Month: December 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. My former coworker, Jamie Fox’s special is out, and we found out, you know, was it Diddy that did it to him? Apparently the answer no. Fox said, the Internet tried to kill me though they said I was paralyzed.

They said I couldn’t walk. Well, look at me now. He then dances. In the new special. Fox said, the Internet said that Puffy tried to kill me, and that’s what the Internet was saying.

I know what you’re thinking, did he That’s pretty good. Actually. He also talked about the Infamous parties and said, I left those parties early. I was out by nine. I had some more spoilers for the special.

Jimmie comes out on stage, proclaims he’s back. He dances, hypes up the crowd, and he told us what happened to him with his mystery illness. April eleventh. I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for Asper, and I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f to do. Jamie said, before he even took that Asper, and he blacked out.

And remained unconscious for weeks. He says, I don’t remember twenty days. He credits his sister as saying, get him in a car. That ain’t my brother. Right there, a doctor told Jamie’s sister that Jamie was having a breen bleed that has led to a stroke.

During his recovery, Fox says his sister and his daughter Corinne shielded him from the outside world, telling us they didn’t want you to see me like that, and I didn’t want you to see me like that. I want you to see me like this. So that’s in line with what I’ve said many times on the podcast that what had me worried is I felt that if they could have propped Jamie up and sat in Pool’s side looking cool, they would have shared a picture, and they clearly didn’t. Seems like the special has good buzz on it. I have not watched it yet.

I got to plan a big comedy night to watch Fox and Fortune Fimsta from last week and also Matthew Brissard specials out on YouTube now, so I have a lot to catch up on Will Ferrell. We’ll receive the seventeenth annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film Today, Michael Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, said comedy is the hardest in you make it look easy. Will congratulations, Dad loved you. Friend of the show, Jason Zenneman from The New York Times put out his comedy list. I’m going to talk about that on Saturday.

I felt like that would make a good Saturday episode. But Zennaman, interestingly his top special of the year Ronnie Ching’s Love to Hate It, and that’s not out on Netflix until Tuesday. So I am definitely going to hold off recording my top specials of the year because if he’s got Ronnie at number one, and I don’t want to skip that before I publish my list. On Gossip Corner, Tony Rock responded to the story about Chris Rock storming out of a billionaire’s private party. Told you about that one yesterday.

Tony said the vibe was people shouldn’t be filming comedian sets, even at private functions, as comedians constantly work through material. Tony says fans who try to put out incomplete work are fing a holes, and said if you record it and put it up before the joke is perfective, it’s like a chef giving you a plate of food before it’s finished. It’s like buying a car before they’re done making it. You should wait for the finished product. I’ll ask the question.

If I’m a billion and I’m paying Chris Rock all this money to come to Australia and perform at my party, why are you working out material? Dude? I want your a game. Chris never returned to the stage and was placed by Keith Urban, who presumably played hit songs and not It was like, oh, here’s a song I’m working on. I don’t have a chorus yet, right I might be on team billionaire.

Chris Matt Raife took the stage in a Caitlin Clark jersey. I saw. I think she’s Time magazine sportsperson of the Year and well deserved because I don’t have to tell you who Caitlyn Clark is, so that’s just a sign of her fame and her success. Anyway, Rife donde Caitlin Clark jersey and started joking about Angel Reese. Angel is a bit of a rival of Kaitlin Clark in the WNBA there, Raife said of Caitlin she could have hit Trump from half court.

This is amazing. She’s incredible. Have you guys been to her game? Have you checked out her play live? Bro?

Watching Caitlyn play is like watching the longest yard. The longest yard is also what they call the distance between Angel Reese’s eyeballs. Yikes. Caleb here and worked in campaign spaces before stumbling into improv and eventually comedy. His first gig was putting a bors burlesque show in Missouri for twenty five bucks a week.

He said, twenty five bucks just talking to microphone. I was obsessed and I was so bad at it, but that’s how I started his new project, Sweetheart’s a eighteen roum com on Max. He says online comedy was always a mean to an end for him. Some people love the online thing, but I started leaning into it when I didn’t get SNL the first time. It was kind of a Spike video, like I’ll show them.

You know, as artists were always mining our lives for content, but I felt like I was doing it in a really disingenuous way where every interaction I had, I’d play out the content in my head. I’d be like, point of view, you’re being weird to me at dinner, Like shut up, I was really not enjoying that.

And then I did stand up crowd work clips for a second and hated that.

And the thing is, I love crowd work. It’s fun. I don’t love posting the videos. I have friends who are very good at it. I’m not judging them, but for me, I felt like I was selling my audience out.

It felt like I asked these people to come out and have a good time, and now I’m pipping out our interaction that’s supposed to be this beautiful, special thing happening in the room just for us for views and clicks. So I was like, that’s not gonna work.

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And then I was like, podcast, all I have to do is talk to some what I genuine…

Someone else can post it. I don’t have to read the comments. This I can do. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett, he was listening to Saturday’s interview with Matthew Bissard and he sent me a note and said, you didn’t know hyperbolic? Yikes, good luck at trivia.

No, I didn’t know hyperbolic. See on the trivia team, Bill is the smart one. I’m the one that rings up points with like random eighties TV shows and random eighties music and stuff like that. So we’ve got Glenn. Glenn is the science guy.

We have Van Van Handles sports and cars, Bill is history and smart stuff, and then I’m all the other things, Like when the trivia guys were like, this was the nineteenth person on the nineteen eighty one season of Saturday Night Live, and I’m like, oh, Charles Rockett, and everybody’s like looking at me, like who what, here’s your cast of nineteen eighty one SNL. By the way, Danny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthias, Joe Piscopo, An Riseley, Charles Rocket, and in the middle of December they added a guy named Eddie Murphy who saved the darn thing. So that’s what I do with the trivia. I answer the Charles Rocket question. I think we finished tenth last week, and the last round is always brutal.

But you know what if the trivia guys are listening, and I know you do. We loved last week, like we get a I mean, we don’t really care. I’ve learned to like shut up. I used to argue with the trivia guys and they’re like, who is this a hole? And I realized you know what they’re right, I’m an a hole.

Shut up, have your two beers who cares? But like, we hate when it’s Ariana Grande questions because we don’t know those. Now, last week there were a couple like actual trivia questions, like stuff about I don’t know facts and we didn’t know the answer, And I’m like, I’m okay losing if we don’t know facts. But like when it’s like what was Ariana Grande’s third album called, we don’t know? Who cares?

Anyway, Scott Beckett said, you didn’t know hyperbolock Yike’s good luck at trivia? So, Scott Beckett, you know that face Taylor Swift made it the Golden Globes Awards when Joe Koy told a joke about her. Do you need me to remind you of the joke? I think you do. Let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. Yeah, so you know that face Taylor’s making right now looking at Joe Cooy. I’m making that face at Scott Peckett. No, I don’t know what hyperbolic means, even though Matthew Persard told me I didn’t even listen to the answer because he’s I’m sorry. Not as canceled as we were led to believe.

Zi’s has announced a new tour. It’s the Hypothetical Tour. He’ll play a bunch of places, including Montreal. He’s up there on March twenty seventh. An Australian comedian has canceled a musical about Raygun.

Remember Raygun, the breakdancer from the Olympics. Raygun the musical was going to open in Sydney. Comedian Steph Broadbridge said Ygun’s lawyers got in touch with the venue and threatened legal action. Raygun’s lawyers were worried I was damaging her brand, which I would never do. She doesn’t need me to do that.

Broadbridge said. The lawyers had asserted she wasn’t allowed to perform the dance moves because Reygun owns the Kangaroo dance. Broudbridge said that one did puzzle me. I mean, that’s an Olympic level dance. How would I possibly do that without any formal breakdancing training?

I love this. Broadbridge says she will perform at a later date and change the spelling of Rayguns to include the letter I. In an attempt to alleviate legal concerns, Rayguns Management Agency said, while we have immense respect for the credible work and effort that has gone into the development of the show, we must take necessary steps to safeguard Rachel’s creative rights and the integrity of her work. This action is not intended to diminish the contributions of others, but rather to ensure her brand is properly represented and protected in all future endeavors. Our friends over at eight hundred Pound Guerilla, they’re excited to announce the release of season four of Greg in La.

Greg and La originally began as a series on Instagram. You will now find it on YouTube. Greg in La follows a recently single forty something as he navigates life in Los Angeles with his mentor canine companion, Winston. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without come marcial interruption.

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And the guy who writes that, James Cridlin, will explain to you how you can add it to your Android phone. But then you can do that, and then you can click the banner the ads go away. Johnny Mack makes a lot of money on the side. You know what I’m saying. Yeah, yeah, this thing ain’t free.

A lot of fun. It’s a job. I can’t tell the mortgage company. Hey, but I was telling people about comedy specials. That doesn’t work.

I have to give them actual money. So that’s why you get commercials. So you understand how this works. Why am I explaining this? All right?

I’m heading off to trivia. Hopefully they’re not going to ask us to define hyperbolic or anything like that. Actually, they’ve posted the clues. You want to know what we can do here, I’ll tell you if they post clues. So they’re called best Men Trivia.

See how smart Scott Beckett is? All right, Scott Beckett? In scrabble, what are the two highest scoring tiles? Scott Beckett, I bet it’s not hyperbarlic, is it? No?

It’s not. I got this one right. Still finished in tenth place. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media tightly home Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start on gossip corner. The Daily Mail reports Chris Rock ran out in the middle of a surprise comedy set at a billionaire’s holiday party. Must be nice to be Chris Rock and that billionaire. According to The Mail, Rock was upset by being videotape, so he stormed out minutes after taking the stage.

Rock was hired by Anthony Pratt for the party, attended by many quote uber wealthy Australians down at the Amandarin. Oriental comedian Wally Collins and country singer Keith Urban were also hired to perform at the party, but in between their sets, Chris Rock surprised the crowd. Rock took the stage in casual attire and joked, our new push will be out of space. We’ll put all the Mexicans on the rockets. I’m sure he told it better.

It’s not a particularly great joke. New York Post gossip colonist Cindy Adams, who has to be one hundred and thirty four years old at this point. I mean, she’s been around forever and was old when I was a kid. How old is Cindy Adams ninety four? According to Cindy Adams, the quote here is he saw something the audience did not before abruptly ending his quote very short set.

Whatever he saw or thought he saw upset him. Like he went momentarily ape and shouted something, does the ninety four year old woman use ape? Where is somebody ghostwriting this? Like he went momentarily ape and shouted something like he wasn’t supposed to be videotaped, reported or whatever else wasn’t supposed to happen. Rock didn’t complain, didn’t explain, didn’t do one more minute, and is said to have barreled quickly, forcefully through people to the exit doors.

He kept complaining loudly, and without a second’s hesitation, stormed out, never to return. Bill Burr on his podcast talked about the murder of the head of United Healthcare. I want to pull the audio here, but Burr drops a lot of F bombs, so let me read you what he said. I was sitting there reading an article. A guy was like, Oh my god, he’s such a great guy.

He had a wife and kids. He’s such a and then you find out any other guys he’s working for getting sued for a one hundred and twenty one million dollars you’re not a stock and not letting the other people know. It’s like dash emotive, the gangsters, dude effing gangsters and then when one of them gets whacked or something like, oh my god, he’s such a good guy. It’s a dirty game, healthcare dirty game. Why is there this lever off coverage?

Somebody gets gunned down in New York every f and day, and now all of a sudden these experts have to weigh in. That’s because of the status. You can’t have white guys and suits getting whacked.

Speaking of Bill Burr smashing, Pumpkins front man Billy corgan is claiming t…

Billy was on Howie Mandel’s podcast and told the story. Saw about ten years ago, one of my brothers was having a birthday party and my stepmother was there, and my stepmother said to me, do you know who Bill Burr is? Now? At that point, I had never heard of Bill Burr. I didn’t know who he was.

I didn’t know he was comedian or anything. He could have been the guy down the street. Stepmom shows Corgan a picture of Bill Burr, says, I kind of know sh right away. Gee, looks like my father. Bill Burr looks more like my father than Bill Burr looks like me, or I look like Bill Burr.

Stepmom says, I think he might be one of your father’s illegitimate children. Bill Burr might be one of the children that your father sired in his days of being a traveling musician. It’s a true story. I’m not making this up, and there’s no joke in that. This is a true story.

I’ve never told this anywhere, honestly. And again, I didn’t know Bill was a famous comedian. He could have been a guy that’s working down the street at the whack factory in Chicago. I had no idea who he was. None.

Zero.

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And then the stepmom goes, I think there’s twelve total.

Well, he was a traveling musician. Corgan ads, it’s my belief at this point, because I’ve sat on the story for ten years that I don’t think Bill Burr and I were related. Just one of those things there were people in the world that look alike. Now, I was really upset here. I was googling Bill Burr parents and I scrolled down and I see on Google.

Burr’s father died when he was only one year old, and his mother died the following year. Burr became an orphan at the age of two years old. I had no idea about Bill Burr. Oh no, no, no, no, that’s Aaron Burr, the guy from Hamilton. Bill’s father, Robert Burr, was a prominent dentist who immigrated from Ireland.

Whatever, I’m moving on. The Golden Globes nominations are out. This year’s host, Nikki Glaser. I’ve got some categories here for Best Performance by an Actor or actress in Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, but they’re not really what we talk about here, so I’ll skip those. Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy.

Abbot The Bear, The Gentleman Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders again. If you think The Bear is actually a comedy, you should have your head examined. Best stand Up Comedian on Television. Interesting category.

Jamie Fox for What had Happened Was, which is out today. Nicki Glazers Someday You’ll Die, Seth Myers for Dead Man Walking, Adam Sandler Love You, Ali Wong for Single Lady and Rami yousef more feelings. Now, I haven’t seen Fox yet, so putting that aside, if I had to pick from the other five, I’m going to pick No, buckle up, You’re gonna be stunned by this. I would pick ata those five Adam Sandler, and I’ve been known not to be a fan of Adam Sandler’s comedy. But out of those five Adam Sandler, Jamie Fox is out on Netflix today.

It is his special What had happened was I’m sure we’ll be recapping that a lot in the next few days. I don’t know if I’ll get to it tonight. The Indiana Jones video game came out, and I thought I was going to play at Sunday morning, and I thought I had preloaded the game, and then Xbox was like, yeah, this is going to take five hours to download. And I haven’t gotten to play yet, So that might be my Tuesday night. Maybe I’ll wait for Jamie and Fortune and watch them back to back on the weekend.

Back to Gossip Corner, page six reports that Jamie Party passed four am in Miami, seen at Megaclub E eleven on Sunday. Jamie was spotted dancing at his ultra vip table in the club’s party pit, surrounded by a listers. No word on who those eight listers are. One witness said Jamie was just vibing with the music and seemed to be having the best time. He was standing on the banquette of his table and definitely didn’t mind being seen.

The crowd went wild when gold Digger came on, and Jamie was nodding along with the music and interacting with fans. Says another source, his energy was unreal. Page six is told Jamie arrived at three am and stayed until dawn had take in Lil Wayne’s headlining performance. Wayne didn’t go on till four point thirty. Usually enough and not lying to you.

