Month: February 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack, I am psych for today’s show. We had a couple of big surprise appearances on late night, and I can’t wait to tell you about story number two. Well, let’s start with the Daily Show. A surprise guest walked on, got a big I mean big ovation, and here’s a clip.

I’ve clipped it down for pacing, but you’ll recognize this voice. That young John Oliver. Can you here to offer America your wisdom and council? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, John, I’m here to gloat. Had it’s little fun, didn’t you experimenting with democracy?

You fought so hot to get a wife, was acting up, throwing all that tea into the harbor. You still owe us for that. By the way, you told everybody that you were going to be different, you were gonna turn out. Look, you mean old dad, who’s so horrible to you when you were growing up, So we saw back. Well, let you spend your wild teen years experimenting with your ridiculous ideas of checks and balances, because deep down we knew that once you’ve got that nonsense out of your system, you’d be backed.

In fact, if I may sing from Hamilton. I’d really, I’d appreciate. Not that’s fair. What I’m saying is, let me be the first to welcome America to its monarchy era. Congratulations everyone, you can now take your place in the pantheon of great empires alongside the British, the Roman, the Klingon, Wakanga whatever one.

Babar the Elephants was the ruler of if against. Everyone on to say, don’t fight being a monarchy, embrace it. Kings get stuff done? Is it stuff you want done? Not necessarily, but they do move quick.

They taste cooming at lunch and take over an entire continent by dinner time. That’s how the British rule for everyone else there not like us. I see what you did there, country that doesn’t want to be an empire, You’re doing a pretty effing good impression right now. Invasions, economic exploitations, and now suggesting turning Goss into a beachfront casino. Even King George would have been like, I don’t know, guys, feel like the situation is a little bit more complicated than that, and I’m literally dying of medieval breen disease.

Meanwhile, on The Tonight Show, with Jimmy Fallon. David Letterman showed up and was the David Letterman that I’m a fan of. This was Dave deconstructing loose like classic Dave, even though despite the gray hair and the beard, reminded me of NBC Dave more than CBS Dave. I’ve clipped this down. A lot of it is visual, especially at the end they start throwing stuff at the stage.

You’ll hear. There’s also a bit where Fallin asked Dave if he wants to read any jokes. I’ve clipped out where Dave flipped through a whole bunch of Q cards going no, no, no, no no. But let me give you a taste of this. This is David Letterman on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

David Letterman, what are you? What are you doing here? Is this the twenty third hour of the Today Show? No, no, no, this this is this is the Tonight Show. Jimmy, yeah, my, Paul, what are you doing here?

You know it’s a funny story. How you’ve ever taken too much ambient and you know you wake up somewhere with no clue how the hell you got there? Wow, you’ve been reading my diary. Listen, Paul and I Right, Paul used to do a show. Sure did pretty much exactly like this.

Yes, yeah, wait, we didn’t do the Chuck E cheese crap, but we. Thought there was something. It’s very similar. Since this is your here, would you like to tell some jokes? Oh, I’m good.

Thanks, all right, that’s in see. You, Dave. What are you doing now that you’re retired? Oh? Like, I need to tell you TikTok wite an enormous deal with the Chinese government.

Yeah, how about we make a viral video right now? Oh my god, I’m dreaming. Yes, let’s do this. Can you help us out? Oh?

This would be great, a viral video. Yes, there’s a viral video, exciting vertically. Okay, what good? All right? But what I would really like to do is hit you in the face with a tortilla.

Yeah you know. Now wait a minute, I don’t. I’m not promoting violent No, it’s a TikTok that and typically I travel with tortillas. Uh not tonight. I left him in the corn.

Anybody, do we have anybody here with anybody have a tortilla? Do we have it? Okay, I’ll get one. You want to say that one’s. Thank you very much.

Interesting one from The Campus Times, which is the University of Rochester’s student newspaper. A student went to see a show and wrote, Michael Chase Winterfest set welcomes lackluster comedy and announces his exit from SNL.

Now let’s tap the brakes there.

Chay, pretty much every year announces that he’s leaving SNL. That said, if you’re going to leave SNL, I think this is the year to walk off after this big fiftieth anniversary thing this weekend and the rest of the season, I think from here it’s diminishing returns Louren Michael’s eighty as he’s sticking around, I guess so. But I could see some massive cast departures after this year. I because he Bowen walking away. You know.

On the one hand, if you’re Jostin Shay, its steady, works it there for another ten years. But on the other hand, I could see them going, eh, it’s time to get out anyway. The Campus Times writes chase performance was part of the big Winterfest weekend, which usually features a big ticket performer as a featured performer. For this year, there was an air of uncertainty about chase potential for stand up comedy, since many a t had only seen him on SNL. Still, as it was the big ticket performer, the first floor was nearly filled with people.

Does that suggests there’s a second floor that’s empty and the first floor was nearly filled? Yikes? I feel like the writer here is inexperienced in comedy and means well next paragraph. The event was slated to start around eight, but Chase set foot on stage about ten minutes after the start time. Okay, I mean that’s not crazy.

Have you been to a live show? So he walked on what eight O nine, eight eleven, it’s okay? Jay began by talking about how he wasn’t used to doing stand up performances before starting by making jokes about Rochester. He seemed at first to be well received by the audience. The student right says, I experienced his work live.

I thought the performance was relatively stereotypical in terms of subject matter topics running the local environment, jabs at racism, hammed up personal experiences, cultural references, sex jokes, and more. He seemed to have prepared a few jokes, but around the middle of his set, his jokes seemed to lose direction. Chase seemed to fill the crowd silence with awkward laughs and rambled as a replacement for unwritten ja ooakes. Sounds to me like Chay used this as half a workout in a half empty room. None of this is crazy to me, Campus Times continues.

At the beginning of the night, Chay mentioned that he was sober, but by the end of the night he reminded me of a rambling drunk, mumbling under his breath and laughing to himself. Notably, Chay mentioned that he may be leaving SNL. He had been considering leaving for several seasons, but only publicly and definitively brought it up during the performance, quoting Chay here, and we’ll see if this gets media pick up. This is my last season. I’m not coming back.

Don’t worry. I’m done. It’s over for me. It’s been so much fun. It’s a little emotional.

It’s bittersweet. We learned. The night was supposed to end at nine, but Chay extended his stay for another twenty five minutes, talking to the audience and going off on small tangents. But the Campus Times writes, instead of being captivating, chase performance held the concert hall captive as the whole emptied out. I overheard shatter of how the end felt like Chay was just running out the clock.

While the set wasn’t the worst comedy I’d ever seen, in retrospect, it lacked of uniqueness and dragged at the end unnecessarily. To me, it sounds like Chay just was throwing, you know, three qu order his heat in a not full room. Not crazy to me? Will he actually leave SNL? Who knows?

Amy Schumer was on Bravo and had advice for Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars. Schumer said, my advice to him would be to make sure there’s no beef beforehand with people like Chris Rock and Will Smith. Just maybe check that out. That’s the advice I wish I was given.

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And then as I read that, so the first time I saw the headline, my brain trans…

Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars like that’s a thing that happened. If I walked up to you today in twenty twenty five and said, hey, you know who’s hosting the Oscars, Amy Schumer, wouldn’t you look at me like I’m insane? Boy? She has really fallen off a cliff, Like there’s no way in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, Amy Schumer’s hosting the Oscars, No way, It’s totally forgot that that happened. I mean, you think of that night.

You almost picture Chris Rock hosting the night, because you know, that was the big story in twenty twenty two. That was the year Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda Sykes were the hosts of the Oscars. Slash Film reports that Amy Schumer’s new comedy is number one on Netflix. Schumer number one in forty eight countries, including the United States. Slash Film says, in fact, in those forty eight countries, Kind of Pregnant has been number one since its debut in thirty three of them.

As of Monday, kind of Pregnant was charting in ninety two countries, well only Vietnam. Refusing to indulge Schumer’s comedy stylings, well oh, the Vietnamese did watch enough to send it to the number eight spot for a little bit. Kind of Pregnant is currently number two in a further twenty four countries. Congratulations, Amy Schumer’d say, I’ve got a story here about Pete Davidson and tattoos. Will pump that to tomorrow.

There’s a lot of felipe as spar as the stuff too. Let me hold on to that because I want to dive in on this and I think this might take a minute. Peter Kay, UK comedian, seems to be embroiled in a little kerf fluffle, so the Sun newspaper reports Peter’s doing a show. He’s repeatedly interrupted by a heckler screaming out garlic bread, apparently one of Peter Kay’s catchphrases. Peter responds to the heckler, garlic bread, kick him in the effing face?

Will ya? Everyone around you was thinking, jerky face cleaning that up. Peter then demands a light to be put on the heckler, according to the Sun newspaper, and points him out to security guard Keith, declaring, give us a wave. Jerk face cleaning it up again? Look at him?

He doesn’t know where he is, and then leads a chant of your going out. Peter encourages people to film the person and then calls him garlic dead. Peter continues, he’s not laughing now, is he. At that point, a woman from the other side of the arena starts yelling, prompting Peter to say, Christ Almighty, bloody hell, I love. Saturday’s all right, love, we heard you take her out and all, and points her out to the security guard as quote the woman in the black and white top from Debenham’s Blue Cross.

The Sun reports that at that point the audience stopped laughing. I’m not sure what that reference means. I tried googling it can’t figure it out. I’m a dumb American. If you know what that means, my email is in the show notes or hit me up on the Facebook group.

Would love to know what the reference from Debenham’s Blue Cross means. It seems to be some sort of store. Anyway, the audience stops laughing. Peter says, you’re going to Flower now and all. You’ve upset every bugger out there.

Go on on out, you pop. You’ve missed the ending and everything. What a shame, you effing big gob drinking de icer go on Lisa Riley f off. The woman appeared confused. Peter k tells the crowd to cheer if she was effing annoying, before telling the woman no refunds as she was ejected.

So the Lisa Riley reference. Lisa is an English actress, comedian and TV presenter, best known for portraying the role of Mandy Dingle on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Lisa Riley responded to the joke. Riley posted on Instagram a photo of herself that says, keep calm and laugh It’s funny. In a follow up post on Tuesday, she told her followers she was not offended, saying she loves Peter kay To Pieces.

Please draw a line under this now. I’m not offended, never was offended. I love Peter kay to Piece’s laughter is my favorite. Man Edison the Woman the second Heckler, twenty five year old Meyer told the Manchester Evening News, I do feel he was on about my weight. I know Lisa Riley has lost a lot of weight and she looks great, but she used to be a bit bigger.

I didn’t used to be this big, and I’ve put on a bit of weight on. I’ve had a child. I’m self conscious about that, so to go to a show and feel like you’re having the mick taken out of you because of your weight, I was just a bit shocked. I’m annoyed and upset about it. The whole arena was laughing.

I think they thought it was part of the show, but there was a nastiness to his voice. It was like he was trying to get the crowd against me. It just wasn’t nice, to be honest. I did have a cry about it after I got to the hotel room. I was just so upset.

It was just a very rubbish situation. My whole family was disgusted by it. On Tuesday, Peter released a statement to Good Morning Britain. The statement read, she did look remarkably like Lisa Riley. I didn’t realize that was an insult.

There comes a point when dealing with repeated heckler simply isn’t enough. It’s not something you ever want to do, but becomes a point where it’s no longer fair to everyone around. An audience member said the audience was mixed. Some couldn’t believe it, and we’re obviously annoyed. Others were laughing, either thinking it was part of the show or going along with it.

It was out of order and he was clearly annoyed at something. There was no need to escalate the situation of that extreme. Another attendee on Twitter said I lost a lot of respect for Peter Ka after the way he treated the heckler. No manners, a huge waste of money. Another fan said Kay killed the atmosphere in the arena.

Peter Phillips, the first heckler, was evicted alongside his son after shouting garlic bread. Peters told Male Online it was me who shouted out garlic bread. A lot of people just stood up and walked out when they saw how we were dragged out. The first half of the show, I shouted out garlic bread and they zoomed in on the camera on me, and I put my thumbs up and thought everything was okay. I got no warning or anything.

People around us were laughing and joking. Then the second half of the show, I said it again, garlic bread, and that’s when the security guards came over to me and said, you’re gonna have to leave. Peter Kay doesn’t like people shouting out yet, dude, you’re not part of the show. Just watch the show. You’re not part of it.

I said, you’re joking, as I thought they were gonna warn me off, but they stood me up brought me to the stairs, which were dead steep. I have massive bruises in my leg. I haven’t been able to walk properly at work today. My arms are covered in bruises. Apparently some state and police officers spoke to the heckler.

I said to the officers, We’ve just been thrown out brutally, and all I’ve done is shout out garlic bread. If we’d done anything wrong, the police would have arrested us. I just can’t understand it. All I said was garlic bread. That’s my favorite joke of his.

I’ve loved Peter k forever. I’ve watched him on car Share, I watch him on TikTok all the time, and I’ve always wanted to see him live. I loved watching him. People came up to us when we were outside and sat on the steps, saying they left because of that. I’m absolutely disgusted for comedian not even give us a warning or bit of banter back.

I never said anything abruptly and when I did shout it out, I waited until he stopped talking, not in the middle of his joke or anything. There were so many thousands of people in there, we were getting pinned to the floor like rag dolls, throwing us around like pieces of meat. As my friends said today, they’re not a good comedian if they can’t handle a bit of banter or shut someone down with a one liner. Dude, it’s a comedy show. Just go to the show and watch the comedian perform.

You’re not part of the show. Some audience members agree. One told The Mail Online the guy he chucked out absolutely deserved it. He continued to make a nuisance of himself as the show went on. For those of us who sat beside him.

He ruined the gig, as for the lady who a few seats behind, and the people she sat next, who also commented that she’d be in a huge pain and was disrupting the show for others. I’m glad Peter took a stand and removed them, as the show is being spoiled for a lot of people, And if people were so offended at the heckler’s being chucked out, wat did the crowd near them cheer loudly when they were removed another audience member. We all clapped when he got rid of them, and Peter, in his own manner, dealt with it very well. I thought he gave us what he wanted. It’s what we all waited over two years for.

