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Caloroga Shark Media. Shane Gillis teaming up with NASCAR. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, and boy, it has been beautiful in the Northeast and it’s volleyball night, so I am kind of sighted, all right. As for Shane Gillis, he’s going to be part of season two of Netflix’s Full Speed. For season two, they’re putting the drivers out in front, specifically Chase Brisco.

You know Chase from Joe Gibbs Racing. Brisco and Shane did a cross promotion between NASCAR and the Tires show. Netflix shared on Instagram at Sires and Full Speed the collab we’ve all been waiting for. Sire season two premiere’s June fifth. Full Speed season two premieres May seventh, only on Netflix.

Not too much is known yet other than a picture of the two. But that’s fun. Tires is a really good show. If you haven’t seen it, binge it six episodes in and out, fun, funny, Shane doing Shane things. It is perfect.

Love it. Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News and compared La and Austin. He thinks the politics of LA are terrible, but prefers checks ins over Californians. Tim explains, La has a lot of problems, but La is a massive, world class city like New York. Austin is a small college town.

There’s no comparison. Austin’s a growing city, but it doesn’t have the infrastructure. It’s an ugly place. It’s kind of brown, and the lake is green and it’s warm and gross. And you know, my job’s to be honest about things.

I don’t live in places because of the politics. I’d rather live in California and argue with people and tell them they’re wrong and try to save it. You know, Tim, Is there anything that would make you leave La? Tim said, no, I mean I have homes in New York and La. I’m rich.

I can live wherever I want. You know. I tend to just go not as rich as I should be. Watch the special John Clees was making the rounds. It was the fiftieth anniversary of The Holy Grail.

Clease told the Hollywood Reporter, we had no idea what we were doing. We were very lucky. There was some extremely funny material in The Holy Grail. We somehow got it together because Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam managed to co direct. It was the usual Python chaos, with one of them creeping down to the editing room and re editing something while the other one was asleep upstairs.

That kind of thing. Then it opened. It was a complete surprise hit. We were thrilled because it was the last thing we expected when we started Python. The general feeling was what on earth are these people doing?

ABBC type boss bumped into our director and elevator and said, is this show supposed to be funny? I think it’s awful, That was the head of the department. One consistent theme almost everything I’ve done is that eighty five percent of the people at the top have no idea what they’re doing. John said, Python, it’s quite well known, although I think the younger people don’t know about it really. The Hollyood reporter was curious why that might be, or it’s just because the years have gone by, and Clee said, I’d like to say it’s because American culture, not the individuals, but American culture has gotten more trivial.

It’s all about short attention span. In my day, there were many more good shows about good subjects. The subjects that people are now making movies and TV shows. They just astound me. It’s either people dressed in a cross between Star Trek and something medieval.

Add a few flying dragons, you know what I mean. It’s either that or it’s the most extraordinary, sordid stuff, which I know was. But why people would want to watch it on television, I don’t know. The recent thing had such a huge success. What’s it called, Single World about a boy who kills the girl?

The Hollywood porter said, adolescence. Clease, yes, adolescence. Tragic, absolutely tragic. But it amazes me that people would want to watch it. So my take on the Python thing.

I know how I got into a Monty Python because I grew up in the seventies and we had what seven channels in New York City, and I saw in the TV guide, remember TV Guide, there was something called circus. So I put on Channel thirteen expecting to see a circus because I’m a kid, and like, okay, what else am I going to watch? I’ll watch a circus And it turned out to be this other thing, you know, So we didn’t have that much stuff. There’s just a lot more media now. As I like to explain people like, you know, do you ever get bored I’m like, I have over seven hundred hours of Star Trek.

Now there’s twelve Star Wars movies. I’m never going to get bored at this point. But when I was a kid, there were only seventy nine episodes of Star Trek, so you had seen them all a zillion times, so we consumed monty Python. Now these kids, these days, there’s so many options. I don’t know why they’d watch a fifty year old series, even though it’s hilarious.

Clease said, I’m in the process of making three hours for television sort of Life of CLEAs with masses and masses of archives stuff, because I’ve got archive stuff coming out my ears. What I’m doing in the third of those shows is saying how sad it is there’s so little comedy, and what good effect comedy has on people. I go to these comic cons sometimes there are people coming up to me in large numbers saying thank you for helping me through difficult periods of my life, because when you laugh, you move your center of gravity to a place that can cope a bit better with the problems of life. Cleese does not love the ending to the Holy Grail. He explains, yeah, it stops being very funny towards the end, and the ending is the best we could come up with.

It’s a joke that’s so bad. I have a version of the ending, and as far as I can see, people like it better than the original one. It’s just spared down. The original one just takes too long to try and build up the tension. It would be much better if it had been edited, but I think for the first hour so the film is extraordinarily funny.

It tails off a little bit, but I’m delighted people like it so much. I’ll pick more at this tomorrow. I got to work with the Pythons on their fortieth anniversary. Yeah, that would make sense. We got to put together Monty Python Radio and worked with the guy.

So that’s one of the pleasures of my career. John Clees is eighty five years old now. Seth Meyer spoke to Deadline about the changing of Late Night. He says, for every exciting new edition, like what Malaney’s doing, it feels like one or two things fall off. He had very nice things to say about Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight.

It always just sort of breaks my heart because this was such a cool destination for people in comedy, meaning the twelve thirty five slot. You know, I was lucky enough to have this obviously be the step for me after SNL. The cool thing that After Midnight was doing was not only did they have a host, it was really a nice place for three comedians to get to do their things. So it’s disappointing. It’s never good when comedy platforms go away.

Malaney. Tonight has Molly Shannon, Mark Marin, Ronny Chieng, and music from John Cale and Maggie Rogers. Let’s see if Ronny Chieng can bust through there. I think he has the personality type to do so. Molly Shannon, I think will thrive.

I could see Mark Marin sinking into the couch and not knowing how to handle all this. We’ll see tonight. I find myself increasingly thankful for Nikki Glaser because sometimes I need like one or two more stories and a Google Nikki Glaser, and something always comes up. She was named to the Time one hundred Most Influential People of twenty twenty five. Congratulations.

She then joked that her next step is to go to space, and then she backed off, saying just kidding, no, no, no, I don’t want to go to space, not only because of the backlash I will face, but I just have no interest in going to space. I want to enjoy the riches of my success. I think I’ve been trying to maintain it like don’t go away, and I haven’t really enjoyed any of it, like you’re just trying to keep it. I want to relax and let it in a bit. Rommy Yousef will be the speaker at Rutgers University’s Newark May twenty second commencement.

Rommy went to the school from twenty nine to twenty eleven and majored in polysci. He left before graduating to become an entertainer. That seems to have worked out, and there’s been a lot of Romy press lately. In a statement, he said, thirteen years ago, I took a break from Rutgers to pursue acting. That break is now over.

I’m honored to be giving this year’s commencement speech finally receive a college degree. Thank you Rutgers for this honor, for making my parents feel like the three semesters of tuition they paid for was actually worth it. Spotify said they paid more than one hundred million dollars to podcast publishers. Some of those podcasters include Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn. Rogan reportedly has a Spotify deal worth up to two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Meanwhile, Patreon said they paid out upwards of four hundred and seventy two million dollars to podcasters for more than six point seven million paid memberships in twenty twenty four. There’s a lot of money to be made in podcasting. For example, you could run a few commercials in the middle of your show. I feel like I do this next story. Every year the headline the cost of the Edinburgh Fringe means comedy is becoming more elitist.

This time it’s comedian Matt Ford who’s saying that Edinburgh is expensive to performat. We hear this every year. He says, the Edinburgh model is making it almost impossible to become a working class successful comedian in this country. Every year we hear stories of how you have to promote your own show. Oh, and it’s hard to find a place to stay, and people like sleeping in cars and bathroom tubss and tents and I don’t know for it’said a lot of comedy clubs.

The money’s gone backwards since when I first started gigging, the money has gotten worse. The La Times caught up with Brett Goldstein watch his special on Max if you haven’t. The Times was curious if there’s anything American stand ups can learn from British comedy. Brett said, it’s not what the stand ups could learn, it’s what the clubs could learn. In American clubs, it’s relentless.

There’s three hundred acts goes on for hours, and there’s table service and people getting up. It’s insane to me because there’s this constant distraction going on all the time. As for Brett’s specific I made it moment, he says after doing Sesame Street. I mean everything else is a bonus. That’s great.

There’s a new comedy stage show that will explore the rivalry between Oasis and Blur. It is titled The Battle. What’s this about? Nineteen ninety five was a time when music was deeply woven into the fabric of culture, dominating the news and end lines. Unlike today’s fragmented scene.

We aim to transport audiences back to that thrilling summer. Expect a show so packed with filthy language and razor sharp dialogue. The Battle Old Tour the UK before stint on London’s West End. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York has announced a few things, a new session of How Comedy Gets Made, a National Comedy Center Online certificate course. The online program is designed for creatives, professional students, and comedy enthusiasts who want to explore the creative and business aspects of comedy, from writing and performance to production and distribution.

Seven and fifty bucks, but they got Bill Hayter and Paula Poundstone not too shabby. New York Times caught up with Mike Myers. He’s been a little political lately, you know, little US versus Canada. Mike said, I’m also an American citizen. I took my oath very seriously.

That’s what’s so crazy. Americans are the last people you’d think wuldever be a threat to us. Myers took Partner TV ad for the Liberal Party featuring Prime Minister Mark Karney. Myers wore a never fifty one Jersey. Meyer said he wanted the ads to reaffirm his own canadianess and endorsed mister Kearney.

Myers explained, I wanted to be like, I know, I don’t live there anymore, and let’s talk at that. I thought it would be funny if the Prime Minister of Canada ran an identity test on me. Bringing this back to comedy, Meyer says, fascism doesn’t like to be ridiculed, It likes to be feared. Satire is an important tool in the toolbox that says this is not normal, that the cuts he’s making are not normal. I believe that he there refers to a prominent American politician, Send your notes to Mike Myers.

Mike quotes Joni Mitchell saying, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. The possibility of it all being gone has raised our consciousness of how great we are. That is your comedy news for today, See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A little bit of a weird one today. The stories are more doom and gloom than I usually present to you. Let’s start with Nathan Fielder.

He’s getting into it with Paramount Plus. He is upset that Plus has removed an episode of the Comedy Central series Nathan for You. Nathan complained about this during Sunday’s episode of HBO’s The Rehearsal. In the rehearsal, Fielder explains that one of his proudest achievements is creating the Summit Ice apparel brand, which he launched during season three, episode two of Nathan for You back in twenty fifteen. The point of the brand was to promote Holocaust awareness.

