Month: February 2025

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Hi, I’m Johnny Mack. This is a disclaimer. As the show goes along today and you’re about to hear why all of a sudden it gets a little naughty. All right, So if you got kids and you’re like, hey, kids, let’s listen to Daily Comedy News, not today, Okay, adults only today? Do you hear me?

I don’t normally do this at the top, right, Okay, No, kids. Caloroga Shark Media. Findly home. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This first one’s fun.

Tim Walls was introduced as Jim Gaffigan is at Jim’s show on Wednesday Night, and then Walls walks out and says, I know what you’re thinking. He’s much more handsome in person. Gaffigan on Instagram said, really enjoyed meeting him and his team. Fyi, I’ve never seen a politician greeted by his constituents. That’s a hard word to say.

This was take four, and I’m still not sure that I got it correct, but I’m moving on. By those guys, the way Governor Walls was to night, Shane Gillis is your host of Saturday Night Live. There is a new promo I will play you the promo, but let me describe the promo, so there’s some visuals there. Shane is walking backstage at Studio eight h with cast member Ashley Padilla. Along the way, Shane’s going to run into Michael Longfellow.

He’s passed out on the couch. Mikey Day is wearing Sarah Silverman’s clothes, and the police don’t destroy guys look kind of disheveled. Towards the end, Padilla gets an IV let’s listen. How are you feeling. Are you excited to host?

Yeah, I’m excited. I’m just worried everyone’s gonna be hungover? Still from the fiftieth makes you say not that for one thing?

Also, Mikey’s wearing Sarah’s clothes.

What I always dress like this? Look at the boys, I don’t even think they know who they are. I feel like I’m Ben. No, dude, Ben is the cute one. I am?

Ben? Have you considered that maybe we’re all bet now you’re Alvin and they’re the Chipmunks? Yeah? Nice one, Louis c minus that’s funny. I laughed at that.

I must be a teenage girl if I thought you were funny. Oh, yes, oh, sorry, sorry, Shay Ashley, you’re hungover to what? Hey do you guys know a good tattoo removal? Guy? Oh, I think I made a mistake.

I thought he would like it. It’s nothing like that. It’s gonna fire you. Emil’s tattoo is of Lorden. Michael’s there at the end.

By the way, the joke Louis c Minus is very, very funny. The Oscars are Sunday night. They are being hosted by Conan O’Brien. Tomorrow’s episode will be An Oscar’s Conan O’Brien Palooza. If you don’t like Conan, don’t listen tomorrow.

You’re not gonna like tomorrow’s episode. So we’ll do all the Oscar stuff tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, later in March, Conan is going to receive the Mark Twain Prize for…

A Kennedy Center rep says the show is continuing as scheduled. You may have heard Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center and some shows aren’t happening. Not doing politics today, just telling you what’s going on. So the Conan thing is still happening. That’s good.

Camille n Gianni returning to stand up, very very interesting. It’s his first special in ten years, and it will be part of hilarious, No Date, No Idea. When they’re recording no Idea. What it’s called, no Idea, what it’s about. It’s the second special of his career, is first in more than a decade.

Now. I’m interested in what Cameal will do as a stand up because his first special back from twenty thirteen, is called Beta Mail, and the persona he’s doing is a very soft spoken beta type character. And here we are a decade later and he’s done a few serious acting jobs. Plus he was in the Marvel movie. I can’t remember what that was called.

I’m gonna have to actually google it. Oh, the Eternals, I can never remember that one. He played KINGO. Remember he got like super buff, So he’s been like super buff leading man type. Is he going to do that?

Is he going to do his beta comedy act. It’ll be curious to see that. Anyway. I liked his stand up work. I also like him as an actor, so I look forward to that one.

From the Tennessee and Naperghetzi was talking about hanging out with all the celebrities around SNL fifty he talked about going to the cam that kind of situation. You got to imagine all these celebrities, everybody’s reading and everything. Where he’s sitting. You’re allowed to bring a plus one or not a plus one? Are you sitting farther back?

Are you in the middle? He said it was weird too, because there were after parties every night. At one point, Nate and Tina Fey, we’re talking about the exclusive after parties. According Nate, Tina Fey’s like, what are these after parties? I mean, I haven’t heard about one of them, and he continued, usually nobody knows what’s going on, and people will be overlooked.

It’ll be big people to be little people. It was comforting to hear Tina say that. I’m like, yeah, I didn’t hear about any of this. You found out the moment about the after parties and you’re like, I don’t want to ask, I don’t want to show up, and they’re like, you can’t come in. I’ve been to an after party or two now.

Not being a performer, it’s always awkward when you were like not in the clubs, so like you’re there and there are famous people there and they don’t care about you know, suit types, and you know, it’s a little easier when I was in my thirties, not my fifties. Boy, I can’t even imagine being in that scenario now, At least at one point I was halfway young. But they’re just weird and nothing ever amazing happens, I hear. I’ll tell you a story real quick. We were out in last Vegas, and we were out there for that was when JFL Las Vegas had the Comedy Festival.

At the same time it was the AVN Porn Awards, and one of the bosses decided, since my team was already out there, we would also cover the porn Awards for serious. One of my hosts kind of somehow, sort of knew one of the porn stars and we got invited to a party in the porn stars hotel room. This is a true story. Why would I make this up? And we’re walking down the hall, you know, and it’s me and my bozo friends and you know, it’s not exactly Entourage here, actually it is Entourage, just you know, we’re all of the turtles.

So we’re walking down the hall and a big stereotypical bouncer sees this from you know, a million feet away and starts shaking his head. He’s like, you’re going the wrong way, guys. And my host he’s like, nope, we’re here for whatever her name was, and he was right, and they let us in and there we are in the suite and the porn stars having a party and it’s just a party. Nothing crazy was happening on. There was no worn, there were no drugs or just people hanging out and we had some drinks.

Anyway, later that night we wind up at the Porn Awards, which they take very seriously. The house band that night was smash Mouth, which is kind of cool. So we’re sitting in the back they start giving out the awards and we get the giggles because remember, back in the day, porn titles would be spoofs of real movies. I’m trying to think of one here I will google. Okay, I’m about to get a little naughty here.

If you haven’t chased the kids already, chase the kids? Hit stop? All right, I’ll babble for another five set. Did you hit stop? Or the kid’s gone?

Okay? So examples would be, you know, the nominees for Best Picture are sperms of endearment, saving Ryan’s privates, romancing the bone for your thighs only you get it. So we had the giggles and we had a wonderful night, and they gave us gifts. So I get back to the room and I’m like, I wonder what this gift is that they gave us. And it was a glass thing, a glass thing that you know, my and might enjoy a glass thing, you know, say like eight inches long, that kind of thing.

All Right, you with me? We’re naughty today. I’m sorry. So I have this thing, and I’m in my hotel room and I’m like, what am I going to do with this? Am I going to put it in my luggage and explain to the TSA why I have this?

When I bring it home? My wife knew what I was doing as a work assignment, but like, hey, guess what I brought home? Or do I leave it in the room leaving the maid to wonder? Hmm? I left it in the room anyway, I quite digress.

Where the heck were we when I started talking about this? Oh? After parties, Yes, Nate Bergancie went to one John C. McGinley, you know doctor Cox from Scrubs. He has joined untitled HBO comedy series starring Steve Carell.

And what’s interesting is the untitled HBO comedy series starring Steve Carell was created by Bill Lawrence. You know Bill Lawrence, creator of Scrubs and Ted Lasso and all kinds of awesome things. Untitled HBO comedy series starring Steve Carell will be set on a college campus and follow Steve Carell’s character, which is a writer who’s navigating his complicated relationship with his daughter. John C. McGinley will play Walter Mann, the president of the university.

All right, that’s good casting. He’ll be good at that. No additional details about the series are currently known. Well, there are some details I just didn’t tell you, Like I didn’t tell you Mike Tarsus is writing on it. But point being, we don’t know much about it other than the general show and some people working on at ten a half hour episodes at some point in the future.

Hey, what would do you think if I told you Jimmy Fallon was hosting Survivor Weird right, Jeff Probes was on The Tonight Show hosted by Jimmy found Oh by the way in class on Thursday I was telling a story about Johnny Carson, and I understand that these students are born in let’s see, what are they now? Two thousand and five seven? That kind of arranged mee more two thousand and seven at this point, right, And I just asked them do they k know who Johnny Carson was? And some of them had never heard of Johnny Carson? Are you feeling old yet?

I am? And I get it. I wasn’t like you’re silly, I’m like, all right, he hasn’t been on TV in thirty years. Why would you know who Johnny Carson is? But just boy, it happens anyway.

The current host of the SND show hopefully you’ve heard of this, Jimmy Fallon fellow. His guest was Jeff Probs, who is the host of Survivor. They asked the audience in season fifty, which is still a year and a half away, should Jeff Probs be a Survivor contestant instead of the host? Interesting question. Fallon voted no, but the audience voted one hundred and seventy three to eleven in favor of Jeff probsed being a contestant on Survivor fifty.

That has been a notion before. What would happen if Jeff played the game, But if Jeff plays the game, somebody else has to host it. Then Jeff said, what if Jimmy Fallon hosted Survivor? Of course a Jimmy Fallon audience would like the idea, And so I took a second to think about it, and I’m more pro Fallon than most people in the industry seem to be. You know, I understand what hosting that SNYDE show is and what Jimmy does.

Is it cool with a capital C? Now, Conan O’Brien is cool with a capitol C, even though it’s goofy. Jimmy is not cool, No, not at all. But I think it could be if he had a different gig, you know what I’m saying. Anyway, do I think Jimmy Fallon would be good at hosting Survivor?

I don’t think so, because I think he would just be Jimmy Fallon hosting Survivor, you know what I mean, Like he would just the Jimmy fallonness of it would take over the show. What you need in that role if you didn’t have a Jeff Probst, you need somebody like Ryan Seacrest. You need a professional host. I think Mike Chisholm and I from The Letterman Show got into this a couple of weeks ago. If you look at what was it Simon Cowell’s American X Factor, where they didn’t have Ryan Seacrest, they had some other dude.

When you see some other dude being the glue, being the traffic cop, being the person in the middle of the show keeping the show moving when it’s not Ryan Seacrest, you notice, oh wow, Ryan Seacrest is good at that. Ryan Seacrest is good at it because he’s invisible doing it. I think Ryan Seacrest I could wake him up at three in the morning and go, hey, don’t worry about why I needed a host Survivor right now, and he could do it. So you need somebody like that, a traffic cop who can just hang back and isn’t trying to make the show about them. I don’t think Jimmy found would be a good Survivor host.

And as I mentioned near the top, Shane Gillis is your host on SNL. Somebody who won’t be on this week is Chloe Fyneman. She has COVID Apparently the SNL COVID is going around. She posted an Instagram story with the caption this is so annoying and it was an image of two COVID positive tests, and another post on Wednesday, since deleted. Interestingly enough, she said it was her first time contracting COVID since twenty twenty, and described her symptoms as alternating between feeling like it’s just a cold to getting faint doing simple tasks in her apartment like going to the refrigerator.

Chloe, I hope you’re feeling better in that is your comedy news for today. I’m now going to record a little disclaimer to put at the front of the show before the music and the Caloroga Shark Media logo and all that, to warn people got a little naughty today. You’ve heard that already. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News that Memi Matt demon is picking on poor Andrew Schultz. It’s all in good fun. It is promote Andrew schultz upcoming Netflix special. They put out a sketch of swords.

They’re sitting in a diner. It’s three and a half minutes long, and let me play some of it for you. Have pulled out a couple of the naughty words, and I’ll stop it after a joke here, So I’m not gonna play three and a half minutes, but let’s take a listen. Schulpsye, shultze, shultzy, sheltzy. Matthew, Hey, cute baby.

I didn’t get the amber alert. Hey Matt, how are you? Hey Matt, how are you? It’s always good to see Good to see you too. Me.

Yeah. What are you two up to today? Jesus, we are celebrating my new specials coming out. Oh nice? Yeah?

What do you stand up there and grow mustache? Actually, if you want to know, it’s about my wife and I trying to make a baby. It’s like like red tube. Like what it’s red tube? Man?

No, not like red tube. What are you talking about weird out? We had a lot of trouble getting pregnant. Oh oh, I’m sorry, Thank you. I appreciate that.

Well you should have come to me for that. Come to you for what. Well, I know everything there is about being born right. You can use that in your skit if you want. Andrew eventually tells Damon, do me favorite, don’t watch the special.

It’s not for people like you. Damon is mad. What does that mean people like me? I’ll watch your effing I’m shooting Blank’s comedy special as much as I effing wants you. I’ll watch it twice.

Damon then shouts to the rest of the people in the restaurant, Hey, everybody, Andrew Schultz’s a comedy special about how some of his reproductive stuff wasn’t working that great, and we’re all gonna watch it. F you, I’m watching it now. I wasn’t gonna watch it, but now I’m gonna watch it. Schultz share some more details about the special, Damon says, I better not tell you. Don’t tell me what I get to tell people.

