Month: January 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag with today’s Daily Comedy News. What’s going on with Kevin Hart? Bloomberg reports the days after Thanksgiving, Kevin Hart’s production company laid off about twenty people. That’s about one quarter of its workforce.

So eighty people working for Kevin Hart’s production company. Not too shabby, but not too long after. The chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief content officer of Heartbeat all departed. The departures are called amicable, but followed a disagreement about the direction of the company. I hey, Kevin, when your top three folks are like, yeah, no, there’s something going wrong here, I think, Bloomberg writes, Kevin had ambitions of building something more than a production company.

He wasn’t content to be a famous multimillionaire. He wanted to be a billionaire. He formed a separate company, laugh out Loud, to create comedy videos for the Internet. He built an advertising business with clients like Lift and Procter and Gamble. He produced videos and podcasts for Sirious, and he was a media entrepreneur before many of his premieres.

He formed Heartbeat in twenty twenty two, merging all his businesses under one roof pretty interesting. If he’s laying off that many people in the top three folks departed, that does not sound good. New York Theater dot Com reviewed Gary Golman’s new show, Grandiloquent. They give it four stars out of five. Writing comedian Gary Goleman delivers an uproarious description of his troubled childhood and this one man’s show.

It’s titled Grand Delinquent, the definition of which, to the comedian hopefully provides. In the course of the evening, Gary says the word means the use of extravagant or flowerly language, especially when intended to impress. Sporting a prominent goatee that makes him look like a hip university professor, his delivery of perfectly crafted one liners is frequently accompanied by sly smiles acknowledging the resulting laughs. He knows how good he is, but he’s not crass enough to laugh at his own jokes. JTA dot Org caught up with Gary and said, tell us about the show, what can we expect?

Gary said, Oh, man, I’ve been told people have laughed and cried, so they can expect an emotional I wouldn’t call it a roller coaster, but an emotional flume ride. Maybe I can’t call it tragic comic nor comic tragic, but there are some sad, sad moments in it, but it’s mostly hilarious. That’s what I would say. A stand up back is just how many funny things can I say in an hour and a half?

And then you write a one persons show and there’s a lot of expressing, well, …

This show? I wanted it to end with the beginning. I open up talking about the first book I ever read, and then I close by talking about that same book. I like that when movies or books were plays in where they began, and so that was important to my director and me, And so it ended up with a punchline that wasn’t all that funny but hopefully will resonate. Not being funny is very challenging for stand up comedian, and especially one is obsessed and passionate about finding the funniest things I can say to the point of it being unhealthy sometimes, so the challenge, ironically is not to be funny, when usually the challenge is to make this as funny as possible.

Gary talked about his first open mic experience October eleventh, nineteen ninety three, so thirty one years ago this past October, and it went well enough that I was hooked for life. It’s like, I can imagine what would be like to have a really good drug for the first time. You’re like, well, I guess I’m on this drug. That’s how I felt. I was hooked.

I got an applause break over an impression I did of Robert de Niro, which is embarrassing because it’s one of the easiest impressions that a lot of people did back then. But it went well enough. Jim Jeffries is out touring new material. What can we expect, he told Inlander. Look with me, it’s always going to be some social issues, some sex jokes, and then some stuff about my life.

You’re just following a soap opera of person, aren’t you. When I was younger, you were watching a guy who was dealing with addiction and having problems there. Now you’re dealing with a guy who’s doing the same as everyone my age, struggling to be an adult while having to be a parent. You know what, So there’s stuff about married life. There’s no more stories of one night stands or anything like that.

Tails of being an adult, I guess, but it’s still just grubby jokes. I always write the show that I want to watch. Every comedian who’s worth their salt should really think that they’re the best comedian in the world because they’re doing a show that’s designed just for them. So I hope other people relate to it, and I hope other people can see themselves in me and they take something away from that. I think my stage persona can come across as a bit of an a hole, but I think people can relate to that, because aren’t we all just a little bit of an a hole.

Bill Berry talked a Variety about his upcoming special, in which he deals with depression. Variety said, I feel like you’re knowingly playing with the audience’s perception of you. Burst said, I look at it that way. When I started doing the material, there was this really excited, happy feeling I had that I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Men were laughing.

It relates to this. I don’t feel good right now. I feel sad, and I’m not allowed to say that’s a guy because exceider a weak I always felt like a freak. I grew up with orange hair. We moved around a lot when I was a kid.

I didn’t feel like I quite fit in until I was at my second open mic and I was hanging off comedians with the same kind of weird that I was. A lot of people died quickly in a short period of time. People I looked up to, people I became friends with. One of them was Bob Sagging. To see that guy taking it didn’t make any sense.

Spoilers spurd dives into Israel and Palestine. Variety was curious, do you have to be more cautious while workshopping material that’s political or tense in nature? Bill said, Nah, you just go out and do it. And if you listen to that bit, it’s a political I’m just saying we need to come up with a way to solve our differences without dropping bombs on children. I don’t think anybody have a problem with that.

The great thing about travel, if you travel with your ears open, is you see way more similarities than difference. Is everybody kind of wants the same thing. To chill out with people they love, to have enough money, food, clothing, shelter, and to be able to exail and not worry about what’s coming around the corner. One of my favorite gigs last year was an Abu Dhabi. Drugs are illegal there and I was telling a story about taking mushrooms.

The way they were laughing, I was like, Ah, these people definitely do drugs, they just don’t do them here. They go abroad to do them. But I was thinking later, well, wait a minute. I used to listen to Richard Prior talking about cocaine and freebasing, and I’ve never done that. Are they laughing about me taking mushrooms?

Like this is some kind of cheech and shock stuff? I still don’t know? Interesting follow up variety When doing a corporate or international gig, I’ve ever been asked to avoid certain topics? A Yeah, definitely an Abu Dhabi? How does that negotiation work?

At first they get real offensive and I’m set with my agent going, why half would you book me here? I agreed to do Abu Dhabi because why wouldn’t you want to go there to see what it was like?

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And then classic, ten days before I go out there, they’re like, don’t talk ab…

Somebody had to write me a letter of apology, and I’m sitting there, going, why the hell would they book me? So now I’m stressing before I go there, going I’ve got to get six months in jail for doing a crap joke. I have to go to this coffee shop next to synagogue. This is a rabbi comes down. I got to know the guy.

I’m always busting shops because it’s always giving a life advice. I’m like, dude, do you ever just say hello? I tease him, and that had been a relationship for half a year, and then he shut up one day and he goes, hey, how you doing. I go, you know what, I’m not doing good? So I told him I got this gig coming up, but I’m stressed.

I don’t want to get in trouble or get detained or any of that stuff. I can’t talk about this, I can’t talk about that. Blah blah blah. He listened and shrugged his shoulders and goes, Dan, it’s not ready yet. He just gave me that perspective, and all of a sudden, I understood what my job was.

My job was to go over there and not be a jerk, and tried to advance the stand up ball a couple of yards for the next guy that comes over there and end up having a great time. Well, kind of materials did you have to avoid? This is fascinating per se A. You know, our foreign policy is upset a lot of people. I’ll leave it at that, Listen, I got another gig over there, so I don’t he nah, who gives a hoot.

I wasn’t allowed to make fun of the City of the Royals. It was pretty small, but a lot of it is what you do as a comedian. Like at Seattle, I want to get a coffee and I’m the only person not transitioning. Abu Dhabi didn’t want you doing that, but I could make fun of myself make fun of other places.

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And now this sounds ridiculous to us, but I get it.

Abu Dhabi’s where stand up wasn’t about nineteen sixty eight, which is kind of cool. Who would have thought some bald Irish American ginger would vibe with people in Abu Dhabi. This is a fantastic article. I’ll continue to pick away at it. Comedy Gives Back is doing a fundraiser for Los Angeles on January thirty first.

The benefit feature Zach Galifanakis, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Batton Oswald, Brian Possain, John Ennis, Tom Kenny, Jill Talian Moore. That is a great lineup those first five Zach, Odenkirk, Cross, Patten, and Postsaine, Yes Dulse. Sloan has left The Daily Show. Everyone is saying the parting was amicable. In a statement, Sloan said, there’s work that I’ve done over the past seven years with The Daily Show that I could be prouder of.

I collaborated with some incredibly talented people who look forward to continuing to work with. I know our past will continue to cross. I’m now free to pursue my dream job of being a live action cling on on Star Trek. Daily Show spokesperson said, Dulce Sloan is an exceptional comedic force, and we’re thankful for hilarious seven year run on The Daily Show. We wish her the best look forward to watching her next chapter.

Sloan had not been part of the rotation of correspondence slash hosts last spring. Late Night Or asked her if she would accept a role as the show’s permanent host if offered to her, and she said I’m just telling you the reality of situation that’s not going to happen. I’m paying attention and I worked there. It’s not about what do they ask me. It’s why they didn’t ask Roy would Junior?

Because if they didn’t ask Roy as sure as hell ain’t gonna ask me. If they’re getting rid of all the diversity in late night, why would they turn around and ask me? Hmm, this is random. I discovered that there’s a comedy room at a restaurant near my house. Now.

They’ve been doing comedy shows there for like a couple of years, and I haven’t really given it much thought. I actually ate at this restaurant ten days ago with my daughter, and you know, they don’t really promote the room, and I was just curious what was going on there. It’s called the Comedy Dojo, and I went on the website and I see this Saturday, Louis C.K. Is playing that room and working out some material. It’s already sold out.

Or I would go, but I might have to pay attention to this room and start going. They’ve got some people you’ve heard of. Anyway, I’m obsessively hitting refresh because you know, if I can this place is. I don’t know, six minutes from where I live, so I could be there in home super quickly, so I’ll have to keep an eye on that one. A cool account on threads is the SNL network.

They broke down the Chappelle episode. I saw some fun facts there. They said. The Chappelle episode had the fewest segments for an episode in SNL history, only ten segments, the monologue, Immigrant Dad, Talk Show, Fire Evacuation, the Great Sketch, the music segment, Weekend Update, Police Station Music segment two, Pop the Balloon or Fine Love, and then the good night segment. Chappelle’s the first SNL host since Flip Wilson in nineteen eighty three to not appear in any live sketch after Weekend Update, although that does not include the at home episodes in season forty five remember COVID, and does not include the Hulk Hogan Mister t episode in season ten, when there was no traditional news segment.

I gotta find out more about that. I wonder why there was no news that week In case you were wondering about Chappelle and Bow and Yang. In the past, people been like, hey, oh, come Bow and Yang’s not standing near Dave Chappelle during the goodbyes. This week, Chappelle and Bow and Yang briefly hugged all right, I was their first interaction on screen of the night. Yang did not appear any sketches with Chappelle.

Last time Schabelle hosted, people were like, what’s up with Bow and Yang? Yang told Variety, I stand where I always stand on good nights. It wasn’t a physical distance to anybody who’s creating, and I had to do with so many things that were completely internal. Vanity Fair has published a big, big article that we’re talking about on the Palace Intrigue podcast. That’s the podcast where we talk about the royal family.

Palace Intrigue Wheviget shows. They wrote a lot about Meghan and Harry, and I’m bringing it up here because of a weird shot Eliza Slessinger quoting the Vanity Fair article. They’re discussing the guest Meghan had on her podcast, and they write these archetypes actually stereotypes included diva parentheses Mariah Carey and bimbo parentheses Paris Hilton and Eliza Slessinger. Does Eliza Slessinger have a bimbo persona that I just missed. Just seemed kind of weird.

Rapper turn comedian TI. It was on Young Jack’s streets morning takeover. T I told Young Jack why he prefers a comedy to rap and said, ain’t no pay. He points out the pats of success in comedy’s a different journey, one that doesn’t always guarantee the same rewards. It ain’t a slope, it’s a dip.

I ain’t even tripping because it’s so much fun. I enjoy myself. That’s the thing. When we had all the money in the world and the energy just wasn’t right, you know what I’m saying. So now I just value my peace of mind.

The NL Times is a website that covers news from the Netherlands. In English, they write comedy club Boom Chicago. That’s an Amsterdam club, I believe, not one in Chicago. Boom Chicago has canceled two performances by Israeli Jewish comedian Yohi Spondor, citing safety concerns. Following online backlash and threats.

Boom Chicago director Andrew Moscoso wrote an email to Spondors manager. Due to the climate in Amsterdam, reactions and concerns reportedly expressed by police we can no longer allow YO high sponders performances. On January twenty fifth, this really caught my attention per NL Times. I’ll read the sentence verbatim from NL Times. Moscow edited that the club would assist in finding an alternative venue, potentially a quote Jewish location unquote or another club.

I am not hipped to the Amsterdam comedy scene. I’m not sure what a Jewish location would mean. Some folks on social media had labeled Spawner as an ultra Zionist and criticized his show The Self Loving Jew, alleging it promotes Israeli propaganda. Moscow’s described the situation as complex and said the decision was made reluctantly. We prefer not to cancel shows, but given the reaction and threats, we had no other choice.

Boom Chicago stands for freedom of expression, but in the current situation, we cannot facilitate it. Ticket Holders will receive refunds. This noll Fielding thing continues to be interesting. I told you yesterday that Apple had shut down production of The completely made up Adventures of Dick Turbin. Nol has said reports that his future on the Great British Bakeoff being in doubt or an untrue fielding spokesperson till the standard, There’s been absolutely no discussion about Noel stepping down from Bakeoff.

We’ve been in contact with Channel fourg Love Productions throughout all the speculations and his stepping down has never been part of it that dialogue. We can’t confirm he’ll be returning to co host the next series of Big Off and Ted Lasso fans, Nick Muhammed is giving us some hope here. In a post on Twitter, Mohammed framed his face with a ring light and announced that some dates from his upcoming tour would be rescheduled. His explanation, I know there’d be a lot of speculation as to why move these dates. What’s it for?

I’ll be honest, it’s for some filming that I haven’t been able to shift for the love of money. I can’t say what the filming is, but it will be announced shortly. He asked fans not to speculate as to what they think it might be, but he held up a hand painted Believe sign which suggests that it’s Ted Lasso. But he added, the last thing I want is for people to Go. Mad Nett is your comedy news for today.

Jody’s on the Facebook group. We had a great discussion over the weekend about the top comedians of all time. We kicked the ball around. I don’t think we decided anything, but it was just a fun discussion of how to even rank anybody in the first place. The genesis of that conversation was is John Mulaney in the top ten?

I both hold the position of I don’t think so, and also I can’t name Ted better yet. So feel encouraged to join the group and way in Daily Comedy News podcast group. We’ll see you tomorrow.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A very busy Monday with Chappelle, inauguration and the TikTok band. Mark Norman tweeted, who knew the first immigrant to get kicked out would be a Chinese app Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live. I think it was the best episode of the season easily for his monologue, which was excellent, which I’ll break down, and for one sketch in particular Nina.

Here near there, he tells the crowd that Lauren Michaels had asked him to host the first episode after the election, but he said no because things are going good. I finished my Netflix deal, I have all this money and stuff started in October. Lorne Michaels called me and he asked me to do a Saturday Night Live the first episode after the election, and I was like, nah, man, I’m cool. Lauren kept pushing. I’ll let Dave explain here, and then.

The dates started rolling around, and then he started calling me again and again I was like, ah, man, don’t want to do it. And this goes on for like weeks and weeks, and then finally, you know, and I go, you know what, I can just get rid of all these old Trump jokes and started fresh. I say, you know what, I’ll do it. Here are are. The moment I said, yes, La burst into flames.

