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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney’s talk show is back. It’s now called Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney. It’ll premiere in March twelfth at ten pm Eastern.

It will air weekly for twelve consecutive weeks. Mlanie said, we will be live globally with no delay. Will never be relevant, will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore.

Now, I forgot to check what day of the week March twelfth is. It is a Wednesday, so this will be your Wednesday night watch. But Johnny Mack is not up at ten pm, so this will be my Thursday evening watch. I am up at ten pm, but I’m not up at eleven pm, and I’m not starting a show at ten pm. That’s how I roll.

Plus Wednesday’s Trivia Night. And you know, I might have had a beverage or two. Maybe I’m a little sleepy. It happens, you know. By the way, second place this week, we’re having a great twenty twenty five.

We’ve got two seconds and a first and an eleventh. But we don’t talk about that. We also have a Hey guys, it’s cold and I don’t feel like going to the brewery tonight. We had one of those I digress. Just like the previous show, Everybody’s in LA.

Everybody’s Live, We’ll tape in Los Angeles. But I guess they changed the name to free themselves up of the geographic anchor. Everybody’s in LA will feature a couch of eclectic guests live your phone calls. Oh guys, he didn’t take my note? Was that segment just doesn’t work?

Richard Kind and same Oh the food delivery robot. Malaney says this will be the one place where you could see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nicky Glazer sitting next to a family therapist, with music by Mannekin Pussy, which thankfully is an actual band. So I don’t have to explain to my wife why were you in the basement looking up Mannequin Pussy. Well, you see, honey, they’re an American punk and indie rock band from Philadelphia, formed in twenty ten. You may know them from their twenty sixteen album Romantic.

So I don’t know what you think I’m doing down here. I’m recording a comedy podcast. Laney continued, that’s just a brief sampling of guests. We don’t know if we can lock in Manneck and Pussy, but we’re into with them. I love this next line.

He said, this is a really fun experiment. Not since Harry and Megan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan. Ah, that’ll make for a good episode of Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the Royal family that I’m the writer on, and it’s one of those shows you get commercial free if you do the ad free thing that you know you hear the two people talking about Maline. He talked about the previous version of the show and said, you know, we had a hypnotist, we had an expert on coyotes in Los Angeles.

We had a palm tree expert, we had an earthquake expert. We covered most all natural disasters that take place in California except for one. We just weren’t ready. Apparently that remark did play well in the room. Maline said, it’s one of those shows that neither Netflix nor I really needed to do.

I never wanted a host a talk show, and they were getting out of the talk show game. It was the perfect moment to do this. So twelve weeks it’s apparently gotten a two season commitment. No idea when the second season will happen, but you know, twelve weeks, starting in March, you’ll watch, Speaking of Los Angeles, Tonight is the Comedy Gives Back fundraiser Love the top of this line up here, pat oswalt Zach Galifanakis, Bob Odin, Kirk, Bryan post Sayin, Doug Benson’s on this, Dana gould Is on this, and a bunch of others. The show benefits the Comedy Gives Back Firefund, which helps comedians affected by fires in Los Angeles.

Terrible news from Netflix. Adam Sandler is going to be in another movie now hopefully here. Let me tell you about the movie and they’ll tell you what the hopefully is. It’s a Noah Bomback movie titled JA Kelly. The movie J Kelly features people like George Clooney, Stacy Keach, Greta Gerwig, Laura Dern, Eve Houston, who’s Bono’s daughter, Napple Baby, Emily Mortimer, and Adam Sandler.

Now, whatever you think of Adam Sandler, terrible comedic actor, but he’s not a Naple baby, and he is a good dramatic actor. Maybe he’s doing a dramatic role in Jay Kelly. Maybe perhaps possibly Adam Sandler is taking my advice. Adam, you go. I hope this is dramatic.

Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. I’m not kidding. I know I’ve been doing that all week. She wants us to talk about her, to the point I already have stuff for sad and Sunday and maybe Monday about how much Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. She was on the Tonight Show.

She’s out promoting this movie kind of Pregnant that’s coming out, and she wants us to talk about her. In today’s installment of Amy Schumer wants us to talk about she talked about and encounter with Bradley Cooper who says to Amy, hey, I turned fifty this year, and he says to me, Amy Schumer, you fifty, And apparently that rubbed Amy Schumer the wrong way, as she had just turned forty three. She spoke with Jimmy Fallon about fans who say hurtful things to you by accident when they’re asking for pictures. They’d be like, Hi, sorry, I know you just worked out and I’m like, no, I didn’t. I had some ramen and had a kick so I’m sweating where They’re like, I know you’re not wearing makeup, but I’m like, I’m wearing a lot of makeup.

Back to Bradley Cooper, Amy said, I tried to like recover because whatever, I’m forty three, but you know, I’m like, I will be fifty, she told Fallon. She ultimately replied, yeah, no, I’m not Bradley. You know I’m not, but thank you for thinking of me. Schumer said the question got to her because we all want to be hot. This is how bad people want to be hot.

People literally run. She made fun of joggers and peloton writers, saying they’re riding a bike to nowhere to the Wicked soundtrack. Amy Schumer has a movie coming out in February. Bow and Yang and Matt Rodgers are putting out a book. It’s called The Rules of Culture, Volume one, described as a manifesto on culture and a Guinness World Records book for queer people and straight girls who get it.

The book will feature over one hundred insightful, hilarious and utterly immutable rules that govern culture in its current fragmented states. Yang and Rogers said in a statement, I apparently they have joined and become one entity. They have joined the Borg resistance is futile. In their joint statement, they said culture is a shattered mirror on the floor. This is our attempt at gluing every shart of it back together, as we will prove in this book.

Culturists for you, culturists for us, culturists for everyone. Never sure how a joint statement works, but okay, whatever. Hey, if you’re up in the Massachusetts Arie, you might want to look out for Matt Rife. He’s been showing up at local clubs. A week ago or so, he showed up at Fall Rivers Belmont Club.

Then in Tuesday he showed up at the Society Coffee Bar for Whale City Comedy’s latest pop up show. Ashley Thatcher is the founder and director of Whale City Comedy, and she said they went crazy. I never heard of fifty person crowd be that loud. That’s the best part of the show for me. Apparently Rife is trying to get as much stage time as possible, so that’s why he’s coming to the South Coast.

Whale City Comedy’s mission is to grow the local comedy scene beyond big cities like Providence in Boston. Wal City’s known for its lineup of pop up shows and an annual five day comedy festival. Thatcher said, I really love to highlight great local businesses across the South Coast, so we can pop up anywhere, from a batique in Westport to a coffee shop in Somerset, to a brewery to an art gallery. It brings exposure to these places while also creating a fun event. MOA.

Mayer’s show mo is back very good show if he didn’t see season one. The Guardian writes how Moe has found himself becoming one of the most prominent Palestinian voices in the world. When they interviewed him, it was right when the peace agreement came out, and most said, I just got a flurry of text messages about it as I came to my computer. It’s literally teed up and ready to go. Presumably look as a Palestinian man, we’re very suspicious of deals like this.

I’m very hopeful that it’s honest and real and sincere, and that it will lead to real positive change. I just have a lot of skepticism. Whatever people are willing to literally say, Cee’s fire, it’s over no more. That’s always a positive thing. The worry I have is just like it’s been going on for quite some time.

I’ve seen this so many times. I just really want for it to all truly end and for Palestinians to have a real future there. The BBC has apologized to staff members who felt they were unable to raise complaints or concerns about Russell Brand’s behavior when he worked for the BBC. The BBC has published the findings of an internal review into Russell’s conduct when he worked at BBC Radio between two thousand and six and two thousand and eight. There had been a series of accusations made against Russell Brand back in twenty twenty three.

One complaint related to Russell Brand urinating into a cup during a show on BBC Radio two. The BBC acknowledged that had been registered formally at the time, but admitted it was quote not dealt with effect actively. Another part of the report concerned in an allegation that Russell Brand had exposed himself to a woman in the bathroom of the BBC LA office. The investigation asserted that the incident was fairly common knowledge in the LA office and was often joked about. The report says what is clear is that many BBC staff and freelancers, especially in more junior roles, found Russell Brand demanding and difficult at work with and his behavior extreme, but all felt that there was no point in complaining as they believed they would not be listened to, and rightly or wrongly, that Russell Brand is a high profile presenter had the sport of station management.

A couple comments here for me, A don’t know what happened. B absolutely not being dismissive of the complaints. See personally worked with Russell Brand once for twenty minutes. In those twenty minutes, he was extremely professional and extremely charming. Again, I want to be clear, I’m not being dismissive of the complaints.

D having been showbiz adjacent for some time, a person who was at the point in their fame that Russell Brand wants around the time of those complaints, people get away with stuff welcome to show business and not saying it’s right. I’m just telling you it happens. For example, say you’re hosting Saturday Night Live, are you allot of smoke in the theater because some people apparently smoke while hosting Saturday Night Live. I’m on a website here and I just looked up the Smoke Free Air Act of two thousand and two, which protects the health of New York City workers against the harmful effects of secondhand smoke by making virtually all workplaces smoke free. So, for example, say your job is you work the cameras at a late night live comedy variety show that takes place on Saturday nights.

Say you work on one of those, The New York State Clear Indoor Act of two thousand and four impose state restrictions on smoking indoors. These acts impact the following businesses and establishments all office buildings okay, all private offices okay, All food service establishments, all bars, membership associations, all areas of theaters.

Also bank shopping, wall, sports arenas, public transportation.

So let me ask you. Say you’re hosting Saturday Night Live and you feel like smoking on live national television inside a theater in New York City. What happens to you? I don’t know. Perhaps a large fine was sent, Perhaps somebody spent ten days in jail, and it just didn’t get reported.

I don’t know what happens, but I’m telling you, for the most part, you’re sitting there going, hey, should I tell so and so that they can’t smoke here in a theater in New York City during our live variety show on Saturday night. My experience, being show business jacent is going to be yes, let it go. What are you gonna do? So let me be clear. I don’t know what happened with mister brand, could have happened, didn’t happen.

Don’t want to dismiss the people, but when I read in a complaint from BBC that staffers found no point in complaining that, I absolutely believe that staffers would find no point in complaining. Ken Flora is a comedian who helped create the Latin XL comedy show, has passed away at age twenty eight. D L eight Times reports that Ken’s body was discovered at his home at Tuesday afternoon around two p TMZ cites law enforcement sources saying it appears Flora suffered cardiac arrest and no foul play is suspected. His family posted on his Instagram on Wednesday, it is with great sadness that we confirm the untimely passing with our friend, brother and son, Kenny Flores. Please respect our privacy at this time, as we’re all shocked and devastated by the loss.

Flores had just filmed a comedy special in December. It has not yet been released, nore scheduled. According to The La Times, Joe Coy till the La Times. I always check in on him. I truly love this guy.

I literally posted about a pick of his tour schedule a couple days before he passed. It’s all so crazy, gave Iglacius till the La Times. I feel honored to have spent time with Ken. Of course he was hilarious, but above all he was kind, respectful and fun to be around. He will be missed.

Matt Raife posted, you’ll be missed brother. Ken Flores was twenty eight. That’s your comedy needs for today,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with Today’s daily comedy Newskat Williams was the guest on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Cat told THEO that black people would be honored to have Theo Vaughn reincarnated as a black man. Kat said, as a black guy, would be honored to have you come through our path. They started talking about everything from fitness routines to religion reincarnation.

THEO said, I think about that a lot, about what it would be like to live different ethnicities, Like if I could handle it, if I think it was fun. Kat complimented THEO on his uniqueness and let THEO know that he does check out Theo’s podcast. Kat said, you, as a black guy, are also not the norm. You’re kind of a singular. He explained why THEO shouldn’t jump to become a black guy, reasoning that there’s a lot that comes with it.

Kat said, there’s certain things that go along with it. They just don’t know how you’d handle it until you got a big asset and then you got to figure this thing out. Everything is different. They discussed fitness. Kat said the secret to his fitness regime is the ladies keep me fit.

I’m heavy into sexual relations. He’s got a little more to his workouts. I’ve got a cold plunge at Jacuzzie and Asana that they do pretty ritualistically. I’ve never been a gym guy. Kat talked about the time he was at a meeting with Harvey Weinstein.

Cat claimed that Harvey got whatever he wanted. I thought that didn’t apply to me because I didn’t care about anything but ladies and business. Then he offered me two actresses like they were playing cards. I was just as shocked as anybody about how powerful Harvey Weinstein was at the time I was meeting with him, how he could not be told no. Last November, Cat talked to GQ and said, it’s not the year of truth, it’s the age of truth.

It’s not that people ain’t been wanting the truth. E set for the first time ever. Whoever them mfors are that would be involved in the Illuminati, in the shadow government and all that stuff that really exists that really runs the world, all of them is eighty to one hundred right now. Kat discussed the potential safety risk involved with being candid. Kat said, I’m honored to get to say the things I say.