All right.

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In other news, Vulture has a long article on Lorden Michael’s I read it.

I don’t have anything to say about it, but I did share it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. On Monday, NBC announced a lineup of former cast members who will be on the special on Sunday Night. Those include Eddie Murphy, Tina fe Seth Myers, Will Ferrell, Andy Samberg, and Adam Sandler.

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Also returning Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Geene Curtin, and Loraine Newman.

On Gossip Corner, Bill Belichick’s girlfriend hung out with Nikki Glaser at the Super Bowl. Just some pictures, no news story there. On page six, Shaq wants the next roast to be about him. He says, because I don’t get sensitive and that girl that killed Tom Brady, I want her. What’s her name?

Her name is Nikki Glaser? Nicki, you can say whatever you want about me, my mom and my kids. Let’s do it. Yeah, because I don’t get sensitive. I like to laugh.

I think Tom got a little offended with some of the jokes, but I can take it all. Are you a fan of Green Day? While they’re making a new comedy movie inspired by their early days touring before Dukie became a hit. The film is currently in production in Oklahoma. South By Southwest previews some of their comedy stuff that includes Scott Ackerman’s comedy Bang Bang Live podcast.

I understand if that’s super popular in my comedy career. It’s the only show that I’ve ever walked out of because I was bored. I was there with Mark, my host, and we were in Chicago, and we were staring at each other and we’re like, are we gonna actually leave a show? Because we don’t leave shows. We actually and we were like, there’s just not enough time.

It’s just it was bad. I got people like it, obviously, I’m not a fan. James Adomian, We’ll play Elon Musk in a show quote unquote. Elon kicks off this year’s Comedy Festival, joined by his most trusted advisors to share his plans for the future of douge, social networking, and whatever else you can think of. The south By Southwest Press release goes out of its way to say Elon Musk again, definitely not the real Elon.

There’s also a spotlight on LA Comedy. They’re going to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Hollywood Improv. Interesting choice of comediing here celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of LA’s legendary Hollywood Improv returning to the festival with snl Alum, Melissa via Signor and other club favorites. I’m not sure Melissa’s the first one I think of when I think of as improv, but who knows. The Allsioned Theater, the center of LA’s bursioning clown movement, is bringing their flavor of experimental, outrageous performances to the Comedy Fest, and south By encourages you to donate to the World Central Kitchens relief efforts.

Definitely a good cause there that I’ve talked about a few times on my other podcast, Five Good News Stories, where three times a week Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, I tell you five news stories which are all good news. If you want to check that one out, So I am familiar with what the world Central Kitchen has been up to. All right, that is your comedy news for today. Bounced a couple of stories, but better that than, like you know, earlier in the week. It was a little thin, so nice to have a good, robust episode.

We’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Chohnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Honestly, Monday was a little light coming off the Super Bowl. You know a lot of people were at the game and then not really doing any business. On Monday, a couple things were announced, including Amy Puller announced a podcast.

I didn’t see anything from Kevin Hart. I’m surprised. I guess he was celebrating the Eagles victory. Tom Brady did take a shot at Kevin during the broadcast. During the blowout part, somebody mentioned Kevin Hart, and Brady said, Kevin Hart’s here.

How do the cameras find Kevin Hart? Making fun of Kevin Hart’s height. You may recall that Kevin Hart went after Tom Brady at the roast of Tom Brady. Kevin Burkhardt responded, well, depends on the day. I guess Brady then probably realized people were like, why is he going after Kevin Hart and said, Kevin, I love you.

You took somebody shots at me and Mayham coming right back at you. It was a little awkward. Nicky Glazer was there. I didn’t see any news about Nicky, but I saw mention that she was out and about I think Jim Gaffikin was there. Did I see Jim or was that just in a commercial?

But I thought I saw Jim there. Shane Gillis was hanging out with Zach Bryan, the musician, all weekend. They met Donald Trump. There’s a photo of that. No details about the meeting.

Zach and Shane did a surprise pop up concert Saturday night. They did a surprise show at the Saturn Bar in New Orleans. Zack announced the show on social media. A crowd immediately formed. No details on Shane set Zach Bryan, in case you’re curious, played his hits.

He also revealed on Instagram he’d dropped a song called Dear Miss if the Eagles won the Super Bowl. On social media, he had written if the Birds win the Bowl, dear misses out the next day see all in Nola, Shane Gillis and me might do a pop up and get rowdy somewhere. I love you guys. Let me see if that song came out. I’m on my phone here.

As of twelve sixteen pm on Monday, he has not released the song on Apple Music anyway. Pete Davidson was there hanging out with Miles Teller. He showed up wearing a gray long sleeved t shirt with Eagles writing on the front. Pete rolled up his sleeves and showed his nearly tattooless arms. Page six shared Boy That’s hard to say, a story about Pete Davidson’s commercial.

Apparently, he arrived at the set of the commercial early, shook hands and was a total pro. He had the crew cracking up the whole times as the insider, the relationship with Pete and Gordon Ramsey was great from the start, but warmed up even more once we started shooting and Pete cracks and jokes. It seemed like Pete was gaging how playfully could get with Gordon. In a statement, Pete Davidson said making a Super Bowl spot with Gordon Ramsey was awesome. We had a great time on set, joking about Aliens, which inspired my final line.

We riffed a lot, and I was trying to get Gordon to break with something outrageous. I think we pulled it off. Adam Sandler was at the Super Bowl. He made a prediction that the Jets would appear in Super Bowl sixty. Good luck with that one.

Out on Netflix today Philippia Sparza’s Raging Fool. In Raging Fool, Felipe explores the trials and tribulations of navigating complicated family dynamics, marriage, culture, divides, infidelity, and more. It’s his second special for Netflix. As I mentioned the top, Amy Pohler announced a podcast. I guess she wants to ride the wave of the SNL press so that we’re gonna hear this week.

I’m ready tired of SNL. We barely started a lot of Lorne Michael’s articles today that just didn’t interest me enough to share on the pod. This one is called Good Hang with Amy Poehler. It’ll be out in March. Some of the mainstream media seems to forgotten that Amy Poehler had a podcast called Same Worth, Doctor Sheila.

I guess they’re positioning this one is the first one that Amy Poehler is doing. As Amy Pohlar, who knows the Monterey County now, was curious why Whitney Cummings is touring so much. She said, I love debunking what I believe is the myth that we’re also divided. You get in a room with two thousand people that don’t know each other and we’re all laughing about the same stuff. We’re all seeing reality the same.

She talked about becoming a mother in twenty twenty three. I’m just excited as sort of catch up to all the women who are like, yeah, we had kids at thirty. Weirdo, that’s funny. Whitney continued. I think the value of making somebody laugh when I started was more superficial.

Now we’ve entered the time, we’re making people laugh as harder to do, which is a good thing. I think pressure on comics adds to the bar being higher quality. That’s positive evolution. I think as comics we represent the in between, we represent the no loyalty to anyone. We’re gonna make fun of both sides.

We’re gonna defend the indefensible, even if it’s just a thought exercise for mind everybody that we don’t all have to think the same way. Jake Tapper asked Amber Ruffin about hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner. Jake asked Amber if she’s gonna walk the line, and she says, I think I gotta do it the same way I always do it, by just telling me the truth about how I feel. It’s okay to say what’s making us feel sad at the moment. And I think when you do that and people feel the same way as you, they think that it’s fun and funny and it’s good to hear, and it’s kind of where I operate from.

Tapper asked Amber if she wants Trump to show up. She replied, no, No one wants that. I mean, sure, it’s something to do. Look, I can’t imagine he would. He should, he’s missing out one of the cool things about being president of the United States.

But I don’t know that anyone’s looking forward to being in the same room as him. I don’t know. Half the room’s Republicans. They seem to like Trump. Tapper brought up the theory that Trump decided to run when he was mocked by President Obama and Seth Myers in twenty eleven.

Tapper said, it’s the Trump origin story. Does that give you any pause when it comes to choosing your targets this year? Amber said, yeah, I’m a writer on Late Night. Seth Myers is a friend of mine. He got us into this mess.

It’s his fault. When you’re looking for somebody to blame, blame my boss. But no, he did what he had to do. It can’t be your job to rasp people.

And then this man comes along and it’s like, I’m going to be president.

You have to laugh, And I mean, ultimately, joke’s on us, right. I’ve been meaning to mention this. I thought it was odd that there were no Chappelle think pieces after Dave winning the Grammy. In previous years, it would be all kinds of things about cancel culture, Dave and punching down and all that. I guess everybody has said it already and there’s nothing new to say about it, but I was surprised there were.

I didn’t see a single article about that. I mentioned yesterday. Slate has an article titled whatever happened to Amy Schumer? I’m not here to beat up on Amy. The paragraph I think is worth sharing is the one where they wrote.

In the years between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen, while Amy Schumer was storing in and co writing the Comedy Central Sketch Show, she seemed like an exciting new presence on the comedy landscape, with her blunt honesty about the nearing universal female body shame induced by Hollywood’s brutal beauty standards, or her keen ear for the way women talk to each other when no men are present. For a few years there, Schumer was everywhere, hosting award shows, getting coffee and cars with Jerry Seinfeld and winning an Emmy and a Peabody for inside Amy Schumer. Now let me jump in there. I’ll mention two comedians that I feel like they need to tap the brakes. Jim Gaffigan needs to tap the breaks.

Just disappear for a couple months. Jim. The other one, Nicky Glazer, not so much as Jim. But as I read that Amy sentence, let me back up again. Schumer was everywhere hosting award show, getting coffee and cars with Jerry, winning an Emmy and a Peabody.

I think Nicky is a little too visible right now. Maybe disappear for a month or two. Anyway. The Slate piece wraps up with Netflix is kind of pregnant, misunderstands what once made the comedian so appealing. Nouveau caught up with Rachel Feinstein and asked her about her comedy origin story.

She said, a lot of comedy clubs do these things called bringer shows, and it’s a way that they can make money to get people on the seats, so she put me on that and that did get me seen by a few other real professional comics. At one of my first Bringer shows, Jeff Ross came and saw me, and the family that I nannied for came. I did a lot of stories about their kids, because that’s what my life was at that point. I bombed less. I was not drunk, but I was still not good and still aimlessly rambling.

But there was something in it that Jeff Ross saw me that he felt confident enough to recommend me for an audition at a real comedy club. That’s cool. So that really helped me and get me my first paid spot, which I remember was such an insane feeling. Towards the end of my run at Sirius XM, we actually had Rachel co hosting the morning show and she was really good at it, and I thought that show had a lot of potential, but the bosses were like, we already overbarning show. It’s called Howard Stern.

Well, you know what happens. Time goes by and suddenly Howard Stern’s seventy and you probably wish you had, you know, grown a show, guys. Rachel would have been good, but she seems fine without hosting a radio show. Oh, speaking of that, as catching up on Tom Poppa’s podcasts, I meant to you know, I’ll do it here. I know this makes no sense to you, So my script is over now.

But also, you know, today’s a little light, but we want to finish recording here. I’ll leave you with Gaffigan and Popa doing some inside baseball stuff that I thought was pretty interesting. So I’ll pull that now, and that’s what we’ll go out with. I also listen to Papa with a Tell In Papa with Paul Riser. They were all good.

The first half of gaff again on Papa’s podcast is really strong if you’re into like this sort of stuff that we cover here. Then once they started about food and whiskey, it fell off a cliff a bit. But let me pull that stuff. So here’s what I’m babbling about. Do you ever look crazy signs where like, oh this is where it Stan comes in.

Yeah, this is the boom is over? I did today? Really, what was it? This is a delight. It looks like we’re drinking.

Come. I thought that’s what it is. That’s what know I had today because I was on Instagram when I got to the Hotelacker and just as Avie were and I saw three really established good comics, all with their videos of Hey, everybody, my torches came out. We got a whole bunch of dates and they’re all going up and then night and it seems like right now everybody’s got the same game plan and they’re all going to the same places, and they’re all seeming I don’t know, but seeming to have to push a little bit more. Yes before post pandemic, the immediacy after the pars pandemicere, you’re like, I got get out the house now.

People like I’ve been out of the house. Yeah, yeah, some stand up I’ve seen them, you know, and yeah something do you think it’s that? Do you think that? But there’s the other part where you talk to people and they’re like, no, this is bands aren’t going out and selling anymore. It’s comedians.

And the blessing is your fans who know and love you are coming to see you have your good tribe, and that’s very different from ABFC comedian Like there’s not a lot of crossover. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it They might like to see you here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Wow, what a game. We gotta talk about that. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Boy.

I think I need to collect my thoughts about the game. We’ll talk about that on tomorrow’s podcast. John did you pretape this? Did you not wait until after the game to record this episode of Daily Comedy’s Okay Busted? Kanye West has been in the news.

I’m sure you saw why well. He added Dave Chappelle to the list of target’s. Complex reports that on Saturday, Kanye launched it to another tirade. I’ll read it verbatim here. Let me be clearer, Daily Comedy News and Johnny Mack do not support the words I’m about to say.

I’m reporting on a news story. Kanye West tweeted, why do I target Dave Chappelle because y’all think he’s speaking for black people when he’s really a voice for Jewish agendas. Some offensive language coming up here that I’m going to paraphrase and eliminate a few defensive terms, but paraphrasing mister West, he said, And now put this fella up on a stage and let him do his stuff while I name comedians that are way funnier you that don’t have as big a name. How you gonna call yourself the funniest man on earth right in front of Chris Rock, whose name is actually bigger than yours, mister West and then shared several posts of comedians that he thought were genius and funnier than Chappelle. West list include Gerard Carmichael, Corey Holcombe, Mitch Hebberg, Louis C.K.