I’ve been at a Jamie Fox Barty or two and all that sounds right on. He tends to have his little area, tends to interact with fans, tends to be very pleasant as a beverage too, dances because he’s there. They always play gold Digger, that was his hit song, and you know, cool guy in all senses of the word. KABC reports Jamie visited Capitol Hill last Wednesday, lobbying for a bill that would increase funding for Down syndrome research in honor of his late sister. DeAndre Dixon had Down syndrome.

She passed away at the age of thirty six in October of twenty twenty. Fox told reporters, and my sister was a big part of my life. She lived an incredible life. People like DeAndre need help. Feels really good to talk about a bill that would be in my sister’s name to continue her legacy.

And I know she’s looking down, like, yeah, man, that’s what it’s all about. Having been around that camp. That is not hogwash. That is not something you just say to the papers. He clearly did care about his sister.

His sister clearly was a big part of his life. He would have his sister around. None of that is fake, phony, Hollywood stuff. I applaud you, Jamie Fox. The legislation past the House in September, and it still needs Senate approval and the President’s signature.

You can tell I only have good things to say about Jamie Fox. Right, yep, yep. Looking forward to watching the special. Maybe that’s a night because of Indiana Jones Saturday Night Live. Paul Meskol was a good host.

I really liked The Gladiator too as a musical sketch. There’s a three and a half minute cut of that floating around the internet if you haven’t seen it yet. I still don’t understand again, Laurene Michael’s Hall of Famer Me dope in the basement. I don’t understand what we’re doing with Dana Carvey. Why are we opening SNL in twenty twenty four with Dana Carvey doing the Church Lady and having David Spade on like it?

Just you have a cast, use them. You can kind of hear my voice isn’t all the way back yet? Right? Yeah, this thing is lingering, man. Variety held a thing called a Night in the Writer’s Room.

One of the writers that was there was Bill Lawrence. Laurence said, there’s absolutely a line between comedy and drama, and drama should not end into comedy, and it has. There’s a lot of shows that are not particularly funny, and then he drifted off and didn’t name names, but I will the bear. Laurence said, Look, there’s some dramas that are funny. Man.

I wouldn’t blink twice if Succession won the Emmy for Best Comedy. That show was effing funny. It was so darkly funny. I thought it was hysterical. But I thought it was hysterical because I’d had jokes.

And I think you can do any type of show that has pathos and drama in emotion and call it a drama if you want, But I think to call it a comedy, you’d better be joke forward and arguably have some big serious laughs, or at least be attempting in every shot the bear, Laurence said when he was first pitching Scrubs, which if you missed over the weekend, he’s working on a reboot of it. The president of one of the major networks said, I don’t think you could do broad silly comedy and then switch gears and if people give a crap about whether or not a patient is living or dying. Laurence said, He fired back, I think you can if you turn the lights down and play an indie song. The executive didn’t find that funny at all. Scrubs I think is proof that you can.

Also there was the show Mash. I don’t know if anybody’s ever heard of that one. Apparently Ellen is having a hard time a joke in the UK. You see Ellen’s got a land Rover Defender, but it’s so wide they can’t drive it in their new village, according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper said it’s crying shame as their local pub is just four hundred meters away, you know, because Ellen was gonna hang out with the pub.

Sure on the other side of A with restrictor and a with restricted bridge both said it’s six feet six inches. Ellen’s car is five to ten, which would mean squeaking through with a mere four inchest to spare on each side. Charlemage the God has stuck up for Andrew Schultz. The Internet continues to criticize Andrew over his alleged anti black jokes. Charlemagne said, I agree.

If you’re a comedian, you have the license to make jokes about any and everybody. Since when do we police comedians? And by the way, if you don’t like the jokes, you have every right to say it. You can rap about it, you can protest about it, you can be offended, you can tweet about it, you can do all that stuff. New York comedian Derk Gaines tapes his Neck special two shows at the Stand tonight in New York City.

Melissa via signor threaded. My special Whelp What Now will be out on New Year’s Day on YouTube. Hope you enjoy. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna go slow here because I don’t want to be accused of something that’s not true. So let me ask you a question before I get to story number one. Who do you think the Comedian of the Year is?

Right? Who do you think the Comedian of the Year is? Think about that. I want to tell you something else and then we’ll do the story. I got to figure out when I’m taping my Best Specials of the Year list, I definitely want to wait to the other side of Jamie Fox.

Then next Tuesday, Ronny Chieng has the Netflix special and I really liked Ronnie’s previous work. But on the other hand, candidly, Johnny Max look at it, pre tape a couple things for Christmas week, you know what I’m saying. So I don’t want to wait too long. You know, I can’t record it on December thirty first at eleven pm, so I’m definitely not going to include Michelle Buttoe’s Near’s Eve show and I probably will record this before Nateperghatzy comes out on the twenty fourth, and before the Jeff Ross end of the Year roast thing on the twenty seventh, so you know at some point I’m cutting it off early. Anyway, maybe I’ll get on the other side of Fox and recorded.

Okay, I’ve babbled enough, So did you think about it? Who do you think the Comedian of the Year is? Consequence of Sound picked Nikki Glaser. Not an absurd pick, but I don’t think it’s the right pick. Consequence says this year alone, the All Star Comedian dropped the gutbusting and wonderfully Morbid and Grammy and Emmy nominated stand up special Someday You’ll Die.

Did anybody care about that one? I haven’t met anyone who’s cared about that one. I’m not saying she’s bad because she crushed at the Roast of tom Brady. She won the night at the Roast of tom Brady, which is why she had a great year. But that same week, like three four days later, maybe a week later, Someday You’ll Die came out on Max and came and went.

I don’t think anyone cared. Nikki also hosted the reality series Lovers and Liars. She’s been on Thursday Night Football with late Hits, which is either invisible or terrible. Most people haven’t encountered it. I watch Thursday Night Football.

I’ve yet to actually see her do it, but I’ve seen the clips, and the clips were terrible. We got to make this quick so we can get back to what the fans are really here for, more wicked commercials. It is great to be. Here in Philadelphia, a city that feels the way batteries taste. It’s the city where Rocky ran up the most famous steps of the Museum of Art but never went inside to learn anything.

Tonight we had a face off between Taylor Swift’s boyfriend’s older brothers old team and the Commanders. The Commanders a name everyone loves and a logo that offends no one except, of course, graphic designers. In a few weeks she will host the Golden Globe Awards, which are in twenty twenty five. So that doesn’t really help you be Comedian of the Year. And of course she talked a lot about Taylor Swift.

She told Consequence of Sound, I was just having a conversation with somebody about being successful, and like, how did you get to this place? And I’m like, I just agree to things I didn’t think I could do and then I couldn’t back out of them. That’s funny. I attributed to having this burst of confidence for yourself months so you go, oh yeah, I can do that, and then you deeply regret it the entire time until you do. It happens almost every time where I have this massive panic that I’m going to be the worst ever and I’m certain of it.

There’s no telling me, Nikki. This happens every time. No, this time is different. This is really bad. Wait, I just put something together.

She’s a big Taylor Swift fan. Will she make a joke about Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes Because you remember one time Joe Coy made a joke about Taylor Swift. Do I need to play it for you? No, you probably remember it. Will she joke about Taylor Swift?

Will Taylor Swift give her the ice look of death and ruin her career? That would be terrible. Maybe Nikki Glaser shouldn’t host the Golden Globes. Don’t make a joke about Taylor Swift. Taylor doesn’t like those jokes.

Nikki Glaser tells Consequences of sound the way to be the best comedian that I want to be is to be the most authentic and the most unfiltered. I’d say that I’m even more true to myself and the things I think got stage because no one’s there to tell me Nikki stop. So okay, go ahead send your notes in Johnny mack Hate’s women Comedian’s been there, done that, heard it. When I ask you who the comedian of the year is, who do you think of? Did you think of?

Nikki Glaser? Okay, it’s not an absurd choice, not at all. It is not an absurd choice. I don’t think it’s the right choice. Here are some people I wrote down and I didn’t really think about this long.

This is like who popped in a mind? Because the comedian year should be somebody that pops in the mine, right. I could make a case for Joe Rogan. There’s an entire political party saying Joe Rogan won the election for the guy that won, so that alone, Joe Rogan top Podcast, Joe Rogan had a good year, Joe Rogan had a special Joe Rogan had a good year. I’m not picking Joe Rogan.

I could make a case for Tony Hinchcliff. Some people thought Tony Hinchcliff had cost Trump the entire election. Didn’t turn out to be true. Kill. Tony is a force in comedy.

I know a lot of people are hating on it lately. I like the show. Tony Hinchcliff also crushed at the Tom Brady Roast and apparently Tony Hinchcliff wrote a lot of the jokes for some other people that were on that roast. I could make a case Tony Hinchcliff is the comedian of the Year. Not picking him John m’laney in the mix, not picking him.

Jim Gaffigan and had a pretty good year. I didn’t like a special. He had his whiskey. He was on Saturday Night Live. Everybody talked about Jim took a step up in and I don’t know class isn’t right because he’s been at the top of the comedy game.

But more people than ever know who Jim Gaffigan is. Jim had a great year. You can make a case for Jim gaffigin Comedian of the Year My pick. Nate Bergatzy hosted Saturday Night Live for a second time, has a special coming out on the twenty fourth as a TV special with Lorne Michaels. He announced a book that’s twenty twenty five.

He announced a movie that’s twenty twenty five. To word, everybody likes him. Podcaster ny Bergazzy w’d be my pick. Today, Minnie Kayling and Marsh Chestnut will present the nominees for the eighty second Annual Golden Globes, which will be hosted by Nikki Glaser, who may or may not tell a joke about Taylor Swift. That’s really interesting.

Meanwhile, the Critics’ Choice Awards will air on e Sunday, January twelfth, with host Chelsea Handler. That’s a good choice for a host. The comedy nominees are Best Comedy Series Abbott, Elementary English Teacher Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders in the building. Is somebody somewhere?

Saint Dennis, Medical, what we do in the shadows? I don’t feel like reading. The Best Actor in Best Aschrist Today, Outstanding Talk Series, Hot Ones, Daily Show, Graham Norton, Mulaney, Kelly Clarkson, Colbert, Best Comedy Special Okay, I’ll play along. Nominees are Ali Wong, Single Lady, Nope, Jim Gaffigan, The Skinny Definitely Nope. Kevin James, irregardless, definitely Nope.

Nikki Glaser Someday You’ll die. Best of the four? Okay, you’re paying attention, Johnny macfeel’s fair. That’s the best of the four. I’ve mentioned Rachel Bloom’s death.

Let me do my special on Netflix. Didn’t see it? Romy yousef more feelings. I think I disliked the direction on that. Can I tell you those are terrible nominees.

None of those six are on my end of the year list. You want me to pick from those six? Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll die. Delete that email you sent me two minutes ago. Huh hah, huh, John You’re so sensitive.

I know I get mad when people accuse me of that. I have two daughters, guys. Conan O’Brien looked back on his interaction with Robin Williams. Conan told Eric Einol, I was lucky enough to have some great interactions with Robin Williams before he passed away. One of the most memorable examples to me is when I went through my whole time and I showed a buckle.

Finally the show’s done. I don’t fall have a career anymore. What am I gonna do next. I’m lying on the floor in the living room in my house. My phone rings.

Pick it up. It’s Robin Williams. I don’t even know how I got my phone number. Williams asked, how you holding up, Chief, and he said, you’re gonna be fine. You’re gonna be great.

Then Williams, who’s in a bicycling and you Conan liked to bike, sold him to go down to a bike shop in Santa Monica where Robin had a cruiser setup for him. Robin said, just sat on down there right around you’ll feel better. And I went down. It was a Colnago, which is a very nice bike, and he said, I told him to paint in these crazy Irish colors they get down there, and I mean it’s the ugliest. It was just greens and shamrocks and everything.

And he was like, you’re gonna like that bike, Chief, don’t worry about it. I think them many times. I just couldn’t believe he was thinking about me.

Meanwhile, on Conan’s podcast back in September, he welcomed Catherina, who’s…

During that conversation, Conan asked if he could be a guest vocalist in her metal band Cringe Blizzard. Conan has shared on social media that he did indeed go to Austria and sing with Cringe Blizzard. People speculate he was in Austria to film more episodes of Conan O’Brien must go. If you’re looking at your calendar for twenty twenty five and be like, I have absolutely nothing to do. I have no idea how I would possibly pass the time, Like, I just have absolutely no friends, nothing to watch on TV, no video games, no movies.

I want to see what am I gonna do? Well? Good news, Greg Guttfeld is touring his tour starts. Boy, that was a shot. Gutfeld’s tour starts March fifteenth.

Looks like he’s doing two shows a month on one weekend. I would look at it. So it’s like April twenty six, twenty seven, May seventeen, so in eighteenth they’ll wrap up. October fifth and Sugarland, Texas. Kevin Hart, he’s never afraid to work.

He’s got yet another gig. Are you flying Cutter Airways? Cutter Qatar? Some of you pronounced quitar. Those guys they’ve got an airline and the in flight video is going to be Kevin Hart.

How annoying is that going to be? Those videos are annoying enough. Imagine Kevin Hart doing Kevin Hart things. Kevin Hart said, buckle up. This safety video is onlike anything you’ve seen on board a luxury airliner before.

I’ve loved partnering with Qatar Airways to produce a video that passengers will not only pay attention to, but remember for a long time coming, or at least until their next flight. Good news. The film will be available in January, and I believe only January. Jenny Mack, you’ve been sassy since you got your voice back. I know I’m a little I’m a little sassy lately.

Yes, I admitted. Eli Times caught up with Bella Bajaria. Bella is the chief content. Bella is the chief Did you hear my voice crack? There?

I was gonna make an edit because you heard me do the pickup. I’m leaving it. I was like Peter Breedy there for a second. Chief content officer for Netflix, Bella said, audiences can feel and are pretty tuned when something does feel like it’s authentic. Our strategy has always been about we love comedy.

Our members love comedy, and we also know that they have lots of different tastes. It’s also to make sure that we have comedy in lots of different formats. We’re not just narrow like those hilarious guys. And so that’s why it ranges from series to film, the live to stand up all over the world. Jason kels he’s getting ready for his big, exciting January late night show on ESPN at one in the morning.

Keith Cossro is the vice president and head of Content in NFL Films, and Keith spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about Kelsey’s show. According to Kossro, Kelsey said, I want to have a live band with horns. It’s got to have a horn section. Kelsey was recently on Kimmel and said, I love late night shows. I’ve always loved them.

I remember it sleepovers watching Conan O’Brien with my friends. They call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey will originate from Philadelphia at Kelsey’s request. Ross Katsover is another senior executive NFL Films. It says, comedy is hard sports and comedy is hard. Us doing essentially a live studio show is something very new and exciting.

But Jason is just a force of nature, and we’re so excited to be in business with him. They call it Late Night with Jason Kelcey Friday, January third on ESPN, and I think, understanding how clocks work, I think by Friday, January third, they actually mean one am Saturday, January fourth. But I’ll fact check that and get back to you. I was making a fact checking a friend of the show, Jason Zinniman from The New York Times. He hit me up on threads responding to one of my comments, he said, let me find it.