In the episode of the rehearsal, Nate says, in late twenty twenty three, I discovered that the episode of Nathan for You featuring the Summit Ice story mysteriously went missing from the Paramount Plus streaming service. Has this gone by for two years without any of us noticing? I don’t know. In the HBO series, Fielder recreates the moment he learned about the removal. He directs Alexander Lyce, who’s playing fake Nathan in the rehearsal, to retype his email correspondent to Paramount in a voiceover, real Nathan, Fielder says, this is so complicated.

I wrote an email to some contacts I had at Paramount asking them why the episode was removed. The thing that made this tricky was Paramount is currently airing a different series of Mind as scripted drama that hadn’t yet been renewed. How I spoke to them could have career repercussions. I remember wanting to convey how urgent this was for me. My email was extremely cordial, using phrases like forever grateful and happy Holidays.

The network confirmed in the response that it was taken down intentionally and gave me a one word explanation as to why the word was Sensitivities Entertainment Weekly dug on this, and they are reporting that they’ve learned Paramount Plus is not streaming the episode after a standards review, but it’s unclear which of the company’s standards the episode failed to meet. Fielder’s narration says. In late twenty twenty three, a decision was made by Paramount Plus Germany to remove the episode in their region after they became uncomfortable with what they called anything that touches on anti Semitism in the aftermath of the Israel Hamas attacks. Nathan claims the German decision caused other countries to remove the episode, quoting the narration, before long, the ideology of Paramount Plus Germany had spread to the entire globe, eliminating all Jewish content that made them uncomfortable. This is real, by the way.

Fielder then shared some stats about programming currently available in the US on Paramount Plus. According to Fielders narration, on the Paramount app, there are fifty results for Nazi, ten for Hitler, and zero for Judaism. We’ve been erased anyway. You will find the rehearsal on max if you want to check that out for yourself. Joe Cooi has commented on a tragedy at a recent Filipino Canadian street festival in Vancouver, where eleven people were killed dozens more injured a man drove a black suv through a crowd who had gathered for the festival.

On his Facebook page, Joe coy said, I am heartbroken here what took place at the Vancouver Filipino festival. This is supposed to be an event that honors and celebrates our beautiful culture, and now we’re mourning the loss of eleven lives that were taken too soon. My heart goes out to everyone who’s affected by this horrific event. I love you.

Meanwhile, Kevin Hart has canceled his tour of India, which was scheduled to …

The organizers posted a statement on Instagram saying important update. In light of the recent tragic events, we along with Kevin Hart’s team, have decided to cancel the upcoming Delhi show scheduled for April thirtieth. We are working closely with Kevin Hort’s team on a new schedule and we’ll share updates soon. While we were looking forward to gathering with all of you, we believe it’s important to pause and stand in solidarity with all those affected. This terror attack took place on April twenty second and claimed the lives of twenty six people.

Now there is no way to smoothly transition into the rest of the news. Those were three heavy stories to start the show, which is why at the beginning I told you your typical show. So let me just jump at the pool and tell you. Sebastian Maniscalco will start in Apple’s first original scripted podcast. This one is called Easy Money The Charles Ponzi Story eight part series premiering June twenty third.

It traces the rise and fall of the man who gave the Ponzi scheme his name. Ponzi was an Italian immigrant who in nineteen twenty defrauded the modern day equivalent of a quarter of a billion dollars. Now this is a I assume an audio podcast, but they showed mister Ponzi and Sebastian’s side by side. It’s good physical casting. Sebastian looks a lot more like mister Ponzie than say I do.

Man of Scalco said, Charles Ponzie was a larger than life character. He wasn’t just a con artist. He was the con artist. Stepping into his shoes and bringing this unbelievab story to life has been a wild ride. Easy Money The Charles Ponzie Story is a fascinating look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, and Johnny Mack will comment that sentence clearly written by a publicist, There’s no way.

Sebastian just off the top of his head, phrased it easy money. The Charles Ponzie story is a fascinat look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, a masterclass in term deception and the price of believing in something too good to be true. It’s always sunny. Season seventeen comes back, well not season seventeen, but the show comes back July ninth. This is the second half of the crossover with Abbott.

Elementary Charlie Day has indicated that he and Rob and Glenn are already working on season eighteen. That’s great. Charlie was on Andrew Santino’s golf podcast No Bad Lies, and Charlie explains, in this town, when you get the opportunity to do something, you take it. Plus it’s been great for me. I don’t know, it’s kept me in town.

I’m getting on the back half of raising his sun. I’ve been around. He knows who I am. There was a time when there were a lot of big comedy movies happening, and I thought maybe I was gonna be on the road more often, and those just kind of dried up. So I’m glad I didn’t quit my TV day job.

You know, here’s John’s advice. Never quit a hit show. Like say you’re Kelsey Grimmer and somebody says, hey, you want to be Fraser. You get I think he did eight seasons of Cheers, eleven more of Fraser and then two more of the other other Fraser. That’s a good gig.

Hey, Patrick Stewart, you want to be Captain Picard. Sure, I’ll be Captain McCard. And I’ve heard Patrick Stewart explain this. By being Captain McCard it gives him the money to do Shakespeare in the Park for free, which is what he really wants to do. So sure, I’ll do seven seasons of the Next Generation.

I’ll do three seasons of Picard. I’ll make four movies. Why not never quit a hit show. Jay Leno showing up in the news a lot lately. He did a podcast called In Depth with Graham and Bensinger.

I have downloaded it. I didn’t get a chance to listen to it yet. One of the stories Leno told was about when Jimmy Kimmel came on my show and humiliated me on my own show. I let it happen I didn’t edit it. It was my mistake.

I trusted somebody and went, ah, I made a mistake. Okay, I should pay the price. And it’s fine. I mean, we could have edited out of the show. Graham was curious why he didn’t make the edit.

Leno said, because it happened. It’s real, it happened. It’s my mistake. It’s how you learn. It’s not good TV for me because it started a whole thing that continues to this day.

Really, but it’s okay, it’s all right. He’s a comic. Gotta do what you gotta do. I mean, I wouldn’t have done it, but that’s okay, that’s all right. It is what it is.

You may recall back in twenty ten, Kimmel went on The Tonight Show and gave Leno the business for the whole Leno Conan Back to Leno thing. During the interview, Leno asked Kimmel about the best prank he ever pulled. Kimmel said, and this is both vicious and hilarious. I told the guy that five years from now, I’m going to give you my show.

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And then when the five years came, I gave it to him.

And then I took it back almost instantly. In twenty seventeen, Jimmy Kimmel told The Hollywood Reporter that the two comedians had made peace. This after Jimmy Sun underwent open heart surgery. Jay told the reporter, Jay and I have made peace. After my son had his operation.

He called me and he was very nice. However, after Conan hosted the Oscars, Kimmel Joe Conan did such a good job. The Oscars announced that next year they’re giving it to Jay Leno, which is just a joke. I don’t think he can get too angry about that one. Bert Kreischer was on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and the Internet is all a buzz because on the show’s Instagram we see that this is shocking.

You’re not gonna believe this. Bert Kreischer took his shirt off. That’s right, yes, so I’ve never heard of that before. Bert Krescher took off his shirt before making his way through Jennifer Hudson’s Spirit Tunnel as crew members saying Nelly’s it’s hot in here. The show even captured the clip on Instagram.

It’s getting hot in here with at Bert Krascher. So in a shocking development. It was Saturday night and I was awake at ten o’clock. That may have had something to do with Johnny Mack passed out in the chair playing MLB the show twenty five from like five point thirty to seven. It might have had something to do with that.

So at ten o’clock I was like, Oh, Brett Goldstein is on Max right now, I will watch it. I enjoyed it. I found it really nice company. Is it the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard? No, but I just enjoyed spending the hour with Brett Goldstein.

The specials called second best Night of your Life, and I have added it to my best of twenty five list, which is very thin. Right now. I have in the top tier Krasier, Goldstein, and Tim Dillon in that order, and none of those will be number one. We’ll obviously bretton Tim won’t because they’re already two and three. But Bert should not be the best special of the year.

If it is, it’s been a pretty poor year. These will be in the top tier, but they should be at the bottom of the top tier if we have a typical twenty twenty five. I also have my middle tier of perfectly fine specials of Roy Wood, Ari Shafir and Gabe Iglesias, and I actually want to add one. I’ll do that right now. I’ve typed in the number four and I will tell you who number four is.

It’s Jessica Curson. Yeah, I put that on now. This is when I get into my It’s not comedy snobbery, but if you listen enough, you can tell I kind of like quirky things and alt things, and I definitely like British comedians. I’m aware of all those biases. I have.

Jessica’s show I think for a casual someone who’s sitting down and saying, hey, I just want to watch comedy special. I don’t know too much about stand up. If they hit play, they’re gonna go wow. That was really funny. I really like her and it is funny.

It reminded me a lot of the Bobby Slaton style of comedy. And it’s not my cup of tea, but it’s a perfectly fine comedy special. Does that makes sense? So not for me, but might be for you. Check out Jessica Curson.

In fact, I think the average person will prefer Jessica over Brett. But I really liked Brett. I just found it easy on the ears and enjoyed hanging out with Britt Goldstein four an hour on Saturday Night. It looks like comedian Benny Elbows did break the world record for the world’s longest stand up comedy set. The video has to be submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for official confirmation.

We’ll see what they wind up saying. In the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group, Aaron shared an article titled some SNL fans are worried about Colin Joe’s future on the show, and they could have a point. All right, So what’s going on here for the season finale? Scarlett Johansson is your host? Scarlett Johansson married to Colin Jost.

Also, somebody has done the math that episode will be Colin Jost’s two hundredth time doing weekend update. That has got the internet a buzz in two ways. One is Colin Jost leaving SNL and or is Colin Jost going to take over for Lorne Michaels. I think if you’re going to leave SNL, this is the year to get out. On fifty I don’t think you want to be part of season fifty one, unless you’re planning on sticking around for a while.

That said, did you listen to Johnny Mack earlier in the show? Don’t leave a hit show. It’s steady work. It’s a steady profile. Having a steady profile gets you other work.

Colin, you could just sit at that desk for another ten years. You probably should. As for Colin taking over for Lorne, I find that interesting. I never met Colin, but his public persona makes me think maybe he doesn’t have the right public persona to fight with the network. That takes a special skill.

I feel like something like Tina Fey might have more what I call hit points than a Colin Jost who just seems like a nice, cheerful guy who would come in and be like gerr NBC executives, I’m angry. Whereas I could see Tina’s pretty up there in the entertainment industry, and I feel like she could throw her weight around a little bit more like if things went sideways, Tina Fey steps down from SNL would be a major headline. Colin Joe steps down from SNL would be a headline, and then the next paragraph would be he will be succeeded by a person who’s taking over the show again. Not at dissent Colin, it’s just his public persona. Maybe he’s a total hard ass mini behind the scenes.

