothers do this. We sent it over their people and they were like, love it, let’s do it. They recorded their version.

They turned it into a real song. Jimmy says, don’t overthig it, released it, put it out. I have Ladys come on the show and sometimes they go, yeah, we cut this down. I wrote a hundred three songs. We cut it down to ten.

I go, you wrote on a hundred and three songs. If I ever wrote a hundred three songs, my alum would have one hundred three songs on it. Are you kidding me? I’d be so proud. So don’t overthig it.

Don’t go. Someone’s gonna make fun of me for this one. Put it out. It’s something else to listen to. You go, this one’s weird, but I kind of like it.

That is my vibe too, Like this podcast. Apparently you like it because you’re listening. Thank you. Other people might get stupid. I don’t care.

You’ll learn that as you get older. Just do your thing. As we’re working with weird, al found said he’s my idol. He got famous for his parodies first, but then when you buy the album you get into the deeper cuts and dear to be stupid and his poke stuff. I was writing all these songs for the album, and I was trying to hit every holiday I could think of.

I was thinking about New Year’s Eve and there’s no real happy New Yar’s Eve songs. They’re all sad. They’re all depressing. That’s covered. There’s no missing sad New Year’s songs.

We have a lot of them, whether it’s all Ang Xi or Dan Folberberg or whatever. I wanted a good song. You just put on a New Year’s Eve party and everyone go, this is so silly. I have to dance around and picturing mosh pits and picturing people screaming at the top of their lungs. It’s track number one side too me weird Al Yankovic and the Roots.

I said to him, what do you think of this? He immediately got back and said, I’m in. I love it. Do you mind if I rewrite a couple of things? I said, yeah, let’s go.

We started going back and forth. In two days, he had a full, unrecorded version of it, full sheet music of every note and every harmony, advanced stuff. He took it next level and he goes, you’re gonna get a ban on this. I go, I can. I didn’t think about that before I get a quest love.

I go, I have a song with weird Al. He’s like, I’m in. Weird ELL’s a legend. He’s the only one. I’m so honored to work with him.

He’s my idol. I Wanted to Be Weird Al Yankovic. It’s a Friday night in the Big City. It’s the New York Comedy Festival. Six o’clock Near Comedy Club, Joke Sista’s Comedy Show eight pm, Chelsea Music Hall, Bodega Chat Live, Beacon Theater at seven.

Jeff A. Currie, Miss Pat Town Hall seven o’clock Some More the Venue at Hard Rock Hotel. Seven o’clock. Paul Ollinger and Friends at Rodney’s Comedy Club. Seven o’clock.

Askats the UCB. It’s seven o’clock we Go Horses Out in Brooklyn at the Comedy Collective, also at seven. Maria Dakotis at the Green Room forty two at seven Steve Fury’s Comedy Confidential seven o’clock Near Comedy Club, Fibbs and Friends hosted by Connor Wood Gramercy Theater seven o’clock, Tiny Idea and Little Boy Evil Brooklyn Arthouse. Seven o’clock, Vocabaret at caveat seven o’clock. Unchaper Owned Second City seven o’clock.

Mecky Leaper at the Bellhouse at seven point thirty. Good Luck with Maggie Winters in Parker Callahan seven thirty Union Hall, Drunk Black History at Little Field at eight. Chris Barnes and Nate Meeker co headlined The Gutter. Surprisingly, that One’s at the Gutter eight o’clock. Out in Williamsburg at eight, The Old Man Hustle presents Funny People Comedy Showcase.

The Standard eight has Oneika McLean Onto some more famous people. Eight o’clock. Hank Azaria and the Easy Street Band at Brooklyn Bowl. That’s Hank Azaria pretending he’s Springsteen. I’ve played the impression in the past.

It’s not bad. It’s weird, but it’s not bad. Jack and Michael Whitehall Live at Carnegie Hall at eight o’clock. New York Kings Live at two seventy five Park at eight. My Grandmother’s Ipatch eight thirty, Brooklyn Art House, Paully’s Diner, a night of comedy and music at eight thirty.

Stand Up, New York Matt kauff Ear It’s Funnier, Brooklyn Comedy Collective eight thirty. Are You Garbage and Friends at Chelsea eight thirty, Ucb’s Sorry for Your Loss at nine and improvised Broadway Musical with a Naughty title at Asylum at nine thirty. Laugh Masters caveat nine thirty, Fibbs and Friends hosted by Connor Wood nine thirty, Grammercy Kate Owens Cooking with Catherine nine thirty, Strong Force, Second City nine thirty, Dan Soder, Town Hall nine forty five, Second Show by some More, Second show by Jeffer Curry, Tina Frimmel Live ten o’clock at Bellhouse Byron Bauers, Union Hall ten Aaron Berg, The Stand at ten Laugh So Hard you Don’t Cry, and Jenny Hogan and Laura Murley ten fifteen, Tiny Cupboard, Pino Noir UCB ten thirty, and the Trash King at UCB at eleven fifty nine. You know, that was a lot of show. And I don’t know who’s the biggest name, I said, Hank Azaria doing Springsteen, Dan Soder.

I got a comment here, that’s a notch down from what a Friday Night at the New York Comedy Festival has been in the past, Like a notchdown by a lot. But I guess this thing goes another week, and if we look ahead to next Friday, you know we started seeing people like Gabe Iglesias and maybe some bigger names as we get more into this. The other thing about the festival, and the festival was never anything but great to me. New York City is so big, as big as this thing is, as many shows as I’ve just read to you, it’s still invisible in New York City. New York City is too big for such a festival, if that makes any sense.

There’s a Joan Rivers show. Larry Ameros first met Joan in two thousand and eight to write material for the Mark Twain Prize. He asked Joan if anything was off limits, like which you make fun of about the suicide of her late husband and manager, Edgar. Joan said, I had ten new minutes before they closed the casket. That is also the Joan Rivers I know.

The play is called Joan and it’s at the South Coast Repertoire runs through November twenty fourth from short Oal Radio four announce some new comedy programs. They include What Seriously, a new podcast which combines comedy with quirky history. Dan Does Dating is a new sitcom from Michael Beck, following a man as he searches for love from one terrible day to another. Comedy trio cry Babies presents some audio adventures that are a homage to Steven Siegal’ hype action flicks. Ikkelwick FM is set at a dysfunctional northern community radio station, and Stuart Mitchell follows up his series Cost of Living with the new Cost of Dying, which takes a look at the size of the bill that happens when you pass away.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m funny it odd putting the show together today. First of all, nobody’s really announcing anything, you know, news cycle and stuff that makes sense to me. But also, as I’m recording this, none of the big comedians have said anything like nothing at all.

Very strange to me. It was a news cycle where people were out and about and everybody’s hiding out today. I don’t know what’s going on. Very strange. I deep dove on threads and Twitter found some stuff, but not from the majors.

Did you see this fake Malania thing? So from time to time a woman appears standing next to Donald Trump who is ostensibly Malania Trump, and sometimes people on the internet myself included, look at the person and are like. Is that Milania? Is that a secret service agent in big glasses? Is that somebody from Trump’s press team?

I saw some tweet that aim with the person or is it actually Milania? On election there were many of us I’ll raise my hand that thought fake Mulania was out and about again. John Marcos Sarresi tweeted or threaded whatever it is. What do you do on threads. I guess he threaded.

Whatever actor that played Malania is texting her friends right now, like I got bumped up to a recurring comedian. Dan Wilbur threaded, at least we never have to vote again. Jim Chews, Oh no, he’s gonna make skang Fest a national holiday, isn’t he someone who goes by thick frog leg tweeted, And I haven’t seen a man beat a woman this bad since the Olympics. Comedian Matt Ruby Democrats should figure out how to make a podcast that appeals to men who like sports. Michael ian Black is not hiding out, he wrote on his very good substack Time it Again, people like me have been wrong about our fellow Americans.

Those Americans have told me time it again that I live in a Hollywood bubble, despite the fact that I live in Savannah, Georgia, and that I don’t understand the problems of regular folks like them, despite the fact that I come from fairly modest circumstances myself. Time and again, I’ve dis missed these people’s opinions of me because I didn’t want it to be true. Turns out it was true. If this is who regular folk want to leave them, then I really don’t understand it at all. Skipping ahead, he wrote, are we more of a union today or less?

People like me believe one way we’re wrong about everything else, So I hope we’re wrong about this one too. Send your letters to Michaeleaan Black. What about that weird thing with John Stewart and John Fetterman? Apparently Stuart on the show said Fetterman was unable to join us. But because we are a professional and venerated news show, it’s not like I just have to sit here with nobody to talk to or nothing to do, just because somebody said no thirty seconds before we were supposed to have them up as a guest in non political news, Bert Kraser will serve as Florida State University’s homecoming parade Grand Marshall.

Krascher is a nineteen ninety eight graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, where he studied creative writing in the English department. The homecoming parade takes place Friday, November twenty second, at two pm, and we’ll celebrate the forty fifth anniversary of the homecoming parade. We’re told with a vibrant display of school spirit. Creative floats and a performance from the world renowned marching chief Jefs. The Bread is one of the week’s most anticipated events.

Paul Reiser is not afraid of new cycles. I saw this on election night. I was like, what are you doing? Really? Now He’s got a new special out on comedy dynamics.

It’ll be out the nineteenth. Actually it’s called Life, Death and Rice Pudding. In Life Death and Rice Pudding, Paul Reiser discloses the secret to successful downsizing, explains why the whole do unto others thing doesn’t work in marriage, and why boiling pasta naked is never a good idea. The copy adds and for absolutely no additional charge, you will come to understand why finding raisins and rice Pudding underscores the very meaning of life. Okay.

Baltimore Magazine spoke to Stavros Halkius. He started out his movie Let’s Start a Cults, which is already going to be available on video on demand starting November twelfth. Stavros said, I’ll be honest, it’s really bizarre. I’ve never had to be passive and just kind of let a movie come out with stand up, especially when you’re performing you’re so in the mix you can worry about things because you have to do the show. This is the first time I’ve ever made something and it’s a finished product and then watch it and not been able to change it, make little tweaks.

Baltimore Magazine said, I don’t think this is a spoiler, but your shirtless in several scenes and bottomless in one. To worry a little bit about being naked, Stavros said, who do you think wrote those scenes? Do you think anybody else asked for that but me? The director wasn’t begging me. I’m not Sidney Sweeney.

My nudity wasn’t going to sell, but I didn’t know if I was going to get a chance to make another movie. I think one class of comedy trope is a really over the top kind of sex scene that’s played for laughs. I do a nude calendar every year. It becomes absurd when you swap out a hot woman for a fet guy. You see how ridiculous how overly sexualized a lot of media is.

And I thought, putting me in the middle of that is going to be funny, So no trepidation. If anything, I was the one asking for more nudity. So I’ll do it straight here. On Thursday. My plan was to teach my college class, which means I have pre recorded Friday’s episode.

It’s still timely, but I won’t talk about the election. We’ll dive in on Saturday more about the election. I’m sure you don’t mind the break. The New York Comedy Festival kicks off tonight. As I’ve said in the past, it’s a fantastic festival.

They’ve been nothing good to me. But I do think New York City’s too big and this thing disappears, and given the current mood, I’m not sure this is gonna pop. We’ll see Happy to Be Wrong tonight six o’clock at NYCC East Village Christa Stefano. Then Chris is gonna haul it over to NYCC Grammercy for the same show at seven o’clock. At eight o’clock, dead funny and all star tribute to Joan Rivers.

I’ll talk about that in a second. That’s at the Apollo. Then Christa Stephano is gonna hop on the subway and go to NYCC Upper West Side for another show at nine thirty. And we’re just getting started. This thing will go on for another week.

All right. The Joan Rivers show at the Apollo is titled Dead Funny. It will feature Nicky Glazer, Michelle Buttew and many more. Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Caroline’s Comedy Club and is the festival founder, said the idea was Melissa Rivers idea. Here’s how it works.