Anthony Justinic, and d Ray Davis. He also claimed he still love it Dave Chappelle, before giving a few more unclear details about why he’s dragging Dave. Next tweet, Gerard Carmichael is funnier than Dave Chappelle. I miss you, family, and I’m sorry if I ever said any gay jokes in front of you, not knowing you was gay. You were one of the most brilliant people.

And yes, I said miss you, knowing people will try to flip that for Corey. He just wrote, Corey Holcomb is funnier than Dave Chappelle. Next tweet, the goat Louis C.K. Is funnier than Dave Sapelle. Did you all know?

He wrote? Poody tang brilliant, Anthony Jessinic. I actually think some of my bars of this past two days have almost been just a nick level. Mitch Hedberg was the most brilliant. All Right, I’m gonna continue here.

I’m struggling here because I’m trying not to just do unsavory speech. Let me paraphrase here, Yea continued and I still found a good picture because I love you, n word. But this stuff is not about emotion, quoting West, this is a war. We have to get your jokes approved by Jewish people, but you don’t run your jokes past the king. You banished, you lanky ass, dry Travis Scott lipped mf or every joke you tell.

I’m on yo, ass. You used to be my heroday if you were one of my inspirations to go to war with Adidas, and after you thought I lost that battle, you showed your true colors. You’re envy the hate in your blood because you want to be a rock star, but you just can’t get the same uh loving from women. I’ll paraphrase that as me and John Mayer and d Ray You ugly. You’ve been ugly.

You was ugly again. I am quoting mister West. Here. You was ugly when the Jews took you in. You ugly now, and you’re gonna die ugly.

Dave Schappelle has not yet responded to these comments. Yikes, dude, Verdas, it’s hard not to follow American politics. America wants nobody to be unaware of their politics because there’s this grand assumption that it’s the most important job in the world. It’s the rhetoric I love. I think America has finally come around to the fact that all of a sudden, Africa, in the Middle East, East Asia and India have known for a while, which is that a politician could be a terrible person.

I wonder what he means. He doesn’t work as a human being, but he works for me at a policy level, so I’ll vote for him. That’s a compromise that I think the rest of the world has made a long time ago. I get to talk about America with more freedom, says Verdas than an American comic. American comedy is ideology connected.

American mainstream comedy is now conservative. Ironically, it’s gone from being punk rock to very conservative, right down the middle, or you’re very far liberal. You’re supposed to identify with a certain camps that you can gravitate towards that audience. But when you come in with an outsider perspective, which is I’m just visiting. I don’t be part of any of these camps.

That’s freedom that no American comic has when you have no dog in the race. Such I’m tremendously enjoying doing political humor in America, but trying to show Americans what I see. Chelsea Handler hosted the Critics’ Choice Awards on Friday night and took a swipe at Milania Trump. She compared Missus Trump to a sex worker. During her opening monologue, Handler said it was a huge year for biopics.

She listed off some of the films, A Complete Unknown about Bob Dylan, Maria about Maria Callis, and anor about Milania Trump. Now I didn’t get the joke, but A Nora is a film that follows a young prostitute who marries the son of a Russian oligarch that has not gone over well with some camps. Handler also introduced herself as the event’s DEI host. I’m your DEI host, Chelsea Handler. I want to acknowledge that we’ve been through a lot lately, not just here in Los Angeles, but in our entire country, waking up every day not knowing what news we’re gonna hear that will disappoint and horrify us.

So it’s in important times like this to have a distraction. And that’s why I personally extend my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. Now, if you’re not hip to that story, Justin directed and starred in the twenty twenty four drama It Ends with Us alongside Blake. Blake later accused him of sexual harassment. Justin has denied her claims and fired back, claiming that Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their friend Taylor Swift hijacked the film.

Handler also took a shot at RFK, joking that anyone who lost out on their awards would be in the background questioning your life choices, like Cheryl Hines at a Senate confirmation hearing that’s a good joke, all right. Best Talk Show. The nominees were Hot Ones, The Daily Show, The Graham Norton Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Late Show with Colbert. The winner, John Mulaney presents Everybody’s In La Good Choice their Best Comedy Special. The nominees were Jim Gaffigan for The Skinny, Kevin James for Irregardless, Nikki Glaser some Day You’ll Die, Rachel Bloom Death, Let Me do My Special, Rammy Yusef’s More Feelings the winner, Ali Wang’s Single Lady.

Best Comedy was a tie went to A Real Pain and Deadpool and Wolverine. Best Comedy Series went to Hacks, beating out Avid English Teacher Nobody Wants This from Netflix, Only Murders, Somebody Somewhere on Max, Saint Dennis Medical on NBC and What We Do in The Shadows. Best Actor in a Comedy Series went to Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This. Best Actress in a Comedy Series went to Gene Smart for Hacks. Best Supporting Actor Comedy Series, Michael Yuri for Shrinking.

Best Actress in a Comedy Series Hannah Einbinder for Hacks. Sam Morrell talked to The Eagle Online and they were curious, what’s the best piece of advice Sam has received recently. Sam said, honestly, make your own stuff. It’s more satisfying. Just make your own stuff.

Don’t wait for anyone. You have to have money to do it, you have to have made money. But then I also think, what else would I rather spend money on than this. I’m not really in the cars or anything. What would I rather spend money on?

There? Just making comedy. So I think if you surround yourself with really funny people and you make something that you like, then I think you bet on yourself. I agree with that. That’s what this whole project is here.

I don’t want to make stuff for other people anymore. I make stuff for us, me and you. Sam had advice for those pursuing comedy and said, the truth is, I don’t really know about getting it in a stand up now because it’s changed so much from when I started, So my advice would probably send out of touch now. For me, it was get on stage as much as possible. That’s what comics would tell me.

That was the only way to be a good stand up. But now there’s comics making a living online. I guess it’s good and bad. There’s other avenues, but also it’s not great because you know they’re not going to get better. Your currency was your act back of the day.

When I started. It wasn’t like some other things like a podcast or you know, TikTok or something like that. So my advice would still be like, if you want to be a really good stand up and do everything you can do, tour the country before you’re ready. You know. I was cold emailing bookers every ten days and following up because I wanted to be a road comic because that’s what the comics I liked were doing.

So I think, look at what the comics you like are doing and emulate them in a creative way. Find your own spin on that trajectory. Jay Leno said, I like to tell jokes. People say you should do a Netflix special. Jay says, I don’t want to do it once and get a big check.

I’d rather do it one hundred times and get a bunch of smaller checks. You know what I mean. It’s more fun for me, That’s what I like. What he means is if you do the Netflix special, you’ve burned all your material, and Leno says, this way you can try things out and see how they work. He told a story about how an unnamed comedian came on The Tonight Show to promote a special and told Jay that he was going to keep doing the same jokes on the tour, arguing that it’s like hearing a song.

It’s not like that at all. But after returning from the tour, the comedian told Jay that he regretted it. Leno said, they’re watching it for free at home. Now they’re paying forty five dollars or whatever it is. You’re the same thing they just heard for free.

You can’t get greedy. You can’t take the Netflix money and the personal appearance money. Always good to hear from the listeners. Justin checked in. He works nights in a boring part of Texas and says, I look forty your podcast every morning around two am the Central time.

You were the only new drop after midnight, and I thank you. Keep up the good work, and he tagged it with also Amy Schumer wanted me to tell you to talk about her earlen let me throw maybe in Google here. I didn’t have an Amy story prepared and trying to let that go. But let me see what Amy’s up to. It’s always fun.

Let’s see Amy Schumer. Oh Slate has an article called what happened to Amy Schumer? Oh my, and people dot Com has a story Amy Schumer calls out kind of pregnant critics for seeking more clicks. All right, Amy, you want us to talk about you? Sure.

Amy posts it on Insta on Thursday, sharing a favorable mention from Variety’s review, saying this means a lot to me. Didn’t I read Variety’s review? Maybe I read the Hollywood Reporters review. Anyway, Amy says, it gets more clicks to trash someone, especially me, if you don’t like physical comedy, or you’re a single guy who prefers sci fi, or sometimes the assignment is to trash something. So I appreciate the bravery to say you like something.

Apparently what Variety had written, per Amy, Schumer is. And Schumer’s a great comedian in part because she’s a great actress. She keeps it real. When Leaney recites an ansect and poem to Josh’s way of Wooingham, showing us the young woman who fell in love with literature, we suddenly see the character not as a joke. A moment like that makes a difference.

It tells you that even a commercial comedy that just wants to crack you up can, for a moment, be more than that. And I’ll save this Slate thing for tomorrow anyway, justin appreciate you, thank you for listening. And you know what, I’m recording this on Sunday because there wasn’t enough news on Friday to finish out an episode. But thank you Kanye West for solving that problem. So that’s enough for today.

I’ll save the rest for a Tuesday’s show. I’m gonna go into super Bowl mode. You know what I’m saying. Boy, that was some game. Huh.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. I did the Super Bowl preview yesterday and Saturday’s episode. That way, it didn’t get immediately dated, so if you want to check that out. But here I am with today’s Daily Comedy News.

The question will Will Smith slap Ricky Gervase? Now you’re like Johnny Mack, Why would Will Smith slap Ricky Gervase? That seems like a mean thing to do. Well. Ricky commented on Jaden Smith’s castle shaped hat that Jaden wore to the twenty twenty five Grammy Awards.

You may have seen a picture of this on social media. It was a little weird. Derves was on Twitter and he responded to a photo of Jaden in the attention grabbing hat, and Jervas wrote, maybe he’s bald like his mom. Watch out, you might get slapped. Be careful.

Hank Azaria says he’s worried AI could replace the voices of the Simpsons in the future. Hank, I have news for you. They could do that. Now need proof. This is actually Ai, Johnny Max speaking right now.

Yeah, Hank, you see AI is pretty good? Now? Did that sound perfect? No? I spent ten seconds, making that if I actually massaged a little, it would sound even more like live me.

Anyway. Hank has expressed fear to The New York Times that AI could replace him as the voice of several characters on The Simpsons. Hank voices several characters, including Mo, the Bartender and Chief Wigham thirty six seasons in. Hank is aware that AI has a lot of material to pull from him. He told The Times, I imagine that soon enough, artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than one hundred voices I created for characters for The Simpsons almost over four decades.

Being able to bring back Ai uh pooh, it makes me sad to think about it. Not to mention just seems plain wrong to steal my likeness or sound or anyone else’s. In my case, AI could have access to thirty six years of Mo, the permanently disgruntled Bartender. He’s appeared in just about every episode of the Simpsons. He’s been terrified and love hitting the head, most often in a state of bitter hatred.

I’ve laughed as Mo in dozens of ways. By now, I’ve probably sighed his Mo one hundred times of training AI. That’s a lot of work to do. Look, Hank relaxed. The various guilds would never let the creators get away with that.

Don’t worry about it. Does the technology exist? Oh? It exists. I just played AI Johnny Mack for you.

It’s there. And again, if you give me six hundred plus episodes of The Simpsons to train the AI and then you actually sat there and worked at it. Oh, they could do this later today if they want to. But again, the guilds and all that, it’s not gonna happen. Now, might you sign your rights so you get paid or your estate gets paid?

James Earl Jones did that. James Earl Jones is going to continue to be the voice of Darth Vader. James Earl Jones is dead, but they worked it out the estate. Could that happen? Hank?

Sure? As Arias said, there’s so much of who I am that goes into creating a voice. How can the computer capture all that? What would the lack of humanness sound like? It’s a mother bar tender Hank, stop you sound crazy.

How big will the differences be? I honestly don’t know. I think it’ll be enough at least in the near term, that will notice something is off in the same way that we noticed something’s missing a subpar film or TV show. Chief wakems not that deep a character, dude. It adds up to a sense that we’re watching isn’t real, you know.

I mean if I put on The Simpsons and I was like, you know what, this doesn’t seem real, it would totally destroy the Simpsons. Hank, you sound crazy, and it’s not gonna happen. The unions of the Guilds or whoever controls such things, They’re not gonna let this happen. You’re freaking out about nothing, and you don’t need to pay attention to it. Believeability has earned through craftsmanship with good storytelling and good performances, good seminatography and good directing and a good script and good music and Shohnnie Mackwillad and some good AI that has cloned your voice.

Kim Kardashian is upset with Tony Hingecliff. During the roast of Tom Brady, Tony suggested that Kim is a whore. There’s a preview for the next episode of The Kardashians, which will air this week. In the clip that was released. Kim’s friend said that the jokes made at Kim’s expense during the roast were so effed up.

Kim admitted she was surprised the jokes weren’t more original. It’s like the easiest joke they would have said that about anyone. The experience made never ever want to sign up for a roast, and says, am I supposed to sit there and be like, how innovative? You called me a whore? Chelsea Handler spoke to the Hollywood Reporter and they’re like, hey, Chelsea Handler, you know there’s late night talk shows are back.

Mlanie Taylor, you want to come back and do one? Chelsea said, I’m not interested being tethered to a studio five nights a week. I have too much freedom in my life to go back to that Melanie’s doing once a week. But I love interviewing people. I’m a good listener, and that’s all you really need to be a good interviewer.

So many talk show hosts have been terrible listeners. They ask how’s your summer, Chelsea while looking over your shoulder and reading a blue card, like what hello, I’m right here. I’ll never not be curious, though it would have to be a perfect set of circumstances where it was once a week or specials like Oprah Rii Shafir. It’s told Fox News the world is better than people are giving a credit for. Almost everybody is not racist, Almost everybody is not a dim wit.

People are generally kind to each other and hold the door open for each other. Or He filmed his recent special in DC and said that he picked DC because I wanted to do this get away from politics, view that there’s good in everyone. My message was like back, it was Biden when he was whatever, and I’m like, Biden made you realize that your father’s in pretty good mental shape, and Trump made women come together. Those are good things. The world is way better than your industry gives us credit for.