I don’t know, but that’s just my take. And I’m a guy who records a podcast in a basement, So what do I know. That is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media Hello. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Variety was curious what dating advice Pete Davidson would give to young men today. Pete said, I think social media and the internet and the phone makes everything really difficult and can cause a lot of anxiety and get you doing bad. We’re not supposed to see everyone’s stuff all day. It used to be someone found out something, you’d either call in your house phone or you met up and be like, hey, jeer reve this.

Now you have this thing in your pocket all day. That’ll make you feel bad. So my advice would be to try and not let social media or this fictitious world that we’re all trying to have a profile on effect how you behave in everyday life. We’re not supposed to know everything all the time. That’s what dating is.

Get to know someone and fall in love, and that’s what’s so beautiful about it. So I think when it comes to dating, it should be more prehistoric and not on the phone or Instagram. Nikki Glaser was at the Time one hundred summit in New York last week. It has kicked up a story about the time Nicky cut a joke from the Roast of Caitlyn Jenner. Nicky didn’t tell the joke, but Variety reminds us that in twenty nineteen, Nicky shared the joke with Howard Stern.

The joke, Caitlyn Jenner, what a beautiful woman you killed with your car four years ago. You’re a woman who can’t men straight but still manages to have blood on her hands. There was an incident back in twenty fifteen. I’m here on NBC News, the headline Caitlyn Jenner won’t be charged in fatal February car accident. California prosecutor said there was insufficient evidence to charge Jenner in a fatal multi car accident on the Pacific Malibu Highway.

Glazer said she was nervous about performing material about the car crash and asked Comedy Central could she give Jenner a warning. The network was like, now, I don’t do that, she might back out. Jenner heard about the joke anyway, As Nicki tells it, Jenner said, if there’s a joke like that, I don’t want to be part of it. As soon as I heard that, I go, okay, I’ll take it out. I just needed to hear it from her glazer said she’ll gladly take out jokes that make subjects uncomfortable.

She got that advice from Jimmy Kimmel, who said, if you’re worried about a joke and how it’s going to go over, just ask them. Josh Johnson got a really nice profile from Rolling Stone. There’s a lot of good buzz on Josh and people are really digging what he’s doing, and he’s putting out a lot of material. Josh says, I’m hopefully showing enough range and building enough trust with the audience over time that I can talk about anything, even if I don’t get to everything. He’s got a busy week.

Mondays, he records The Josh Johnson Show, it’s his podcast. On Tuesdays, he uploads a timely set to YouTube, and he works on The Daily Show Monday through Thursday. In twenty nineteen, he opened for Trevor Noah. They spent three years on the road together. Josh says Trevor taught him how to balance a grueling day job with stand up.

His mentorship has really helped me in navigating the moment that I’m in and the moment that I’m expecting. Josh pushed back on the word breakout and said, a breakout is what George Carlin did when he went from hippie dippy Weatherman to George Garland. A breakout is when Richard Pryor Ditch to the suit in the tie and the fresh cut and the Tonight Show act. A breakout has to be deeply personal. It has to be you knowing for yourself that there’s a limit.

That was a ceiling, it is now a floor. Love it, Goosh. He is aiming for bigger and more spectacle like shows. He wants people to go home thinking I’d never seen somebody do that before. He’s also doing good when he’s out there.

During a recent stop in Cincinnati, five thousand dollars from ticket sales were donated to a nearby animal shelter. That’s awesome, Josh says. What I enjoy about doing the Daily Show is the collaborative aspect and stand up. You get to see my most raw feelings on a subject. On the Daily Show.

You see my efforts contributing to the larger effort of everyone that works there, both in front and behind the camera. With his own shows, there’s no way to know if he’s meeting the moment until he’s up there and taking his best shot. Are you in the UK go see Sarah Silverman. She’s at the Palladium tonight. She talked about her past and says her persona back then was consciously ignorant, arrogant, and that it’s less charming in the days when our president is that Send your letters to Sarah Silverman.

She has disavowed some jokes she made back then, including the notorious sketch on the Sarah Silverman Program that she performed in Blackface. Sarah explains some comics are like, never apologize, and my rule is always apologize when you’re sorry, and never apologize when you’re not so simple. I felt sorry. To be the same person creatively as you were twenty years ago doesn’t feel like success to me. I like being part of the world around me, learning new stuff and being changed by it.

Comics who were still doing that thing or voice of personality they had when they got famous, that’s such a bummer. She gives a lot of credit to Chris Rock, explaining how Rock helped her after she had to develop new material following her two thousand and five special Jesus’ Magic. I was scared, I didn’t want to bomb on stage again. I had a real identity crisis. Rock brave enough to go to the comedy seller where everyone’s gonna go bananas when he walks in and then fully disappoint them because he’s trying out new stuff.

You lose people, but hopefully you gain people and some people grow along with you. Some people are like, remember what she was funny, That’s none of my business. All I have is this one life, and I’m navigating it. Is I see fit now. I keep seeing these Bowen Yang interviews and I feel like he’s done with SNL.

But Bowen Yang was quite clear that he is not done with SNL. Bowen was talking with Amy Poehler and would like SNL to be able to say the S word an the F word, explaining SNF were so comedically powerful as words, I think it would help us. His premise is that SNL should be able to say the S word five times and the F word five times during a season, and that it would bring a sketch to the next level and make it so you’d be able to know this is the real world, not sketch reality. I’ll personally disagree, but he’s on SNL and I’m an idiot in the basement recording a podcast. Amy b liked the idea and she said, I think you can monetize this.

Why don’t you have a competition and people vote, like American idolist, which cast member it gets to say the S and the f Yang said that would work as a fundraiser for our fcc fins. Bowen was on the view and he talked about the headline quote I’m leaving the show at some point. Yang said, it’s like me saying that I might die someday, or Mike will get a coffee on a Wednesday. It’s so general. Someone asked me maybe trying to get a headline, and all I gave them was at some point, but then who’s very clear?

This is all to say, I will not be leaving anytime soon, so all good, don’t worry. Houston Public Media caught up with Tom Poppa and they were curious what he does with his downtime, and Tom says, it’s not that much time. After being on the road for so long, you realize five three hours on the ground, I can get a lot done. I’m not going to a museum, but I’ll find great food and coffee. That’s the real treat.

I’ll hit the ground and to start asking people, I’m the annoying guy in the airport, likes where do you eat? They were curious for Tom how comedy changed over the years. Tom said, I had this kind of fortunate timing when I started comedy. The comedy boom had busted. It was the nineties and all these clubs.

Everyone kept telling me, this is a horrible time to start comedy because the clubs are closing and the bottom fell out. But over the long haul, comedy has never been bigger and more popular and more wanted by the public than it is now. Public media said the worst time for being a stand up must have been the pandemic, and Tom said, yeah, I was very proud of comedians during that time because everything shut down. Touring came to a halt, but comedians were doing anything they could to perform. They were starting shows in parks, they were doing them on zoom, and then the clubs are starting to open.

They’d have half the audience they normally have. But it felt like an important time to do comedy because we were isolated, and the best thing about comedy is it makes you feel less alone. It makes you drive around and you think I am the only one that feels this way, or is just my own anxieties and my family’s driving me crazy? And am I the only one going through this?

And then when you’re in an audience in a comedy club and someone’s talking ab…

And during the pandemic that was so important and the spokesman caught up with Randy feld face. Do you know Randy feld Face? I love Randy feld Face. Randy’s current tour is First Banana, which explores the idea that global evolution should have stopped when the first Banana appeared ten thousand years ago. Randy says the show has changed a lot from last year’s version because he factors in the audience.

The audience will tell me what’s funny, what’s boring, and what’s unnecessary. It gets to the point where, like, what’s most entertaining for me? Because I want to enjoy doing the show every night. It’s a pretty tight sixty minute banana lecture with a lot of very silly side steps I’m lucky in that I’m unique looking, and you revel in the silliness of it all. There’s so much fun to be had at the moment.

I know this probably comes up a lot, but now is not the time for taking things too seriously. So if I can have an hour of mostly silliness, then I hope people are able to appreciate that and enjoy that given the times that we’re in. He says, it’s a double edged sword being a puppet. People can forget pretty quickly what I look like, and they don’t give me a halt pass. If I say something they find and pleasant or controversial, I think there’s definitely something in there that can maybe soften the message a bit.

But generally, if I say something creates waves, people let me know about it. That is your comedy news for today. If you’ve never seen Randy feld face, check out Randy feld Face. See tomor

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Wwees roast of WrestleMania has leaked online. The Sportster reports that various footage from the show has been leaked by those in attendance. I went looking for the clips.

They were pulled down by the time I got to them, But if you circulate the internet long enough, you’ll find a ten minute compilation of clips from the roost. It begins with Paul Hayman, who reportedly was the star of the show, laying into Tony Hinchcliff and then going after Gabe A Glacias. After Hayman gets done with a Glacias, Triple H shows up. It seems that Triple H cut off Tony Hinchcliff just as he made a joke about while logan Paul is allegedly banned from Japan. I don’t know what that reference means as someone else.

The first thing Triple H says once he’s on stage suggests that he came out to stop Tony from saying anything else. Now you never know, and I haven’t seen the clip. Is this a work? Is it a bit? Is that what really happened?

Who knows Triple H then makes some jokes about Nia Jackson Pat McAfee, claiming that he came out to rescue McAfee so he can sober up, before appearing on ESPN the next day. Some criticism of the Rose set. The whole point of a roast is to pick on people who were there so that they can fight back. Jacks did the opposite, going after Rick Flair, Cody Rhodes, and Michael Cole. None of them were in attendance.

Who knows. We’ll keep an eye on that. Hey, did John Mulaney take my notes? At the beginning of Wednesday’s show, there was a cairon that alluded to celebrities not knowing what to do when they’re on the show and not knowing what to talk. I thought mulanie’s episode Wednesday was far and away the best that he’s done because he went single guest with Conan and they were able to get into a rhythm.

I mean, that’s the way to do it, and that’s what I’ve been preaching about. Conan comes out, it’s just Conan and m’laney. They have some chemistry. They’re doing it. Then Io came out as the second guest, typical late night talk show dynamics.

There, everybody slides down the couch. We all know what to do, we know how to do this. The show worked much better for the callers, and I’ll talk about that in a second. I was wondering if the caller about dinosaurs was staged. If not, it was Comedy Gold.

Regardless, it was Comedy Gold. Consequence of Sound had somebody in the audience. They thought it was interesting that Malania went with Q cards rather than a teleprompter. Consequence ads it’s pretty staggering to see an hour’s worth of handwritten card stacked together. It’s much bulkier than you’d expect.