They’ve got off a good joke about the La wildfires. And I watched these fire videos and I read the comments sections and everyone’s like, yeah, it serves these celebrities, right. I hope the house is burned down and you see that that right there, That’s why I hate poor people. They’ve then turned his attention to the Diddy accusations. My friends asked me, They said, Dave, did you know only thing about those parties.

I’ll be like, no, man, I don’t know anything about the free gooff. And they all look at me like and they well, how all these people you know was at the free golf, but she’s the only one that wasn’t at the free golf. And I thought about it for a minute. I said, oh my gosh, I’m. Ugly nice tag here for that joke.

A tough way to find that out. You imagine if you were me reading the newspaper and found out everyone in Hollywood had a orgy behind your. Back, and at the end Dave got serious and addressed Donald Trump. Presidency is no place for petty people. So Donald Trump, I know you watch the show Man.

Remember whether people voted for you or not, they’re all counted on you. Whether they like you or not, they’re all counting on you. The whole world is canted onian. I mean this when I say this, good luck. Please do better next time.

Please all of us do better next time. Do not forget your humanity, and please have empathy for displaced people, whether they’re in the palisades, all Palestine. Thank you very. Much, good night. Really funny sketch.

It had me laughing out loud. Chappelle plays a dad whose family receives an alert to evacuate because of the impending fires. Spoilers on the sketch. David takes a sledgehammer and starts retrieving five hundred thousand dollars in cash he had hidden in a wall. Things escalate, eventually we find out that something is hidden in the dog.

A very very funny scene which had me laughing out loud. Go seek that sketch out online if you have non seed. It very very funny. Big college football game tonight, Shane Gillis did a commercial for Underarmoor in which Shane is rooting for Notre Dame. Let’s listen, Hey, God be Shane.

I’ve been here in a while, but I have a pretty big prayer for you No Names in the National Championship on Monday. I know you know, because you’ve been with us the whole time. A couple of weeks ago. That field goal. I know you’re a lot going on, so that was pretty chill.

You took time to help us with that. I should also say I have not bet on any of these games. All right, I half bet, but going forward if No Name wins, now will not bet on games for a month, couple weeks. We’ve probably been on something. Come on, God, I know you can help us.

Truck and dude pick sixes everywhere, have a couple of Just please let No Dame win a national championship. Now, what do you pray for? Pray for No Dame? What are you praying for? It?

Say? Notre Dame? Alright, cool s. What did you go to Notre Dame? Yeah?

I went to No Day. I’m sorry that was a lot I got. No I didn’t go to No Day, did you? Oh? Wow, Dame?

Oh that’s awesome. Alright, sh. Shit, that was a lot of fun. Nikki Glaser shows in Milwaukee have been moved to a bigger venue. Nikki is White Hot Right Now.

Originally set to perform at the Riverside Theater, Nicki will now headline the Miller High Life Theater of min May Previously sold to Riverside Theater. Tickets will be exchanged for new tickets in similar locations. Capacity at the Riverside Theater twenty four point fifty according to the interwebs. Capacity at the Miller High Life Theater forty eighty six. I met you could sell even more than that right now.

Bill Maher weighed in on the fires on his show Real Time. Bill said, now is wokeness the main reason for the fires? Of course not, but it’s also not wrong to associate some of the unforced errors our government made with the things norm easy as hallmarks of uber progressive politics, questionable budget priorities, high taxes that get you nothing, making everything about identity politics virtual signaling overseas instead of tending to the nuts and bolts at home. This a reference to Mayor Karen Bass visiting Ghana. More continued, The government’s jobs protect us from crime, violent stuff fire.

I’m not saying Alabama would have done better with fires by fighting them with prayer and school, but look me in the eyes and tell me anyone could have done worse. We just got our ass kicked by a fire. Something Neanderthals fought to a tie. We may not be able to do much about the weather, but we do need a better plan for putting out a burning city than waiting for reen. A lot of Democrats in this one party state this week went right to dum blame politicians.

You can’t do anything about the wind, which is exactly half true the win part. Yes, fire is a tough fight out here, and yes, global warming absolutely makes it worse, but that’s largely out of our control. What are we going to do? Pass a ballot measure to make sure Chinese stop burning coal? The Washington Post caught up on the La comedy scene.

They focused on the Vermont Hollywood, about ten miles east and southwest of two of the fires. The club is aiming to operate normally. Sandy Savas is the venues general manager, and Sandy says they’ve been searching for last minute replacements after performers and sponsors have canceled because of the fires. Savas says they’re allocating about twelve percent of their proceeds to supplies for fire victims. Savas told The Washington Post, it’s a horrible thing to party while you know the rest of the city’s suffering, and we do feel there’s a sense of guilt about it.

But at the same time, we understand we have employees, the show must go on, and people just need this gate. We’re happy to provide that for them. Jam In the Van said that they stopped promoting their events on social media. Jake Coulter is the venues co founder and said all messaging kind of shifted to what you can do to help the fires. We didn’t feel it was right to message about, hey, buy tickets to this.

During the week, he said, he saw other venues promoting events on social media, so they started atizing again, starting with the comedy show last Wednesday, Fewer people came to the show than usual. Jam In the Van is hosting another comedy show where twenty percent of ticket sales will go to Pasadena Humane, a local shelter that has taken in hundreds of animals. Jay Coulter says if the fallout from the fires is that nobody goes out and supports small businesses, restaurants, venues and stuff like that, then the suffering just keeps expanding. Flappers in Burbank organized a free show with Jay Leno on January tenth. Some people criticize them on social media.

One person on social said guests could use their alcohol to put out the fires. Another photoshop the word Flappers over a burning house. Owner Barbara Holiday said she experienced a weird sense of guilt, but the club felt normal for a few hours as one hundred and thirty people visited. I’ve spent some time over the weekend catching up on the comedy specials. My wife came to me and she’s like, hey, you want to watch that Nate guy.

So Nate has broken through all the way to my wife knowing his first name anyway, and she wanting to watch it. I liked it a lot. Let me go back and look my twenty twenty four rankings in just I’m doing this on the fly. Let’s see. So for twenty twenty four, I had Brady Attel, Triumph, Roddie Chang, David cross a domain, Dusty Sleigh.

It’s probably on par with Dusty. So now Kyle Kanaan had that ten minute thing. Maybe not as good as Canaane, better than Rife. So I’ll make the number eight and a half special of twenty twenty four. I don’t want to bog down in that the list is the list, New year, New list.

Okay, right now, I have as the number one comedy special of the year, Roywood Junior’s Lonely Flowers. I like the material way better than the trailer. Whoever put that trailer together, I would fire you. You’re terrible at putting together trailers. Roywood Junior Special is really funny.

As I have started to perform the best of twenty five list, I’m starting with three categories, best, watchable and not on list. I have roy in the middle tier, so I think by the end of the year won’t make my top tier. And I say that it’s funny, but it’s watchable. It’s not next level. It’s not like, oh my goodness, I can’t believe he really brought it.

It’s a nice, solid special, So right now number one. By the end of the year, it’ll probably be like number twenty one, also entertaining Ari Shaffeir’s America’s Sweetheart, Nice solid set. I laughed quite a few times, a little too long. At some point my brain kicks in and goes, all right, have had enough of this? How much left?

And there were still forty five minutes left? I can’t. That’s more about me than the artist. Because I had the same issue with Gabriel Iglesia’s special Legend of Fluffy, As I wrote to myself, perfectly fine enjoying it, at some point I was like, how much left? And there was still an hour left.

If there had been a half hour left, I absolutely would have finished it. But another hour that’s just like homework to me. So again, this is about me, This is this is my issue. I have comedy add I can’t stay with these things all that long. I get a little restless.

All three of those specials, they are good. They will make the end of the year list, but they will make that middle tier. So if you want a ragging right now, roy Ari Gabe, that’s the entire list to four right now ready. Steady Cut reviewed the specials, and they wrote, in many ways, Shafir is the moral and performative opposite of someone like Gabriel Iglesias, whose latest Netflix special brought in this still young year there’s a feeling of whiplash in going from one or the other. All the stuff that Gabe wouldn’t talk about is mentioned one after another by Shaffir, who reels through a litany of risky subjects like he’s trying to fill a quota.

That’s the point, though, despite the subject choices, America’s Sweetheart that’s already’s special isn’t trying to be a specially offensive Reggie. The underlying theme of everything having a silver lining just ends up being an excuse to riff, usually harmlessly, on the topics people tend to avoid out of fear everything is treated the same. This is a bad thing, but it’s a decent way to frame the jokes. There’s an absurdest quality to it, and it’s a good excuse to touch on a lot of different areas in a way that doesn’t feel overly scattershot. Roy Woo Junior explained to The Rap I decided to start off his Hulu comedy special Lonely Flowers with a despairing statement about modern society’s lack of connection.

Roy said, I enjoy the idea of starting with a joke before saying hello, but I also kind of wanted to almost state the thesis of the paper before presenting my work. We ain’t gonna make it. I feel like if we remain in the same state that we were in as a society, we’re not gonna make it. It’s only gonna get worse. So let me start with a comedic declaration of pessimism, just to make this horribly pessimistic declaration and then hopefully bring it back to a conversation about connection and togetherness.

That was kind of the goal. Why the title We’re the lonely flowers. Like a flower by itself is one of the saddest things you can see, but a group of flowers together is one of the most beautiful things you can see. We’re all lonely, but man, if we came together and we got more connected, would be so much better off. While I had him, they asked him about the Daily Show and he said, I’d never closed the door in any opportunity that gives me growth, which is part of why I accept the CNN job.

It’s an opportunity to still have a conversation at the time during an election. I think at the end of the day, I just wanted an opportunity to do something a little different, and I felt like the best opportunity for that was gonna come with leaving, and if the best opportunity with that comes with returning, then it’s fair to consider. But I’m very, very happy at CNN, and the thing I love about what we’re doing at CNN is that it feels like a deviation from what they do the other six nights of the week on that network. I mentioned yesterday that I would talk about Bill Burr a little more today, I’m going to bump that to tomorrow as we’re quite long here. If you like the Freezer revival on Barrymount Plus, it’s over two seasons and done.

Something’s going on with Apple TVs that completely made up Adventures of Dick Turbin. Production has ceased on season two. Various news reports are curious about the behavior of Noel fielding the Daily Mail. Rights concern is rising for Noel after he abruptly pulled out of filming. A spokesperson for the comedian told Male Online, this is a private and confidential manner regarding our client’s health.

We’re saddened by the decision to cease production, but we can’t make any further comment on the matter. A source close to the show told The Times, Noel has said that he can’t film anymore, and so there was no choice but to stop. It’s not a decision that was taken lightly, and they wouldn’t have gone to this extreme if every possible solution hadn’t been exhausted. People have been very concerned about Noel’s well being and given him time to recover, but there are also significant repercussions. Some people are furious.

So we’ll see what happened there and what led Apple to decide to stop production of the show. Definitely interesting big inauguration today. From a comedy standpoint, Bill Mooh had said he’s not going to pre hate anything and he’ll hope for the best. He told CNN, I’m not going to chase every rabbit down the hole like I did the first term. He’s a kookie guy.

He says a lot of kookie things, and I’m just not going to pre hate anything. I’m just going to hope for the best, and then when something serious happens, I’ll comment on that. A new biography Lorne, the man who invented Saturday Night Live, is coming out. Susan Morrison writes after the twenty sixteen election, the SNL cast and writers felt shame and anger. Many of them believe that SNL bore some responsibility for Trump’s win.

When Michaels had booked Trump to host in twenty fifteen, he, like most people, considered the candidacy a big joke, but it was a lucrative joke. Trump was a ratings magnet. People like to watch him, either in spite of or because of his noxiousness. Michaels felt part of the job was to keep SNL balanced, to urge writers and performers to mock candidates of all stripes. Many on the staff felt SNL was too soft on Trump.

Michael sometimes asked writers to tone down the hors or sketches. At one story meeting, according to Morrison, Tim Robinson smacked the table and said, Lauren has lost his mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head. Yikes. Morrison says that Trump was tickled that Alec Baldwin would play him on SNL, but once the season started, Trump soured on the impression. Morrison writes, those who feel the show had gone criminally soft on Trump felt confused and annoyed.

Michaels told them we did our best. Michael’s reminded of the group that half the country had voted for Trump, and we have a job to do. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it they might like it. To 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 your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Bill Burr on his new special Roy Wood about how much he curses or not and win look at Nikki Glaser and plastic surgery. I’m not out to be caddy. I just found an interesting article.

And Pete Davidson updates us on the Staten Island Ferry My Words fiasco. We’ll find out what’s going on with that. I’ll talk about Dave Shabelle hosting SNL tomorrow. You don’t think I stayed up to two in the morning recording this podcast, did you? Bill Burr caught up with Variety.

His upcoming special for Hulu is called Drop Dead Years, filmed in Seattle. Fridy was curious how Burr picks a city burst it if I’ve done one there before, how much I love a city. If I feel like there’s gonna be a good amount of pushback for the crowd when you’re filming a statup special, this camera’s there as people tend to be a little more agreeable. I need that push pull thing to happen. I don’t want to be in an echo chamber.

I’d rather have it more hostile than agreeable? Faridy, Have you found that hostility more than liberal cities? Nah, Because I adjust my ahal vibe to whatever state I’m in. If I’m in a conservative place, I’ll go more liberal. If I’m a liberal place, I’ll go more conservatives.

It’s like trying to make it over medium egg. You know, there’s an art to it. They were curious about how Burr workshops his material. I don’t like it if I say something, everybody goes yeah, it’s one side. Everything is sized now, So I always make sure if once I gets too excited, I’m agreeing with them, not a trash them, or maybe I trash myself.

Political views is something you don’t want to ram down people’s throats. So I go over the double line a lot. Sometimes I’m here and sometimes I’m over there, depends on what you’re talking about. I like this one in the upcoming special very minor spoiler, You’ll be fine here. Bert makes fun of the audience for clapping aka Cleaptor.

As Burr tells it, I say I’ve been married for eleven years, and the audience goes woo. It’s like I get a had or chain or a radiator, What are you doing? I’m doing that for comedic effect.

And also I don’t like that sound.

I’d rather say something mean to me in a loving way than something genuine in a complimentary way. I don’t know what to do with that. But if you tell me, hey, a hole, you’re pretty funny tonight, that means a lot to me. If you’re like, hey man, life goes by fast, and I really wanted to make sure that they took the time. I’m like, oh God, please stop talking.

It’s creeped me out. Bild you ever still bum? I do, but I know how to bomb gracefully. I’m like an old fire and knows how to take a punch. So I still lose a fight, but I don’t get knocked out.

Composure. You have to maintain control even when you’re bombing, and you have to make fun of yourself. Last week I had a benefit on Tuesday. I’m not sure if this was the Tuesday last week. During the fires of the week before, so I was working out my set at the comedy store.

I had no seguys. I was out up to the fact that my act wasn’t there yet. There’s a reason they’re coming to see me in the original room on Sunday night. But people come to see you on those nights. They’re very forgiving.

They like to watch the process, and they’re entertained watching some of these seen do well struggle a little bit. Brody was curious if the comedy story is Burr’s a favorite place to workshop new material. It’s one of my favorite places. I also like a lot of the satellite rooms. The younger comics are running young comics.