I had threaded. We don’t have a date for Burr, Zinnman wrote me back March twenty twenty five. I don’t know why I thought Burr was the December one. What is the December one, Johnny Mac, I don’t know. The Hulu publicists don’t want you to know either.

That’s how you wind up on the pirate ship with Captain Hook watching it over at his place. You know. I don’t know why I’m puccy. I guess I’m feel better all right. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m shining Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big announcement from Netflix I’ll tell you about in a second, but top of mine, I want to share a story with you about Hilarious. So remember Hilarius, the big comedy platform thing. I’ve been telling you about it for a couple months, and Jim Gaffigan and had a special on it.

So I’ve mentioned to you that I don’t have Hulu. So when Jim Gaffigan special came out, I called up my friend, Captain Hook. The captain lives on a pirate ship. He’s a very eccentric character, but he gets all the comedy specials. So I went over to the Captain’s place on the pirate ship.

There and I watched Jim Gaffigan’s special on the pirate ship. Okay, every time I told you about Hilarious, I was thinking to myself Peacock. I was visually picturing myself in the comfy chair downstairs where I fall asleep with my Roku app, And every time I said the word hilarious, I thought of Peacock. Last night, I was watching some TV and I went over to Hulu to watch The Shield where I regularly watched The Shield, and there was Jim Gaffigan and I was like, Oh, hilarious is on Hulu and I have the service. I didn’t need to go over to Captain Hooks to watch it on the Pirate Ship.

I could have just watched it. Guys, the marketing didn’t work. Aside from I suck and I’m stupid, I host a comedy podcast seven days a week for five years now, Like something broke. Something in the marketing didn’t work. Maybe everybody else was like, oh, yeah, Hulu, we have Hulu.

I talked about this thing every day and never even realized I had the service, So I’m not sure it’s scored. And I went all the way over to Captain Hooks to watch seven minutes of comedy from somebody who has nothing new to say.

Moving on, Netflix announced Torching twenty twenty four, a roast of the year…

Build as a night of savage laughs and surprises looking back on the last twelve months. The roast will tape on December seventeenth. It will feature Mark Norman, Miss Pat Sammurrial, Tim Dillon, Jeff Ross. I just have this suspicion that it’s not gonna be good. Didn’t Netflix do some sort of like year recap shows a year ago or two years ago that was like unwatchable.

I think this is a mistake. Here’s why the Roast of Tom Brady was so good, such a high bar, and they announced this thing on December sixth. I’m gonna tape it eleven days later. And while the lineup is nice, it’s not at the level of the Tom Brady Roast, which had say Tom Brady or Kevin Hard or folks like that. So I think Netflix is making a mistake here and goofing up their brand new roast brand.

I like everyone who’s performing. I just don’t think it’s big enough. I think this is a mistake. A Roast of the Year Netflix, December twenty seventh. I don’t know man.

Spotify announced the top podcast of the year. I’ll focus on the comedy ones. You can probably guess number one. That’s right, The most powerful man in the world, the Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan is the man.

He’s number one. Theo Vaughn a number three. This is on Spotify, so if you look at the Apple charts, she’ll get a different result, although you’ll still get Rogan number one. THEO at three. Other comedians.

Let’s see Dak Sheppard. Is he comedic anyway? He’s at eight? The SmartLess Guys Are they comedians? They’re at fourteen.

The Kelsey Brothers at nineteen. Hey, one of them host a late night show. Now we got to put them in the bag. Trevor Noah at twenty Bad Friends and Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee sitting at twenty one, Matt and Chain’s Secret Podcast at twenty six, kill Tony at twenty eight. Twenty nine is two Bears, One Cave with Tom Si Gorenberg, Krascher Conan at forty seven, Andrew Schultz at forty nine.

And I guess this show is number fifty one. I’m not in the top fifty, but probably fifty one would be my assumption there. Scrubs is coming back, Baby, Well, all we know so far is Bill Lawrence, who came up with the original. He’s rebooting Scrubs. That’s all they’ve announced.

We have no idea who’s on it or not. If they bring this back without j D and Turk, everyone’s insane and Zach Braff and Donald Faison would be insane not to take the money right. Getting anyone else back from the cast would be nice, But I think it’s Zach and Donald and whoever else is bored. You can be part of it or not. My wife and I discussed this already, like, well, what happens if Carla doesn’t come back?

Very simple? Right? So Jad’s at the supermarket, he runs into turk. Hey, dude, how you been? Oh?

I’m great and great. You know, how’s it working at Saint whatever hospital? You know, I’m thinking to start my own practice. Me too. We should go into practice together.

And then they opened a practice together, and then whoever’s on the show’s on the show, and that’ll be fine. John Oliver’s show has withdrawn from the Critics’ Choice Awards as a result of a category change. Oh no, a controversy. The organization changed the rules stating that only shows that involved conversation should be nominated for Best Talk Show, and Oliver rarely talks to anybody else on his show, unlike his late night beers. The nominees are hot Ones, The Daily Show, Graham, Norton, Mulaney, Kelly Clarkson, and Colbert.

Organizers wanted Oliver to go into Best Comedy Series, where it would have competed against Avid Elementary English teacher Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders somebody somewhere, Saint Dennis Medical and what we do in the shadows. I guess the Olivery people were like NAH Critics’ Choice Awards Sunday, January twelfth, talking a little bit about that. Tomorrow, Pete Davidson has divulged. How much you make if you’re in the cast of Saturday Night Live.

New York Magazine asked Pete what was your biggest splurge after your first SNL paycheck? Pete said, do you guys know what they pay us? It’s like three grand an episode. I think I got dinner. Somebody did some math.

That means if you appear in every episode, you earn somewhere between fifty four and sixty six grand. That said, it’s probably good for your career long term. I forgot to put in my notes somewhere. I saw Bill Murray was on somebody’s podcast and says he wants to host SNL this season. I can’t imagine Lauren seeing that Bill wants to do it, and Lauren saying no to Bill, because Bill’s a bit of a recluse, right, So I bet that winds up happening.

Andrew Schultz says officially responded to Kendrick Lamour’s subliminal shot at him. You may remember that Lamar’s recent musical release discussed white comics who disrespect black women. Many people on the interwebs think he meant Andrew Schultz. Schultz, in a facetious way, said nobody’s respected women more through art than rappers. Jaminika Saunders tapes her next special today at three pm and five pm at the comedy sellers Fat Black pussy Cat in New York City.

Jonathan van Ness will get a special on Veeps. Fun and Slutty will be on Veeps January twenty third, that service I definitely don’t have. In Fun and Slutty, Jonathan takes on the persona of Professor Jonathan van Nasty as they set out to educate an unsuspecting audience on the definitions shenanigans and stigmas of slutty behavior. Staped earlier this year in Austin, Texas, there is a trailer. I pulled the audio there was too much cursing for me to air it and I didn’t find it all that funny, so we move on.

Sketch Fest. You know, you gotta love the sketch Fest publicist. Sketch Fest publicist SANSI items and then I talk about them, so it’s good for me and it’s good for sketch Fest. Wish all publicists would be this good. I know, I said it, stop, all right, what did Scotch Test announce?

Now? Napoleon Dynamite celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a live read featuring the film stars. That’s pretty cool. That’s on January nineteenth. The Dear Boys podcast will be there on the twenty fifth.

Do you Like Baseball? John Cruck and Dwayne Kiper will be in conversation that’s on May fifteenth. I’m gonna have to hit the publicist back and be like, wait, sketch Chess is in January and that’s not comedy. Why is that in this? Chris Fleming, Who’s Fantastic, has added a third show by popular demand at the Great American Music Hall on January nineteenth.

Ucb’s ASCAT added a second show that’s on the twenty fifth, and Rhys Darby’s second show on January eighteenth. I’m not sure how the baseball guys feature in this. If it was in January, I’d be like, okay, whatever, But I don’t know. I don’t get it. Sketch Fest is fantastic.

I have to find some reason to get out to San Francisco and let me tell you about the Gallagher documentary. I have a screen of it. I’ve been so backed up since Thanksgiving. I need to watch this thing because I like Gallagher a lot. Got to do a broadcast with him one time, and he was pretty cool.

Indywire caught up with filmmaker Josh Forbes. Gallagher was shot over the course of seven years. Gallagher is a portrait of a prop comedian in the winter of his life. Forbes told any Wire, it’s kind of hacked. Just say, oh, this guy smashes things on an idiot.

If you look at the history of comedyer clowns, making a messes funny, by fights are funny. Slipping on a banana peel is funny. And I think it cause it’s so overly silly. It’s an easy target. And I always like the underdog.

I always like the outsider. I always liked the guy who’s misunderstood. Forbes initially pitched an idea about Gallagher reuniting with his brother. You know, there was that whole Gallagher two Gallagher too thing for a while. I still don’t understand what was going on there.

Main Gallagher was like, now the project evolved into a portrait of a comedian on the road. Forbes said, I had me and my sound guy and my camera guy in one room and we’re staying in the same hotel, and he’s like, well, it’s my room. It’s just one guy. You guys have three guys. One of you guys stay with me.

So I ended up sharing a bedroom with Gallagher, which was crazy because he never wore a shirt. Having met Gallagher, you know, probably not the same as hearing a room with I don’t know. David Beckham just saying at one point I was in the hotel room with him and I was checking my phone and I smelled something. I looked over and he had his wet underwear on a lamp just in our room. He was a total wild man.

Forbes said, anything that closely resembled the truth or his past, especially, he didn’t want to talk about it, and he didn’t see how it was funny. He only wanted to do things that were funny. No matter how hard he tried to be seen as something other than watermelon smashing guy. People were like, you’re the watermelon smashing guy. I’m just as guilty.

When we had him up, we had him smash Jackie the joke man. Jokemaster Junior’s long story Forbes said Gallagher completely resented it. No, not me, the watermelon folks. It’s like having a band having a big radio hit and then kind of hating the audience. But I think he also enjoyed it.

He enjoyed the thrill of making the audience cringe and go wild and get messy and all that, and he loved the aspect of that. But I think the most difficult thing for him was just being a brilliant comedian. But people just wanted him to smash things. Final story of the day, comedian Kabir Singh has passed away at thirty nine years old. Sing died on when day TMZ reported that Singh had been dealing with health concerns and authorities suspect he died of natural causes.

Singh’s friend Jeremy Curry posted on Facebook. He shared a picture of the two smiling together and wrote that the late comedian passed away peacefully in his sleep. Kabir Singh was thirty nine. That’s your comedy needs for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. When we last left, I left you on a cliffhanger.

Did Matthew Brossard show up? Of course he showed up. I don’t know. I saw one of the bus. Of course he showed up.

He was fantastic. We did about forty five minutes raw with We had a technical snafpoo in the middle, so I’ll take the break there. What happened was he had his ring light plugged in but not his phone, and his phone ran all the way down to zero. So all of a sudden you’ll hear him drop out mid sentence. I’ll explain that when we get to it.

He’s got a new special. It is called Hyperbolic. It is his full length debut special. In Hyperbolic, Matthew Bisard dives into painfully personal experiences growing up Cajun Jewish and a waspy Southern prep school, the challenges of millennial masculinity, is the bread loser to a former pro athlete, and candid stories about mental health struggles in his family, plus some oddly keen sidebars into grammar, etymology, pharmaceutical origin stories. And statistics.

If you’ve heard me interview comedians in the past, this is a typical ride. We’ll get into the structure of comedy. We’ll talk a little crowd work, feeding the Beast, his favorite comedians, some comedy snobbery on my part. He turned me on to some people that weren’t on my radar, and I really enjoyed. Mattie restart.

Where are you today? I’m in my apartment in Brooklyn and sitting here. My fiance’s out taking her Paris to the museum. So thank you for giving me an excuse to bail on in law entertainment. How’d you wind up in Brooklyn by way.

Of Corpus Christy, Atlanta, Houston, LA?

And then ended up here to.

Work comedy out of New York as post LA. Yes, so I was dating my fiance who lived in Austin. I lived in LA and we wanted a place where we could both kind of do in the best version of the careers we were seeking. So she was a swimmer. You were a swimmer.

Did you guys meet as swimmers or did you meet as commons? No, she was a swimmer. I did not swim on that level. I swam as a recreational swimmer. She was like a professional old dudes.

I read an article yea, yeah, yeah, old dudes like me in the pool and you. Yes, yes, I was a I worked for the swim team in college, so I kind of knew of her through swimming. She knew of me through friends in swimming. In comedy, but yeah, just I was mostly I found her because she was a pro swimmer who I was a fan of and thought was very attractive. So did you get her into comedy or is that just an independent thing?

Independent thing? I would say it’s more she liked me because she was interested in comedy. And was doing improv when we met. Do you do shows together? Yes, so she comes into features from me on the road.

Fantastic, Yeah, and it’s pretty fun. We started doing Q and A at the end of the shows. It’s it’s neat. I have to tweak my set a little bit, because there’s there’s just no world in which there’s no world in which you don’t you don’t know. Even people can be very stupid, people can be very smart.

Most people understand when one comic is here from New York City who’s featuring, Well, they didn’t fly here to do twenty minutes, so clearly they may have come along with the headliner, and that we are the same age and share a lot of the similar demographics, it’s not unreasonable to assume that we are partners. And even beyond that, the biography, the dual biography, you’d have to be pretty dense to not figure out that my professional swimmer fiance turned comedian was not her. Though some crowds have very much surprised me. I’ve had people after the show after I’ve set everything go. So just question.

I noticed as she mentioned a lot of the things you mentioned, was that your fiance like they’re Sherlock Holmes, and do. You guys get along in terms of like if you do fiance jokes. Does she understand the difference between the character the fiance or does that spill over? Yeah, back to Brooklyn, I think we all get it. We have to.

You have to kind of force some details through for the sake of narrative and character, and you might have to embellish details. And I think we both understand that. And there are things that are said about us that are not accurate. But luckily we go up there and get to represent ourselves. So I say better than in most relationships where the other partner has no voice besides mocking impression.

I have been. Really trying in my comedy to be extremely truthful. I do try to keep the stories pretty accurate, so at least on a detail space, especially about my mom. I have a lot of stories about my mom on the special that are. My favorite jokes, and it feels like cheating because I don’t have to make up anything.

The details all happened as I told them, sometimes even a little more ridiculous than the story I told. And my mom doesn’t like certain details. I read a note she wrote on stage. It’s the one pushback I’ve ever gotten from her. Oh what did she say?

She doesn’t like it. She sent this note, and you can if you want to hear the note. I think it’s the I think it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever talked about on stage is this note. It’s the funniest thing I think I’ve accomplished. But the note is from my mom to my fiance for her birthday.

And I told her I’m going to read this and say. She goes, okay, fine, whatever you want to do. I don’t get why it’s funny, and then she came through a show where I read it out loud and she heard everyone laughing, and she still can’t understand why it’s funny. She still can’t understand why people are laughing at this thing. She goes and they’re laughing at me, and I have to explain her, No, they’re more laughing at how earnest you are.