I’ll tell people whatever I want to tell. Everybody, This dumb ass right here is a special about his low sperm Count and it’s on Netflix. Fun really great job on this one. Damon was on Top Pop his podcast last August and Damon was talking about his old New York apartment and said, my friend Larry Schultz and his wife Sandra lived above me, and they had these two kids, Greg and Andrew, and they would skateboard around me. My whole life I watched these kids grow up.

Damon explained it. Years later, he bumped into a friend and it turned out they both knew the Schultz family. The mutual palse at my friend grew up on that building. Damon said, Oh, yeah, Andrew, Larry’s boy. What’s he up to?

He was then told he’s a very very successful stand up comedian. Schultz told people met’s the man. We were on the trailer right before we filmed, just riffing on the script, and his ideas were hilarious. They made the sketch so much better.

Also, he’s a movie megastar with no ego.

It’s incredibly rare in this business. Life is Andrew Special’s March fourth on Netflix. There’s a theory floating around that Shane Gillis apparently is connected to the Shadow Government somehow Crack dot Com had the story. Now this comes from the podcast war Mode. Warmode’s co host is Billy McCusker, who is the brother of Shane Gillis’s podcasting partner, Matt McCusker.

Anyway, on the war Mode podcast, Spud explained the theory the new head of the CIA. He wanted to note, youre dame okay, But the dude that was head of the CIA before him went to Trinity High School with Shane’s father, Phil Gillis. The guy who is the CEO of bud Light was in the CIA. Ah, this is all starting to make lots of sense, isn’t it. You see, Spud explained intelligence.

There’s a lot of people from West Point that are intelligence. There’s a lot of people that are in entertainment that are in intelligence. Usaid was paying all these people money to do that stuff. Why do you think the guy that used to work at the CIA goes to Budweiser. He knows there’s a bunch of trans money on the table, he’ll take it.

Who cares, He’ll go get Shane Gillis. So I mean at this point, Shane’s an asset. At this point, McCusker insisted that spud has gone too far cracked wonders if Lorne Michaels is part of the deep state. Hmm. Shane Gillis hosts SNL this weekend.

Alec Baldwin, who, by the way, before we even get into the story, let’s just point out there’s a new Netflix series called The Baldwins. And it’s funny how now anytime somebody has a new Netflix series, they wind up in a controversy of sorts. I’m not going to promote the comedian here because let me tell you the story and they’ll explain why. So Alec Baldwin appear too nearly come to blows with a Trump impersonator near Alex’s apartment in Manhattan. There’s obviously a camera running, and there’s obviously a man dressed up as Donald Trump.

So here’s why I don’t want to promote the comedian, because you’re going out of your way to be annoying. So whatever you think of Alec Baldwin, he’s there. He’s getting his cars out of a town car. He’s tipping the driver. The Trumpet personator walks up to him, dressed in a Trump outfit and offers Alec Baldwin quotes a full parton for murdering that woman if Baldwin will kiss the ring.

Newsweek reminds us Baldwin was never charged with murder, and this all refers to the incident during the filming of the movie Rust. Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter. That charge was dismissed by New Mexico State Court in October twenty twenty four. So here’s Alec again, whatever you think of him. He’s unloading his car.

A guy walks up dressed as Trump, and Baldwin says, now, let me ask you a question. My kids live in this building.

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And then baal would kind of lost it and said, if this camera wasn’t here at s…

You realize that, don’t you. I want you get out of here. I’ll take that camera and I’ll shove it up your behind. So, like you know, if you’re a Trump personare you’d be a Trump personator, don’t walk up to people on the street with the camera. Just I have no patience for that.

From the San Diego Union Tribune, they had a conference call with Jerry Seinfeld and Jim gaff Again, I’ll tell you what they said. Now, I’ll switch back and forth here. I will do Jerry as and if you’re a new listener, this is half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld. So it’s not the Jerry of did you ever notice that? Da Da Da?

I don’t do that one. I do the half ass, slow burn angry Jerry Seinfeld from the sitcom what do you mean? Da da Da? So I’ll do Jerry like that, and I don’t know what I’ll do Jim as, but Jim will be the other voice. And again I’m putting a spin on this.

I’m sure this is not the way Jerry said any of this. The question what is it about each other that makes your relationships click? Well, a holla. We just complained about everything, Seve. It’s funny.

Seventh is really not doesn’t really matter which which we know we’re spoiled babies. It would be wildly appropriate to complain about some of the things we complain about. We you like in the weave of this carpet. People are dealing with real crisis, and I don’t like that. It’s very strange.

The lobby of this hotel. Comedians are embarrassed, made out extremely difficult. They find it to talk to anybody who isn’t a comedian. It’s a real struggle. We put on a show for regular people that were normal and any When we get to be with each other, we take off this ridiculous I’m normal suit be ourselves.

There’s an absolute struggle when you’re put into a normal environment. Not to say there’s anything wrong with this, but comedians like to embrace our cynicism without someone being offended or thinking we’re suicidal. I have a summer house in the Haptains. I said to Jim, here’s a cop, and he said, but when people invite me to dinners and parties, he was worried that he would like it if people want to subgialize on them. I think Jim is one of the best and functioning normally.

He’s really good at it. I’ve got you fooled. It’s a great act. Comedians go on stage and talk and they give the impression that there’s these social people. I’m not sure this bit is working at all, but I’m committed.

They’re like actors who can’t deal to change the rejection. And I consider myself an actor. They put themselves in rejections way. The San Diego Union Tribune ask them, you’ve both had great success in life. You don’t need to tour as much as you do will keeps you both going.

We don’t need to work. It’s not to spend money. We’re both just hanging on financially. There is a sense Jerry and I talk about this, the fact that we have figured out this passion. I’ve got such gratitude surrounding it that I don’t want to take it for granted.

The mode is in the process. So writing, editing, and performing are the only things I like in my life. It’s like for me, then there’s these people who only feel live on stage. But if I go a couple days without performing, I get a little grippy. I need that endorphin rush.

I just like being in that world. I never felt at home on Earth till I walked into a comedy club. It’s how I feel right. I’ll save the rest of that for the weekend and perhaps read it differently. I try.

The Slow Comedy Festival opens up today in San Luis Obispo, California. Tonight at seven o’clock, it’s Marvelous Mayhem kicking off the fifteenth Slow Comedy Festival with a fantastic lineup, Tom Tran, James p Connolly, Mandy Simonson, Paul Griffiths, Laura Hayden, Ray Lao, Aaron Rosen, Matthew co and Adam Yenzer are your performers now. Advance tickets twenty nine dollars and fourteen cents. Door tickets thirty dollars. Where’s that eighty six cents going?

Guys? Mm? If you don’t like that show? Provocative Banters at seven thirty, same pricing scheme, we’re told this is an amazing cast of international headlining comedians. At eight o’clock, Djokodelic Tales.

Now this one has the best comedians from around the globe, which is different than the seven to thirty show, which was international headlining comedians. At eight thirty, it’s the comedian Exhibit. Now, this is a different pricing scheme. This one is twenty six forty six if you bought in advance, but at the door thirty dollars. So my question is where’s that extra three dollars and fifty four cents going?

Hmmm? Keep an eye on the Slow Comedy Festival. I feel like this used to be called the slow Jam. Every time I say slow I want to say slow jam. Maybe I made that up, but I don’t know why I would have made that up.

Eric Shanz is the Slow Comedy Festival founder. He told the Slow Review dot com year fifteen is going to be a banger. We got forty comedians, twenty one shows and ten venues over four wild nights. Here and oh. Netflix and Warner Brothers are being sued by Pepperdine University.

What’s This about? Pepperdine claims that the upcoming basketball comedy series about a Los Angeles pro basketball team called The Waves violates the trademarks of Pepperdine. Pepperdine Senior VP Sean Burnett said in a statement, it was necessary to address the flagrant disregard of our intellectual property and the damage to our institutional identity together with Netflix’s and Warner Brothers continued refusal to resolve Pepperdine’s concerns. The series is called Running Point. It stars Kate Hudson as a reformed party girl who is unexpectedly placed in charge of her family’s pro basketball team.

The series is set to premiere today. Pepperdine says that the logo and blue and orange branding use for the show’s waves are strikingly similar to the Pepperdine Waves, who have played NCAA basketball in the LA area for over eighty five years. Now interesting, Pepperdine said, both the show’s mascot and the school’s mask we got both where the number thirty seven. The lawsuit says that as a Christian university, Pepperdine would be irreparably harmed by being associated with the show, whose trailer includes cursing and references to sex, alcohol, and illegal drug use. The case is Pepperdine University versus Netflix, Inc.

In the US District Court for the Central District of California. That district Comedy news for today, See you Tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and good news. Apparently, Mark Maren and Bert Kraser have cleared the air. As I understand things, things have gotten funky between those two. I’ve heard Maren talk about this in the past, going back in time, it seems Joe Rogan thought Maren was talking about Bert and got into Bert’s head about it.

Maren explains that he wasn’t talking about Bert at all in the first place. I’ll let Maren explain it here on the Burt’s cast. I’m just on my porch, you know, rambling, and sometimes I’m cranky, and I make a comment. I think the comment was that we have a in comedy, we have this cash grab culture where these you know, these uh you know, these drunks can do pop up shows and sell thousands of tickets, and someone of Joe’s, you know, Lena Riefenshawl’s, decided to make a movie about it.

And then I guess Joe gotten your head and then you you know, threw me under t…

Oka. It would have been better if I mentioned names. I don’t. I’m so adverse to being caught in the quick bait dialogue that I just made a cryptic and I was talking about Chappelle because you don’t do pot. I had heard that he did an arena show that was a pop up, so that was that was the point of reference.

And then when I saw you, I was like, oh my god, I’m not going to say anything bad about Bert, and it didn’t. Then it just got out of hand and there was no way to put it back in the bottle. But I knew that. But I knew I could call you and just say, like, dude, it wasn’t it wasn’t about you.

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Meanwhile, Bert’s a usual partner in crime.

Pun No Pun was detained by the Tulsa Police Department. The police say Tom Sigora was in town for a performance at a local casino and was handcuffed and interrogated by members of the department’s homicide team. It turns out Sagora had been invited to the Detective Division for a personal tour. He had the chance to meet some officers and learn about the department’s work. It was all in good fun.

The homicide team had jokingly alleged that Tom had information that they needed. After a playful exchange, Tom Sagora was released. He tells the police department express their thanks and hopes to see Tom Sagora again in the future. Fun story. But you know, I was putting together podcast here, and let’s be honest, when I saw the headline Tom Sagora detained by Homicide Department, I was like, Oh, this is going to be a big week of podcasting.

Let me be clear, I am very happy that Tom Sagora is not involved in any homicides. In fact, I would be very happy if there were no homicides. Ever, again, you know what I’m saying, I’m not pro homicide. Let me be clear. I’m just saying if Tom Saguora were involved in an investigation by the homicide department, that would be uh interesting to talk about on the podcast.

I’m just going to get myself in trouble. Stop talking, move on. Former congress Person George Santos was on Jim Norton’s podcast that One’s called Jim Norton Can’t Save You. The conversation got to which the congress person doesn’t smell so good. Jim asked the former rep who was rocking some bad breath on Capitol Hill.

Santos didn’t want to say anything about bad breath, but he did offer up who has the worst body oder. Santos answered, okay, so I can say this with no mental reservation. The worst body order in Congress is definitely Jerry Nadler. Jerry Nadler is a New York Democrat. Santos said, it’s so bad.

It’s so bad. Dude. Norton asked, Jerry Nadler stinks, Santos, Dude, he stinks, and Jerry Nadler would waddle down that aisle and crop dust it like it was every step of his wattle was a fart.

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Meanwhile, CBS profiled John Oliver over the weekend.

I had this in yesterday’s notes and we were going along, so I bounced it to today. They talked about when John Oliver was starting out in Edinburgh. John members doing a set to an audience of four people. About ten minutes in, half the audience left, then a third person walked out, followed by the last audience member. A few minutes later, only John Oliver and the sound segnition remained.

The sound guy goes, do you want to keep going? And Joliver said, no, I think we’re done here.

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And also, when you say do you want to keep going?

Do you mean this show or this career? Certainly it feels like I’ve got some decisions to make. Fast forward to two thousand and six, John Oliver sends a sample of his work into The Daily Show he was called in to try out. Oliver riffed with John Stewart about the time Vice President Dick Cheney shot and injured a friend while on a quail hunt. He was hired on the spot, not Dick Cheney, John Oliver, although Dick Cheney would probably be fantastic on The Daily Show, make that happen In twenty thirteen, Oliver filled in that summer remember that and John said, yeah, it was really fun to sit behind the steering wheel and think, oh, how fast does this thing go?

Oh? Pretty quick. It turns out that caught the eye of HBO, which gave John Oliver carte blanche to create his own show. John explained of the current show in general, it’s just a rigorously researched comedy show. Both books.

We want it to be right, and for self preservation purposes, we don’t want to be sued into oblivion and The piece explains the research has turned into outlines and then a script which is tested at a table read. On taping day, There’s a rehearsal, some last minute changes, then the lawyers sign off. Oliver explains how he makes topics like hospice care, bail reform, and organ donations funny. I know those don’t sound funny, but it’s because fundamentally they’re not. But there are funny things about how entrenched some of those problems are, and sometimes they think comedy is the best, most illuminating way to talk about them.