He’ll be young, you’re still old, but you know how to act your age comedically around them, if that makes sense. If you perform to your generation, only you grow old with them. The comics that I love growing up. Never stop going to the gym, which is going down the comedy club and get in front of twenty somethings despite the fact that you’re in like your fifties. Like me, I learned how to get your fifty something your old ideas over to them.

If you get down there in your fifties and try to act twenty and that’s gonna be a train wreck. You gotta understand you’re like their funny older relative. It’s like my uncle saying stuff again. As for the special BurrH confronts his mortality. Bill, do you think about death a lot?

It’s a reality, It’s not a fixation or even a fear. If you’re comedian. To get to my age, you’re gonna have lost a lot of friends, unfortunately, and I have, and I missed them. Sometimes late night I put the kids to bend, I can’t go to sleep, and I think about them, and I get said, but I’ll look at death is something to be feared. I don’t think there’s this angry, invisible guy that’s gonna be upset.

Was the time to watch the tapes of my life Variety? This special struck me as your most vulnerable material yet Burr. Then Christ you saw that I’m a recovering meathead and I’m doing the best I can. It’s nice to hear some of my works being noticed follow them. Is it something you’ve intentionally baked in your work or do you think it’s a natural result of getting older both.

I don’t want to be up there just pointing my finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows, I was guilty of that early in my career, but that’s just where I was as a young man. I was lashing out at everything. As you get older, hopefully you realize that you’re bringing home some of the problems at the table, and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way you do it. Being married and having kids and realizing that your behavior can affect these people you’re living in a positive way or a negative way really makes you confront your flaws.

God knows, I have a lot of them, a lot of those things. I used to believe that women are difficult and blah blah blah. It was my issue of not understanding myself. Good follow up. Does it make you uncomfortable that your past material lives online forever?

Nah? Not at all. I love when people bring that up, because then I go, you were alive when I said that. Yet fifteen years they get offended. You’re scatting around to it.

Now. That sort of crap is happen in to comics that I grew up watching. They did these jokes and generally everybody laughed, and the needle moves twenty years later and the same people laughed act like they didn’t. But the comedian gets frozen at time. All the comedian has showing he was where society was at this time.

They feel like because they call out a comedian and made a joke twenty or thirty years ago, and they’re now an ally and they are appeased of all their wrongdoings in society. So much of that stuff’s cringeworthy. You’re gonna make your Instagram page dark for one day, So give me on the right side of history. That’s all took. You didn’t even have to leave your house.

Good stuff. We’ll pick it that some more tomorrow, all right. So this next one I saw and a clicked on it just as a civilian, and I saw that Life and Style mag had boasted has Nikki Glaser at plastic surgery photos of the comedian’s transformation through the years, and I was like, all right, I’m not gonna do that on the podcast. That’s just being cat. But then as I read it, I thought it was pretty interesting.

Nicky said on CBS Sunday Morning in December. So for January twenty twenty five, I was going to possibly have like a brow lift or some kind of really invasive surgery that I’ve been you know, looking at a getting. My agents were like, so this operation, is there any way you could push it till maybe the second week in January. The article pulls out some previous quotes. In twenty seventeen, Nicky tweeted, I know I’m too young for it, but I’ve had tons of plastic surgery on my face.

Not to look younger, are prettier, but to look von trappier. They have a photo of Nicki in twenty seventeen and twenty sixteen, and I believe her tweet at no pun face value. In twenty nineteen, Nicki told Howard Stern that she planned to get plastic surgery someday, face stuff, in particular, quoting NICKI, here, everyone who’s face you like, every celebrity you’re like, they’re naturally beautiful. They’ve all had stuff done, so just little things here and there. I think I might get my lips done next week.

The lip thing you do, and it’s not permanent, just a little plump. Howard tried to convince her not to do it, telling Nicky should look like clown. Nicky said, I’m canceling my appointment. Thank you. That’s all he needed to hear.

According to Life and Style, Nicki had some work done on her vocal cords in twenty twenty two. She wrote on Instagram basically my voice is fried and I’m having her repaired. I’m so excited about this. It’s not going to be painful and it’s going to change my life. The only bummers that recovery from this operation meeans I won’t be able to speak for three to five weeks, not a word, and so unfortunately I have to move some September October stand updates in twenty twenty three.

Thank you for understanding. Talk to you then. Wow. Imagine not being able to speak for three to five weeks. Yikes.

And then during the Golden Globes she did some jokes about plastic surgery. One of them, I love where you put your chick bones. I too, drink a lot of water. I don’t judge. I do it now too.

That apparently a hint at her own experience with getting cheek filler, So who knows, just thought it was an interesting read. The Wall Street Journal asked Pete Davidson what his most prized possession is. Pete said, I have a pair of my dad’s shoes from when he worked in the firehouses, boots. That’s always gonna be my favorite thing. But the coolest thing I have that’s not family oriented is two handwritten letters that Johnny Cash wrote really the week I share that Pete Treasure’s a letter he has from his father that really stuck with me all week.

And I’m thinking of writing my children letters on their birthday this year, and maybe it might not mean a lot to them in twenty twenty five, but it might mean a lot to them in twenty I don’t know. Seventy five, of course, will be one hundred and six years old that you’re still hosting this podcast. I’m on a mission to live to be one hundred and nine. First of all, I attended the bi Centennial as a boy, and then I learned about the tri Centennial. So I’ve always had it to be my life goal to attend the Trice Centennial July fourth, twenty seventy six.

You know, a bit of a stretch, shout, I have to get to one hundred and something. But then I found out if I don’t move, I stay right here in this very basement. In when I’ll be one hundred and nine years old, there’s going to be a total solar eclipse right over my house. All I have to do is go out into the backyard. So remember the final episode of Lost, where Jack is just lying there and kind of fades out.

That’s what I want to do. I want to make the solar eclipse at age one hundred and nine, lay down in my yard, watch the solar eclipse, and then all right. I had a good run.

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And then you know, I guess you guys will get two or three more podcasts that …

Who knows, maybe I’ll pretape some stuff. The Churnal asked Pete Davidson. You and John Mulaney recently reunited in an SNL sketch. You guys had a moving scene together in bup gis. What have you learned from John Mulaney?

Pete said, he’s shown me how to preserve I always looked up to him. He’s not only one of the funniest people working right now, he’s a top ten comedian of all time. Should I parse that now, I’d have to sit and make a list. But he’s just not right. I mean, he’s just not I’m not saying bad, but I don’t think he’s top ten all time.

And again, defined comedian, are we putting Lucille Ball, Bob Hope? And I don’t know Richard pryor in the same bucket, or they do different things. If we look at pure stand up. See now I want to do this. I’m so distracted.

Okay, let me pull up a list of somebody else’s list of the top comedians of all time and see if we can get to ten. All right, just so I have a list to work off. Rolling Stone’s at fifty best, right down to the bottom. I’m gonna get all distracted here. Richard Priory yup, George Carlin yep, Lenny Bruce at number three, c K pre canceled, Seek’s probably better than Mlanie’s still, Chris Rock, Joan Rivers.

Joan Rivers is better than Milanie Seinfeld clearly better than Mlanie. Bill Cosby, despite other parts of his resume, if we just look at him as a stand up, better than Melanie Chapelle. I’m down here. They got seventeen, Bill Hardy teen, Kevin Hart nineteen, Albert Brooks Newhart, Eddie Murphy for two albums, Rodney huh, I’m all the way down in the fifties. Now, I’m not sure I’ve named ten comedians better than John Mullanie.

Is John Mulaney in the top ten? Now? He can’t be right. Okay, that’s a topic for the Facebook group, a Daily Comedy News podcast group. I will post that and schedule it.

Where were we? Pete Davidson was saying, Mlanie’s a top ten comedian of all time. And I watched him as he took it on the chin a couple years ago and had to completely revamp his life. I’m kind of in the midst of that right now, and he’s been helping me so much. It was so inspiring to watch him beat his addiction, become an even bigger comedian, going on an arena tours, start a family.

He’s so happy now and it looks effortless, but it’s not. And I gotta say he’s always had my back and he’s always there. Not a lot of people are for me, I’d say it’s just him. Louren Michaels and Machine Gun Kelly Pete, you recently said that you made three thousand dollars an episode during SNL went viral. Pete said it was pretty humiliating that it went viral.

I mean, I hate Today’s World because it was a shoot for SNL and thirty other people answered something and it wasn’t planned. I was just walking into my dressing room and someone threw a camera in my face and was like, watch you buy with your first paycheck? And I was like, yeah, we don’t get paid a lot. I wasn’t really thinking of it.

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And then I woke up to a bleeping s show.

Nobody was mad or anything. But that’s not what I want out there. I’d rather it be a trailer for a movie or here’s what I’m working on the last year. So I kind of laid low. I don’t go out, I don’t do anything.

I’m just trying to make it all about the work. The journal asked about the Staten Island Ferry. One’s it gonna be up and running? Pete said, we do have believe it or not in him death plan. Every day I get asked about this bleeping boat, and we’re raising the funds.

We’re gonna do a floorid to Tome. There’s a full plan in motion, and meanwhile people are renting it out. All right, We’re unexpectedly long here on a Sunday because I went off on the Mulaniy top ten. I still don’t all hope prior Carlyn, this is not in any particular order. That’s three Seinfeld, Joan Rivers is five, Chris Rock.

Let me ask you a question. Is Nate Brighetzi better than John Mulani right now? Yes? So? Is Nate Brighetzy in the top ten of all time?

Oh my god, don’t open this can of worms. John, that’s holiday filler. We just did sixteen pre tape shows. Save this for a holiday weekend when you don’t want to work on Sunday. Okay, I’ll save it.

Roy Wood Junior talked about his philosophy of using the N word and curse words and jokes. Roy said, I try to use it in scenarios if I’m impersonating the person who would have said it, or if it’s a feeling of exasperation. So I’m not just gonna say frickin’ or gosh, drn That just for me doesn’t work. I’ve resigned myself to the truth, though, that certain words are gonna nail the chalkboard. Certain people don’t like those words, and if that’s the case, then I’m not sure if everything I do is going to be for you, that’s fine when done properly.

A comedy booker told me ages ago. This was the late nineties. She said, profanity should be the seasoning, never the main ingredient. So I curse way more when I’m first starting a joke, and a lot of that is just nervousness and curse words because h words like you saw me in a comedy club working new material versus when it’s polished. It’s night and day, and so you have all these curse words and they’re scaffolding, and then you slowly start taking the sport beams away to see that whether or not the joke is really funny.

Roy says, you have to stay grounded. You have to know what regular people are going through. You can’t do that by living in an uber blacks your entire life. I consider comedy to be a form of journalism, living anthropology in its highest form. You do anthropology on things that are still alive, things that are still evolving.

So you have to be immersed in that. You have to be yourself in that a little bit. So, yeah, take the train. Talk to regular people. That’s the one thing I always loved about the Daily Show was the conversation with people.

It’s the thing I miss the most about morning radio more than anything. It’s talking to strangers every day. I got to talk to anywhere from eight to ten regular people just going on about their life, and you understand their concerns and what they’re going through. And that becomes the things that I could take and put on Star because now you have an opportunity in a way to be a voice of connection. I had a bump a few things to tomorrow before we go, let me tell you that Lauren Michaels has donated a collection of his work on SNL and more to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

The collection spans fifty years, includes rehearsal notes for SNL, sketches, annotated scripts, personal correspondence, and more. The archive covers Lauren’s early writing on shows like Laughin and The Phyllis Diller Show, as well as on shows like Kids in the Hall and movies like Wayne’s World. A special exhibition Live from New York, The Making of Lauren Michaels, will be on display at the Center from September twentieth through March fifteenth of twenty twenty six. And that is your comedy news for today. If you missed yesterday’s interview with Larry the Cable Guy interviews, not the right word we had a conversation.

He was fantastic. Please go back and check out Larry the Cable Guy in Saturday’s episode. Tomorrow big inauguration, So we’ll talk about that a little bit, but we’ll keep it light. We’ll do normal Daily Comedy News, and I’ll talk about Chappelle on Saturday Night Live. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, hopefully they’ll like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack and I am high on life. As I record this support of the podcast. I just hung up with Larry, the cable guy who is today’s guest. He is awesome.

He is doing Larry’s Nebraska road trip. You’ll hear Larry explain it. He’s playing smaller venues including Wahoo High School, Central City High School, and some other small theaters. This might have been the fastest half hour of my life. Like I looked up and we were just talking.

Hopefully it comes true here that I actually know the guy and we’re friends, and suddenly it was twenty three minutes in and I’m like, holy cow, I didn’t even ask him about the Tory yet. So you’ll hear me back to back two questions because I could have talked to him for two more hours. It would have been amazing along the way here. Especially note I’ve talked about this in the past, and I talk about it during the interview the Dan slash Larry and this is really an interview with Dan Whitney. If you pay a lot of attention, especially vocally, he turns on the Larry voice a little bit, but he explains how the character has evolved.

Anyway, let’s get right to it. Here’s Larry the cable guy. That’s a nice setup you got there. Yeah, you know what. I when I was doing all my Disney stuff, all my picks are stuff, they said for the third one and a bunch of the toys and stuff.

You don’t have to come out here, but you can do it at the place in Omaha. And I said, oh, that’s awesome. I said, well, how about this. Can I put a studio in my barn and do it from the studio? Yeah, yeah, if you got the equipment, we’ll do it from there.

I said, okay, So I had my buddy designed me a studio and tell me what I need and they came in and put this in. It’s pretty nice. That’s nice, and that’s nice work if you can get it right. I know, absolutely, it’s funny. Then I put it in and then we ended up doing doing all that car stuff.

And once those projects were done, it just kind of sits here till I do my life show and Serious once Wednesday a week. How are you enjoying a lot of radio show? You know what, Joah? I like doing it. I mean it’s fun.

I do it. You know, they told me that I didn’t have to do it anymore if I didn’t want to. But you know, we had to do twenty hours of live programming between Jeff and I and Jeff does an interview show once a week or once every two weeks, whatever his twenty hours is. And I was just gonna do this to round out to twenty. But I like it.

I had a good time, you know. And I got four other people on there with me that work at Morale, you know, Maral of course, so yeah, so Moral’s there, and so I love it. We have a good time. So I do. I do every Wednesday when I’m home for two hours, and I’ll love it.

So we’ve been doing it a long time. I just want to keep it going. I mean, it’s a great way to connect with the fans. It’s a great way to connect with the fans. You know.

I got that. I got a record label, and I try to help promote some of these guys and gals that are on my record label. So it’s a good way to plug them and get them played and and uh so I enjoy doing that. Do you try out lines on the radio show? I do all the time I try out and I use it as my own personal Hey, what do you think of this?

When I wrote this yesterday, you know, and I’ll do I’ll do a bunch of stuff like that, I think. You know, here’s the thing I if I wish, I mean, Larry the Cable Guy of course is the name and the draw. But I don’t do my show as Larry the Cable Guy. I mean, I got I talk like this, this is me. I got a little accent, you know, but I don’t sometimes I wish, you know, when I was doing Cars, I wanted to use my real name, but you know my manager at the time, who I’m not mentioning live ever again, My manager at the time said, no, you have to play it as you know, Larry the Cable Guy is who’s doing the voice, because it’s a brand.