It’s actually amazing. And all you see when you see the news is how terrible and how the sky’s falling, and they actually go outside and everyone’s actually kind of nice to each other and friendly. I don’t know if you know this Saturday Night Live is fifty years old and they’re celebrating and we’re gonna talk the heck out of this this week. I’m already sick of it. Snler is to co host the Today’s Show with Jenna and Friends all next week.

The co host will be Amy Poehler and a guest ire mikey Day, Cherry o Terry, and Chloe Feineman. They’ll all co host the fourth hour of the Today Show with Jenna.

Meanwhile, NBC going all in on this SNL writers will guest on Late Night with…

Paula Pell, James Anderson, Emily Spivey, and Harper Steele are all names that will be familiar to longtime SNL fans. I’ll take your word for it. Luckily this article explained to who they are. Paula Pell is probably best known to most as one of the stars of Girls five EVA. She created the characters Debbie Downer, the Coulps, Justin Timberlakes, Omletville mascot, and the Spartan Cheerleaders.

That was a period of SNL I did not like, and I could go the rest of my life without ever watching Debbie Downer the Spartan Cheerleaders again. James Anderson wrote for SNL for twenty years from twenty to twenty twenty. He came up with the Californians another sketch. This is the period. I have no interest in this period.

Emily Spivey wrote from twenty one to twenty, frequently collaborating with Pohlar. This article did not mention what sketches she came up with. Harper Steele wrote for thirteen years, starting in ninety five, and served as the show’s co headwriter from four to eight. She wrote The Ladies Man with Tim Meadows, Astronaut Jones with Tracy Morgan, and Oops, I crap my pants. You know Harper from the recent documentary Will and Harper which he’s the newly transitioned steel travel cross country with her old friend Will Ferrell.

Also on set this week, Bill Murray guess on Tuesday Night. And there is apparently a whole old business for Jimmy fallon children’s books. He’s got a new book coming out. It’s called Papa Doesn’t Do Anything. It’ll come out this spring.

It’s the fifth and a fifth. I said fifth. It’s the fifth. Fifth, you’re not miss hearing me. The fifth in a family series that began in twenty fifteen with Your Baby’s First Word Will be Data twenty seventeen, Everything Is Mama, twenty nineteen, This is Baby and twenty twenty two’s Nana Loves You More.

The Papa in the fifth book refers to Grandpa by the way. The book tells the story of a child who believes that their grandfather doesn’t do anything. Jimmy Fallon tell people this book is a tribute to the dads and grandpa’s in our lives and what they’ve done for all of us, and the title will be sure to get a laugh if they receive it as a gift. There’s a market for this. Huh.

This does not include Jimmy Fallon’s recent five More Sleeps Till Christmas and five More Sleeps Till Halloween. So there’s a market for seven Jimmy Fallon children’s books. Oh way, sure, that’s your company us for today. I’d I don’t know anything else, saying bye.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with the Super Bowl Preview edition of Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon joke. For all the players and coaches, it’s a dream come true to play in the Super Bowl, And for all the referees, it’s a dream come true to see Patrick Mahomes in person. If Allin tagged it with this year, the Super Bowl will be watched in one hundred and eighty countries, well one hundred and seventy nine if we take over Canada by Saturday.

Jimmy Kim Olvills writer is not as good. Donald Trump will be at the game. This is fun. He said, He’s gonna let Elon pick the winner this year. Eh, Kim again.

I think the reason Trump’s going to the Super Bowl is he can’t stand to have one day where he’s on TV less than Taylor Swift. The best joke came from Snoop Dogg at the NFL honors. Bill Belichick was there with his twenty five year old girlfriend. Snoop said, I’ve been a football fan for a long long time. I remember back when the Cowboys were good, I remember when the Chiefs were bad, and I remember what was it?

Bill Belichick’s girlfriend wasn’t even born yet. Nikki Glaser was at the NFL Honors. They asked her about Taylor Swift. I didn’t talk to her because I just don’t want to bother her. She’s got enough going on.

Everyone’s trying to get a picture with her. I like, let her be No, didn’t even think about it. I know I’m not doing it. It’s just it’ll happen if it happens. But I’m not gonna like be like hate Taylor, like tap her.

She has had enough people tapping her on the shoulder being like can I and she’s so nice. Of course she’s gonna like do it, so I’ll just wait for that moment to happen. Nikki also talked about attending the NFL Honors. I am doing some comedy stuff tonight and we’ll see how it goes. But it’s not like the mood here is not like comedy.

But it’ll be fun to inject it. Maybe they’ll be like really grateful for it. But I’m just glad to be in an a ward show and not have to like host, like just presenting. It’s a breeze. Josh Johnson joked about Taylor and Travis and said, they’re this idea of a couple we imagine in our minds though they’re adults, it’s like high school were grown up.

She’s symbolically like a cheerleader in our minds, and though it’s not his position, he’s symbolically the quarterback in our minds. So getting them together makes such perfect rom com sense. That there are actually people who think that all of the nf fellas fixed just to keep the Chiefs winning, just to keep them going. I might be one of those people. There’s always some suspect calls, oh holding, yeah, I can’t believe it.

Oh pass interference a first down Chiefs. It’s funny how that happened, Josh Jownzon said, And here’s my thing. If it’s fixed, why would they be tackling so hard. You don’t need to sell it that bad. Most of the teams, if they knew they weren’t going to the Super Bowl.

I think that lay off a couple of hits. I don’t think anybody’s getting CTE as part of a script. Bill Burr was on Rich Eisen Show about a week ago and talked about the Chiefs allegations and burs said, I don’t think it’s fixed. I think it’s managed. There’s definitely more back rubs on one side than the other.

Where’s the money they got, all the stars they got Taylor Swift, It’s a business. Michael Rappaport weighed in, Now, I was thinking about this. Have I ever ever once or have you ever seen even once a story about Michael Rappaport that’s not just like negative. I always feel like all his quotes are annoying. Rapaport tweeted, I’m hoping to see Taylor Swift cry.

I want to see if for a Mescara can hold up after a ginormous loss. She loves her man Kelsey when he’s winning, but will she still ride with him when he takes a ginormous loss. Talked about this earlier in the week, but let’s just recap the Super Bowl ads with comedians. Shane Gillis is part of Big Men of cul de Sac. You’ll see Shane post Malone and Peyton Manning as regular neighborhood guys grilling and hanging out in the driveway as they sell you some beer.

Pete Davidson is in some sort of food box thing. Pete jokes all famous people are aliens. Nate Burghetzi is in an ad for door Dash. This came about because Nate actually name checked them in his recent special. Wayne Brady isn’t an ad for Perdue.

They’re spotlighting the brand’s air fryer. Ready, crispy wings. Let’s listen. Hey wait, oh, heirs, Hey, Hey, what’s up? I got some jokes to pitch you for your performance of the Big Game.

Oh no, no, it’s cool. I don’t need them. No, because the name of the show is called winging it, because I’m winging it. Were got chicken jokes? Here we go, all right, three chickens walking to a club and then maybe okay, let me stop rotisseri?

Was it a ah chicken strip? Chicken strips? Right? No? But listen, man, this is really really good stuff.

This is hot night. Okay, okay, how about this one? How about this one? How about this one? Okay?

A chicken crosses the road and he goes with a cow, a butler, and a chicken into a box. It just sounds like you’re putting animals together. Why would they do that? Produce Chief marketing officer David Zucker said, Wayne Brady embodies the spirit of fun and improvisation. That’s why this is the perfect way for Purdue to show fans they can significantly level up their big game experience.

Our wings are specifically formulated for air fryers, so fans can get the restaurant quality crispness they crave. You know, I think this AD’s gonna actually work on me. Researchers conducted by the National Chicken Council found that Americans consume one point four five billion wings on game day. Wow. I’m a big wings fan, so I’m going to read this.

They’re available in hot and spicy, lemon, pepper, and roasted flavors produce air fryer ready crispy wings are made from cage free chickens raised on an all vegetarian diet without antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. I like this idea back in twenty fourteen or is it twenty twenty four and I have a typo. I think they did this last year. I don’t think this was eleven years ago. Regardless, the premise is Vulture proposed having a comedian do halftime.

They just pointed out the number of comedians capable of selling out Madison Square Garden. They listed Chris Rock, Eddie Azard, Kevin Hart, Aziz Russell, Peters, Gabe Iglesias, c k Berg, Gaffagin, Amy Sebastian, The Piractical Jokers. Hey, welcome to super Bowl Halftime. It’s the Impractical Jokers. I don’t see that happening.

Rogan, Trevor Mulaney, Joe Coy, Dave Chappelle, Andrew Schultz At Tony Hinchcliffe. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the super Bowl. Here’s Tony Hinchcliff. Now I’m thinking about this. I kind of like the idea, but if you’re going to do it, you need somebody who can rock star up there, right So you know, if you told me Chris Rock was performing the super Bowl halftime show, I’d buy in.

Like Jim gaff again, he’s nice, but like there just want to be excitement. You can’t do, Jerry. It’s gotta be somebody who can like rock the house and no pun. I think Chris Rock would be good. I’d be curious what you think.

Hit me up in the Facebook group. I’ll start the discussion Daily Comedy News podcast group. But if a comedian played super Bowl halftime, who would be a good choice? Great topic? Vulture.

Jeff Ross talked to The New York Post about roasts. He’s down in New Orleans doing press for the Super Bowl. He said, the secret sauce about roast is you have to love them. We only roast the ones we love. If I don’t mention you, I ignore you.

That’s the ultimate. That means I don’t like you. But if I take the time to think about you, your life, your career, even your appearance, it’s because I love you. I only roast the ones I love. And that’s really what it is for me.

It comes out of respect, it doesn’t come out of animosity. I want everyone to leave the show quoting all the jokes. It’s like medicine. Laughter is the best medicine. Nobody wants their medicine water down.

They want their medicine potent. They wanted to really lift them up, like a shot in the arm. I think it’s healing. I do think everybody laughing at the same stuff is very healing, and that’s what everybody wants. When I first started roasting, it was a boys club, was private.

There were no cameras at the Friars Club. Now it’s a live, three hour Netflix spectacular. I think something about it. People like seeing comics be ruthless and speak truth to power. There weren’t any Roast for five years before Brady had the guts to go, Yeah, let’s do it.

He wanted to bring Roast back. That’s why he did it. I gotta give him a lot of credit. He took the hits for three hours in live TV so the rest of the world could forget our problems for a few hours. You never know how it’s gonna be received, where it’s gonna go.

Being a comic is like having a backstage pass to the universe. We’re going to the super Bowl, went to the Grammys. People want to be your own funny people. For some people, it’s like a superpower. And I don’t take it for granted.

I feel very lucky in that way. And that is your comedy news for today.

Now here’s my super Bowl prediction.

I my friend Pat, He’s a big chief stand so I pay a lot of attention to the Chiefs. Here’s how this goes. In the first half, the Eagles are going to be cruising along. The Chiefs are gonna be sputtering what’s wrong. It’s not all coming together, but it’s only gonna be like fourteen ten eagles and then the chief suddenly it’s seventeen fourteen.

Then there’s a holding call against the Eagles, and there’s a pass interference or two. Other refs will take care of this one. Swift’s canna have a good Sunday, and that is your comedy news for today. Hit me up on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. See you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media Busy one Today. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We are nine days out from Saturday Night Live’s fiftieth anniversary special. They’ve announced the first round of guests. It includes several frequent hosts The Five Timers Club, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Simon, Martin Short and Woody Harrelson.

Also set to appear Adam Driver, Io Eda Bury, Bad Bunny Okay, Dave Schappelle, John Mulani, Kim Kardashian, of course, Miley Cyrus, Paul McCartney, Pedro Pascal Peyton Manning, Quinta Brunson, Robert de Niro, and Sabrina Carpenter. With that list, maybe Amy Schumer will get invited. Who knows. More guests will be announced in the days leading up to the special. Now because of the special, this is fun if you’re a Letterman fan like me.

Paul Schaeffer and the World’s Most Dangerous Band are returning to NBC. They will fill in for The Roots next week on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon because the Roots are off working on SNL fifty. The Roots will be the house band for SNL fifty, the homecoming concert on Friday Night, a week from tonight. Paul Schaeffer told Billboard, I’ll be reuniting the world’s most dangerous band for four super fun shows with Jimmy. We hope to finally get right all the mistakes we made with Dave.

They did this once before they were the Tonight shows fill in band once in February of twenty twenty three when the Roots were in La attending the Grammy Awards. Prior to becoming Lutterman’s musical director, Paul Schaeffer was a member of the SNL band for most of its first five years, So that’s all fun. Sticking with late nights. This got announced on probably a too busy of a day to announce it. I hope this doesn’t get swallowed, but the Night of Too Many Stars is coming back.

Night of Too Many Stars benefits Next for Autism, a nonprofit organization that creates and supports programs for people with autism. Was founded by Robert Smigel aka Triumph in two thousand and three following his son’s autism dyke gnosis. Night of Too Many Stars March thirty first will include great lineup here, Ronny Chieng, James Austin Johnson, the police don’t destroy guys, Chris Rock unfortunately, Adam Sandler probably doing comedy. Hopefully he’ll just do a dramatic reading of one of his serious movies and hopefully doesn’t do any comedy. And please, for the love of God, do not do a song.

Sarah Sherman and Max Weinberg. John Stewart will be your host. Now. For some reason, this next group of people don’t make the initial paragraphs, so apparently they are not as famous as the first group. So group two Alex Edelman, Susie Smon, Jeff Gorland, Sam Merrill and quote too many more to come.

That’s exciting, and keep an eye on that one in the four spot today And normally this would be the lead off. That’s why I’m saying it’s such a busy day. The Moontower Comedy Festival announced its full lineup Moontower April ninth through April nineteenth. We are told at the Paramount Theater you’ll see Chris DiStefano. The Paramount will also host performances from Alex Edelman and Janelle James.