When I’m saying them, I assume it’s gonna work out for the best, and I understand if it’s for the worst, then I’m prepared to handle it as well. Kat has previous claimed he was invited to an Illuminati thing with Ludacris. Ludacris denied that Kat told THEA what I was attempting to do was impossible, So before I do this interview, there is no Illuminati. It’s just a joke. It’s just something crazy people talk about.

Whatever it is, that’s the game. If we understood the Internet itself as a government function, then how much privacy would you expect. There’s also a viral video going around where Kat discussed the election currently. Kat did this at a tour stop in La on January seventeenth. Kat is quoted as saying, it ain’t black men that like Kamala down.

Who was everybody the fls Nobody voted for this B word women don’t vote for her. Indians didn’t vote for her. Jews didn’t vote for her. She married a Jew and they did not vote for her. B words that wanted an abortion didn’t vote for her.

It was sad, sad, sad, They say that Kat Williams got more votes and I wasn’t even running. They just wrote me in. I don’t know. I expected more out of Kamala. It’s one thing to at your butt whooped up.

You still got to come out. Man. She didn’t even show the f up for her own She left her own sorority out there in the cold. I’ll have to find an hour to listen to the interview with Kat Williams and Theo vaugh from Radar Online. Nikki Glaser has been signed to a multi year deal by the Golden Globe, but insiders are saying that the contract was only worked out after Nicki demanded one million dollars to return his host.

Radar Online says one million dollars is double what Ricky Gervais used to get. A source tells Rader Online Glazer initially stunned Hollywood by demanding a jaw dropping one million dollars to return next year, but producers ultimately signed her to a multi year deal for a much lower figure. The deal Nicki originally wanted would have made her the highest paid host in Globe’s history, surpassing comedy icons Tina and Ricky. She’s good, but let’s be honest. She’s not vent good, says the insiders.

I don’t disagree. She was asking for more than comedy royalty and that wrote people the wrong way. Ricky Gervais has said he would do the show for free if organizers held it in London. He was asked his price to again, he said free if they do it in Hampstead, otherwise two million dollars. Ricky hosted in twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty sixteen and twenty twenty and says it could be the Golden Globes could offer me ten million dollars for ten minutes work, you know, and I’d be an idiot.

I’d be a liar to say I wouldn’t consider it. But at the moment, given I’ve done it five times, it got better and better for me. I enjoyed them all, but it got better and I’m planning never to do it again. I’ve asked them not to ask me because I can be persuaded that’s true. You know, it’s not a principle.

I’m not sure Jason Kelsey’s ESPN late night show is doing that well. Late Night of reports had hit a new ratings low Friday Night, drawing only one hundred and ten thousand total viewers. That’s less than a third of the audience it drew the week before, and eighty seven percent down from its ratings high on January tenth. Late Nighter says ratings were down among younger viewers, with just fifty one thousand viewers aged eighteen to forty nine. Kelsey’s guest on Friday’s show included Jim Gaffigan.

You may recall he told a quote hilarious story that I didn’t find so funny Late Night or is being fair here? They point out that a line can be drawn from the show’s huge rating swings to what the lead in is. For example, on January twenty fifth, the lead in was the X Games, that had an average of two hundred and forty four thousand total viewers. On January tenth, the night of Kelsey’s ratings high, twenty million viewers watched the Cotton Bowl one point six million. Stuck around for his lead in, Well, yeah, I mean, you could put this podcast on after the super Bowl.

It’ll get a number. I don’t know how week two will do, but yeah, that’s how it works, guys. Vulture has a big piece with Bobby moynihan. I’ll just pick up the SNL stuff. It’s lengthy, just nothing there really grabbed me.

They were curious for Bobby outside of SNL, what were his big sketch influences growing up? Moynihan said, I remember feeling cool when I found out what mister show was. SNL led me to that or the State. Then eventually it was the UCBTV show that I loved. I was walking down the street one day.

I was doing an off Broadway show after college, going like I’m going to be an actor on stage, and I saw the UCB symbol above a door, walked in, bought a ticket, saw the show, and never left. They asked him if he wished he had stayed on the show longer than his nine seasons. I can’t believe he was on nine seasons. He says, yes, I would have stayed. I would have happily been keenan if I had the wherewithal and if I had children earlier, whatever, just to look Lord in the face and go, hey man, I’ll stay here forever.

That being said, I’m glad, I’m done. I went back a couple of years later to do David pumpkins and drunk uncle, and it was flipping a switch on that hadn’t been turned on for years. I realized what I went through those nine years, and I was like, whoa, you realize what it was like and how harted just to do that show. We’re not fireman, but we’re still working hard. By the way, Tom Poppa’s podcast is getting some really good guests.

Now I have to catch up on I have downloaded but not listened to yet. I’m busy. David tell Gaff again, Paul Reiser, Anthony Justin, and Henry Winkler I have not downloaded yet, but also cool guest Leanne Morgan or Shafir, Ronny Chieng, Lisa Kudro and I know I ended on an up inflection there, but I got to the bottom of my list. I thought it was gonna scroll some warp. Anyway, Tom Papa’s podcast is breaking a bread.

I was correct. Bill Ngvall has unretired. Bill had planned to retire to golf with his wife. She got better and got three holes in one during his retirement. Bill said, after the third one, I called my maiden and said, let’s book some dates.

I missed it. I missed the performances, and you can only play golf so much. In hindsight, I should have just taken a break instead of making a big announcement. I don’t think anybody would have known the difference, but it is what it is. I’ve decided to come back, but on a more limited scale.

Before I retired, I was doing sixty to seventy shows a year. Now I’m going back to twenty to thirty. That’s what Larry the Cable Guy said. Recently. Bill talked about the heyday of Blue Collar.

We weren’t doing one hundred and twenty dates a year, but when you add that tour to your individual touring schedules, it became a lot. Ron bailed early. He wanted to do his own stuff, and we get that, but I don’t think we ever got tired of it. I was always open to coming back, especially for the twenty year reunion. We had a great time.

It was during that period. Bill was in three films, launched a serious satellite radio station. I was in charge of that. I loved working with those guys. That’s me Hi, and he was in the WB comedy sketch series Blue Collar TV.

Bill says he’s uneasy about modern culture. I worry about us as a humanity. It seems like we can’t buy anything unless it salts us by some cartoon character. We have a lizard that tries to sell us insurance in a talking box that tells me when I get my colon checked. That’s one of the things that scares me.

Bill also shared when he was on Dancing with the Stars in twenty thirteen, he got engaged in an argument on Twitter with a viewer who accused him of advancing unfairly. Bill tweeted him back and said, look, I’m not sure you know how this show business thing works, but this is not how it works. I don’t walk in on Monday and say, hey, I don’t know who’s getting kicked off this week, but it’s not me, and the TV executives go okay, Bill, you’re still good. Let it go, man. It’s a dance show.

It’s not like I’m affecting your income. Jimmy Fallon made his Broadway debut. He’s in the current cast of All In Comedy About Love. That’s the thing that mulaney had been. In the current cast, Lynn Manuel, Miranda, Adie Bryant, Jimmy Fallon, and Nick Kroll.

That group will be together until February second. Lynn is going to stick around with the next cast until February sixteenth.

Speaking of Broadway just for laughs and sign on as the co producer of the Br…

They’re building up a company there. There’s just for laughs and just for entertainment, and now they’re doing this Broadway thing. I’ll keep an eye on that and things you shouldn’t say out loud. Where did the story about the Nazi guy go? I knew something was gonna be the last story here and it has disappeared from my notes.

Where’d it go? Ah? Here it is. Australian comedian Tom Ballard has been slammed after performing what appeared to be a Nazi salute during a stand up show. There is a still image of comedian Tom Ballard with his hand outstretched.

And I heard somebody else say, I forget who said this. You can hold out your hand with one finger or two fingers, but you can’t hold out your whole hand. Well, he’s got his whole hand out. He was at the Basement Comedy Club in Melbourne’s Saturday Night Some members of the audience shared the footage with the media. His bit apparently started with him saying you can’t do anything in Australia and the position of a person’s hand when they waved a greeting it someone was central to whether they were breaking the law.

Nazi symbols and gestures were banned by the Victorian government in October twenty twenty three to quote send a clear message that Nazi ideology and the hate it represents is not tolerated in Victoria. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the show without commercials.

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Caloroga Shark Media. From the basement studio where if you think you hear barking dogs and construction workers, you too. It’s a busy day here. Good show today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Thank you, DC and band. Madonna stop buy the Comedy Seller on Saturday night to do some comedy. She was brought there by her good friend Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her. Amy’s got a movie coming out. In Insider shared, Madonna was brought to the club by Amy.

She did a full thirty minute set. She did well enough, but the audience was so stunned it was Madonna that it took them the entire set to warm up to her. She didn’t do as well as she’d think she would. She got laughs every time she dropped an F bomb, just because just hearing Madonna curse is funny. What do you mean she didn’t do as well as you’d think she would.

Did you think Madonna was gonna be good up stand up comedy at the Comedy Seller. It’s like a karaoke singer getting up at Madison Square Garden with their gym. Bad talk talking about the source revealed Madonna nailed a joke about with all these Trump deportations, she’s not gonna have any staff left. That got some good laughs, but really everyone was just so shocked she was there. According to the Insider, Madonna was there with her boyfriend and left ten minutes after her performance.

Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her she’s got a movie coming out. In February, shared a picture of herself Madonna taken at the comedy seller. In the picture, they’re both wearing black outfits. Madonna is pecking Schumer on her cheek. Madonna reposted the picture on her Insta along with the caption, last night was fun.

Thank you Amy Schumer making my stand up comedy debut. What a thrill.

And then she said something a little dirty.

I don’t want to share. Thank you. Amy. Shane Gillis is upset that Notre Dame didn’t win the college championship. He said, I was looking at the confetti watching Ohio State and just sitting there.

I called my agent immediately. I was like, let’s book a show and give all the money to Notre Dame. He joked about the funds from the California Wildfire’s fundraiser and said Notre Dame needs a defensive tackle. I need to give that to an eighteen year old. Staying with football, Jimmy Kimmel with an awesome Joe.

Taylor Swift has now been more Super Bowls than the New York Jets. Taylor Thomlinson weighed in on sports betting and pointed out, you can now wager on what Taylor Swift will wear to the Super Bowl. Tomlinson said, Yeah, that’s right. Some guy’s gonna have to go home and tell his wife that he blew their kids college fund because Taylor Swift didn’t wear a ponytail like you thought. Jimmy Fallon said, if you’re rooting for the Eagles, you’re probably from Philly, and if you’re rooting for the Chiefs, you’re probably an NFL referee.

Love it’s some of those calls, man, what are we doing? Jimmy Kimmel criticized Trump. It seemed like Trump to credit for the Chiefs winning. On truth social the President wrote, congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs. What a great team, coach, quarterback, and virtually everything else, including those fantastic fans that voted for me.

Parentheses, mega exclamation point in record numbers. Likewise, congratulations with the Buffalo Bills on a tremendous season. They will do a lot of winning long into the future. Kim Will pointed out, that’s right. The real AFC champion is Donald Trump.

Bill Burr was on Rich Eisen Show. He commented on the referees and said, I don’t think it’s fixed. I think it’s massashed. It’s definitely more backgrounds on one side. It’s thick.

Where’s the money? Come on, man, they got all the stars, I got Taylor Swift. I mean that’s gonna be a lot. It’s a business. Why are they an Edge Tamier League?

Why aren’t they a sports league? I don’t watch Chief games? Strikes me insane. Late night had a pretty good night. I know I haven’t done late night jokes in a while, but this was a good set.

They talked about AI. You may have seen that the Chinese introduced deep Seek in the stock market didn’t react so well. John Stewart asked, who names an AI company after the thing it actually does? Where are your random letters? Where your cheapt your grock?

Deep Seek sounds like what you might use it for. China’s even beating us at naming staff. I know this is bad financially, but has anyone else excited that AI had its job replaced by Ai? Taylor Thomson commented on CEO’s hiring AI’s over gen Z. Listen up, CEOs, this is very short sighted.

If you don’t hire gen Z, who you gonna cheat on your spells with? That’s a very very funny joke. Stephen Colbert weighed in on Trump threatening an emergency twenty five percent tariff on Colombian imports depunch line, into which Don Junior said, wait, not everything from Colin? All right, think about it. After Midnight with Taylor Thomason announced on Thursday they will have their first ever all drag queen panel.

Apparently the panel is Jinx Monsoon, Ben De La Krem, and Peaches Christ. I’m not familiar with any of them. I do want to share with you this impression has been making the round. Comedian Jonathan Kite has a killer Anthony Boardine impression, and he posted a video of an Anthony Boardane episode where Boardeen visits Costco. Let’s just share like thirty seconds of it, But what a great impression.