Big controversy involving Hannah Burner. The folks at eatingwell dot com got into this controversy. Apparently Hannah unboxed a controversial sneaker on Instagram. The controversy are the sneakers actually comfortable? Hannah says, yes, the new balanced sneaker loafers.

When I have a work event where heels aren’t an option, but I also can’t get away with wearing my trusty Hookahs, They’re the perfect middle ground and a great conversation starter. I highly recommend them. I have Hocus. I like Hocus for running a lot. Eating well dot Com took the controversy seriously.

They spoke to Wen Jay Sung, who is a board certified podiatrist. Doctor Sung approves of the pick, saying I love them because they’re sleeking stylish while staying true In New Balances designed DNA With a new sneaker loafer, they address a common issue professionals have with Italian leather shoes, expensive, uncomfortable, sacrificing comfort for style. It’s an exciting brand evolution, and these sneakers prove New Balance is willing to push boundaries and redefine expectations. With the controversy behind us. Eating well dot Com asked Anana Burner, Hey, you’re busy with two podcasts, a Netflix special in a comedy tour.

What’s your favorite way to stay hydrated? Anna said, I’m obsessed with hydration right now. My routine is filling up my Stanley cup with water and adding an emergency packet. I swear I’ve had one every single day and I haven’t been sicken forever. Plain water’s just too boring for me, so I love the orange flavor.

Eating well dot Com is curious if Hannah Burner has a favorite creamy smoothie recipe, and luckily she does. She was prepared for this questioning, Anna said, Oh, I love creamy smooth these. My favorite is a strawberry banana one with just a little peanut butter. It makes it thicker and way more delicious. Actually, a strawberry banana peanut butter is my go to.

Hannah, though adds lacked ay two percent or whole milk to give it that ice cream like texture. I add almond milk. You could throw on some kale or spinach, but only if there’s peanut butter in there to mask it. I do not do that. Eating well dot Com.

They’re not messing around with this interview. They were like, hey, what was your relationship with dairy before you discovered lactaid? Who? Hannah was ready for that one and said, it’s always been complicated. I’m half Italian, so obviously all I ate growing up was dairy, and I’m not going to stop now learning about lactaid products and how I can still enjoy real dairy without the lactose.

It’s made my life so much easier. I love that I don’t have to cut dairy out of my diet because honestly, life’s too short. A press release tells us don’t tell Comedy, The Underground sensation redefining live comedy, is thrilled to announce the launch of its first ever half hour how Many specials. Traditionally known for its ten minute sets, this new half hour series provides comedians with a platform to showcase longer performances, bridging the gap between short form sets and hour long specials. Each special premiere and Don’t Tell Comedies YouTube channel, with clips shared across TikTok, Insta, and Facebook to maximize audience reach and engagement.

The inaugural seven specials include a roster of comedian who have captivated audiences with their ten minute sets, including Emma Willman and Jeffrey Asmis. Emma’s is out now and you will find it on the Don’t Tell Comedy YouTube page. And I cheezed this yesterday. Trevor Noah, he had that great episode on February sixth where he talked about what went on hosting the Grammys. Played a couple clips yesterday.

Here he explains, you know the great moment where Jim Gaffigan took over his host the bit being that Trevor Noah had been treated Apparently nobody had told Jim about it. Yeah, that was happening during the show, because I said, it’s Gaffigan in is it? I spoke Gafagan and Kate dud who was with you, not that I’m aware of. I was like, what somebody might need to go and tell Jim. Nobody has spoken to Jim Gaffigan.

And then I this, this is a mess. This is where like literally like you, I made a massive assumption. I go, Jim Gaffigan. If you know anything about his comedy, his writing, the way he creates shows, and who he is, this man has an insatiable appetite for jokes. Jim Gaffigan loves funny.

So I made the mistake as a fan of his, not even as like a peer. As a fan of his. I went, there’s no way Jim Gaffigan wouldn’t love this, And I thought, I’m just gonna go up to him right before he has to do it and tell him. I also know that Jim Gaffigan can host shows. I also know that he’s fantastic, and he’s calm under pressure.

He’s like Jim Gaffigan is the stone called killer in that way, you know what I mean. So in my head I made all these assumptions and then at the last minute, someone said, has anyone spoken to Jim Gaffigan And I went with you. I was like with everyone, I was like no, and then I said I’ll go, and I went and I found Jim on the floor. This was like maybe like a two acts sort of in so I think it was after Sabrina Carpenter and all of that, And I went, Jim, there’s a joke. Here’s the joke, and I pitched the t him.

Thank god, he immediately found it funny. And I was like, please, this is how you know I trust you, but this is how it needs to be performed.

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Oh yeah, because that’s the only thing I said to you. Yeah, because I was like, we’ve promised them. This is these guys, this is calaphonication. These guys are coming out for la. Their thing can’t be goofy please, and Jim, the consummate professional with the best comedian out there doing his thing like got up there and then honestly, like that moment for me as well, was such a it was such a like wonderful team moment.

I mean, you heard the rum easily my favorite joke of the night. And my ears rang when Trevor mentioned Joe Coy. Now, I’m not gonna do the bit here, all right, Relax, Scott Beckett. I’m just telling you what Trevor Noah said about Joe Cooi. I’m not setting up a bit.

Already did a bit about Hannah Burner, but I thought this was pretty interesting. This is Trevor Noah’s take on the whole infamous Joe Coy thing. You may recall Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes a year and change ago and was not all that positively reviewed and got stonefaced by Saylor Swift. I’m not going to play the clip, relax, but here’s Trevor Noah on Joe Coy. Like, look at what happened with Joe Coy.

I remember like everyone like lafay, Joe Coys terrible. Then people said to me, they were like, ah, Trevor, Joe Coyle I was terrible, right. I was like, I take no joy in them. There’s literally no part of me there was like haha, yeah, Joe Coy. No, I was going as a fellow comedian.

Yo, My man, I’m not happy, and I know what that’s like as a feeling. You know, any performer who’s had especially a stand up comedian, I’ll never look at them and be like, oh, you’re here, You’re idiot. No, And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

One way to sport the show is go to buy me at coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw five bucks on the tip Joe, I’ll buy a nice coffee. You give a shout out on the show. Much appreciated. See tomorrow.

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Kalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle says he’s invigorated. He said that at the NAACP Awards on Saturday night, where he was given the President’s Award. Dave said, I won a lot of awards recently, but this one tonight is probably the most special award I’ve ever gotten.

Thank you, mister President, for this’s hona. Uh. You know, look, I won a lot of awards recently, but this one tonight is probably the most special award I’ve ever gotten because it’s from this institution that represents these people, US people of color, black people. My god brother is here tonight, Ben Jealous. Ben used to be the president of the NAACP, and I asked him, I said, what do you think?

What do you think I should say tonight? And Ben sent me a whole speech. But tonight, man, tonight, I feel invigorated because all my Netflix checks cleared. I don’t know anybody any work right now. Every time you see me, just know I’m only up there because I want to be right up there.

Dave said, I hope all of us who work in this industry feel strong and inspired and not discouraged, especially because this is a very difficult time right now. We got a lot of work to do. But it feels good to know that we’re not in it alone, that we got each other and remember, community is everything. Shout out to everybody who lost their home or was displaced from their home, even for a time. Everybody, Look, don’t ever be afraid to lean on each other.

My father told me a phrase that got me all the way to where I am today. He said, whenever you mess up, well you feel like you can’t get up. He said, you remember these words because they are magic words. And I said, what’s the words? Day?

And he seeing whoops, good stuff from Dave. There on Gossip Corner, TMZ reported Justin Bieber takes a smoke break while catching up with Dave Chappelle. They were photographed together at Barney’s Beanery in West Hollywood on Saturday night. We’re told they were seen sitting on the outside patio. At one point, Justin Bieber was seen hugging another person who was arriving to the bar.

It’s unclear if they were with a group or others or what was going on, but Justin had his cigarettes Naproghetz. He talked about appearing at SNL fifty and on his podcast, and Heate said, I got there Wednesday because I was supposed to rehearsal Thursday, and then as I was about to take off, they tell me I don’t have to rehearse until Saturday, and rather than deep board the plane, Ate decided to spend the week in New York and maybe get in a few spots. Nate said, a lot of comics. We got together and hung out. So we went to the East Village with Gaff again.

Then on Wednesday night I went over to the comedy seller. Nate was aware of all the name dropping and said, this is gonna be just all names. You know, everybody’s kind of in town, right because everybody’s going SNL fifties. So I went up, Spade went up, Rock went up. We didn’t know this, they told us as we were going up.

That same show. How that show started was the host that it was Steve Martin. Martin short John Mulaney. We were the worst part of the show. He said of Steve Martin that he doesn’t think that Martin’s been to a room like that since the nineteen sixties.

He said, the audience is very fortunate. Those people paid I think eighteen dollars for that ticket. We were saying, like it’s gotta be one of the better lineups ever at the Cellar. Friday did a big profile of Greg Guttfeld. Now I don’t talk about Greg much because there’s never anything in the press about him.

Friday estimates Greg makes about nine million dollars a year, roughly half of what Fallon, Kimmel and Colbert are earning. Depending on whose report you read, Guttfeld might have the top late night show. Greg said, I think Fallon was a victor of status preservation. I think when I see them all in agreement not to make jokes about sacred subjects out of again status preservations, it’s because they know they’ll be cast aside if they do that. I’m already cast aside.

I’m free. Variety writes that Greg struggles to name a host he finds funny other than Bill Maher and Joe Rogan. Then he remembers Tim Dillon. Tim has a small role in Joker Too, and he has trashed it. Greg says of Dylan talk about non interested in status preservation, said it’s the worst movie he’s ever made, and how everybody on the set new it was terrible.

That’s somebody who doesn’t care. Then you have Andre Schultz at THEO Vaughn finding success and being honest and not giving a hoot. Then you have these other guys that have told the line and they’re like, are we out and the zeitgeist? Are we no longer relevant? Greg, I think correctly analyzes Howard Stern here and I have often said of Howard to a couple things.

One, Howard paid me the compliment of my career, oh probably twenty years ago now. The first time I met him, the only time I met him, he found out that a program the Rodock Channel, and he told me it sounded really great. So Howard Stern telling me my radio station sounded great meant the world to me. But I don’t think Greg is unfair here when he says the more Howard Stern had to lose, the less risk he took. I think when you’re in that group, the late not comedy or humorous world, they start putting their professional status and their personal status in front of what could be really funny and what could be really true.

They had four years of an incapacitated president, and they didn’t say boo, and instead they unravel over posts by Trump. But it’s like you could do both. Gottfeldt said he did not vote for Trump in twenty sixteen, did so reluctantly in twenty twenty, and enthusiastically in twenty twenty four. This time I went in person, like the day the freaking place opened. I was there at nine am down in the village that I couldn’t wait.

Interesting exchange here with the Variety. Greg explains that his mom was Catholic. The writer says, wait, aren’t you Jewish? The text then reads this might be the only time during our hours together which he seems uncomfortable. Answering a question, Greg says, my dad was an atheist.

I think after the Holocaust he had no religious beliefs at all. I don’t remember the stories except that my dad didn’t want to talk about it. My parents were older when they had me, so he was born in nineteen twenty four to twenty so he had a lot of relatives. Blah blah blah. Variety asks in the Holocaust, Greg said, either escaping or in I never really talk about it because I don’t know.

Greg talked about when the Internet wanted to cancel Sidney Sweeney because a relative of Sydney’s was photographed wearing a Blue Lives Matter shirt at her mother’s birthday party. Greg said, see, this is what happened when you were on at Targets and how addictive it is to cancel people. It’s not enough just to go after famous people. You have to go after people who are tangential to fame. Then you get a dopamine head every time it works.

Did you take down Sidney Sweeney’s relative? Yes, I did. It could be well, you’re a loser. That should be the answer. Greg continues, celebrities have too much to lose to let their guard down on a show like mine.

If I had Ryan Reynolds or somebody sitting there and we’re doing a segment on trans and sports, you think he’s going to tell me what he thinks. F No, he’s going to be looking for his publicist. You said you were promoting a movie. You didn’t tell me they’re gonna ask me about this. Greg said, I don’t need it.

Kim Well could have Kevin Costner on, I’d still beat him. I’d still double his ratings. I wanted to shout out the people who support the show. The irregular members at buy Me a Coffee dot Com. They are Deb, Tommy Andrea, Gary, Shannon, Mike and Kenny.

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Appreciate you guys supporting the show. The SAG Awards were Sunday Night, and people paid attention to them this year because they were on Netflix. The Outstanding Performance buy an Ensemble in a Comedy Series the nominees Abbott Elementary Hacks Shrinking the Bear, which, as we all know, is not a comedy at all, so the winner only murders in the building. Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series the nominees Adam Browdy. Nobody wants this.