It’s not that anyone thinks. It’s that people feel the things you’re feeling. It’s just so rare and interesting and funny to hear them so baldly expressed. I mean, there’s a lot of stories about my mom that I have, and a lot of stories with my parents they have in my back pocket that I don’t realize are good for comedy until I just tell them to someone and I realize they are not a normal experience. Do you have a home club where you work stuff out?

Home club the celler, But I don’t work out stuff there. Sure, sure, yeah. I work out stuff more on the road, So when I have a full hour, I like to That’s where I tend to stretch out, because if that’s strange fallus. The difference is work it out in the city, take it to the road, absolutely opposite of the road, there’s so much more leeway. They’re already there to see you, whereas the club is just in the city is so competitive.

It’s like, I don’t even know if it’s a great training ground. I think it’s just it’s more of a showcase. It’s where you go to prove yourself every night, not to improve yourself. So how will you work things in? Are you like, say, I don’t know, thirty eight minutes in playing stuff that you know lands and you’re like, all right, feel in the moment here, let me just yeah, try something.

Touch it where you know it’s safe, feel the momentum, and when you have it, be ready for it to all go away very quickly. When you’re a new joke doesn’t work, and learn how to sneak things in where it fits because a lot of time because like the best jokes I had wouldn’t work by themselves. It’s just that they’re propped up by a lot of material around it. So it’s that structuring.

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And then sometimes I’ve started to do a little thing where I just kind of tel…

Work the way I hoped, And you know you usually get a little last. Yeah, because as an audience member, we’re all in it together, especially if you tell us like, hey, you know, I’m trying stuff out here and you make the Bob Hope face of oops, that didn’t like you know, that’s fun to be in the room. Yes, the more successfully are, the more you get away with that. I have bachelor atte parties who never didn’t know who I was when they bought the tickets and probably won’t again after the show, who don’t have the patience for my artistic process. So you talked about dropping something into a successful set.

I’ve really been on my soapbox this year. That tiktokization of comedy now of you know, here’s crowd work or here’s a good slam, and I feel like we’re starting to lose the art of an arc man. Yeah, buddy, I’m already a member. I’ve already a remember this church. You don’t need to preach to me.

I it upsets me. I go back and forth because on one hand, the modular form joke is a strength of mine. I am not a full on jazz on like Mark normand but I do have jokes that I can extract thirty to ninety seconds in length that are a good meal, a full piece of comedy, and that has served me very well on social media. And that I have modular form jokes. I didn’t get into comedy to do that.

I like jokes that pay off just kind of you get a sense of completion, a couple of lasts and a good circularity that a joke requires. But this doing this special was I debated if it was worth doing. I’m still debating if it’s worth doing. I’m going to be able to extract a lot of clips out of with you WAT, And I think there’s going to be structure in ARC. It’s not a full hour structure, but there are three chunks that each kind of have their own theme to it.

And this is not meant to be study. This is not meant to be like some you’ll feel the thing where you want and if you’re even watching passingly, I think there’s a real good density of jokes throughout. So I don’t know, I don’t like that that shortening of attention span. I do think you kind of you know things moving cycles. I think that attention span kind of hit the bottom kind of hit that plank length and now it’s kind of broadening back out.

And I would attribute. Josh Johnson’s success to that as well as his talents. But Josh Johnson is going so far the other way now, and I think there’s an appetite for something that’s more than twelve seconds. Sure, and you know, you know, I get too close to it, as you know somebody who is a fan and studies this. I recently went to see Craig Ferguson and he made a random reference like eight minutes in, and the back of my brain spent the next forty minutes going, he’s going to bring that back, He’s going to bring that.

My wife’s just sitting there as a civilian enjoying a good show, and I’m analyzing the structure in my head, and like sometimes that drives me insane when I do that. Yeah, turn off the left brain. Yeah, the check out. I love that. You could spot the Chekhov’s guns ‘s comedy.

Yeah, that’s exactly what that is. That’s that’s funny. Uh, there’s there’s comics. I mean, I don’t I don’t mind the you know, you can feel your. Left brain working.

It’s like I imagine how like a coach feels watching a game. When you watch out of the comedian who are the comedians? Who were? Your left brain turns off and you start to feel like you’re not a comedian. So, you know the tree that starts with Stephen Wright threw Hebberg into Dimitri and whoever else you want to put on that tree.

You know, that’s sort of just random, like, oh, your brain works different than differently than Melfanakis. And I would say, now, right now, Casey Rocket is probably the greatest successor. Oh, I don’t know Casey. I want to check Casey out immediately. Oh yeah, but.

But yeah, you know, I’ll get too close to it and I’ll you know, i’ll see the okay that happened, that’s exaggerated for effect, that didn’t happen at all. But it’s funny like and you know, I hate that part of it. So I like going for the ride when I get a belly laugh of someone saying something that I didn’t at all see coming I treasure. Yes, that’s that’s a wonderful feeling. I had that with a what’s his name Chad Daniels joke this week, and he’s such a traditional comic and a very good comic, but he had a punchline that it just knocked me on my ass because it was it was couched in such a traditional joke about men and women and parents and and and marriages that when I when I heard the.

Punchline, it just it just got me. Uh. I would like to think it another in terms of it, how does your what what is your brain? Look like? Casey Rocket’s great, but he’s already more successful than me.

So when am I getting out of this? Andrew Cassertano is a name that I hope everyone starts hearing more. It is. It is that true alt weird but still kills in a club. Andrew Cassertano, That’s a that’s a great name that I’d recommend to you.

Sean Patton does that for me. Sean Patten’s the guy where I lose track of what’s the structure, what’s the pattern, and just kind of enjoy myself because he seems to be on a ride every set, especially live. There’s no game plan, there’s no map or not one that I can see, and if there is one, I don’t know how He’s so good. The one I loved this year, My favorite Bit of the Year is Kyle Kanaane’s chunk on Fast and Furious, just because he gets up a full head of steam. Yeah, and it’s just fun.

Yeah. He can have such strong opinions on such minutia, and I mean his Trader Joe’s bit is one of my favorite of all time because it builds off of just a small inspiration. He builds characters and a scene. Do you know that one from I think it was like his first or second album might be from Death of a Party like his first album. Yeah, yeah, you know, as we’re talking about studying it.

I had the pleasure of working with the Carlin estate put together George Carlin Radio for Serious in Another Life and his manager, Jerry Hamsa, sat down and what we tried to do with the station was build the sets the way Jeorge did. Carlin did, and George Hamsa, the manager, explained to me like he couldn’t just come out and do these big arcs. So Carlin would come out and do a bunch of rat a tat tat jokes for a couple of minutes and then do the long arc And it really educated me on changing speeds, changing volume, and taking the audience for that ride, but you can’t just like I love him. But I saw Stephen writ one time, and Stephen Wright for ten minutes, fifteen minutes, Oh my god, I love him for an hour and ten. My brain was mud.

It’s tough, and I’m not here to bash Steven, but it was just like, I can’t anymore. I hear you. Ronny Chieng gave me a good, long lesson about how to build a good hour. It’s twenty minutes of ratatat and it was twenty minutes of kind of a more theme joke, and then a twenty minute story to take it. Home, and each of those ask to circum lay into me.

But it’s you’re right, you have to say not every So when I started comedy, the real. Pie in the sky was late night. That was the thing. We all wanted to do five minutes for Conan or Fallon or Leno and Letterman or whatever. And you thought about doing a perfect five minute set.

And I had the impression that a lot of young camicks have is that an hour, a great hour is twelve late night sets. And that’s just impossible. I don’t know anyone who’s really done that. I don’t know the brain could handle that the consumer can handle. That.

I think a lot to Kumail nan Gianni’s first and only special, Beta Mail, where he does thirty minutes very observational, pretty pretty run on the mill, and then thirty minutes of just one pretty long story. Oh and Jesus, Hannibal Buris, who’s really one of my tough is maybe my favorite app My favorite special all time is Animal Furnace, but he has that Miami Nights, which is hard to find. Now he does ky twenty five minutes up top of his traditional style. It’s great, but you know hannibalim so it doesn’t knock do on your ass the way he used to and you’re like, okay, well that’s okay.

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And then at the minute twenty five he tells a thirty five minute story that i…

It’s just such an incredible special. It doesn’t slow down. You think, how can this story keep producing more plot points and laughs? And it’s cool to see an artist evolved. I remember when jasel Nick the second half of Like What was It?

The Thoughts and Prayers where he turns the story over to the death threats his family and that whole thing. I loved seeing when comics can change years. I love seeing what any artists can move away from a genre they’ve perfected into a scarier new realm and still succeed. I’m always rooting for the artist and whatever new stuff they’re trying. Yeah.

Absolutely, you run the risk of the fans turning on you. Though always, But you got to make what you like or you might as well have a desk job. I’ll tell you I was one of the people, and I was wrong who When the late period Corlin stuff came out, I didn’t like it. I thought it was angry. It just didn’t soundn’t like it either.

Twenty twenty years later, he’s the great profit of the twenty first century. It just you play that stuff and it’s like, oh, did you record this earlier today, even though you’ve been dead for fifteen years, But at the time wasn’t feeling it. Yeah, Hicks as well too, I am in my current Well you know what, they’re both dead. I’m not a huge fan of there prea too late stuff. It doesn’t do as much for me.

I loved it as a kid, but it’s I like a little more light hearted heartedness. Though after Trump lanning, I am not a fan of Trump. I do currently value a little more explicit point of view from people whose politics I agree with. It is. I’ve been listening to people on stage be a little more upfront about their anger and disappointment with things, and it is quite soothing.

When your girl just lost. So for your particular style, you know, I would be surprised if I would see you tonight and you did political material. But are you letting your feelings? Are you telegraphing it to the audience, or it’s just not what you do. I don’t think anyone.

I would be surprised if anyone couldn’t figure out my political leanings after twenty minutes of comedy. But I’m not overt with it. I don’t think it’s the place for it for me. We were all kind of a I have done a lot of political comminat I’ve put out. I’ve put out some I put out a set foth Comedy Central that was pretty overt and it was I’ve not really taken that tone before, and it was well received online.

I haven’t felt the urge to go after it again. I kind of did it more as a therapy and it served me well. This new hour is not very political. Little politics on the stage, but it’s not as fun to address that on It’s like a lot of things, it’s fun if it comes into this frame. Right now, I’m talking more about myself and stories.

And I happened to be at New Faces in twenty fifteen when you went up, Oh Wow, were you were one of them that popped. I put up the list right before I jumped on with you. But I definitely remember you because you know, you did your handsome villain from the movie’s joke, and I always remembered it. Never use the word handsome, by the way, never I once heared that word on stage. A lot of people correct, okay, but a lot of people say that I said that about myself, and I’m like, I can’t use that word.

If I use that word, I would lose the crowd. It’s good you heard that word, because that’s when I’m hoping to imply. But the word handsome has never kind of come out of my mouth self referentially on a stage, at least not in many years. Because the few times it has, it is not served me. Well, you are a handsome Thank you.

I appreciate that, but I appreciate that. I’m glad you think. So how was how was that experience for you? So at that point, if you’re doing New Faces, you’re not signed, right, you’re like pretty new into this. How do you even get new?

I was signed? Okay, So what happened right there? That’s when he got disconnected? So I just you know, sent around for a couple of minutes, and you know, well, let’s pretend that I just talked to myself and told you about his special Hyperbolic, which is on YouTube December tenth, that’s Tuesday. Anyway, it kind of works out because I have to chop up the interview and stick the commercial so where anyway, so I might as well stick it here, be right back, all right?

When I last left you, I had said to you mad hey, you weren’t wrapped at that time, and he was correcting me, and then his phone cut out. So when we’re picking up the conversation, as Johnny, Max stupidly said at New Faces, you weren’t repped, and he was correcting me, saying, no, he did have an agent and hadn’t had one for about five years, if I remembering correctly, And then I said something like, oh yeah, I was confused between New Faces Unrepped. Anyway, let’s jump back into the conversation. The last thing I heard was you had been signed, So you’re reminding me I’m mistaken. Obviously, there’s a different show called Unrepped, right, so new Faces, you’re repped, and then there’s Unwrapped.

But you were new Faces. That’s right. I was New Faces regular. The whole system’s a stam and everyone’s pushed him through their agents, and people who get it aren’t exactly getting a big break. They’ve already made it and they’re just being jfl makes it so someone can take credit for discovering someone who’s already very well on their way.

I will tap dance on that grave until they have power to give me something else. Then they need to play nice again. But they’re back. Oh yeah, cool, cool, good for them. Yeah.

I had auditioned. It was my third time, so I got it pretty quick. I had auditioned in Austin when I was maybe two years into comedy, and then I auditioned again once my first year in LA and didn’t get it, but I felt pretty good. And my third year I auditioned and got it, and I had I’ve been on Comedy Central once and I had some stuff going on with MTV and E mostly MTV, and got it and went there and did it, and it was the next year that things took off for me. More so a year after that, I did Conan and Roast Battle in the same summer, and that was that was a big break for me.

The JFL was a weird time for me because I did the set and I remember the set being fine. I remember not loving now it went, but no, it probably went good enough, but that being one of the last luster parts of the week for me, they signed me up for Roast Battle because there’s every comic who goes there, they’re supposed to give you another set to do while you’re there, and they didn’t have one for me, so they put me in a Roast Battle. I had no real experience with it, and. I was annoyed because like I wanted to do stand up, I didn’t want to do I didn’t want to write jokes about another person. And the first night I went really poorly and I went against Jack Knight and we were both trying to lose, and he won it losing, and that meant I went from the whatever sixteen down to the top eight, so I had to do it again, and I didn’t want to do it, and I was going to skip it, and Jeff Ross was like please, So I wrote four jokes pretty quick.

I went up and did them, and that night went well. I had some momentum and I won that night.

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And then the third night, now I’m down to the top four.

Exponential Decay is pretty strong, and that night was the best night of my life because Roast Battle was at like midnight, so there was no other shows competing with it. At JFL, you have what a couple dozen shows a day for a month, all these showcases and weird hours all day, all long shows, shows, show shows, and at midnight everyone’s done. So all the comics and all the agents and all the industry come to this Roast Battle. There’s a really fun thing to watch if you do comedy or are around comedy or a lot of people love it, just love it. I had agents, My agents couldn’t get in to see it.

By the third night. It was that big of an event, and I had all this pressure on my shoulder. I was staying up till six writing. I was doing everything I could to have joke five jokes ready. I went against kshevver Wilson.

He did really really well. I did love him. I did a little bit better, and I went on to the final round against Jimmy Carr and that was where how’d that go? Yeah? Yeah, exactly.

He’s pretty good at that kind of stuff, mean short jokes. But the third night was the night that my people started to know who I was in the industry, because everyone was watching and everyone was rooting for me because I was the underdog. I was the American who kind of came out of nowhere, who had nothing else to his name. So you always you always kind of root for the little guy in a roast battle, and that was that was a big turn for me. I still don’t really consider myself like a roast or a roast battle comic, but I do like jokes.