You’re selling a brand, and you got merchandised. I says, okay, I mean I don’t know much about that stuff. So so Mater from Cars was performed by another character, the Cable Guy performed by Dan Whitney, which really didn’t make much sense. So I kind of got it’d be cool to do a radio show Dan Whitney and you know, people know that I’m the voice of Larry the Cable Guy and Mad, but now I’m now it’s it is what it is. Everybody calls me Larry the Cable Guy, whether I talk with my character accent or regular.

So even on social media, I just have one Larry the Cable Guy, voice of major, voice of you know. So it is what it is. It’s funny since we’re peeling back the curtain. I’ve shared with people who listen to my Dope podcast. You know, I would sometimes be blessed to be backstage and you know, could tell what I was talking to Dan, and could tell when I was talking to Larry, depending on the situation and how much you ramped up the accent.

Is there a scenario where Dan might ever perform stand up comedy? Maybe some things that don’t fit the Larry PERSONA. Boy I would love to because the act that I did before Larry the Cable Guy. That’s how Larry the Cable Guy became to do what he does because Larry the Cable Guy. When I did Larry the Cable Guy, I wanted to create a likable Archie Bunker because I thought Archie was funny, but he was a douchebag to his wife and you know what I mean to people.

But he was funny. You got to admit the guy was hilarious. So I wanted to create a character that wasn’t a douchebag and had good points. Obviously conservative, I’m a conservative guy. It’s a conservative guy that doesn’t quite know how to say things in a correct way.

You understand what he’s trying to say, but he goes about it entirely the wrong way. And so that’s what I created. But Larry the Cable Guy originally was a political guy. Every time I was on the radio, I would do a social commentary on what was happening. So when I first went on stage and people started yelling, get her done, we went to here Larry.

I didn’t have a comedy show geared towards Larry the Cable Guy. My comedy show was upbeat, fast paced, a lot of goofy jokes, a lot of dumb actions, physical physicality. That’s what I had. So when I first did it, I said, well, I’m just going to take the next ten minutes of material that I got, and I’m going to do it with an accent and do it. Hilario would do it, and so you know, that’s what I did, and it killed and that’s the so I incorporated how I used to do my show into Larry and that’s what came about.

Now, could I go back and be myself and do these jokes, Yeah, it would be hilarious, but I think now it would just kind of throw people off and be kind of weird because as well, Lait a minute, Larry’s not you know what I mean. So I think I just leave it as it is. It’s not you know, people like it. It’s funny. You know, I’m not too at this point, John, to be honest with you, I’m not too worried about it.

I I used to be worried about separating the two and making sure that people knew that. But you know what, if it makes people laugh, I’m all about it. I love it. I still love it. So I love doing it.

Nothing making. You know, when Jeff and I get together, we both we don’t stop talking like that. You go, bet Neil yesterday with the potato salad. Yeah, we was up here. It all spoiled, not sad, and Amanda had to go to doctor.

You know, we talked. It’s funny. I remember hanging out backstage in Nashville with you guys one time, and I really enjoyed you guys are just riffing jokes. And Jeff had one that just doesn’t work for capital j Capital lef Jeff Foxworthy and over a year and you sent one back in the other direction. It was just a pleasure to watch that.

Yeah, But he would always come up with something that I thought was so stinking funny. But he’d like, oh, man, I can never do that doesn’t fit, but you can have that. Yeah, that’s exactly right.

And now I’ll go, hey, I got one I could never get to work.

Maybe you could get this doory. So yeah, we would swap jokes all the time. Unfortunately, the jokes I would swap him were a little too uh heady for my material. You know. I remember one time we swapped the joke.

I couldn’t get that joke to work about my buddy thinks he’s visited by aliens because he went outside and his lawn he had three little crop circles and he was like, what the heck aliens came. Turns out somebody just stole his garbage cans. Now, I always thought that was funny, but I could never get it to work, and it confused me. So I traded it with Jeff, who traded me the joke called poop Lazania. Oh no way, So poop Lazania cast me the uh trash can bit with the aliens.

But the poop Lazaia is disgusting, But you gotta laugh at it because it’s just thinking funny. I was thinking back, you know, I’ve known you for twenty something years now, it feels like yesterday. I could tell you. I remember I was standing in the hallway of Sirius on the outer side, on the right side there in the back, and Maggie was there with Jeff and she said, hey, you want to talk to this other guy, Larry the cable guy, And we were. Like, oh, mar whatever, Yeah, Maggie’s my manager.

Now. It was five minutes before you like super popped and then you just exploded there like it happened really quickly, right. You know, yeah, it really did, you know. But I had worked hard on it. I mean, when you get into something like comedy, anything that’s in the entertainment field or the athletic field, well really anything, you have to love it.

You have to love it if you just kind of like it, or you just kind of love it. It’s gonna be a hard road. But if you love it, if you love something, man, you want to you want to do it all the time. You want to. You live it, you breathe it, you watch it.

And I loved it, man, I loved making people laugh. And so when I started doing the Larry the Cable Guy character, I’d busted ass at it. I made sure that I got radio stations and morning shows that wanted to put it on. And I wouldn’t ask for any payment. My payment was just promote me when I come to the comedy club in the area.

And I worked hard on it. I did radio calls every day, five days a week for thirteen years with that Larry the Cable Guy and many it just work. I started selling out comedy clubs and and but so I say that, John, because when I hit when I got on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, this is this is what helped me out all those years of plugging away and doing those morning shows. Well, when I got called first audition for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, I think the first one was in like South Carolina, Greenville. Maybe it was a place where I was on a morning show already and had been doing Larry the Cable Guy for two years, and so I sold a ton of tickets.

You know, it was a huge crowd, and I knew I sold. I knew me being on the bill had sold a ton of tickets because every time I went there, I would do three shows. I would do a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I would do five shows. So I’d do two on a Saturday, two on a Friday. Sometimes I’d just do with the weekend.

I do four shows. But they were packed. So you know that’s at least four eight twelve. That’s at least sixteen hundred people, two thousand people that saw me for you know, three times at least before I got on there. So I was ready for it.

So when I went on stage, I man, the crowd went crazy and I had a great set. So the foundation was laid a long time before. But definitely Jeff, who was like my adopted older brother, he saw what I was doing and he knew it would work with blue Collar and Ron Man, he’s so funny and Bill. There was just such a good tight thing they had going. So when I joined it, you know, I already had a nice foundation laid.

I didn’t really have to introduce myself to a lot of the markets because I was already on them. And you’re right, from that point on, it just it was like a Tesla rocket, you know, and somebody pulled the lever and it just exploded up in the air. Oh man, I love him so much. We’ll be right back with more from Larry the Cable Guy, and I feel the material has aged really well. I was just doing a mental check in my own recollection.

I don’t feel like there’s jokes from twenty years ago and we’re going to cancel Larry the Cable Guy because of something that worked in two thousand and five that doesn’t work now. I feel like it was always just like joke jokes, having a good time, smile on your face. Absolutely all my stuff is so I mean, it’s it’s just nonsense. I mean, you know, being married and had kids has changed a lot of my act because you know, now I can’t make up stuff, you know. I mean I can I make up things, obviously, But before I was married, I could make up two ex wives.

I could make up you know, I could do all that kind of stuff. I could be going to teddy clubs and I could you know what I mean, You know, I would make up all these things that you know Larry was doing. But now Larry, you know now the character Obviously I have kids. I have to work them into my act because there’s so much material. So now I actually have actual jokes about an actual family.

But the jokes Earl made up and stupid. But it’s partially factual. Yes, I have two kids. The other parts aren’t, you know, But yeah, you know, it’s just all goofy, goofy stuff. I It’s not like I don’t try not to look.

If you’re offended at something I do, you’re gonna Obviously, people that come to a comedy show are going to get offended something. But the way I see it right now is I’ve been around a long time. People that are fans of Larry the Cable Guy, God bless them. They know what they’re going to get. They know the kind of material I do.

They know it’s set up, punch, set up punch, stupid gestures. They know what they’re going to get, so nothing really surprises anybody. It’s not like I’m up there dropping f bombs and taking the Lord’s name in vain, and you know, I don’t do any all. My stuff is so completely goofy and I love telling it and like, like, I got a joke now about I got a joke now where I’m in Vegas And Henry Winkler came up to me in Las Vegas one of my first times ever in Las Vegas off the Blue Collar Tour, and he wanted to borrow five hundred dollars and I’m like, what the heck, Henry? He goes, no, Larry, listen, I need to give me five hundred dollars, and I swear to you meet me here in about five hours and I’m will give you two thousand dollars.

I just just can you do me that favor. I’m like, yeah, man, tag, I’m right, Henry Winkler. I haven’t seen Henry Winkler since then, for fourteen years. And it turns out that I got caught up in a Phonsie scheme. I mean, it’s the dumbest joke, but.

You have the physicality. It reminds me of Bob Hope. That’s where you would take a pause and kind of mug for the audience and ask them nonverbally, did you guys get that one. Did you like that one? It’s so much fun?

Yeah? And that well, that’s why I loved all the mool guys and all the stuff they used to do. It’s the and Carson, it’s after the joke that’s funny, Like after that joke, Normally I would do something like it looks like I got caught up in one of those Fuonsie schemes. Crowd laugh, and then I’ll go, how have I not won a Grammy? You know, just stuff like that.

You know, one time I did. I was doing a celebrity golf tournament and I was doing some jokes. Oh man, what’s his name? Famous hockey player. I’m having a brain fart dog on it.

But anyway, he was there and I said a joke and they got kind of a so soo laugh, and I said, hey, keep this up, folks. I’ll bring him up talk about hockey for an hour. You know that, in my opinion, when you’re doing jokes like this, it’s not the joke per se. All these jokes are all about timing and all about the safe. That’s what these jokes are.

Now, you know, eighty percent of them are set up boom and a big laugh the other twenty percent are a funny like oh, no, you know one of those like ah, but the punch is the save, and it’s planned. It’s not like I didn’t you know. They’re all planned. I have a ton of saves that are planned for individual jokes. I’m already watching the clock here, So I’m gonna compound a question because I have a couple of big topics that I could see.

I’m not gonna get enough time already. So combined with that, that was John. That was planned so that you didn’t have to have big questions. You seem to have figured out life that it’s not only about the money, that’s also about family. You clearly could do two hundred and seventy theaters if you wanted to.

You have chosen not to the last few years.

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And now you’re doing this Larry’s Nebraska road trip.

You’re playing high schools, which is also a choice. So let me fold that into one big question, and can you just explain to us, like what you’re all about now? Well, look, I I grew up in Nebraska, and I love Nebraska. I grew up in a small town in Nebraska has the most small towns of any state in the United States under A thousand and I and all the time that I lived here, I have only I resided in the Southeast corner, and I never really went anywhere. I know, we maybe every now and go to Omaha, sometimes go to Lincoln, and I’ve performed in Omaha, Lincoln and at the Fair in Grand Island, but I’ve never been anywhere else.

I think I went to Hastings one time for a golf tournament. I went out west and played golf. But want I got a brand new album coming out, a brand new special coming out, and instead of just going to a comedy club and people coming to me and me working out Matario, I thought it would be cool to travel around the state, meet people in other parts of the state that grew up just like I did, and let them all be a part of this process of coming up with a new act and jokes and do my show for people that have supported me over all of these years, but yet never get to see me and I never get to be out there. So I just thought it would be a fun, unique way to do that, and that’s that’s why I do that. And I can, you know, not to proselytize John to people but I and it doesn’t bother me.

It doesn’t bother me going from an arena to a high school. It doesn’t bother me not doing two hundred and seventy shows a year to only doing twenty four shows a year, because comedy is my job. It’s not my identity. It’s my job, you know, And it’s not my identity. You know.

I’m a Look, I’m a Christian. I’m a Jesus follower, and that’s my identity. I mean, you know, one day I’ll be gone. One day I’ll be gone, and everything that I did, it’s just like every other entertainer. You’re oh wow, remember yeah, and then twenty years from then you forgot You’re gone.

So what so you got a plaque on the wall, big deal, you know. So I think about other things. I think about after I’m gone, you know. I think about those things. And so that’s not my identity.

I’m not sitting at home depressed because I’m not working arenas anymore. I don’t look at the TV and go, man. I remember when I was doing what Napragotzi’s doing now, you know, and being old van I used to do. I don’t do that at all. I am completely content and completely happy with everything that I ever got to do in my life.

And now that I have kids and they have careers that they want to start doing, it’s all about being a dad and making sure my kids are taken care of and following what they want to do and helping them out with their dreams. And so yeah, I mean I don’t I’m very into I don’t get caught up in any of that stuff. Because if you put your entire identity into what you do for a living, once that starts to fade, once that starts to go, then you got really nothing, you know. I mean, you got your you got I wouldn’t say you got nothing, but I mean all that’s gone now you’re not you’re not selling anymore tickets, you’re not. And I’m still selling I’m still selling out shows, you know.

But you have to think about the future and you have to think about later on in life. And that’s what I’ve done. And so my identity isn’t in material things, because if it was, I would be super, super depressed. So you can’t. You can’t do that.

You can’t live your life for material things. Now. I love what I do. If you do something you gotta love it because you want to be successful in it, but don’t put your identity in it. That’s that’s me.

That’s that’s me talking and what I’ve done. You know, I don’t want to be one of those comedians or one of those entertainers that’s in a hotel room at seventy five years old and you know hasn’t really there’s that’s it. You’re in a hotel room and you. Know what I mean, Yeah, no, you know the top. You know, I’m sure Sagat didn’t want to pass away in a hotel room.

You try and avoid that. I got to keep you on schedule. I’m honorable with Meggie, and uh, you know, I got my half hour here. I appreciate you. You have been a friend for two decades.

You continue to be a friend, you know, and in this industry where hey, it’s a dude in a podcast, but you know, you could easily say no, and you say yes. So I appreciate you. You’re awesome, lad, Johnnie. Thank you so much. Matey you and I man, I tell you what, You’re a big part.

I mean, you were always there. You’re a big part of every time might come up to Syria and I just thought it was the coolest thing. You know. We’d walk in there and there’d be me, Bill, Jeff and Ron our picture on the serious billboard underneath Howard Stern and John and you were always so nice to us and made us feel at home. And I always loved coming up there and saying hi to you and doing and stuff.

So I’m glad you had me on your podcast. Man, I appreciate it. Quick story on the sign. So Brewer, Jim Brewer comes up one day, he goes, am I crazy? Or is I came up here and my picture wasn’t on the wall And I’m like, yeah, dude, we rotate the pictures depending on who’s coming up.

We don’t have Howard started Jim Brewer, I made you laugh. I’m getting out on that. By hey, jo, Hey, can I listen before you go? Can I tell you a quick story? I mean, Jim Brewer knows his story.

And I’ll be late for this other and for just a couple of minutes. Is this okay? So when I was open mic, and some of the best years of my life were open mic and hanging out with comedians and writing jokes. But the West Palm Beach crew, which I was a part of. We would go up every now and then do Bonkers in Orlando.

So we’d always go out to eat to Denny’s and we’d get a booth and all of us comedians now listen, all of us had other jobs. We weren’t professional comedians. The only person in that booth that was a professional comedian was Tom Rhodes. He was the only professional comedian there, and we just made we would linger on every word Tom Rhads said, because he was funny and he had a TV show that had just come, you know what I mean. So in that booth though, in that booth trying to be comedians that night, me Scott Thompson, Carrot Top, Jim Brewer, Darryl Hammond, Billy Gardell, Tom Rhodes, Me obviously my buddy Chris Baker, who became this talk show host who’s like listened to his top one under talk show hosts.