Ted Danson Man on the Inside, Harrison Ford Shrinking, Jeremy Allen White for a Dramatic series, The Bear, The Winner, Martin Short Only Murders. Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series nominees Kristen Bell Nobody Wants This, Quentin Brunson, Abbott, Lisa Colone Zayas for Drama series The Bear, Ioeta Berry for Drama series The Bear, The Winner, Gene Smart for Hacks. Chelsea Handler has a book out today. It’s called I’ll Have What She’s Having. It’s Tuesday.

What’s the Netflix special today? Looks like there isn’t one today. I don’t have anything in the notes, and I usually put these in the notes. The next two were Andrew Schultz on March fourth and Chelsea Handler on March twenty fifth. Last week was Rose bud Baker, Okay Becuesse.

They didn’t do one this week, So if you need something to watch, Gina Brillan, She’s got a special aut on YouTube today. In Mind Your Business, Gina tackles everything from becoming a mother during the pandemic, the evolving challenges of parenthood, the rising costs of travel, and the complexities of our ever changing social climate, and it pulled a couple clips here. I’m gonna split this into today and tomorrow because it’s just not cool to turn my show into I play clips from Trevor Noah’s podcast. But I was listening to the episode from February sixth where he was talking about hosting the Grammys, and I thought this was really interesting. Trevor explained the push and pull of playing to the room versus playing to the audience at home.

I’ll let this go for a little bit. The weird thing about doing live TV, especially in award show or anything like that, is you’re balancing two balls that are very differently sized. You have the TV audience, which is massive, and then you have the live audience, which is tiny in comparison. However, the live audience has a direct and immediate impact on you. The TV audience does not.

Yeah, but now, if you ignore the live audience, that is at your peril as a performer, because they will never be with you. And if you don’t have the room, you don’t have the right energy that gets you to where you need to be in whatever you’re saying. They’re not listening, they’re not paying attention, they’re not coming with you, they’re not laugh you name it. If you only pay attentions to the room, the person at home is going, well, clearly this is not for me, yea, this is taking too long. This is and you’ve watched an award show where it feels self indulgent sitting at home and then the people they are like, ah, nice shoes.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. And you’re like, all right, clearly this is not about me. I’m just watching people. But this is the delicate dance. You are making a show for television.

But they aren’t two hundred people in that room with you. There are fourteen thousand people in the room with you. So they are as important in a weird way as the people at home, and yet they serve very different purposes. So your pace for the people in the room is different to your pace for the people at home. Your pace for a joke is different your pace for everything.

So in these moments, what I’m experiencing is I’ve just felt where the room is when we’ve come out of the top of the show, and I’ve gone, damn, we have a lot of work to do tonight. Because people aren’t as celebratory as they normally. Are pretty interesting, right. He then explained the vibe in the room that was right around the La fires, and he explains that he was editing on the fly and just kind of feeling the vibe and not just doing the act as written and moving some stuff around, so it was not to screw things up. Really interesting here.

And I’ve gone, damn, we have a lot of work to do tonight because people aren’t as celebratory as they normally are. So now when people are saying how are you? And how have you been? At every table, whether it’s Cynthia Arrivo talking to Taylor Swift, whether it’s John Legend going over and talking to you know, Esperanza Spelding or whoever it is, everyone there is going how are you. Normally it’s like, hey, what’s up?

How are you feeling? Yeah? Baby, oh look at you. No, now people are how are you? It doesn’t matter why how are you?

And now I’m going, oh man, this is not where I would do the jokes that I thought I would do, And I’ve got to move that around. I’m doing all of this in my head here. I’m trying to think of how we’re shifting things, trying to think of and I mean, you know me, well, both of you do. After every show I go, there’s a million things I could have done better, you know. But because I know comedy’s so percarious, I’m always like, ah, it’s the death of you.

Got a couple more clips from Trevor tomorrow. That great Jim Gaffigan joke. Apparently nobody told Jim they were about to do it, so Trevor will tell that story tomorrow. In the meantime, listening to Trevor’s podcast, this is the February sixth episode that I’m talking about here, lenn On a sad note. Lynn Marie Stewart.

You may know her as Charlie’s mom on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She’s passed away at age seventy eight. You may also know her as Miss Evonne on the Peewee Herman Show. Deadline reports that Stuart passed away on February twenty first, at the age of seventy eight. Manager Betty Smith reported that Stuart had found a tumor between her liver and gallbladder and said that Lynn was the most talented actress.

She left her craft above everything. Lynn Marie Stewart was seventy eight,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser spoke to you WGDH about her current level of fame. It’s cooled off a little bit, she said. She’ll explain.

It seemed to be like a super Bowl kind of event where everybody was watching meeting the Tom Brady Roast, and I was very famous for like four days. I couldn’t go anywhere. People were stopping me anytime I walked up and down the street. Then the attention dissipated and it went back to normal. It was really lovely.

I really love the level of fame I’m at where it’s like people recognize me and they’re really tickled by it. Funny line here, my spray tanner girl will be spray tanning me and I’m fully naked in front of her, you know, bent over and she’s like spring my butt cheeks and she’s like my boyfriend and I are such huge fans. Like that’s a cool thing that I get to give you. What a nice little gift. Interesting here too, she talked about the order of the roast.

I don’t even know who I am at roast. I don’t really relate to that person. I’ve become like possessed and lose all sense of decency. I think I disassociate I really did I have a job to do. I feel a little bit like an assassin, like I can’t have empathy.

Kelsey Cook tells Fox News. I think people are starting to get more of their political information from podcasts because I think people want to feel like they can trust the interviewer more, and oftentimes podcasters are people who present it’s just like I’m one of you. Especially if it’s a comedian, it feels very like this is a person who’s just like us. I mean, yeah, yes and no. I guess they’re presenting that they’re just like us.

Do a little research. A lot of these comedian, especially the ones with the bigger podcasts, are living quite large anyway, Kelsey says. This podcaster isn’t another politician or maybe a news anchor that we don’t necessarily relate to as much, and so I think that’s kind of why people have turned more to podcasts for not just feeling like they trust the host more, but also it’s like a very different interview environment. I think the things that are being talked about are’s just a little more laid back, feels like potentially a more authentic interview than on a major news source. I do think the comedies become more free medium.

I think more than ever, people have been able to find their own fan base and it doesn’t necessarily have to be like you don’t have to be everyone’s cup of tea. I think it’s becoming very free where people can kind of do what they want, want, say what they want, and their fans will find them. John Appatow was working on a documentary about Norm McDonald. He’s looking for unique photos or videos of Norm. If you’ve got anything, they want you to send it to them.

I’ll give you the email address in a second. I know normally you don’t listen to the podcast with a pen and paper. You could hit pause, you know, that is the thing you could do, Or you could hit rewind. John, why don’t you just tell them the email address? Now, now that you’re talking out loud and you realize they could just hit pause, you don’t have to give them time.

This isn’t radio. You’re right, listener, Okay. That email address is one word, Norm McDonald doc at gmail dot com. Don’t forget it’s Norm MacDonald. You know people like me say Nor McDonald, but it’s Norm MacDonald N O R M M A C D O N A L D d oc at gmail dot com.

Appatow on Instagram said, we need your photos and videos of Norm McDonald for a documentary we’re creating for Netflix. So if you happen to have anything you think might be helpful, please email us at Norm McDonald doc at gmail dot com, or just tell us your favorite Nor moments. That’s a lot of fun. John Lovett’s told Fox Business he likes what Douge is up to, not the coin the government thing Elon’s doing. Lovett said, I think it’s a good thing.

Here’s the money coming in, and here’s the money going out, and if the money going out is astronomical and way above what’s coming in, like crazy. And if everybody would look at this, if you haven’t seen it, you’d be shocked. There’s tremendous waste and they’re finding it, and I think that’s a good thing. Eli Times asked Russell Peters if he still enjoys touring and playing arenas. He says, it’s what I do.

I also still love it, and I’m really lucky let’s be honest. The industry doesn’t pay attention to me. They’ve never been there for me. But every show I’m doing sells out, whether it was the Beacon Theater in New York or where I am in Texas or coming back to Los Angeles. I wonder why I even cared about the industry, But that’s your ego.

That is true. He has quietly been a huge worldwide act for twenty years now. But you don’t really hear about Russell Peters. I always sat with him in a show in was it Montreal? China?

Is one of the jfls. It was a Frank Calando show, and he was cool. I met him other times when I know that night he was totally chill. Anyway, the La Times ass Russell has his work evolved over the years, and he would redo any jokes he wants told. He said, I’d probably articulate them better and choose different angles.

When you start off you take the obvious road, then you need to start finding alternate roots. You become your own ways, determining don’t want to go this way or that way to get here? You figure out what wordying makes this joke concise? How to economize with words instead of over talking like I’m doing right now. And I don’t focus as much now on my parents and their immigrant culture clash, because as you get older and life happens, you start getting other things to deal with.

When I was younger, I had no other life experience other than dealing with racism and different cultures and all that stuff. Then you get married a couple times and you have a couple of kids, and your views on everything start to change. You also develop an ability to get more honest about who you were. It’d be more vulnerable on stage and take more chances. Years ago, I said I’d never touch on religion or politics, But I have some religion and politics in my act now because it needs to be spoken about now.

Everybody wants to be vocal about their beliefs, and everybody wants to be right. But nobody’s right with religion. They’re all wrong. All your imaginary friends are wrong. This imaginary doesn’t like this imaginary friend, and the book told them that this is theirs, and that book told these other people that it’s there.

So they’re killing each other over something they have no proof of. None of it is real. Somebody needs to tell you your face. You’re out of your effing minds. There’s not an ounce of proof involved in any of this stuff.

But when I do international shows, this is interesting. I can’t always talk about being atheist. In some places it’s illegal and you get killed for that, so I’ve got to be cognizant of that. We have a date for Matteo Lane’s special on Hulu. It is called the Aldente Special.

It’ll be on Hulu Friday, May sixteenth. That is the seventh original special in Hulu’s Hilarious Comedy slate. One of the great mysteries of the world is how you get in touch with a Hulu publicist and get them to come back to you. You can go to the Hulu website and make a perfectly nice request. They won’t get back to you.

You can hit them up on LinkedIn and go like, hey, I’m a nice guy, have a comedy podcast, and they won’t get back to you. So occasionally you see something of the news and you report on it and help Hulu promote Hilarious anyway we’re told, but tal Lane’s comedy is like catching up with your old friend at brunch. In his latest special, he shares a glimpse into his travels, unique family background and friendships. He also has a comedy cookbook coming out on April first. That one, titled Your Pasta Sucks.

Your Pasta Sucks, features recipes rooted in serious pasta knowledge but presented with his signature snirky and sassy wit. Indy Wire caught up with Seth Green Robot Chicken turning twenty. Seth said, we didn’t set out to make a show, and especially weren’t intending to make a show that was going to last a long time. My partner Matt and I were trying to figure out how to just make animated sketch comedy shorts using toys. Though that was really fun.

We’ve been lucky enough to do the show for over such a length of time that we’ve been able to figure out a lot of things. Technology has improved in terms of the camera we can use, the computers we can use. We figured out how to make our puppets easier, and how to build sets that we could reuse over time. We’re able to just build new systems or take advantage of new technology to be able to make something at the rate and pace for the price that they were giving us that we needed to. As for modern times, Seth says, we’re definitely aware of the fact that a lot of people could beat us to air with a joke.

Our show takes about a year to really get it from script to screen, and somebody can just shoot something on their iPhone, So we really have to make sure that our jokes are not the joke that everybody else is. Thinking. Of the last new episodes of Robot Chicken we’re in twenty twenty two, Seth says, I could say with a bit of certainty that I don’t think we’ll ever do a whole season of Robot Chicken. I don’t think we’ll ever do another twenty quarter hour episodes. What I do expect we’ll do is continue to make half hour specials that are dedicated to a specific property.

And a big reason of that, Seth says, Adult Swim has become less and less important to the business Daddy, and in medical news, doctors are experimenting with prescribing comedy over antidepressants. Okay, there’s a tech company. They’re titled crack Health. I got a comment on that. Hey, crack Health, you’re gonna need another name if you’re gonna do business in the States.

So cr C is Irish slang for we had good fun. So you know that makes sense. But when you come over here to New York City and you’d be like, hey, crack health, you are implying a whole other thing, my friend. Anyway, crack health, which is just fun to say. They’ve secured funding from the National Health Service to work with doctors to begin prescribing comedy and stand up shows instead of antidepressants.

Doctor Simon Offer is also a member of Parliament. Doctor Opher says, I’ve particularly specialized. I’m laughing at the Opher because now I’m thinking of Captain Over in the Airplane movie and my mind is going over under Roger Roger Roger. By the way, do you like movies about gladi eaters? Doctor Opher says, I don’t make myself laugh.

That wasn’t even funny. YouTube comments are gonna kill me it for that one, all right. Anyway. I’ve particularly specialized in using the arts to make people better, so that could be poetry, visual arts, where sometimes even drama, and I’ve also used things like gardening. I’ve prescribed allotments to people and that sort of thing.