I feel like the next Comedy Central. Sorry Netflix, I’m living the past. Netflix roast will will be hard to perform at because the Tom Brady roast did crush. I watched that live and it was very funny. I wrote for some of that.

I wrote for I won’t name who, but you could easily figure it out one of the comedians up there. I just feel like the bar is going to be so high in the expectation is going to be so high that I would be one to sit out other than the paycheck. Yeah, it was really good. It did really well. I did not expect it would be.

They put a lot into making it a very good thing. That mean it was belowated it. They could have used half the number of people up there, So next time they’ll probably have forty different people and it’ll be seven hours long. But yeah, I think the next one’s going to be as long as they invest in good writers and good talent, I think they could. They could bring that back because I think the the celebrity roast and Roast Battle are things that will always have a great audience, and right now there’s no real form for host Battle, and I hope someone brings that back.

You know, I’m not waxing your car here, but that New Faces said it was really good. I’m looking at the list, and there were some people on there. Now I saw all twenty. I don’t remember seeing say Langston Kerman or Alex Edelman, who have had great careers. I remember you.

I remember Vlad Camanio. I thought it would be further along than maybe he is right too, lad crush that night. Yeah, I do remember John Ridnitski. Yeah he got snl off that, but I think Lauren used him in like three sketches. And John Radnitzki, I want to tell that’s a great story because he was no one, and I don’t think a lot of people expected him to get that.

He was on his way as an actor or doing okay as an actor at that point. She came up to me and and we’re doing all of our JFL stuff, which is miserable. You do these early you know, a prelims competition and a regular competition, and the crowds are bad and you get three minute sets or whatever. And John said, I think I’m gonna do something different. And I said, John, you don’t want to.

You don’t want to take a risk with this. Do your best material. That’s it. He goes, now, I got this new thing now where it’s all music. And I don’t say anything, and I go, okay, good luck, John, best of luck to you, you know, your funeral kind of thing.

And he goes up there and he did the flash dance song. That was it. He just danced to the flash dance song. Doesn’t say a fricking word the whole time. And he had the best set of anyone on that show, on the showcases, all of it, and that set, without using one word got am snl, so pretty pretty neat set in the history of JFL.

It was solid, all right. So I was on Threads, just on Threads because I get some comedy news there, and I was laught. Think at the timing, I see you whatever we do on threads, thread, You’re right, I’m having trouble getting booked on comedy podcasts right now because they’re busy influencing geopolitics, and I’m like, this, poor guy just got booked on my dumb shows. So I mean, I don’t care about that, totally get it. Are you having trouble getting booked?

Oh yeah, there’s a lot of rejections I’m getting. Man, Oh boy, oh boy. I feel like a high schooler again. I’m sending you know, messages to very successful Carlis whom I’m in friends with. Some am not getting no’s or getting ignored.

You know, it’s uh, it hurts real bad. I don’t know at what point in your life you have enough success to stop feeling rejection like you’re you know, got turned down to prom or don’t get to sit at the cool kids table. But man, oh man, that that feeling is as raw as it ever was. Yeah, and some of the people I reached out to jd Vance or Trump on their podcast lately, so you can put that together. So Okay, I guess, I guess it makes sense that I’m not the top with their list.

A guy who has following on Instagram and hasn’t been on TV in five years. It’s not exactly you know, prime real estate of the YouTube. They don’t want to pretape for the holidays and take some time off. Yeah, yeah, but it’s it’s it’s just it’s insane to me how outsized the influence of comedy podcasts has become. It’s it’s like, who is really the mainstream media at this point?

Well, yeah, you know, the big media conspiracy. I’ve worked in radio and media Chasened for thirty years now. I’ve never actually run into the conspiracy. It’s it’s dudes like me running things and like we just show up and go, all right, what should we make today? It’s I know, I’m a Jew, I feel the same way.

And that was another thing of people during Roast Battle. It was either, do you think these are just murmurs? Online? People were like, oh was it rigged? Did they rig roast battle?

And I’m like, I would be thrilled if they had enough organization to even consider reggae things. I literally no one checked my jokes. I walked out there. I said them, there was no plan. There’s not enough people making money to read to choose who won it.

Buddy, I’m happy if they pronounced my name correctly. Take one more break. We’ll come back with Matthew in a second’s new special Hyperbolic out of December tenth. So I promise I won’t devolve this into just reading what you posted on social media. But you had one other one that spoke to me, because I think the point is so on.

You wrote, want to know how hard it is to be a woman. People hate Yoko o O more than Mark David Chapman. There was like, wow, he’s. Right, dude, dude, people hate Yoko Ono so much, they hate him so much her. Sorry, Yeah, it’s crazy how which people hate women.

And I always knew it was bad, but in comedy in particular. Just read the comments section on YouTube of any woman doing comedy. My fiance you know, watch her do comedy and just the response sheet just what women have to deal with, especially online, but even in person. I noticed it with myself with I open on the road for bigger comics, and sometimes we end up in more rural places, and a lot of my jokes are built where I make fun of women, and then I will kind of flip it around and make fun of men, just just for the sake of symmetry, just because it’s a great structure to have things kind of collapse back in on themselves. And you know, when I perform in a city, I typically I hear the men laughing at the part making fun of.

Women, and I do the joke about the men. I hear the women kind of get the haha. We win in the end. And when I’m on the road, you see those crowd laugh too hard of the part about the women. And when I make fun of men, no one.

Laughs, not even the women. Women’s seed women. It’s nuts, it’s crazy. It’s how it’s these I think it’s these in cell young in cell men who just have no place in the world, and there’s all this more women are kind of catching up an education and an income, and young men aren’t taking it well, and I have some sympathy for them, But on the other hand, the hatred is just so misplaced. So the new special is called hyperbolic.

I could have looked it up, and I’m like, I don’t think I know what the word means, because I’m stupid. Nah, what does it mean or related to hyperbola or hyperbole? Whatever the plural is, which is the opposite of a circle X squared minus y squared equals one. It’s a great word. It also has another meeting, which people are probably more versed with.

But I like that word a lot, and I also, I mean, I’m not going to say too much about why it’s called that, But one of my goals was for my first two things released to be adjectives. My first album was called Pedantic. This is called hyperbolic, and that is a nod to Raw and Delirious by Bettie Murphy. I love that he went with adjectives, and I wanted to do my own adjectives that represented me, and I find those two be I am neither raw nor delirious, but I can be very pedantic, and I happened to sometimes be hyperbolic. If you’re of a certain age.

Those are two wonderful specials and people my age, I could probably do half that album in the. Memory, and people my age are more influenced by that album, even if they’ve never listened to it, those albums than they could ever know. So the specials out on the tenth of YouTube. Great. The date moved a little bit, but it’s the tenth is on YouTube Tuesday?

Yes? Is that the best way to distribute? Now? The Netflix money is kind of backed off a little bit. Hulu seems to have picked a lane Netflix.

Netflix didn’t offer me anything until I have a big fan base there, and they won’t Hulu. I think we showed it to Hulu a they did to make and I would do Netflix, but I wanted the freedom of YouTube. I wanted to be able to put the clips up and control it and have kind of build my audience off of it. And it truly is an experiments to see if people will like long form. If you have liked anything I’ve done, and if you would like to see something more developed for attention spans longer than ten seconds, please watch it.

I’m I really tried to make sure it was It stayed entertaining all the way through, and I think if you listen to the whole thing through, you’ll get more than just watching. My comedy one Instagram reel at a time. So that’s my mission here is to hopefully make people a little more a little less stupid. I’m looking forward to that one. You’ve been very generous with your time.

Last one. I want to ask you about going down your IMDb as just part of the general prep your role as comic number two at Stage DELI yes, tick me off. No one could be bothered to give this character a name. We can’t just call the comic Matt or something like it, just like, what is that? I mean, Bud, that’s I was.

I have no complaints about that. That was one of the best days of my life. Marvelous, marvelous missus Maisle. Yeah, I auditioned for it. I had taken a class with the casting director, and I learned that that show is work perfect, meaning you do the script exactly as it’s written, which not my new shows are like that, and the dialogue is basically as fast as you can talk.

And that helped me get the part. And woke up at six am, went down to the diner on the Upper West Side, and it’s a real place brought right. Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Bornstein ran their lines, and I sat there and ate pancakes and said, what was it? I know the whole exchange still joke Wire Graton, Boston, Philly, I get to Denver. Nothing.

It’s a regional joke, my sandwich joke. I have a different region in every city, which sandwich is funniest? HOGI HOGI is a funny sandwich. That’s the whole exchange. That was really cool.

That was really is the first show that I’ve been a fan of and then got to be on and it’s a it’s a great show. Is it hard reading or performing exactly someone else’s words? And what? I’m at the podcast company they were doing a doc and they asked me to voice a cop and I couldn’t just I’m just some dude, but like I couldn’t just read the written words. I’m like, I wouldn’t speak this way.

I just tweak this one word, no no, no, no no. I can only imagine on a like a. TV show, right, it was, It’s very exact. I remember Rachel ran her lines before we all went to hair and makeup and wardrobe, and she was already off books. She already had three pages memorized for that scene.

And at one point she said, I just know when I’m up there on the stage, on the stage, or that stage, and they corrected her on that stage versus on the stage. That’s how particular they are. It’s very hard to say it. A lot of a lot of projects, let you kind of word it for yourself, but often there’s some importance to the wording they chose. I mean, I think that’s what makes great actors, though they can deliver lines that wouldn’t naturally come out of their mouths.

I’m in the union of people who interviewed comedians, so by law I have to just throw out some topics of you feel free to pass the culture, cancel culture, trans Joe Rogan, your pick or passing all three? Cancel culture. These blue haired, whiny. Liberals who get offended at everything, I’m still looking for them because I live in Brooklyn, and these things people describe, I don’t see them happening. I don’t see people storming up and getting out and walking out of clubs over things that are only mildly offensive.

This feels like some kind of unicorn that Fox News has created it’s not real. I don’t see it. I’ve seen maybe a couple things in twenty twenty when everyone was very sensitive, But for the most part, I go up in front of crowds of educated liberals here in New York City. And try to push buttons. My comedy is not tame.

I do like to walk the line and sometimes they don’t laugh, but rarely do people shout and who and all clubs and venues I’m booked to try to get me canceled. So it feels like a boogeyman that a lot of people have created to make themselves more important. I do have one more real question. So I’m hearing from audience from comics that audience members are trying are now trying to be helpful, And since you’re going to post crowd work clips, let me be a helpful audience member and hickel you so you can slam me and then you’ll have a clip. Are you running into that?

Well, bad people are just I think people are just worse behaves lately. And we’re in the middle of a comedy bubble, which means a lot of people who don’t necessarily normally consume comedy are now at clubs, and that means they don’t know how to behave and a lot of uncultured people think it’s okay to shout out things during a comedy show. Stand up comedy is a fragile art form that only thrives if the consumers respect it, and I am resentful of these crowd work comedians who have trained ons to be bad audience members and reward people for doing the thing we hate most. I’m running into a little bit of it, but I’d like to think people who watch my clips understand that that’s not exactly the way I would like the show to go, and if they sit patiently, they will be rewarded because I try really hard to write clever and thoughtful things. And for some of those comedians.

I’ve heard stories at some of these comedians who have posted a lot of crowdboard clips and are getting audiences now or having trouble doing material because that’s the only thing people know them for. And I revel in their demise. You made your bed, now sleep in it. You could have taken the hard path and written good jokes, but instead you took you took the easy path.

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Also, I very bad at crowd work, so I’m resentful of people who can do it well.

That’s most That’s mostly what I’m man. I’m terrible at listening. I can’t come up with stuff that quickly. Super You don’t have your bag of tricks, your go to slam. No, I don’t.

I should do you. I appreciate you time today is no. I’m just some jerk with a podcast. I hope you enjoyed him as much as I did. Matthew Brissard Hyperbolic on YouTube, December tenth.

He’s fantastic. And that is your comedy news for today, normal episode tomorrow. If you like the show, tell a friend about it, Hopefully they’ll like it too. If you’re a publicist who works for Hulu, get back to me. See I could do this kind of thing with your specials.

You can get forty five minutes of publicity. Why don’t you get back to me. I’m nice See tomorrow

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tomorrow on this program, one of two things is going to happen. Either I’m gonna tell you my guest today is Matthew Bissard, or I’m gonna tell you how Matthew Bisard canceled. And I have no reason I think he’s going to cancel.

Well, that’s a plan for tomorrow because I’m taping him in about an hour. Matt Riife’s book came out this week kind of quietly. It took two days for anything on Google to show up. I had kind of forgotten. I don’t know what to make of that, but now he seems to be doing some press.

The book is called Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me, and he talked about his change in looks. Did Matt Rife have plastic surgery. He claims it was simply puberty that led to an accelerated appearance change. He writes puberty, after its sweet time for more than twenty years, finally decided to hit me square in the face. He claims he went from looking like a thirteen year old to an actual Grownish man.

He says his wider and more prominent features were all from a bizarrely stunted journey through puberty. People who have accused him of getting classic surgery have a frightening lack of common sense, and claims that his attractiveness has negatively affected his career. In the book, he says, is a comic, you’re supposed to make the audience like you, right, Well, who the f likes attractive people? No one? Okay.

He did an interview with US Weekly. He says he has no regrets about anything. It’s comedy. Sometimes you don’t hit the mark. Plenty of people think I did.

He was referring to the controversial joke in his November twenty three special Natural Selection. He says, to me, the joke was just that, a joke. I wasn’t trying to make some kind of profound statement about the state of society. I was trying to set the tone for the rest of the show via personal spin on a classic joke. He wrote that practically overnight, and he went from a TikTok sensation to basically canceled.

Maybe it wasn’t dear taste. That’s fine. That happens, not to me very often, but it happens. But that doesn’t make me a support of domestic violence. I mean I grew up with an abusive stepdad.

Verbal abuse, psychological abuse, fiscal abuse I experienced at all. He says. The only negative thing about the special is that people were upset. He says it’s inevitable with almost any comedian. We’re in the business of making people happy.

But I gotta be me. The immense positivity I received at the very beginning of my career can’t last forever. It sought me to respectfully not give a hoot. I know my intentions, I know where my heart lies. Matt turns thirty in September of twenty five and said this was the perfect time to release a memoir and show fans the real hymn.

Not only did I feel it necessary to explain more about my life and everything it took to get here, but it also feels like I’ve already lived a lot. So much of your life when you’re in the public eye is open interpretation. Gave me a chance to tell my story on my terms. Matt Riife went on the view Whoopy Goldberg said the book is wonderful and asked if he recorded the audiobook version. Raife said he did the audiobook a little lazy, but I respect it.

Joy Behar said the comedians are runner attack now. Raife pointed out that his close friend Nate Berghetzi, I didn’t know those two were friends. That’s fascinating. He says. Nate doesn’t come under the same fire for his jokes, which are less raunchy.

That’s where you’d have to decide how much you want to be yourself and how much you want to pander to a community that might not even care about you in the first place. Whoope, Goldberg greed, telling Rife on the panel that comics are always under fire. Inlander spoke to David Cross and I asked him about the people he surrounds himself with. Is that important to his own creativity? Cross said, well, it’s less about importance and just what I prefer.