The Q Card team filed into the studio at around six fifty five pm Pacific time. As we know, the show starts at seven o’clock. Richard Kine took his position with forty five seconds to go. Consequence of Sound writes, the applause sign works hard all night, they write, sometimes, of course, in audience applause because they want to. But when filming live TV, you might need to nudge them a bit, say with a light up sign that flashes when the production team wants collapse.

What struck me most was that the applause sign flashed on what they felt like was a very planned way, and other times was operating what it seemed like it wanted to. That is not uncommon for an applause sign. I remember seeing Letterman who was forty years ago. Yeah, it’s forty years ago. Oh wow, I remember seeing Letterman that they had an applause signed back then.

The caller I alluded to before, doctor Jack Horner, who called in about the dinosaurs, was actually the technical adviser in the first five Jurassic Park movies. Consequence of Sound tells us the band Mets were so loud that they gave everyone ear plugs. Consequence Rights have been too many studio tapings before, but being handed earplugs before the show was a new one for me, and even sitting in the back row was grateful for them. We found out why Rita Moreno didn’t make her appearance. She has vertigo, a spokesperson told Entry to me Weekly.

Happy to report nothing serious, she’s bummed. Variety caught up with Pete Davidson the topic tattoos. What made you decide to remove those tattoos, Pete. Pete said, I started during COVID in twenty twenty, and it’s going to take me another ten years. My arms are pretty much gone.

On my hands meca gone, but instill my torso and back was really because I wasn’t taking care of myself. I used to be a drug addict and I was a sad person. I felt ugly and that I needed to be covered up. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with tattoos, but mine. When I look at them, I remember a sad person that was very unsure.

So I’m just removing them and starting fresh because I think that’s what works best for me in my brain. When I look in the mirror, I don’t want the reminder of, oh, yeah, you were a drug addict, like that’s why I have SpongeBob smoking a joint on your back. They should have meaning, not that it was just high watch a Game of Thrones. Pete explains it’s a six week healing process each time you get a tattoo removed. Each tattoo is ten to twelve sessions.

That’s sixty weeks of your life right there on just one tattoo to remove, So it’s pretty horrible. It’s like putting your arm on a grill and burning off the layer and then you got to do maintenance and let it heal properly, and it’s pretty tough. It sucks. I’m not gonna lie. They were curious how much money this is costing Pete Davidson.

He says, it’s a pretty uncomfortable amount of money to disclose. But I think one of the tabloids leaked it. I’ve already spent like two hundred grand that I’m like thirty percent done, So it’s gonna suck. Friday asked about the ferry that Pete ball with Colin Jost. What’s going on with that.

Pete says, we have one floor done out of the four and we’re holding events on the first floor and we’re partnering with a bunch of people to get a plan going, which is kind of a secret. But we’re gonna have a couple of restaurant. It’s a nice bar. I’m going to maintain the integrity of the ferry and have the old ferry stuff still be there, just be a little refurbished. People don’t understand this is like a five to ten year project.

People are like, I guess nothing’s happening with it. We don’t know anything about boats so we’re figuring it all out. It’s been really fun. We’re having a good time and it’s at a good place, and we have a couple of fun events planned for the summer. Brett Goldstein special came out on HBO last night.

He spoke to the La Times. He explained he’s been doing a version of this show, building off bits from the twenty eighteen Fringe show. He toured it for fourteen months around the States that at some point someone said you have to film this and stop doing it, and I said, okay. I think stand up keeps your brain sharp in a way that nothing else does, because you have so much pressure when you’re standing under the lights in front of a crowd. You have to come up with something in a way that you don’t when you’re in a writer’s room.

What I really love is that there’s no committee. I don’t have to discuss it with anyone. It’s amazing making TV and film, but it’s a huge thing that involves tunre people and you have to communicate everything to everyone. You have to compromise and deal with execs. And we do stand up.

It’s like, hey, here’s this idea. I thought of this afternoon and I’m saying it. Tonight, wcm out Bell visited Castle mind On High School in Oakland. Fresh off his win on Celebrity Jeopardy, Bell announced that the recipient of the one million dollar charity prize goes to donor’s choice. They are a fundraising platform similar to GoFundMe.

The teachers used to purchase stuff for their classrooms. Bell said, I feel like I was raised here in Oakland, California, so I hope it helps you. Brad Williams was at the NFL Draft. He pitched the commissioner on an idea to stop the tush push. You know, the tush push.

We all go up to the line and we meeting the Philadelphy Eagles and they all run forward and they get the first down like every time. Brad Williams, who if you don’t know, is a little person, told Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner. Obviously, one of the big hot topics over the season is the tush push. The brotherly chef Williams ask Goodell, my question is the late football coach Mike Leach. It was recently discovered that he had suggested putting a little person in the backfield and actually tossing him over the line for short yardage situations.

Everybody laughed. Goodell stood up and shook Brad’s hand and said, you’re in Brad’s I have a job. But you know what, that’s not a crazy idea. I mean it’s a crazy idea, but it would work. First down, Joe Rogan was happy with his meal.

It was fresh elk, he had fried it. He topped the elk with some fresh cheddar and some jalapennios. He went on Instagram to show it off. Joe said, one of my new favorite ways to cook elk sliced about half an inch thin, seasoned, fried in beef talow with a slice of cheddar on top, and sliced telipanio perfection. Rogan’s fans chimed in on social media.

One wrote this is nice. I cooked venison like this a while back. I folded strips of venison with cream, cheese and jalapenos, and some additionally wrapped in turkey bacon. Oh man. Another wrote, meat and cheese just go so well together.

The jalapenos would probably take it to the next level. And that is your comedy news for today on a Sunday. See you here tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, we are poolside once again. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m joined by the birds, the aeroplanes, the dogs and whatever else you think you hear. You’re not crazy, but it’s too nice to sit inside and record.

Brett Can has a special on HBO Slash Max tonight ten pm Eastern. They make you wait, make you stay up late. Come on, Johnny Mac likes to go to bed, well, not on Saturday. I’m go to bed before ten on Saturday. Let’s not be ridiculous.

It’s Brett Goldstein, The second Best Night of your life. Now a lot of people think this is just Roy Kent deciding to do stand up comedy to cash in. It’s actually the other way. He was a comedian slash writer. He wrote the character Roy Kent, and then he was like, can I audition for it?

And if my audition sucks, I’ll pretend I never auditioned, And he nailed a part, and that’s how he became Roy Kent. He’s also never done stand up on Late TV and told the Last Laugh that he generally has avoid filming his act in any way. He explains, I just like it live. I really believe in the room with the audience, that’s where you feel it. That’s where you try stuff.

The game of it and the fun is sort of this energy that happens live, and it’s really hard to capture that. The beauty of stand up is every time you’re trying something, you’re kind of saying, is this normal? Is this, Madam I insane? If they laugh, it means no, and I think that too, or you are insane, But it’s funny. Brett said, I had no idea what people were expecting when I went on tour, because I know that ninety nine percent of them hadn’t seen me do stand up because they only know me as Roy Kent.

I thought I was gonna have to address it. What I really didn’t want to do, but was prepared to if I had to, was be like, hey, you all know me as Roy can’t, but I’m more like this. I didn’t want to do that. I’d rather just present this thing. To be honest, I was surprised delighted that I never had to do that, and I suspect reality was their expectations were probably very low because they probably thought, ah, this is an actor trying stand up and they didn’t know that I actually have done stand up for a very long time.

The Wall Street Journal got a screener of it. They’ve already seen it. S Boilers would be a strong word here. It’s more of a vibe spoiler. But if you don’t want to know anything about the special, skip ahead.

But again, I’m not going to destroy it for you. The vibe spoiler from the Journal says the reasons why the special works or not has less to do with the material than with Goldstein’s lack of a well defined stage persona interesting. When his humorous insights on love, sex, manhood, and money are made from a perspective of cool observation, it works much better than when he resorts to being vulgar. The Journal says, Goldstein can clearly deliver a joke a viewers simply isn’t prepared for what direction it’s coming from. One Brett Goldstein can observe that it is native England.

The name Brett Goldstein is rather exotic, while in America everyone knows that Brett Goldstein, but another Brett Goldstein can go off on a tangent criticizing the architecture of public toilets in the US, and leave a listener wondering what in the world of entertimoty is talking about. Brett Goldstein The Second Best Night of Your Life tonight, ten pm HBO. Pete Davison told Indywier. I think I was very lucky to get my own video to the SNL fifty special. There’s a thousand cast members and hundreds that are more popular and did better work than I did when I was there.

I was just very grateful to be in a sketch and have a video and even be invited. It was very surreal to see. And I was there for almost a decade, but even when I came back and hosted, I was like, Wow, I do know all these guys. I know Lauren Michaels, most of the cast. It just hits different when you see like Meryl Streep doing a sketch.

Pete said of Lorne Michaels. Yeah, he’s like my dad kind of. He’s really really sweet, and he’s always been above and beyond understanding of my life and just supportive in all the right ways. I’m very lucky, Pete told John Bernthal’s podcast, when your own show pokes fun at you, I’d be sitting in the backwatching the Cold Open, and the Cold Open is topical, political humor, whatever’s in the culture. And they’re making fun of you.

Then you’ve got to walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark. And the show just made fun of you. What are they gonna do? Laugh at you like they just dogged in front of everyone. You’re like, I’m a loser man.

Jay Leno is the conservator of his wife Mavis. She was diagnosed with dementia. Jay has been the conservator since April of twenty twenty four. Jay to people about it and says he stepped up for Mavis in her time of need. That’s what love is, and I’d rather be with her than doing something else.

When you first get married, you sort of take a vow. Well, I live up to this, or it’d be like a sleazy guy. If something happens to my wife, I’m out banging the cashier at the minimart. No, I didn’t. I enjoy the time with my wife.

I go home, I cook dinner for her, watch TV and it’s okay. It’s basically what we did before, except now I have to feed her and do all those things. But I like it. I like taking care of her. She’s a very independent woman, so I like that.

I’m needed. Jay explained that something he does with MAVs is they go through memories on flash cards, and he says that’s brought some laughs. Jay tells it it’s kind of fun. I go, honey, that’s President Obama. Remember we had dinner, And she’ll say, oh, not me, and I’ll say, yeah, honey, that was you.

But says there are challenges when you have to feed someone and change them and carry them to the bathroom and do all that kind of stuff every day. It’s a challenge, and not that I enjoy doing it, but I guess I enjoy doing it. I’m not just this person’s attractive and sexy and having sex with them and everything. At some point in my life, I’m going to be called upon to defend myself. And I think that’s what really defines a marriage.

It’s really what love is. It’s what you do. I mean, I’m glad I didn’t cut and run. I’m glad I didn’t run off with some woman half my age or and in that’s silly nonsense. I’d rather be with her than doing something else.