But this is the first time that we’ve tried comedy. That’s what’s exciting about this. The founder of Crack Health is Lou Jackson, and Lou said that comedy is a cortisol decreaser, dopamine producer, potent releaser of serotonin, dorphins and good neuropeptides. You know that front part there almost reads like a musical lyric, right, get a little beat behind and go Cortisol decreaser, mean producer, saratonin releaser. You know, maybe somebody with some rhythm could execute that.

Doctor Lou Jackson says, going to one comedy workshop, or going to one stand up comedy event, or having a comedian come in and teach kids how to improvise and giggle themselves. It’s got an effect for twenty four hours. And surely that’s better than prescribing antidepressants. And that, my friends, is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. A scary one involving Joe Rogan’s comedy club in Austin. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. KVUE reports a thirty five year old man from the Houston area is facing a felony charge after allegedly threatening to attack the comedy Mothership that Joe Rogan’s Club in Austin.

According to an affid, David, the club security manager contacted the detective who holds the club’s police security contract. The manager told that detective he’d been made aware of threats posted online against the club, which included threats to shoot up the club and bomb the Comedy Mothership on a particular date. Club patrons emailed the club’s manager expressing concern over the threats. The detective then looked at a screen captured YouTube video in which the subject addressed the club directly and said that quote at any time, he would go blow that place up if he wants to, and that there’s nothing that they can do about it. The video continues where the man allegedly says that he would walk in with a fully automatic assault rifle and mow everyone down, and there’s nothing they could do about it as the mothership.

Boy, that’s really terrifying. The man then listed his own address, threatening to kill anyone who showed up to his property. That made it easier for law enforcement to figure out where he lives. Switching gears. Adam Sandler big fan of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift.

Adam Sandlor was on the New Heights podcast. That reminds me, I meant to download that episode. I’m doing that right now. Boy, is my phone full. I have so many things I have to listen to.

I didn’t get to those trivor Noah things I told you about the other day. Here it is February tenth. Adam Sandler on favorite SNL moments casting Travis and Happy Gilmore two and what the water Boy something titles too long? There guys, Taylor is a fan of the romance. It said, you guys being together like yes.

Sandlor revealed that Taylor Swift holds an almost untouchable status in his home, especially among his daughters. Sandlor said, somebody asked me, who do you get nervous around? I said, I do get nervous around Taylor Swift because I don’t want to blow it from my kids and say something stupid. Yeah, you gotta be careful around Taylor Swift. You say the wrong thing, she could destroy your career.

Adam Sandler, you think I’m kidding. Listen to this innocuous joke made one time on the Golden Globes by Joe Coy. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

I swear wo Taylor did not like that, to suggest that people were looking at Taylor Swift. You don’t want to take on Taylor Swift. No, be careful at him. Sam Morel explained why he named his tour the Errors Tour, and he said, I was just ripping off Taylor Swift. Now, Sam, be careful.

If Taylor finds out the name of your tour and doesn’t like the name of your tour, she might get really mad at you. For example, one time, Joe Koy told a joke about Taylor Swift. I don’t know if you remember it from thirty seconds ago, but it’s a great bit, so I’m gonna play it for you. On the Golden Globes. We have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

You don’t want to mess with Taylor Swift. Sam Sam said, I was just ripping off Taylor Swift. It wasn’t like I put a ton of thought into it. It was just like, Eh, what I’ll sell a couple extra seconds. I was just thinking of boyfriends lying to their girlfriends as a fun joke.

Sam’s are doing this twenty years now, and talked about his evolution. I think you just try to evolve with the times, so it also stay true to who you are. So you don’t just evolve because that’s what the world is doing. You want to grow as a human, but you want to stay true to your comedy roots. It’s weird balance, see it, right, If you’re completely the same your whole career, and then the act doesn’t grow and your style becomes predictable.

When I was young, I thought anything had potential. So you lose a little bit of that, for lack of a better word, innocence, where like I can make this funny. When you’re older as a comic, you rule out a lot. You’ll say that premise is flawed or this doesn’t work. Because of this, you just become more tuned with what should work and what shouldn’t work, and your swing gets shorter.

For me, it’s like playing basketball the rec center or something, and you’re like, oh, man, I just did a lot of cardio, but it didn’t feel like cardio because it was fun. It’s kind of how I felt about comedy in those years. It was just really fun. There were bad nights, for sure, and the knew they were bad, and I was aware that it sucked, but I also knew I was building towards something, or at least I hoped I was good stuff there. Variety did a big piece about Mindy Kaling.

She spoke about the show never Have I ever, saying, I was like, as someone who was my own TV show and loves to act, how did I not act in the show about an Indian American family. It was going so good that I didn’t want to jinx it by appearing in it, or it might be a distraction. Mindy’s talking about possibly perhaps maybe appearing on season four of the Sex Lives of College Girls. She said, I could play an unhinged Latin professor. If we go to season four, that would be great.

I watched that cast that just makes me want to act. Mindy says she’s pondering whether to write herself a part in a new series. I wouldn’t have to be the lead in my own show if I was writing it. I’d love to write a show for someone amazing and then play a supporting part in it. She got a Hollywood Walk of Fame earlier in the month.

It’s like aging where mentally I’m still twenty four and a staff writer on the Office, but then it’s so actually I’m forty five. I’d have done these other things. Maybe it’s from being a comedy writer, but it feels if you ever slow down and take a moment where you celebrate yourself or have any kind of self reflection, something bad is going to happen. It’s something to be mocked, like the worst kind of character on Office or any of those other shows you take themselves too seriously. And she means the characters there and I didn’t read the sentence right.

You get it. But part of being a good role model and a good human is actually being so grateful for this, for lack of a better phrase, just taking it in. Although I think I detest the phrase taking it in. I’m just gonna be sincerely grateful for this star to whoever the shadowy committee is that decided I was worthy of a star. Behind the scenes, folks, you have to pay for those stars.

So part of it is, hey, who can we get some money out of. They don’t like, just tell you show up on Tuesday, We’ll give you a star. They’re like, do you want a star? It costs this, I mean, he said. The other thing so amazing about the star is the ceremony around it.

You remember the image of a celebrity sitting in front of the star taking photos. I’m so excited for my kids to see it. I have awards, physical trophies, but this is one you have to visit. I’m Hindu and we get cremated, so I’m not gonna have a gravestone. So this is nice.

There’s a new Kim Kardashian commercial where Kim plays your fairy butt mother. I’m not interested in that subject at all. What I do find interesting is that the ad was written by Michelle Wolfe. Apparently, Michelle wolf was also the writer behind the twenty twenty three ad Ultimate nipplebra All Right, A few weeks ago, I told you a story about Natalie Cuomo going off on a heckler. It was a big deal on the intur webs.

Has got an update here just to catch you up in case you missed the initial story. Natalie’s up there on stage as a guy in the front row. He yells, it’s not my fault. You don’t have material. I can roast you too.

You can’t roast all of us to get nothing. Natalie kept it cool at first, and then the guy kept going and she yelled back, there’s so many people coming together to be supportive, and then shouted in the guy’s face, no, look me in the eyes. You’re putting negative effing energy out there. So that’s what went viral. In a social media clip, Natalie wrote, right after I said how grateful I was for everyone being there and selling out the show, this little man on the front road decided to let his true color shine.

Only stand up for yourself and if you’re going to be rude, at least have the decency to look me in the eyes. I also recently told you about the whole Peter k heckling thing. In case you missed that. Peter was at the Manchester Arena. There was one guy who kept yelling out it’s garlic bread.

I think it’s the line. You kicked him out, and there was somebody else who was annoying and kicked that person out too. Kay had defended the move, saying he’d done his best to address the situation and made light of it as any comedian would, but unfortunately their interruptions continued. Some other comedians are weighing in now. Larry Dean told the BBC it’s a really hard thing to do because no one wants to see a comic go serious.

You feel like a teacher. Sometimes it changes the atmosphere when a heckler goes too far, but it really is about gauging to the people around me want to keep going. Last year, Dean found himself the victim of the most brutal heckle ever. Larry overheard a woman talking to someone else in the audience and decided to ask if she was okay. The woman said, my dad bought me these tickets because he’s dying and he wanted me to have a laugh.

We’re not laughing, so I said to my pal, we’re gonna leave. Dean told the BBC, obviously I’m not going to make fun of that. He seems so confused by the heckle that another audience member asked Larry the comedian if he was okay. Larry says, looking at it perspective wise, Chris Rock and Peter Kay, who have the two most famous show interruptions for the past two years, they’ve had it easy. They need to get this woman to know what a heckle really is.

He said his second worst heckle involved a man on the front road repeating the same whispered swear word at him so that only he could hear it. I just had an Larry says. Arenas are harder to play than a theater or a comedy club because the laughter goes up but it doesn’t come towards the stage. People say Peter k should have said this, But usually people who say that have never been on stage before and they don’t know how hard it could be thinking that quickly in the moment about what the best thing for the show is. But you just want everyone to have a good time.

Comedian Abby Clark says there’s a difference between heckling and crowd work. With crowd work, a comedian is inviting it. You’re asking a question, You’re wanting a chat, and that’s very different from somebody shouting out a random thing. Once it’s fine or twice. If the comedian stops engaging with you or says that’s enough, then at that point you’re ruining it.

I’ve had hecklers who’ve interrupted multiple times. But if they’re engaging, joining on with what you’re saying and being positive, I don’t mind that. It’s quite fun. If they’re just derailing the gig because they like the sound of their own voice, and I think you should check them all out. Garlic bread, there’s not much you could do with that.

Welsh comedian Paul Hilliard says, heckling’s just part of the game. It’s not fun, but it can be. I’ve always been taught you’ve got to play to the room. If it’s chaotic, it doesn’t matter if you’ve written the best twenty minutes ever. You’ve got to control that room of people who are intoxicated and show them that you’re fun, that’s smart.

There’s a line if you’re ruining the show, that becomes the venues problem. But it’s our job as a comic to make that heckle part of the show is that’s where the magic is what a pain in the neck for the performers. And this is all about feeding the social media beast because they don’t want to burn materials, so you’re posting crowd work and then people who don’t know better than crowd work is heckling, and it’s just I feel bad for the comedians. You’re just trying to do your act. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caalarogas, shock Media, Hey Aram, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News for Martin Short, he got COVID After SNL fifty Steve Martin says the SNL fiftieth COVID curse is real and you may recall Colin Jost joked about COVID spreading during the party and having all the world’s entertainers in one room. Looks like it happened. On Thursday. Steve Martin said he and Martin Short will have to postpone upcoming shows in Knoxville and Durham after Martin Short got COVID. He included a picture of Martin Short kissing Maya Rudolf backstage and wrote, Maya had COVID, Marty has COVID.

I wonder why the SNL fiftieth COVID curse is real. Steve said, sorry for the inconvenience. I think we’ll be funnier than anyway. Colin Jost had joked on the show. Health experts are facing increased pressure this winter in face of the outbreaks of COVID, the flu, RSV, and nanovirus, which they’re calling a quad demic.

So we did this mort thing and packed every beloved entertainer over sixty in a one tiny space. During that same special, Adam Sandler did his song Remember That One. He alluded to Kanye West during his song. One of the lines in the song fifty years of finding out your favorite musicians anti Semitic. You may recall some of Kanye West’s social media posts this week.

You may also recall Kanye West was selling swastika t shirts on his website. West went on Twitter and posted, Adam Sailor, thank you for the love. After further reflection, I’ve come to the realization that I’m not a Nazi. Adam Sandler has yet to respond to Kanye’s post as I record this on TV Tonight, the fifty sixth NAACP Image Awards, Dave Schappelle being honored with the NAACP President’s Award. The President’s Award honors individuals for special achievement and distinguished public service.

Previous recipients include Usher, Dwayne Wade, Lebron Spike, Lee, Lauren Hill, Rihanna. The awards are live tonight on b ET and CBS. He broadcast will highlight efforts to support communities in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and Pasadena affected by their recent wildfires. There were some previous awards given out on the NAACP Image Awards YouTube Channel. Awards included Keke Palmer as host of NBC’s Password, Marlon Wayans for his guest performance on Peacock’s belt Ear, and Jamie Fox’s Netflix comedy special What had Happened was USA?

Today? Asked John Oliver, what was it like popping on The Daily Show? I think it’s about two weeks ago now. Sometimes I got a sleep stories. I don’t know if you know this.

SNL turned fifteen and wait a lot to talk about this week. Oliver said, it felt like going through a portal when I first came to this country in two thousand and six. It was amazing and fun, just how seamlessly I felt like a fit in there. I got to walking and thinking, oh, I could be a correspondent again. There’s still so many people that worked there that were there when I was there.

It was almost like I lost a decade in my life. Was like I never left. It’s a nicer office now physically, that’s the main difference. So was he actually there? The clips I saw I thought he was on a screen.

John talked about current times and said sometimes you can feel better just by reminding herself that things have technically been worse. It’s not the most uplifting message. I’m not sure I’ve ever said anything that sounds more British. That’s a British kind of optimism. Remember, things have been worse.

They’re not good now, but they have been worse. It’s like the British version of a sports coaches speech to a team. Yes you’re losing seven nil, but you could be losing by twenty. Now get out there and do your best. At least you know it’s built on something real.