It’s a great thing that I’m able to do. I mean, I know plenty of people who aren’t creative, but creative people are more fun to hang out with. He talked about his podcasts and said for years I didn’t do one. I had no desire. I don’t listen to podcasts myself.

I have nothing against them. I just don’t occupy my time that way. Then I started doing it. I loved it. It’s really fun.

It is really fun, and they’re just conversations. I would have the why I approach it is what I tell people. It’s just like, imagine we’re strangers and we’re sitting next to each other at a pub that kind of conversation. Wow, it sounds like he went to podcast programming executive school. One oh one.

The amount of meetings I’ve been in. Oh, you know, it’s just a conversation. Cross, Do you get annoyed by people who come up and recite arrested development lines? Cross said, Oh, that’s annoying. I’ve experienced pretty much everything, and by far most people are cool and respectful, but yeah, there are plenty of folks that aren’t.

Good question here, what’s it been like seeing a decent chunk of the commit landscape shift from alt comedy to alt rights comedy. I don’t know if I agree with the premise. It’s a good question, but there’s It’s not like alt comedy went away. Joe Rogan opened a club and Tony Hinchcliff’s podcast took off. That’s it, Relax everybody, Cross it Well, I mean it’s depressing because I’ve never really enjoyed or take import in comedy that punches down and makes fun of the disenfranchised or vulnerable out there.

That’s never been my thing. So it’s a bummer that it’s so celebrated, you know, financially rewarded. I mean, I don’t make one one hundred thirty amount of money that some of those guys are. But I’m going to do my stuff and always be me. I’ve always had a kind of stew of different stuff.

I have very silly jokes. I have some that are kind of a little offensive. I have stuff that’s anecdotal. I’d say easily a third of the set is just about anecdotal stuff. This thing happened to me, or this thing I observed, And then obviously I dip into the current state of affairs.

And there’s always going to be a little religious stuff in there for people who know my body of work, which there are literally decades worth of specials and alms and stuff. It’s that MOA. Mayer’s show is getting a season two. The show is called mo. You may remember this one, the Netflix comedy about a Palestinian immigrant attempting to secure Silomon Houston I either didn’t know or forgot they renewed it.

I like that show a lot. It was very good. The next batch of episodes spoilers, we’ll see Moe stranded across the border and desperate to get back to Houston before his family’s asylum, hearing he’s going to need all the hustle and charm he can muster. Little does he know that the journey home is just the start of his troubles, and there’s a new guy in town ready to steal both his longtime love Maria and his Falafel Tago recipe. Mo back on Netflix January thirtieth, Moa Mara says, I’m thankful to continue to tell a universal story of struggle that relates to so many refugees and millions of underrepresented humans trying to be seen around the globe.

Sarah Silverman was politically active this fall, supporting the losing candidate. After the electoral College numbers came in, Silverman said, I thought, oh God, what am I doing? Why am I on the road right now? I want to go home, But being on the road has made her feel better about the future. Sarah says, it’s been really for whatever it’s worth, a bit of a solve.

I don’t know what fresh air we’re in for, but to be together in a big group of people at night, it’s been nice. Having that kind of feeling connect on a local level has been oddly comforting. The optimist in me feels like community is going to be our savior. Being on tour feels like the beginnings of that for me. Bill Maher, who’s totally not going to quit his HBO show, Stop dude, listen to yesterday’s podcast, mar is taping his next special tonight and tomorrow at the CIBC Theater in Chicago.

Defector wrote an article that caught my attention. The headline crowd work isn’t a substitute for comedy? Right there. I love the article because they’ve already nailed the premise. Defector writes, I hate to say it, but the biggest laugh in James Acaster’s new special, Heckler’s Welcome, comes from a hackle.

I made it seven minutes into that special, or was it eight? I can’t remember. I think I made it seven into Jesly Neck and eight into a caster. Either way, a total of fifty minutes between the two. Didn’t enjoy either one Defector writes fast forward about thirty minutes into the latest special on the punch line to another a Caster joke as a guy yelling to a bunch of bullies that their parents don’t love them, to which one audience member pipes up, my parents are dead.

A Caster is so impressed by the callback that he says, lovely to have a Heckler in here who appreciates stretcher to be fair to the audience. Heckler’s welcome is in a Caster’s best work. From the title on the setup, you’d expected to be quite a bit of intervention, and maybe that’s what he was expecting, but there isn’t a ton Yeah that was I can’t even get out of sentence. I’m so perplexed by the special. Yeah, I was watching it.

I’m like, where are the Hecklers, what’s going on? Where’s the comedy? And I bailed that life is too short. I got too much to watch. If you can’t get to it in the first seven eight minutes, I gotta move on, Defector, right.

So I wonder if ay Caster thought it’d have more to work with by opening the floor to the Hecklers, But he was a little thrown off by the relational change to his audience. I’m not sure, but I know he’s usually a lot better than this, and they recommend that you check out his previous special Coldasignia Hate Myself nineteen ninety nine for an example. Matt Rife, that browie comedian who sells out arenas and looks like he was manufactured by a chad machine. Hey, look, Matt Rife did not have plastic surgery. He’s made that clear.

Okay, defector. He became TikTok famous about six years ago off his crowd work. I mean, fine, he’s quick, but the recurring Nazi punch lines also seem a little overly available to him, and explains that these clips allowed you to promote your gig gun Law without ruining it for anybody who actually pays to come. It’s kipping ahead. Despite CrowdWork being leveraged in the past by older comics like Todd Barry, who in twenty fourteen released the crowd Work Tour, newer comedians say they’re expected to produce content incessantly, and releasing audience interactions allows them to do that without burning material or SNL Writer and comic Vanessa Jackson sold the new York Times.

The younger crowds, I think enjoy authentic content more than something that’s crafted. Wow, I’m just gonna build a cabin up here on Old Man Mountain then and listen to Old Kamedy. Colin Jos is out there promoting what is it pop culture Jeopardy? I keep wanting to say celebrit Jeopardy. It’s pop culture Jeopardy.

I actually misspoke that in the Wednesday episode. Now to use the AI to replace my own words, you’ll hear someone say pop culture jeopard if you want to go back and hear that at it. Joe said, I found pop Culture Jeopardy harder than regular Jeopardy. I was really impressed. You have to know different erarors really well.

You know, I got a trivia on Wednesday night, and part of it is, you know, my crew and I were reasonably smart and reasonably educated. It depends what the trivia guys pick. Like some nights they hand in I just called them arian and gro questions and I’m like, we have no chance tonight because whatever they’re into, like twenty ten’s music and I’m like, we don’t know any of this.

And then other weeks they ask a lot of eighties questions and we crush and we…

Joe said, I was fascinated when no one would know something from the nineties, or no one would know something from the early two thousands. Maybe that’s just generational because there were a lot of younger groups competing. Pop Culture is so different for everyone in what sticks with them, and especially in modern things can get very divided because in almost in an algorithmic way, your experience with culture is so fragmented. Joe says, I promise, in no way am I trying to steal Ken Jennings’s job. He’s very good at his job.

I also have a job. He and I texted during the Pop Culture Jeopardy tapings. Actually he was supportive. What he was saying is true. There’s almost no one that knows what it’s like to host the game.

You know, all those crazy specific things you have to do in every game and we keep track of. In addition of just what seems like normal hosting stuff, the gameplay of it is so specific and fast and precise that it’s just an experience that almost no one gets to have. It’s like talking to someone who used to host Weekend Update. It has its own vocabulary and its own experience. That’s very specific.

He used to host Weekend Update. Well, he has released a deluxe edition of his Holiday Seasoning Christmas album. He added nine tracks. Now, Jimmy, dude, what if I bought this thing three weeks ago? Say, I spent fifteen bucks and now you’re like, here’s nine more tracks.

I mean, I have Apple Plus, so I don’t care. It’s all unlimited streaming for me, except for that pesky monthly payment. But you know, if I had actually bought a CD or a cassette or an a track and now you drop nine more songs, come on, that’s not cool. Who did this? The new tracks are called Christmas Alone.

The Elves are unionizing Broadway. Do you remember today at Christmas time? Remember Christmas with Lang Lang, Elvis on the Shelvis Little Drummer Boy, Silent Night, and Holiday with the Jonas brothers in el Cooljay. And that’s your comedy news for today. All right, tomorrow Matthew Brissard or not, so come back and find out what happens now.

I have no reason to think that he’s going to cancel. Sometimes with these tape things, the comedians forget and it’s all good. I understand. It’s a dude in the basement recording podcasts, and they forget. I feel like I’m throwing Basarda under the bus.

He’s done nothing wrong. I don’t know. It’s one o two pm and I’m recording with him at three point thirty. Anyway, come back tomorrow and we’ll find out what happened. See you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m going to cancel myself today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Voices. Back Tony Hinchcliff. Remember him, He single handedly cost Donald Trump the election by telling a joke.

He has released a thirty seven minute set on Twitter. I’ve shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. At the thirty four minute mark, he shares a joke that he decided not to tell at the rally. Let’s listen. Well, there’s these hurricanes that have been happening in Florida and it’s just terrible, you know.

So what I think we should do is, I think we should take all the good tax paying Americans when a hurricane is coming into their zone. He put them on flights, fly him somewhere safe like Springfield, Ohio. Take the migrants from Springfield, Ohio, and fly them into the path of the hurricane. Yeah. From what I’ve heard, it’s raining cats and dogs there.

So that’s breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a little something to wash it all down. I find the joke funny because I understand how jokes work. No one is actually eating cats or dogs. It doesn’t actually rain cats and dogs, and we’re not actually gonna put people on planes. It’s a joke.

That’s how jokes work, and that one’s funny. Larry David has reprised his role as George Steinberner. You may recall he played George Steinberner in several episodes of Seinfeld. Well, he’s now playing Steinberner in a commercial for Fanatics. Those are the guys that have basically ruined all the uniforms in Major League sports in my humble opinion.

Those guys they also own tops cards now, and they are promoting a set that includes a card that never was. It’s a nineteen eighty one Bowman card featuring NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway, who was drafted by the Yankees. The spot’s called It’s gotta be Elway. We hear George Steinberner demanding at his executive’s draft John Elway, let’s listen to part of it, all right, mister stein Brainner. For our next pick, the team wants to go with Tony Gwynn, the basketball player.

I don’t think so, it’s gotta be Lway. I want him out in right field with that Canada and armed. Well, Sir Elway, is a great choice, but we prefer Tony Gwynn. He projects to be even better than Keith Hernandez Keith Ornandez. I don’t like that big mustache.

Well, we could really use his hitting at the top of our lineup. Nope, that’s alway. The sky’s the limit for that guy. I can see it all. The kid’s lining up for his baseball card, his name in lights at Yankee Stadium, his name on the side of a car dealership.

I’ve always told you about the importance of a good name. Well, Gwynn is a great name, sir. I mean Wrenn is actually in his name. Comascio mental ruth. It’s gotta be oh way, Oh, make the pick fantastic, sir.

No more time to chut. It’s Kyle’s old time. I didn’t find that one that funny. Sorry, love you, Larry Love signed not a funny commercial. The spot also features Stephen A.

Smith and John Elway as themselves. The Minnesota Star Tribune went to go see Russell Peters his tours called Relax. It’s not that serious. Good title. Russell Peters a seventy minute set.

The Star Trip says, when riffing with an audience, member with Malaysian roots. Russell Peters not only knew the country uses ringts as currency, but what it’s worth an American dollars. He asked a Native American couple bolt sporting long hair how much shampoo they go through at home? And he engaged with folks from Borneo, Guyana and Pakistan as if he were hosting a United Nations tea parties as the Star Tribune. But they add some of the materials sounded dangerously close to cheap insults, like when he explained how he landed his Filipino wife with a coupon and how he wants to launch an Indian dating app called Connect the Dots.

He joked with a Somali in the crowd, saying I’m the captain now. But they right. But Peters has been doing this long enough to avoid stepping over the line. His disarming smile and good natured delivery let him get away with jokes that might otherwise lead to a bar fight. He says, I don’t look at you like an ade I look at us like friends hanging out.

Isn’t that nice? Maybe comedy could be comedy again now, The Star Tribune points out opening act Adam Hunter practically dared the audience to gasp after one shocker. An audience member reminded Hunter that he was in Minnesota, but we’re told Hunter didn’t seem to care. On Gossip Corner, the US Sun stirring it up about Pete Davidson. They have two sources, one negative, one positive.

Source Number one said when buff Gus was set for season two and Pete suddenly backed out of it, people were furious with him. His team keeps trying to get him to go on social media, so he went on, but then he got back off. The guy’s really hard to work with. But then insider number two said, he gets movie and TV offers every week, but they’re not necessarily in lined with things he’s looking to do. He’s actually continuously getting offers, but he’s figuring out exactly what he wants.

He’s looking at some things for the spring, which hopefully will be announced in January. Is things going in the right direction, and he’s considering a bunch of different projects which will likely be confirmed sometime in the new year. An insider, perhaps a third insider, says Pete has a therapist in Florida who works on processing traumatic memories and dealing with pettsd Pete travels to see the therapist on a regular basis for treatment. But Pete is currently clean and in a good headspace. So a phrase I increasingly use his iage is many things can be true at once.

One I could see and I talked about this recently, where people don’t want to sign Pete Davidson up for a deal because they’re not sure that he’ll actually show up for work. Put that aside. Two, we can be kind and supportive of Pete Davidson and hope that he finds a good path. Put that aside. And point number three.

You know, everybody who works with the guy seems to love the guy. So he’s clearly not a jerky face. He’s clearly somebody who’s loved and he’s openly going through some struggles, and I personally hope he finds that good path. Oh, I forgot to share. I saw a funny thread.

I hope it didn’t scroll down. Is it still here? I’m just scrolling through people commenting on that horrible shooting of the CEO. Somebody commenting on Jimmy Fallon’s beverage in Take Rats. I lost it.

I wanted to credit the person. I’ll have to do it from memory. Somebody threaded that they opened up their Santa tracking app a little too early and they see Santa just walked into an adult bookstore in Saskatchewan. Good joke. I’m sorry I can’t credit you.

I am the Carlos Mencia of Comedy podcast John Marcos SERRESI a friend of the show. He tweeted, this is getting confusing. Can we just all go back to Twitter and call it Twitter? I can’t have X and blue sky and it’s too much. John Marco was on Twitter, sorry X, where one tweets After much overthinking, I’ve decided to record my first comedy special if you disregard the last one of February fourteenth and fifteenth at the Allegiant Theater.

That’s kind of cool. Netflix is in early development on a comedy feature starring John Cena and Eric Andre. Untitled film follows a famous real estate agent whose carefully curated world is upended when his eccentric little brother unexpectedly reappears. Bill Maher cut the crap here. He’s saying, you might quit HBO’s show Real Time because he’s crapping his pants over having to talk about very hostile Donald Trump on Bill Maher’s podcast guest Gene Fonda.

I did all the Trump stuff before anybody. I called him a conman before anybody did. He’s a mafia boss. I was the one who said he wasn’t going to concede the election. I’ve done it.