Totally switching gears Leslie Jones spoke to Seven Days Vermont about being comedian, said, ain’t hard. If you’re offing funny as a comic. You need to take that kind of stuff and say, I’m tired of these mfforts being depressed. I’m gonna make them laugh about this stuff. I’m getting older and I really don’t like to travel that much anymore.

I’d be down to do a late night show or maybe a sitcom something where i’d be working here in LA from my home. Doing the Daily Show is great, but it’s in New York and I don’t want to live in New York. Leslie continued, what’s wrong with everybody right now? They’re too scared to change, too scared to face their problems. You have to endure change.

Change doesn’t give a hoot about your feelings. Change is going to happen, and it’s either going to be painful or not painful, based on how honest you are with yourself. And right now our society is choosing the painful way because nobody wants to effing change. Things are dark, but I want to give people a reason to laugh instead of cried. At the end of the day.

It’s my job to cultivate people’s happiness and not go all in on their sadness. There’s no snl A this week, but they’ve announced the guests for the next few weeks. May third, Quin de Brunson hosts Benson Boone, a musical act. May tenth, Walton Goggins and Arcade Fire they’re still around really And May seventeenth, probably the season finale here Scarlett Joynson, so Michael Jay will have a good week with that one and Bad Bunny your musical guest, Kevin Neil until the post independent laughter is contagious, and I think it’s much easier to laugh when other people are laughing as opposed to sitting at home. I’m sure somebody’s done a psychological study that always kind of amuses me how joyful it is to laugh with other people and look at the other person when they’re laughing.

This people do, they laugh and they look at the other person. It really brings people together, feel it kind of makes them forget all the insanity in the world. Kevin is now seventy one. That seems impossible and explains my goals to just basically deliver the package so that they formulated in my head, which is the premise, the set up, the delivery, the punch line of that particular bit. It’s kind of like sending a package.

You put it all together, you tape it up, you put it in the mail, and the other person receives it. You go, yes, it worked. And British comedian Sarah Millicam is in Vancouver. The Vancouver’s Son I had some questions for her, which she fielded expertly. If you’re trying to appeal to Canadians, the question who are some of your favorite comics and why?

The answer, Some of the funniest people I’ve ever seen are Canadian comics debrah D Giovanni, Mike Wilmot, John Hastings, Steph tole Evan mark Ford. They all make me hoot with laughter and be jealous of their jokes. All right, Sarah, what do you like to eat when you’re in Vancouver? She said, I will try to get poutine and I don’t like cheese curds. I need to go somewhere where they won’t throw me out for asking for poutine without the cheese curds, which is essentially chips and gravy.

And also, you have my favorite type of food here, which is huge portions. Love it all right, Brett Goldstein tonight and that’s it from Poolside. I will see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We’re about to find out if Nikki Glaser can take a punch. We’ll talk about that in a second, but let me set the scene here. It’s seventy five degrees and the humidity’s thirty four percent, and it’s Sonny out for the first time of month.

So if you’re like Johnny Mack, do I hear birds? You do? Do I hear planes? I do? Do I hear dogs?

You might? Because this, to my friends, is our first pool side edition of Daily Comedy News this year. It is too nice to sit in the basement, all right, let’s get to it. Nikki Glaser was at the time one hundred Summit on Wednesday. She said there was a joke she told during the Golden Globes that she worried went too far.

Niki explains, I didn’t say anything that was like calling anyone ugly or fat at roast you say really cruel things, that’s the job. She conceded. She was initially concerned about a joke aimed at Emilia Paris star Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco that she ended up texting Blanco to get his permission to go ahead with the joke. Quoting Nicki, I said that Selena Gomez is here because of Emilia Perez and Benny Blanco is here because of the genie who granted him that wish, and looking back, I’m like, that could seem mean, but everybody’s like he’s not attractive enough for her. For me, I’ve never looked at them and thought that.

I feel like she won too. I think he’s really cool. So because that joke didn’t actually come from a mean place, I felt like it was okay for me to say. If you pay a lot of attention to these Nikki Glaser interviews, there is definitely signs of mental struggles here. She’s pretty open about it, and you do worry about her.

Nicki said, I’m happier than I’ve ever been, but I’m not happy by any means. I’m so grateful, but i still have a lot of self loathing that’s almost getting boring to talk about. At this point, she spoke about her current hot streak. I know it. I’ll get taken away at some point because it has to.

That’s just the way things work. And when that part of my career happens. I don’t want to be sad about that, so I just don’t put too much worth in it. But I’m enjoying it now. None of that is the controversy that I alluded to at the beginning.

Nicki said she was more critical of Trump than usual at a recent show in Canada because she usually holds back in the US to not alienate fans who might disagree with her politics. But she told the audience at the time thing she got worried that she could get backlash. Oh my gosh, what if I said gets recorded and sent out. Maybe I couldn’t be let back into the country. There’s just no scenario where the headline is US government bans Nikki Glaser from re entering country.

I mean, that would just be such a massive scandal story. There’s no chance of that happening, Nikki said, I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but I definitely don’t think that I’m immune to having some kind of backlash. Look at the other places that have dictators. I have a friend Jennif Friedman, who posted on Instagram that she was performing in Vancouver and when she came back, customs asked her what she did. She said she was a comedian, and they asked her if she talked about politics had made fun of the president.

They let her go, but they asked, or I could be put on some kind of list because of some story I reposted. Look at other places that have dictators. You’re not allowed to say things about them. She then joked about being sexually attracted to Trump to get on his good side. I don’t know where you’re laughing about.

I’m one hundred percent real about this and it’ll save me when I’m on the gallows. Send your letters to Nikki Glaser. John Mulaney has come under fire for a quote very controversial joke. This from the British tabloids. The very controversial joke was about the deaths of Gene Hackman and Hackman’s wife.

The joke in question and told much better by John Mulaney. Scientists are now like, we believe dinosaurs were killed sixty six million years ago by an asteroid. Stop you don’t know that. We don’t even know how Gene Hackman and his wife died and we found their whole bodies with full clothes on one week after the event. How about that?

Santa Fe police Hello, Press conference number four hundred seventy. We now believe that a rat bit Missus Hackman turning her hands into mummy hands. Slow down. You don’t know what happened that again, told much better by John Mulaney. Is the very controversial joke?

Really okay? Very controversial? One Reddit user called the comments sickening and posted just me thinking that Gene Hackman bit was just a tad sickening. Another redditur wrote only John could get away with a Gene Hackman joke this soon really okay, guys. Late nighter watched the millenniy show.

I didn’t. I Wednesday night is volleyball night, and I made the mistake of I went for a run. Johnny Mack is out of shape, and I will cop to being out of shape when I’m out of shape. And I’m out of shape. So I went for a run Wednesday afternoon because the weather’s nice, and then I played volleyball and I was so gassed, so there was no chance of me watching a show from ten to eleven PM.

I went to bed. But Late Nighter they watch Mullenie’s show. They are very positive about the show, and it sounds like maybe, perhaps possibly Millenia has taken my notes. Late nighter, says Mullani waited until halfway through the show to explain that guest Rita Marino wasn’t there. Apparently Rita wasn’t feeling well, but he never addressed the other missing panelist, which was to be dinosaur expert doctor Luis Chiappe, who had been announced earlier this week.

Maybe John took my note that having seventy five people on it once doesn’t work. Who knows. Mllenie opened the show announcing the time and temperature sixty two degrees in LA while snow went past his studio windows. Mulaney explained this is his Christmas show since the show won’t be on in December, and he felt like it. See that’s funny, that’s like an old style Letterman inspired bit.

So was the Christmas Show, complete with twinking lights, tinsel, and a disheveled white beard. Hobo, one of the guests he did have on io at a Berry. She liked the craziness. She compared the show to Crack, but in a good way. Okay, we all know crack is bad.

Yes, we can all agree that crack is something bad, But consider this Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us Tyren Bighams Crackavius Whitney Houston saying, first of all, let’s get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. The spirit of crack, one could argue, has also given us this show. John Mulaney Sober and a Father is basically spiritually on crack.

To be clear, I think this is a good thing. This man shows up dressed like a pentecostal deacon son headed to the twenty eighteen NBA draft all he’d end up a fifth round reject, and yet he puts out some of the sharpest comedy happening right now. She described Mlaney as a gift to comedy. He’s also maybe probably insane. But I think this is good and I think crack is bad.

Now what’s interesting is I did several googles of the term Malinie Conan. Not much came up. Jessica Kerson has a new special out on Hulu today. It is called I’m the Man. Now.

The Hulu publicist didn’t send me anything, but I will not be stopped. Hulu publicists, you keep your comedy special secret, and I’ll keep outing them, Jessica told The Daily beast. I’ve been doing stand up for over twenty years, and this special is truly special. My stand up has always stood out to the audience as I’ve performed for my fans, had especially in other comics. I’m the Man is me embracing everything I am, the crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I’m fearless on stage.

Michelle Wolf had a surprise release, not really a special, a fifteen minute clip where she talked about her controversial twenty eighteen set at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The clip is called Dinner Time. It has premiered on punch Up Live, a digital platform for live comedy. You can watch it for free. Wolf explains there might not be a comedian at the Correspondent’s Dinner this year, but the good news is I have some leftovers.

I’ve been holding onto the set since twenty twenty two, and with everything going on, I felt like it was the right moment to share it exclusively on punch Up, a platform where comedians can release their own uncensored material without the constraints of any network or streamer. Drud Carmichael will have another stand up special for HBO. This one is called Don’t Be Gay. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president for HBO Programming. She says in a press release, this new special continues to build on the raw, intimate, and emotionally honest impact that his last special, Roathaniel and his recent series on the network at drud Carmichael Reality Show had no quote from Carmichael though.

Anyway. Don’t Be Gay on HBO Saturday, May twenty fourth, at ten pm. At Tomorrow’s Brett Goldstein Special. We’ll talk about that tomorrow. Good job by the birds giving me.

I hope you can hear the birds giving me some atmosphere as we do the show poolside today. Now it’s so weird putting the show together because when I put together Thursday Show, there was nothing. Now behind the scenes, I teach a college class on Thursday morning, so I often like to pretape Fridays, and as the week goes, Friday tends to be one of the lesser listen two days. I guess people get into weekend mode. So I often, when I’m teaching, will pre tape Friday show and I’ll you know, I’ll squirrel stuff away all week.

And there was just really nothing to fill Thursday show. So I had to pull. Boy, these birds are getting done. Thank you birds. I had to pull most of what was going to be today’s show into yesterday’s show just to get a show out, and it was a short show as it was now today.

Conversely, it took me two hours to put this together. There’s enough for three shows, and I’m probably gonna sit here at poolside recording the entire weekend because there’s so much. Let’s head on over to Gossip Corner. This is sad TMZ reporting Fortune Femster and her wife Jacqueline Smith recently separated and Fortune is planning a file for divorce. According to TMZ, it’s unclear what caused the split or when they separated.