Caroline says, they’re going to take Joan Rivers cards. Joan had a library of written jokes. I worked with Joan at w OR Radio two thousand and one. Definitely was too thousand and one because I remember we were talking about not just nine to eleven, but there was that whole Anthrax thing. I remember producing a lot of shows with Joan when the anthrax thing was a big scary thing, and yep, she worked with cards.

Saw it with my own eyes. Caroline said, we’re going to take all of Jones’s cards. She wrote everything on index cards, and she had a big cabin of them, which she gave to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown. But we weren’t going to do a show with that. Melissa had the idea, get Joanes foul mouthed friends, admirers, and fifteen hundred fans together for a night of inappropriate laughs.

Caroline said, it’s a lot of comedians who Joan was really close with. The lineup includes Sandra Bernhard, Patton Oswalt, Matzel Lane, Jeff Ross, Randy Rainbow, and Rachel Brosnahan, who starred in The Marvelous Missus Masel. Hmmm. I’m looking at that list in the ages of everybody and my personal relationship with Joan Rivers, who believe me. We talked about booking people on the show, and Joan told me I don’t really know anybody.

I don’t really have celebrity friends. So look, Caroline hangs around comedians way more than I do. And I’m not here to say that these people weren’t great friends with Joan Rivers. I don’t know. I’m just looking at it, going, yeah, but who knows.

Maybe when I stopped working with Joan, she became really tight with Paton Oswalt. I don’t know, Caroline said, I remember watching her when I was a kid on Johnny Carson, and I can’t believe what comes out of this lady’s mouth. No filter, That’s what comedians do. There was no filter on Joan ever ever. All right, Caroline, who else in the festival that you’re excited for, she said, Zorna garg We gotta call one day because Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton were producing a series called Gutsy about gutsy women, and the producers called us and said, could you suggest some comedians?

And we suggested Zorna.

Also on the festival November eleventh, the annual Stand Up for Heroes show w…

Wonder what they’ll talk about. Bruce Springsteen will be there with the comedians from recent history. Having Bruce Springsteen on stage with you doesn’t guarantee that you win an event, you know what I’m saying. Nudge nudge. Caroline said he’s gonna leave his tour to play here.

That’s how good he’s been. And Patty’s going to do it too. I love that she tagged with Patty. I’m a Springsteen fan and Springsteen fans. I’m sorry, we just make fun of Patty because you go see a show and sometimes Patty’s there and sometimes not there.

Sometimes Patty’s the fifth guitarist, sometimes there’s no fifth guitarist. I can’t tell the difference between the two shows. But Patty’s going to do this show too. You’re making friends today, Jonah, Yeah, I know. I can’t help myself.

And since it’s a little bit slow and no one’s announcing anything, let’s look at Vulture’s annual list of the comedians you should and will know. One of those comedians, Raka Shankar. Raka says Tim Robinson is my favorite comedian. I love it how he always feels like he’s being himself and he continues to reinvent the world of sketch characters in comedy by just experimenting and not caring if it’s too weird. I think sometimes mainstream audiences are too quick to pass over comics like that, and they never get a chance to cook and try more and eventually find their niche.

And I’m so grateful he has gotten to do all that. Sam Richardson too, God, he’s so funny. I also love Quinton Brunson. I love that she has a background and working on the internet has so many of us do, and parlay those skills into professional sketchwriting and then eventually her own incredible TV show that she stars in. All Right, what was your worst show?

She said, my indie improv team, and I once performed a set for a youth group in Long Island at a hotel ballroom. There were teenagers who went on this retreat every year and on the last day a magician would do a show. But this year we replaced the magician. The teens filled to the room and saw their beloved magician was not there and was replaced by random twenty something year old improvisers, and they became sad. They sat down and one of the host announce said, now improv.

We tried to explain what that was, but I don’t think they wanted to hear it, and maybe we were also nervous and weird. All their suggestions were weird sexual slang that we didn’t understand and would ask what it meant, and they’d laugh and didn’t explain. Then we started performing. They were either talking the whole time we had to shush them, or they would imitate our object work from the audience to make fun of us. We left the moment the set was over, and that is your comedy needs for today.

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I went with my usual caramel with milk, which is good, and you know, I figured, all right, if you’re getting two, it’s a good time to experiment. So I got the peppermint mocha. They’ve been pushing pass don’t do that. It sounds like a good idea, it’s just not good all right. See Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Tony Hinchcliff is off the hook. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It is seven thirty six am on Wednesday as I speak to you right now. Things went late into the night.

There aren’t all that many comedian reactions. Yes, especially the West Coasters are probably asleep. Some things I did gather. James Adomian on threads. Don’t worry.

All the Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney voters are going to come in any minute now. Jono Zelai said, what if I told you there was an even bigger pile of garbage. Liam mcinaney offered condolences to Jim Gaffigan on losing the gig. Andy Kindler posted several threads and tweets, one of them congratulations America, you are officially the most wilfully stupidest country on Earth. I’m not counting the people who have given up.

It’s not your fault. Evil is winning. THEO Vaughn wrote, congratulations Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Junior and JD. Vance and your team, and thank you Dana White for helping pot podcast contribute to the political landscape.

Never would have happened without you. We invited all the candidates, but only three showed up. Yeah, I’m wondering if Kamala’s decision to go on SNL where you’re preaching it converted and not go to Rogan. We might go back and look at that and wonder, you know, the Rogan effect may have been there. I think there’s a lot more to it with this election, but not doing Rogan, I’m not sure it was the smartest move.

Somewhere during the eleven PM hour, I remember that the Daily Show was live and I was like, oh, I’ll check that out. And I switched over and they were in commercial, and like, I get it. I get the business. Believe me, I like running commercials. But I was like, oh, you had this opportunity here and you’re in commercial.

And I went back and I didn’t bother checking it out again. The folks over at late night or did? They recapped it and said at first, Stuart only alluded to the crushing results rolling into a studio audience that had been deprived of the emerging truth. Their take is that it looked as though Stuart and the staff had prepared for the predicted uncertain outcome in the eleven pm hour, But yeah, by eleven was kind of obvious what was going to happen. Late Nighter said that they had serviceable bits, one with Jordan Klepper wasting no time escaping Pennsylvania, where he had been a fake located.

Another with Michael Costa imitating John King and Steve Cornecki at their magic walls, except they were reporting on projected efforts by Rudy Giuliani to attempt to steal another election, a bit that was increasingly unnecessary as the show rolled on. Ronny Chieng had an unsuccessful bit, says Late Nighter, because it was about undeclared voters, and yeah, by eleven thirty, we kind of knew what was happening. The weird thing of the night, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was booked on the show. Stuart teased him as a guest and said he’d be up next, and during the commercial break, apparently Fetterman bailed. Stuart had a vamped and Late Nighter said he surely regretted they had expanded the show to an hour.

Stuart wrapped it up by saying, this isn’t the end. I promise you, this is not the end. We have to regroup, and we have to continue the fight and continue to work day in and day out to create a bitter society for our children, for this world, for this country that we know is possible. It’s possible. A couple of quirky stories I saw in the news from the New York Post.

New York City dog mayor election gets chaotic as crypto bros allegedly pay for votes. That’s right. It was the competition for honorary New York City Dog Mayor. Enzo the Shitzu was taken out of the race by owner Olivia, who told The New York Post that the race had become too negative, with crypto fans allegedly looking to buy votes. Apparently, the Crypto bros were supporting bertrand the Pomeranian to market their bert coin.

Olivia said, they’ve taken the fun out of it.

And now about this one from the New York Post.

Kamalaw, an elephant at the National Zoo in DC, was euthanized on Saturday after struggling with osteo arthritis for years. The timing there caught the amusement of some on the internet. One social media user wrote, Trump is real mad at a genie right now. Another pointed out a bad omen but for whom the elephant is named Kamala Shore, But the elephant is the symbol of the Republicans. One person joked even things out, I’ve euthanized a donkey named Donald’s.

Another said, you know Trump’s kicking himself right now because he messed up his last wish on his monkey paw. Others claimed it was justice for peanut of the squirrel. There were some late endorsements. Joe Rogan released an episode with Elon Musk Monday, pretty late in the day. Now, my dog get me up all night, so I actually listened to it on the overnight.

Somehow got three hours of podcasting, and that’s how well I slept. Rogan announced an endorsement for Donald Trump. Rogan explained his endorsement. He said that his guest, Elon Musk, makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. Trump said at a rally that Rogan’s backing was great and so nice.

Well, Ferreal endorsed Kamala Harris, and some people got annoyed at Will because he said this election is going to be one of the closest in history. Your vote will make the difference. Okay, fine, that’s fair enough. Then he tagged it with that means you, Gary, oh blah blah blah, I’m just one person. Shut the f up, Gary.

Last time, only a few thousand votes kept Trump out of office, and this time we will hold you personally responsible. Gary. One social media user wrote, Democrats have now resorted to physically threatening people to vote for Kamala. Another said Will Ferrell’s making it real tough for me to watch ELF this season. Stormy Daniels is out there on her stand up tour.

Her opener is the hilariously named Greg Studley. Yes I’m seven years old. Greg Studley spoke of Stormy Daniel’s comedy style and said, it’s not traditional stand up, no kidding, It’s like funny storytelling, and she’s got a message with a little dash of politicism. She makes a great connection. She’s got that something.

She’s really smart and you’re going to be pleasantly surprised. The owner said it took maybe a week to get it set up. It was like three or four of the morning. Greg Studley and I were talking and the next day, he’s like, she’s interested. We started working out contract detales and dates.

The reaction of the booking a positive. The owner says, everyone’s surprised. I can’t believe you got Stormy Daniels. Things like this help establish us and we’ll get her name out there. That is true, I’m talking about it.

Dudley said. She knows how to perform and get on stage. There’s a lot of things that go into a live performance, how you look and carry yourself. She knows how to perform.

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Meanwhile, Harvey Epstein, I don’t know how his election went.

That’s the guy John Mulaney parodied on Saturday Night Live. There’s a real guy actually named Harvey Epstein. When Harvey woke up on Sunday, he said he had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of text messages telling him to watch SNL, he told The New York Times. So I watched it, and I’m like, hey, that’s me. It was like ridiculously funny.

I couldn’t stop laughing. Brooke Shields also waited on Saturday Night Live. In one of the bumpers, John Mulaney recreated Brooke Shield’s iconic Calvin Klin Jean’s ad In case you missed it, John Mulaney wore a red button down shirt, dark denim jeans, and black boots, and he kicked one foot into the air as he rested his palms on the floor behind him. Brooke Shields posted mullany and herself side by side on Instagram and said, I see no difference. Nate Bergatsy is flooring at floor while you’re hot.

Now he’s going to be in a movie. Try Star Pictures has preemptively acquired comedy Pitch the Breadwinner all Right, time out. I don’t even know where I was. I can’t go back and listen. I’m gonna pitch to you guys, a Vince von movie.

Here’s how the movie goes. A guy is trying to record his podcast in his basement. His wife goes out for the day but doesn’t tell him that she scheduled the exterminator. So fine, he deals to the exterminator and goes back to recording his podcast, but she doesn’t tell him that she’s also scheduled the guy that comes with a leaf blower to blow the lint out of the dryer exhaust port, and he’s trying to record his podcast Where were we? What was I even talking about?

Nate Bergatzy. That’s right, all right, Nate Burganzy is going to star in a movie. Try Star Pictures has preemptively acquired comedy pitch The Breadwinner. The Breadwinner is in early development. Nate and a partner will write the script.

Nate will star in the movie. The plot is being kept under wraps. Nate also has that Lorne Michael’s Holiday Special coming out December twenty fourth. He will also have a book next May. I asked the publicist if I could have him on.

The publicist thought I was insane.