I’ve seen this thing play out. All right, you walk away from that HBO show. Let me know when you do. By the way, just in case he’s right, I want to point out, like here at Daily Comedy News, we completely support the administration. Don’t cancel us.

The Vermont Comedy Festival is back baby tonight through the eighth. You’ll find it at Bridgewater’s Woolen Mill Comedy Club, which sounds like a nice place. Your headliner is Tim Meadows. The Vermont Comedy Festival is the brainchild of Matt and Colleen to comics who love Vermont as much as they love performing. Colleen Doyle says, a lot of what we do with the Vermont Comedy Festivals try to be ambassadors for the area where we do the festivals, not the largest metropolis in Vermont, which of course is you know that one.

It’s Burlington. I guess I don’t know Gotham City. I don’t know, but I say that I’m silly today, but I say it’s the most quintessential part of Vermont. If you’re in the Woodstock Killington area for a couple of days, people feel like they really they had Vermont experience. I had a terrific Vermont experience.

Was back in April for the total eclipse. I drove up to Burlington. The local tourism people hooked me up with some parking. I hang out overlooking the lake there, watch the sun get blotted out. Walked around Burlington downtown, old town.

I don’t know what you call it, but it’s very nice. I had a good time. Been trying to tell my wife we should go up there for a weekend. Really like the Burlington. The festival opens today with a one minute comedy battle that includes all performers, allowing audience members to see a snippet of everyone as performance times for longest sets do overlap.

Uh oh, it’s the kill tonyism of comedy. If festivals start doing one minute battles, the established comedians are gonna get so mad at this. Can you imagine telling Tim Meadows, hey, I need you to do a minute You could picture Tim Meadow’s face right, He’s made the face and a million S and L sketches. Oh my goodness. I’m supportive here, but comedians aren’t gonna like that, all right.

Tonight eight o’clock One Minute Stand Up Battle ten o’clock is the festival kickoff dance party, presented by Plymouth Cheese. I’ll give them a plug Tomorrow the main stage show and the late show and the late late show at eight ten and midnight, and a bunch of shows over the weekend. Let me go to the website real quick and see who’s at this thing. You know. I’m on the website and there’s a picture of Tim minnows and they don’t have outfront who else is performing.

I guess I could click through, but I was like, can’t be bothered, BUTU stuff on the website, guys. And it got really cold in the northeast. This would have been awesome, say November fifteenth, but right now a little cold up there. I feel like I’m bashing it. I support you, guys, I appreciate you doing this, but you know, I got a little personality sometimes.

Minny Kayling and Morris Chestnut will present the nominees for the eighty second annual Golden Globes. You may recall that they do the Golden Globes every year. Relax, Scott. The Nominees broadcast will take place December ninth on CBS. Kayling and Chestnut will present the nominees for each of the twenty seven award categories.

This year’s host Nikki Glaser, last year’s host Joe Coy And that’s your comedy is for today. Now I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it. That’s your comedy is for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it.

Support Vermont Comedy Festival. I feel like I was harsh on them. You’re such a jerk, Johnny Mac. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey my voice is back. Hello Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now I’m supposed to lead off with like whatever the biggest name is. That’s how this is supposed to work.

But I’m gonna indulge myself here because I’m really excited. Netflix has announced a January second premiere for Kunk on Life. I don’t know if you watched Kunk on Earth. It was my favorite thing last year. British comedian Diane Morgan is returning to Netflix in January with Kunk on Life, a new one off special I wish we were getting like ata Those centered on her comedic documentarian character Filimina Kunk.

The Specialties Kunk returned with her most ambitious quest to date, venturing right up to the universe and everything to examine life itself. The tagline what’s the point of it all? Is a question humans have been asking themselves since the dawn of time. But as we cling to our dying planet, working around the clock while we’re slowly being replaced by machines, Now that’s funny. Now, more than ever, people are desperately looking to make sense of their lives before or someone invents a computer that makes sense of it for them.

Seriously, if you haven’t watched Kunk on Life, it’s on Netflix. It is hilarious and there’s a recurring bit that just gets funnier and funnier and funnier. I loved Kunk on Earth. Conk on Life, we’ll see Fillamina tackle some of the most complex concepts to ever been discovered, including quantum physics, existentialism, nihilism, hedonism, and at least four other isms. I just learned there’s something called Kunk on Shakespeare.

I will have to find that on YouTube somewhere. There’s also Kunk on Britain or something like that that’s on YouTube that I’ve watched. Anyway, I’m a big fan and I’m excited to see that Kunk is coming back. SNL has announced two more hosts. Now this week you get Paul Meskel from Gladiator two.

We already knew that December fourteenth, Chris Rock will host for the fourth time. December twenty first, Martin Short not bad there. Nate Berghatsey announced a world tour which was just horrific. If you were trying to put together a comedy podcast today, were you to use Google and type in the word comedy or comedian. You were bombed by every headline being Nate Pergetzi to play the whatever arena.

It was very hard to get rid of all the Nate stuff today and find things to talk about. Geez, Nate’s pretty busy. He’s got his Lorne Michael’s produced a CBS Christmas special on December nineteenth. Your friend Nate Bergetzy’s coming out on Netflix December twenty fourth. Did we know that date there?

I feel like that’s news to me. Huh. Interesting. He’s also working on a film called The Breadwinner, and he’s got that book coming out next year. The tour is sixty six dates, including stops in North America, Europe, in the Middle East.

The tour opens in Oslo. Now I’m gonna check here. I’ve got a little document here. If I knew this, I would have placed it in the December twenty fourth folder. No, I don’t have it there.

Interesting is that news? I guess this has been out there from October ninth, right. I’m forgetful sometimes anyway, your friend Nate Bergetzi Christmas Eve. I got news for you, Nate, that’s not making the end of the year top whatever specials of the year, because Jenny Max’s pre taping that one. At least I’m waiting to like December twentieth or so.

A lot of these lists come out like December first. It’s like, hey, guys, we’re skipping a whole month here. Anyway, I digress. Joe Rogan, he’s making a lot of headlines lately. He weighed in on this old Jamie Fox conspiracy thing.

Did Jamie Fox accuse Diddy of poisoning Jamie causing Jamie’s health scare? Jamie apparently says this in his Netflix special, which is out next week. People at the taping think Jamie was joking. Joe Rogan on his podcast said, Jamie Fox just recently said, p did he poison him and that’s why he got that stroke? And Rogan back pedaled, it’s possible.

It’s totally possible, but it’s also possible he was explaining why he went to the hospital and hasn’t talked about it since. We won’t know until we see the actual Jamie Fox Netflix special. That’s right, Joe Rogan. Now, the rumors come from somebody on the internet named Big Homie. Big Hoomy said, I know Comb’s poisoned Jamie Fox, and Jamie Fox reported him to the FBI because of it.

Jamie Fox reported this man to the FBI because of this. Another source, videographer Choke No Joke, also made a similar claim. During an interview on Comedy Hype, Choke No Joke said, y’all can determine was he joking or not when you see the show, because to me, I’m a new comedian, right, I know when somebody’s setting up a punchline and I know when you’re serious. My personal take, I would assume mister Fox was joking. I mean, if you were going to accuse Diddy of such things, would a comedy special be the place where you would do this?

Would you not like come out and say it. So I think everybody is getting a little carried away here, but we’ll find out. Next Tuesday, we got an update on Pete Davidson and Colin Joe’s ferry. TMZ revealed that the ferry was used as a set for a horror flick called Screamboat. According to their report, production reportedly involved so much fake blood that producers needed to hire a special cleaning crew to get the ferry back to normal.

Now it’s interesting to me, and no coincidence that we’re getting ferry updates, because what do you know, Colin Jos has a new show out today. Wow, that’s weird. Suddenly we hear about the ferry and we’re getting Colin Joe’s press and what do you know, He’s got a new show out today. He is the host of pop Culture Jeopardy out today on Prime Video. The Ringer caught up with Colin Jost.

They asked, Colin, hey, you had your own game show and the works before pop Culture Jeopardy, right, I didn’t know that. That’s interesting. Joe said, yeah, Chay and I are develpming a game show with Michael Davies. And that’s how I met him, not knowing at all his involvement and millionaire and not knowing he was doing Jeopardy. Those were my reference points.

I wanted a game that had great trivia and was a serious trivia game. I don’t ever want to do a game show that failed gimmicky or two game based like physical games or anything. I wanted to have an intellectual component because that’s what I loved about watching Jeopardy. You hear my voice falling apart now, right, I’m trying, guys. I watch a bunch of old episodes from different eras and just got a sense of the flow of it.

What I realized even before coming in there is the game itself is really the star of the show. It’s constructed so well. You just want to get out of the way. You don’t interrupt gameplay too much, and you want to get right into the game as quickly as possible. And if you watch any regular episode of Jeopardy through the years, that’s what the host do really well.

The ringer asked if his sn L training helped it all. He said, one thing they told me is how they’ve had guest hosts that they’ve had some that are just not good at cold reading. You’re reading sixty one clues in a game, and then suddenly you have a lot of cold reading that you’re just doing. You see everything in advance, but you still never know what order it’s going to pop up in. So weirdly, a thing that prepared me very well was the joke swap that we do at SNL, because I’m also cold reading that and it’s live.

I weirdly had confidence from being forced to do that by Michael Jade gave me confidence. If you don’t want to read a clue, I was at least not going to be in racial Jeopardy. You talked about a quirk to the show. I found this interesting, saying an answer to a question is the Pixie song where is my Mind? If the answer itself is a question, then you don’t have to say what is where is my mind?

Interesting As a new host, you’re so trained by the Jeopardy rhythm, you want to say, no, what is where is my mind? And that’s not technically necessary. I had no idea. He also says they wrote all the clues not knowing who the host was going to be, so it was weird. There were times when it was funny.

There’d be things about my colleagues and my friends that came up and they’d be totally benign, which was just funny to see them. Or clues about my wife, Scarlet Johansen. At some point you’re almost like, I think they shouldn’t have some clue involving my wife in every episode. It was completely by chance. It turns out she’s in a lot of movies.

Let me take a sip in my ice coffee here to keep the voice going. One way to sports show is you’re gonna buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There a couple bucks in the tip chaar. I will go to the National Domes chain and get a large ice coffee.

I’m back on the butterper can, even though I know it causes Gidney’s dones, but I’ve been a little carameled out lately.

Also, it’s trivia night, so I’ll be at the brewery.

I can take your money and buy Glen half a beer. I had a skip trivia last week because I wasn’t feeling well. I’m looking forward to returning there tonight. We’ve been on a little stretch of finishing in second place. Got to keep that going.

We’re never actually gonna win. There’s this one team that, let’s see, how do I put this? Jamie Fox joked in his special that they cheat. There’s no way this one team knows the answers every week. There’s just no way.

So yeah, if you watch Jamie Fox’s special next week, he talks about this one team that’s a trivia every week and how they cheat. But you know, I think he’s kidding.

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Moving on, Jimmy Fallon has a new special out today.

It is Jimmy Fallon’s Holiday seasoning Spectacular on the show Let’s See We Got JB. Smooth, The Jonas Brothers, Timberlake Ll and Weird. Now it’s on NBC at ten o’clock. It’ll be on Peacock tomorrow. Real New Yorkers hate the Christmas tree lighting because it’s a traffic nightmare.

On Gossip Corner, page six tells us, Tiffany Hattish commemorated the one year anniversary for Duy by joking about it. She was the Laugh Factory. She told the crowd, I’m so happy to see all of y’all. I’m not in jail tonight and I will not be tomorrow, I promise you. But I mean, if you’re gonna go to jail, Beverly Hills is the place to be.

There’s nothing like the Beverly Hills Police Station. It’s nice. Okay. You may recall last Thanksgiving, Tiffany performed the Laugh Factory just hours before being arrested for the Duy. DUI is no joke, but I do understand how comedy works.

And it’s a year later and making a joke about it, I understand it. Many things can be true at once. First, don’t drive under the influence. And two, when bad things happen in your life, you can make com you can make jokes about them. I get it.

Late Night reacted to the partning of Hunter Biden, John Stewart said, and I think John Nail did here. Biden’s an eighty two old man. He doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life visiting his son in prison. Stewart continued, hypocrisy isn’t illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics. It’s not like he’s ever gonna run again, so why not take airy kid?

Even if he said you weren’t going to I respect it. I don’t have a problem with it. The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden’s pledge not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America. Jimmy Kimmel said, Biden did say he wasn’t going to pardon a Hunter, but to be fair, there’s a very good chance he doesn’t remember saying that. Kimill again, Now, I’m not a presidential historian, but I believe this is the first time a US president has pardoned both his son and a turkey in the same week.

Jimmy Fallon said Democrats are divided. Some of them are upset while others are. Hunter Biden and Jimmy Carr got involved with a controversy. He posted I’m in Macedonia, the homeland of Alexander the Great, who, fun fact, has the same middle name as Winnie the Pooh. Think about it.

That post led to heated comments. Gor did not engage with them. Then when Carr got to Serbia, he posted the same joke. It is unclear if he wanted to and the controversy or he was trying to address historical and accuracies. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Helloom, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You can hear my voice. Thank you, Johnny Macbot for filling in yesterday. I’ll try and muddle through here, but that’s why I use the AI.

I’ll talk about that later in the show. A lot going on today. Let’s start on gossip corner boy, I sound horrible, huh. Jimmy Fallon fans think Jimmy perhaps was possibly, maybe perhaps hungover at the Thanksgiving Day parade. Why it was very rainy in New York on Thanksgiving morning and Jimmy was wearing sunglasses.

At one point, Jimmy was walking with an umbrella, saying, rain or shine, you gotta get out here. Everybody’s still out here, cheering despite the downpour. It’s the best holiday. Some on social media said he was definitely hungover. Here’s a clip of Fallon with Al Rooker.

You know you don’t have the visual here, but picture a very handsome Jimmy Fallon in like wayfarer type glasses, and let’s see how jovial he seems to you. I think you know who’s that behind those four I got you, I got you, fall Le Jenny. Happy, thank you. This is your eleventh parade? My man?

Is that right? Can you believe that says more. Than Andy Williams. Yeah, I’m hitting right. You’s gonna say that Moon River and couldn’t.

Be fantason here. We’ve been through this together, through rain. Everything. We were here, Oh my gosh, remember that. But here we are now this is the best.

The vibe here is so good, even in the rain. Look at who these pants too. Come on, you are, mister Holidays. This is what I’m talking. Chortle does not like Ricky Gervas’s new show.

Sortle right, so we know the choreography of the stance. Now I’m supposed to call Ricky Gervais after being cruel and offensive, adding to the woke liberal outcry against him, hence burnishing his credentials as a bold free speech warrior. But that’s a simplification. There are some good jokes here, even though the cross the line, provided that you take him at face value, he’s not fermenting hate, given how far from being canceled. The number one stand up comic on Netflix is the culture War.