Over at the State Theater, Pauli s ke sure and Kay Trevor Wilson. He’s a fantastic Canadian comedian who should be on your radar. I like him a lot.

Also a partner.

N Surla previously announced Adam Ray’s Doctor Phil Live. One of my favorite things of last year, otsco At Kotzka. I think she’s fantastic. The not so canceled Aziz. I’m sorry, I’m not really a fan there for many reasons.

Brad Williams, Hank Azaria and the Eazy Street Band. You’re still doing that, Hank Okay, Janine Garoffalo, John Waters, Maria Bamford, Pete Holmes, Tiffany Hattish, zarnagarg and Moore. I had pulled up the website here just so we could take a quick look at the calendars. Let me just skim this quick, so April ninth, Edelman, Aparna Aziz, Kate Trevor, April tenth, Azaria, Pauli Shore, Aziz, Kay, Trevor the eleventh, Caitlin Riley, May Martin, Pauli Schore, christ Stefano the twelfth, Josh Johnson, Ricky Lindholm, Handsome Live, which is take nataro Fortune, Fimestir May Martin, I Guess recording their podcast there and Josh Johnson April thirteenth, Tiffany Hattish the fifteenth, Brad Williams the sixth has a couple group shows plus Maria Bamford and Morgan j Oh, yeah, it really kicks in there. Oh, there are a ton of shows here, all right.

I’m not going to read all these so you get the idea. Hit Austintheatre dot org if you want to get the full schedule, or do what I did and google Moon Tower Comedy schedule and it will come up. It is Super Bowl weekend. In The New York Post caught up with Jeff Ross. He’s doing a Beacher’s Madhouse show.

The Post tells us Beacher’s Manhouse revolutionized live entertainment and first debut at the Theater at MSG in two thousand and two. It is a circus like show that can’t be properly explained without being experienced, although Jeff Ross said it’s a circus inside a comedy show, inside a Pride parade, inside an orgy, inside Super Bowl weekend, all that wrapped up in a one hilarious, amazing night. Ross says Beacher treated me like I was famous before I was famous. That’s one of the reasons we’re friends. On Gossip Corner, TMZ has an update on that Corey Holcom story.

TMZ rides. Christina Paine says Corey Holcomb is lying about their physical altercation outside a popular club. TMZ writes she says he hit her and not the other way around, as Corey’s now claiming TMZ did their TMZ thing, and says our photographer asked her about Corey’s recent legal filing, which was a restraining order request where he ledged she sucker punched him. Christina tells TMZ Corey is flipping the narrative when he’s really the attacker here. Christina claims she’s been beefing with Corey for a dozen years, ever since he offered her a job on a radio show, and says she rebuffed his sexual advances.

She says he threatened to super sock this b word back in June, and she says she has witnesses who heard his alleged threat. We’ll keep an eye on this one, and it was a lot more fun to talk about when we were speculating on why or why not Corey Holcomb’s wrist was broken. A lad Bible covered a story. Apparently Natalie Cuomo got into it with a hackler, and this went somewhat viral eight hundred and sixty five thousand views on TikTok. As the story goes, Natalie was closing out her weekend shows in DC when someone in the front row hit back after she joked that this little man was in a relationship with his friend.

Apparently, Cuomo kept a cool the guy kepped commenting, She amped up and said, there’s so many people coming together to be supportive, and you’re putting negative. The report says. She then continued as she took to shouting in his face, saying, no, look me in the eyes. You’re putting negative effing energy out there. This is the last show my effing weekend.

Look at me in the effing eyes. It’s a sold out show, and you want to say mean stuff to me, don’t effing do that. The audience member ended up leaving and texted his friend to call Cuomo a effing clown. Cuomo read out his messages, including I did warn you I would get kicked out. Okay.

One audience member said I’ve never seen a comedian scream at an audience member because they’re being heckled comedians that can’t take a joke is actually so cringe. Others were more supportive. Let’s head on over to Rotten Tomatoes and check in on Amy Schumer’s Kind of Pregnant. I debuted with a fifteen percent score, with only thirteen reviews from critics generating that score, So the score could fluctuate, could get up into the high nineties, could happen. The audience score started at twenty seven percent, with over one hundred fans weighing in on The film got a press release.

I’m reading this because it’s just vaguely interesting to me. It involves Joe Rogan’s club, so the press release reads. Squat Up, a leading provider of white labeled ticketing and event management solutions, today announced its newest partnership with Comedy Mothership, Joe Rogan’s Austin based flagship comedy club blah blah blah blah. So I’m curious to see what they’re humble bragging about. Mobile first ticketing simplified purchasing and check in processes designed to enhance audience convenience.

Yeah, and then they probably make me put my phone in a bag. Thanks guys. Custom branding a ticketing experience that reflects Comedy Mothership’s unique identity. Fine, this is interesting. I think we could see a lot more of this coming up.

Personalized delayed delivery q R ticket codes. That’s to guard against reseller price gouging. So you know, you clowns that buy Taylor Swift tickets and then think you’re going to resell them for a trillion dollars. If Taylor finds out about this technology, all right, that’s interesting. On site support professional assistants to ensure a smooth experience for both guests and staff at every event.

Real time insights are tools to help organizers optimize operations and gain valuable insights into audience behavior and patron experiences. Sounds to me like we’re tracking you so we can make some more money. Jody Borton is the general manager of Comedy Mothership and said live comedy thrives on making connections and creating lasting memories for all pardicipants. Partnering with squad Up allows us to bring that level of personalization, along with the highest quality experience to Comedy Motherships. Event ticketing as a unique intimate venue that reaches global audiences.

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Caalarogashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll talk about Andy Schumer’s movie in the second half. Let’s start with Joe Rogan. There’s been some back and forth on what went down or didn’t go down with Kamala Harris not appearing on Rogan’s podcast.

I had mentioned the other day about a book, and according to Rogan, those books authors never reached out to Rogan for his side of the story. Joe said, they supposedly talked to one hundred and fifty people about this, but they didn’t talk to us. That’s kind of crazy. Joe explained his version of what went down. Here’s a lengthy clip.

I have made some edits to it for pacing. It’s a five minute clip that I’ve cut down for f bombs. I try and avoid those on this program. And the guest stepped on Joe Rogan a few times as Joe spoke. But let’s listen to Joe.

This is how it worked. Trump was really easy to book, like super easy. We offered one day. He said, yes, that was it. There was no what are we going to talk about?

How long is it going to be? Is it going to be edited. There was nothing. What’s the waiver here, give me that waiver? Sign it.

It was so easy. So he was already booked. They never committed to doing the show. So all this talk, there was another thing. They said that the reason why they did the Beyonce thing, the Beyonce event in Houston, was so that they could be in Texas to do my show.

They never agreed to do the show. None of that’s true. This was really important. Even after Trump went on, they offered for me to come to DC and do a show with Kamala. But even then it was the same deal.

It was only like forty five minutes to an hour, and you know, it was not on my set. And I said that, look, he did it here, we should probably do it here, like if it’s possible to do it here. Obviously, when he did it, it had an enormous result. I’m willing to do the same thing for her. I wanted to release both of them on the same day.

This was my goal. I was even trying to figure out if there was a way that I could do it, and I even offered to do it late that night. So the night that Trump came on, I’m like what if we do her like when she’s done in Texas, if she came here, but no one ever committed to doing it. This is really important because they keep pretending that I lied, or I did this or I did that. No one, they never committed to doing it.

We offer it, we went through. I’ve got a whole by the way, we have all the receipts. By the way, of course, I have a whole list of conversations that took place. They never said she was going to do it, But I think it’s someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did it, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect. Nate Burgetzi’s doing a cruise with fans next year.

It’s called Nateland at Sea. It’ll sail from Tampa to Coasta Maya, Mexico, from February fifth through the ninth, so one year away. It will feature quotes a slew of comedians, along with live music and even magic before by Nate’s dead. Resale tickets for the cruise are February ninth and February sixteenth. The public sale begins February nineteenth.

The comedians include John Christ, Dusty Sleigh and Derek Stroop. There will also be a Southern Spelling Bee and a belly flop contest. The cruise starts at twelve eighty two per person based on double occupancy. In case you’re curious, The fair includes on board meals, drinks like regular coffee and non press juices, the comedy shows and more. We’re told to prepare to laugh until your side’s hurt as we cruise our way to sunny Mexico.

Matt Rife and Paul Elia have announced a new Low Key comedy series. It’ll premiere on February sixteenth on Patreon. Low Ki sees Matt and Paul act as hosts of a night of comedy, mainly improving their material along the way. They’ll introduce a number of other stand up comedians who will do the same. This one was recorded during the twenty twenty four and Netflix as a Joke Festival.

Pretty Good lineup Whitney Cummings, Fahim Anwar, Ian Edwards Lunel, Francisco Ramos and t J. Miller. The whole thing was directed by Eric Griffin. Carol Leefer is the guest on the Daily Beasts Good One podcast. Carol’s a name known to us older folks who are around in the eighties.

You younger folks probably don’t know the name. Some say she was the inspiration for the Alain character on the Seinfeld sitcom, and The Daily Beast asked her about that, and she said, well, I know Jerry has said that. Look, we have a unique relationship. We dated early on at the beginning of my stand up career in the beginning of his, and since then we really only went out for a year or so, but we’ve stayed very good friends. And I think in them talking about the genius of the show, to have the woman on the show who’s not only a friend but some of that Jerry once dated makes for an interesting relationship.

So in that regard, if you’re like, yeah, maybe I was the inspiration, Sure sounds like it to me. Amber Ruffin will be this year’s host of the White House Correspondents Dinner. A spokesperson said Amber’s unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate. Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the breast while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the isle. And the journalists who cover them.

It is unclear if President Trump will make this one. During his first term, he did not attend the dinner. There are those that believe that it was a White House correspondents to dinner many moons ago when President Obama made some jokes about Trump, and it was at that moment Trump decided to run for office himself to get back at everybody. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that’s how the story goes. Late Night I wrote about Desi Leiitick hosting The Daily Show, and I think she should actually be the host.

Desi told Late Night her I watched John and all the corresponds on the show all through my twenties, and I thought, this is what I want to do for her character. She says, I like to say I’m overly confident and underinformed. Not that she’s not smart, but she didn’t do her homework. She explains, when you host, you’re a version of yourself. You have to bring a certain amount of authenticity to just throw away the armor of a character that was the part of the unknown for me.

Can I do the job just be funny as myself? It makes no sense at all. That I would feel comfortable doing this, but for some reason I do. My goal every time I set at the desk is just to be present, Just be in the moment. That’s my little mantra before going out there.

So far, I’ve been able to just enjoy every moment of it. Does He explained some advice she got from John Stewart. It’s not about abandoning your humanity and your empathy. Don’t put pressure on yourself to be the resistance, to say the perfect thing to respond every story. Just go out there and try to make the funniest and smart to shows you can, and don’t abandon your humanity.

People ask me how we’re going to cover Trump two point zero. I say, we don’t even know what we’re going to cover tonight. It’s so volatile. Stars and Stripes caught up with Joe Koy. He was touring military bases in Guam and Japan.

Joe said, when I go out there and know how much the show means to these people, this is my way of saying thank you to those who serve I get to be a comic around the world because you guys are making that happen for me. Sometimes people will take things for granted, we don’t take pride in what we got. And that’s the one thing I love about these service members. They’re proud of what they do, They’re proud of their bases, and they’re proud of their people. Each base was like this big giant show and tell, and they went above and beyond.

It was just incredible. You may recall Joe Cooy when sostud the Golden Globes and told the joke about Taylor Swift. Jack Whitehall has joined the list of people who say Prince Harry ghosted them after Megan Markle showed up. The British comedian once considered themselves good friends with Prince Harry when Harry was a bachelor. Jack told an Australian radio show that he wasn’t quite in the inner circle.

We had a few wild nights out with Prince Harry. Jack’s father, Michael, has previously suggested that Jack’s Royal exile might have something to do with a joke he made at the twenty fifteen Royal Variety performance where he called Harry Ginger nuts. As I’ve mentioned from time to time, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the British Royals seven days a week, and yeah, we’re gonna talk about this story. Sure, okay.

Amy Schumer wanted us to talk about her, and so we shall. Let’s start with the reviews. Stay with me for this whole segment because I need you to hear my complete thoughts here before you just decide, Oh, John, just be to go, buddaby Shooter. I will start with the Hollywood Reporter, which is an industry trade and generally positive about everything. Their headline, kind of Pregnant review Amy Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kind of dull.

Most of the headlines did some sort of kind of pun. The hollyod Reporter writes there’s a version of this story that finds complexity in surprise heart and the concept, but kind of Pregnant prefers to stay on the surface. That shaloness puts more pressure on the comedy, which is challenging because Kind of Pregnant is not exceptionally funny either. Most of the lasts come from the sporting characters, and for all its good intentions, the movie is so formulaic that it verges on dull. We know that Laney will eventually be find out, but the narrative struggles to keep us curious, and the direction can’t recoup the lost momentum.

The results is a film that not only seems on sure if its purpose, but loses steam before it ever really gets going. Leisurebite dot com their headline kind of Pregnant review less comedy, more secondhand embarrassment. They write, with a cast as wonderful as this, this film could have done a lot better by utilizing them to the fullest, but all we get is a film that’s simply a waste of time for viewers. There’s no flow in the way things play out, no chemistry between the characters, a messy sex scene, fake characters that only spoil the whole mood, and more. There is more downside to this film than there is any good, which only pushes forth our disappointment.

Kind of Pregnant is the kind of film you’d rather skip than give a watch. Despite the wonderful cast, the overall picture is a mess and something that’s only fit to watch where there’s nothing else to watch. Two stars out of five. Film Feeder gave it a one out of five, saying mind numbingly predictable as it is, you can tell from the moment Schumer’s character begins wearing her fake bump, that the truth will out at some point, as it often does in film centered around a big, fat lie. They write, it isn’t even how desperately unfunny it is, with plenty of physical gags that border on ridiculous, and some set pieces where the biggest jokes are heavily telegraphed, in between scenes that rely on people acting overly weird and simply shouting every other line for comedic effect, as is the Happy Mass in Way.