TMZ thinks it’s pretty fresh. This is sad to me because wasn’t one of fortune special all about getting married to Jack’s. Wasn’t that like the whole cornerstone of it. So that’s kind of sad. They were married in October of twenty twenty.

Also on Gossip Corner, now, kids are listening to this with you. For some reason, it stopped. We don’t want the kids to listen to this next section. They’re just gonna have questions. So I’ll give you a second hero bebble.

Okay, kids are gone. Catherine Ryan has spoken out about more sexual misconduct in the comedy industry. She claimed one male comedian showed other cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women. Catherine explained the incident happened while backstage in the green room of a big show. She did not identify the comedian, but did say that he isn’t British.

She explained, I’ve been in green rooms were very famous male comedians. One male comedian in particular, I will say it’s not British. He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he was in a room on a big show. I was one of the few women on that bill, maybe three women, and there was a young female comedian who was starting out. It was next to him, and he was with all the lads showing pictures and videos on his phone that he had taken of himself having sex with women, so like really intimate photos, intimate videos, and he was showing them.

His junk was in a lot of these videos. She felt very uncomfortable about that, and she came to my dressing room to be like, oh, I didn’t like him showing me that, and she’s about to go on stage. She’s very new. I was even quite new at the time, but yeah, stuff like that, and being a minority in that situation which female comedians, especially when I was starting out, we’re always minorities in every green room, every dressing room. There are things we can’t do that the boys can do.

We can’t take a night bus, we can’t sleep on the floor with four other comedians starting out. A lot of times we have children that we have to look after, and then we get fans who could like kill us. She then talked about Nikki Glaser. Nikki Glaser, who’s doing amazing and American hosting the Golden Globes for the second year in a row. She’d make a joke of it on Instagram.

Should write, come kill me in Cincinnati at seven pm, Come kill me in San Diego at eight pm. We’d have to publish where we are at night, and we’re always alone. It’s a bit different. When I started doing television, male audience members could be weird with me. I had this following of very strange lone wolf men.

Before I had a tour manager that’d follow me onto the train and keep talking to me. I was trying to be polite and boundary, but some of those interactions were scary. I’ve been locking in part, I think because of the guys I came up with. Joe lystt, Rob Beckett and Ramesher Rag and Aathan are just really really good guys. Boy, this is all just terrible switching gears.

If you’re in Boston, Paul Reiser is at the Cabot in Beverly tonight. Paul says he doesn’t have to do stand up. I just love performing. I don’t love airports. I don’t love connecting flights.

I just tell my agent’s got to be direct flight, not too late, because I like to be in pajamas at nine to forty five if possible. Paul’s my kind of guy. I’ve been on Stranger Things, which is big and great to be in, but has nothing to do with me being on stage for an hour and a half. That’s the fun, that’s the joy. I love the order of stand up.

I love how ephemeral it is now. The goalposts are always moving and you never quite get it, and if you do get it, it’s gone the next day. It’s like, wow, what was that? Paul says it has a hard time watching his old stuff, but when I do see a glimpse of it, there are themes of things I’m still questioning. What’s also great is the audience now comes to see me.

It’s not nineteen seventy eight years greedy Number eleven Bull Riser. If people are coming and they bought a ticket and they came to see me, it’s because they know me from something probably man about you. It really does feel like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks, I know this guy who grew up together, and we got married around the same time, we had kids around the same time, and the same warmth that I think they bring I feel towards them. And maybe younger people come too, and they’re confused.

Wait, why is the doctor from Stranger Things trying to be funny? Save some more of that for the weekend. A Memphis comedian is going for a world record this weekend. Benny Elbows is working on a solo stand up show that could last forty plus hours to break the record for longest continuous solo comedy stand up routine in history. I think Bob Marley had that.

The comedian Bob Marlin had that record for a while we actually broadcast it live on serious if my memory holds, Benny Elbows says, for a while, it’s a tour guide. It did tours in Memphis. It was a ghost tour guide, like a haunted tour, not like a signed up for the tour. Never saw me again, that’s funny. The plan was for him to take the stage at six o’clock this morning at the High Tone Cafe on Cleveland Avenue.

He’s aiming to break the current record of forty hours eight minutes. His game plan. I think the most important thing is going to be caffeine. There are rules according to the Guinness World Record. I can repeat jokes, but only every four hours.

So right now I have a word document with like sixteen seventeen thousand words. It’s twenty six pages. Another big one is that we need ten people in the audience at all times. That’s hard. How will we make sure there are ten people in the audience.

He’s hoping that this press helps. Well, if you’re in Memphis, go help this guy out. Hopefully you download the podcast at three or five am when I dropped it, and you ran right over there to hook up that six am hour. All right, I know you’re curious, what about the bathroom, He explains, I can eat and drink on stage as long as it doesn’t disrupt the flow of the show. You get five minutes every hour you can use for whatever you want, say a bathroom break.

So I’m going to try to go as far as i can to the show before trying to take a nap and then finish strong. If everything goes well, he’ll break the record around ten thirty on Saturday night. And that is your comedy news for today, Poolside Edition. Have an awesome day.

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Caloroga Shark Media and there I’m Johnny Mack with you know, Today’s Dalley Comedy News. I’m honest with you guys, it is a slow news day. It was like nobody announced anything. Uh. Jim Gaffigan in the headlines on a slow news day.

He was recently on We Might Be Drunk with Samuerel and Mark Norman and Jim started talking about different audiences around the world, joking that Europeans are often a bit condescending, but Canadians were always there and had the US’s back, but things have changed recently, according to gaff Again, the Canadians were always like, we know, it’s not you, it’s your government. Now the Canadians are like, we hate you. They’re furious. Jim told a story he went out to get some bourbon out of Vancouver whiskey bar. Jim explains, I like bourbon, and so I’m like, all right, I’m going to get a bourbon.

They tell him, no bourbon. I go, this is a world whiskey bar and they’re like, nope, we’re not selling any American whiskey. And I go, so did you get rid of it? And they’re like, oh, it’s back there. We’re just not selling it.

Gaff again added when he returned to his hotel, which was owned by an American company, he was able to drink some bourbon there. While we’re being political, Tim Dillon was on CNN. He had some advice for the Democrats, saying, you can’t go to war with straight white men for four years and then ask why they didn’t vote for you. That seems crazy. I’ve made fun of Megan Markle a lot.

I can’t then go, why don’t you think Megan Markle’s watching my special? I think you just have to pick your fights in a better way. Dylan talked about having JD Vance on his podcast. Dylan joked it was actually the goal and why I started comedy. JD.

Vans I knew about him when I started out in twenty ten, and I had it all plotted out like a beautiful mind on the wall. Then he got more serious and said it was kind of fortuitous. We just have this podcast that’s big and people listen to it. Trump understands the two cultural forces that I’ve seen in my lifetime have changed the way people behaved reality television and social media. He understands social media and using it to communicate.

Now that we have phones, we’re all starring in our own reality TV shows. He understands that, and he was able to utilize that understanding to connect with people in a way that Kamala didn’t seem to understand. It felt like he just had the upper hand. W come Bell likes not having a boss and says, basically, nobody can fire me, so I feel free to say what I want to now. Having said that, maybe I won’t get hired by anybody again.

But there’s two things that are important. One making sure my family eats every day and has a place to sleep, and two make you sure I’m clear about which side of history I’m on. Send your letters to w cam Al Bell, Tim Dillon, and Jim Gaffigan. Digital Spy caught up with Jimmy Carr. Jimmy said pornography is to sex with clips of comedy, or to seeing a show.

You can watch something on TikTok and go no, that’s not very good, but he watched it with the sound down, reading subtitles while going to the bathroom, paraphrasing, you didn’t get the full effect Jimmy’s comedy inspirations. I always like wordplaying clever stuff. Culture lags behind technology. VHS was a huge thing for me. In the early eighties.

Would start to see tapes of Robin Williams, who’d be thin on more comitty. Suddenly he could see him live talking about his cocaine addiction, and as a kid, you’d go, who the f is this guy? Who does Jimmy Carr think is the goat of comedy? Think about it for a second. Interesting pick here, Jimmy Carr says, Chris Rock for me is the goat because if you look bigger and blacker, it all stands up.

Those routines don’t just stand up. They’re still edgy. Now it’s extraordinary. Most comedy rots. It goes back to the pot and that’s great, But every now and then someone just comes along and nails it.

Jimmy, what made you want to be a comic? I think a lot of people who suffer little from depressions self medicate with comedy. I was using it and decided to become a dealer. I like that, that’s funny. I often think of myself like a drug dealer.

You’re dealing in serotonin and dopamine. You experience it most when you’re in a group of other people. You’re laughing together, you laugh I think thirty times more. Jimmy talked about growing up. I look back at school and everyone was hilarious.

I didn’t stand out as being the funny kid. I could definitely hold my own, but everyone was fun Why else would you be friends with someone if they weren’t a laugh That was the currency, certainly in my home. There’s a lot of mysticism around comedy, like he’s just funny, he just gets up there and does it. No. When I watch Chris Rock do a special, I see one hundred jokes that work brilliantly.

But what I don’t see is the two thousand jokes that didn’t work that got him to those that did. He had to put the work in. You don’t have this in music. The Beatles aren’t any less magicable because you can write down the tunes and analyze the notes. I think we should teach comedy like we teach music.

A digital spy at a good follow up here, you do get musical prodigies. You could teach people to write songs, but you can’t teach them to be Paul McCartney. Jimmy Carr said that’s true, but he makes my point. He wasn’t a covers band with his friends the Quarrymen. They were fine.

Then he did ten thousand hours work in Hamburg and suddenly his facility with melody was revealed. And what joke do you wish you had written? Jimmy Carr said. Anthony Jesselnik has a routine about modern day slavery that I don’t think you should print, but it’s a remarkable piece of work. I’d really encourage people to check him out.

Shane Gillis is everyone’s discovery of the last twelve months. An extraordinary talented sketch and stand up Beth Stelling. I absolutely love and check out Neil Brennan special. Neil makes me want to be a better comic. Wow.

High praise from Jimmy Carr, who’s one of the top comedians out there today. Colin Jost was at Brown University. They had a panel and asked Jost about comedy, and Colin said, I hope it’s something you can improve that you get better at. I hope I get funnier. I don’t know.

Maybe we can all agree to meet here in ten years and I can report back on whether I feel like I’m funnier than I am now. Steve Martin and Martin Short had some of the best comedy careers in history. There’s some of the funniest people I’ve ever met, and they’re still worried about Am I still funny? Am I still making good work? If you’re a certain kind of person, whatever field you work in, that feeling never leaves you all right.