Cost go a land of abundance where your wildest snack dreams and deepest regrets are sold by the pound everywhere you look, rolling fields of clothing, couches, and cot But one doesn’t come here exclusively for the mounds of groceries and flat screen TV’s, but rather the famous. Eatery Kelsey Cook has announced her second special, Mark Your Territory. It’ll be on Hulu and YouTube on February eleventh. This was recorded in Madison, Wisconsin, after she moved to Minnesota in the dead of winterter to live with her boyfriend, comedian Chad Daniels. In the special, Kelsey Cook tells us about the perks of dating an older man, the insanity of IUD insertions, navigating a parent with dementia, and much more.

It’s notable that this special is going to premiere both on Hulu and YouTube at the same time. There’s a trailer note that she’s working clean here, very good. There’s a couple solid laughs. I laughed out loud at this, stay with it. When he and I got together, we had that conversation about labels because I felt ready to be called boyfriend and girlfriend and he goes, ah, you know, being in my forties, I feel like I’m a little old to be called somebody’s boyfriend, but if you call me your man friend, it sounds like I’m not allowed to near playgrounds.

I was like, all right, well, what are you gonna call me? And he goes, I’ll just be like, this is milady, and I was like, well, we’re not at a renaissance fair, so no.

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Also, I can’t use the equivalent of that.

I can’t be like, mom, dad, I’d like you to meet my lord. And he’s also a comedian. And I wasn’t much of a jealous girlfriend in my twenties, but then some switch flipped in my thirties, and now when I see somebody hit on the person i’m with, I just feel myself anamorph into the cast of Jersey Shore. I am ready to brawl. And he does get hit on.

When he walks on stage, women whistle at him, and at comedy clubs there’s usually a security guard in the back to kick people out in case they heckle. So at his shows, I’ve just started to stand next to the security guard, and if I see a woman laughing too hard at one of his jokes, I just walk up and I’m like, hey, I’m gonna have to ask you to leave. He’s my favorite comedian. Well, he’s my lord. Roseanne Bar tells Variety that she wrote a new comedy series.

It will star Bar and be four to six episodes, in line with the UK’s comedy format. It’s a cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos. Roseanne says. It centers on a small town farmer in Alabama who is saving the United States from drug gangs and China. The protagonist dabbles and growing and selling drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms.

Roseanne says it’s silly and out there. It’ll contain very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm and they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime, and alcoholism.

It’s kind of like the Coen Brothers thing. You may recall. In twenty eighteen, Roseanne Barr made a comment about a Michelle Obama aid that I don’t want to repeat or dance with at all. Barr was then dropped by her agents and the Roseanne reboot moved on without Roseanne. As for the new show, she says she’ll shop into Hollywood.

If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, I’m just gonna make it myself. Does anybody in Hollywood? Like America? Are the people that watch TV? Because the people watch TV would really like to see a show where working glass people win against the enemies of America.

From baller alert dot com, You’re home for comedy news, Eddie Griffin weighed in on Snoop Dogg. You may have seen Snoop and made the headlines for agreeing to perform at Trump’s crypto ball ahead of the inauguration. Some people labeled Snoop a sellout. Eddie Griffin said, Black Twitter’s up at arms because Snoop performed at Donald trump pregame inauguration. So what’s the problem You all didn’t get mad when Kamala lying ass Harris paid twenty million dollars to Oprah to make an appearance.

He got paid. He’s in the business to get paid. He got the right to jump ship f them Democrats. The rest of you, m effer is get your stuff together. Griffin went on to credit Trump for making changes, especially to child support.

Eddie said he already saved you from child support to tyranny from a woman who’s raping your check before you even get it. They doing you just like the GD government, effing you out of your GD money. Trump took care of that. Snoop Dogg has responded to the criticism and said, get your life right. It’stop burning about mine.

I’m cool, I’m together, still a black man, still one hundred percent black. All out to you ball out or till you fall out. When Dave Schappelle hosted Saturday Night Live, he joked about the Ditty parties. Quoting Dave, he said, I saw one thing on the internet. I’m not sure it’s true, probably doubt it’s true, but I saw it.

Some guy who said he knew Puffy was like, yeah, I was at the freak Off one time and Puff was there with Carl Winslow, the dad from Family Matters. Seventy two year old reginaldvell Johnson played Carl Winslow on Family Matters. He had to chime in on the rumor. He said, the stuff that came out is so false, but I have to hear it every now and then. But Dave Chappelle made it funny and I really appreciate that.

That was really cool. He made it seem very civil. It was kind of nice to see him talk about me. I just wish he was talking about something a little bit better than the stupid lie with Ditty, but he made it funny, and I appreciate that it made me look good. The Guardian caught off with comedian Sean McLaughlin and they were curious, Hey, Sean McLaughlin, what was it like opening for Ricky Gervase at the Hollywood Bowl.

Sean said, I don’t know where to begin. The dressing room was bigger than my flat, and the stage is so vast it took me twenty seconds to reach the microphone after my name was called. There’s seventeen thousand people in the crowd and it’s open air, so I could hear my voice ricocheting around the valley. I just tried to focus on my jokes. What was difficult because Dave Grohl was in the front row staring at me.

It felt like walking on Mars or something. But I’m pretty sure I had a good one. The next night, I did a show in the back of a magic club and died as hard as I have in years. Bess Ecko. He says, heckling is pointless.

If anyone is going to ruin my audience this night, it should be me. Can you recall a gig so bad it’s now funny? Sean says. I once hosted a comedy and poetry show at a university’s summer ball. The show started at midnight and the lineup was myself in five poets.

They did some passable crowd work at the top and brought on the first poet. It launched it in a truly horrible piece called instant Rigor Mortis. The drunk students understandably started to leave in droves, but I was obliged to go on stage and introduce poet after poet, each more sow than the last. There were three hundred people the audience when the show started, in less than ten by the time it ended. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with today’s Daily Comedy News Eagles versus Chiefs. He excited. Kevin Hart, sure is. He’s been all over social media posting Eagles videos.

He even got in on making fun of the mayor of Philadelphia. You see, the mayor was trying to hype up fans by doing the traditional e A g L e S Eagles chant. However, the mayor spelled out e L g l e s. Commander’s fans started selling fly el Goles fly t shirts at its lgate before the game. Kevin Hart joined in.

He posted on Instagram e A g L e S Eagles. If you want to spell it the other way, we can do that too. Shout out to the mayor. Pete Davidson was at the Eagles game as well. People are like, hey, why’s Pete Davidson there?

I thought he was a Giants fan. Well, he is a big fan of Saquon Borkley, who played for the Giants, and the Giants decided we’re not going to re sign you. Are you even good at football? Oops from ESPN. ESPN’s own copy says Jim Gaffigan tells Jason Kelcey funny story about quitting football.

Okay, according to ESPN, this is a funny story. I’m going to stay with it as long as I can because Jim Gaffigan is a fantastic standup comedian when he’s performing written material. But this, I’m sorry, is not a funny story. Let’s listen. Who played at George sound what was your career?

Like, I mean, I feel so imperissed. I mean, I know you’re being caught. I played, I walked on to Purdue. I played for maybe two weeks. Then I transferred to Georgetown, which is Division three weeks to lose to you know, we could probably would have lost to a lot of high school teams.

And I played for a year and a half and I quit. I mean the best was when I because I walked in after two a day. And this is all about quitting, and which is like, I know these guys have been inspiring, but how about the quitters? And I have to hook it there because if I keep going, none of you are going to listen. Now.

Some of you are like drum graffigan rules, You’re just from idiot abasement. I understand that I am some idiot in the basement, But that story is terrible. You’d much rather hear me tell you about Conan O’Brien, wouldn’t you. Conan’s getting ready to host the Oscars. He’s got a movie coming out in November.

Both his parents passed away within three days of each other. He had to deal with the wildfires, and he says, a lot been happening in a very short time, and there’s a lot that happened in my personal life starting in December that was intense, and then going to this month with the fires and prep for what’s coming up. It’s been a time where I just take it one day at a time. He recalled speaking to a woman who drove him to the premiere of his upcoming movie. He learned that she was actually from la and her apartment quote burned to the ground.

Conan says, it’s time to be asking other people how they’re doing, listening to them, and that respect. Some of the things I’m doing, like coming here to sun Dance for the film or the Oscars Award show coming up, that can seem silly and trivial, but they’re also important at the same time, because we keep going, we keep making stuff. Conan was at sun Dance for the premiere of the movie. If I had legs, I’d kick you. This apparently got really strong reviews quote stunning audiences with its emotional intensity.

Conan plays a no nonsense therapist. The film quickly transitions from its supposed dramatic comedy genre into a raw, gripping exploration of the presence of Rose Burns’s character, leaning her into increasingly dark territory. Folks are comparing Conan’s role to that of Adam Sandler and Uncut Gems. Now, you know, most Adam Sandler projects are complete garbage, but Uncut Gems is solid. I want Adam Sandler to do more of that.

Are you listening, Adam, I know you are more Uncut Gems. Please. Even that space thing you did that was a little weird, that was good. I like dramatic Adam Sandler. I actually think you’re really good at that.

The comedies you’re not that good at it. And I realize you’ve made a lot of money and a lot of people have awful taste, but you should be a dramatic actor. Conan’s portrayal of a cold stoke therapist contrasts sharply with Roseburn’s frantic, desperate character. Despite limited scene time, Conan manages to add moments of dry humor, such as the line I don’t respond to emails about my client’s dreams. Conan said the experience is one of the best of his life, and he’s had quite the career.

The Redinblack dot Com talked to Tom Sigora and ask Tom how he deals with criticism. Tom Sigori said, the thing that most comedians probably listen to the most when it comes to feedback your criticism is usually if it’s from another comedian, you’ll never please everybody. I teach this to my college students. So remember Derek Jeter. You’ve heard of him.

Captain in the near Yankees, Remember eight Ron, Remember that guy? So you could be Derek Jeter. Right, You’ve got five World Series rings. Women think you’re good looking, You’re the captain of the Yankees, but everyone’s given you a hard time because they think Alex Rodriguez is better defensively at shortstop.

Meanwhile, over at third base, Alex Rodriguez could be looking over Jeter goi…

You know I’m dating h Nah, I’m a better short stop. No, no, just stay in your own lane, don’t worry about everybody else, don’t read the comments. Toms Gorse says, you never please everybody. There’s the idea that you’re gonna make everybody happier, make everybody laugh. It’s not real.

It doesn’t matter who you talk about. There’s no comedian, no matter their level, that everybody goes. Yes, I agree that person’s the best. The audience also dictates without telling you with words. You kind of know when something’s working or not.

Podcasting kind of works a little bit, almost like minor leagues or your stand up material, because you’re just kind of chatting. Then all of a sudden you realize that there’s something there for the stage. You’re not conscious of it. A lot of times it just happens. Then you give yourself a little note like, oh, that thing we talked about in the podcast, I think that’s a bit.

I think that could actually make that work. Yeah, Sigoura about the potential TikTok ben, he said, I would not be concerned. I know that everybody always does when they have their favorite platform, and the reality is that if it were not to exist tomorrow, other platforms would pop up. The ones that already exist would see and not partaking their growth. There’ll always be someone, so someone will come and fill a void if any of these places go away, And honestly, I wish they would all go away.

I hate it. I was all happy on Saturday Night and I’m like, all right, I’m gonna watch some TV. And speaking of Saturday Night, I didn’t do that intentionally. Netflix put up the Saturday Night Movie and I was like, Oh, I’ve wanted to see this hit play. It is fantastic.

Have you seen this thing? It is great. Gets a little feel goodie in the last five minutes there, but it’s okay. It’s a fun ride. The vocal impressions of the cast, like the guy doing Chevy, the guy doing Acroyd fantastic, Matthew reesis Carlin good enough?

The only thing that confuses me is I don’t know why they had cousin Greg double roll as both Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson. That got a little weird, But it’s fine. I really like this that Rachel sent out. That’s the it girl in Hollywood right now. She’s fantastic in this thing.

HI praise for me on SNL Movie pod News put in their newsletter and their podcast. They noticed that somebody has reposted the Ricky Gervase podcasts. No one knows where these showed up from, but they’re there. At least eight episodes of them are I grabbed them? Remember those from like two years ago?

They were pretty good. They haven’t been around, so you might want to type Ricky Gervaise into your podcast app and grab those before they disappear, you know what I’m saying. Yes, some of us in the Facebook group were discussing James Austin Johnson’s Trump impression, and I’ll go first. When he first came on SNL, I was like, ooh, this is really good. It’s drifting.

If you’d like to chime in on that discussion, please feel encouraged to joining the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I think SNL’s had a pretty rough season. People seem to like that Timothy Shallome episode. A couple sketches were okay, slow news Day here, So let’s click on what Mark Maren can’t live without. New York Magazine did this a few weeks back.

Mark apparently cannot live without Patchuli oil. He says, I just love this stuff and I’m one of the few people that can wear it and not come off as obnoxious. For whatever reason, I had a girlfriend while I was in college who was oddly not a hippie at all, just kind of this punk rock, angry sculptor who was a really important person in my life. She was into Pachuli oil. She sent to me in some sort of witchbag, and that point on, it’s always been part of my life on a daily basis.