And my buddy Tom Ryan and who’s from where we’re from. I lives in New York now and is a really great writer comedian. So that who was in that booth that day. It was unbelievable and we talk about it to this day, how crazy it was that all of us were together in that booth all those years ago, not knowing what was going to happen in the future. That’s some lineup, yeah, isn’t it.

I mean, that’s a great comedy lineup. All right, y’all right, I don’t want to get in trouble. I’m gonna let you go, all right. Hey, man, keep in touch. I love seeing you, man, keep in touch.

As I said at the top, that was the fastest half hour of my life. I have a long standing friendship with Maggie, who was mentioned in the interview, and over the years, I have prided myself if I ask Maggie for half an hour, I keep my schedules half an hour. A lot of these radio interviews run over, but I try to keep my word. But Maggie, if you’re listening, Larry told one more story. That’s why we won thirty one minutes.

I apologize. Larry’s great, Maggie’s great. To know them both for twenty plus years. And that is your comedy news for today. I hope you enjoyed that one.

I really really love him. He’s just an awesome person. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. On Today Show, Conan O’Brien’s gonna win the Mark Twain Prize. Jamie Fox took a shot at somebody, was it? Cant Williams, Bill Burr’s got a big profile and variety and Roywood Junior specials out on Hulu Today. Not that their publicist wants me to know about it.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with Today’s Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien will be the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He’ll be honored at the annual gala March twenty third at the John F. Kennedy Senator for the Performing Arts in Washington, d C. Netflix will stream the events sometime later in the year, so expect a lot of Conan press coming up because he’s also hosting the Oscars on March second.

Conan becomes the twenty sixth person to receive the award. Others include Carl Reiner, wi Be Goldberg, Tina fe Eddie Murphy, Jay Leno, David Letterman, and I believe Bill Cosby oops at his fact check that he did. The Kennedy Center rescinded the honor in twenty eighteen. I’ve got some Bill Cosby stories to tell, and I will tell them, but not today. Perhaps after his death I will share them digress.

Conan said, I’m honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize, recognized not for humor but for my work as a riverboat pilot. Deborah Rutterer is the president of the Kennedy Center and said from Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, where he was a writer, including the unbelievably funny monorail episode, Oh that’s a trigger for me. I’m going to be singing monorail all day now. Conan is a master of invention and reinvention, consistently pushing the envelope in search of new comedic heights. I look forward to honoring his immense legacy and enduring impact with an uproarious evening in the Concert Hall on March twenty third.

The Holly Reporter has a nice bio of Conan. He began his career on HBO’s Not Necessarily the News. Remember that show, fellow oldies I used to watch that. He was a writer on SNL and The Simpsons took over for Letterman in ninety three, hosted this Night Show for seven minutes in two thousand and nine, kind of hit out on TBS No offense for eleven years on TBS, No offense, but kind of hit out. I think if we ranked everything Cony did, the TBSC years probably had the least impact.

And then he started a podcast which has done okay, that one called Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. Dave Chappelle hosts Saturday Night Live. This week. They put out an interesting promo. Dave Chappelle appears in it but never speaks.

Towards the end of the promo we see Chappelle on a stool, but I will play the audio for you with this Morgan Freeman esque or perhaps actually Morgan Freeman voiceover. Who knows, but let’s listen. Studio AH, New York City’s Helloed Comedy Ground, a fifty year tradition we left of that Saturday Night Live, all great past of these halls.

Also Stephen Chagall and This Saturday.

So some background there on the Steven Sagal shot. Former SNL writer Al Franken in twenty twenty two called Sigal an effing moron whose big sketch idea involved him. I don’t even want to voice this doing something very very sexually violent to cast member Victoria Jackson again in a sketch Franken recalled, asking him, so he want us to do the ugliest sketch that’s ever been on television. Lauren michael Is the ones called Sagal the biggest jerk who’s ever been on the show. Wow.

Jamie Fox is out with Cameron Diaz. They’re promoting Back in Action. They were on Complex’s Goat Talk. Jamie was asked what is his goat curse word? And I’m really gonna have to let you use your imagination here.

Jamie said, B word made an N word. Okay, I don’t even want to tell you what it rhymes with. You’ll figure it out. You’re smart. Now Here, he took a shot at someone folks on the interwebs suspect he’s talking about Kat Williams.

Fox said, be Made for Me is actually scientific because when I see the guy that I’m talking about, he’s usually small. He’s one hundred and twenty eight pounds. Camer Diez was curious, asking how many men do you know who were one hundred and twenty eight pounds. Jamie said a lot of comedians. I’ll leave it at that.

A lot of little MF comedians be made an n F at here man tiny it’s tiny mfer. So the theory is he could mean Kevin Hart, but I don’t recall Kevin and Jamie and talking about each other ever, or Kat Williams, who definitely has talked about Jamie. Steve Harvey, who is not one hundred and twenty eight pounds, has also previously referred to Kat Williams as a heater. We’ll keep an eye on this little beef. Johnny Mack likes comedy beefs.

That’s good for the show. Bill Burr did a lengthy interview with Variety. I’m seeing a lot of pushback to Burr’s appearance on Kimmel the other night, people suggesting that Burr is tone def or sucking up to Gavin Newsom or something. I don’t know, but going up a level. I’m seeing more and more chatter from longtime Bill Burr fans who feel like Bill has I don’t know what to describe it, gone soft, gone Hollywood, lost his way.

The vibe being they prefer the old Bill Burr, not the current incarnation who seems to be I don’t know, more restrained. I’m not sure I’m feeling that, but I definitely have caught that vibe on several podcasts that I listen to. I’ll pick up this article for the next few days and tomorrow on this program Larry the Cable Guys my guest. So I’ll do a little of this today, a little Sunday, and it might even carry in it a Monday. It’s pretty long.

You’ll find it Variety, and I’ve shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Please feel encouraged to join us there and join in on the conversation Hurtzeld Variety. I’m feeling pretty lucky. Bill had evacuated his house due to the La fires, as covered on Kimmel Kills Me. It’s just a lot of bots.

I think it’s trees in his behavior to politicize everything and keep it working people at each other’s throats. It’s all like it for one group of people. It’s not working people. This is not meant to be any sort of Bill Burr impression. I’m just separating it from my normal reading voice.

I go back to any arc my comic friends tell me how soft La is. I’m like oh you New York has come out here and you leave with the tail between your legs because you can’t hack it. It’s funny in LA is considered the soft place, but then when they see our weather, they start quoting revelations. I’m a New Yorker who has spent time in LA. I’ve never lived in LA.

But I have no idea what Burr is talking about there about New York is going out there and then not being able to hack Los Angeles. No idea whatsoever. But again, I’m not a comedian and I’ve never lived in Los Angeles. Burr’s out promoting his hilarious special Drop Dead Years. It’ll be out March fourteenth.

Now, if you want to make a case for Burr has gone establishment, the Hulu stand up comedy series is pretty mainstream. Jim gaff again, Sembastian I think is part of that lineup, and Roy Wood Junior, Who’s got one out today. Roy’s is called Lonely Flowers. In Lonely Flowers, Roywood Junior riffs on how isolation has sense, society spiraling ins who a culture of guns, protests, root employees, self checkout lanes, and sex parties. Roy told NPR when I It’d be Easy’s Comic View in two thousand and four had gotten turned down three years in a row, and I got so angry with them.

I watched every episode and I cataloged every topic that was breached by comedians for the previous year’s entire season. How many jokes about being ugly, here’s sex jokes, here’s race jokes, president famous people, and cataloged at all And this told myself that entire year, I won’t make a joke about any of those things. So now, at a minimum, i’m original. I like that approach. That’s pretty good.

Roy talked about leaving the Daily Show. It goes back to the Doug Herzog quote that I posted the day that I left for I said, you don’t own these jobs. You rent them, and sooner or later your numbers up. So it doesn’t matter if I stayed at The Daily Show sooner or later and exits inevitable. It’s which uncertainty will you choose stay at this job.

I’m not sure who’s going to get hired as host. With the uncertainty of not having a job and trying to create another job and maybe to be a better job, choose he told a story about his dad being a founding investor in Soul Train. Roy said, my dad was the first black announcer at pretty much most stations. He worked out in the fifties and sixties doing news for the most part. And so we got with some people up in Chicago and decided to create the National Black Network.

And the National bl Black Network was a series of syndicated news stories and articles and programs that would be sent out to black radio stations across the country. My dad gets pulled over by a cop and the cop is a really deep voice. He’s in the middle of getting a ticket. My dad goes, yeah, man, you have a nice voice. You should be on the radio.

You should be out here doing this. And my dad gave the cop his card. That cop Don Cornelius, Officer Don Cornelius of the Chicago PD. He’d only been a cop for a year. He quit.

He started working at a radio station as reporter, got an inch for the media and came up with an idea for a show, Soul Trained. He goes up to my father goes, hey, man, I’m taking up money if you want to be an investor in the show. Roy says, my pops gave Don Cornelius some of the money to shoot the pilot for Soul Trained. My dad gave maybe, like, let’s say it’s a thousand dollars, which is a good jillion billion dollars in nineteen eighty six. And once the show started, my dad goes, hey, don I need that money, man, and Don goes, instead of giving your money back, why don’t keep you on as a producer.

You can be an executive producer for the rest of your life, to which my dad said, nobody wants to watch black people dance. Give me my money. Don paid him back. My father took the money, signed away his rights to any claims of the Soul Train empire. And that was that.

Wow. A lot more here from Roy Wood, But I’ll push that into the weekend as well, because that’s an awesome story. You and always go out on top, all right. Johnny Mac feels bad. You know, I’m on here and I’m like, hey, guys, buy me a coffee.

Come on, buy me a coffee. Will you buy me a coffee?

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And then poor Avon goes and buys me not one, but two coffees, And do I thank …

No? You think I thank her on the show. I didn’t. I’m sorry, Ivon. I appreciate you.

Thank you for buying me two coffees by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Now to be fair when you do buy me a coffee. I got a note in my inbox and Avon shot me note. She’s like, hey, you know, did you get the coffee? Is what’s going on?

Like friendly, not like being excuse me, me being trick or anything. She just want to make sure that you know some scammer she does want, like Nigerian scammers getting the coffee she intended for me. So I looked and this had happened while I was in Antarctica, so I missed the email. So Evon thank you and I apologize. But anyway, you can go to buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Common News.

Look at this, I almost have like forty percent of this one left today. I will take your money. I will drive to the National Dome chain where I’ve already pre ordered because I’m not gonna talk to anybody. It’s twenty twenty five. I’ve got apps and reward points and stuff, and I have a ready clicked large iced coffee, caramel milk.

I go in and I get it, and I get back in and then I pat my dog. My dog’s been coming for ride. And I don’t want letters from people to be like you look your dog on the corder. It’s twenty seconds, dude, Relax, dog likes coming in the morning. Bill Hayter spoke to K’SLA about the La fires.

Oh, I better reset here and get the cause. I just laughed a little, But this story’s not funny and all. Bill Hater’s home was destroyed in the fires, he told KTLA. People keep saying unreal. It doesn’t seem real.

I’m sorry. I’m in shock. Just gone everything Alphabet streets, which is to me, kind of the heart of the Palisades. This beautiful, beautiful area is gone. The whole thing is gone.

I got a video showing the fire and rush back, but by the time I got back it was gridlock traffic. I’m glad I got my family out during this city evacuation. Men’s Health was concerned about Jay Leno’s car collection. Jay’s been out and about volunteering. Men’s Health happily reports Jay’s car collection appears to be safe.

Most of his vehicles are stored in an empty aircraft hangar at Hollywood Birdbank Airport. Interesting. How much does that cost a rent? And I didn’t know this. Jay’s got another estate in Newport, Rhode Island that he bought in twenty seventeen for thirteen and a half million dollars.

Jay hanging out in Rhode Island. Interesting? And if Fox News apparently doesn’t get the Tim Dillon podcast, they reported on what Tim Dillon said about the fires on Monday’s episode. I listen to that episode was very funny. If you listen to Tim Dillon, He’s not serious about anything.

He’s just riffing jokes. But Fox posted this as if it was news. Ridiculous. David Spade has offered five thousand dollars to anyone who successfully catches and reports arseness in La Spade. I appreciate it, but five thousand dollars in David Spade money is like buying me a coffee.

Could we up that prize a little, dude? I mean, Daily Comedy News can almost afford a five thousand dollars prize. But anyway, his heart’s in the right place. He says, I’m out in California and people are saying there’s guys lighting fires out there making this stuff worse. So if you can find someone lighting a fire, and you catch somebody and you get the cops to bust them and throw them in jail, I’ll give you five thousand dollars.

So keep your eyes peeled, do what you can do out there. As I went to record the show today, I see Bob Yucker has passed away, age ninety. Let me see if I can do a quick bio on the fly. On Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Brewers announced that Bob had passed away aged ninety, calling it one of the most difficult days in Milwaukee Brewers’ history. Yucker’s family said he had battled small cell lung cancer since early twenty twenty three.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Bob Yucker was a beloved member of the baseball community. On the comedy side, Uker got his big break opening for Don Rickles in an Atlanta nightclub in nineteen sixty nine. That got him on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He did The Carson Tonight Show more than one hundred times. Carson dubbed Bob Buker mister baseball people.

My age definitely remember Bob Buker from the Miller Lite commercials. Those were fantastic. Bob starred in the ABC sitcom Mister Belvedere that ran six years and one hundred and twenty two episodes. He played the head of the family and a sports writer and a home that brings it a butler. The butler struggles to adapt to an American household.

Bob also played an announcer in the movies Major League and Major League two. He played Harry Doyle and you may remember the famous quote, just a bit outside. Bob Buker was ninety and that is your comedy news for today. Larry the Cable Guy. Tomorrow see then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show. Bill Burr’s on Kimmel and drops a million F bombs while talking about Los Angeles Eddie Griffin as a conspiracy theory about the fires, sketch Fest kicks off in San Francisco, and what did Pete Davidson say that hurt Nicky Glazer’s feelings? All right?

Bill Burr was on Jimmy Kimmel and talked about having to evacuate his house. I’ve got a long clip here. All the bleaves are where bird dropped F bombs. Hey, Bill Burr, have you not done TV before? Are you not familiar with how Late Night goes?

Why are you dropping F bombs? Anyway, here’s the clip. It’s very good to see you. I argue you had to evacuate your home. Yes, yes, like most people, I had to.

I got lucky. You know, the winds moved, but you know the fire was coming and all that stuff. So I feel lucky. Are you getting back? And I think everybody did a great job.

Yeah, I’m like the internet, you know, right, I know it’s right. Oh my god, all of. These fire experts Why didn’t you just fly a helicopter. Into the ocean? And I don’t know because it was one hundred nin wins.

You want to do that? You want to do that at night? You lunatic? How are you? This was definitely mismanaged.

That’s a big word we’re hearing now, mismanaged like some idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in LA, sitting there in his underwear. You know what. Looking at the footage on the internet, I have determined that this here was mismanaged. You know about helicopters because I remember, and it’s interesting now thinking about it, because you said about it. I know about the one that I fly.