Some quick notes. The New York Times did a It’s not a profile of Theovon. They did an article about Theovon explaining to people who don’t know who Theovan is, who Theovon is. I don’t think THEO participated in it, but it’s a lengthy piece, so THEO will be on people’s rad art. Jimmy Kimmel will get a fourth season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

It is the second time kim ol will host the show in front of a live studio audience. The first two seasons of the reboot were during COVID protocols. If you missed it. Andrew Santino has a new golf podcast. It’s called No Bad Lies.

That’s a good title. It includes encurse conversations and in studio interviews with professional golfers. Athletes, entertainers, and influencers. Santino said, I’m beyond excited to dive into all aspects of the game with no bad lies, from Live to the PGA and everything in between. There’s so much happening golf right now.

I can’t wait to explore the sport from every with the people who love this game as much as I do. Damon Walliams is one of the latest people to accuse Robin Williams of being a joke thief. I think that’s reasonably well known. Damon had been on Shannon Sharp’s podcast before the recent Shannon Sharp controversy. Can google that one on your own.

I don’t want to go there, and said Robin Williams was a notorious thief. I ain’t lying. His manager used to walk around with a check book and Robin would come off stage and a comedian be like, hey, he just took me, and he’d write him a check for seventy five dollars because he knew Robin was all stream of consciousness and he’d steal material. It was known. Comedians would go, I’m not going on because Robin’s here.

It happens. But I was look at comedy like this If this is not the last joke I’m ever going to tell, then I’m not going to treat it like that. Just a joke means I got to think of something else. For people to be up in arms about a joke, Really, what is the joke? Last year, Joe Rogan commented on Robin Williams and said, I think Robin wanted to kill more than he wanted to be ethical at any cost.

Part of that manic sort of style is this constant need have a bit about anything that you’re talking about. Ever, killing was more important. Feeling that hole inside of him was more important than anything. If you ask any of those comics were back then, there were always instances of Robin going on a talk show and doing your bit, speaking of joke thieves, stay with me. Sarah Silverman spoke to The Guardian and she tells the story.

My parents were dying. I was living in their apartment and taking care of them. So when I went back to stand up, the first material I tried out was stolen from my eulogy at my dad’s funeral. I thought there’s funny stuff in here. In her new material, she is working through the death of her parents and explains There was one night when I hit notes for myself all over the stage.

I’m a stoner, I don’t know have to remember what happens next, and I was in a pretty heavy part of the show looking down on my notes. It was taking a few seconds, so I said sorry to the audience, and they all started a plodding because they thought I was overcome with emotion and apologizing for it. I probably should have just gone with it, but I was like, oh no, I’m not crying. That’s your slow news day comedy news for today, see you tomorrow.

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Calarogas Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big shows were announced, including John Mulaney’s new stand up tour. It is called Mister Whatever, and he announced it from the backseat of his kidnappers car. Tickets for the shows go on sale today at ten am Local time.

The shows will feature guest appearances from John Stewart, Pete Davidson, Martin Short, and others. In a promo video teasing and Mister Whatever, John Mlaney can be seen blindfolded with his hands pounded in the back of a car as two men with blurred faces and distorted voices sit beside him. Let’s listen. Hey, it’s me John Mulaney, and I’ve got great news. I’m going on tour.

My new tour, Mister Whatever, is coming to a city near you. Pre sale starts April twenty third with the pre sale code mister and you can get tickets at John Mulaney dot com to see you at a show. Soda tell me them local time, you’re going to serve? What appreciate local time? What do you mean local time?

No matter where you are in said I. Am tonight on Netflix, John has Conan O’Brien, I you at a berry, Rita Marino, the curator of the Dinosaur Institute at the National History Museum, and music from Mets me Etz, not the baseball team that I root for. I was thinking more about mulaney’s show and I don’t want to just pile on. But one of the YouTube comments got me thinking about it. You know what it is, I think I finally zer it on this.

It’s that the guests don’t know what to do. The show is so chaotic. The guests don’t know should they just grab the reins and do their thing or should they hang back and let the other guests talk. That’s what the big problem is with the show and the way it’s formatted. I will reiterate my advice.

All you have to do tonight is go my first guest is Conan O’Brien, and then stop talking to the point where if you didn’t say another word, Conan would just fill the void and make a bit of it and probably host the show himself. Anyway, I like John A. Lott, I don’t want to just pile on.

Meanwhile, gab Iglacias and Joe Coy announced they will be headlining the fir…

They’re aim as to sell out to seventy thousand fans. If they hit that number, it would eclipse the current Guinness World Record holding comedy audience of sixty seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty three. You know who has that record wrong. It is German comedian Mario Barth. He did this at the Olympus Stadion in Berlin in two thousand and eight.

Gave Iglesias, who was co headlining with Joe Koy, joked for one day, the two of us will be Taylor Swift, which is pretty funny because you may remember Taylor Swift nearly destroyed Joe Coy’s career by giving the ice face to this joke. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor’s sweat. Apparently, Gabe and Joe are friends. They frequently pop up at each other’s shows, and they decided to do a co headlining appearance together one night.

Only. They’re doing their sets back to back. I wonder who opens and closes there. I would guess Joe opens for Gabe would be my guests. Especially in LA they promise special guest surprise moments and plenty of other hilarious interruptions.

Gabe said, I think every time that we crash each other’s shows, we see the reaction of the fans and people get excited. And the more we do that, the more we realize we have a lot of the same fans. We’ve always want to do shows together. Yeah, like trying to make it make sense. We have a date for David Spade’s Dandelion.

This will be on Amazon Prime May sixth. In Dandelion, David Spade tells us about the perils of flying charity auctions and the evolution of naughty movies. Nudge, Nudge. Kevin Hart never afraid to work, He’s got another gig. This time he’ll be hosting the b ET Awards Monday, June ninth on b ET.

Hart has hosted the awards before, back in twenty eleven be ET president Scott Mills. For over a decade, Kevin Hart has been a beloved part of the Beet family and we couldn’t be more excited to have him return to host the twenty fifth anniversary be ET Awards, it sounds like Bowen Yang is kind of done with SNL. The more interviews I read with Bowen, and he’s been doing a lot of them, I think he’s checked out. I think he’s laying the groundwork for exiting the show, and I would totally understand it. To me, I think, if you’re going to get out, now’s the time to get out.

In the fiftieth season, I could see fifty one being a total rebuild unless you just want to pull a Keenan, like, if you’re Jo Justin Chay, just sit at that news desk for another ten to fifteen years until Lauren’s replacement kicks you out. But you know, if you’re Bowen Yang, yeah it might be time to move on. Bowen says SNL’s just this moving, living, breathing thing, especially after the fiftieth them seeing what life after the show is like and how beautiful it is, and how many people, no matter how long they were at the show or just with their families and loving their lives and not letting the years take away any of that experience for them. He addressed the production schedule, saying, the new season of SNL, I’m just like, oh right, my time isn’t my own. And I tell my friends, I’m not really going to see you guy Unti June, and people that I’ve gone on a couple solid dates with, I’m like, hey, it’s not for lack of interest.

My time is really slipping away from me and I’m so sorry. And it’s not a youth thing, it’s a me thing. I think one of the best parts about working at SNL is whenever you’re not working on your own because you’re helping somebody else a cast. Remember, I execute on their vision. So they’re coming up to you being like you need to dress up as a drone, you need to dress up as a Chinese spy balloon and d blah blah blah, and you’re like, oh, yeah, sure, you get shot out of a cannon in so many of these situations that kind of breaks down all your hesitancies around doing anything that has only served me.

I mean, every now and then a lot of times it’ll be like egg on your face, you make an ass out of yourself, But I never ever weigh that against the wonderful things that I’ve gotten to do. The Webby Awards have announced the winners. Now the ceremonies not for another couple of weeks. I don’t understand how this works. The Webby Awards will be hosted by a Lot of Laser on May twelfth, but they’ve already announced the winners.

Okay. Marcelo Hernandez from SNL is receiving a special achievement award. It’s the Webby Outstanding Comedic Performance Award. The logic thing is The award recognizes his sharp, culturally resonant humor on SNL and his viral impact on the Internet, redefining digital comedy for a new generation. I mean, I like the guy, but he kind of does one thing over and over and over on SNL.

Anyway, if you want to give him an award, go ahead. The Webby’s called him one of the most electrifying new talents in digital comedy. They singled out Domingo. Yeah, everything he does is a variant on Domingo. SNL’s live show coverage on Instagram Stories scored two wins for Best Use of Stories, both the Official Webby and the fan voted People’s Voice Trophy.

The Daily Show got three wins of its own, including Best Social Trophy in the Comedy division and both the traditional Webby and the People’s Voice Award for Best Social in the News and Politics division. That Tonight’s show starring Jimmy Fallon won Best Use of Vertical Video for its nine x sixteen content What Are We Doing? Kimmel won Best Social for a Television Show or Film. People’s Voice winner in that same category went to Colbert.

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The Audio series Best Individual Episode from a TV Show or Film, Best Podcast Host went to Conan O’Brien. John Stewart named the People’s Voice winner for Best Host for the weekly show Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers won Best Podcast Comedy for Las Culturistas. The People’s Voice Award for Best co Host went to The Lonely Island in Seth Myers the Webby Awards Can You wait? May twelfth, Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett sent this to me via The Wall Street Journal.

A very seemingly complicated kerfluffle involving Kevin James is so complicated I had to ask chat gpt to summarize it for me because I didn’t understand it when I read it. According to Chat, Kevin James has found himself caught up in the bankruptcy proceedings of National Real Time The Investment Advisors, a real estate company that filed for Chapter eleven, and as CHET understands things, the company had sold Kevin James a mansion. However, that deal has turned into a legal battle. The mansion, initially purchased by National Realty Investment Advisors for seven point one million dollars in twenty seventeen, had a history of construction problems. Before James bought the house, two hundred and fifty grand was put in escrow for repairs.

However, after Kevin James bought the house for fourteen million dollars. If Chat GPT is understanding this correctly, he allegedly didn’t carry out the repairs and the escro funds weren’t used. An inspector later estimated the home needed one point four million dollars in repairs, far more than what was initially anticipated. That’s an understatement. Apparently, Kevin sold the property as is for twelve point seven million dollars in twenty twenty three, and there’s a legal battle going on and they’re fighting over the escro and I don’t know, but that’s what’s going on on gossip Corner.

Zach Zimmerman has a new special out on YouTube, Surprised Me. Zach explores the definition of love across evangelical family members, Romance gone wrong and doughnuts Done right. My kind of show in this sweet and salty I think that’s code magical stand up special. Surprise Me is also available as an album, So they’re right there. I like it.