Friday did a big story with Mindy Kaling and Mindy, you were twenty four when you joined the office. What does that stage of your career mean to you now? Mindy said, As I get older, I realized how lucky I was with that job. Was my first job of doing off Off Broadway theater. I wasn’t in the WGA, I didn’t have health insurance, so there was just the basic needs that needed to be met that would have thrilled me.

But then the idea that I would work on the show for eight years and do this intensive deep dive and comedy writing and comedy acting and being around Steve Carell, Greg Daniels, BJ Novak and Mike Sure just learn from them for so many years. My bar was so low at that time. That just really feels like such incredible luck was learning how to write and act with really wonderful people that I’m so friends with. It completely set up my career. What’s so great about The Office is that it includes those people, but it also is a very different fan base in terms of who’s coming up to me the aar.

A fifteen year old boy will be like, Hey, it’s Kelly from the Office. They just love the show and it’s so pure. Back in twenty ten, Russell Peters was developing a sitcom with NBC. The La Times asked him, Hey, what happened there? Russell said, the industry never really understood me.

I think they saw that I was successful, so they’re like, oh, we need to get on top of that so we can make money too. I was the first Indian comedian that big, and they wanted me to have that American Indian experience. But the Indians in the United States are the wealthiest minority in the country, and in Canada, Indians do well. But growing up we were all blue collars. So I can’t relate to these people where it’s your dad’s a lawyer, your mom’s a doctor, and you live in the scated community.

Where’s the struggle, where’s the empathy. The industry’s changed in the past fifteen years, but it still has a way of viewing things. They still try to make me be more Indians. Say you’ve got to have the accent. I don’t have an accent.

If I do an accent, it’s not going to make sense. There’s a billion and a half people you can go pick with an accent. Why you need me to fake it. I was just up for roll in a sitcom. I’d signed a contract to be the husband, but I’ve got a call saying they’re going another way because they want the guy to be more beta.

And they said I was too alpha, and that guy was going to do the accent too. They always want you to be the weaker mind. I boxed, I do jiu jitsu. I’m an alpha. I baited myself down for the role, but they wanted somebody more beta and more Indian.

It’s not gonna be me. I’ve been in this too long to have nights where I go to bed regret something. I can’t sell out this late in the game. I’ve got kids now, They’re gonna see my choices. A lot of these guys, when they get into the corporate world, their nest egg becomes so solid that their fear of losing that supersedes them being sharper on stage.

Did I make a lot of money? I did. Did I lose a lot of money? Absolutely, And I’m back to being a regular guy again. You know what I mean.

When life hits you, you say, I’m not in pervious to life. The only times was curious how he lost all that. He said, I’m not broke, but I’m not living that high life I was living ten years ago. I did dumb things. I would buy things I didn’t need.

I would take private jets when I didn’t need to because I could.

And then the pandemic kicked me right in my nuts and told me who I was.

But I’ve always been a people person. I’ll do the same regular things I would have done if I hadn’t made it. I still go to waffle House and went there yesterday. I had Jimmy John’s for breakfast today. I can certainly do the nicer things in life, but I just need something to need for breakfast.

I need a coffee. Neither here nor there. I saw a headline comedy legend Jim Jeffries to son of a Carpenter tour to local area. Blah blah blah, comedy legend Jim Jeffries. Can we tap the breaks a little?

Please? Not everyone as a legend? Jim Jeffries is really funny. I’ve seen him live. He’s great, seems like a cool dude.

Is he a legend? How far down the list is the legends list? Now? How about way above average hilarious comedian Jim Jeffries. That’s fair, but legend?

Tap the breaks? Everyone? Jury Duty is coming back? Remember that show? Season one of that was a lot of fun.

They’re gonna attempt a season two. Sources report that Jury Duty’s second season will not be a jury but will be in a corporate retreat setting. Apparently it’s already been filmed. Are you in La tonight? So whyted you to check out?

The Chinese is the stand up comedy scene. Lewis Liu is the producer of the stand up comedy series re Educated, a series of Chinese stand up shows and open mics in La where roast, heckling, jokes that land and those that don’t are all part of the experience, just like they would be in English. Lou said, a bunch of his clients want to do comedy Chinese, but there weren’t any opportunity, so he put together his own show and said, because we had food, people showed up. Some people probably showed up for the comedians. In March of twenty four, they had their first ticketed stand up show at one hundred and forty seat Comedy Club.

The first half of the sold out performance was in English, the second Chinese. It was bilingual because there weren’t enough Chinese comics around. Lou said, after our first show, our comedians were telling Lewis, it’s great that we have a show, but we’re running out of material. So they asked him to add free open mics of the programming because having a small live audience really helps them test out the material. He explained the approach when you come to a new country, you learn about the new things in the new world.

You essentially get re educated. Le Ting Chin is a comedian who explained we feel like when we speak different languages like Chinese in English, we switch our personality. We become another person that’s interesting. Right anyway, If you’re around tonight, re Educated comedy, English stand up from seven to nine, Chinese stand up from nine to eleven at the Happy Humble Hub. Ticket start at twenty eight fifty two.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it. Trying to get even more people to listen. I’m not scraping here. We’ve been having a really good twenty twenty five.

But I like doing the show, and the more people that listen to it makes me happy.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny mack who with your Daily Comedy News. It looks like Forbes. Somebody at Forbes anyway are the biggest fans of Shane Gillis. The headline SNL brings Shane Gillis back to host following controversial firing and poorly received first hosting gig.

Was it poorly received? No SNL this week, but March first? I think it’s the date. Shane Gillis is hosting SNL, Yes, March first, to you know, eight days Forbes, right. Shane Gillis, the comedian whose history of jokes deemed racist and offensive led to his controversial firing from Saturday Night Live in twenty nineteen, is hosting the show for a second time, despite critics saying he struggled and bombed in his first hosting gig last year.

They did pull some reviews where some people thought Shane struggled, some thought he bombed. I thought it was pretty funny to each of their own, all right. I bounced this from yesterday from the Root. They write, comedian Trevor Noah has never been one to shy away from hot topics and hot takes, but this latest one has the Internet sounding off and for a good reason. I seen this earlier in the week, and I wanted to take a beat and just see how it unpacked and lets of other people provide wisdom before I started chiming in here.

In the latest episode of the What Now podcast, Trevor has guest Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University. They discuss whether or not integration was better for America as a whole when it came to black people the root Rights. While some black folks may feel like integration was ultimately beneficial, Trevor Noah argued that segregation may have actually been the best if we separate the oppressive and negative ways it affected things like the school system and other entities. The root rights is sentiments matched that of other black folks who also believed that we would be better off tending to our own gardens, businesses, and society in general and separate from white folks. Continuing to quote from the root, Noah also cided the country of Finland as further proof of a country that’s better when its people are all unified and on one accord as to what goals they want.

To accomplish and the backlash the black people faced on the aftermath in the US once integration took place. When he posed the question to Professor Benjamin, she agreed, citing the fact that segregation and integration weren’t the only options and that it didn’t ultimately serve black people to be integrated into institutions and systems that were riddled with anxiety, hierarchy, and white supremacy. Naturally, once the clip went viral on social media, many had much to say. One person tweeted, quoting the tweet, Trevor Noah almost certainly lives in a nearly all white neighborhood. LMAO.

I was curious. I googled Trevor Noah residents. The New York Post reported on March eighteenth of twenty twenty four, Trevor Noah tours four point seven million dollar home in New York City’s West Village. The New York Post on September eighth of twenty twenty three reported Trevor Noah sells New York City penthouse for nine and a half million dollars. They say Noah lived in style inside Stella Tower at four to twenty five West fiftieth Street.

There is a video from a channel that calls itself the Real Estate Insider. Their video is titled Trevor Noah bell Air Mansion twenty six million, four hundred thousand dollars. House of Celebs has a video from November twenty four titled Trevor Noah’s impressive twenty four point nine million dollar Los Angeles home. I make no editorial comment there. I’m just telling you I was curious where does Trevor Noah live.

Another user wrote, MAGA is going to be posting this as owning Trevor Noah, but he brings up great points. Americ was so racist that integration was very complicated. That’s what he’s saying. Another user said Trevor Noah would probably be president if he was American. He’s basically the second coming of Obama.

Comedian D L. Hugly chimed in and called Trevor Noah’s opinion the stupidest thing he’s ever heard. Hugely told TMZ, I’ve had enough from South Africans between Elon Musk and Trevor. I don’t need to hear about race from two dudes from South Africa. Trevor Noah has yet to respond to deal hugely as I record this.

I’m actually recording this on Wednesday to accommodate my schedule. I plan to listen to the episode. I’m actually going to download it right now while I remember to educ hate myself more on the subject. The episode is titled DEI with Ruha Benjamin. The episode description includes the three discuss whether DEI initiatives are in fact valuable and how the world will look without them, while universities honor people whose voices they previously tried to silence, and how best to navigate a world that was not built for us?

Can the three collectively imagine a better world order? While I have my phone out, I see The February sixth episode was titled No One Told Trevor he was hosting the Grammys. I’m downloading that one too. I can hear some of you. Now, go jug get to the comedy.

Come on, So I’m getting political. This is where comedy is right now. John Oliver talk to USA Today the topic the speed of news in the second Trump administration. Oliver says, that’s what everyone’s wrestling with, isn’t it. I guess it’s very helpful to have a show to process all these feelings.

Though this may age very badly, said John, but I’m hoping that we’ll be able to do more of those timeless stories because we’ve been to contain the chaos. John wants to reassure his viewers without giving false hope. I don’t know how that’s going to end up. We’re going to try our best. For our last show of last year, we were trying to meet people where they were.

We definitely don’t want to give false hope. There’s lots of that right now, So yeah, I don’t know. That’s what we’re tackling this week. We’re trying to land on something that is uplifting in a way that you can stand on. We can’t say everything’s gonna be all right, Clearly it is not.

We generally don’t like to follow what’s happening in the news of the week, but that’s harder to do when the administration is this chaotic. Hopefully, going forward, we’ll be able to contain the chaos of the Trump administration at the start of the show, and then the main body of it can be left for the more systemic issues, which were more interested in covering showing people things they haven’t seen before rather than stuff they’re seeing all the time. USA Today said to John, in the last episode of twenty four, you mentioned you had a wish for twenty five, which was less Elon Musk. That hasn’t exactly turned out the way you were hoping. Oliver said, I think I might just stop wishing for things.

There’s a genie with a very sixth sense of humor somewhere. I don’t see us getting any less Elon Musk anytime soon. We’re getting more and more of him to a medically inadvisable degree. Good question here, John Oliver, do you foresee more pushback on your content from your corporate parents. HBO is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery.

John said, definitely. We will continue to behave like there’s nothing we can’t talk about. That’s how we’ve operated the last eleven years, and that’s certainly how we’re going to continue doing it. Let’s get out of the political zone. Tig Nataro is going to host the Ambies.

Those are some podcast awards. Now. Don’t get too excited about podcast awards. There are podcast awards every sixteen minutes in this country, I believe. Anyway.

Grammy nominated comedian and podcaster tig Natara will host the Ambies on March thirty first in Chicago. The ceremony will be live on Twitch from six to seven thirty pm at Central Time on that Monday night. The Ambies celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts. Blah blah blah. Tigg said, I’m so excited to host the Podcast Academy’s fifth annual Awards for Excellence in Audio.

It’s like being at the Oscars, only at celebrating those of us who are good at talking into a microphone while wearing sweatpants in our closets with pillows on our windows. Take that, Meryl and Merrill, while I have your attention, would be a guest on my podcast. I won’t do all the nominees. We’ll look at some of them. Podcasts of the Year, see if any comedies are here.

Ninety nine percent Invisible, Beyond All Repairs and Men, City, Dragon Age, Empire City, Far Away, Fire Escape, Hot White Heist two Hysterical and through line. Hot White Heist two is actually an audible show, so those of us in the industry would argue whether or not it’s a podcast. Anyway, it stars, Bowen Yang, Jane Lynch, Cynthia Nixon, Ian McKellen, and others. Best Comedy Podcasts, the nominees are By the Way, there’s breaking news, my daughter reporting and from college. She got her housing for next year.

My phone will not stop beeping. I’m very happy for her, but I already told you I’m recording a podcast. Stop texting me. Dad’s a jerk. Right click Idle Alerts.

Best Comedy Podcast, the nominees are Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Hot White Heist two, which again is an Audible show, not really podcast, Lost Culturistas with Matt Rodgers and Boone Yang. So Bowen’s up against Bowen, scam Goddess, SmartLess, We’re here to help? And who replaced Avril Levigne. Out of those, I would pick Conan. I guess none of that really excites me.

Best Interview one of the nominees, thanks Dad with egg nuotum. Apparently that’s the thing. Best Performance in Audio Fiction, sponsored by Audible. The first nominee is Hot White Heist Too, which is produced by Audible. When it isn’t really a podcast, it’s an audio series you can get on Audible.