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Speaking of movies, Chloe Fyneman, Patton Oswalt, and John McEnroe have joine…

They joined Chris Parnell, Jake Johnson, Mary Steinbergeon Ed, Harris ben Stiller and Tennis Great Andy Roddick. Adam Carolla told the Rap he remembers the exact moment he wanted to give stand up comedy a shot, and he has Jay Leno to thank for it. What’s the story here, John, Well? You see, Adam Carolla was working construction back in the eighties. It was at a house across the street from where Jay Leno lived.

Corolla told The Rap Jay would come out at noon, get the newspaper, walk back in the house dressed like Rodney Dangerfield his famous bathrobe, and I’m across the street sweating my butt off, spreading stucco, and I’m just looking at this guy’s schedule, and I’m going, I’ve been here since seven in the morning, I’m covered with stucco, we haven’t even broke for lunch yet. And he’s just getting his newspaper and goes back in the house. I’m looking at this guy’s schedule and I’m like, that’s a schedule for me. Sam Jay had a hot take for Roy Wood Junior about hollow. The topic was that one third of Americans think blackface is okay if it’s part of a Halloween costume.

Sam Jay told Roywood Junior, you gotta let kids do it. No kid wants to not fully Halloween. You don’t want to be a ninja turtle up to hear and it’s just your head sticking out and you’re like, it’s me Antoine, but I’m really Michaelangelo. Sam said she recently encountered blackface as a costume on Halloween, said, listen, I have my friend this kid. He wanted to be Kevin Garnett for Halloween, right, So he put on the Kevin Garnett jersey.

Then he went to his mother’s makeup and he was going to darken his face and his parents were like, no, you can’t do that. That’s fensive with black people. It was part of me that felt bad for him because now he’s just a white boy and Kevin Garnett and he could have been that on any day of the week from the Daily Mail. Like comedians suing Steve Coogan’s production company has told the High Court obviously Steve copied elements of a sitcom. Joshua Rincoff, also known as Harry Deansway, is claiming that Baby Cow Production copied parts of the sitcom Shambles.

Rnkoff created, wrote and directed two series of Shambles and said producers working on l Live at the Moth Club would have seen some or all of his show and obviously copied both the format and the distinctive elements of the sitcom. Live at the Moth Club is set at a Rundown comedy club. It includes real life comedians performing stand up and sketches. Rinkoff claims that some of the characters in that show are identical to those from his twenty thirteen web series called Shambles, and that even the jokes are similar. A representative of Baby Cow Production said they were unaware of Shambles and argued that LATMC is a mockumentary, not a sitcom, and one of its key features is that it presents substantial passages of actual stand up, which Shambles does not.

And are you in Cleveland, Well, then hit up the Cleveland Comedy Festival. I don’t know why the Cleveland Comedy Festival picked today. I think people might be distracted today. Well, at least you’ll have something to talk about, won’t you. The festival will be centered at Forest City Brewery at twenty one to thirty five Columbus Road in Cleveland.

You know the place. I will not be the Cleveland Comedy Festival because it’s trivia night. I will be at the Bow playing trivia. Had a disaster last week, finished like third last, got a rebound. See you later, Trivia guys, and everybody else.

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Caloroga Shark Media. If you have not voted yet, hit pause and go vote. Why are you listening to a dumb comedy podcast. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily company news. Go vote, It’s super important.

Jerry Seinfeld has blasted his children’s former private school, why because they said they would allow emotionally distressed kids to take the day after the election off. According to The Daily Mail, children attending the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, which costs sixty five, five hundred and forty dollars a year in fees, children will be allowed to excuse themselves from classes. Further report, an email titled Election Day Support, the principal said it acknowledges that this may be a high stakes and emotional time for children. The email, seen by The New York Times adds, no matter the election outcome, the school will create space to students with the sport they may need. Jerry spoke to The New York Times and said decisions like that irritated his family and forced them to transfer his son out.

He said, this is why the kids hated it. What kind of lies if these people live that makes them think this is the right way to handle young people? To courage them the buckle. This is the lesson they’re providing front golly sums of money. Absences will be allowed on Wednesday or whenever the full election results are announced.

Kids, you might be out of school for two months. Please vote, Vote for somebody. Please vote. John Oliver got emotional during last week. Tonight, Oliver said elections alone aren’t efficient for large scale change, but they’re absolutely necessary for it to ever happen, because it’s the day you essentially get to choose who you’d prefer to be pushing for the next four years and where you’ll be pushing them from.

Oliver got teary eyed and said, look, I love this country. I’m an immigrant, I chose to be here. In the words of the late great Lee Greenwood, I’m proud to be an American, and I’d argue there’s nothing more American than having a healthy adversarial relationship with those in power, even if you voted for them. A clip of Ricky Gervas went viral. Jervas posted this back when I swapped out Biden for Harris.

Here’s Ricky, Hi, guys, Ricky g here wellness and beauty influencer. As a celebrity, I know all about stuff like science and politics, so trust me when I tell you who you should vote for. If you don’t vote the right way, it’s like a hate crime. And that makes me sad and angry and I’ll leave the country, and you don’t want that. Looking at to tomorrow, I don’t know what time of day the episode’s coming out right now.

I have nothing for tomorrow. I kind of want to react to whatever happens tonight. So if the comedians are out saying stuff, I’ll bang out an episode. You know. If we get late into the evening tonight, I might wait and wake up and record something.

So if you don’t have an episode at three am Eastern, you’ll have one around eight am Eastern would be the backup plan. But I’m not sure what’s going to happen yet. The Daily Show will be live tonight. John Stewart and his team are prepared for a quote no resolution outcome. Ronny Chieng, Jordan Klepper, Michael Costa, and Desi Leidik will join John Stewart providing updates and analysis on the election, as well as tips on surviving the post election breakdown of society.

The special will run for an hour oh I thought you guys are going to go all night, Come on, go all in, Come on, John Stewart, go all in an hour the official title, as Comedy Central continues to have terrible titles. The Daily Show presents a live election night special with John Stewart, Colin in Decision twenty twenty four colon nothing we can do about it Now. The special simulcast on MTV, Paramount Network, TV Land, CMT Pop and Logo. Jimmy Kimmel was on with Joe Scarborough recently and said, I kind of have to think through what I might say the next day, the next bit the next day being tomorrow to you and I because you know you’re gonna have to be up the next morning talking about what happened or what didn’t happen, and what message do you want to send to people watch the show. Most of my shows aren’t important.

That one seems a little bit more important than others because I do have a lot of people kind of asking me what I think and going along with what I think, and it’s a big responsibility. I don’t feel like I’m mentally prepared for the possibility of a loss for Kamala Harris. I’m not ready for it. I have to get there when I’m ready for either scenario or for no scenario, which might be the case for several days. Who knows.

None of my writers can figure out my take on this. I have to tell them what it is. As for the interview he’s most looking forward to, he says, interviewing President Kamala Harris the last laugh. Asked Seth Myers, is a part of you like the idea of Trump as president? Don’t you kind of want him to win because it gives you more material?

Seth said, I can only tell you the tension left my body when Biden officially one was palpable, and that slow creep of the tension back into my bones has not been enjoyable, because again, this one could be worse, and the fact that it’s so close as bad. And by the way I think we should be talking about him, it’s not a crutch for me. It’s the guy who has either had or been runner up to the most powerful position in the world. So I’m never like, what is it about him that I just can’t quit? I know what it is, and yet I can’t really stress enough.

And again I’m assuming he’s a big fan of this podcast. But if he went away, I wouldn’t even reference him. He’d be retired from the show. The day decides to get out of this SETH said, we’re not gonna go live. I don’t think we’re going to know much tonight.

One thing we recently did, which we enjoyed a great deal, is a live prime time closer look about the debate. But we did it the next day, and for us, having twenty four hours to do both a closer look about the debate and the reaction of the debate was thrilling. So going live was great. Going live moments after the dust settles or while it’s settling. That’s a skill other shows of some in their very depth at but we have not historically found that we’ve landed that plane in a way that was worth it.

As for who wins, I think the show will be fine in either way. I think if I spent too much time living and planning for two different futures, it will just take a lot out of me. And you know, myself and they had writers. We’re all improvisers. We came from an improv background and then we learned how to write.

And so I think what we like most is the yes ending to the president, and so I’m just going to stay on our toes and knowing that whether we’re happy or sad, it’s better to have the show than not. So it’d be cathartic either way to be doing a shit on election day and the day after and the day after and the day after. Michael Barry was a monologue writer for Carson. He told Late Night or I think if Johnny were working today, he would definitely dive in. I think it’d be offended and angered by Trump.

Johnny was the epitome of decorum and good manners and Midwestern reticence, and Trump is the antithesis of that. But Johnny was sometimes motivated by anger. He’d see something in the paper that would make him angry, and he’d call him the writer and say, let’s do something on this. Late Night er asked, would Johnny Carson go as far as chemic Colbert Myers and fallon? Barry said, all these guys are doing jokes, I can picture Johnny doing.

He got a lot of mileage out of Nixon Watergate. Some people would just tick him off. He’d channel that into his comedy. Comedians work a lot based on anger, Comedy Dynamics has shared a trailer for Tony Rock Rock the World. It’s out today as a video special on album Form.

On the eighth, they share a trailer. I pulled it. I was ripping the audio and I was going to comment on how long it takes Tony Rock to even get to anything resembling a punchline, and I was a minute five seconds in and I realized, I can’t play this on my podcast. You guys would be like, what is he doing? What happened to the jokes?

So no trailer from me. It took a long time to get going. Tony Rock Rock the World sees Tony Rock offer a fresh take on post pandemic life, covering black culture, gender and relationships. Tony Rock told Deadline this project has been a monumental endeavor, crafted during countless nights of brainstorming or rewriting and perfecting every single bit. This isn’t just a show.

It’s a milestone in my career, and I believe it’s some of my best work yet. If the name sounds familiar, Tony Rock’s brother is Chris Tony Rock, also famous for being slapped by the brother of Will Smith. The Plano Comedy Festival, the largest comedy festival in North Texas, is back. They’re back today, guys. Today’s not a great day for news coverage and tomorrow’s worse.

Did the election sneak up on you? Why would you do this? Today? Headliners include More Jonasi, Don McMillan, Sarah Colonna, Mike Vickiones, Cipha Sounds, Paul Varghese, Linda Stagner, Kalona Spiller, Kareth Foster I worked with Kareth many years ago, Merlin Award winner The Magic of Eric Eaton, and Brad Upton, who claims to have the second most watched comedy special on the planet. And that is your comedy needs for today.

Please vote, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media Helloom Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney was your host of Saturday Night Live episode e oh Hey, I got some thoughts. I thought John Mulaney was coasting on reputation during a not funny monologue. Stunningly not funny.

Also an interesting choice to be doing race based humor given the recent news…

John read the room. He got a free pass on it because it was a pretty much openly democratic Saturday Night Live. But apparently it’s okay to get up and do jokes about Asians. I’m just saying. During the beginning of the set, mullaney poke fun at the fact that having a five week old daughter and a two year old son, along with a Chinese and Vietnamese wife and mother in laws was a Filipino made as ensured that he spends most of his time looking down at people.

But the big news was a surprise appearance by Kamala Harris, who appeared in the cold open. They redid the mirror sketch. They’ve done this before. Mick Jagger one time did the mirror sketch with Jimmy Fallon. Donald Trump has done the mirror sketch.

This time it was actual Kamala Harris being in the mirror of Maya Rudolph’ Kamala Harris. Some people, quite unfairly, have accused Harris of ripping off Trump in the bit, but it is not a bit that they’ve never done before, so I don’t think that’s fair. The opening sketch I thought was flat. Dana Carvey’s Biden it was fun the first time, but it’s one joke and he’s doing it every single week, very much diminishing returns. Jim Gaffigan’s Tim Walls is excellent, but we have this whole ensemble cast there.

Nobody else can do a Tim Walls, And I think again, Jim’s is wonderful, but what is Saturday Night Live Now? People pointed out the opening sketch only had one actual cast member, Bowen Yang as jd Vance, and everybody else is doing cameos. What are we doing? I personally didn’t find the Kamala thing funny.