Apparently you can get an ounce of Petuli oil for forty five dollars. Mark Maren’s also into the Will’s jacket. He says, it’s got kind of a rugged vod to it. The Will’s jacket is really the thing to get. I don’t run you five hundred and ninety eight dollars.

Mark’s also into White’s boots, the original semi dress. Those are only seven hundred and ten dollars. Mark says, when I was at Spokane, Washington doing a gig, I got in a car with a guy who was driving me and he’s an old dude, an old Spokane guy, and we were talking about boots and he goes, well, they make Whites’ boots here and they’re the best. I’ve never heard of them at the time I went over to Whites and got measured and made some choices about what I wanted on the boot. You had a choice of heel and leather, or whether you wanted a toastrap or no toae strap.

But at that time they had more types of leather to choose from. I’ve got five or six pairs of different kinds of Whites’ boots and I wear them all the time. Mark’s also into the Setaphil gentle foaming cleanser that’s only eleven dollars, and Mark says, I don’t know when I got into this, but I can’t live without it. It has to be this one because the other facial cleanser they have is Smelly for forty five dollars. So you could be like Mark Marin and get some quirkies nuts cold pressed organic walnut oil.

Mark says, I’ve been a vegan for a year and a half and I got obsessed with walnuts and walnut oil, and they seem to factor into my life quite a bit. Lately. I mix the walnut oil in my smoothies because I think it’s gonna fix my heart and brain and give me all the omega threes that I need. Mark’s a fan of the sure SM seven B Vocal Dynamic microphone three hundred and ninety eight bucks. Yep, A lot of podcasters use that one for thirty four ninety five.

That’s a thirty five hundred dollars, not thirty five dollars. Mark likes the Fender Telecaster Custom nineteen seventy eight. He says, I bought that from Howie at Rivington Guitars in New York City. It’s just like a classic Keith Richard’s guitar in a lot of ways. I’ve always been a bit of a telecaster guy.

It was just fortuitous that I found one of that era that has just a great sound. Mark recommends the Kent sixteen sea handmade course fine tooth dressing, grooming and styling comb for men and women. It’s eight bucks. Mark tells us Kent combs are just sturdy. They almost look like hand cut cone.

I go to a bunch of them, and I just kind of a fetish for them. And Mark’s final recommendation for us is Doctor Browner’s Peppermint Pure Castle Liquid soap that runs you a ten bucks at Amazon, twelve bucks at Walmart. Mark says I got to interview the grandson who runs the company. And I got a lifetime supply of that liquid soap, the big things like the almond, the t tree oil, the lavender, and I use it. I haven’t bought a barn a decade or more.

I just use that for the shower and everything. I use it to wash dishes too. Sometimes that’s the stuff man. And somebody show me a note asking John, is it a slow newsday again? No?

Why do you ask? Yes, it’s a slow news week apparently, And that as it is, is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with today’s Daily Comedy News and I’m gonna have to read slowly today. It’s kind of a slow day, which is all right, it was really busy last week. Tonight is the fundraiser for those affected by the LA wildfires. Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are joining forces for a benefit comedy show.

Shane, You’re gonna hear a lot about Shane the next couple weeks. He’s in another bud Light commercial. In this one, he teams up with post Malone. The commercial will air during the Super Bowl. In the ad, we see post Malone and Shane Gillis dressed in patterned shirts and jean shorts.

They’re standing on a porch. They ring a doorbell while holding a case of bud Light. Shane is wearing a bud Light cap and asks post Malone is this it? While gazing into the camera. They then force a new cashphrase, which is come on.

So when your friends in a couple weeks are doing come on all the time, that’s what this is about. My sense it’s going to get really annoying really quickly. But anyway, I enjoy Shane Gillis, I will continue to read slowly. Red and Black dot Com caught up with Tom Sagora. Redinblack dot Com is a student website, so we won’t follow them for asking the very generic question, Hey, Tom Sigora, what inspired you to get into comedy?

Sogera said, I was a big fan of stand up. I liked laughing obviously, like making people laugh. I thought I was in a comedy acting more, but I kind of fell in a stand up. There were early influences, you know, cosby Eddie Murphy, Carlin, Bob Newhart. As you age, you start to consume more of it, you know.

I went to Robin Harrison, and I started doing David Teal Chappelle and Luis c. K. Sigora is ten years younger than I am. His influence is being like Carlyn Newhart, Eddie Murphy. That just seems too old for me, Like, yes, if you’re me, but coming along ten years later, I’d expect some more nineties comedians to be in there.

Red and Black ass Sigora if he has a favorite bit or joke he wrote over the years. Sigora said, I wouldn’t say I have one. Usually when you look back in your different hours, you have a few things that stand out for each ower. They could be your favorites for different reasons. I think the ones you look back favorably on, for me at least, are the ones where you take it from life and you take it to the stage and talk about it and build it into a strong bit.

Tom what’s your perspective on how comedy has changed in the age of social media? Segora has said, I mean, comedy’s broader and more consumed to different mediums than ever before. We’ve never seen anything like this, So anyone can grab a phone and upload any type of video and it’s good and that the truly talented will stand up. You’ll notice them.

And then you’re also bombarded with just obviously so many awful things.

But that’s just kind of the nature of it. It’s like you have to deal with the bad to get the good. With stand up, We’ve never had a more popular error for stand up. We’re literally in an unprecedented golden age, and it’s for sure because of accessibility and the Internet, and some of that is social media too, But you kind of have to remind people there’s nothing wrong with being great at it on social media. But you’re not in the same categories.

People will get on stage. If you want to get on stage, you’ve got to do it. Sounds like mister Sigora is not a fan of quote unquote TikTok comedians. That’s what I’m reading there. Scarlett Johansson would like her husband Colin Jost to sell the Staten Island Ferry that Jost bought with Pete Davidson.

Scarlett was on The Today Show and said, if anybody out there would like to start a GoFundMe for the Staten Island Ferry, please be my guest. I don’t know if I’m speaking for the Staten Island Ferry or against it, but help our family. Okay, this has now become a telethon for support the Staten Island Ferry. Colin Jos said to Scarlet, I hope you have a good thick pair of gloves at home, because someday you’re going to be getting so many paper cuts from all the checks that start rolling in from this ferry. It’s gonna put food on our table.

Finally, Scarlet, if we sell it for scrap metal, we could actually maybe, Jost, that’s what you need the gloves for. Handling the scrap metal. We’ll see, You’ll all see. Congratulations to Jerry Seinfeld. He’s been nominated for Worst Actor by the Razzies.

Apparently the folks at Razzies didn’t think that Pop Tarts movie was good. I enjoyed it, but I guess I’m right in the demo wheelhouse. I thought it was funny. Amy Schumer nominated for Worst Supporting Actress for what Cracked dot com calls her unlikable turn as breakfast mogul Marjorie Post. Seinfeld got a second nomination for Worst Director.

On Frosted got a nomination for Worst Screen Combo. Nominated for any two unfunny comedic actors. It’s unclear to me which two unfunny comedic actors they mean. Apparently Cracked did not like the Pop Tarts movie. Again, I liked it.

They went out of their way to compile some reviews. Matt Zoler on Roger Deeber dot com apparently had said it’s not only a critic proof movie, it’s an artistry proof movie and an audience proof movie. Richard Roper apparently said if there was a thing called the IMDb Witness Protection Program where you could get your name taken off the credits of a chick of the project. This would be that project. Oh boy, Jerry’s out on tour with Jim Gaffigan.

They’re playing Canada and Tom Pop is opening. That’s a good show. When Tom Pop is in the three slot, that’s pretty good. The News Herald asked Tom Pop about opening Tom’s headliner at this point in his career, and Tom said, we’re all good friends, and they asked if it’d come along and join them for this little Canadian run. It’s very cool to be able to hang with your headlining friends that you never get to hang o with when you’re working.

It’s a big part of why you do it. You normally are all out on your own. Could follow up by the News Herald who We’re like, it’s interesting there are some veteran comedians whose egos, well deserved or not, would have a hard time taking that opening gig. Papa said, I’m successful enough for my ego doesn’t get in the way. I have my audience, but their audience is larger.

They both draw more than I do. That’s just the reality. So it’s cool to be able to play a fifteen thousand seed arena. I’m honest enough to know I can’t fill this fifteen thousand seed arena. But I just love comedy and love those guys.

It’s the same when my friends go out and open for Chappelle, or if they go out and open for Bird Kreischer on his Crazy tour, or all this stuff kind of ebbs and flows. I think it’s a blessing to be a comedian, and it’s a blessing to have friends that are doing so well. You rarely let your ego get involved in show business, especially if you want to be happy. That’s good advice from Tom p Opper right there. Truth be told, It’s more fun being in the club than it is an arena, just as a personal feeling, the audience giving the feedback.

The arena’s a little too big. You don’t feel it, you don’t connect in the same way. You could do a great show. But I love clubs and smaller theaters just from a pure experience. I don’t want to jump on it, but I couldn’t see going to see a comedian in an arena.

And the last laugh got up with James Doomian. They point out that one of the top comments on James’s video is that Lorne Michael’s not hiring James is the biggest fumble in comedy history. James said, who knows, Maybe that was Lorne Michael’s drunken feeling guilty, maybe as a secret YouTube comments page where he goes to confess his regrets. Bad news for Patton Oswalt, Patton, I hope you’re not hearing this from me. You are no longer hosting the game show The One Percent Club.

It is getting a second season, but not with you. For season two. Joel McHale takes over as the host. Joel says, I’m one million percent excited to be partnering with Fox to host The One Percent Club. I absolutely love the show and love the gameplay to the ten x and guarantee my hair, makeup, and wardrobe will look great at least sixty eight percent of the time.

But now I have good news for Patton Oswalt. Patton, you have a different gig. You’re apparently going to be on Suits La. This is the spinoff of Suits People Got Into Suits on Netflix. NBC has shared a trailer for suits La.

Some real actors portray themselves in the series. Those actors include Patton Oswad and Brian Baumgartner, Kevin from the office. He’s gonna be on Suit’s La. Why, I don’t know, Johnny Mac, Is it such a slow news day that you’re taking the headline from Newsweek? Is Joe Rogan running for governor?

Is it such a slow news day that you’re taking that seriously? Why? Yes, it is, dear listener. Now, before I even do the story, do you think Joe Rogan’s running for governor of Texas? Of course he’s not.

It’s clickbait. But I clicked on it. What did they write? All right? So apparently Joe Rogan’s there.

He’s hosting his podcast. He’s talking to his guest, and Joe says, many politicians are just actors who are ugly, and they’re like, well, I can’t really make it in show business, and I want a lot of attention. I want to be a special person, so I’ll do politics. I’m good at b sing. Most people, you know, they’re trusting, like, oh, he’s saying the right things.

If you say the right things, you know, abercadabra, and then the next thing you know, you’re an effing governor. Will Joe run for governor? No? All right, he’s made that clear. No, I’m not running for nothing.

I don’t want to do nothing. That’s a double negative. Maybe he’s trying to head FACUS. He wants you to think he’s not running for governor. But he said I don’t want to do nothing, which means he wants to do something.

He also said I’m not running for nothing. Double negative. So maybe Joe Rokan is running for governor. What do you think? Yeah, that’s what Joe’s doing.

He is trying to head FACUS, and then when he runs for governor he’ll say no, I said, I’m not running for nothing. This has been out there since twenty twenty five. Were you coming at me now? That’s what he’s saying. Josephs I have the best job in the world.

I get to talk a crap with zero responsibilities. If I get something wrong, I go listen. I’m a moron while you’re listening to me in the first place. I have no desire in any way, shape or form to have anything to do with anything involving politics. I don’t want to be in control of it.

Sometimes I’m proud of myself with this program. You know, it’s pretty easy when there’s a ton of news. When I somehow can make an episode out of nothing, and I’m doing that right now. I am happy. Apparently there’s a pee Wee Hermann documentary this on HBO.

Called from forty hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Mount Wolfe has made a documentary pee Wee as Himself. The Hollywood Reporter says, one of the many pleasures of peace Ue as Himself is getting a sense of Paul Rubins as a separate personality, even as the possibility never quite leaves your mind that Paul Rubins, as featured in pee Wee as Himself could be every bit as fabricated as pee Wee Herman. Rubens filmed forty hours of any rus with wolf That’s a lot, and the impression conveyed by Peewee as Himself is one of constant push and poll rights The Hollywood Reporter. Part one is dominated by Paul Rubins storytelling and reflections, though there were appearances by his sister and friends from college and some people from the groundlings. The second episode picks up with Pee Wee’s playhouse.

The hollod Reporter says Rubens is candidate and perhaps regretful about some of his controlling behavior on the show and its eventual demise. I’m sure people will enjoy that. Pee wee Herman, and none of that was ever really my thing. I’m not anti, but not my thing, But I’m sure people will enjoy that. One.