Other than that, I don’t know anything about it. You know something on the internet. You know everything you know about. It because you said that, you learned, you got your pilot’s license In case like all hell broke loose in LA, you could get out of LA. And at any moment did you think I’m going to make a run for that helicopter.

Well, the error in my thought was I didn’t realize how expensive helicopters were, So all I have is a two seater and I didn’t want to have to make Sophie’s choice with my family. Kimmel shared a discussion he had with his brother. According to Kimmel, he started talking to old lady who honestly believed that Diddies started the fires. Diddy, who was in prison in New York, managed to start the fire, and she believed this. There’s a story going around on TikTok that says the fires were started on purpose by elites who intend to destroy Diddy’s pedophile escape tunnels.

Because they’re evidence. This is something real people believe, said Kimmel. My legal department just wants to point out we hear Daily Comedy News have no knowledge of Diddy having pedophile escape tunnels. I’m just quoting Jimmy Kimmel. Apparently, Eddie Griffin talked about this theory on his YouTube channel on a video uploaded on the fourteenth.

The Griffin apparently said, LA is on fire and a lot of people are saying it’s to cover up the pedal file trial. And suddenly all the water ain’t working. Let’s pray for the mf rs out there. The houses is burning down, and chef unless they pedophiles. If they are pedophiles, f them.

Let’s get that burned because I don’t know what you’re doing. You’re burning the evidence up, sons of bees, but we’re still gonna catch it. Sticking with late night, apparently Trump was up late watching TV. At one twenty four am on Tuesday morning, Trump went on truth Social and wrote, how bad is Seth Meyers on NBC? Well, you know that’s not the worst point.

How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC? A network run by a truly bad group of people. I got stuck watching Marblemouth Myers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watched this moron, we should tell Trump about the remote controls and stuff. Every time I watch this more on, I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is. Merely a slot filler for the scum that runs Comcast.

These guys should be paying a lot of money for the right to give these kind of in kind contributions to the radical left Democrat Party. These are not shows, are entertainment. They’re simply political hits one hundred percent of the time to me and the Republican already, Comcast should pay a big all caps price for this. It is unclear what particularly led Trump to jump on truth social and comment on Seth Myers. Trump apparently enjoys Late Night, previously calling Stephen Colbert very boring, Jimmy Fallon weak and pathetic, and Jimmy Kimmel a loser.

I’d missed this one. I think it came out kind of quick to the event. But last Friday, the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles hosted a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Fire Foundation. All proceeds from both Friday shows went to the foundation. Jamie Massada is the club’s owner and said the club is proud to lift up our heroes or putting their lives online to save people in property across the LA.

Our firefighters are real life superheroes. Laugh Factory president David Feurer added, our firefighters are real life superheroes, and we’re proud to support them in their mission to keep the community safe. Eliza Slessengers playing Vancouver on Friday. She lives in LA. Her house is okay, but she told Global News what is heartening is seeing how quickly my city jumped into action, how quickly the donation centers were a capacity, how much all of a sudden the city.

That’s very much in terms of socioeconomic A list versus B list. How quickly that all just melted away and was just like, come on over, what can I do? How can we help those on the ground. In situations like this, you realize how big human hearts can be and that you really can rely on one another. Prior to this, the most apocalyptic situation I’ve been in was like an airport during the holidays.

We see people at their worst. Sometimes it takes the worst to see us at our best. In San Francisco, today, Sketch Fest kicks off the twenty twenty five Comedy Festival. This is a great event, over one hundred and ninety shows today through February second. Let’s start with these stand up comedians were performing, including Maria Bamford, Chris Fleming, Jolkim Booster, Dulce, Sloan Rhys Darby, Robbie Hoffman, Punky Johnson, A Partner and Turla, the Scar Brothers and Norri Davis, Josh Gonoman, Alison Leeby, Kate Willett, Hampton Yent, Nori Reed, Todd Berry, Todd Glass, and many more.

The SF Sketch Test dozen is a yearly spotlight of twelve top comedians this year Sophie Buttle, Britney Carney, Carmen, Christopher, Marie Fauston, Ross Fernandez, Kevin Iso, Bo Johnson, Rachel Kayley, Salter, Hio, Ikachuku, Ufomando, Eagle Witt, and Sabrina Wu. The forty fifth anniversary of the film Airplane That I’m Trying to Get My Daughter to Watch will be celebrated with a special live read featuring co creators Jerry and David Zucker, original stars Robert Hayes and Julie Haggerty, and surprise guests. Napoleon Dynamite celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a live read featuring the film stars, sketch comedy favorites. The State will present a live read of their unproduced musical, A Holiday Hubbub at Porcupine Corners. Three members of the Kids in the Hall Bruce mccallaugh, Kevin McDonald Scott Thompson, will team up with the Bay Area’s Red Room Orchestra for a night of songs and the sketches from Kids in the Hall Stuff the George Lucas Talk Show, which is a lot of fun on the interwebs.

If you’ve ever seen that. Connor Ratliffe is in town. He’ll be doing the George Lucas Talk Show, which is always fun.

Also a fake acting class and a parody reading of the Star Wars holiday specia…

Carol lot going on here. The cast of children’s hosts in Futuramo reunite. The fiftieth anniversary of the Groundings will be celebrated with an all stars show. A lot of all Stars have gone through the Groundlings. Some Groundlings who you’ve heard of probably live in La So we’ll see if that affects things, but that could be major.

Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers band are out there. SF sketchfest dot com for all the information there. Really fantastic festival. I got to do it. It’s been a minute now and I just got back from Aunt Artrico.

So right now it’s a little hard to tell my wife, Hey, I’m gonna go to San Francisco because it’s the forty fifth anniversary of Airplane and you know podcast the Wall Street Journal profile Pete Davidson. He loves Staten Island. He says, in all these other places, people move to a neighborhood and gentrify it. They put in insomnia cookies over there and call it a day. But in Stanton Island, it’s all homegrown businesses, really hard working people.

It’s the only place in New York where people just leave me alone. They were curious what time Pete gets up on a Monday and what’s the first thing he does. The answer, if I’m not working, I probably get up around ten thirty. Then I try to work out of meet. I just started working out, and they were curious, what’s Pete Davidson’s workout routine like?

Pete says, I’m lifting a lot of weights. I’m trying to bulk up and look like an adult. I have a bird body, and as I’m getting older, I just can’t look like a child anymore. Pete says, I’m working out minimum five days a week, doing meal prep and eating a lot of protein. I’m not a very good eater.

I’m very very skinny and shrimp like. I also have crones, so it’s always been difficult to eat and diet and I kind of finally figured out how to do it. So The Wall Street Journal asked how do breakfast and coffee fit into your morning? Random follow up, but Pete answered, I’m not a big breakfast guy, but you should always eat breakfast. This is like ABC promo from the cartoons on Saturday mornings in the seventies.

You should always eat breakfast. So if I can’t eat breakfast, which is usually a bacon, egg and cheese, I’ll love a protein shake. I love coffee. Sometimes I’ll do iced black coffee, and then sometimes I like the pumpkin spice for the peppermint. Pee should started buying in coffee.

Pete, you’re in the process of removing your tattoos. Are there any you’re keeping? What’s with the Hilary tattoo? Pete said, I burned off all all the tattoos in my arms, and now I’m working on the chest and back. The Hillary one is gonna stay there because I know her really well and I love her.

I just think she’s a very important figure in our nation’s history, one of the most important women ever. She’s super resilient and it’s just a tough lady. So it’ll always stay there. Nikki Glaser told the Vogue podcast about something Pete Davidson said that hurt nerve feelings. Niki told Vogue, guys still think about some of the jokes that have been made about me from Rose six years ago, and they still haunt me.

I’m seeing them when I look in the mirror. They will uncover things about you that you don’t even know about yourself. It’s a thing that you’ve always been like, I think this about me, but I’m just really mean to me. No one else has noticed it. What did Pete say?

Glazer says, Pete joked that NICKI doesn’t have an ass NICKI said, I mean, I knew I didn’t, and I know I don’t. But the fact that Pete Davidson had taken it in and sat with it, and I sat with it too, and it hurts because I don’t have an ass. But the fact that he had really thought about it, where maybe somebody wrote the joke for him, but he at least had to be like that works for her, and it hurt me. Big inauguration coming up on Monday. TMZ reports that THEO Vaughn has been invited and will attend.

I’ll let you know if any other comedians plan on attending. Let’s check in on John Mulaney’s Broadway show All In a Comedy about Love. Apparently it’s cracked the top five grossing shows. All in a Comedy about love, features readings of short stories, and it brought in close to one point seven million dollars at the Hudson Theater and played to one hundred percent capacity. That was to see the cast of John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Richard Kind, and Chloe Feineman.

It’s a rotating cast, though. The next line up is Lin Manuel, Miranda, Adie Bryant, Andrew Reynolds and Nick Curll. In case you’re curious how one point seven million dollars compares to other shows, the top spot went to Wicked, which grows two point four million dollars. Fantastic show. I’ve seen it, Hamilton, You’ve probably heard of that one.

I’ve seen that too, one point eight five million. The Lion King still bowling in the money at one point seventy five million. I’ve never seen line kingning on Broadway, nor have I seen Gypsy, which was fourth with one point seven four to eight million dollars. Can you hear? My voice is still no good?

It’s so annoying. I was sick, then I got healthy before the trip, which was great, and then I’m an idiot. I flew for a four hour flight and a ten hour flying on a plane, and I know better I should wear a mask, but you know what, I didn’t have a mask, and at the Oshawai Airport in Argentina didn’t know how to acquire a mask, so I cowboyed it.

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And now I have this stupid cold and my voice still has the fuzz in it.

I’ve been back for a week and change and drive me nuts. That’s your comed news for today. You know I like coffee too. You could buy me a coffee, and if I run into Pete Davidson, I’ll pass your five dollars a long and I’ll buy Pete Davidson a coffee. I would love to buy Pete Davidson a coffee.

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I will go to the National Donus chain. I will order on the app. I don’t even talk to anybody in all the times I’d be like, hey, can I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk? But no, I don’t have to do that anymore. I have an app.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Ricky Gervais showed off his new mansion on Instagram. There’s an unusually harsh criticism of Whitney Cummings I found on crack dot com my own opinion. Jay Leno is driving a fire engine around LA, but he’s doing it for good and South Africans are coming to the defense of Trevor Noah.

New theme music by the DCN band Let’s Start. If you’re in Pittsburgh this weekend, Jim Jefferies wants you to go see him. He is preparing for his next tour and says, it just so happens that I’m gonna be recording a special in a couple months time. The best time to see a tour is just before the special, because all the jokes are ready to go and they’re all polished and good. The worst time to see a show is just after someone’s recorded as special and they’ve run out of material, so it might be a bit long.

To be honest with you, I have lots of jokes I need to filter out before I actually record the special. Ricky Gervay showed off his fourteen and a half million pound home, nine bedrooms, a spa in its own gym sounds nice, but then again, you invent the office. Ricky was on Insta on Sunday. In his usual style, he showed off a lavish hallway complete with a marble staircase, large windows, on a laundry basket. He captured the picture I call this place laundry basket on a bench in the hall.

Many social media users were distracted by the extremely polished floors. Many wondered how long they would take to clean. Others pointed out the risk of injury slipping on marble. One social media user said, shout out to the floor sweeping staff, do you clean your own floors? Genuine question.

Another said, must be weird living in a private hospital. Riggie’s’ing sure if this will be his forever home, He had previously posted on Twitter. I thought the last house was the one I was going to die in, but I didn’t die, and I wanted a tennis court, so we had to move to a bigger house with a bigger garden just so we could get a tennis court. And I thought, this is amazing, this is perfect. It it’s not even finish yet, but I love it.

But the other day Jane said, we can’t live here when we’re eighty, so that’s like a ticking clock. She said, there’s all these stairs, so I’m going to be moving again when I’m from New Zimbabwe dot com you’re home for comedy news. South Africans are defending Trevor Noah after his ex Jordan Taylor called him a nobody. Jordan showed up on the Netflix reality TV series Selling the City. In episode two of Selling the City, Jordan revealed they had met on Twitter.

Jordan said at the time he was a nobody. No one knew who he was. They dated from twenty fifteen to twenty eighteen. Trevor hosted The Daily Show starting in twenty fifteen. Jordan said, I was the funnier one in the relationship.

Trevor borrowed me for material all the time, but he would also steal my material one hundred percent. Jordan said Trevor was her first high profile client after facilitating his ten million dollar New York apartment purchase. The South Africans are not happy with this. One person said, look at the real nobody trying to be somebody. Another said, we’re still waiting for you to crack a joke.

Another said, oh please, he was already known as Trevor Noah, while she is known as Trevor’s X. That should tell you who’s who, and then more pointed out, yeah, he bought a ten million dollar home he was on the Daily Show. I know for me. I knew who Trevor was before he got The Daily Show by for sure, having seen him at several comedy festivals, and I left series in twenty fourteen, so I knew him. Taylor told Page six that she had given Trevor a heads up about our comments, saying he’s one of the more private people when it comes to the celebrity sphere.

I did give him a little heads up, but that relationship was six years ago, so it’s not recent or am I emotionally dealing with it. Jimmy Kimmel on his program, talked about the fires, saying it’s been a very scary, very stressful, very strange week in LA where we work, where we live, where kids go to school. Jimmy was in near tears, saying many of us had to leave our homes in a hurry. Some of our coworkers lost their homes it’s been terrible. Everyone who lives in this city knows someone most of us, multiple people, family, friends, colleagues, neighbors where houses have burned down, And the truth is we don’t even know if it’s over.

We had one hundred mile an hour winds fueling this nightmare, and as of tonight, winds are back. I think I speak for all of us when I say it’s been a sickening, shocking, awful experience. But it’s also been in a lot of ways and beautiful experience because once again we see our fellow men and women coming together’ty chain other people who lost their own homes or out volunteering in parking lots for others who lost theirs. One of those people, Jay Leno. I’ll get to him in a second, but first John Stewart defended La Mayor Bass, saying I’m not saying she’s churchill.

Yes, improvements could be made in leadership and management, design and materials and married ways. But sometimes fire f’s a tornado and makes a mockery of human infrastructure and our ability to dictate the terms of our existence on this planet. But the one thing it shouldn’t dictate is the cruelty that we would show to those in pain, because we don’t think they consistently vote right. Jay Leno was going about his business. I saw a couple small stories about Jay volunteering.

One at the Reedley Firefighters Association. They were at a base camp. Jay Leno came by and served some food. Then as Jay was out and about, he happened to run into Anderson Cooper. Jay’s driving around in a nineteen forty one American Lafranz firetruck.

Leonard tild I understand they’re all getting box lunches. We figured, let’s get some hot food. It’s unbelievable. It’s ten thousand buildings. If you drove all day, you couldn’t see ten thousand buildings.

You get on that hill and you look from and there’s nothing. Looks like heroshiamor just some horrible thing. It’s an entire city wiped out, Pacific Palisades. It doesn’t exist and probably won’t exist for the next five six years. I don’t know how you rebuild this.

It’s one hundred and sixty billion dollars. There’s no insurance company in the world that has that much money. The problems will be insurmountable, but We’ll get through it. We always do. On crack dot com, In my opinion, an unusually harsh article, the headline Whitney Cummings continues to demonstrate what happens when a comedy career slows down.