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Moving on to the news, Colin jost joke next week America will decide if the n…

Another joke from Jost. At a rally, Trump said he would protect women, whether the women like it or not. For example, He’s going to make everyone who is endangered to women wear an orange vest. That was a good joke. This is particularly interesting.

The FCC commissioner claimed that the Harris appearance violated the equal time rule. Stay with me because I’ve got a twist at the end of the story. Commissioner Brendan Carr tweeted, this is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s equal time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct, a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate and on the eve of election, unless the broadcaster offered equal time to other qualifying campaigns. So the key there is public airwaves.

This being on NBC over the air, it’s a little different than cable TV. I teach college class on this. The short version is bandwidth is limited and assigned by the government. So for example, over the air w NBC New York, that’s the public airwaves, whereas HBO is not the public airwaves. A Whtz one hundred point three FM Newark commonly known as Z one hundred.

Those are public airwaves. However, the iHeartRadio app where you would get ZER one hundred, not the public airwaves. Commissioner Car was appointed to the FCC by Donald Trump in twenty seventeen. Forbes says Car is also credited as the author of a section in Project twenty twenty five. Not gonna go there today, but here’s the twist that I told you to stick around for.

Lord Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter, you can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and equal time provisions. You can’t have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in three states, and that becomes really complicated. It is unclear if NBC reached out to Trump or those minor candidates. That’s interesting. Perhaps they ran some sort of stop sign.

I’m not an expert in this particular equal time ruling, but if they did, seems like Lauren knows that they did. Next week’s host will be Bill Burr. Interesting that means Dave Chappelle will not host the post election episode for the first time in a minute. Hulu is not messing around. Now They’ve lined up Andrew Santino for Hularius.

Hey, Hulu, Publo says, get back to me, man, what are you doing? I wrote you a nice note. Andrew Santino’s comedy will be executive produced by Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions. Hilarius now is Santino, Burr, DiStefano, Gaffigan, Alana Glazer, Jessica Curson, Mittel Lane, Sebastian manascalco Otsco, At Kotska, and at Roywood Junior. They have not announced a date for Santino, but Hularius kicks off on November twenty second.

I believe Gaffigin is first up, if I remember correctly.

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Meanwhile, my former coworker Jamie Fox.

His special is called What had Happened Was? It will premiere on Netflix on December tenth. Jamie will discuss the medical emergency that left him hospitalized in fighting for his life last year. As I’ve mentioned before, having I spent some time with Fox. I’ve been at parties with Fox.

I’ve been to a Super Bowl party. I’ve been at his parties in Miami. Not saying we’re best friends, but been around the guy to me that they weren’t able to prop him up in a chair and some sunglasses and have him flash a smile and be like, Hey, what’s up that they couldn’t even get one Instagram photo out. I was very, very worried about the man, so I’m looking forward to see what he has to say. Comic Relief US announced Comic Relief Live, a star studded gala on December ninth at Lincoln Center in New York City.

The event will honor Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robin Williams with the first ever Icon Award for their deep commitment and passionate work bringing comic relief to households around the nation. If you’re younger, Comic Relief was on HBO for many years, an all star night of comedy. It was always one of the highlights of the calendar. Comic Relief Live will feature performances by Tim Meadows, Phoebe Robinson, Alex Edelman, Matt Friend in the Middle, Aged Dad Jamband, which features David Wayne and Ken Marino. More names to be announced.

Darcy and Jerr remember them. I had them on the show two years ago. They were pretty cool. They’ve announced a North American tour in twenty twenty five, along with a new comedy album featuring all new material. The couple’s average at Best tour blends their quick witted banter and observations about marriage, family, and everything in between.

That’s the tour. As for the Special, Darcy and jer no refunds out today. These special captures the best of their comedy as they tackle topics ranging from mental health to the ridiculousness of modern life. Tim Walls will be on Colbert Tonight. Walls recorded the interview Thursday in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Hannibal Burr spoke to al dot com about his time on Saturday Night Live, which I don’t know if you know, turns fifty this year. I forgot that Hannibal had written for SNL. Hey, Hannibal, what was something you took from your short experience writing for SNL? Hannibal said, seeing stuff happen fast, You know what I mean, Because there’s a deadline. You’re working towards a live show that’s Saturday, so things come together fast.

Man. You see people come up with a sketch and then do the read through, and then do the punch up, and if it’s a recorded sketch. You’re shooting some stuff on Friday or Thursday, even on the day of there’s the dress rehearsal, and then there’s the main show, so there’s some stuff cut and there’s a production meeting in between, so everybody’s kind of firing at full speed. I think being around that just taught me how you can create things fast and move fast, and it was getting things done.

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Also on TV tonight, the SNL Election special ten o’clock on Your NBC.

In the special a tribute to all the political parodies over the years, Chris Rock will write and direct a new film, Misty Green, follows Misty, who is an undeniably talented actress, but her vices have derailed every attempt to revitalize her career. Her best opportunity in ages arrives in the form of Jordan, played by Chris Rock, a film director with the perfect role for her, were it not for their contentious past and sad news, Scottish comedian Genie Godly has passed away at the age of sixty three. She had been receiving palliative care after living a number of years with ovarian cancer. You may recall I’ve shared her story. Recently, she was doing a tour called Why Is She Still Here and she had to cancel it in September when the doctors were like yeah, Her daughter Ashley posted on social media, I wanted to tell you face to face because it felt very much what she would have wanted.

She went peacefully, and I want to say a big thank you to all the staff at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice. Thank you so much for being there and for making a very scary moment peaceful and a nice transition. Godlely revealed she had ovarian cancer in November of twenty twenty one. She was given the all clear in twenty twenty two, but a later scan discovered signs of the disease again. Buckle up, Big day tomorrow, don’t forget to vote.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Chunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll handle a milleni in SNL tomorrow. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that he had advised Tony Hinchcliff against that joke, you know the one. Rogan said, I tell all comedians, don’t ever do comedy at something that’s not a comedy event.

Don’t do it. Don’t ever do comedy at a place that’s doing Also, is he gonna have a bunch of speakers and you’re gonna do ten minutes. Don’t ever do that. It’s a terrible setup. Rogan said.

The joke kills in comedy clubs. I don’t like the joke, but it kills. And I said to him, it’s just like if you’re Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you’re like, ah, but it’s a funny joke. The joke does well. But I said to him, I go, dude, that’s the one that’s gonna get you stabbed.

Meanwhile, an online shop that sells Porto Rican theme merchandise is offered to send a box of trash on behalf of any customer to the Trump campaign. Worrica Shop sells t shirts, swimsuit stickers, pillows, phone case and home goods, including boxes of trash. The boxes say from Porto Rico with love on it, and carry a card with custom messages and come overflowing with random assorted trash. The boxes cost two dollars and are sent to Tony Hinchcliffe and his party. The website claims that we have their address and we will set it on your behalf via mail.

They assure you that the names and buyers will not be included in the delivery. Right when commentator Charlie Kirk is being mocked, Kirk posted a video containing a man that he believed was the garbage truck driver from trump stunt the other night. Kirk rowe, this is fantastic. This is the man who drove garbage force one watches. He gets emotional describing the moment with Trump and how he feels about Joe Biden calling conservatives garbage.

Here’s the thing, It wasn’t the driver. It was comedian Brent Terhewn in the online sketch Turn You and, as the driver claims, Trump urged him to take the truck through a McDonald’s drive through before the pair discussed Biden’s recent remarks run as the driver says, so, Joe, consider us a message to you. You called us garbage, but to prove we aren’t, We’ve got a truck that hauls garbage. Now does it sound like something garbage would do? Drive around at a truck that hauls garbage.

I don’t think so. Terryud goes on to fake cry while telling Joe Biden that he plans to show up to the polls wearing a garbage bag. Charlie Kirk deleted the post within minutes, but it did still go viral. Michael ian Black has a sub stack that I enjoy. Following Lock did some soul searching and wrote, I don’t like that I’ve become something of a comedy scold.

But you know what, comedy needs comedians to call out crappy comedy every now and then. I don’t mean a joke that doesn’t land. I would conservatively estimate eighty three percent off my jokes fail. What I mean is that high profile comedians tend to be insulated from criticism from their fellow comics for the same reason that all industry leaders tend to get a pass from others in their industry. Joe Rogan is an industry leader.

Tony Hinchcliff is an industry leader. I’ve called out both of them with two links. Scold is not the kind of role I feel at ease with because I’ve said and done plenty of my own dumb and offense of stuff over the years, including wearing blackface for an episode of Stella. I’ve committed every comedic crime there is to commit, with the exception of asking my fans, if I can paraphrasing here, Louis C.K. You know what I mean.

I’m neither perfect nor as funny as most of the guys I call out, So why do I do it? Because few other comics are. The fact is I have a small platform and a conscience. I don’t ask that they be canceled. I don’t say they’re not funny.

I don’t insult their careers. In fact, I go out of my way to acknowledge that they do things well. Joe’s podcast, for example, is one of the most important modern media enterprises. That’s true. It’s also true that he made some jokes in his last special that I had issues with, and I wrote a piece about it.

Big deal. Rogan doesn’t care what I think Rogan doesn’t even know I exist with Hingecliff. The situation is obviously much different. Hingecliff not only understood the assignment, he probably thought he was going to get a perfect attendance record to go along with his standing. Oh, you need to understand that the comedian’s bread and butter is laughter.

We say things that we expect will be well received. Why would Tony make those jokes with any other exs and why would he have that expectation. I do know how jokes work, and I know that feeding your audience this high fat junk food is bad for them and bad for you. You’re free to be a crappy comic, but why be a crappy comic in such an obviously destructive way. I picked and chose these segments that I read there.

It’s a much longer piece, but it’s on Michael ian Black’s substack if you want to check that out. Good piece by him. Judd Appatow has a fundraiser today, a comedy show benefiting the American Red Cross and victims of Hurricane Helene. It’s in Atlanta to the Variety Playhouse. Jeff Foxworthy and Ricky Vilez joined jud as special guests.

A second benefit show will be held on November ninth at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Stavros Halki has told Icon versus Icon nobody deserves or should have a comedy career. That’s the thing. It’s the ultimate luxury. The biggest obstacle is that statistically everyone who tries this fails.

You have to be a specific type of mental illness to be like, this is worth it. Wasting my youth in crappy bars telling bad penis jokes. It’s totally worth it because maybe fifteen years from now I’ll be able to tell better versions of those penis jokes in theaters that it doesn’t happen. Right, So I just got lucky the biggest obstacles with just material realities and being able to override the human desire for survival. I was ignoring every sign that I should go get a real job, of a real family, at a regular life.

Luckily it worked out, because if I woke up, if I was this age and I had nothing to show for it, boy oh boy, that would be a much crappier reality. Luckily, we got a couple stand up specials and movie and some TV stuff, So I’m pump Man. One way to support this shows you can go to buy me at coffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw five bucks in a tip jar. I will take your money.

And I don’t know if you can even hear this because the isis melted. But the idea is, I take your money and I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. Now, I was laughing on Friday. So Friday was November first, Right, I’m at the donuts chain at six thirty in the morning. The donut chain on like July thirty first, was like, hey, man, Halloween’s coming.

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin. You like pumpkin, right, pumpkin pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin. And over the last week or so, I’ve been into the pumpkin dot It was taste and I didn’t feel like crap. After eight it’s I’ve been getting the pumpkin donut octoberranded November first. They were like, pumpkin never heard of it?

What are you talking about? Pumpkin donut? Why would we have that? You want a pumpkin coffee? What are you crazy?

We have peppermint. Now, it’s all peppermint, peppermint, peppermint, and sugar cookie. I was tempted to get the sugar cookie flavoring in my coffee, but I’ve learned over the years don’t messing around. The caramel’s tasty, and if you’re a man of a certain age, it doesn’t create kidney stones. The butterper can is tasty, but it creates kidney stones and it’s not that tasty.