Rather, it’s the fact that such a badly constructed script has come from Schumer herself, a far cry from her earlier and much funnier works ten or so years ago. The Guardian gave it two out of five. Their headline kind of pregnant review. I am Mey Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kind of disappointing, they write. Let me be clear, I’m always rooting for Amy Schumer, though sometimes she makes it difficult.

When she’s good, she’s great for the most part. That was on inside Amy Schumer kind of pregnant. Please with the hit. Schumer’s known for shameless physical comedy, frank discussion of bodies, brash, refusal to play good girl, but feel stuck in the past, unable to generate new sparks. There’s just not that much funny to be found here.

And you’ll probably see a review in your local newspaper. This is all sourced from the same place with the Associated Press. This one came up a lot in my search in many local newspapers against sourcing the AP. They gave it two and a half stars out of four. They wrote, and this is the best review I saw again, two and a half out of four.

Kind of pregnant is kind of good. Now I thought this was interesting. I hadn’t realized this. Director Tyler Spindel, is Adam Sandler’s nephew. Welcome to the business.

Everybody. Everybody knows somebody. Sandler is a producer on the film that his nephew directs. I will come back to that point. Tyler doesn’t do anything to advance the movie comedy, a languishing proposition in recent years with few screen exceptions, but he crucially gives his performers plenty of space to be themselves.

If Knocked Up captured the comedy of getting unexpectedly pregnant, kind of pregnant bodies, the pain of wishing you were okay. So, John, you obviously hate Amy Schumer and you’re just here to beat up on Amy Schumer. I get it. I get why you think that. Give me a second here.

My problem with Amy this week is how she went about promoting this. I just I don’t know. Maybe’am, maybe it’s just the middle aged dad in me. I didn’t need to know that you were trading favors with a baseball player. Remember that, that’s how we started promoting this.

I don’t need to know what you’re planning with your husband to do. The night before Valentine’s Day, the ozempic, it was just all like, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Well we looked, and the movie’s not good. I shared in the Facebook group. Back in twenty twelve, we were doing a town hall at Serious Exam.

I even found a still you could see me in the background. Lest you think I just make up stories on this podcast. So it was twenty twelve. We were doing a town hall for Carol Burnett and we needed someone to host it. And the idea was, Okay, let’s connect the generations.

Who is today’s Carol Burnett? And in twenty twelve we picked Amy Schumer and it went really well, did well in the press. I believe that’s the only time I worked with Amy. She’s fine, definitely wasn’t looking to be anybody’s friend. I remember her asking if she can have an office to go into the zone so that she could get her head into the right space to do the broadcast.

Not uncommon. Jim Brewery, who I spent a lot of time with over the years, I’ve explained, you know, he would do that before a live show. So not crazy that Amy went off by herself. But I’ve had other comedians who were like just hanging and then you turn the light on and they just go it’s neither here nor there. So I didn’t really spend a lot of time with her.

Definitely didn’t find her one of the most fun people I’ve ever spent time around, again because she was getting her head into the show. But as I was thinking about what I wanted to say today, I remembered we tried to hire her before that. I’ve lost track of the time. My number two at Sirius was this guy Rory who’s fantastic, and he had gotten my ear that we should hire this up and coming New York comedian Amy Schumer. And he convinced me this was a good idea, and I was on board with it, and we had agreed.

If I remember correctly, I’m going to say a dollar amount here. I haven’t said this, but you know it’s over a decade now at this time, Hey, bosses, I want to give Amy Schumer a once a week, one hour show. I need budget for it. Oh really, well, I’m not sure we have budget for it. How much is the dollar amount?

John, two hundred dollars? You see, back at the old place, we had our ears to the ground right, we would do this. People would be out the clubs, we’ll go up to the festivals. We would talk to other comedians. We were always ahead of the curve with who was going to be next, and Amy was on the next list, so we wanted to give her a show.

Now. Would Amy have continued to do a show fifteen years later for two hundred dollars a week? Of course not. But the idea was, let’s ride this for now and then at some point she’ll be like, hey, guys, I can’t do this anymore and we’ll all move on. But at that time that dollar amount made sense to me, to Rory and to whoever Rory was talking about in her camp.

The bosses wouldn’t give me the two hundred dollars. There’s one boss in particular, I remember having a conversation about such things, and he one day asked me to see if Chris Rock could do a comedy special for free, for free? You want him to do it for free? Yeah, you know, we’ll help promote his career. We’re gonna help promote Chris Rock’s career.

He’s gonna just burn an hour of material for free. Now, as the years went by, you probably heard reports of how much Chris Rock was paid by Netflix. Let me see if I can get an actual number. A twenty sixteen report in The Hollywood Reporter said, Chris Rock did a forty million dollar deal with Netflix. But Chris Rock is supposed to do raw Dock comedy of Favor for free.

You know we’re gonna promote his career, help Rock’s career. Oh boy, so I’m forty million dollars short of what I’m gonna need to pay Chris Rock. You think I get two hundred dollars a week. Two hundred dollars times fifty weeks a year, by the way, is ten grand assuming he does. I don’t know forty shows.

We’m talking about eight thousand dollars a here, guys for companies selling thirteen dollars subscriptions. But anyway, that show didn’t happen. So unless you come away this week going Johners hates Amy Schumer, John tried to hire Amy Schumer. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, what an exciting day. Amy Schumer’s Kind of Pregnant is out on Netflix today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Amy Schumer is kind of Pregnant.

Reviews are embargoed until today, so I don’t have any to share, But that tells me something. It means that Netflix is really really excited about these super positive reviews. They’re gonna get for it, and they wanted them to all come out today. Yeah, we’ll see. Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we sure will today.

Let’s start with this piece and Decider by Anna Menta. Anna writes Amy Schumer peaked with her twelve Angry Men sketch from inside Amy Schumer. It’s been nearly a decade, but Amy Schumer still hasn’t topped her twelve Angry Men parody from twenty fifteen, and at this point, with former fans abandoning her in light of her recent controversial opinions, got to click on that. What are these controversial opinions again? Ah?

Yes, that links to the Independent. Why Amy Schumer’s Israel Gaza posts were corrected by Mlka’s daughter and an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm for her new Netflix movie, it seems plausible that she never will. I’m skimming through this, Ana meant to write Sin Schumer’s defense, It’s difficult for anything to best that near perfect comedy sketch. It aired as the third episode of the third season of Schumer’s Comedy Central series Inside Amy Schumer, which you can stream for free on Hulu. Typically, the show featured at least five short sketches per episode, but Twelve Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer broke format with a single black and white, eighteen minute long bit.

Over the next fifteen minutes or so, we see a character take on the role of Henry Fond as Twelve Angry Men character, He’s on a mission to a quit Schumer, not on the basis of reasonable doubt, but rather on the basis of reasonable chubb but meaning that each man in the room might, plausibly, under the right circumstances, find Amy Schumer attractive. What makes the sketch so brilliant, it writes Anna, in addition to the pitch perfect recreation of the original movie’s melodramatic tune, is that this is quite literally how the Internet sounds when talking about Schumer. It doesn’t seem to matter what else Schumer does to offend, and she does plenty. Another hyperlink, Let me click on that one. This one took me to BuzzFeed.

Amy Schumer doubled down on her Israel comments and it’s not great is that article? There will always be a man on the corner who simply must chime in to announce that he wouldn’t have sex with Amy. Nothing Schumer has done since has managed to find that perfect balance. A few months after Twelve Angry Men Inside Amy, Schumer aired Amy’s first movie, train Wreck, open in theaters. It’s easily her best film, though not quite as concise and clean as the sketch.

Still, twenty fifteen remained Schumer’s best air ouns. The year she won her first and only Emmy Award for Inside Amy Schumer, and she even snagged a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. And train Wreck and reminds us the review embargo for A Kind of Pregnant has not yet lifted. Never a great sign, but the general sentiment surrounding the movie seems tippid at best. We’ll get into the reviews tomorrow.

Amy popped by the View and confessed to scheduling sex with her husband. She wanted us all to know what she and her husband can planned to do for their upcoming wedding anniversary, which happens to fall the day before Valentine’s Day. She wants us to know, Well, actually, that’s the weekend of the SNL fiftieth anniversary special. So I think I get a plus one. Otherwise I’ll just ditch him.

She was joking. I believe no one is getting a plus one. That’s been well reported. Amy added, we’re pretty corny. We’ll make sweet love.

Amy then shared that they do schedule their sexy time, saying there’s never a vibe. It never just happens to people do that. One of the hosts agreed with Amy. Amy also provided the host of the view with a bag of gifts, including strap on pink waistbags modeled after pregnant bellies. These were for each of the co hosts to wear.

Amy said, just strap them right on. Whoopy Goldberg seemed confused, or at least pretended to be confused. Unclear to me, I didn’t watch the show. Whoopy held a quote bewildered facial expression for seventy one seconds then there was a commercial break. When it came back from commercial, Whoopy had strapped the fake pregnant belly to her head.

It stayed there for most of the rest of the segment disappeared later in the broadcast. Amy was also out on the Red Carpet. She believes her five year old son Jean shares the comedy gene, telling people he’s really funny. I don’t know what his story’s gonna be, but he loves doing stunts and making people laugh. Other folks on the Red Carpet where co stars Julian Bell, will Forte, Damon Wayne’s junior, and others.

Adam Sandler is one of the producers. He was there with his wife Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Seinfeld also stopped by the Red Carpet.

Moving on, the Minnesota Star Tribune caught one of Nicki Glaser’s recent sho…

They write for Most of the evening, name dropping was kept to a minimum. She was more focused on defending the use of a zempic, detailing her visits to tanning salons, and admitting to being jealous of supermodels. She took on social influencers because they look cuter than she does. With little effort and said, I want you to do a TikTok dance next to a helicopter. But the Star Tribune writes, but Glazer’s underdog persona doesn’t resonate like it used to.

It’s hard to feel sorry for someone who, at this moment just might be the most talked about comedian on the planet. Glazer was more effective when exploring darker themes that have nothing to do with her quest for eternal youth. Apparently she did some material involving the plane crash in Washington, d C. It is unclear to me what that material it was. She got into some other stuff that I don’t even want to talk about on this podcast, but sounds like it was quote unquote outrageous.

Kevin Art has revealed that he has a new pet eagle. He has named the eagle Saquon Barkley, after the eagle’s running back. I feel like Kevin has done this bit before around the Super Bowl involving an eagle. Kevin went on Instagram on Monday, Yeah I am remembering correctly. He showed off his first pet eagle, which is named Jalen Hurts, which he says he purchased for a million five back in twenty twenty three.

Okay, I did remember that correctly. Kevin revealed he had some issue with Jalen Hurts, the pet eagle, who he says mistook Kevin for a rodent. Kevin calls in trainers to get the pet eagle Hurts properly trained, and then said, like anything, all good things come in pairs. The camera zooms out, there’s another eagle. Kevin says he dropped twelve million dollars on a rare eagle with big legs and named it Saquon Borkley.

Kevin then makes a cocktail called the Borkley Hurts using his tequila brand. Because Kevin always has to be hustling stuff. And speaking of the eagle transition, Sam Meryl spoke to The Eagle Online and that’s a college newspaper. What a terrible segue. I should be embarrassed by that.

The Eagle Online was curious if Sam knew he wanted to go into comedy by the time he was in college. Sam said, I did. Actually, my first time on stage was right after high school when school was ending, and then I was handing out flyers in my free time for stage time. When I was in college, that is awful if you’ve ever seen anybody have to do that. When I briefly went to Tulane University, I kind of got to choose some of the comics that bring down.

I had a good set in front of one of the comics they brought down. I already kind of knew I liked stand up a lot. It was kind of all on you. You could choose how hard you were going to work or how not hard you were going to work. I felt like I was missing out socially a little bit because I had friends who were like, ah, it’s a sparty night and I’m literally handing flyers out in the street and stuff like that.

But I also really liked stand up. I liked being around comics, so I did feel like I was bonding with a different type of people at that time. So you know, it was just a choice, and I think I figured, if this doesn’t work out, it’ll just be a chapter in my life. Sam was getting ready to play d C and they were curious if political jokes play differently in DC. Sam said, good question.

I haven’t been to DC in a couple of years. I think the crowd seems to be informed, but I don’t know if it plays differently. I think maybe they’re expecting it. I’ll do current events and I’ll do social commentary, but I try to keep it from being red versus blue in my act. Clearly, of course i’ll dump on a particular person, but I think when you draw the line too clearly, like there’s enough division.

It’s everywhere. So for me, pouring gasoline on fire is kind of pointless when you’re trying to give people a good night out. There’s ways to do it, I think, and I’ve done it, but I think it’s a line, you know, similar to a dark joke. There’s a line to be walked. Kat Williams has bought the Fort McClellan property.

This is in Aniston, Alabama. Kat’s plan is to turn it into a production studio. Mayor Jack Draper said, this is a sector of the economy that I think could be transformational for this region. We as a city have met with mister Williams team consistently over the last few months. You know, you’re talking about jobs.

You’re talking about construction projects not only for the city, county, but also the rein before it was closed in nineteen ninety nine. No word on when the studio might open. Joe Coy visited Duluth. He had some fun with how cold it was there he filmed a tourism video. In the video, he calls himself John McMillan, assisted to the senior Vice president of Duluf, Minnesota Department of Tourism.

Let’s listen, I think this is fun. Hi, I’m John McMillan, assistant to the senior vice president of the Duluth, Minnesota Department of Tourism. I’m here to show you the beautiful city of Duluth, Minnesota. Come follow me, sit down and enjoy the view of all water on an icy cold benches in a beautiful place to Milwaukee.