Keegan Kelly is the author. Keegan writes, the last few days of cummings feed is everything you can expect from a washed up comedian rebranding as a conservative conspiracy theorist. She’s dumping on Los Angeles and California despite the fact that she lives there. She’s using a natural disaster to basically demonize the homeless instead of even considering how climate change could have exasperated the extreme weather conditions. And she’s complaining about DEEI hires and woke lesbian firefighters by calling out women by name whom she believes shouldn’t be working their current life saving jobs.

Cummings just needs to pluck some shady supplement and throw it an insane an immigrant take on these tunnels to perfect her Joe Rogan, please have me back on your show publicity stunt. It goes without saying that none of cummings claims about homeless people starting the fires by pouring gasoline into the sewer system, or woke lesbians slowing the work of the first responders of any basis and reported facts. But truth is never the point When a medium talent who recently slid off all mainstream platforms starts trying to steer online discourse over current events, Krack pointed out some of these social media posts. One supporter said, taken ote from Thompsigre and Joe Rogan and moved to Texas Baby, and another said, Damn, you’re falling into the enus of the internet. I thought you were a smart one.

And yeah, the comedy news is not much fun today From Sky News, whose line is it anyway? UK version star Tony Slattery has passed away at age sixty five of a heart attack. In recent years, Tony had spoken candidly about suffering mental health problems, but was making a comeback with a new podcast and a comedy tour. A statement made on behalf of his partners said is with great sadness we must announce actor and comedian Tony Slattery, aged sixty five, has passed away Tuesday morning, following a heart attack on Sunday evening and from the Metro Times in the States. Jonathan Nokielski, a local comedian known by his stage name as Jada Jaden, unexpectedly died.

Jaded Jayden was forty three named best local comedian in the Metro Times Best of Detroit twenty twenty four reader poll. Comedian Dominic Man of Scalchi posted on Facebook he might not have been everybody’s cup of tea, but because of him, a lot of talented people were given a starting chance in an art form that’s difficult to get started in. He’ll always be the reason I got my start, and I’ll never be able to thank him enough. Local comedian Brandon Kyle Mullins added, he first reached out to me over social media when he saw me struggling with hout people were perceiving me and how I was presenting myself. He didn’t know me.

I had never seen me perform, but he reached out to give me kind and inspiring words that I’ll always appreciate. I could tell he was passionate about being genuine yourself as an individual and longing for the acceptance of a shared laugh. That’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with Today’s Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Kat Williams calls Jamie Fox clone. Dave Chappelle’s gonna host SNL this weekend. Bill Engvall, are you unretired?

What’s going on there? Rob Schneider is man at the insurance companies in California? And yes, I have new opening theme music from the DC and band. Welcome guys.

All right, let’s dive in on the latest stop on his tour, Kat Williams made fu…

Kat said he cried like a baby five minutes into Jamie Special what had happened was, adding that he didn’t know what to think of it. Kat claims he was not invited to Jamie Fox’s special as they knew not to include him in the Shenanigans and that he wouldn’t quote participate. According to Sports Kadia and Cat alleged that Jamie hosted butt naked basketball parties, which is what made Cat realize he’s not the same type of person as Jamie Fox. According to this recap, despite being in the same profession and loving basketball, Jamie Fox never mentioned naked basketball parties to me, maybe I wasn’t invited to them. I don’t know, never heard even a whisper about such a thing.

I’d have to go back and look and see how long I worked with Fox in his camp. But if I had a guess right now, probably five years. I know I went to at least three Super Bowls with those folks. And I’ve been to Jamie Fox’s parties, and I don’t recall ever seeing anyone naked at a Jamie Fox party. I believe me as a married dude, were there naked people, I would remember apparently.

Kat also joked that Jamie’s wealth has secured him a spot in the Illuminati, and Cat joked that he wouldn’t mind getting himself in the Illuminati to get rid of a few secrets of his own. Dave Chappelle’s gonna host SNL on Saturday, interesting timing with an inauguration coming up on Monday. This will be Dave’s fourth time hosting the show. He hosted post election shows in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty hosted one other time in twenty twenty two. I’m sure that will garner a lot of attention.

The week after Timothy Schallomy will be the host and the musical act. Timothy Shallo may not a musician, but he isn’t that Bob Dylan biopic, So speculation here in the basement is he will perform as Bob Dylan. That could be fun.

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Meanwhile, NBC is launching an immersive studio eight h inspired experience t…

The press release says, from the thrill of hearing your name announced as you burst through the stage doors to rolling a chair up to the weekend update desk, every attendee will experience both the on camera magic and off camera rush of SNL, with surprises and callbacks around every corner that celebrates fifty years of fame, sketches, and the signature spontaneous nature that’s defined the series since nineteen seventy five. This sounds like a good time. They share some FAQs. All right, when is this the answer? It’ll run from January thirtieth, a Thursday, through Sunday, February second, from one until nine.

That’s not very long. That’s three and two four days where the answer it will be held at Rockefeller Center with an exact address to be revealed at a later date. Reservations become available today, January fourteenth, at noon. Reservations are free and available to the public on a first come, a first surf basis. So get move in and I hope you downloaded the podcast at three oh five am Eastern when I publish it.

Here’s a mystery. I saw that the Pearl River Resort announced Bill Engvall is performing comedy February first at eight pm. The reason that’s interesting to me is that Bill retired from comedy at the end of twenty twenty three. I went over to Bill Engvall’s website and there are four dates on his website, so perhaps Bill is back.

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Speaking of blue collar I’m scheduled to record with Larry the Cable Guy, a f…

I’m tight with the cable camp, so you know, unless there’s unforeseen circumstances, that’s pretty much a lock. I just jinxed it. Fox Nation. Jimmy Falla has a new special Night of Comedy, a ninety minute comedy special streaming exclusively on Fox Nation. As per the show’s description, the special has no no rules, no themes, and nothing is off limits.

Also appearing on the show, Anthony Ridia, Adam Carolla, and Jim Brewer, Fella says we had Fox put this night of comedy together because we want to be able to laugh about things going on in the country, and comedy is a way of bringing people together because we don’t agree on a lot. Got a pretty robust second half for you, but I’ll take you into the break with this one. Pat McAfee had Tony Hinchcliff on the alternative broadcast of the Ohio State Texas football game, and Pat asked Tony about the incidents. I haven’t talked to you since then. We had fun.

What was that the week or two before we were having a blast. I was on top of the world. I was a Mariah. Where are you now though, now you’re back on top? Oh?

Yeah, I assume some places do not feel that way. But hey, that’s comedy, baby, that is comedy. There’s only one little island I can’t go to. R Yeah. I think that’s probably for the rest of your life.

The beautiful place. Beautiful beautiful. Yeah, I’m sure you do. Hation there. I love the place.

I loved the people. I think you go ahead and take that off the list of facnationing points. Queen Yours in UK, viewers of the Mass Singer think they have figured out who Bear is after spotting three clues. Behar performed a musical number from Oliver on the first week, Then the next week did Will Smith’s Miami fans think Bear is comedian and rapper Ben Bailey Smith. One watcher took to Red and said Ben Bailey Smith is a rapper and comedian.

He wrote a children’s book called I Am Bear, and he supports Crystal Palace. However, some Messinger fans are convinced that Bear is actually East Enders actor Richard Blackwood, who’s also known for his rapping skills. Bill Moore put out a special on Max over the weekend. I even watched Max over the weekend and I don’t think they put it in front of me. If they did, I just didn’t stare at it.

Celon didn’t like it. Their headline the lazy comedy of Bill mooher. As anyone else seeing this, Coson complaints instead of jokes. The special is what giving up. But the concepts of a planned stage looks like wow.

Salon writes, Bill Moore has completed his metamorphosis into Abraham Simpson. That’s Grandpa. Salon writes, has this for breaking news. Mar Hatess cancel culture which doesn’t exist, and wokeism the exhausted right wing specter none can define. He announces his professor support of the trans community in the same way every other hack comic does, in that he says the obligatory words to make the audience comfortable with the uninspired observations that followed on me defends his lance by saying, I’m a noticer.

That’s what I do. That’s what I’m supposed to do, skipping ahead, and I think there’s a pretty good joke in here. Salon writes, it takes time and talent to blaze new approaches to headlines. We’ve forgotten about railing against trans fats. And here’s the joke.

I like, Which are fats that hate? Dave Chappelle doesn’t qualify as a new approach. I kind of like that joke, although, and I’m not a comedian, but I would have flipped the order there from my punchline and I would have gone with which are fats that Dave Chappelle hates? Anyway? This is a long negative review you’ll find on Salon.

Jay Leno was on Bill Maher’s podcast and revealed he only gets four hours of sleep a night. Mari asleto he only sleep four hours right, Jay said, I’ve been up since four. I went to bed last night at midnight. Leno says he usually goes to bed around two or three in the more, but decided to go to bed midnight the night prior. When he woke up, he said, he spent the early hours just dragging my butt around, reading and doing stuff.

Maris said, don’t you feel crappy? Leno said no. Maris said, don’t you drink coffee? Leno said nope, no hot liquids. Lenno apparently does not like hot liquids.

He said he also doesn’t like soup, adding that soup is just a way to screw you out of a meal. That’s my attitude. It’s just a way to screw you out of a meal. I could have something to eat, but you give me a dish that’s wet. Okay, thanks.

Pete. Lee was on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and shared that his house had burned down. Lee told the audience, I don’t mean to be a bummer. This is a comedy show. I’m a comedian, but my house burned down yesterday.

This appearance was on January ninth. The audience then was audibly sad. Pete joke, that was the most studio audience response I’ve ever heard. That was like a game show where it went to zero to bankrupt. He shared what was like watching his house burn on TV.

Pete said, the anchor was in front of my house, and he’s like, some people are finding out right now that their home is burning by watching this broadcast. And I’m watching over a friend. I’m like, yeah, that’s me, that’s my house. My friend goes, which one is your house? And I know the orange one.

Lee said being on the tonight show was therapeutic for him. It gave him something to focus on. And you’re a great friend, Jimmy, You’re a great man. I love you. Pete is coping doing what comedians do, writing jokes, he told Fouln.

And there are gonna be people with already the jokes I’ve said making light of this that are going to be mad at me because they’re gonna go, hey, you’re making fun of a tragedy. Too soon my house burned down. I could tell jokes about this, so Mike coping. Yeah, yesterday I was crying, and then I just kept writing down jokes. I hope people won’t think this is tasteless, and he pulled out some notes to workshop his new wildfire theme set.

His jokes include when your house burns down, dry, January is over shrinking like prohibition was going to start tomorrow. Pete then returned to the stage after the break and did a stand up set and got a standing ovation from the audience. Dean Cole shared about being hospitalized and then being forced to evacuate his home due to the wildfires.

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Also on January ninth, his fifty third birthday, he went on Insta and posted …

I sure could use them. Then the next night, he shared that he had to evacuate his house because of the wildfires, writing in another post they had collected a few important items from his house, including flowers given to him by his mom before she passed away. In twenty twenty one, he captured the video This day is devastating. Left the hospital earlier as sick as f went home, then had to pack what I could to evacuate. As I drove away, I saw the fire rising from behind my house.

It’s a nightmare. I got the flowers my mom gave me before she passed, though Dion Charity canceled his birthday party. Doesn’t feel right to do my birthday party while people are losing everything they own and myself being under a high alert from my own home. Pre for the families. Rob Schneider is not happy with the insurance companies.

He posted on Twitter, if you State Farm, screw you and all your phony commercials. You are a pile of crap for canceling insurance policies of Californians. I will never use State Farm insurance ever again. See Ann reported between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two insurers canceled two point eight million home coverage policies in California, including more than five hundred and thirty thousand in La County. Barons reported State Farm, who Rob Schneider’s man at, canceled seventy two thousand policies in California, nearly half of which were for home insurance.

There’s some discussion about whether or not awards season should happen or not. The Grammys announced that they will have the Grammys on February second. I was curious, is Trevor Noah back? And they haven’t announced a host yet. Today’s January fourteenth and February second is what lazy math?

Two and a half weeks away? You know what? Why don’t you call Joe Coy and they’d be mad at him when he’s not awesome at it when you all give him two weeks to prep. Nikki Glaser is in hosting forum. I’d love to see Nikki host the Grammys.

Plus Taylor Swift will be there. Oh wait, if Taylor Swift’s gonna be there? No, no, no, no, please please please call Joe Coy. Please, you gotta see me in the basement here. I’m like John Oliver at his most giddy right now.

Yes, please please call Joe Coy. That would be amazing. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. Day might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Fun One Today. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis gave us some more insight about his discourse with Nick Saban. You may recall that a head of Notre Name’s first round college football playoff game, Shane made some jokes about Alabama.

Nick Saban didn’t appreciate it. So it seems, let’s listen to the original clip caught him a cheater earlier. I was just joking around. I don’t think the SEC paid players eever. Period.

I’m joking. Not a fun show, no serious. Alabama Jones is very serious. I’m not serious. I do believe in integrity.

I was trying to run the program that way so players had a better chance to be successful. Money in the. NFL than any old school sixty one plays in the league. That was how we cheated redeveloped player. We recruit.

So sorry. Jane was wondering if Saban was actually mad he spoke about it. Here you’re gonna hear some dropouts in the audio, and that’s where the f bombs were. He was like, what do you think about the game, And I was like, I don’t know if fick Saban cheated. It was just a fulls faz.

It was so good though, I mean that I get I’d like to explain that because that was so After I said that, we had to go into the stadium to sit at the desk. Then I got in there and right before we go on, he looks at me and he’s like, I heard what you said, and I was like holy, And then Herb Street and McAfee were like, he’s just breaking balls, dude. He loves messing with guys like he’s literally just I was like, all right, off, put him back. I would have never done that if I thought he was serious. Yeah, they told me he was, so I started with him.

And then as soon as we get done, I tell herber Street and McAfee, I’m like, bro, he was definitely serious, and they were like, no way, he was serious. Go talk to him. So I went up to him after news, like. You think the SEC dominated because we cheated, that’s bullshit, and he likes are helping. But then so he was still on the stage and I was on the field, so after he yelled at me, I had to help him down, and he looked around to see if anybody else could help him, but I had to help him down.

Congratulations to Nate BERGETSI. A gym will be named after him. Donaldson Christian Academy Gymnasium will be named in honor of Nate’s on January seventeenth. Nate annually hosts a fundraiser golf tournament for the school, and Nate and his wife recently made a donation of one point one five million dollars towards the DC eight to go towards construction of an athletics indoor practice facility. Nice job all around.

Newsday caught up with David Tel turning sixty. Dave says, I’m surprised I made it. I never thought it was gonna happen. In terms of comedy, I’m the oldest guy in the room now. When I started out, there was always some old grizzled comic in the corner, and now it’s me.

It’s great to be able to see if I can still follow the new comics. I’m kind of like the old buffalo and the wolves are circling. Well, this is what I do, and I’ll keep doing it for as long as I can. Dave addressed the good buzz on his twenty twenty four special Hot Cross Buns. I had that way up my list, and Tel said it kind of blew me away when it hit like that.

I guess it’s kind of fun to watch someone who’s melting down and angry, unless you’re in the subway, then it’s scary. Newsday, that’s a Long Island newspaper, talk to a Tale about what it was like when he lived there. I used to live there too, and I agree with what he says here at Tel said, I grew up on Long Island when you could get from the Lincoln Tunnel to Roosevelt Field in under three hours. That should be about a twenty five minute drive, maybe thirty minutes. But yeah, it’s not that anymore.