Trust me, you do not want the stones. Buy me a coffee. Dot Com, a slash Daily Comedy News let’s hit gossip corner, People was checking in on Pete Davidson. A source tells People that Pete Davidson is still friends with pretty much all his exes. Nothing bad happened between him and metelinkline just ran its course.

He and Kim Kardashian still talk occasionally. He’s a good guy and they root for him. It’s a new podcast out hosted by bilingual Latin comedians and actors Carmen Lynch, Frince’s Gramos, Carlos Santos, and producer Osco Armando. Thanks for Nothing with the number four in the middle there. It’s an English speaking podcast, but Spanish is always part of the mixes.

They tackle real life topics with humor and honesty. Thanks for Nothing And in Tacoma, police rushed to a local comedy club after a caller reported a stabbing. Oh no, John, this show’s supposed to be fun. What are you doing? Why are you telling us about a stabbing?

The apparent victim Spider Man. John, It’s not funny that Spider Man was stabbed. Stay with me, don’t you know how the podcast works. Nobody was harmed. What officers found was a group of comedians filming a skit, one of whom was dressed as Spider Man.

You see, Spider Man is a fictional character, so there was no way Spider Man was going to be stabbed. He’s not real. Officers responded to the nine hundred block of Market Street a little after nine o’clock. The comedians quickly informed the PD that the stabbing was make believe. One of the comedian said, they all had a good laugh.

Nobody was injured, not even Spider Man. We told him spider Man’s over there, and then he saw a Spider Man perched up on the windowsill in the spidy position. I believe that’s when the officer was very relieved that you’re just seeing some guys in costume and not actual danger. And that is your comedy news for today. Hey, guess what we’re gonna talk about the next couple of days.

Yeah, I’m sorry, we gotta talk about it. It’s a thing. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m so excited to share this one with you. I’m Johnny Mack and my guest today is Des Bishop. He’s got a new special, it’s called Of All People. We recorded this on Monday, and I wanted to share it, like immediately.

I enjoy this conversation so much, but all the Hingecliff stuff was going on, so I kept it here in its normal scheduled Saturday slot. Some stuff about DES’s bio, grew up in Queen’s, flunked out of Saint Francis Prep, wound up living in Ireland, where he’s a very successful stand up comedian. He also speaks Mandarin and spent some time in China doing stand up. We’ll cover all that, we talk about Tony Hinchcliff, he’ll explain why the dogs are barking and the fireworks. And I just had so much fun talking to Des Bishop.

So I’m actually glad we were scheduled, were supposed to record this on Friday, and then you had an issue on your end. And my first question too, was going to be don’t you have a show in two hours? The hell are you talking? Yeah? Yeah?

Like literally, I was like driving down, and I was like, what was I thinking that I scheduled for this time? But you know what it is, It’s like when you’re in American mode and you’re scheduling, you’re not really thinking about like Irish time. Yeah, no, no problem at all. So that’s that’s up my second question, which is what is your pre show routine? I remember so my career is I’m really a radio executive and Jim Brewer used to do afternoon drive on the rod Up channel at Series XM when I was the boss, and I remember the first time I went out on the road with him.

He grabbed me, and I’m glad he did and he said, look, man, before I do a set, I totally shut down. I don’t want you to think I’m in a bad mood. I’m not pissed off at you, just like this is just how I roll. So like two hours before a show, don’t talk to me, of course not, but like what do you do? Well?

You know, if I’m driving and I’m basically just like getting there and then when I’m there, make sure everything’s set up, and then I just kind of like distract myself. Similar to Jim Brewer, except that I maintained my sanity into twenty twenty four, like Jim Brewer. But similar to Jim Brewer, I tell. Like relationships and people that I’m. Involved with that I can’t be around people, like if you’re expecting me to be a normal person, then you can’t be around me because I’m gonna be uptight, I’m gonna be a little anxious.

I’m not gonna be the best version of myself leading up to a show. Now it makes makes total sense since you open this door. Has Tony Hinchcliffe made the news in Ireland yet. Well, it’s hard for me to know if he’s made the news in Ireland because I’ve very much been on top of that story. So I mean, I have a lot of thoughts on all that stuff.

Can I just make a quick disclaimer the reason why I know that you’re not really a video guy, but I’m outside because fun fact about Ireland, Ireland does its fireworks for Halloween, not for the fourth of July, and it’s leading up to Halloween, so there’s a lot of fireworks. So the dog goes insane. So I’ve had to go outside and leave the dog inside so you may hear faint barking but it could be a lot worse. And trust me, when I’m not recording, it’s so much worse with me and the. Dog in the house.

But anyway, on the Tony Hinchcliff front, I mean, where do we start? So I try not to hang myself on this show. You know, people don’t come to this thing for politics. They come for me to speak with comedians. So my take on it.

And I’m not a comedian, never been a performer, but studied this enough to if I break it down just as a joke in no context, for example, during the Subway series, if I go to Los Angeles and I go, hey, there’s a floating pile of garbage on an island, it’s called Manhattan. If I do that during the World Series in LA that joke might fly. But in the context, in the room it was done, it takes on whole other connotations and it’s really not a good joke. It’s a one out of ten, two out of ten joke, Max. It’s dated on top of it, and I’m not like one to come after Tony Hinchcliff.

But in the context of the importance. Of the week and a half that we’re in leading up to an election, Like why you would choose like a dated target like Puerto Ricans, Like because obviously you can, like you just did, you can insert whatever island you want onto that joke. It’s it’s pretty basic. At the roast of Tom Brady, if they’re roasting like a Puerto Rican comic that was on the Dace, then you might go, Okay, you know, there’s a lot of that type of joke at roasts. But like when the world’s cameras are on you and you’re a comedian and it’s fine, you’ve been hired to make some jokes leading up to it, Like why you would choose that as your joke?

I mean you want to make that point like, oh, you can joke about anything, but it’s actually kind of like it’s juvenile, it’s immature, and it’s. Actually it’s really stupid. Like I actually think Trump is kind of stupid, So I think that like he would never think broad. Enough to go maybe I shouldn’t have a risky comedian on like this close to an election when certain states votes might literally hinge on twenty thousand people like it did in Georgia twenty two thousand people. He may have shifted enough votes to change a state that’s insane.

Well, I have so many topics, and when I gets to you and I are both New Yorkers, are both from Queens, so you know from the eighties and nineties. Trump is not like mister New York City. He’s not going to win New York. I just thought the whole thing it was a weird choice, like, go campaign in Pennsylvania. What are you doing in New York City.

This isn’t gonna work. Well, you know, nothing he does makes sense. And again we’re not going to get too political. But I think for him, he feels he wins regardless. You know, That’s what I think.

Like I think Trump thinks I’m gonna win. If I lose, I still can say that it was robbed and my profile is humongous, and I can continue with my current grift, which is the voice of the people that feel like they’ve been marginalized in Mardern America. So I don’t know if he even cares like I just feel like it’s a. Win win for him. The problem is that the whole political system just deteriorates all around his selfish you know notions and then I’m not a Republican, but the Republican Party continues to suffer.

Like the whole thing is, it’s. Absolutely crazy how much space and bandwidth has been given over to this ego.

And then people will the Trump people will obviously not agree with me, but I…

It shouldn’t have been allowed to happen. So over the politics in her back pocket before I go quoting, a comedian said, did you see Tony’s joke about rock paper scissors? I did, and again I like, fine, you know, I guess, but like read the room you need Michigan And actually I talked to. A Lebanese girl recently and they were like. She’s from Michigan, She’s from Grand Rapids, and they’re not happy with Kamala the Arabs in Michigan and some of them just out of virtue of their own anger towards common that we’re thinking maybe Trump can sort it out, and then he goes and basically like makes it very clear that they definitely do not care about the Palestinians.

So again, dumb joke. You know America. If, by the way, if that was an Ireland, he’d be lynched like the Irish. Oh you got to pay. The Irish are very The Irish perceive the Israeli.

Palestine conflict in terms of what the British did to Ireland has been done to the Palestinians. And I’m not taking a position. But I’m just telling you that that joke would not have flown over here at all.

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All right, let’s switch over to Queens.

One of the things I try and do is not ask the same questions you’ve been asked ten thousand times. However, your particular story has some interesting curves along the way. Again, Irish kid from Queens, I’m probably seven eight years older than you, so when we’re twelve that matters, but at this age it doesn’t. What part of Queens are you from? I know in I’m from Jackson Heights, eighty seventh of Roosevelt, So I know in an interview they’ll say Flushing.

But are you from Main Street? Are you down by Booth Memorial orre you further out? Which grow up further out? I’m nearly Bayside. I’m really right on the border of fresh Meadows and Flushing where and.

Just just west of Bayside, so actually near enough to where Trump grew up. I just grew. I grew right off Utopia Parkway. He was a few miles down the road in Jamaica States, off Utopia Parkway. My mother, though, as a youngster, hung out a lot in Jackson Heights because it was quite irish back in those days.

But I’m very much like Eastern Queen’s. I don’t like to admit this. But it has more like Long Island vibes than oh, sure city vibes. You know, oh yeah sure. Once you get out past the seven train, you know, maybe another mile or two now with all the development, Oh my god.

I was on the Van Wick last week and I couldn’t believe that development and flushing. But once you get out there, yeah, it’s you know, Queen’s just kind of softly switches into Nassau. They’ve renamed it since, but there was like that ten block stretch where one side of the street was Jamaica Avenue. On the other side was like, no, no, no, we’re Jericho Turnpike. Like, we’re not Jamaica Avenue.

What are you talking about? Well, you know, you pay less property tax when you’re on the Queens side. But officially, my neighborhood, by the way was called Auburndale. So if you’re ever on the Long Island Railroad where Auburndale station. Again, I’m back to Trump.

You just reminded me when he during COVID he started talking about walking past Elmhurst Hospital, which is eighty second and Broadway, a couple of blocks south of the seventh. I’m like, in what world were you walking on Broadway in Jackson Heights? Illmers never once? Dude? Yeah, and if he had, he walked by Elmhurst Hospital.

Who you know, it was a shit show back then. But honestly, I was there recently because I went to the met game actually, and I ended up parking on Junction Boulevard and we walked from when we were done, myself my wife walked from City Field back to Junction Boulevard. And I mean, like, you could travel the world on Roosevelt Avenue. I don’t care what anybody says. I actually the taxi driver that took me to JFK for this trip that I’m on right now, he was a Dominican guy, and he was telling me that he didn’t think Roosevelt Avenue was safe.

But I told him, I said, listen, man, I walked back late at night, right past Corona Plaza, and I thought the whole thing was exciting, you know, and you really feel like you’re in all these different parts of the world as you make your way further west towards the city. My dad would be so proud of you. So he was a bartender where mcdermidt’s. He worked at Blarney Stone, So you know the kind of guy I’m talking about. And he taught me growing up, you don’t pay the park you park over in Corona, And to this day, I’ll still park on like one twelfth in Northern and walk And remember when my son was little, he’d be like, what the hell are we doing.

I’m like, I’m not paying thirty bucks to park. This just isn’t that what you do? Well? Your dad wouldn’t be proud of me, because the reason I had to do it was because I got there too late and it was all and they were trying to get me to park in College Point. At the Skyview.

The game had already started, so I said, screwed that, I whipped onto the Grand Central. I was to be honest, I was actually gonna park in LaGuardia and get an uber, but then I was like, nah, nah, I just I’ll park on Junction Boulevard around there and I’ll jump on the seven. So that’s what I did. But then we walked back. That’s good.

Where’s Hannah from? Was she like? What’s up with Rosevelt? She’s from Brooklyn’s nothing to her. Yeah, none of this is too intimidating, you know, but she was in Park Slope but her grandfather bought that house, so like, they’re not like fancy Park Slope people.

In fact, her actually her dad grew up with Colin Quinn and his family, so uh, age wise, I fit somewhere between Colin Quinn and Hannah. But but Colin Quinn. Got quite the kick out of the fact that I ended up marrying Dan Berner’s daughter because they all grew up together in Park Slope. Love this guy more as Bishop in a minute, not to step on your material about your name. When I saw I was like, yeah, that’s an Irish guy.