Sketch Fest is dark today, but they have a pretty busy week tomorrow out in San Francisco. The music of the Kids in the Hall, Bruce McCullough, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson and the Red Room Orchestra at the Greed American Music Hall. That’s fun at that same venue on Wednesday, Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers and a whole bunch else this week. You can check it out at SF Sketchfest dot com on the schedule tab there. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, While my dogs compete to see who can make the most noisess e record, I’m chick with Today’s Daily Comedy News. David Sell spoke to Newsday and they were curious, Hey, David Sel, what made you make the Comedy Seller your home base? What’s so magical about the Comedy Seller? And a Tel said, for a small room, it’s mighty.

Everybody has worked there, from Dave Chappelle to Chris Rock to Amy Schumer. I know Amy and Dave are tight there. But when you do a rule of three lists and you go Chappelle, Rock, Amy Schumer is just a weird third, I wouldn’t expect that. You know, you could say we see k You could throw in there for example. Anyway I digress.

David Tel said they’ve all played theaters and arenas, but they returned to the Comedy Cellar because it’s like putting on a comfortable pair of pants, not shoes. Pants. I like to go on last there because it’s the hardest spot. Every comic loves. The sound on the staff is awesome.

If I can make someone who works their laugh, then I know it’s a great joke. Because they hear so many. Dave talked about being sober and said, I like to work in the moment. The clearer you are, the better you can think quicker. In my opinion, nobody’s better at working a crowd than David Tell.

Dave says it’s really helped me focus, and I think my writing is a little better now. Plus my performance has gone up a bit. Because there’s nothing to hide behind, you have to just do it. News Day was curious, how did you develop your signature look of baseball cap, gray hoodie and black jacket that Tel said, I was broke, short, fat and bald, so I figured these seem to work. It’s what I feel most comfortable, and plus I’m not really a looker.

Hey, Bill Burr, what makes you laugh the hardest? That a question from Variety, Bill said, authentic emotion. My favorite kind of comedy is stuff that wouldn’t be funny if it weren’t happened to me. A long time ago, I was doing a set in New York City and I’m walking up the street after my set, and the door to this bar was open, and ten people spill out. There are two guys squaring off, and neither of them wanted to fight, but they had to act like they wanted to.

They’re both terrified trying to get the other guy to back down. Now, if you want these people, it’s really scary. Nothing about it’s funny. But if you’re me on the other side of the street watching it, it’s hilarious. Bill Burtr, what’s the worst trend in comedy right now?

Burr said, I don’t tell people how to do things, but I feel like I should be doing is making fun of both sides. My job is not to pick side. You come to see me because you want to forget about your problems. Even if I do make fun of a politician, I always make sure I get them both. If I’m gonna make fun of CNN, I gotta make fun of Fox and make fun of the whole thing because I don’t feel that politicians work for us.

They work for the super rich, and they’re grossly underpaid, so they’re open to bribery. He gives regular people something to get mad at. Like with these fires, people are blaming Governor Knwsom. It doesn’t make a difference that was gonna happen the matter who was governor. They were saying the fire was coming forever.

The right set of circumstances, there’s nothing we can do. Burr’s gonna have a big march. He’s got that Hulu special and he will make his Broadway debut and Glengarry Glenn Ross opposide Kieran Kulkan and Bob Odenkirk. Bur said, rehearsal starts in February, but I did have lunch with a few of the guys from the cast, and the ball breaking has already started, so I know it’s gonna be fun, right, he said, The idea to put you three together’s genius. Bur said, If it was a genius idea, you know it didn’t come for me.

I got in because Nathan Lane put in a word for me. Mass Live talk to Kathy Griffin. They ask Kathy how she feels as a female comedian about the second Trump. Kathy’s answer quote, somebody’s going to shoot me. Some lunatics are gonna get in there and shoot me on stage.

And I’m gonna be a mortar, which is my real dream. So you know, if I get shot, first of all, don’t shoot my face off, like shoot me in the arm. Then I want a long mortar period where they write a DOCU series about me, and then young comedians are seen crying at my bedside, and then you know, since he says we’re not gonna have elections anymore, just take me out at that point. Unquote. That’s an interesting quote there, Kathy continued, let me tell you something, JD Vance isn’t going to be any better, so we need to be worried about the whole line of succession.

In fact, it would feel safer with the cast of the series Succession than our actual line of succession. Sorry, that’s an obscure reference of a now canceled series. But your readers will get it if they’re good in over sixty, which is what I hope. Kathy then went on to praise newspaper readers and said, let me tell you something, traditional media still sells tickets. I can do fifty thousand fing podcasts, and those criminals have me sit there interviewing me for two hours, and then you never know who’s gonna see it.

You never know when it’s gonna air. Good old newspapers. I still do drivetime radio, morning radio, afternoon radio. Some markets even have local TV. But look, I want a little credit because I was literally on the no fly lists, which is the international version of the No Fly List, and the Five Eyes List, which is the terror watch list.

No comedian in history has ever been on those lists. They were held so a different standard. I’m not putting myself in the class of the great George Carlin or the great Lenny Bruce, but even those guys were only hassled by local PDE. I have the FEDS knocking at my door multiple times a week, the Feds, and they don’t f around. They were dying to arrest me.

They were looking. They wanted to know if I had weapons. They wanted to know if I had made travel plans, like if I’m gonna fly to DC, waste that money, climb over the fence of the White House with a machete, look like Kathy Griffin, which unfortunately I still do, or maybe you convince a few people it was Reba, but I’d hate to do that to Riba because I just love her.

And then they’re supposed to believe that it’s broken to the White House and …

I mean, the fact that picture lives on is half comical and half tragic. And that’s where PTSD comes in. The intersection of comedy and tragedy. Josh Wolff told the Minneapolis Star Tribune how he was introduced to comedy. I remember one of my brother’s buddies had a cassette tap of Vettie Murphy.

We would hide in the basement and listening, laughing uncontrollably. I didn’t get all the jokes, but the cadences were funny. One day, the Civics teacher had come Park High School. Must have had a hangover, so he just played Bill Cosby himself in class. I know Cosby’s name is tainted now, but back then I was an au of his stand up.

It was weird though even as a kid, I thought I could do that. I just knew this gift. I just didn’t know as a viable job. The Missoulian asked David Cross what it’s been like watching comedy evolve. Cross said, like all change everywhere, some of it’s for the better, some for the worse.

I’m glad there are more opportunities for comedians to get the work out there, but at the same time, I think there’s kind of a craft involved that’s missing. You’re not gonna learn your craft by doing stuff on TikTok and then blowing up and then selling out arena. It’s just different. There’s always gonna be that kind of thing. But I certainly don’t subscribe to the cancel culture.

Bs of all those millionaires wandering about how they can’t say things anymore, it’s laughable. David Cross, what comics should we be on the lookout for? Cross said, well, Sean Patton, My opener is a brilliant comment, is great, fearless, clever, Shane tour is, Robbie Hoffman. There’s this kind of clown. Natalie Palominez.

Her shows are amazing and brilliant. Yes, I highly agree. Jacqueline Novak and this girl Curly Marouli people you might not have heard of, but they’re all worth checking out. New Citystage dot Com caught up with Jake Johanson, who’s been doing this for forty years now. He won the eleventh annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition back in nineteen eighty six.

That spotlight got Bob Newhart to name him as one of his favorite young comedians. That endorsement got the attention of David Letterman’s producers, and soon Johansson was on Letterman. Jake remembers I think it was just lucky because right from the beginning Dave enjoyed my stand up and for me that era, Dave was the new late night host. So the first time I was on in nineteen eighty seven was just such a big deal to be on it, you know, nineteen eighty seven Letterman. Now I get to check with Mike, who hosts the Letterman Pod.

Mike for listening, hit me on the side. I feel like, you know, if we like really graph out Letterman. I feel like the peak of Letterman was before nineteen eighty seven. Peak Letterman to me is the original ish, the very low key intro with all the neon signs turning off. And I feel like by nineteen eighty seven we were onto the more show, busy open, and it was already starting to become the earliest days of estab Letterman, and we had left behind that early early period of its twelve thirty nobody’s watching I Digress.

Johanson said. I was on at least once a year, sometimes three times a year, all the way till he stopped doing the show in twenty fourteen. It was an amazing connection for me, and I was lucky to have such a supportive fan in such a powerful position and sometimes have me on for his birthday week because he liked me. But one of my favorite Letterman appearances was and I got to be on the show with Bob Newhart. I got to meet him in person and thank him for promoting me all those years ago.

Chloe Hilliard was on Vulture’s list of comedians you should Know. They asked her what comedy hill should die on, and she said, stop what all the viral crowd work moments? It’s giving harassment. Setting up cameras and pointing at the audience sets off a domino effect of bad behaviors in the comedy club. The comedian isn’t bringing their a game and is relying on the audience to do the heavy lifting.

The audience gets entitled and expects to be the center of attention. At the end of the experience, there’s a one joker moment. You walk away with the feeling of Wow, that was an amazing experience. No one is retelling your crowd work rift to their friends. Stop being lazy.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I stumbled across this clip. A comedian by the first name of Nate shared this on Twitter. He was a guest on Woody and Willcox, and they are struggling with saying this dude’s last name the way I have been for exactly the same reasons.

If you listen to the first four years of this podcast, you heard me just roll through Nate Burghetzy.

And then I started to notice the same things that these folks did.

Let’s listen, and you said your name differently than I say your name. You are always Nate Bergatzi to me, and then I heard you say Burghetzi. Yes, I think we could say it wrong as our family. So you think maybe I’m right and you’re wrong. I think, I mean it’s a like I know, Falon says Bargatzi, and like I think that’s like a New York like Italian like you Shoulay Bargazzi.

And then I think our southern accent has turned it to Barghetzie. Oh man, no, I’m all kinds of self conscious. All right. Nate Burghetzi open up about pursuing his dream of comed He spoke to Parade magazine and said, I’ve always just done stand up. I want to be able to create movies that, hopefully the whole family can come out to.

I was never great at auditioning for other people’s movies, so I kind of figured I have to make my own. He’s working on a film called The Breadwinner, and he says he would love to start at a remake of nineteen sixty six. Is at the Ghost and Mister Chicken Nate be explain, I love Don Knatts. I don’t think I could do what don Knots does. It’d probably still go with Don Knats, to be honest, even though I traveled back in time to go Nonetheless, we’re gonna stick with don Knots.

But you know that’s the stuff I loved. It was just super fun and silly. He has as a book coming out in May, Big Dumb Eyes, Stories from a Simpler Mind. I gotta nag the publicist. I put in that request months ago.

They probably forgot about me. He says. The book is just telling stories that have happened to me, stuff that sometimes doesn’t always work and stand up. I read Paul Reiser’s book when I first started comedy, and I remember really laughing at it. I was just reading it in his rhythm and his voice, and I liked it so much.

The only times asked Gabe Iglesias about his style, you know, Hawaiian shirts, shorts and king gold caps, and they’re curious if that evolved over time or did he always just like that on stage? Fluffy said, when I first started doing stand up in ninety seven, everybody’s wearing dark colors. It was all about the cool dark shirt, the leather jacket, the black suit button up. I asked myself, how am I gonna be different here and also comfortable because I didn’t want to wear a suit. I didn’t want to wear a suit when I had the nine to five, and I don’t want to wear it now.

To do this. I remember watching Robin Williams was one of my comedy heroes, and he was always into Hawaiian shirts. It’s just bright, colorful, nothing threatening about that unless you’re scarface. If you’re wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you’re here to have a good time with the short. Same thing.

I want to be comfortable. I’m a California guy. We wear shorts here. You want of things that are memorable. Aside from having a great presence on stage, people are visual, so what I remember?

They remember the comedian that wears the Hawaiian shirt. When I watched his recent special, the New One, that shirt he’s wearing pops, It’s like electric red looks great. The nickname Fluffy came about because I tried using Gabriel Iglesias. I thought that was a beautiful, nice, wonderful name, and nobody remembered Iglesias. At the end of the night, they remembered Fluffy, And that’s why I stuck with that A lot of times.

To try something, you don’t give enough time to catch and I learned a lot of that from watching wrestling. They give a guy enough time, You’re like, ah, this sucks, this sucks, this sucks, and then finally I get it. That’s why every single special I’m wearing Hawaiian shirt shorts.

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And then with time, the Kangall cap started happening, So now it’s part of th…

Was playing a long time ago, and I just stayed with it and didn’t change. Could follow up from the La Times, where’d you learn about branding and marketing when it comes to comedy? Gabe said, before I got a comedy, I was actually working a lot in sales. I was always watching how people would promote their products and stuff like that. I worked inside of a Walmart, in the side of a kiosk selling cell phones back of the day, so we always trying to come couple ideas how to brand things better.