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Despite what people think, Duluth, Minnesota has black people. Oh please don’t film me. Thank you, Hi, mister Anderson O. D Lude is also known for stares for women and every day is a great day for a hot cup of coffee and d Hi mister Hernandez, I don’t know you, he knows me and stand on top of a band made snow hills and enjoyed our world famous family saunas Hi missus Segy. So next time when you’re planning a vacation.

Think all the fun things I do. Hi, mister Peterson, who mister Peterson? On Gossip Corner, TMZ reports, Corey Holcombe says he got sucker punched by a female comedian who’s hell bent on taking him down physically and financially, so he’s seeking court ordered protection. As the story goes, back in December, Corey was outside the Hollywood improv a woman put hands on him as his back was turned to her. In the documents filed Monday in LA Superior Court, Corey Holcombe claims she hurled a bunch of insults and obscenities worthy of a celebrity roost.

Among the comments, the woman allegedly made your mother is a B word. And I’ll clean this up, penis ain’t uh you know anything to look at? Really cleaning it up? There? D and s or the words that are asteriskd out in the copy I’m reading from back to his back to his d apparently shield up.

That’s why your wrist gout broke. TMZ says for the record, Corey says his wrist injury was from skateboarding, not self love. I’m glad to clear that up. Corey. A hearing was scheduled where both Corey and the woman will be able to share their versions of what happened, and then the judge was going to decide what happened.

I can’t wait to report back on that one. Will Ferrell’s working on untitled comedy project movie He’ll Start with Zac Efron. Efron will play a young convict who’s fresh out of prison. Instead of choosing to make good on his newfound freedom, the convict decides to seek revenge on the reality TV judge played by Will Ferrell, whose conviction put him behind bars. I got me curious.

Uh, what Will Ferrell has been doing lately? I called up is IMDb be it’s been a minute. His recent acting gigs going backwards. He was in four episodes of the Boys in twenty four. It was a voice indespicable me for on the TV series In the Know, he voiced Gene.

He played Terry McTeer in Quiz Lady. He was the voice of Reggie in the movie Stras. He played the Mattel CEO and Barbie That’s twenty twenty three. He appeared in Spirited In twenty twenty two, eight episodes of The Shrink next Door in twenty twenty one. He played Lars Ericsong in the Eurovision Song Contest in twenty twenty.

I’m already five years back, guys, scrolling down here, I’m not reading every single line. Played Dad in the Lego Movie two. I love the first Lego movie. I didn’t see the second one. That’s twenty nineteen.

Played Sherlock Holmes and Holmes and Watson in twenty eighteen, remember that one. Played Brad and Daddy’s Home two in twenty seventeen. He was in Zuolander two and twenty sixteen. In the Lego movie was twenty fourteen. You see what I’m saying here.

Their Anchorman two was twenty thirteen. It’s been a minute. Will feard Os will have a Netflix special at some point, no date yet. This one is titled Full Volume. I want to make sure that word doesn’t get swallowed in my accent, full fool.

In Full Volume, Feardas asked whether people should share the joy, keep it safe, or distribute it. The special was filmed in Tokyo, London, Mumbai, and New York. I’ve got two very short clips from the trailer. The trailer is mostly percussion and attitude but I pulled out a little bit. Let’s listen, this one not my dream.

This is what Mumbai does really well. Mumba’s like, what’s your dream? What’s you dream? What your dream? What’s your dream?

Movie stop? Bank manager? What’s your dream? Happily married, stable, family movie stop? No date yet on that one.

Kelsey Grammar revealed to The New York Post he didn’t talk to Ted Danson for thirty years. Kelsey said there wasn’t like a single thing that blew up their friendship, was just gradual attention. Grammer says, it got a little blown out of proportion. There really wasn’t an argument. It was at the time of my life when I was actually going through a lot of self doubt, self loathing.

Honestly, it was when I was drinking a lot. Ted had come up and said, you know, I’m kind of mad at you that sometimes you don’t show up ready to go. And I said, okay, I respect that. That was actually sort of it. Now, maybe what happened for Ted was he stepped away from what might have been a better friendship.

Maybe had just had to protect himself. I don’t really know, but I said thanks. We were fine with that. Grammar didn’t think when Ted called out his behavior that would greatly impact their relationship, but they wound up not speaking for thirty years. If you’re a younger listener, they co starred on Cheers from nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety three.

Ted Dancing last year on his podcast told Kelsey, I feel like I got stuck a little bit with you during the Cheers years. I have a memory of getting angry at you once. It’s stuck in both of our memories. But I feel like I missed out in the last thirty years of Kelsey Grammar, and I feel like it’s my bad, my doing, and I almost feel like apologizing to you. No, I do apologize to you and me that I sat back, you know, and didn’t And I really do apologize.

Grammar then thanked Ted Dancing for the apology and said he too, which is they had spent more time together. My love for you has always been as easy as the day, as easy as the sunrise. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like to picking up some new people on YouTube.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I think Jim Gaffigan actually won the Grammy’s Ny for Gietzi. He’s got a super Bowl commercial, and of course Inny Schumer wants us to talk about her. Let’s start with the Grammys.

You may have heard there was a rather big basketball trade over the weekend that led to this joke. During the break. I don’t know how to say this. Trevor Noah was traded to the Dallas Mavericks. So I know this is a shock, but I am now your host.

Really great stuff from Jim. I’ll circle back to Jim in a second line of the night. I’m going to give to the John Westlang from Threads who wrote congratulations to FX as the bear for their Grammy win for Best Comedy Album. Best Comedy Album actually went to Dave Chappelle. I’m really impressed three in a row.

First of all, you have to put out three albums three years in a row to even win, so that speaks to the quality of the work that Dave’s been putting out. I haven’t seen the reaction pieces yet, I guarantee either coming about Dave and punching down and on the transgender topic again. I have no doubt those are coming later in the week, but for now, he’s the Tom Brady of comedy. Three straight Grammys for Best Comedy Album. Nobody’s gonna do that anytime soon.

Nikki Glaser was on the red carpet. She says she is not signed to host the Golden Globes. I will take Nicki herself over the reporting, and I’ve been a part of that reporting in the past, but let’s hear it straight from Nikki Glaser. You know what, it felt so good because the goal going in was you know, I made like a mission statement before I began preparing, I was like, Okay, what I want to do is I want to be funny, but I want when I watch a ward show, I just want to feel like I’m in good hands. I want to watch someone go.

I want her to watch. I wanted to leave that Award show and have people go. I want her to host more things that was comfortable to watch. I wasn’t nervous for her, and that’s what it came away with. All the reviews were like, she looked like she was in the pocket.

She we like her to host more things. I was like, oh yeah, cheat my goal. I just wanted people to have a fun time and not feel like I was going after anyone, but like having some fun, like I thought, I really. I worked hard to hit that tone, and I felt I succeeded. I keep seeing headlines that are like, She’s got a deal to do three more.

I haven’t heard about this yet, but I think I think it would be I think I like them as much as they like me, and I would like to keep this relationship going because I had a blast doing it. It was hard work, but it was the best job I’ve ever had. I’m ready to come back and host the Golden Globes again. It was truly the most fun night I’ve had in so long. And I didn’t have a Christmas because of it, but I don’t need a Christmas.

Nikki also talked about Taylor Swift. I forget that I hosted the Golden Globes. I’m just here as like, am I allowed to be here? I’m a comedian. You feel like, if you’re not a musician, you’ve kind of feel like what am I doing?

Even though I was nominated for a Grammy this year, I still feel a little bit like out of my element, like a snuck in. I’m just trying to fit in. But yes, I feel good. Okay. Want to ask you how much did you really spend on those Taylor Swift shows?

I mean, I’m gonna say probably what, cause I would fly my friends in, I would put them up, I’d pay for their tickets, I’d buy them merch So I would say seventy to one hundred, like it was a lot. But I again, I just want to remind people. I don’t have kids, I don’t have a house. I don’t have a nice car. I don’t buy handbags.

I wear a Lulu Umon fanny pack. Like I spend my money on experiences, and that’s the number one thing to me. Does Taylor know this? Does she acknowledge your like fandom? No, but I think she’s probably a little bit like Yike’s lady, you know, like I know, come on, I mean, I’m sure she’s she loves her fans, so I’m sure she’s like that’s cool, But I don’t.

I’m not waiting for anything from her, like I truly am. Like I come at it from like I just am a fan. I like watching her perform I’m not trying to angle for any like. I wonder if she’ll give me a letter or something, you know, right, I just I like, I like to sit back and watch her shine. Taylor did not make any jokes about Joe Koy, which is a shame.

Back to gaff again, Jim was on the Red carpet and this is pretty painfully unfunny. It never gets old. But I like to thank a time Grammy loser. Yeah, you know, no, I am so thrilled to be nominated, but I uh, it’s yeah, it’s weird. I don’t have an expectation of winning.

But that’s also you know, that’s the better vibe to carry into the event. I’m so excited to be here, and I’m dressed like a Batman villain, so that’s all you need to do. Your category step too with your friends. Oh absolutely, and people are having incredible years and there’s legends, so it’s it’s it’s really just cool to be included. Well, for the record, villains usually do dress better than the hero, so that’s right.

That yes, so maybe maybe since I’m dressed like a villain, maybe I’ll win, you know, I like that, I’ll steal it be weird. It’ll be another thing to get used to winning, because I’ve never really I mean, i’ve won, you know what I mean at being nominated. We’re going to change the telepromver so fast in the event that you win. If I win. Yeah, now I’ll do it where I won.

I can’t believe I won. What does this mean to you? It was so great and I feel like, you know, I’m just so humbled by all of it.

And now we’ll do it where I have to split it with someone.

Okay, where we splitting it with Nikki Trevor. I think it’s Nicky all right here, We’re gonna do it where. I’m like, I’m so happy for Nicky Nikki one. And you know, I’m so happy also for Trevor for winning because he you know, he’s been part of the Grammys, and I think he was great tonight. I’m so happy for Ricky, you know what I mean.

It’s like, it’s good that he’s being acknowledged. And I’m and I’m thrilled for Dave because finally he’s he’s winning something. I mean, he hasn’t ever lost, but I’m so happy that Dave Chappelle, a legend, is here to take every single award from every comedian. Aprigetzi will start in a super Bowl ad for door Dash. Now what’s interesting is usually they released the Super Bowl commercials early.

They didn’t release the commercial, they released a teaser for the commerce. So let’s listen when. We say five dollars on that takeout order, five dollars saved on my. Six hours and savings all crucial order. That to consider Corofesion starters.

Equals that’s a fifteen that I trimmed a little bit. The ad during the super Bowl will be a thirty. Nate told Variety, I used DoorDash regularly. I used it two nights ago. I’m only not using it right now because I’m in a hotel, and then I’ll be back at it.

DoorDash approached him after hearing Nate joke about DoorDash during his most recent SNL appearance. Of producing commercials, Nate says, it’s like, you know, making a mini movie. There’s not a live audience or anything, but it was all still enjoyable. I’m in trouble if I ever go to something that’s not going to be fun. He had hoped to keep his super Bowl project quiet.

He debated whether or not he should tell his parents. He did. He’s now excited for more people to see him, he said, not a lot of people. It’s gonna be a big, big surprise that it’s happening, and I can’t wait to see what people think. John Stewart lost a bet and he had to go to the next game.

At Madison Square Garden. Decked out in Philadelphia Eagles gear, John was booed by the Nicks. Faithful John had a bet against Nick star Jalen Brunson. They had bet on the Eagles Giants game and the Giants lost. John had to pay up in a Saquon Barkley Jersey.

Saquon used to play for the Giants, now plays for the Eagles. Jalen came over to compliment John’s fit.

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Also at the Knixt game, Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her.

She’s got a movie coming out Wednesday, and boy, Amy, for the amount of press you’ve been doing, for the amount of stories’s been sharing, this movie better be good. Because if it’s not good and you’ve used your entire arsenal promoting it, I don’t know where that leaves you. You know, During halftime at the Knicks Lakers game, the Knick City Dancers invited Amy to the court. The cheerleading squad called out Amy, who pretended to be shocked at the gesture and then flawlessly executed a dance to Uptown Girl by Billy Joel. She was recreating an iconic scene from her film train Wreck, which came out ten years ago.

The coordinated number featured Amy Schumer front and center. The dance ended with a group pos Amy blue kisses to the crowd. The crowd included Lebron James of the Lakers, who was also in train Wreck. She also was given the title Rookie of the Year. In a feature on the Nick City Dancers Instagram, Olivia Munn went on Amy’s instat and wrote, this is iconic.

Chelsea Handler added yes, Katie Couric, who was at MA, she wrote, so glad I was there to witness this go Amy. Amy has revealed that she called Kim Kardashian to get permission for a joke that’s in the new movie. Amy was on a satellite radio program and said, I want to make the show where I’m reading a kid instead of a bedtime story at Tabloid. I pitched Kim a couple jokes. I asked if she would mind.

She didn’t mind. How cool is she? Spoilers in case you’re excited about Amy’s upcoming movie. There once was a family of beautiful princesses called the Kardashians, and they lived in a palace that their dad bought them by defending a murderer. According to Amy, Kim had no issue with the joke about her father, Robert Kardashian.

Amy said, She’s like, yeah, I do the one about my dad defending a murderer. She was that chill. She’s such a good sport kind of pregnant. Out tomorrow. Are you excited?

Yeah? So you need something to watch tonight. Good news Hulu has acquired the rights to Stavros Haukias’s Let’s Start a Cult. That was the Indie Dirk comedy co written and executive produced and storing Stavros. It is out on Hulu now.

Pete Davidson has revealed how many tattoos out of his two hundred he will keep. Pete told Jimmy Fallon, maybe like two or three. Pete told Felon that he probably had like two hundred tattoos, most of which are almost gone. Now I’ve been burning them off. They burn off the layer of your skin.