Like I never I don’t want to do the joke, but like I was like, yeah, no, guy’s name Desmond. Yes, but I didn’t know any Desmonds growing up. That’s not an exaggeration on the joke. The only Desmond I knew, which you might have also known, was Desmond’s Pub on Park Avenue in like thirty something. I used to always see that and be like, yo, it’s my name because it was such a rare And obviously Bishop Desmond tutu, which is I talk about the joke, But yeah, not Honestly, I did not know many Desmonds growing up.

But I also was not aware until adulthood that black people in America consider it a consider it a black name. I didn’t know either. All right, So you’re growing up, You’re in Queen’s You’re going to Saint Francis Prep. That makes sense now that you’ve told me where you’re growing up. And depending on which article I read, you either got kicked out, asked to leave, chose to leave, got sent to Ireland, chose to go to Ireland.

Which version of that is accurate? I mean, essentially the majority of those things are true. They can all true together. Like I absolutely flunked out. You know, if you fail more than two subjects, you’re not allowed.

To come back. So I got kicked out. I mean we certainly that’s what we said, Like I got kicked out of prep. But obviously when somebody says they got kicked out of school. It sounds more dramatic than it is, but like I just had a severe lack.

Of interest in school. I mean, there was other things that were going on that I think in the modern day education system perhaps I would have gotten like more support. But that aside, I did flunk out. My mother was freaking out about what I was going to do. She was really thinking that I was on a bad path.

I was drinking a lot, but that had nothing to do with why I got kicked out of school.

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And then a cousin put the idea in my head and I suggested it to my parents, s…

I did actually want to go, but at the same time, my parents did allow me to go, and did organize it, and did do it in a out of a fear that I screwing up my life. It’s an aggressive choice so to catch up the audience. So you go to school in Queens. If you don’t go to public school. If you’ve got good grades, you’re probably going to Maloy.

If you’ve got bad grades, you’re probably going Tom Clancy. Saint Francis was like a middle school there. Well, actually the St. Francis Prep people would would not take kindly to you suggesting that Prep was below Maloy because they they definitely had equal status in like the eyes of the co op system and everything. I apologize to Saint France.

But that’s okay. The difference really was the smart people that were really into women went to San Francisco. Yes, Maloy was an al boys school back in. The time at the time, but why not christ Stefanie went to Maloy, by the way, why not dropped out of a clancy? Well, actually I would have went to Holy Cross.

That would have been where I ended up. Uh, but I don’t know. I never got to the stage where I had to pick another New York school because I really thought the idea of going to Ireland was like really cool. Actually, and my mother, see, we had a cousin that was going through some addiction stuff, and my mother really was freaking out that I was going to get in big trouble. So when this Irish thing came up and she looked into it and it was kind of cheap by relative standards of going to boarding school in the United States, she just had this thing in her head that I’d be safer there.

I think that’s really what she thought. Honestly, for me, it was a real win because not only did I get a better education because I was away from my distractions. I was in an all boys boarding school. You get supervised study, but I also got the education of suddenly living in a new culture, having to adapt. You know, there’s just so much about what happened that was good for me specifically.

I don’t think it’s for everybody, but me specifically easily distracted, wanting attention, you know, like suddenly being the kid from New York in a small Irish boarding school is actually kind of like exciting for me. So I kind of got everything I needed out of my Irish experience. I find it interesting you’ve held your I would never sniff you out, except when you say Ireland as both three syllables the way I would pronounce it. Yeah, and there’s there’s other there’s other words if we were talking for a while.

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Also, if an Irish person suddenly sat next to me, like my accent would shift …

But I never had more than a bit of an Irish accent. But I definitely had more than I have now. Well, you went over there, what early nineties, mid nineties, ninety nineteen ninety ninety, all right, So that’s what a lot of people were coming over from there to here to New York because of the economy, and the Irish were opening bars. I used to hang out at a bar called the Brefnee on Fortieth and Queen’s. No it well, okay, oh it well.

So the name of their softball team, and I didn’t get it at first, and once when I found out what it was, I was like, oh, that’s interesting. They called themselves the Provos. They had provosse. That’s so funny because that’s such a quintessential Irish American experience, like you could so I have tons of jokes about coming to Ireland. The first joke I used to have was that there was a sign at the airport that said wrong way, because I was the only American coming back to Ireland.

Everybody was going the other way. In reference to the first thing you said. But I also had a joke about how I mean it was a baptism of fire because as you know from the team being called the Provos. For those that don’t know, the Provos was slang for the Provisional IRA, which in Irish America, you know, you were raised to love the Iray. I mean, I was up thet all of my childhood and when I came to Ireland, to my great surprise, people in the Republic of Ireland were not They did not support the IRA.

In fact, they were kind of horrified by the whole thing. And I didn’t get any fights, but I had a lot of arguments with people. I was kind of shocked. Obviously I got educated and develop my own nuanced take on it. But the fact that you could call a softball team the Provos that would not have been happening in Dublin in nineteen ninety four, for example.

It’s crazy to you know, it’s almost like a hack station wagon kids in the backbit. But that the IRA would come to New York and just openly do fundraisers thirty years ago, like what. Nor aid, Well, my parents were right in the thick of that. I mean, we were as provo as they come. As far as Irish American families go, we had carvings of Celtic crosses that were made in Long Catch prison by IRA prisoners.

We marched for County Down. See, my mother’s father was from the North. My mother worked for Odran Bernstein, a law firm that represented fought against extradition of IRA members that were being held in American prisons. I mean we were in the heart of pro IRA Irish America. I mean when we marched down Fifth Avenue, the signs were like get the Brits out, you know, BRIT’s out.

And like when we sold our house in twenty fifteen, when I cleaned out the attic, there was like, you know, marching band instruments that we had been storing in our attic with BRIT’s out and twenty six plus six equals one stingers on them, and you know, like just like I was kind of shocked, Like as an adult man who spent actually most of his life in Ireland in the end, I was shocked at the just overtly Republican propaganda that I. Was raised around, you know, yeah, you know, and as an Irish American we were into U two when they were a little more political. Then a little later on I’d go see Black forty seven and Patty Riley’s and sure Larry’d me up there sing in the sun. Yeah, Larry Carr. And the funny thing is that Black forty seven is a great band actually, but very much Irish American band Irish and he was from Wexford actually, which is where I ended up going to boarding school for three years.

You know, I always say to Irish people because I do jokes. Actually, I did a show about my mom, you know, but after my mom died, I did like a like a one man show about my mother. But I had a whole section about the Irish American Republican experience, and I made make fun of myself for what happened when I came to Ireland. But I would definitely say that it’s somewhere in the middle between the way I was raised as sort of a naive kind of provo upbringing and the overly critical Irish people in the eighties and nineties that were perhaps overly critical of the ira perhaps didn’t have an understanding of the complexities of the North. I would say it’s probably somewhere in the middle of those two positions is the better position.

And you know what’s hilarious is that, well it’s not hilarious. But the young Irish people now they’re inclined to support shin Faine, which was the political party of the IRA and they don’t have the baggage from the troubles, so young Irish people sort of look to them as a sort of an anti establishment party that can fight against the housing crisis and all these issues that we have in the States too, but a different government gets blamed. You’re making me smile and thinking about my mom. And it wasn’t racism. It was some sort of tribalism that you know.

So and so, Oh they’re not Irish, we don’t like them. Okay, now they’re Irish, but they’re from the wrong county. Or oh the bishops, those green horns. We don’t like that. You know, everything was wrong.

You had to be like a first cousin or forget it. Yeah, well, I actually I have a company in arting, know id like a like a limited company, and I called it blowing entertainment. Most people don’t know the term blowing, but in. Ireland it’s a big term for somebody who lives in a place, but isn’t from there, And obviously I’m a blow into Ireland. But like Irish people can be blowing’s if you move from one village to another, you know.

So I called my company Blowing Entertainment and there’s a lot of that. Well, here’s a funny story about you’re talking about, like, not racism or tribalism. This is how ignorant in a way. My mother raised us because I remember, do you remember the movie The Great Outdoors or The Mosquito Coast. Yeah, so there was two redheaded twins in those two movies, and we were working on a modeling job for that we modeled as kids for Ford Miling Agency and the mother was Irish.

As far as I was concerned, I heard her accent. She was Irish and my mother after the conversation, the woman left and I said, oh, she was a nice woman, and my mother said, yeah, but she’s a Northern Irish Protestant. She put it right into my head that this person can’t be a good person because he’s a Protestant from the North. And I joke about that now to people because it’s it’s that’s insane that she thought that was okay. The other term that it’s a bit of a hack bit.

But you’ll know where I’m going here. But when I was hanging out in those Irish bars and the Irish would ask me if in New York City in the early nineties, if I wanted to go find some crack. Yes, that was a word loosely translated as let’s go find good fun, not rock cocaine. Yes, c R A I C. But she’s not actually Irish, but it has really that like it’s not from the Irish language.

That’s like a like a like a fake etymology. It’s it’s just a word that’s evolved out of there’s like three or four competing claims on the etymology of crack. However, these days it’s certainly not a guelga, it’s not an Irish language word, but it is one hundred percent the Irish word for fun. But because my wife is obsessed with crack now, because when we first met. That’s my first by the way, Hannah Berner is obsessed with crack.

But when we first met, I actually said to her, I said, one of the things that I immediately connected with is you don’t know what the crack is, but like you have the crack, like you are like quintessential crack, but you don’t get it. She still can’t explain it to people. And it’s very hard to explain what the crack is because the crack is not just almost like a like a way of being that can be hard to explain to people that aren’t Irish. She actually got in trouble the other day because she posted a clip and kind of tried to suggest that Irish and English people are into this thing called crack, and the Irish were like, it has nothing to do with the English. So it’s the twenty first century.

We have to put labels on everything. Every article about you in the States calls you Irish comedian to the. Irish Irish American? Are you American comedian as bishop like, because your style is you know, if I had a graph, you know you’re closer to the Bill Burr and than the Tommy Tiernan end. Yeah.

But you know, if you watch my early, really early stuff, I was coincident funny that I’m not inspired by Bill Burr at all, which is hilarious that I get a lot of comparisons to him now. However, I was very inspired by. Tommy Tuner in the early part of my career, and when I watch my bits from two thousand and one to three, I can see Tommy’s influence. On my style. And these days, unfortunately, I just get the Bill Burr comparisons, I think because we’re both like middle aged northeastern guys with like a kind of a and I’ve gone back to my de facto energy, which is kind of a queen’s guy energy, working class queen’s guy.

That’s not an artistic choice, that’s just who I am. You know. In Ireland, it wasn’t as obvious because I had a lot, not old, but a lot of material talking about Ireland and talking about the differences between America and Ireland, and also quite a keen awareness for a foreigner as far as Irish concerned, quite a keen awareness of like regional sensibilities and differences between Irish areas, and I could do the accents. So it’s not that the queen sense, the queen’s energy is not as obvious in a lot of those bits, because it’s obviously like not coming from that. But these days, when I’m expressing my frustration with the modern world, frustration with the differences between generations, or my frustration with America in general.

Og kind of Queen’s energy comes out and if you watch, like I put my mother in a couple of things over the years, like documentaries, and like, if you watch her ramage, you go, oh, it’s not Bill Burt that this guy’s inspired by. It’s Island Bishop. You know, she’s pissed off about everything. Yeah. I think my comparison there was about energy and the current specials a little more rad of tat tat than the themes the theme pieces, which is what I wanted to ask you about that evolution.

There is it a choice? Is it just what you’re feeling now that it’s it’s less of a theme power. I think it’s more necessity is the mother of invention, Like working in the States, working the clubs, doing fifteen minute spots at the cellar. I I just those long bits. You know, it’s just like my fifteen minute spot isn’t going to be about one thing, you know, just going around America, Like I’m just not going to get with bar staff floating around people not knowing who you are, Like you just don’t.