I also go back to wrestling on this one. I watch a lot of wrestling, and I see how they do their promos, how they dressed, the lighting, the sound, the experience. A lot of that goes into it. And I didn’t have the idea of branding early on. I think a lot of times entertainers don’t take themselves serious enough to be considered a brand.

I didn’t like the nickname Fluffy at first because it made me think of a cat, or pillows or comforters or cotton candy, but the name stuck. Friend of mine many years ago said, look, man, we’ll get these algorithms going, and trust me, the Internet’s gonna take off. That’s how far back we were talking about. He goes, we’ll start branding this now, and you watch what happens, and he was right. You know, if you google Fluffy, I’m the number one thing that pops up.

Time Magazine talked to Roy Wood Junior, and they were curious he worked at Golden Corral in college and what he’d learned from working at Golden Corral. Roy said, I feel like every American should either serve a year in the military or two years in food service. Both will give you different perspectives on society and how to treat people and how fortunate you are. Golden Corral you serve everyone from eight year olds to eighty year olds, from weird tables full of college kids to white supremacists, and you don’t even realize the guy’s white supremacist, so you see his white power tat on his knuckles as you’re refilling his sweet tea for the third time. When I started doing stand up comedy, a lot of my jokes were two or three sentence greeting bits that he did earlier that day on shift.

I could take a quick, little observational joke and by the end of my shift have it worded in a way that works in any demographic. You start noticing that we do have a lot of things to connect. That was a very very special time in my life. Zim was curious, does Trump winning make you happier or sadder that you weren’t app to host the Daily Show. Roy said Trump’s winter loss doesn’t change her job as political satirists to jump down the throat of whatever government is and isn’t doing right.

I think the difference becomes figuring out a new way to get people who love Trump but ignore facts to pay attention to facts if you still want to vote for him. At the end of that analysis, cool, but there’s been a big disconnect between what is considered entertainment what is considered news, and the public no longer cares about the difference so long as they’re entertained. Bob Marley was talking to the Rutland Herald about the weather and said, we just said snow, and then we had fifty seven and rain. When I was a kid, I just remember snowbanks being twenty five feet high, or was it because I was two feet tall. You just look at everything as big.

You look at your dad like, my dad’s a huge man, and my parents are geniuses.

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And then you turn fourteen and you’re like, these people know nothing.

Bob then talked about his family’s saying these people are insane. My cousin just passed away. It was awful, but my family so messed up. I called my sister and I go, we’re going to the funeral, and she goes, I’m not going up there. I gained so much weight, I’m too fat.

And I go, you’re too fat to funeral? Is father? O’Malley on the front step of the church. Get to say sorry for your loss. Please step on the scale.

I don’t know if you know this. Saturday Night Live started fifty this year. Oh, there’s a whole bunch of specials out. Marcy Klein was a producer and head of talent at the show from ninety five to twenty twelve. She told one of the docs, there’s a lot of people that I brought in, and I’m like, I can’t believe we’re not hiring that person.

Lauren Michaels himself tells the story. I wasn’t at the Jim Carrey audition. Somebody who was there said I don’t think Lauren would like it, and they were probably wrong. Other people who didn’t make it Kevin Hart, Mindy Kayling, Donald Glover, Jordan Peel, Stephen Colbert. Colbert was watching his own audition tape and said, I feel perfectly fine with that effort, and I probably felt okay then until I didn’t get it.

Back in twenty fifteen, Lauren Michaels tried to explain why Jim Carrey did get the show, and he said, no one gets it, all right, And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. If you like Chalking Comedy, join us in the Facebook group. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. See tomorrow

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Caalarokashok Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we shall we find out if Bill Burr and Billy Corgan are indeed brothers. And Ricky Gervais shared some sad news. If you’re a fan of Afterlife, You’re not going to like this news.

This first story. I wish I were more excited about it, and I’m trying to figure out a way to even do this. Amy Schumer was on the Call Her Daddy podcast. Now, if for some reason you listen to this program with kids, you know I try and keep it clean. I can’t today, So just please, if you’re not an adult, shut this off right now, or if you’re with kids, shut this off right now.

I will try to keep it as clean as I can, but I’m not going to be able to. Like I said in the open, Amy wants us to talk about her. She knows what she’s doing here. She went on Call Her Daddy. Alex s Cooper after her about the craziest interaction you’ve ever had with a fan?

Fair enough, and Amy decided to share, I’ve never said this anywhere, but I was at sort of kind of my peak, touring arenas whatever, and I’ll say it. Were they a professional athlete? Sure did? I text them late at night and they came over, did me a favor. That’s John paraphrasing there.

The favor involves the word down. Okay, we got it, move on.

And then I said, I’m so tired, I’m so sorry, and they left.

Yes, and Amy looks into the camera and says, and you know who you are. Amy did not disclose the athlete’s name or when or where the hookup took place. Some recaps of this are saying it was a baseball player. I have a guess based on a New York City baseball player and the time when Amy peaked, but I’m not going to guess. If she chooses to share, she will share.

Schumer joked that happened a couple of times, and I’m not proud of it. She joked. I’m gonna get actually canceled. She continued, you want to be a giving lover whatever, whatever, But at this moment, it was like, you know, some people will do a favor for a guy, same kind of favor, but different. I know what I mean nudge, nudge, saying it more and that’s the end of the night.

So I kind of did it my way, to quote Frank Sinatra. She explained how that moment inspired a scene in her twenty fifteen movie train Wreck. So all right, this puts it before twenty fifteen. Amy in her peak around twenty thirteen. Amy lives in New York City.

There was a ballplayer around then. I have a guess. It’s just a guess, by the way, totally unrelated the story. I got to rewatch the movie The Dark Knight. I love Batman films.

If you watched a Batman film, The Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises, those are greed films. But let me get back to the Amy Schumer story, because I don’t want to speculate on who the ballplayer is. Amy continues telling the story, saying he did that favor, and then I yawned, and I was like, I’m tired. That’s a moment in train Wreck, that’s from real life. That’s not the most popular move that gets the best response, but that’s the truth.

When I was in my heyday, one of them was furious and one of them was totally fine with it, and the baseball player was kind of cool about it. We also learned that Amy has never orgasmed. Quote from Penetration, Schumer said, it’s a scary thing to say out loud. It’s scary because nobody talks about it, because we’re all like getting oscar. She shared that she didn’t prioritize having a partner help her climax until she reached her thirties.

Since then, however, she has experienced intimacy with generous partners who understand her needs ensuring she orgasms. First. Cooper praised Schumer, calling her admission normal for many women. Cooper then shared some of her own experiences, which has nothing to do with comedy. So go listen to call her Daddy if you’re curious about that part of it.

In another topic, Amy says she wouldn’t have known she had Cushing syndrome if not for the internet trolls. Amy said, a year ago, the internet really came for me. Commenters were saying that her face was swollen. I was like, okay, everybody like relax. Doctors were chiming in on the comments and they were like, no, no, something’s really up.

Your face looks so crazy. Amy said. Doctors thought she might have Cushing syndrome, which, as the Mayo Clinic explains, occurs when the stress hormone cortisol remains in the body for too long. It’s caused by taking steroids for an extended period of time and can cause weight gain, acne, and a distinctive facial swelling that’s called a moonface. Schumer said, at first, I was like, f off, wait.

I have been getting steroid injects for my scars from her breast reduction and cesarean section. So I was getting these steroid injections and it gave me this thing called Cushing syndrome, which I wouldn’t have known if the Internet hadn’t come for me so hard. I learned I had this condition, and then I had something called moonface. And I’m starting in a movie and there’s a camera right in my face. Everyone’s like, you look great, until one friend gave her the truth, telling Amy, your face is looking like a bit inscene.

Schumer explained that she got rid of Cushing, telling Alex Cooper, it just has to work itself out. I was feeling really down on myself before I started filming this movie. I was like, really having trouble figure out how he’s going to star in a movie. While I had this going on, director Loraine Coffee told Amy, you know, I think you look great. Amy says, I just needed one person to amp me up.

So that’s a lot of information from Amy Schumer. By the way, Amy has a movie coming out on Netflix in February called kind of Pregnant. So, like I said, this isn’t an accidental interview. You could ask me a question and I might even have a crazy story, but I probably wouldn’t share it. I’m not that kind of fellow.

But if I had a movie to promote, maybe I would tell a crazy story. Maybe I would tell you my Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until after he passes away. Maybe I would tell it to you to promote my movie. You know what I’m saying. Yeah, all right, let’s move on.

Nicky Glazer has announced seventeen additional dates on her A Live and Unwell tour. NICKI probably you’re at the top of the game right now. She added a show in Boston. She’s playing New York’s Beacon Theater. She’ll now do five shows at the Beacon.

That’s no joke. Last year, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins suggested that maybe he was Bill Burr’s long lost half brother. Burr was on Howie Mandel’s podcast, So Burr’s there. Howie Mandel says, I have something that I’ve planned for you. Bring in the surprise.

Corgan walks in. Bill Burr goes what’s up and then looks at Howie and goes, you’re an a hole. Corgan says, he told me you’re totally cool with me coming. Burr says, that’s what he does. Burr again, All right, fit, I’ll do it.

Did you ever think the fact that I never told that story that maybe you shouldn’t the emails of the crap that I got. It’s not that I don’t like him, it just reminds me of all that crap. Burr says, And I’ll just do this in my normal voice. I’ll explain why. To the break, Burr says, what was supposed to happen to?

Corgan explained the theory that the two look and sound alike because they could be real life half brothers. Corgan said, about ten years ago, one of my brothers was having a birthday party and my stepmother was there. He was obviously married to my father, and my stepmother said to me, do you know Bill Burr is? Now At that point, I had never heard of Bill Burrd and know he was. I didn’t know he was comedian or anything.

He could have been the guy down the street. She said, well, he’s this comedian. And I think I even somehow caught up a picture on the phone. I kind of know s right away. Gee, he looks like my father.

Bill Burr looks more like my father than Bill Burr looks like me or I look like Bill burse I said to my mother, why he asking me this? Mom says, I think he might be one of your father’s illegitimate children. Bill Burr might be one of the children and your father sired in his days being a traveling musician. Corgan said, the fact that he can’t sing, I think this proves that we’re related, because I’m not funny. Got more details about George Lopez’s upcoming and final special.

His new special, Mui Kotolko, was recorded in September at the Dolbey Theater in la It will be on Amazon Prime February eighteenth. In Mui Kotulico, Lopez will share his reflections on aging Latino family dynamics and cultural quirks. No way at George Lopez special is going to talk about Latino family dynamics and cultural quirks, raises the challenges of getting older, and touches on generational clashes and Latino superstitions. I’ve met George a couple of times. First time I met him serious, really cool, was at a Cubs game once.

We somehow had tickets in the first row because somebody knew the guy that owned the Cubs. As we were sitting there and George Lopez was behind us in row two. He was really cool that day.

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And then at the Chicago Comedy Festival saw Lopez get up.

This is when he had the Late Night show, and boy he went scorched earth like jerky face about Letterman and Conan and everybody, and he was going to reinvent late Night and everybody else sucks and that didn’t work out. That was a bit of turnoff seeing that particular live show. Other than that, I’ve always enjoyed George Lopez and his comedy. But yeah, he’s going to talk about cultural quirks. It’s what he does.

George says, it’s the last one I’ve subjected the American people to enough of my crap. Seems like the right time. It’s been the one thing that has never left me my whole life, and it’s just a wonderful place to leave it at this particular point. On Gossip Corner, TMZ tells us Miami Heat basketball player Jimmy Butler isn’t worried about being suspended by the Heat, apparently cuz just hours after the Heat hit him with a two game ban, Jimmy Butler was seen at a party hanging out with comedian Andrew Schultz. TMZ Sports reports that Butler made his way to the Reserve Cup draft and dinner.

He was photographed at the party. One party goer described him as being in a good mood. I witnessed to say Schultz cracked a joke telling the crowd if anyone asks, he’s not here, he was at the Heat facility practicing. That was someone else you saw. I always enjoy hearing from listeners.

Feel encouraged to email me or hit me up on Facebook, or however you want to connect. My email address is in the show notes anyway, heard from a fan of the show. I won’t say who they are. They know who they are because they emailed me. But you know, I don’t wanna really cross the line between private and public.

But the nature of the question was, sometimes I will on this program do half ass impressions, and I will flag them as half ass impressions. For example, I do half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld. Most people do a Jerry Seinfeld along lines of do you ever notice that da da da right? I don’t do that one. I do the angry Jerry, the slow burn Jerry.

Come on, what he da da da da da right? That’s my half assed Jerry. Question was lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Bill Burr quotes and not flagging it as a half ass Bill Burr impression. So let me explain slight distinction here. So let me explain because in my warped mind, and I know this will only makes sense to me, there’s a slight distinction.

So when I do a half ass Jerry Seinfeld, I’m usually reading and it’s hard for me. I can’t do these unless I have a quotes. So let me just find any Seinfeld quote. Oh look, here, I found a story on the fly from Yo. Jerry Seinfeld turned down twenty five million dollars for Steve McQueen’s Leamanz Porsche nine seventeen K.