Then it has to heal for six to eight weeks. You can’t get in the sunlight, and then you’ve got to do it like twelve more times. Fallon was curious why he had gotten so many tattoos. Pete said, I don’t know. Everybody was getting tattoos like five years ago.

Remember that Fox Business reported on Matt Rife digging the Rhode Island suburbs. Raife said, there were three things on my checklist. I wanted to get what I was actually paying for. There was a massive place that was probably the same price as a two bedroom with no yard in La I needed to have some kind of comedy scene, and Providence has the comedy connection out there. Great Club Boston’s forty five minutes away, an amazing comedy scene and convenient for travel.

Providence is like my Burdbank Airport in Boston is like my lax. How did he find Rhode Island? You know what I mean? He said, I was performing on Vehican Son five shows something like that. Mohegan Sun is a casino in Connecticut.

If you’re not familiar with Mohican Sun. Thus northeasterns or mohegan Sun was an hour away and we were on I don’t know Zillo and I was like, oh, I’ll peep this real quick, and we went and checked it out, and I was like, this costs like one show at mohegan Son. Awesome. Fox Business reports Rife’s comedy tour grossed more than most of the biggest names in comedy last year, topping everybody but Nate. Nate’s tour reportedly had a net gross of eighty two point two million dollars last year, selling over one million tickets.

According to Billboard, rif’s two hundred and fifty six shows sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand or so tickets, grossing fifty seven and a half million dollars. Always good to hear from the listeners. I heard from andres who reacted to my commentary over the weekend where I explained I’m a slider. In case you missed it, at some point, I’m from a different universe. At some point I made the jump from where I’m from to this universe where you guys spell the names of certain celebrities differently.

Where I’m from. The guy from Flight of the Concords is named Jermaine Clement with an R Andres roade, Hey, man, I heard what you said about Jermaine. I’m not sure if it was specifically spelled with a J or could have been a G, but definitely had an R. On Flight of the Concords. Thank you.

Andres is currently where I’m from. A new book called Fight Inside the Wildless Battle for the White House claims that Elon Musk and Dana White convinced Joe Rogan not to interview Kamala Harris. The book claims Harris’s team wanted to do Rogan and was willing to accommodate Rogan. Rogan’s team had insisted on doing the interview at Rogan’s studio. The only time Rogan has traveled for a guest was in twenty nineteen to speak with whistleblower Edward Snowden.

According to the book, given Rogan’s demands, the Harris team rearranged her schedule to do a campaign event in Texas. As the story goes, Harris’s deputy campaign manager told Rogan, we could do Friday, the twenty fifth. One of Rogan’s reps said, which we had known about the sooner because he has the twenty fifth, blocked out as a personal day campaign person. What about Saturday morning? Rogan’s team only if it’s before eight thirty am, campaign manager, the Vice president of the United States is offering to come to your effing show, and you keep putting up more hoops.

The Harris team continue to try and make it work. Then Rogan was like, nah, never mind. On October twenty fifth, the day that Rogan had the personal day, Trump was in Austin. Who appear on Rogan’s podcast. I guess that makes sense that you can’t tell the Harris campaign that Trump is coming the day that you want to do it, So that all makes sense to me.

Fun story regardless of that, is your comedy news for today. If you are finding the program on the new YouTube, a twenty four to seven stream, what I’ve done is I’ve created just an audio channel that plays, say, like the last two weeks of this program on a loop. If you’re finding this program this way, there’s no video. I know you figure that out by now, but like people get mad and they’re like, oh, oh, there’s no video Because there’s no video. It’s an audio podcast that I stuck up on YouTube.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with an early release of Monday’s episode in Today’s Daily Comedy News. It’s about a twenty pm Sunday night. I just watched Trevor Noah open up the Grammy Awards, and, as they say in comedy, he ate it. Not a good monologue at all.

I had the laptop out and I was gonna pull clips and there’s nothing to pull. Really flat monologue. Now you may recall Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes with nine days notice, if I remember correctly, and he didn’t do all that well, although he was much better than Trevor was tonight. Trevor only got announced hosting this a few weeks ago, so maybe there is something too needing to work on these award shows for several weeks. But I wish I had more to say about Trevor.

I’m on social media, people on Twitter and on threads and Facebook as well. Nobody reacting well to Trevor and Noah’s monologue. It’s still early. Maybe things look get better. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Dave Chappelle for The Dreamer, his twenty twenty three New Year’s Eve Netflix special.

That was the one where Dave joked I love punching down. So I’m sure we will have Dave Chappelle reaction pieces all week from the people who get mad that Dave Chappelle even exists. This is Dave’s third win in a row in the category and his sixth win overall. So right now he is the Tom Brady of comedy. I mean six Grammys, three in a row, three peat for Chappelle.

Yeah, we’ll break that down in the upcoming days. Nikki Glaser was at the Golden Globes. She found out walking into the arena she hadn’t won. She said, I already lost. I know what happens.

They gave my award away already. Dave Chappelle got it. There’s no ceremony like televis so I’m getting my hair and makeup done and it’s already been determined that I didn’t win. The Comedy Album was announced around five pm Easter and I saw it in social media and Nicky said, no one texted me about it. I just had the most random person in my life, goes Dave Sappelle.

Again, I go, what are you writing about? No one on my team bad News wants to tell me. They just want you to find out the hard way. She was excited that Taylor Swift was gonna be there. She said, Taylor’s not performing, but she’s presenting, so I’ll get to hear her talk and be poetic in that way.

So I’ll take it. I just can’t wait to see what she’s wearing. I can’t wait to see her talk and maybe reveal something. You know, we’re used to her announcing something. I’m so excited it’s been a while.

I will not be bothering her. I’m gonna play it cool. There’s no need to be worried about what I’m going to do, all right. More about the Grammys on Tuesday’s episode.

In other news for US old people, Netflix announced that Eddie, a new document…

In Eddie, Eddie Murphy looks back on his extraordinary journey and looks ahead at what’s still to come. The film chronicles his rise from teen comic phenom to SNL breakout and stand up super nova to box office titan. I wonder if Eddie will be at SNL fifty. I guess he absolutely will. Especially if he’s going to be promoting something like this, which is a victory lap.

The doc illuminates the evolution of Eddie Murphy, the trails he blazed and records he broke on his way from Brooklyn Upstart to Hollywood. Icon can tell several publicists and probably an agent and a manager worked on this paragraph. In the film, the Oscar nominated actor opens up his home and dives deep into his eclectic, nearly fifty year career. In his own words, he talks about entertaining three generations of fans with a filmography that spans comedy, action, drama, animation, musicals, and family fair Friends. Co stars, directors, and fellow comics offer insight into Murphy’s singular life and career and the influence that has had with breakthrough stand up films like Raw Eighties Megahits, Beverly Hills, cop coming to America and trading places through nineties classics like The Nutty Professor, the Shrek franchise in the two thousands, to his Oscar nominated performance in dream Girls.

We kind of skipped the last twenty years there, I see. Dream Girls came out in two thousand and six. In case you’re curious. I don’t know if you know this. Amy Schumer has got a movie coming out on Wednesday, and Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we will.

Now, how will Amy get us to talk about her? Today? With this headline? Amy Schumer reveals harsh joke she told Adam Sandler after Adam Sandler fled from the wildfires. Now, I have the clip from the tonight show.

I’m going to play it for you. I want you to pay close attention here. Pay close attention to poor Jimmy Fallon trying to pretend this is funny there with a visual Jimmy Steward that the poor guy is just faking it. Here, let’s listen. Adam Sandler, who is I mean, the greatest.

What was it like working with Adam Sandler? He’s such a perfectionist, Like he’s like, it’s just what you hoped it would because, I mean, obviously everyone like we’ve all grown up watching all of his movies, and it’s like, don’t you quote his movies like twice a day by accident? Yeah, of course, no conditioner is better like you. Every day. I did make a joke to him the other night that I don’t know how this is going to go.

But he was just you know, his family is like, you know, some some people, one of the people who’ve been affected by the wildfires, and you know, and he’s sitting at this dinner with us. She’s like, yeah, I just had to grab like two shirts and get out of there. And I’m looking at his shirt and I’m like, and you grabbed that one? You know? Did you see the Hawaii And.

I’m like, is that that’s some one new outline? Does you gotta make you gotta make your friends laugh? He laughed, he’s a good, good audience. Well, we all need comedies. So we got to watch this movie.

Only two more days until Kind of Pregnant. Amy Schumer’s movie is on Netflix on Wednesday. Can’t Wait. The Sydney Morning Herald caught up with Eliza Selessenger. She’s going to be at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

That’s not until April, but she was doing some early press. Eliza explained, to be a successful comedian, you have to come up with funny observations that people can relate to. But they’ve never heard anyone say before. She explains, we’re all thinking the same thing, so it’s about tapping into the things people were too afraid to say. How you know, it’s a good joke because when people confess after oh my god, I also shaved my big tail, where I’ve also had those weird thoughts about our principle or something like that.

The more vulnerable and honest we are as humans, the more we realize just how weird and connected we all are. The article tells us she’s had six Netflix specials today six and has built up a fan base so passionate that some make art based on her work. Eliza said, to see my art digested and given back to me, presents it on someone’s shirt or in a painting or drawing, It’s an incredible exchange. Although she has champions some liberal causes, she explains, I think you might have an idea of how I vote, but I kind of run down the middle politically at this stage of my career. When you buy a ticket to see Eliza Selesznger, you’re buying a ticket to escape and to feel seen, not to come to a political rally.

We’ll save that from my online rants. I definitely have the freedom to say whatever I like, but because it’s your freedom and you’re right, doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea. I think people have to understand the intention, both the people being offended and the people enjoying it. My intention is always to entertain and uplift. It’s never hurt anyone’s feelings.

When people don’t watch the full joke or someone’s full hour, they remove intension and then we’re all just defending each other. I find that the people most nervous about the woke stuff tend to be white men who are tired of being told that they’re wrong. The truth is, setting out to find anyone for a cheap laugh, you’re probably gonna be okay at the end of the day. We could all consider each other a little bit more. However, on the other side, I think people need to tough it up so per usual, right in the middle and take no side.

James Austin Johnson was on Seth Meyer’s show. He broke out an impression of Kamala Harris. Let’s listen, this is Kamala Harris hosting a cooking competition. Here we go, let’s try it. I think what the American people want to know is can the remaining five chefs take these family food classics cheeseburger and fries, meat loaf and mashed potatoes, vegetable lasagna and utilize those ingredients to create a five star gourmet meal for Debbie May’s our Bobby Fla and Michael Rappaport.

You have three hours not bad. As we recently discussed in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us in conversation there. His Trump has been drifting a little bit the kamala urright. I don’t know what you do with it, especially at this point, but okay. The La Times asked Gabe Iglacy as how he got involved with Funko pops.

Gabe said, I wasn’t a fan of them at first. I didn’t know what they were. Someone pulled me aside and they’re like, these are really popular, and I’m like, it’s weird looking. I started looking into it, and the next thing I know, we make a phone called a funk Go and said, hey, you guys have TV Funko pops, you have movie funkel pops. You don’t have comedians.

You guys should have comedians. There’s a lot of funny comics out there. I told them I’m interested in being the first, and they’re like, well, we know who you are, but that’s not a thing. Two years later we tried again. They said, well, we know who you are and we’re not interested in licensing, but if you’re serious, we’ll produce the figures for you, and you have to buy so many and you sell them.

We won’t even carry them in our stores, but we’ll make them, Gabe said, The founder of Funko, later admitted to me they should have licensed my doll when they could, because I sold so many. I think we’re on model number eleven. Now. It’s about persistence. I think a lot of times people give up easily.

And you know, if for first you don’t succeed, try try again. From true to old Jermaine Clement, you know him from Flight of the Concords, by the way, I don’t know if you know this. At some point in my life I switched to universes. I can’t explain this, but like I became a slider. I’m from the universe where the guy on Flight of the Concords his name was Germaine.

There was an R in his name at some point where I’m from. But now I’m in this universe where I sit in the Basement and I host a podcast. But where I’m from, his name was Jermaine Clement and the woman from Game of Thrones was Lena. He’d lee there was an extra Ellen there where I’m from. I don’t know what happened.

You might say Mendela effect, but I’m telling you I definitely switched universes. Anyway, Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Concords will star in a Disney Plus comedy. All we know is it’s a series from the makers of Baby Reindeer. No details about the plot, no details about the casting. Jeff Ross was at the Creative Coalition’s Washington, DC event honoring military service organizations, and Ross ripped into some people who think that comedy should be watered down.

Jeff said, people they don’t want their comedy water down. They wanted potent right to the stomach, and that’s what I try to do. The reporter asked or certain topics off limits? Jeff said, no topics are off limits. Now.

The kind of comedy I’ve always done is okay for my fans. Roast fans are the most dedicated. They don’t care about what any fake rules are. What’s funny is funny. You know, there are always be people who are going to pretend to be offended, but those are the people that offend me, you know, hypocrites.

Quick stop. On gossip Corner, a source close to Pete Davison tells people that Pete is still friends with pretty much all his exes, including Kim Kardashian. The insider also shared that nothing bad happened between him and Madelin Kline just ran its course. He and Kim still talk occasionally. He’s a good guy and they root for him.

Jeremy Piven’s going to be doing some stand up comedy this week at the Arlington Improv on the seventh and eighth. Pivens says, this has been an incredible journey. You have to face your fears, and one of my greatest fears was stand up. So for about a decade now been out there touring, just getting up on stage, working through it. It’s been amazing.

Being funny isn’t enough. You can make people laugh, sure, but standing up there alone it’s a whole different game. You learn real fast. Your material hast to land. You have to connect.

Once you get that first laugh, though, it’s like, okay, this is possible. He knows people think they’re coming to see Ari Gold. He leans into it and he says, I tell stories about having guys come up to me a urinal smacking on the back like I’m a douchebag because of you. And he laughs and says it’s like, dude, I’m just trying to pee here. That’s your comedy news for today.

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