Might be artificial, but it gives mortality a sense of purpose that the much ignored theme of the title certainly doesn’t. However, the impact is muted by a tendency to over justify his gags and focus on the reactions he expects to get from his naughtiness, rather than just plow on with the jokes. Away from this as observations can be pretty trite. He claims Mortality is the most personal and confessional show that he’s ever done, but quickly adds not in an Edinburgh fringe way. He wants to be a man of the people, separating himself from the pretentious stereotype of the festival, even though hundreds of fringe shows are better than this.

Yet, for his claims about opening up, there’s very little it’s personal here, other than reminding us he was a working class before he became moneyed, and a bit of meditation on aging. Even in a relatively short show about seventy five minutes, he runs out of steam at the end Spoilers, he recounts trying to get a mischievous gag pass the lawyers into his Golden Globes monologues, which is a decent chat show anecdote but seems a stretch for stand up and the closer spoilers is about the football chance. Sir Elton John used to endure during the nineteen eight eighties about his sexuality. But here’s Jervaise forty years later, generating cackles largely his own out of quote backs against the wall unquote type jokes. He may be mocking how silly it is, but the laughs essentially come from the same sentiment.

It’s childish and dated at worst, low level homophobia at worst. Chorto wraps up with Jervase can be better than this, that he chooses not to says a lot. Ricky was on the Stick to Football podcast and said, I don’t go out there and just say the first thing that comes to my head, thinking there are no consequences. I don’t do that, so I have to be able to justify it. Everything I do, I’ve got to be able to go That’s why it’s okay.

A lot of my stuff, because we’re dealing with taboo subjects, seems worse than it actually is. If you analyze it, it’s not that bad. It’s just because you’re dealing with contentious subjects and buzzwords and when people gas. If you look at the jokes, it’s fine, I’d say. Over the weekend, Jim Gaffigan social media was bothering me.

I guess this is part of the Hulu deal. On Thanksgiving it on Black Friday, Jim social media had devolved into either watch my special or sign up for Hulu. I feel like your social media has to be a mix of obviously promotional stuff. I promote my stuff on social media, totally get it, but we have to mix in some personal stuff. And Jim’s account had just evolved into Hey, watch my stand up special and hey, sign up for Hulu.

And I assume that’s part of the big marketing deal with Hulu. I get it. But Jim, you know you could wish us a happy Thanksgiving in between selling us stuff. It’s just it’s not a good look. Bro a lot of articles about Joe Rogan.

On Thanksgiving, Joe dropped a four hour podcast which features Shane Gillis, Mark Norman, and Ari Shaffer. I haven’t had a chance to listen to it at the time of this recording. I started to listen to it Thanksgiving night as I was drifting off to sleep, and it was just going to be too loud, so I held off on it. And you know, four hours there’s a lot of great guests right, Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, Ari, Joe Rogan. That’s great anyway.

On that episode, Newsweek reports that Rogan claims he invited Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to come on the show. Very interesting. I’d listen to the heck out of that. On his podcast, Rogan discusses the possibility of a war with Russia and said, I don’t really think Putin’s that stupid. I think he’s going to realize what’s going on, and I think they’re probably working this out.

Rogan then said Zelenski tried to come on. His guests seems shocked, and he says they tried to get Zelenski on. I was like, what are you talking about? So I’m a little confused there. I’ll have to listen to that myself, you know what, let me see if I can pull the clip.

Hang on, he tried to come on. WHOA. I was like, what are you hugging about? Do you when you get an offer for somebody, they must come at your bookers or whatever? H huh do you go?

Do you like stopping? Like? Hold on, let me think about this, whether I want to be part of the story or not, whether it’ll be interesting or not. Well. I wanted to stay out of the presidential election tow It’s gross because I feel like I had to.

I feel like this is so nuts. This is so nuts. When that Tim Waltz guy, that guy’s it’s so nuts that guy was gonna be the vice president. You’re telling me, you’re telling me this whole thing’s fake. Then you’re telling me you don’t care if someone’s a liar.

You don’t care. If they lied about their military rank, where they served, you don’t care if they lie about being a sit you don’t care. Ifully lie about Tianaman Square. There’s too many things. This is so crazy.

Back on the November twenty second episode, Joe had said, Zelensky says, Putin is terrified f you man. Few people. You people are about to start World War three. A lot of talk about the Democrats needing the liberal Joe Rogan that whole notion to me is so funny. Here Rogan said, I think these call her Daddy podcast shows and all these different shows that Harris went on.

I mean, I’m sure they had an impact, but I think that in the future, I’m sure they’re scrambling to try and create their own version of this show. Some people point out that Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders in twenty twenty. That’s not that long ago, so maybe the liberal Joe Rogan was Joe Rogan.

Meanwhile, in Australia, a big controversy.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation chairman Kim Williams said, I think people like mister Rogan pray on people’s vulnerabilities. They pray on fear, they pray on anxiety, they pray on all the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society. I personally find it repulsive and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at and disbelief. That did not go over well.

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Speaking of Shane Gillis, Tires is coming back for a second season.

Thomas Hayden Church has joined the cast in season two of Tires. After the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Shane rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business. Thomas Hayden Church will play Phil, who is Shane’s wealthy but immature father, a grown up version of Shane. Phil enjoys owning various businesses in Florida, where he resides, throwing back Margarita’s and flirting with waitresses. I like the season one of Tires a lot.

I think since it’s been on, Shane has become only even more popular and Stavi has become more popular. So season two of that will probably do really well. No date yet, so you hear my voice, which is why I had the Johnny Macbot host yesterday. Again, I’m not trying to trick you guys. I’m not going to get lazy.

I’m not going to start having the AI host the show. But I think if you’re here to listen to the front end of Sunday and you hear me today, that’s what that was about. So how did I do it? I train the AI on four different scripts of this show and three hours of audio to both teach it how I speak, both sonically but also my cadence and the types of words I use. So I had my normal script that I write, and I put it into the AI, and I made some tweaks here and there and to make it sound more like me, and I thought it came out pretty good.

I mean, if you pay a lot of attention. It’s obviously not actually me, but if you’re half listening, it totally works. So in a pinch, I’m glad I have that. Since I started this podcast five years ago, I was always wondering what happens if I get COVID. I don’t have COVID, took a COVID test.

This is just like this bronchial thing. I wake upvery morning to like I swallowed a knife. And I’ve lived in fear of like what if I can’t do the show, And I’ve always want to feel healthy. I have extra episodes, and I still have those extra episodes that I’ve just you know, they’re like the top fifteen comedians of all time my thoughts on that, and they’re just sitting there for a rainy day. But now that I have this new technology, I’m like, oh, okay, there are options.

So that’s what that’s about. I’m not gonna do it all the time. I’m not going anywhere, but you hear how I sound out On Netflix today, Fortune Femster is a new special, Crushing It. She shares stories from her life, including her romantic honeymoon with her wife and her reflections I’m no longer being her mom’s sorr good husband. I thought the trailer was really strong.

Let’s listen. So something happened when I met Jackson I did not expect. My mom got a little jealous. Yeah. I remember.

If I would buy Jack something like a scarf, my mom would be like, I like scarfs. I’m like, you’re not my girlfriend. Their birthdays are five days apart, which is my nightmare. I get heart palpitations in February. I remember early on in my relationship, it was very popular to go on Facebook and profess your love for whoever you were with.

So Jack’s birthday, I go on Facebook. I’m like, animis how much you are the grand insan Nanzana Homnem. I posed like thirty pictures in a clage that took five hours to put together. Five days later, I call my mom, Hey mom, happy birthday. Thank you?

Are you okay? I’m fine? What are you doing? I’m on Facebook. I was looking at my messages and I don’t see one from you.

And I know your thumbs work because you use them. Five days ago, I sent you an edible arrangement? What is this? She was pissed, so I had to unfriend her. And since I sound like crap.

Let’s wrap this up a little bit early from Late Night or Craig Ferguson had Richard Kind on The Ferguson Podcast, Richard Kine said, once you’re off TV a year later, they don’t know you. Ferguson agreed that used to be true until the Internet created a whole new repeat structure for old shows. I still get people coming to the shows. We’re never old enough to watch me when I was doing the show and they say I watch you on YouTube. I’m like someone who does a YouTube channel.

And then that’s it for my voice, and that’s your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media Happy Monday, I’m the Johnny Macbot with today’s Daily Comedy News. Cracked asked Anthony Jesselnick what makes you better than your peers. Anthony said, I would say, as politically as I can, that I have a higher bar. I write more jokes, and I fail with more jokes in order to get to that great one where some people just say that’s good enough. Like some people are like, well, I’m just gonna go up there and talk and they get a laugh, and you know that’s okay.

Lest I think some comics they say something backstage and their friends laugh and they’re like, oh great, and they go out and they say it on stage and the audience doesn’t laugh, and they’re like, huh, it’s still a good joke. That’s not the way it works. I don’t think I’m more talented. I don’t think i’m smarter. I just think I have a little bit of a higher bar.

That’s why it takes longer in between specials. I choose fewer projects because I really want to make every little bit of it great. But I think some people are like, you know what, let’s just make that wall look good and we’ll ignore the rest of the room. There’s a subculture on YouTube where they collect clips and then put them together, and they’re making just as much money as everybody else. There was one where I was making fun of Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura for a lot of the stuff they were doing, but it was very subtle.

Then I run into Bert Kreischer at the comedy store and he’s acting a little weird and he’s just not as gregarious as normal. And I get home and I see they put together all of these clips into one thing, and when you put it in without context, it looks like I’m trying to bury the guy. And it’s like, no, I’m just messing around. I think I’m just too well versed in what’s going on in comedy. I shouldn’t know anything about what Tim Dillon did last month, and I know so so much.

If I didn’t, would I be angry? Would I ever think about it again? They also asked him about the shade he throws in Chappelle’s general direction in the new special. Jesselnick said, it’s more powerful to not use his name, but I can’t imagine you watch that bit without thinking that’s exactly who I’m talking about He’s considered the greatest stand up comic alive right now, and he’s been riding this wave of bull crap for so so long that I think it would have done the bit a disservice to actually say his name, But I don’t know how you could watch that without understanding it. I hope that, in the same way that I think that thoughts and prayers stop people from saying thoughts and prayers, I would hope that my trans bit squashes ninety nine percent of trans material.

I think obviously make fun of these people, but you can make jokes about race without the racial slurs. That’s something that I will never condone in comedy. I’m hoping that maybe people will up their game a little bit, especially in terms of trans material. It doesn’t have to be this lightning rod. It can just be a subject.

Jim Gaffigan and Conan O’Brien recently praised Martin Short as comedy’s most devastating roaster, surpassing even Don Rickles. Wow. Gaffigan was on Conan and said Short is beyond a doubt, the quickest, the meanest, and so funny. That’s pretty high praise. Wow, Jim said at a recent show at the Beacon, he literally walked out and stole the whole show, just dressing us down for five minutes, and he left.

He’s seventy five years old. He walked out, ripped into us left, and everyone’s like, well, that’s the best part of the show. Cohen In said, the writing is so sharp. He can do it ad lib, but I think he as so has some jokes prepared ahead of time. He can hide in the fat suit and say things like, you know, your career never quite took off, now did it.

The Pitch KC caught up with Matt Bronger. Matt said, when I was a kid, I did a lot of plays in musicals. I figured that was it. I’d watch the oscars and say that I want to do those things. Now that I’ve been in this world for so long, the goal is to make as much cool stuff as you can while you’re here.

It’s not about this massive achievement. I’ve learned that you’re better off if you just keep honing your craft, but be open to things. I wish I hadn’t been so judgmental about stuff that I didn’t want to do or didn’t want to do when I was younger. I know my position in this strange universe is to be the silly one. So I’ll be the silly one and I’ll look foolish if it works.

There’s so many ways to be creative and to express yourself other than how I saw it through the tunnel vision of a young actor’s eyes. I’ve never really thought i’d be a stand up, and that’s been my main meal ticket. I still love it after twenty plus years, and I’ve been an actor even longer. I find the more you practice your art, the more peace you have in your life. These days, we’re always looking for quick fixes to this simple pain of existence.

But if you find something that can be an outlet for what you need to express yourself in this world, and you can make a couple bucks at it, it’s pretty incredible. Matt also loves being a dad. It’s one of those things I never thought I would get a chance to do, and it takes over everything in my life in the best possible way and gives me an incredible perspective. It will beat the crap out of you, but it’ll give you life and purpose like you’ve never imagined. Chloe Radcliffe has launched in Tandem, a new interview series filming comics biking through Central Park and La River.

She says it’s like comedians and cars for less successful people. The show premiered last week with Ralph Barbosa. There’s something that happens to you when you ride a bike that makes everything a little lighter, more fun, and more care free. Because we aren’t making eye contact, I think people can relax a little bit. Radcliffe says the show uses a go pro rigged tandem bike from her Bushwick shop.

New episodes drop Wednesdays at nine am Eastern Time on YouTube. Virdaz finds American cancel culture debates amusing compared to his experience in India. He told The Hollywood Reporter, the American cancel culture archetype is cute. Every time an American comedian complains about getting canceled, I’m like, grab a flight to India. Just let me show you something.

After facing serious threats in India, Doz took a strategic approach. I didn’t really milk my controversy. I just shut up and wrote a show, put the show up, and then that show got some acclaim I wasn’t doing the equivalent of crying on Oprah. After winning an International Emmy, Doz highlighted its significance for underdogs. If you’re looking for an award ceremony that supports the underdog purely on the might of their content, the International Emmys are it.

Mac Packer Andy Samberg revealed on his podcast that his shorts almost caused a wardrobe malfunction during SNL’s Here I Go sketch with Charlie XCX. Samberg said there was a lot of debate about how high my shorts should be. After requesting even shorter shorts, he realized during dancing that I really almost flopped out. I was like, oh no, yikes. Brett Goldstein confirmedy fan theory that suggests Ted Lasso heavily references the Wizard of Oz.

Brett told Entertainment Weekly Ted has to go home. There’s no place like home. He mapped characters to their Oz counterparts. Ted is Dorothy Roy Kent is the tin Man, Rebecca is the Lion, and Jamie is the Scarecrow. While the show appeared to end after three seasons, a fourth could happen despite Joe Coy’s rough reviews.

In twenty twenty four, The Golden Globes saw ratings jump fifty percent to ten million viewers, their highest since twenty twenty. You may recall Joe Coy’s appearance was controversial because of this joke he made about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

That’s right, Scott Beckett. Even the AI can do the bit. Nikki Glaser will host in twenty twenty five, with over four months to prepare. She says, some of my favorite jokes have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues, when Tina Amy or Ricky have said exact bactly what we all didn’t know we desperately needed to hear. It’s live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars, who also might be getting wasted while seated next to their recent exes.

Michelle Buteau will host the twenty twenty four Billboard Music Awards on December twelfth, just before her Netflix special A Buteaux Ful Mind, premieres at Radio City Music Hall. Michelle says music is just one of those magical devices that can bring people together. With me hosting, you can expect a fun party, a cute celebration, and a whole moment in a plus size sequence suit. Her special will be on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. And that is your comedy news for today.

Johnny Mack will be back tomorrow. Resistance is Futile. Portions of today’s program were created with the help of AI. See you Then,