Bidding for the Lamans reach twenty five million dollars at an auction last Saturday. Why did Jerry turn it down? He may feel that he could get more at a later date. But there’s no quote from Jerry in here. That doesn’t help me.

All right. Here are some words actually said by Jerry Seinfeld, but he probably didn’t say like this. The if I read the quote flat, it’s if you’re a champion skier, you could put the gates anywhere you want. So many people would do the You know, if you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want. But I like to do the angry half asked Jerry Seinfeld.

If you’re a champion, scary, you put the gates anywhere you want, right, So that’s what I do. I’ll do half assed Brewery, do I half assed? Jeff fox Worthy, if you have a punchline for this line, you might be read it right. So the Bill Burr, The reason I don’t consider it a half ass impression is I haven’t attempted at all to do a voice. Burr has a cadence.

So when I read his quotes. I’m trying to catch his cads. You know. He’ll talk in short sentences, you know, and I’ll throw in a punchline and he kind of chops a little bit. But I haven’t attempted to do a Bill Burr voice, which is why I haven’t called it a half ass impression.

But based on this email, maybe I’ll work on it a little bit. Promoted to half ass impression? Is it a good impression? No? Is Johnny Max saying he does impressions.

No, these are half ass impressions. I know they’re not good. I’m just trying to read you a comedy news story without reading everything in my usual sing song monotone. So that’s it. Burr’s got a little punch to him, short sentences, little bite, good letter though, I appreciate that.

Did that make any sense? Who knows? Chloe Feynman says she has no regrets calling out Elon Musk on Insta. Chloe said, remember when I got in trouble for calling out mister Nazi salute? Yeah, no regrets.

Back in August, Chloe had told Bowen Yang that a male SNL host had made multiple cast members cry. At that time, she hadn’t shared who it was. In November, she shared that it was Elon Musk. TMZ ran into Tony Rock at Lax and TMZ writes, and we had to ask him about Trump is sending the highest office on the land. You really didn’t.

You really could have just sat there and let Tony Rock get on a plane. I’m more impressed than you could pick Tony Rock out of a crowd. I don’t know what Tony Rock looks like. I know what Chris Rock looks like, but I have no idea what Tony Rock looks like. TMZ asks Tony if comedians can come up with more content for jokes when it comes to Trump headlines.

Tony says, I mean they can, but he wouldn’t use the term gold mine because he’s not feeling a lot of good fortune. Rock says it’s the job of comedians like him to try and find humor in all the messed up stuff Trump plans to do. Send your letters to Tony Rock. Trey Kennedy as a stand up comedy special on Hulu today. I believe this is outside of the hilarious continuity, but you’d have to ask a Hulu publicist if this counts as a hilarious special or not.

And since the Hulu publicity department does not want to engage with this program, I don’t know what to tell you. But anyway, on Hulu, Trey Kennedy’s specials called grow Up and We’re Told Trey Kennedy takes audiences on a hilarious journey through the ups and downs of adulthood. The special apparently is family friendly, and Kennedy explores navigating fatherhood as well as his own upbringing. He discusses his relationship with his wife, what makes him so different, and the aspects of his life that needs some growing up. Kennedy said, I’m super grateful Hulu is helping me show grow Up to the masses.

If you’re in New Orleans tonight and you can get through the snow, did the snow melt yet? Pat Burcher is performing at Sports Drink. Pat recently had some social media success posting a clip on Instagram. In the clip, he says, you know how they turn the stock market off every night, then they turn it back on every morning. Then they’re like, we’re in a bubble.

It’s going to burst. The recession is looming any day now. Everything will collapse. His solution in the video titled Comic Soov’s Economic Crisis. Then leave it off.

What are you doing turning it back on? Just unplug it. It’s like, these people have plenty of money, these people have no money. Print more and give it to them. They go, we can’t, it’ll devalue the currency.

Just say it doesn’t. People argue with me Tho’re like, Pat, you don’t get the economy, and he says, I’ve studied economics, I have a degree. I’m like, economics is just astrology for pure losers and sad news for Ricky Gervaise. If you watch the TV series Afterlife, Ricky’s character has a dog. Auntie.

The German shepherd who played Brandy on the show has passed away at age thirteen. Vislor Antille was the dog’s proper name. A German shepherd, also appeared in Tom Cruise’s film Edge of Tomorrow, a fantastic film, one of my favorite Cruise films that is an underrated film, and also alongside George Clooney in The Midnight Sky. Ricky Gervais said Auntie was a beautiful soul that she helped making Afterlife my favorite filming experience of all time. Ricky said, he and the dog hit it off straight away, and I’m so glad that I told her a hundred times a day that she was a very good girl.

That’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, Jenny mag how alongside the DCN band with today’s Daily Comedy News. Looks like there was a little more to that thing with THEO von falling out of the chair at the inauguration. Talk about that in a second, But Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are teaming up. They will do a benefit comedy show to support relief efforts for those affected by the La wildfires.

This show will be Monday at the will Turn Theater. All proceeds from the benefit will go to the Wildfire Relief Program, a GoFundMe that is currently supporting relief and recovery efforts related to the wildfires burning in La County. That program’s goal was to raise eight million dollars for those affected by the blazes. Through Tuesday, they had raised over five million dollars. As for THEO Vaughn, I told you yesterday that logan Paul had shared a video where THEO Vaughn is trying to sit down and his chair suddenly collapses.

THEO has responded to that tweet saying it wasn’t an accident. Paul thought it was funny to mess with the chair. There’s a time and place. You know, I agree wherever you are on the political spectrum, the inauguration is not the time to be doing pranks. Let’s have some decorum.

Ron Funches is a big fan of Travis Kelcey. Ron had done a show back in December at Kansas City’s Comedy Club, but he just shared the clip on social media, revealing that he’s a major fan of Travis kelce Apparently they hit it off when Funch has guest starred on Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Which was hosted by Travis Kelcey last October, Funches is seen telling the crowd, I started doing this game show and it’s hosted by Travis Kelcey. We started to become friendly, you know.

And then he knew I was coming out to do shows for Thanksgiving week and he hi…

Let me know if you need anything. Funches calls the tight End a golden retriever of a human being. He’s a good guy. He’s a good dude. Not only did he get his tickets, but an hour and a half before the game, I got another little ding on my phone.

He was like Hey man, I’m getting ready to go in a game mode. I’m gonna turn my phone off before I do. Just want to make sure you got in okay. Funch just said, you Prince chirming mf Or. He’s amazing.

He’s a golden retriever of human being. It’s probably why he’s so good at football. He just like sees the ball and says, I gotta go get it. Funch has also made a joke about Kelsey’s relationship with Taylor Swift, saying I think he’s too good for her. That got a good laugh from the audience.

We’ll see if Joe Koy agrees with that sentiment. From Stars and Stripes dot com, demand to see comedian Joe Koy at bases in Japan overwhelmed the USO website. Joe Cooy is scheduled to perform January twenty ninth at Yakota Tayo Community Center and twice the following day at Yokosuka Naval Basis Fleet Theater. However, USO website glitches frustrated those who try to register for the free tickets. USO spokeswoman Jennifer Passey told Stars and Stripes there was an unprecedented surgeon demand, which caused technical challenges across our registration system.

The USO apologizes for the difficulties some experienced. We appreciate everyone’s patience as we work through this challenge with our registrations. Selwyn Jones is a manager at the Yakota Enlisted Club. He said he spent four hours on the website in a failed attempt to get tickets. He wrote on the Facebook page, this was a major cluster and now I didn’t pull money punches there.

He just said cluster. He didn’t tag cluster with any other syllables there, just major cluster. Jones wrote. The two shows should have been scheduled that Yakoda, adding that the us would advise people to keep trying for tickets even though the system was having issues. Then you tell us the system was suspended and that you’d be resuming on Tuesday after working on the problem and give folks a chance to get the last of the tickets.

Now you’re saying all the tickets are gone. See, people are really into this. Joe Cooy. You know, if you’re a famous musician, maybe you shouldn’t make a face when Joe Coy tells a very very harmless joke were Lax got back and I’m not going to play the joke. I’m trying to rest a bit.

But Joe Coy very popular. Tracy Morgan has opened up about his difficult days early in his SNL tenure. In Peacock’s SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night documentary, Tracy said, I wanted to show them my world, how funny it was. But the first three years I felt like I was being culturally isolated. Sometimes I’m coming from a world of blacks.

I’m an inner city kid. To be on the whitest show in America, I felt by myself. I felt like they weren’t getting it. Morgan said his experience shifted when he talked to Lorne Michaels. Tracy said, Lorne Michaels had that talk with me.

He said, Tracy had hired you because you’re funny, now because you’re black. So just do your thing. And that’s when I started doing my thing. Coming up in March in Providence, the Lil Rody Laugh Riot Comedy Festivals got a serious lineup. They just added Matt Rife and Jonathan van Ness.

I mean, click on the line up here for you. I was looking at it earlier today as I was putting the show together, it is quite impressive. Thursday March twenty seventh, Kevin Hart des Bishop, you remember he was a guest on this very program. Very cool, and Josh Johnson right there, it’s great. Friday the twenty eighth, Michael Blaustein Andy Woodhull, Tone Bell and Alec Flynn.

A Saturday Night Matt Rife, the not so canceled Disease I’m sorry, Leslie Jones, Jonathan van Ness, Sophie Buttle, Ashley Gavin and Melissa Via Signor.

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And then Sunday Night Rife had a burner and christ de Stefana.

Details at Lilroodi Laughriot dot com l I R R h O d y laugh riot dot com.

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Speaking of Jonathan VanNess, They’ve got a special out today on Veeps.

It’s called Fun and Slutty. The pressor tells us 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. The special leads us all through a sometimes shocking journey of political commentary alongside lighter serves of humor from tradwife trends to ye olden days of having to use map quest to find your appointment, All done with the fabulous hair flip, infectious laughter and beaming smile at his pure jv N. The hour was taped in the fall at Emo’s in Austin, Texas. You’ll find that on the VIEPS platform.

Meanwhile, Rosebud Baker has announced a special. This will will be on Netflix February eleventh. It’s called The mother Load. Taped months apart during two sold out nights at the Comedy Seller. The special intercuts between Baker before and after giving birth.

With the juxtaposition of these experiences, she unpacks navigating the unknown and the evolving journey of parenthood, delving into the decision to have kids, the indignities of childbirth, the pros and cons of losing your identity in motherhood, generational device of upbringings. She’s no longer doing something that men like. Move on. She don’t deadline. If you have kids, the specials for you, and I’ll tell you right here, based on the thing I just pulled my punch on.

Kids should not watch this one. This special is not for kids. If you absolutely do not want kids, The specials also for you. Baker said, there’s a lot of people in the world navigating infertility, miscarriage, IVF, pregnancy, and post partner them. I’ve been through all that, and I wanted to make a special to mate anyone going through those experiences laugh as badly as I needed too while going through them.

We shot over two years because I wanted to tell the full stories, include what the other side of pregnancy looks like, and I needed to live through it in order to tell jokes about it. And my number one hope is that it makes everyone laugh. It’d be nice to also make them feel less alone. I saw an item here. I just thought the timing was a little weird.

I don’t know if you follow the news, but from the Robb Report, the headline comedian Whitney Cummings is seeking thirteen million dollars for her suburban LA estate. I don’t know sure. I mean, you’re allowed to sell a house. It feels like timeing’s a little awkward there. The Robert port tells us the multi hyphenate entertainer relax with that, come on, comedian Whitney Cummings purchased the Woodland Hills residence back in twenty nineteen for four point three million dollars and gave it a stylish makeover.

Architectural Digest describes the makeover as a Santa Fe meets monastery inspired style, with a total of five bedrooms and seven baths, sixty eight hundred square feet high ceilings accented with reclaimed barn beams and French doors leading outside sequestered behind gates at the end of a secluded cul de sac. The creamy stucco and terra cotta roof structure is perched atop a four acre parcel overlooking sweeping mountain vistas. The home includes an inviting den sporting a fireplace flanked by built in shelving, as well as a bookshelf, line library, and a posh primary suite flunting a private balcony, a separacy, and a Spa inspired bath spotlighted by a Belgian soaking tub. Did I mention that Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are doing a fundraiser A lot of people lost their homes during the fires. Did I mention that that was the lead story?

Sorry? Sometimes I forget if I mentioned something or not. That’s right. Oh, And the listing goes out of its way to tell us that the homes of Loure is the property setting of Midahalow that protects it from the Santa Anna wins. And the listing also notes there’s an LA Fire Department helipad nearby.

Timing. Everybody comedy is about timing. Did I mention that there’s a big fundraiser Shane Gillis and Bill Burr are trying to raise money people lost their homes in the wildfires. Did you hear about that? Yeah?