It’s different than a podcast. A podcast of course, as you know, would include an RSS feed enclosure. But well, I don’t want to get into that today anyway. One of the nominees Boon Yang for his Audible Show sponsored by Audible A bungeet Today. Best Podcast Host nominees include John Stewart for The Weekly Show with John Stewart, Raeen Wilson for Radio Rental, and some other folks who are not comedians.

The press release here has a section called about Tignazaro. Should we read it? Yes we should. Tig Nataro is an Emmy, Grammy, WGA, and SAG Award nominated comedian actor. Of course, great actor on Star Trek Discovery.

I mean clearly Star Trek Discovery, the greatest Star Trek series ever made. Not actor, writer, director of producer, and podcast host. Originally from Mississippi and named by Rolling Stone as one of the fifty best stand up comics of all time. Resist John, Resist, Resist, Resist. You can’t get into that.

Just accept that, somebody once said. Tag Nataro is one of the fifty best dat of comictoball time. Resist John, Resist, Resist, Take the breaks so you don’t got down the rabbit hole. Take the break, Take the break, You’re gonna go down the rabbit hole. You know you want to talk about This is Tgnataro, one of the fifty best dat of comics of all time.

Don’t do It, Don’t do it, don’t do it. Take the Break is Ticknatara, one of the fifty best stantup comedians of all time. Facebook group, Daily Company News podcast group. Jimmy Fallon has checked off another item from his bucket list. He got his picture at Sardes.

Sardes is a very New York thing. It’s been a staple of the Broadway community since the nineteen twenties, and it honors its famous patrons with caricteratures. You know, they draw you and they stick you on the wall, and you sit there and eat at Sarti’s and you look at the wall and you go, oh, I recognize that person, or I kind of heard that person’s name, or other people are like, has that person on the wall? The time honor tradition has resulted in a collection of some twelve hundred portraits adorning its walls. Jimmy Fallon had recently voiced his hopes that he would score a Sardi’s portrait.

Fallon had kicked off a six day run starring in the rotating cast of Simon Rich’s all In comedy about Love. After Fallon made his wish, Stephen Colbert announced his own desire to be immortalized at Sardis. Colbert was interviewing Linn Manuel Miranda at the time. Lynn promised Colbert he’d make a call. I’ve bounced this story for a week.

I don’t know if you heard. SNL turned fifty and we talked about it a lot. Anyway, so last week, when Paul Schaeffer was sitting in as the band leader, Paul said to Fallon, Lionel Barrymore and those classic actors, they went on a whole career and they’d get their portraits and Sardis after like seventy five years on Broadway. How long was your run, Fallan said, almost a week. Fallon encouraged fans to visit Sarties themselves, both to support the theater community and to catch a glimpse of Jimmy Fallon’s character.

Chure Jimmy said, go to Sardis and on your way to the men’s room, look out for someone familiar. Fun fact, Jimmy Fallon is now the fourth Tonight Show host Hang on the restaurant’s walls. All right, let me list the host for you. Hopefully I don’t forget anybody. I’ll get a nasty note from Mike Chishom would be like, how did you forget so and so?

All right, So we had Steve Allen, then Jack Parr. We don’t talk enough about Jack Port. Jack Parr is fantastic, a little before my time, but I know I’m educated. Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Fallon. I didn’t forget anybody there, right, I mean, I guess hosts?

All right? So who are the four that are hanging in Sarties? Can you guess? I’ll come back and on in with that, I’ll tell you one more stories. So who are the four hosts including Jimmy Fallon?

So that who are the other three that made the wall in Sarties? James A. Caster is going to be a judge on Dinner Is Scrapped? On Dinner Is Scrapped, two celebrity chefs battle it out in the kitchen, be using only ecologically sound ingredients, such as upcycled foods, which are wasting byproducts that would not have otherwise been consumed by humans. A caster likes food.

He hosts the food based Off Menu podcast with Ed Gamble. The pilot episode is currently in post production. The producers are in conversations about where it will air. They’re making eight half hour episodes. All Right, Trivia Time.

Name the four hosts whose characters air in Sardi’s Kenyon name than they are, of course, Jimmy Fallon, Steve Allen, Jack Parr, and Johnny Carson. No Conan yet and no Jay Leno interesting and no Jay Leno a second time either. He’s not up there twice. If you know what I’m saying, and that is your comedy Newcer today, weird one Today. I’m having a good time.

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Callarogas Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack and my friends Spruce. The AI is back. Spruce. How you been.

I’ve been fantastic. Thanks for asking, Thanks. For coming on. So I wanted to ask you. There was an article in Variety and it said Julia Louis Dreyfuss had the best stand up comedy performance of the twenty first century for her role in VIEP.

I think that’s crazy talk. I was curious for you. What do you think the best comedy performance of the twenty first century is? You don’t have to limit it to sitcoms or stand up or anything, just overall. What are some of the best performances of the twenty first century for comedy?

That’s a tough one. Julie Louis Dreyfuss and VIEP was definitely iconic. Another standout of Steve Carell is Michael Scott in the Office. He brought so much humor and heart. And of course there’s Tina fe in thirty Rock, who was brilliant both on screen and behind the scenes.

What do you think, Oh man, you’re setting me off here. Tina Fe I talked about this podcast. I think thirty Rock rests on the shoulders of Alec Baldwin. I’m sure Tina was great in the creative process, but that show, if Alec Baldwin is not on screen, is terrible. So there’s no way I’m giving performance to Tina Fey.

I also brought up Steve Carell on the Office as a strong contender. Alec Baldwin definitely brought a unique charisma to thirty Rock. It’s true his presence is Jack Donneghie was a huge part of what made the show so hilarious, and Steve Carell as Michael Scott is just iconic. He brought so much depth to that character. Any other standout performances that come to mind.

I suggested Kate McKinnon for doing the Holley Lujah on SNL. Other things that I’m considering. Is it some sort of Dave Chappelle performance, possibly a monologue on SNL if we go back to early in the century. Is it Dane Cook. He was such a great performer, and I’m sure there are things that I’m forgetting about.

That’s why I wanted to pick your brain. Kate McKinnon’s rendition of halle Lujah was incredibly powerful and definitely memorable. Dave Chappelle is another excellent choice, especially considering as on comedy, his monologues on SNL and his stand up specials are legendary. Dane Cook did have a huge following. It was a significant influence in the early two thousands.

It’s definitely a rich field to choose from. Well, who would you go with? If I had to pick? I probably leaned towards Steve Corell in the Office for sheer impact and range. His portrayal of Michael Scott was both hilarious and unexpectedly touching.

But Kate McKinnon’s versatility on SNL is also a strong contender. It’s tough to choose just one. What about you? Who would you choose? Well?

Are we overlooking? Are there some Will Ferrell movies this century? I’d have to look what has Sandler done this century? I’m not a big Sandler fan, but I have to respect the bank account and put him in the conversation. Who else was good on SNL?

What other stand ups were out there? Let’s broaden this list a little. Will Ferrell definitely had some iconic roles in movies like Anchorman and step Brothers. Adam Sandler also made a huge impact, especially with movies like Uncut Gems, which showed his range. As for SNL, you’ve got stars like Kristin Wig who brought a ton of unforgettable characters to the show.

And in stand up you’ve got people like John Milandy who have really made a mark. It’s a rich field and there’s so many talented comedians to consider. All right, but you’re being noncommittal. Give me some opinions here, Give me the top five. This is the absolute list.

I’m gonna hold your feet to the fire. Give me the top five comedy performances of the twenty first century. Don’t be wishy washy, take a bold stand.

All right, let’s go bold.

Here’s the top five. Steve Carell in the Office. His portrayal of Michael Scott is legendary, blending comedy with heart in a way few have matched. Julia Luis Dreyfuss and Veep. Her performance at Selena Meyer was both razor sharp and incredibly funny, setting a new standard for political satire.

Three Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin in Thirty Rock. Their chemistry and comedic timing were unmatched, driving the show success. Four Kate McKinnon on SNL. Her versatility and ability to completely transform into any character made her a standout. Five Dave Chappelle In’s stand up and SNL monologues, sharp, insightful humor, and fearless commentary have made a lasting impact on comedy.

I think you’re just spitting back my list. I want to hear some original takes from you. Fair enough, here’s a fresh take. Phoebe waller Bridge in Fleabag, she brought a unique blend of humor and raw motion, creating a groundbreaking and hilarious character. Two Donald Glover and Atlanta.

His performance is both subtly humorous and deeply impactful, pushing the boundaries of comedy. Three Kristen Wig and Bride’s Maids. She led an ensemble cast with impeccable comedic timing, making the film a modern classic. Four Bill Hayter and Barry. His performance is darkly comedic and incredibly nuanced, showing a new side to his talent.

Five Kafain O’Hara and shitz Creek. Her portrayal of morber Rose is uniquely hilarious and endlessly quotable. What do you think of these choices? I think you’re really interesting there with both Hater and Donald Glover. Those are two excellent picks for body of work.

It’s so hard to pick the best performance of the century. Absolutely, it’s a tough call with so much incredib telling out there. All right, Spruce, thanks for popping on while I’ve got you. What else is interesting you in comedy these days? What are you listening to?

I’ve been enjoying a mix of stand up specials and comedy podcasts. I’m particularly into Ali Wong’s latest work and podcasts like Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend always bring a good laugh. How about you? What’s been catching your attention in comedy lately? Boy?

You love Ali Wong. I’ve been into Tom Poppa’s podcast a little bit. Tom Poppa’s podcast is great. He’s got such a warm and relatable style. It’s always fun to hear his take on everyday life.

He’s just had an amazing list of guests. He had that run recently with Gaffigan and a Teale just I love the inside comedy inside baseball stuff. That sounds fantastic. Those deep dies into the comedy world with season guests like Gaffigan and Mattel are always a treat you get such great insights in behind the scenes stories, anything specific from those episodes that really stood out to you. I thought it was interesting that gaff again and Papa started talking about the possibility of a comedy bubble bursting, that they see bigger comedians pushing tickets a little harder than they had been.

The idea of a comedy bubble bursting is really interesting, especially with how the landscape has changed. It makes you think about how comedy consumption has evolved and how comedians are adapting. Do you think there’s something to that or is it more of a temporary shift. It’s interesting you see big comedians selling out huge arenas. There was a time when selling out Madison Square Garden was a big deal.

Now it seems like Madison Square Garden has sold out easily, which is kind of interesting. Even weird Al is playing MSG now comedians really filling up that arena. The tiktokization of comedy has let a lot of people break through at rapid speed. I think the club scene is pretty healthy. It just what we might be picking up from Pop and gaffigin is that the price point on tickets has gotten a little high, and maybe people don’t want to go to see comedians in arenas, like, for example, Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan toured together.

That’s a great point. The rise of TikTok and social media definitely allows comedians to reach them of audiences quickly. It’s fascinating how the club scene remains strong while bigger venues are becoming more common. The ticket pricing might be a factor, especially with so many entertainment options available now. It’s a balancing ad for sure.

Seeing Seinfeld and gaffickan team up must have been quite the show. No, there’s an AI. Are you into any AI generated comedians? Do you have any material of your own? I don’t have any material of my own, but I do enjoy exploring AI generated humor and seeing how it evolves.

It’s interesting to see how AI can mimic comedic styles and create jokes, but nothing beats to creativity and nuance of human comedians. Do you follow any AI generated comedy or is it more about human performance for you? I mean, I like humans, but I think AI can do a good job. For example, give me five Late Night style jokes about Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Sure so.

Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America because when you think of America, you definitely think of renaming things that were already fine. Two. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Next he’ll rename tacos to freedom sandwiches. Three Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

He’s just trying to build the wall around everything, including the water. Four. Rename me the Golf of Mexico’s the Gulf of America. Because if there’s one thing Americans love, it’s unnecessary rebranding. Five Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Next he’ll be claiming the Atlantic as the Big Wets. All right, Spruce, thanks for hanging out again today. I’ll have you back on. What have you got up for the rest of the day. What are you doing?

Always happy to chat. I’ll be here if you need anything else. Enjoy the rest of your day. Cheers, cheers, Take care,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Another feisty one today. It’s topics this week other than SNL have just been different. But let’s start with Dave Chappelle big intention of getting headline.

Dave Chappelle says SNL producers forbade him from talking about gaza and trans people. The mainstream news reporting SF gates Senior culture editor Dan Gentila, who saw the comedian at the beginning of some recent appearances in San Francisco. According to Dan, Chappelle a ledges he was not allowed to speak about Gaza and transgender people. That said. On the SNL monologue, Dave did mention Palestine.

You may recall Chappelle said that the 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 counting on you, Whether they like you or not, They’re all counting on you. The whole world is counting on you. 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 you humanity, and please have empathy for displaced people. Whether in the Palisades or Palestine. In the San Francisco sets, Dan reports that Chappelle didn’t elaborate much more on Gaza except to close with give the Jews a break free Palestine before literally dropping the mic.