I don’t think you get the license to indulge in a theme in the same way. And I don’t even like the fact that there’s like a separation. Like people will be like, oh, it’s like a Verbiglia type show. Obviously, I’m sure you know this side of the water. Verbiglia type comedy is just comedy.

But so I don’t even like the fact that there’s there’s two types. But for me, it’s been, I think, like an upgrade to my skill level to have not been able to lean on that. Like, I think, obviously there’s tricks in every type of comedy, but I think that perhaps there were have been too many times, not always, but too many times in my comedy career where I had the crutch of a theme, which gives you maybe too much freedom to not be as punchy as you would need to be in Philadelphia on a Saturday night at ten thirty, you. Know, yeah, and in the age of social media and you got to feed the beast and all that. And my audience is sick of me telling this, but the amount of times I’ll be watching an hour and my wife shows up thirty six minutes in, stands there for five seconds and goes, is this guy funny?

And you know I want to hit pause and be like, well, you see what he just did. There, he’s at up eighteen minutes ago to let me throw back and a misdirect, and it’s like, you know. Oh, I mean I have I have so many like I watch. I had a great special back in two thousand and eight called Tongues, and it was a two part special. One part was all about the Irish language, which is why I called it Tongues.

The other part is just material that was relevant to Ireland at that time, which was actually right at the sort of the an inkling that the world economy was about to crash, which is funny because it’s a moment in time. But anyway, I have a very strong, what I think is a very strong finishing sort of fifteen minutes, but it’s very interconnected and very woven. Like my punchline. My special finishes with a joke that makes absolutely no sense unless you’ve watched the first part of that fifteen minutes, and so I had a lot of that back in the day, and I. Still think that stuff is great.

One of the great things about because that’s the other thing when I said necessity is the mother intertention. Clips being the currency of modern comedy, I obviously had to have jokes that stood alone. The great thing about clips is that if you can make clippable jokes work still within the confines of these great fifteen twenty minute bits, essentially your fifteen twenty minute bit still works the same. As it used to. It’s just so much better.

That’s what I think. One more breaking back with des Bishop, you have a piece of crowd work in your current special that I will not spoil at all. But as soon as I hit play, I was like, oh, this is amazing, so that hopefully. That’s not a spoiler. We could talk about.

That, okay, So for the audience, the clip opens up with crowd work and suddenly you burst into Mandarin and I’m like, holy yes, who is this guy? Well, this is amazing. Well your reaction is literally why that bit is there? And I really got a credit Shane Gillis because Hannah said why don’t you? And this wasn’t like a Shane Gillis bit, but Shane Gillis on his YouTube special I think, or maybe it was his Netflix special.

He opens cold open to crowd work, or he cold opens to a bit. It’s not like, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the state. Shane gillis, uh, and that’s very effective in the modern world where you just have to grab people’s attention. So Hannah said, why don’t you open with the Mandarin crowd work and people will just be like, oh shit, this is not what I normally see. And that’s why that exists.

And obviously that bit, despite the fact that it sounds complicated, the crowd work of finding somebody that speaks Mandarin and joking with them in Mandarin, I mean, it works so well for me. In fact, one of the things that made my transition back to the States so much easier was because so much of my material about spending time in China, which obviously takes a bit of time to explain right now, we’re just jumping in to it, but the material I had from my experience in China really translated very easily to America, in fact, better in America. Than in Ireland. So I had no problem chucking that bit of crowd work up top, because I know it’s funny. It’s funny without any awareness of China.

It’s got a pretty good punchline right at the end. And so everything you experienced is by design. It’s amazing. So what makes you go to China to be a stand up and that’s an aggressive play. Yeah, I mean again, that was one thing led to another.

But the very quick list of reasons how I ended up in China was one, I became very friendly with Chinese people on my first documentary project, which was about living on minimum wage. Two it just so happened that the years leading up to that, I was actually studying kung fu with a cifu from Hong Kong who took us to Chinese dim sum every Sunday afternoon and was very into teaching us about Chinese culture, which then helped me to connec with those Chinese people who brought me to China on a vacation in two thousand and four. I was fascinated by China and its difference to the West. Separate to that, but at the same time, my neighborhood, which we’ve discussed Flush and Queens, became completely Chinese in my lifetime, and my next door neighbors who I would shovel snow with if I was back visiting my parents, they couldn’t speak English, and I really became fascinated with like trying to communicate with them. So then when I made a project in Ireland about learning the Irish language, which was a very Irish project, and everyone in Ireland has to learn Gaelican school, so that was like an easy project to do in Ireland.

But once I realized, oh, I’m not bad at. Learning languages, I pitched the idea of doing that in China, to learn Chinese to do stand up in Mandarin. And that’s the quickest version of a very long story about how I went to China. Did you mentally write in matter in or did you write in English and translate it one. Hundred percent mentally wrote in Mandarin.

Fact, people always say like it must be hard to come up with jokes, you know, because they think of it in terms of translation, and people like Eddie is a great guy, but he takes his show and figures it out in another language and then does it, and he’s done that in numerous languages. But I was trying to do something else, which was I was trying to turn my experiences in China into stand up. So actually, once I got somewhat a bit of an understanding about the language, I was able to use my basic Mandarin to tell my fish out of Water stories, and the majority, I’d say only twenty or thirty percent of my jokes actually in Mandarin work in English. The ones that I do in the special are ones that work in English. Some of them don’t actually work in Mandarin because they’re they’re just different.

But most of my stuff in Mandarin works. Not because of translation, but because it’s about things that are about China. They don’t make sense in English or they don’t make sense to people that I’ve into China. So is it more storytelling? Is it raditat tat?

Or is it I don’t know. I didn’t know how to use the laundry machines and they find humor that the white guy didn’t know what to do. I mean, you can be sure, because the difficulty level is pretty high that I leaned on the easier topics. Fish out of water, mispronunciation jokes, you know, just I guess the entry level things you find funny as somebody who moves to try and trust to learn Mandarin and is clearly not Chinese. You’re a white guy.

You stand out all those things. So I leaned on that as much as possible.

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And then some basic observations jokes about like the stress around Chinese N…

And that’s about as far as I got in terms of like the difficulty level of my Chinese humor, Like I was only able to tell the jokes that I could with my basic level of Mandarin and my basic understanding of Chinese life. What kind of rooms are these? By the way, the sound effects for this episode, or I’m so glad you’re outside, I’m so glad you explained the fireworks and the dog because this is going to sound amazing as a pod. I’m loving it. What kind of room?

I’m so embarrassed. Actually the whole thing is very embarrassing. But I guess it’s interesting because Hannah had no idea that Halloween was the fireworks time. So well, at my time in China, the rooms were bar shows because it’s not a thing, you know, It wasn’t like stand up was a new thing in China, and it was these small pockets in Beijing, Shanghai, Shinjin, Chungdu of people that were like seeing it on the internet, Western people doing stand up and some nerdy comedy fans were like, you know, putting the Chinese Mandarin subtitles at the bottom, and they were seeing like clips from the oscars and clips from the Tonight Show and thinking, oh, let’s do that. So I was in the very early stages of that.

So that’s largely the types of rooms I was doing. Was that. Joe Wang. I don’t know if you have an interviewed him, but he actually made his career in the States. He said, from China, Chinese immigranty the United States, but did really well stand up in English, did a couple of really big letterman sets and really was amazing stand.

Up to be honest, like really astute. Observations, but again a little fish out of water, but classic Chinese guy play on words, a little mathematical. Anyway, he blew up because he roast to Joe Biden when he was vice president and it went viral in China, so viral that he went back to China to do because he was famous, and he’s had quite the career in China since I was there, actually since that time, and the only big shows I did were opening up for him. But he was doing stand up in Mandarin, but he was struggling with doing stand up and manner as much as I was, because his comedy brain was very much fish out of water comedy in English, about being in America. He had to almost find a different identity speaking as a Chinese person from the northeast of China, just speaking about modern China.

So that was the only time I did like a theater was with him. We’re worried about the censors, and obviously you’re not gonna lose your mind and get up and you know, do five minutes about the government. But are you worried about maybe stepping on something you don’t even know as a landmine culturally? I mean, yeah, you would definitely worry about stepping on a landmine. In terms of like being that in the room that night.

I mean, you’re definitely not gonna You’re not going to be the asshole who you know, does stuff that’s going to make the crowd uncomfortable because they think that this is too subversive. In a place where that’s not safe, you can touch on stuff I made a joke and actual show about One of the great things about China is comedy is always about finding the line and just crossing it just a little bit, but a lot of times you don’t know where the line is, Like we’re joking about Tony Hinchcliffe, like he totally misjudged the line and now there’s chaos right Whereas in China the line is very clear. The things you don’t talk about and if you do, you go to jail. The joke is always three teased. He had him into bet Taiwan.

But I wasn’t interested in causing any trouble. Wasn’t my job. I mean, I could go on about this topic for a long time, but it’s gotten a lot worse in China since I was there, so actually there’s even less freedom of speech there than when I was there. But what I will say is that stand up in itself, it’s kind. Of subversive there in the sense that our Western style stand up is individualistic, and it’s like often not always, but often personal.

You’re speaking about your life in a way that wouldn’t be quintessential Asian culture. And these young men and women that are going up there and saying joking about their difficult relationships with their parents, breaking Chinese cultural norms, not political stuff, but Chinese cultural norms, talking about dating stuff like that. In China, it’s actually it’s pretty subversive. It’s pretty challenging to the audience in a way that we don’t appreciate because we’re post sexual revolution, we’re post being able to criticize religion where we’re we’re going backwards. But largely we live in a situation where we can say whatever we want without fear of, uh, you know, upsetting people to the point that it’s going to cause our lives, you know, more issues than being canceled.

Right, So the whole thing was more impressive than it sounds when you say, oh, well, I couldn’t joke about the government, or I couldn’t talk about Tianaman or Tibet. You know, I’ll head for home here. You’ve been very generous with your time. My daughter was snooping my calendar. She texts me.

She’s like, I sawna calendar. You’re talking to danz Bychev. Do you know he’s married too, She’s in her early twenty I’m like, yes, yes, but that’s I’m not going to ask forty five minutes of questions about Hannah. But she was very excited. Are you seeing an audience pick up in the States because of the podcast?

I mean, honestly, there was an immediate pickup just from my association with Hannah, and the more popular she got, the more I would get people that would support me because they became aware of me through Hannah originally. But that was usually just like a small group. The podcast a little bit, but I really feel that the bigger thing has been the clips. I mean, there’s definitely some podcast people, but the clips have been the bigger thing. But I think that some of those clips probably went more viral because people were like sharing them because they were like, this is Hannah’s husband.

So, without a doubt, there has been positive career associations with. Being married to Hannah. But I must point out that when I met Hannah, she had only done a year of stand up. Stand up had been. Stopped because of COVID, and you know, it was a very different time I’m in her career and like actually because you know, the reality stuff finished, so like stressfully, it wasn’t an immediate sense of wow, this has been amazing for my career, and it was more like, wow, this has been very difficult for my mental health.

Are you are you a stand up for life? Do you want to act? And I’m asking that because you’ve got great hair game. Well, it’s not that great today. I did go to the gym and have a shower, but I did not brush my hair nor blow dry.

But sorry, I mean there was always in my mind like I would love to do movies, but I never. Wanted to do auditions or put in. The hard yards because well, I think not all but a lot of stand ups are kind of like not control freaks. But you just get used to sort of like making your own work, putting your own work on, and there’s a freedom to that. Acting is very much like weight and see, so I always kind of hope that something would like fall on my lap.

A couple of things have, but not to any huge extent. And I have done plenty of auditions throughout the years, but nothing easy ever came my way. So yes, I would still act, but stand up and writing, and you know, you want to know the truth. Actually, I always thought that as I got older, I would settle into radio, but. The industry just changed.