Anyway, if you need a house, Whitney coming to selling hers for thirteen million dollars. James dobe And tells the LA Times funny is funny. There’s a lot of surprising material that can make an audience lose it, whether they agree or not. I believe in being funny more than I believe in being correct. It’s almost a political belief I have.

Comedy has to be funny, but there’s a curious system of algorithms, botnets and paid publicity that will screen the opposite at you. I love to bring up an important or intelligent topic and then make very stupid jokes about it. People have said before that my comedy is smarter intelligence that starts to sound like it’s one of those acts where we’ve got to have a degree in liberal arts to understand it. Nothing I do is difficult to understand. It’s all basic and moronic.

Also from the La Times, they checked in with the folks at the Alzadina Comedy Club PDA that burned down in the La wildfires. After the fires, a wooden picnic table remained fully intact. I will circle back to that Chekhov’s gun of a detail. Maria Bamford was one of the major players in the early days of the club. She used to work out there.

Bamford said, I drew a picture several years ago after moving to Altadena of my ideal comedy community, small and filled with love and in true La vision. Board magic Claire Button Kevin did a massive amount of work rehabbing a strip mall office space into a gorgeous, tiny clown theater. Ridiculously a request from the universe and crayon was answered. Co owner Kevin Krieger said, that’s what made the theater burning down the most devastating. We put our hearts in sold into turning this strip mall space into a beautiful little theater, and it’s gone.

Queger said Clare, and I would love to keep teaching and keep creating space for people to create. We get to be the owners of it, but in reality was really a community effort. I’m looking forward to doing it again. Theater isn’t the space, it’s the people that come to it and make it a vibrant place to be. The La Times ends the article with the picnic table and remains standing.

And that is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Seems like Will Smith is still man of Chris Rock and Trevor Noah is going to host the Grammys after all. That’s exciting. Bill Burr was the guest on Mark Marin’s podcast this week.

They discussed the Los Angeles fires. Let’s listen. No, I don’t freak out on these things, but I am freaking out somewhere. I’m just not in touch with it. Left.

So you weren’t directly threatened. I didn’t freak out during nine to eleven. I didn’t freak out during the pandemic. I didn’t freak out during this thing that your house wasn’t in danger. Uh no, yeah, no, it it got a little scary there, that’s what I mean.

Yeah, so we you know, definitely jelowed up. Yep, load up, had to get out of there, and you had a mandatory evacuate. Oh yeah, oh yeah. But it was like, you know, I saw this. The flames never got close enough, but like you knew they were coming, and it was just kind of like just yeah, and it was like, you know, it’s just yeah.

So I feel very like fortunate. Yeah, that survivor’s guilt. Yeah, I got a little of that. I freaked out. Wait, what does the benefits start with this many prigging people?

Well, you mean insurance No, I mean just as far as for helping people out, insurance company. And yeah, that’s the thing I was talking about on Kimmel is how they was keeping on all the homeless people, all the immigrants. What about the insurance companies. It’s not going to pay anybody a dime and still give themselves a bonus. What about those guys?

What about all these landlords that are now a two bedroom in Pasadena’s nine grand a month? Best? What about these hotels that was eighty nine bucks and it went up to like seven hundred bucks. And Maren also talked about they occasionally don’t get along. I was.

I was pretty impressed during the last fight we got into over whatever there was in the green room. Dude, I’ve had so many fights to do, and I don’t remember what any of them are about. No, well, I kind of knew what that was about. But there was a couple of things I remember about it, though. Oh the last one I do remember.

The last week we were trying to get a and then you tried to act like you weren’t. Uh. You came walking in and you go, Uh, I could hear your voice from down the hall, and I go, I could, I go. I could smell your bitterness. Yeah, you know that this was a different thing you were.

It was a it was over a topic. It was over a uh due process, and we were in the well the cancel culture was going on, right. We were in the green room and Jess looking, there’s a couple other people there, and you go off on me. And all I remember is like, I’m gonna have to just take this. I’m gonna have to stand.

I’m not I can’t walk away from it. I’m gonna have to hold my ground and wait till he passes and you go, and then I go. But the thing I noticed was, you know, within three minutes you were like, you know, maybe I should be on the women’s side once in a while. Like the distance between outburst and apology was tight. I was proud of both of us.

Yeah, I thought we did run over quickly. Wait pretty good. Yeah, No, we’re in a good place. And I know another one, because of the way we’re wired, is coming. But I don’t take it seriously.

Meanwhile, on his podcast, Codon O’Brian revealed he was close to losing his house or the LA wildfires. His house is okay, but unfortunately the home of his longtime assistant Sona. Her house was lost in the fire. Conan said he was at work preparing to host the Academy Awards, still scheduled for March second, when he got the call from his wife that she only had a few minutes to pack up their stuff and get out. She grabbed a small bag of clothes and the only thing Conan asked her to grab was the frame letter he received from author E.

B. White when Conan was just sixteen. Conan said, I could easily be here saying we don’t have our house. The fire came right up to the line of his property. Then he began joking with Sona about what he could do to help her money side, food aside, clothing, aside, love, an affection aside, sheltering you in any way at any one of my nineteen mansions, aside is there anything I could do for you?

And then he tagged that with and also I’m letting you go? Is this a bad time? Conan joked he was looking forward to the headlines that would read. Conan O’Brien Fire’s Sona on podcast where she talks about losing her home, Sona shut back. I’m really glad your house is okay, because if you lost your house, it would overshadow mine by a lot.

Good to see they still have a sense of humor here. I feel like all of us do you just feel awful for people that lost their homes there? And you know, I’ve been thinking about it. So even if you get the insurance company to pay you, you still got to get a contractor to rebuild your home, and the contractors are going to be busy. It’s gonna be a while for anybody to have any semblance of normalcy out there.

Trevor Noah is set to return as host of the Grammys. Now today is January twenty second. The news came out yesterday the Grammys or what February second, So he’s got a little more than nine days like Joe Koy had to get ready for the Golden Globes. But it’s only I don’t know, lazy mouth, ten twelve days a number like that. Now, Trevor has hosted the Grammys before, and I suspect he’s been secretly working on it.

I say that because Trevor is now a producer on the Grammy Awards. So that’s not a conversation that happened in the span of half an hour. That’s not a text. Hey, you want to host the Grammys and you write back shore, can I be a producer? Sure some negotiations surely went on there.

This is Trevor’s fifth straight time hosting the Grammys, and he’s up for an award. The nominees for Best Comedy Album, and longtime listeners know that I get annoyed about how the Grammys defined an album, but I have lost that battle, so I’ll shut up about it and just tell you. The nominees are Jim Gaffigan’s The Prisoner and Nikki Glaser Someday He’ll Die, Trevor Noah’s Where Was I, Dave Chappelle’s The Dreamer, and Ricky Gervais or mcgeddon. Out of those, I’m picking Trevor Noah. He can give a Grammy to himself.

Maybe Taylor Swift will come by. Is she nominated? Oh yes, Taylor is nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Music Video. You know, maybe she’ll come and Trevor will take a joke and Taylor will smile and be like, Hey, that was a really funny joke. I appreciate you trying to host an award show on short notice.

That seems like the kind of thing Taylor would do, because she’s cool like that, bringing Smifties. I like Taylor Swift’s music a lot. I just think Joe Coy got a bad rap. I’m not going there, Scott Peckert relax in Touch Weekly, he says. A source close to Will Smith revealed that Will Smith still holds resentment towards Chris Rock, particularly due to the median’s smug attitude following the infamous incident.

The source claims that Will Smith is now relishing what he feels like a last laugh moment as Chris Rock finds himself embroiled in controversy. Now, as they read the sentence, I’m like, what controversy is Chris Rock involved with? Oh yeah, you may recall last month Chris Rock reportedly walked off stage minute tune performance at a billionaire’s party in Australia. I got news for you, Will Smith. Not much of a controversy.

I couldn’t even remember it, and I talked about it for three days. Not a big deal, the source tells him. Touch Will’s getting a last laugh and loving it. He’ll never forgive Chris for ruining his life, even though he’s managed to pick up the pieces in the last year or so. He still hates the guy and his smug attitude.

I was watching last night. I was watching my DVD box set of Homicide, Life on the Street. I was there in late in season four and Pembleton is talking to a guy in the box. And you know who played the guy in the box, Chris Rock. Yeah, he’s on an episode of Homicide.

Did we know this? I guess we knew this. I mean it’s thirty years ago. It’s the episode Requiem for a Dina. Chris Rock plays Kurver Dooley.

The insider said, Chris isn’t the victim here or not. In Will’s opinion, a lot of people would agree with Will and think, what’s happening to Chris is karma for refusing to speak to Will or accept this apology. Let’s assume it was the worst joke, the meanest joke. You should have never done that, the worst thing anybody ever did to anybody. The karma for that is walking off a stage in a billionaire’s party that you per simply got paid to appear at, and then a comedy podcast talked about you for three straight days.

Whoo karma. Wow. You don’t want to mess with the karma. I’ll tell you that much. The source and knowledge that violence and response to a joke is never justifiable.

The source also stated that Chris Rock has also been deeply affected by the incident. From Chris’s end, he’s still haunted by what happened on that Oscar stage. He suffers from PTSD Like Will, He’s never recovered from that slap. Others feel the best thing would be for these two egomaniacs to come together and hug it out, but they’re too proud. At the inauguration, Theo Vaughn tumbled into YouTuber Logan Paul.

Theo’s cheer collapsed. Logan Paul started filming as he sat next to brother Jake. Paul Logan caught the moment THEO fell out of his chair and shared it on Twitter. He captured the video make cheers agreed again. Vaughan didn’t appear hurt during the accident and quickly made a joke which was Camalis Cheers.

I’m discussed in the past. In my humble opinion, Ricky Gervais is better at promoting his alcohol brand than Jim Gaffigan was. Ricky shared this clip on social media. I think late last week. I’ve bumped this a couple times, many many edits in here because Ricky is very filthy.

But let’s take a listen. Hi, I’m Ricky Gervais, world famous comedian, But I tell you what isn’t funny the effects that strong liquor can have on your wellbeing, everything from like putting on white diabetic skin or scabs and mental illness Dutch barn. Hey, you know what’s a big money maker is Ted Lasso. Deadline shared some data they got from Parent Analytics about how how much money Apple TV shows are making. They value ted Lasso at generating six hundred and nine point four million dollars.

Not sure how that numbers arrived at, but it compares to, say, two hundred and ninety nine point four for Severns, Rachel Sennots, who’s kind of the it girl right now? And Bow and Yang they’re going to announce the nominations for the ninety Did you hear me drop the G every now and the Queen’s comes out. I noticed my daughter when we were on the trip, reminded me there’s a C in Antarctica, and I realized, in my native queen’s accent, the southernmost continent often comes out as Antarctica. Like no T, no C, just Antarctica. I drop an entire syllable there, I digress.

Rachel and Bowen will announce the nominations for the ninety seventh Annual Academy Awards. They will do this Thursday at eight thirty am Eastern. If you live in La sucks to be you. You got to get up at five thirty in the morning to find out who will be nominated. Tarren kill Him has dropped out of the upcoming off Broadway production of You’re in Town because of the destruction of his home in the fires.

People Magazine ordered that his home, which he shares with wife Kobe Smolders, has been lost in the fires. There’s a clip from the offices Brian Baumgardner making the rounds on social media. Brian was asked why did Ryan, Kelly and Toby have to sit away from the rest of the characters in the annex on the office. Brian said, this is a fun little easter egg. There was the main office, the main bullpen, right, Jim and Pam and the accountants and Stanley and Phyllis and Michael’s office and all that.

Then there was the other side, right. We called it the annex. If your desk was in the annex, you were a writer. And they did this because the camera was always moving around, we were there all the time. He explained that creator Greg Daniels needed the writers in the writer’s room sometimes, so the people who were back there didn’t have to be on set all the time.

They could get up and write and then come back and shoot some group conference room scenes or seen back there, but they weren’t there all the time. Over in the UK, comedian Harry Dean’sway has lost his case against Steve Coogan’s production company over a sitcom that he claimed infringed his copyright. London’s High Court ruled that Live at the Moth Club, which ran for one season in twenty twenty two, was not a copy of deans Way’s twenty thirteen series Shambles Harry Tell’s Shortal. He now faces bankruptcy if Steve Coogan’s production company pursue him for legal costs. The lawsuit claim that Cougan’s show ripped off the original show by combining on stage performance with scripted comedy.

High Court Recorder Amanda Michaels said the format of Deansway series was not protected as a copyright work. The similarities between the shows identified by the claimant do not seem to me to raise an inference of copying. The main complaint is that Live of the Moth Club is set in an almost identical setting. They run down comedy venue and combined scenes of real comedians performing on stage with backstage scenes featuring a range of fictional characters. In my judgment, LATMC may have the same central underlying idea as Shambles, but that does not by itself lead to any inference that the pleated format of Shambles has been copied as a whole or in substantial part.

Interesting case there. I’m by no means an expert in the UK law, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. Like it to stay warm. It’s pretty cold out there.

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