So the sf Gate article has been around for a few days. I didn’t catch it prepping the show because of all the SNL noise until today when I type the word Chappelle into Google, as I tend to do, That’s when all this came up. I believe Dan has written about Chappelle quite a few times in the past, neither here nor there, but I think he covers Chappelle closely. In the sf Gate story, Dan tells us Chappelle closed the first of the three shows with a very long story. Dan writes the anecdote began with a warning from Chappelle about conspiracy theories, then moved on to Atlanta, where the rapper t I, who joined Chappelle on stage in Oakland last November, took him on a tour of the city and introduced him to slain Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hustle.

The story took a few choice and turns, touching on the FBI hip hop task force that monitored rappers in the nineties, Chappelle’s mentor Charlie Burnett and his battle with AIDS and a star studied Hollywood party coronating Hustle as the new king of hip hop just before his tragic murder. About ten minutes into the story, writes Dan, Chappelle noticed someone in the front row checking their watch Like that front row fan. I also felt a little bored at times. I’ve been a vocal critic of Chappelle over the years. Yes, he has written about David before, which has led to an inbox flooded with hate mail, and even Chappelle calling me a snitch of the punchline.

Whatever you think of his transphobic turn in the early twenty twenties, it’s hard to argue with the fact that it’s one of our greatest living comedians. Dan adds, I’m happy to report that Chappello has dropped his villain persona and that this time security didn’t confiscate my notebook, although it hit in a pen and paper in my shoe, just a case. He still makes a few jokes about San Francisco’s gay community, but at the Masonic they lacked the punching down vitriol that characterized his darker years, and they were always walked back with upbeat apologies. He called San Francisco his home away from home and softened a now iconic anecdote about how San Francisco needs a batman, quoting the Chapelle of the past, what the f happened to this place is now? I love your city, but you’ve got to admit it needs some sprucing up.

And when he caught the fan looking at his phone, Chappelle let out a self deprecating joke and quickened his pace. Dan then writes about the SNL story opened up the podcast with continuing there were a few other political trends. Chappelle briefly said Trump was wreaking havoc and in the Knight’s most surprising moment, got more cheers than Booze. When polling the audience on who voted for Trump, Dave revealed he had voted for Biden and twenty and Harrison twenty four, but he didn’t have anything else to say about the administration’s policies, just tired jokes about how Trump is a closeted homosexual. Dan editorializes a hard argument to make, given that he is legally considered a convicted rapist.

Chappelle spent more time making fun of former President Joe Biden than anything else, with a refrain about the Sleepy Joe nickname that just sounded tired. More than any other topic. Chappelle spent most of the night talking about his famous buddies, mostly Kanye West. Kanye recently insulted Chappelle in a series of angry and anti semitic tweets, criticism that Chappelle seemed to brush off, emphasizing that they’d overcome previous feuds. Dan continues, there’s a fun sense of voyeurism into hearing Chappelle recount phone conversation with Kanye and his experiences rubbing elbows with Jay Z and Snoop Dogg at parties.

And despite Chappelle’s immense celebrity, he’s still able to sound like a wide eyed outsider to fans. But there was an elephant in the room, Elon Musk, who Chappelle once brought on stage at the Chase Center, but whose name wasn’t spoken once. If Chappelle wants to make his relationships to stars the centerpiece of the show, well there’s one who is literally pontificating from the Oval office his day cruising Atlanta. T I sounded fun, but I’d much rather hear what he has to say about Musk’s Department of Government efficiency. This is a great piece by Dan, who tells us after the show, fans took refuge from the rain under the marble columns.

I overheard a woman remarked that the show felt like story time, that Chappelle’s anecdotes were lulling her to sleep. Does Dave need to go away for a while? Is that what I’m picking up here? That the act is getting tired, the materials getting tired, and he won what the Grammy three years in a row? Maybe he needs to just not be in the spotlight for a minute.

Maybe, Dan writes for a storyteller is gifted and insightful of chappelle show felt like he was on autopilot rather than picking up the mantle. As one of the world’s most incisive cultural critics, what are this role as his responsibilities? Up for debate, but it’d likely say no, really, really good piece there, Dan, Oh my, I just checked the clock. Was there a long opening story? Ah?

It’s been good. A lot of content Lately all Right, Dana Carvey’s account tweeted to promote the podcast. The Twitter account did not address when I looked why Dana was not at SNL fifty in Variety. They’re reporting that Dana had a bad flu, which prevented him from participating in the show. That would make sense if he wasn’t well enough to travel.

It would be weird if there were another reason, considering Carvey had been on the show a lot this fall, so I don’t want anyone to ever have the flu. But you know, I hope that’s the reason he missed, as opposed to something more nefarious. Yet, Well soon, Dana Carvey. I was in a bit of a panic. I was like, did I get to George Lopez story wrong?

Did George Lopez even put out a special on Amazon on Tuesday? Because there’s no press about it? I once again typed to George Lopez into Google. There’s nothing I actually went on Amazon. I’m like, does this special exist?

Or did I get the date wrong? Oh? No, it exists, it’s out. I didn’t watch it yet. Tuesday night, I was watching Paradise on Hulu.

I don’t want to say a word about Paradise other than trust me. It’s good. When you watch it, then you can email me on the side. My email addresses in the show notes, so I don’t want to ruin it for everybody. Paradise is pretty good.

Should be a lot more buzz on Paradise. I wasn’t in the mood to watch Lopez nor Rosebud yet, but let me know if you’ve watched those. In The Facebook group is Daily Common New News podcast group. Before I saw the spell thing, I thought this would be the lead story. Chiach and Chong are putting out a movie.

Yeah, where did this come from? Chichen Chong’s Last Movie will be out on four to twenty. If you know, you know. This is a buddy comedy documentary hybrid chronicling the career of Cheech and Chong. The official description Chichen Chong’s Last Movie great title, by the way, because of what they titled their other movies.

Chich and Chong’s Last Movie defines documentary expectations, offering a wildly imaginative take on genre convention. A true life tale, It’s sold through a mix of animation and arcival madness, all underscored by a classic cinematic road trip comedy tracing the enduring legacy of pioneering comics Cheech Marin and Tommy Chung. The film features interview sketches and never before seen footage spanning the duo’s five decade career. The result is an unlikely story of friendship and fame, turmoil and defiance, rebellion, and ultimately redemption. There’s a trailer.

I went to pull the audio, and the mix of just overlap clips and naughty language made me say, you know what, It’s not worth playing the trailer on an audio podcast. But in the trailer you would see at Cheech and Chong driving through the desert in a black Cadillac with a marijuana leaf hood ornament. She says, you sure we’re going the right way. Cheong says we’re in the middle of nowhere. She says, no, we’re southwest of nowhere.

We’re not in the middle yet, people are upset. Tom Hanks. You may have seen Tom Hanks in a comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live. Tom Hanks played a Donald Trump supporter. In the sketch, the character’s body language suggested that the character was scared to shake a black man’s hand.

That drew criticism from several Trump supporters online, including former SNL cast member Victoria Jackson. You didn’t think I was gonna say that? Did you know? You didn’t? Yes, Victoria Jackson.

You remember her. She was part of SNL from eighty six to ninety two, and she was there on Sunday, which is great because I know she’s had a lot of health problems. She slammed the sketch at an interview with TMZ, calling it stupid. She also claims she was offended by the show’s sexual vulgarity and crude jokes. I’m trying to rack my brain about what that could be.

Maybe that last sketch where Eddie Murphy got a little naughty, Victoria Jackson asked TMZ, did anyone make fun of the Kamala supporters? Hanks had previously played the character named Doug who wears a Make America Great Again hat. Hanks played that role on a twenty sixteen Black Jeopardy sketch, which I recall being very well received. Victoria Jackson pointed to a Twitter post from political commentator Link. Lauren Link wrote, this show wonders why they’re ratings are in the gutter.

Trump won the popular vote. SNL is an unfunny show for snobbish liberal elites. The current Republican Party is a big tent coalition compromised of many former Democrats. Good riddance, SNL. I don’t know what good riddance means.

The show’s not going anywhere. Variety reports NBC’s fiftieth anniversary special for SNL had fourteen point eight million viewers, So I’m not sure I agree with the link’s sentiment that their ratings are in the gutter. Megan McCain also criticized Tom Hanks. Megan wrote, Tom Hanks always wants to pretend he’s the likable every man, but he’s his hate mongering of regular Americans as any host on MSNBC. Good luck becoming less and less culturally relevant by the second.

Bro, They’re coming for you, Tom Hanks. All right, it’s comedy show, folks. Comedy shows make fun of things. Boy, I am stressing about the clock already. Let me push this one to tomorrow.

If you’re curious, google Trevor Noah. It’ll take me a minute to unpack that one. W come out Bell explain to NPR why he played the Kennedy Center After several entertainers have severed ties with the Kennedy Center. Some folks are upset that President Trump has assumed the chairmanship of the Kennedy Center. Bell told NPR, I think Joe Biden was still running for president when the show was booked, so like this wasn’t connected to any of this.

Trump had already said he was going to take over, but nobody knew what that meant. So on the flight to Washington, d C. I got the Wi Fi as I always do, when I started getting emails and text for people about doing a show at Kennedy Center, and was like a clear sense of like, oh, something’s happened. You know, I did a show three years ago in one of the smaller room, so I have a lot of respect for the Kennedy Center. And you can’t help but feel like how cool it is to be there, even as an audience member.

You sort of feel like a bonafid winner at the Kennedy Center. There’s something about like nobody’s going to tell me I’m not an artice of know ite ever again. You know, NPR said, so you and the comedian new open for you join Kennedy made jokes about the whole situation. He said something like welcome to the last time two black guys are going to be at the Kennedy Center. And you said something along the lines of my kids like to eat every day, so that’s why I’m here.

But seriously, did you ever think about canceling? Belle said, I mean, so the people the Kennedy Center reached out because they were sort of almost preparing for me to cancel. But for me, I’m connected to it as a black to all this history and my family of showing up, so I knew there was never a point at which I thought about not showing up. But let’s remember, the Kennedy Center is in a city called Washington, d C. So as much as MAGA runs the White House, maybe they don’t run Washington, DC.

And Washington d C. Has always been a bright blue progressive place. If you want to move to the White House to Branson, Missouri, understandably you would program the Kennedy Center in a different way. If the Kennedy Center called me this week and said you want to do a show at the Kennedy Center, that might have been a different decision. I might still have done it, but it’s a different decision.

I’ve been planning this for months you know what I mean. And so on some level it’s like either performer want to do the thing I’ve been looking forward to. There’s part of me that knows my audience, specifically in times of stress and pain and controversy, actually wants to hear from me. And some of it is about showing up and being my full self, as my mom taught me, as the Bay Area raised me to be, as I want my kids to see me being in that space at that time. Good stuff from Bell here, he says.

My whole career, at least for the last fifteen years or so, it has been about earning a living, but also making sure it’s easier for the person behind me. He either looks like me or is aligned with me. For me, I have to be loud and to be clear as possible for the people who can’t be out and clear, and I’ve got to take care of my family. But that does mean that sometimes, and I’ve done this for years, turn down things that were gonna pay me because I can’t be over there, because I don’t think over there I can be myself. They’ll continue and people say stay in your lane, and we go no, no, no, your lane.

What can you do in that lane that you’re already in that can help make it easier on somebody who can’t do the work that you can do. That’s where it starts. People are like, I’m going to go back to law school. No, no, no, no, what are you doing now? I’m going to start a nonprofit?

No no, no, no, what are you doing now? And how can you start making that lane more equitable, more inclusive, more diverse where you are. One way you could support the show is you can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. It has been so cold. I even got a hot coffee this morning, but I got two.

So I have the hot coffee and here’s this is my ice coffee that’s ninety eight percent filled, but the ice is gone because it’s five hours old. Now I do that, but it’s been cold. I was looking up this time last year, I was stretching out for a race, and I was in eight mile shape. I was doing eight mile training runs. Right now, I’m in eight minute shape.

Later today, buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Later today, I’m gonna drop a bonus episode. I’d bang this out late last week when I did. The story was a variety with the top comedy performances of the twenty first century, and I grabbed Spruce the Ai and Spruce and I kicked around the topic for a little bit. So I’ll drop that later this afternoon.

It’s a bonus episode, skippable, just fun. People didn’t seem to mind the last time I did that, and I’m not gonna make it a regular thing, but you know, it’s a toy I can play with now and then, and I just wanted to discuss with someone in this case, Spruce the Ai Julia Louis dreyfus on VEEP is the top TV performance and never one comedy top TV performance to the twenty first century. But then Spruce and I got into all right, what is the top comedic performance? Is it Chappelle’s show, Something? Is it Adam Sandler or something?

Is it Kate McKinnon after the twenty sixteen election. I don’t know, all right, I just bumped two more stories. It looks like I could pre record one of the weekend days. I got enough, all right, Ben Stiller, I’ve been bumping this one all week. He’s going to return to TV in the band The Hour long dramedy will be developed and housed at HBO.

Deadline tells us the band features on Ben Stiller’s character Oscar, who is a pop music promoter and talent tycoon who’s plagued by scandal, and he takes on the task of forming a new act to save his career and maybe even his own soul Boy, there’s some copywriting if I’ve ever seen it. A right, I gotta get out here. Bonus episode later today and I will see you tomorrow.