Tel says. Now that Newsday asked to tell about being revered by so many fellow comedians, Dave says, I don’t say, because I’m one of them and we’re all in it together. I think a lot of them like to watch me on stage because I’m pretty self destructive. I’ll tell a joke that works, then tweak it and twist it until it fails, and then I get angry with myself and go off on tangents. I guess it’s fun to see the ramblings of a madman mass.

I’ve caught up with Kathy Griffin, who said, I am in the Guinness Book of World Records. I’ve done more TV streaming comedy specials than any comedian male or female, living or dad. And don’t talk to me about the boys now. I think the transcription went sideways here because it says here, I’ll read the two sentences, but then I’ll tell you about the spelling. It says I love Dave Chappelle, but he doesn’t come close.

Matt Rice is the hot thing now, but I write my own stuff. But Chappelle doesn’t have the E at the end, So that makes me think she actually said Matt Rife and not Matt Rice anyway. Spelling a side her comment on Matt Rife, he’s the hot thing now, but I write my own stuff. Is she implying that Matt does not write his own stuff? Kathy says, you know, these other comics have three four openers, but not me.

Do other comedians have three four openers? I’ve seen some pretty big headliners, usually one opener, sometimes two. Who’s touring with four openers? Kathy says, you better be on time for the show, because I go right on at eight o’clock. I do two full hours.

In fact, I do two hours when I’m a good girl, and they do two hours and fifteen minutes when I’m a bad girl. Mass Live was curious what happens during those fifteen minutes. Kathy, you know, if the audience is extra good, I make them pay. I make them pay the price by doing those few more minutes. But I love it.

It’s the only thing that gets me through. Even though all those years I was blacklisted, I was still writing stuff and planning stuff. I pitched every game show you can think of, every talk show you can think of, every sitcom you can think of, every reality show. Nobody bit not one single soul in seven years. Thank God for real live people that buy tickets with real life money, because now they’re all eating crap and they’re like, oh, Kathy Griffin just played fifty Cities.

I have no love for my own industry, but I have nothing but love for the actual audience. The New York Times are reviewed at Leanne Morgan’s recent book What in the World, A Southern Woman’s Guide to Laughing at Life’s unexpected curveballs and beautiful blessings, and they write and you may have questions, For example, is this one of those top tier comic memoirs like those from Tina Fey, Trevor Noah, and Steve Martin. The answer no, but it’s got a frazzle charm and it works. Is it as funny as Morgan stand up? Not quite a hard thing about trying to be funny on the page, as posted in front of audience, is that you lose your delivery.

Morgan’s sweet tone southern accent has bestowed on her a world class delivery system. Gabe Iglesias talked to the Hollywood Reporter and said, nowadays people can take anything you say wrong, and that’s the time we’re living in. He used to worry about it. I was always looking on my phone reading messages. But the more I continue to do this, the more I realized that as long as you do what you said you were going to do, your fan base is going to be there.

The people who disagree are the ones on the outside making all that noise. I can’t worry about people who are not even fans, who don’t understand what I do and how I do it, because people will watch a clip online all of a sudden they have an opinion. They don’t realize that this person’s been doing this for almost thirty years, and maybe there’s a reason why they’ve been around so long. I’ve lost a lot of time worrying, and nothing that I ever worried about happened. The Holly reporter asked Gabe if he tweaks the material for where he’s playing in the country, and he says, I’m always listening to see how things go over, but I don’t change something.

For example, he has a bit about guns. I don’t try to make it so California’s cool with it. I try to push this idea of Look, you might not agree with it, but let me tell you why I did it. I’m not just going to throw that out there. I’m letting you know that I start off the same way as you, and this is what happened to me that led me to go another way again, reacting to situations.

So even if people disagree with certain ideas, you can’t do agree with the person being affected by what’s happening around them that led them to that. I don’t think I’m losing anybody from that. When I say I’m a registered gun owner. I’ve had people in the crowd boo too. All I ask is you listen to my story, and if you still feel like booing me after I tell you my story, I welcome it.

But to boom me without hearing the full thing makes you look like the bad person. So at least give me the opportunity to share with you why I’m this way, and then people are like, all right, and at the end of it, I’ve yet to get another boo. The thirty five seat Theater Public Displays of Altadena, known as PDA, was in the path of the Eton wildfire and was burned down. Some have called it the unofficial home of LA’s a clown scene. Located in a strip mall alongside a liquor store in a pizza shop, the micro theater opened in twenty twenty two after a crowdfunding campaign.

Ria Bamford recorded her twenty twenty three special Local act there. The owners are trying to figure out what happens next. Right now they are canceling things, trying to refund people. They’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign that’s already raised over fifteen thousand dollars to try to find a new venue. A post on the GoFundMe page says, with your generosity and time, we pledged to rebuild PDA and come back stronger, more resilient, and ready to serve our community once again.

While I was on the trip to Antarctica, Just for Last Vancouver announced a pretty cool lineup. I’m psyched to see that the reconstituted Just for Laughs is continuing with all the old programming. This is fantastic. JFL Vancouver, February thirteenth through the twenty third. Pretty snazzy lineup here including Jerry Seinfeld, come on on, Gianni, Tim Dillon, Margaret Show, Roywood, Junior, Pete Holmes, Master Browny.

I mean this is great, Ashley Gavin, Brian Simpson, Sam Jay, Irene TiO, i’van Decker, Jay Jorden, and a whole bunch of others. Seventy plus shows Fantastic Just for Laughs, Vancouver, February thirteenth through the twenty third. If you are a longtime listener, you may remember this story. The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a request to hear an appeal by Sylvie Gabriel. Gabriel had been seeking to reverse a lower court decision that dismissed her lawsuits seeking compensation from comedian Mike Ward.

Jeremy Gabriel had become a celebrity in Quebec as a teenager after he appeared alongside Celine Dion and the Pope. Ward had mocked Gabriel in his act between twenty ten and twenty thirteen, joking at one point that he thought the boy’s illness was terminal and people were only nice to him because they thought the boy would soon die. Canadian Supreme Court found in twenty twenty one that Ward’s comments did not amount to discrimination under Quebec’s rights. Shorter from chort All The Next Big Thing Award has listed ten comedians who could be the next Big Thing. The British Comedy Guide has picked Celia ab Dan, Tiernan, Josh Pugh, Katie Norris, Michael Attawalle, Oka Kach Patty Young, Rachel Fairburn, Rob Copeland and tarat Or is it Terrot ta Rot.

The website had asked one hundred professionals for the acts they believed most represented the future of comedy. They got a long list. They’ve now cut it down to ten. That panel will now choose a winner to be announced on an unspecified date HMMs A mystery. That is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media either Johnny Mack who your Daily Comedy News. Right before I head it off on my trip, Deadline put out an article of the future of funny the fifteen comedians ready to break out in twenty twenty five. So I’m like, all right, I’ll do that one when I get back. And that is today, My friends, I haven’t read this at all. We will experience this together.

Deadline says here, in alphabetical order, our fifteen comedians would bet on as the stars of tomorrow. First up, Channel Ali named a just for last new face at the twenty nineteen edition of the Montreal Comedy Festival. We’re told she’s a strong joke writer who’s been seen on Epix’s Unprotected sets. I am not familiar with her. Jeffer Currey is described as the fastest selling comedian at this year’s New York Comedy Festival, two sold out Beacon Theater performances.

Deadline tells us in twenty twenty four, he sold over two hundred and fifty thousand tickets. Now I’m a little suspect here that Deadline is just printing anything handed in because it says he has showcased on the Late Show at Saint Colbert, Comedy Central’s Rost Battle Laughs on Fox, Serious XM, and at numerous comedy festivals nationwide over the years. Just to catch everybody up. I know some people hate when to bring this up. I used to run Serious XM comedy.

That’s how we know what I’m talking about here, and I would see comedians quote Serious XM as like a credit all the time. It’s like, dude, you put out an album and we just scheduled it. So I don’t know. Maybe he’s been hosting a show on Sirius for last decade and I didn’t notice, But now I’m wondering, Oh, okay, then people just hand stuff in and Deadline printed it. Next up, Catherine Blandford, a charismatic Kentucky born comedian who’s toured across the country.

She’s released her first Hour special, Catholic Cowgirl through the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, back on December fifth. Fern Brady, Yeah, I could see Fern breaking through in the States, one of U K’s hottest comedy stars who waits her big break state side. The Scottish comic is coming off the release of her first Netflix special, Autistic Bikini Queen. That’s a good choice there. Next up Nico Karney, a trans stand up reuter an actor based in New York, currently headlining comedy clubs across the country and sold out his headlining show at the New York Comedy Festival.

Aaron Chen is a comic quickly climbing the ranks of the international scene. Born and raised in Sydney, he sold twenty eight thousand tickets in Melbourne across ten shows back in twenty four. I think we played a lot of Aaron Chen here on this very podcast and dug him. So that’s good. That’s a good pick.

We like that. Dina Hasham, Yeah, she’s cool. Known for her deadpan delivery and newanced observations on her Islamic upbringing. Hasham is garnered Emmy and WGA Award nominations. This is a good list.

These are good picks. Jordan Jensen, Brooklyn based comic who recently graduated from clubs to sold out theaters. Jensen recently inked to deal with her first hour special for Netflix, which her debut sometime here in twenty five. Interesting. If you want to check her out, go to YouTube and check out thirty Minutes with Jordan Jensen.

Matt Matthews tours doing Confessions with Matt, adopted from his video series of the same name, where he offers a real time comedic take on audience members who voluntarily spilled their deepest, darkest secrets. Chloe Radcliffe, based out of New York City, A lot of New York Come here. She was named a TBS Comic to Watch back in twenty seventeen. Penny Years. Becky Robinson, based out of LA has gone from viral sensation to a sadout theater act with Entitled Housewife, an outspoken golfer character she introduced during the pandemic via a pair of self produced variety specials.

She grows seven plus figures over the course of one hundred and three shows. In twenty twenty four, She’s gonna tape her first stand up special at the Wilburn Boston in March. Casey Rocket is described by Deadline as one of the more unique comedic voices you’re likely to come across today. Something can’t be more unique. It’s just unique.

Look up the definition. But I know what you’re trying to say. Rocket’s career has blown up since being named a permanent regular on Kill Tony Casey Schornama is one of the newest Weekend Update writers at SNL, name the best up and Coming comedian in Nashville by Nashville Scene Magazine, and was a Just for Last new Face in twenty twenty two. I like this. She’s been seen alongside comics like Neil Brennan and Apra Goodsey and David tell Well.

I’ve been seen alongside comedians Life Jerry Seinfeld. There’s a picture somewhere. Next up John Marcos SERRESI Yes, friend of the Show, two time guests. He’s taping his first hour special this year out in La A big fan of his, like him and last, alphabetically but not least, Renee Vaka. Vaka was one of nine up and coming comedians selected for the introducing showcase at Netflix’s A Joke Fest twenty twenty four.

The winner of the sixteenth annual Stand Up NBC competition, and he regularly sales out leg Day, a monthly show he hosts at the Hollywood Laugh Factory.

In other news, the Critics Choice Awards were supposed to happen today, but t…

The CEO of the Critics Choice Award says, this unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community. All their thoughts and prayers are with those battling to devastating fires and with all who’ve been affected. Chelsea Handler is scheduled to host. There are some comedy nominations. Best Comedy Series, Abbot, English Teacher, Hacks, Nobody wants this own Murders Somebody Somewhere, which is on HBO.

Somebody just told me that that was pretty good. Saint Dennis Medical on NBC, What we Do in the Shadows. I’ll pick Hacks Outstanding Talk Series, Hot Ones, Daily Show, Graham, Norton, Mulaney, Everybody in La Kelly Clarkson, Colbert. I’ll pick Milleni out of that. Best Comedy Special, Okay, Get Out, Johnny Mack’s Snabaree, Magic Wand they nominations are Ali Wang, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin James for Irregardless, Are you kidding me?

Nicki Glazers, Someday You’ll die, Rachel Bloom’s Death, Let me do my special, and Rommi Usef’s More Feelings. Boy, this is tough. Wasn’t Gaffigan’s best work, despite this being the year of NICKI. That was not a strong special Rommie. I didn’t like the direction.

I want to give it to Ali Wang, even though that special wasn’t a targeted at me and it didn’t personally speak to me. But I’ll respect it the special and give it to Ali Wang. For Single Lady on Netflix and on Best Animated Series. This is Weird Okay, Batman, Cape Crusader, Blue Invincible, The Simpsons, X Men, and they’ve fallen for the hoax. They’ve nominated Bob’s Burgers.

Slate caught up with Nate Brigetzi. Is he currently at the top of the comedy pyramid? Is he currently the top rank comedian if I bring back the Comedian power rankings if I have five minutes to make them, Is he currently number one? Nate shared that he used to have more of an edge he recalled in a story than he once workshopped an out of character joke about murdered sex workers in New York City, which he ditched after hearing from a woman in the sex industry who took offence. Nate internalized the feedback and then got rid of all the edgy ness and said, I just need to be super careful with anything that could be seen as making fun of someone.

I never want to be mean. Slate writes, Nate is certainly a smart enough guy to concoct a great joke about, say, January sixth, or the Facebook algorithm, but he’d much rather talk about his McDonald’s order. There’s dignitying that approach, and maybe a little bit of cowardice too. Therein lies the irony of his rise, right Slate, when Burgatzi first caught on nationwide, we were seeding into the coma of the early Biden years, said in your letters too, Slate, Americans had finally tapped out of the ara defining divisiveness of Trump’s initial ascension, and we’re holding out hope that the country might be on the cusp of a well deserved period of stasis. Nate imploys his crowds to shut off their brains for a narrow when he’s on stage, thus receding into the narcoticizing splendor of his meticulously crafted but ultimately toothless comedy.

A Little Harsh Dude’s really funny. I don’t know Whennie Cummings shared an anecdote about auditioning for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalabolis. She gets to the set with Coppola and finds out that it’s not a typical audition, as Whitney tells that everyone is so quiet. There’s no vibe of we’re at an audition, Hey, what’s up? How are you nice to meet you?

It was just so awkward. I go out and I’m like, so, where do you want to start first? And he’s like, now, we’re not going to do the scene. I was like, okay, it’s three days of my life. He would just throw things at me.

Apparently one of the directions was to say goodbye to her son who was going to war by using an English accent, and then use an Australian accent to respond to her husband leaving her for her sister. Whitney says, because I did the show punked, I was like, if I’m being punked, this is actually genius. Bob Beckett is working on a pilot for a show called am I the A Hole? Yes? It is aimed at fans of the popular reddit thread I am sometimes on there.

The pilot features a panel of top tier comedians passing judgments on relationship dilemmas and disputes and promises, big laughs, and eyebrow raising stories. Examples include a discussion of somebody getting rid of their favorite pet or price car behind their partner’s back. That could be fun, and Seth Myers tells Late Nighter he has no interest in hosting the Oscars. He says, the Golden Globes I think is the fun one. I think once you do this one, it’s hard to imagine doing anything else.

Just the way people are seated and it feels a little less stuffy. With that said, I think Conan’s going to kill it at the Oscars. I’m very excited about that. A lot of respect for my buddy Jimmy Kimble. I feel like has done an incredible job over the years, but he’s never said anything that made me think, oh, I’d like to do that.

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