So actually me too, I’m doing a podcast date. Yeah, so uh, and I what I miss? I mean, I still go and do radio interviews, but and I got actually before I turned down two pretty good radio offers to go to China just coincidentally enough, I filled in for two Irish radio presenters on two different radio stations, and they both offered me quite good jobs after filling in for the week, and at both of those offers, I just was like, listen, I’m going to China. And I saw that as something for a little bit later in my life. I just didn’t know that within the next decade that industry would change and all so that I would want to spend a bit more time in the state.

So I wasn’t looking for like an Irish radio job, but I do like the formality of five days a week on the radio, producer up bit of focus time in the office, Like I think podcasting is slowly kind of essentially becoming that, but I haven’t found that model, and I miss the way it used to be in that not all areas of the industry, but I do miss that type of focus. It was fun. A big bulk of my career is producing radio shows. And just like you’re saying, the relationship between a producer and a host, and especially like if I’m producing you and I’m giving you the side like you, we have to have that circle of trust of like, dude, you’re going off the rails here, trust me. It’s like trust me, trust me and giving you and I’m doing out of habit on the video here giving your hand signals or you know, hey, wrap it up, are you going to hang yourself here?

Get out of this? Let’s go. Yeah, it’s radio is dead. It is. But what I do think will happen because I always say to Hannick is kind of like a very good podcaster, and I guess somewhat of a pioneer female podcast certainly was pretty early into the game.

But I feel that over time. Some of that formality will return because the money is there, and I think to maintain an audience, the standards have to be there, the sense of fresh ideas, keeping it interesting. Like a lot of podcasts are great, but they’re like a moment in time, and then when that moment passes, then it’s like where do we go from here? Like all that stuff will naturally be necessary. So I do think that some of the formality of the way it used to be will come back.

And the last thing I always say to Hannaz. The one thing podcasting is really lacking is the sense of its happening right now. For certain issues, certain types of radio. I think that still has value, and I think that that will be the next evolution. Is a better way of listening live other than oh this podcaster goes live on YouTube.

But it’s not the same. Yeah, no, it’s not the same. It will not surprise me if I used to work a serious If they open up a bag of cash for Hannah and she winds up with a station and they pay, well, just say yes. Well, as it turns out, they actually didn’t give Hannah a great offer, but they Hannah’s doing fine. But Sirius was one of the low bowlers, a really well.

I probably get in trouble to say. I probably shouldn’t have said that. I didn’t evean. Whatever. Such is life.

Appreciate your time today, man, this is awesome. Thank you so much. Wasn’t he fantastic? I loved him. I could have talked to him for another hour, but you know, you ask for twenty minutes and he keep forty five.

Yeah, you gotta let people go at some point. But he was so easy to talk to. Des Bishop especial is called of all people. You will find it on YouTube. See you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Let’s take a break today, No politics, no Tony. How’s that for a change. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s just do comedy comedy stuff today.

Sam Morrill tweeted, I just watched all three Godfather movies. I was on the checkout line behind one person at CBS. The Moon Tower Comedy Festival is a big one. They’ve announced their lineup for twenty twenty five April ninth through the nineteenth in Austin, Texas. It’s the festival’s thirteenth year, will feature Adam Ray as a doctor, Phil Parody, Tig Natsorro Fortune, Femster, May Martin osco Atkotska, and quote many more.

The many more include Big Jay Okerson Podcast, Legion of Skanks, Brad Williams, Josh Johnson, and local talent including Eliza Splatt, Andrew Murphy, Ashley Sharma, Averymore, Brett ver Vort, Chris Teles, Colton Delling, Denny Goodwin, Doug Millard, Dylan Carlino, Genevieve Clinton, and many more. A promotion called the Bestie Badge offers twenty five dollars off every badge to those who buy two or more. You’ve heard me say before, the best way to handle a festival is to hop and don’t go see the headliners. You’ve seen the headliners before, go see the other people. That’s how you get the most out of the festival.

Another festival has announced a lineup. It’s the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, returning new venues across Canada next summer. They have announced their headliners Not Bad John Mulaney and Jim Gaffigan. They will co headline one weekend of the festival with performances in Winnipeg and Edmonton on July nineteenth and July twentieth. Festival producer Brennan McFall, in a statement, said, we couldn’t be more excited to announce this John and Jim co headline as the first couple shows for twenty twenty five.

They are longtime friends and a couple of the best comedians of our time. They’ve never performed like this, so having them on the same stage on the same night in both Winnipeg and Edmonton is going to be an unforgettable experience for everyone in attendance.

Speaking of John Mulaney, I couldn’t we get to this all week, because you kno…

Mulaney surprised Olivia Munn by showing up to present her with in Style’s Image Maker Award. John told the star studded crowd, which included Chrissy Teagan, Laverne Cox, and Hilary Duff. John said, Olivia is saving lives by speaking her truth. Is not surprising to me. Olivia is constantly trying to keep me out of danger and keep me alive through a series of texts throughout entire relationship.

Mulaney then took out his phone and read out at an example of one of their texting changes. John sheared, this was like the two hundred time I took her son out for a walk at a stroller in Chicago, troute me out of nowhere with no context. Please be so careful today. So many crazy things can come out of nowhere. I texted back, Like what, Olivia responded, crazy cars.

You don’t hear enough about crazy cars. Ronny Chieng will have a special for Netflix, this one called Love to Hate It Netflix, December seventeenth, taped at the Historic Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, where he had a five nights sold out run. The special unpacks the indignities of the IVF process, the pitfalls of being a man on the Internet, and the palace of the older Jenner in today’s world. Adrian apple Uji will have a special called The Dark Queen, directed by Louis c. K not so canceled and produced by Arishafir, now out November twelfth.

Adrian takes aim at our public figure We’re not doing that today, awkward tribute tattoos, virtual signaling, and more. This was filmed at the Comedy Seller last fall. Alasan Alabama dot com spoke to Hannibal Burs. They were curious, Annibal, you’ve been doing pop up shows lately where you announced the performance just days before it happens. What’s the appeal?

Annibill said, There’s a few things. Man. It’s just fun to kind of do things in short notice and kind of change my plans and change people’s plans and do something exciting, kind of puts a deadline on it. The tickets will sell faster a lot of times too, when it’s something like that versus the ones where I put them on sale more time. I mean, they have to just because of the nature of you know, the show’s about to happen.

There’s a lot of excitement around it, so I just like doing them these days. I don’t like having too much on the calendar. Honestly, I’m opening a venue in Brooklyn interesting, and I thought would be open by now. I thought we’re going to open in summer. So now I’m doing gigs to help pay for this venue construction all this stuff.

But the surprise element is always fun. Man, Have there not be a show one day and you know two days before day. Have sometimes let people know the show’s going on. It could be a fun energy. Al dot Com was curious, do you think you have a good level of fame, Like can you walk down the street without getting hassled?

Animal said, yeah, I can move around and go place to solo and it’s pretty normal out and about. So yeah, that’s enjoyable too. I look different now too, My hair looks different. So a lot of times, even if the people know me, I don’t look how they remember me, so they don’t end up saying anything. It’s a good advantage because then you’re able to observe people for comedy writing purposes or have conversations without you know, that affecting it.

And it’s nice to be able to go do stuff and just go to a concert solo, all kinds of things. It’s pretty mellow. I dress that on stage with certain places. I’m not gonna get bothered at a cracker barrel. I don’t get bothered when I’m at a dispensary.

They go crazy. Sarah Silverman’s vote to WPR. Sarah, you’re known for being pretty fearless in your comedy. Have you ever thought of something that’s two out of bounds even for you? Sarah said no, but there have been things I’ve decided not to talk about because They’m either too close to it or I’m not sure what’s true, what’s real?

You know, Like I think I’m semi responsible for what comes out of my mouth, but only semi responsible because I’m also a comic and I’m ten years old. Sarah’s in Madison tonight at the Orpheum Theater. If you need plans and you’re in Madison, We’ve got a private jet. And you really like comedy, she warns you. Though, my last special came out on HBO right after my parents passed away, like two weeks later, so I said zero with stand up material.

My step mom and dad died nine days apart. It was a wild experience. My dad was my best friend, so I did his eulogy, and eulogy was pretty funny. I started doing stand up talking about it, and it turns out there was a lot of comedy there. This is like the worst ad for a comedy show, but I promise it’s funny.

It’s very dark tomorrow on this program, my guest is Dez. Bishop did forty five minutes with him on Monday. I showed an excerpt about thing we’re not talking about on Tuesday’s podcast, but you can hear the whole conversation there. If you are an Irish American kid from Queens, New York who is in the bar scenes in the nineties and you’re a Mets fan, this is the pod cast for you. Some of you might listen to it and be like, what are these two even talking about?

But you know, I stayed in that lane. I’m an Irish American kid from Queens who hit the bar seat in the nineties, that I’m a Mets van and so those deads and we had a lot to talk about there. So I really enjoyed the conversation. I’ll be curious to see your reaction. That’s tomorrow.

Sunday will be a normal episode, and then you know, next week gonna have to talk about the thing we’re not talking about today, guys, which reminds me the New York Comedy Festival is at the end of next week, and I’m wondering if they were paying attention to the thing we’re not talking about today. I feel like the Comedy Festival might get completely overshadowed by that event on Tuesday that we’re not talking about. We will see this next thing is fun. On December ninth, Disney Plus and ESPN Plus will stream the Dallas Cowboys Cincinnati Bengals game. But they’re doing one of those overlays.

Was so much fun, and this one, all the players will be replaced by animated characters based on those from Simpsons. Yeah, They’ve got this cool technology where they can somehow animate the game. The full roster of Simpson’s voice talent ar participating, including Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, et cetera. They will lend their voices to pre recorded bits and skits written by the Simpsons production team that will run before and during the game, including some that involve players from each team and steven A. Smith and Peyton and Eli Manning.

The Alts cast will also have its own announcer booth with animated versions of Mina chimes. Dan Rolovsky and Drew Carter calling the game for parts of the game. Bart Simpson will appear on the field for the Bengals, replacing an actual Bengals player, while Homer Simpson will play for the Cowboys. Margin Lisa will interview players during the game. Maggie Man’s the Skycam.

Joe and Troy will have the game on the normal channel. The Manning cast will be on ESPN two. Simpson’s version on Disney Plus and ESPN Plus. I don’t know either, but I have my ways. Nudge, nudge, wink wink, say no more.

The pressure Lease tells us the Simpsons it’s a younger male demo that the NFL wants to reach. Yeah, I mean the NFL is barely reaching dudes. It’s a good thing they’re they’re connecting with a thirty five year old cartoon, or guys wouldn’t watch the end of what are you talking about? David Gabori has an album out today. It is called Birth of a Nation, available everywhere where comedy is streamed and sold.

David started doing stand up in twenty ten and san fran because a friend advised them that if he bombed, at least he wouldn’t run into anyone he knew. Recorded in Denver, David cheers what it’s like to grow up in a house full of women, mocks the emotional nature of tough guys, and confesses he believed therapy was a scam until he cried in front of his therapist. I don’t know if you know this. SNL turns fifty this year, and originally we were going to talk about it every day, and then that other topic came up and we got distracted. But we’re back to talking about SNL.

Mikey Day said, it’s odd out during a bomb, there’s no sound, so if like two people laugh, that’s super loud. Bow and Yang explained Lauren’s mantra is the audience is never wrong. It doesn’t matter how funny or prepared you are in your piece. If it doesn’t land in the room, it’s not gonna play at home. And if the audience in the bleach doesn’t like it, and that’s not their fault.

John Clees revealed the faulty Tower stage show. We’ll tour the UK next year. Clee said, it’s just wonderful to see people laughing like that because when I was growing up with all those great sitcoms, people used to laugh more than they do now, and I think people miss it a bit and there’s a little bit of nostalgia in the audience when they’re laughing. And that is your comedy news for today. Tomorrow, Dez Bishop and I we’ll talk for forty five minutes or so normal episode on Sunday and again next week.

Gonna have to talk about the thing. But hope you enjoyed the break today. See you tomorrow.