I’m pro Grammy then. Via Eugene Merman’s Pretty Good Friend’s Comedy label, Zach’s also on tour you in New Orleans. Why don’t you stop by the Sports Drink Comedy Club on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. That’s this weekend, all right. The Guardian caught one of the shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

They really liked Greg Larsen’s Greggy. They gave it four stars out of five. The setup here spoilers as if you were heading down to Sydney to see this show. Greg Larson has broke having his card declined at at McDonald’s drive through just weeks before. This year’s Melbourne Festival was a watershed moment for him.

He’s forty one, This, he says, is his last festival show. He’s done. Gegy is his swan song, a chaotic journey through his careers, highs and lows and the decisions that led him to that drive through. The show is a window into the reality of working as a comedian, from open mic gigs to glitzy award nights and the various day jobs that happen in between. It isn’t a glamorous story.

The theme of the show, if there is one, is money and the question of why Larsen doesn’t have any? And I feel like Johnny Mac, you don’t cover Australian comedy festivals enough. I know, but I have good news for you. The Brisbane Comedy Festival sixteenth edition kicks off today. Yeah, from today until May twenty fifth, five weeks, four venues, one hundred and thirty five acts.

Who do you go see if you’re down there? How about Granny Bingo? They are the nastiest nanas out there? How about the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars? How about s faced Shakespeare?

You know Shakespeare if you’ve had a few too many drinks. And there’s future science talks comedy addition, Anti Donna they’re not there, but two of the Anti Donnas are Broden Kelly. He’s probably the most recognizable of the Anti Donnas here in the States. He’s got a solo show and Zachary Roon t up with Alexi Toleopolis to do some sort of movie theme show. Some comedian names you may know, especially if you’ve listened to the show over the years, Rhese Derby, Sarah Pesco, Archborker, Ross Noble and Mark Watson.

It is the Brisbane Comedy Festival one of these years. I gotta you know, I could probably swing it money wise, you know, especially it would be a legit right off if I went down there. But you know the whole thing is I’m married, and you know who’s letting the dogs out. Hey, I’m going to Australia for four weeks to cover comedy fstls just not gonna fly. I’m going to LA for three days.

That flies. I’m going to Australia. What are you doing? I don’t know. I’m hosting a comedy podcast and that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re on YouTube, smash the bell and like and all that YouTube stuff. I don’t understand. I’m old YouTube kids.

You don’t need to make fun of my slide show. I get it. I’m an old dude in the basement. We’re all slaves the algorithm, so I gotta make my little slideshow here. What do you want from me?

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hey Aaron, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Wrestle Votes dot com it has some intel on what went down at the roast of WrestleMania, hosted by Tony Hinchcliff. They wrote two hours of jokes that included some sexual puns and f bombs. Paul Hayman stole the show triple h end of the night with a surprise appearance. Lenna McMahon was in attendance. Don’t hold your breath for this to ever make air.

Wrestlingnews dot Co said. Paul Hayman was incredible. Tony Hinchcliff had everybody rolling. This was so much fun. Cell phones were put in pouches for good reason.

Lol. I doubt this makes it to TV. Stuff was wild. The show took place after WrestleMania at Night two. Wrestle Votes says the show was two hours long.

The New York Times had a cover piece about Naperghetzi. Now I’m seeing here with Nate exactly what happened with Nikki Glaser last year. The really good support team, the prs out there. You know, we heard that Nate was gonna host the Emmys in parallel with that there’s this big thing with the New York Times. Now that didn’t just happen overnight, So the press machine is out for Nate.

I share the article in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There’s also a podcast version of the interview if you’d like to listen to yourself. The New York Times asked Nate how he got so big. Nate said, talking about relatable things and authenticity. Not that I’m going out for authenticity, but you’re in a world where you have the Wickeds and Avengers movies, and that’s great, but there’s not a regular person on a screen anymore.

Movies used to be like planes, trains and automobiles and home alone. That’s a regular guy in the movie that you enjoy watching. It’s easy to take in and you don’t always want to be thought provoked. That’s something I’ve tried to stay clear of. I need you to be able to come and trust that you’re going to get the entertainment that I’m showing you.

That I’m selling you, and I’m talking about myself, and I’m making fun of myself with the materials written for you. I’m not doing it to make myself look good. I’m doing it to make you laugh. You can either laugh with me or at me. You relate to it or you think I’m an Either way, I’m here to entertain you.

As for his style, Nate said, most of the comics I was around were the complete opposite of everything I did. I had to learn how to do what I was doing in those rooms. But I didn’t want you to notice that I was clean, right. I talked about that on Saturday with Andy woodholl It’s one in the morning and these people are drunk, and how can I do this material that’s not sexual or whatever everybody else was doing. You learn how to hide it, because if he walked up and said I’m clean, it’s gonna be like, yeah, this guy’s not cool, exactly what Andy said.

The Times was curious about Nate’s evolving look in the last six or seven years. You’ve changed your look. You got a different haircut, you grew the beard, mustache, started dressing a little cooler, lost some weight. Nate said, yeah, kids, show business showed up and goes, hey Fatso if you want to make it, you better get your life together. No, no one asked me to do anything as a comic.

You’re you. You’re talking about yourself, so you’re going to be you. But I wanted to do it. I’m going through it right now. I do not have great eating habits.

I eat a lot of fast food and chain food didn’t get in the way. I stopped drinking in twenty eighteen because I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted as a comic, this was going to be the way. I’ve realized that with food too. So if I wanted to do stand up at this high level, possibly make movies, I have to put in the effort to handle all this touring and the mentality it takes to stay focused. I always say, I’m looking forward to the day you can’t see my nipples through my shirt.

That’s we’re all working towards amen. Brother Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News Digital. The premise from Fox News Digital that was comedy was moving to the right. Dylan said, you know, when people call it a right word shift. My pushback to that is, were these statements right word in twenty fifteen or two thousand and five?

When did they become right wing statements? When did it become a right wing statement to say I should have the bodily autonomy to not take an experimental vaccine. When did it become a right wing statement to say I don’t think the US should be in wars? I remember those were left wing statements. When did it become a right wing statement to say that the United States should look after the middle class and workers instead of importing cheap labor so that the profits on Wall Street could go up?

Those are right wing points. This is the craziest thing ever heard in my life. I think the parties flip, but I think they might flip again. You know, this could happen again, where the Republican Party becomes anti free speech and the Democratic Party becomes pro free speech. It could happen again, certainly flip.

During the last election cycle we’re in, the Democratic Party was the pro war, kind of anti speech, seemingly pro corporate party. But if we go to war with Iran start boarding people that wrote op ed’s critical of Israel, then you’ll see the Republican parties now the pro war, anti free speech party. So you actually have to just believe in principles, and you have to hold the people that you’ve elected to account. You can’t follow the people who’ve elected Otherwise you’re just in a personality cult. You’re not a free thinking person.

You have to say, I have a belief. The belief is we shouldn’t do this, and if we do that, whoever it is, Kamala Trump, Bernie whoever, you have to hold him to account and say, you know, I don’t think this is good for America. A lot of Tim Dillon press get some more stuff coming up from later in the week, but he is out there making the rounds, and apparently the cable news networks have discovered he’s a really good guest because he’s got that great mix of doing the talk show thing combined with great jokes. As I’ve said before, I loved Tim’s podcast, and then someday he is going to step on a land mine. I could see it coming, and then I’m going to deny that I ever told you that I liked this podcast.

I’m such a coward. I could be like Tim Dillon. Never heard of him. Michael Costa’s Toll The Last Laugh podcast that when we did the guest hosting thing on The Daily Show where every celebrity came in and hosted, we really learned that many celebrities can’t read a teleprompter. I mean, some were not treating it as we felt was a very important, funny, coveted position.

And by the way, nobody was like met or terrible. But you’re just going man. I grew up on the show, the show’s foundation of who I am. Don’t half ask this please. Thankfully the network finally said, you know, these correspondents really give ahoot about the show.

Canadian comedian James Mullinger has joined the list of comedians who won’t come to the United States. James has canceled a planned show in Maine next month. He told the CBC, I love my job, but not so much that to want to be locked up for two weeks, Although would probably make for good material, but my wife needs me at home. If I didn’t have people dependent on me, I’d possibly take the risk. Mullinger had the venue and date booked his paperwork in order, but says it seemed risky to make the trip to Maine.

It just felt like not the right time. I didn’t want to get swept up in either misinformation or propaganda or necessarily believing everything you hear. But it just seemed risky. Hearing the performers being locked up even though they’re there with the correct paperwork. Have I missed a story of their performers being locked up?

I’ve missed that. I kind of feel if a comedian were locked up, I probably would have mentioned it on the show. Maybe I’m forgetful. Wellinger said, Canadians need to support homegrown comedians. By the way, he’s a brit who moved to Canada.

Canadians can do their part this summer when they’re deciding what comedy shows to go to choose Canadian performers. There are Canadian comedy festivals booking solely American comedians. Let’s treat Canadian comedians the same way we treat Canadian food. Embrace them and support them. Big Jay Ogerson dropped a special on YouTube over the weekend.

It’s called Them They Decider. Caught up with Big Jay Decide or asked for somebody who has seen your work, what should they expect? Big Jay said, for me, as a comedian, I’d say it’s always going to be dirty. You can always expect it’s going to be dirty in some capacity. That was a comedy I was drawn to when I was younger.

So much. What I try to say is it’s palatable. Dirty when I first started being dirty when I was younger, it was definitely for shock, because you get a reaction out of people when you do dirty stuff, whether they like it or not. But over the years, because it was kind of the comedy that Ozo was drawn to myself, I was like, how could I do it? So there’s a strong chance that if you bring your six year old mother with you, she still likes it somehow.

This is a CrowdWork special, Jay said. I knew it was going to be no material in all crowd work, which if you tell the crowd that, the crowd knows what they were there for, so the crowds are much more forgiving. That was the easiest prep. There was nothing to do besides get the stage the way we wanted, the lighting and everything. But that was the beauty of it.

It doesn’t spend any of my material. I don’t have to write a new hour of stuff. I’ve learned that if you ask people enough questions, you find that everyone’s weird, and the people who are purposely weird to be noticed tend not to be the most interesting people. John Oliver hit the Mets game. Snytv’s field reporter Steve Gelbs started interviewing Sean Oliver.

Oliver’s excited about the Mets hot start telling Steve Gelbs, this is amazing. I can’t quite believe it’s happening. It doesn’t feel real. It doesn’t feel like we’re allowed to have this many nice things in one place. I hope everything’s going to stay like this forever, ideally.

Steve Gelbs asked John Oliver about the production cycle of the show. Oliver said, it’s change a little bit because in slower news times we can do that, slower cooking. We’re still trying to do that. But when things hypothetically speaking are happening like a president suggesting sending American citizens overseas to foreign gulags, yeah, that probably feels like something you need to address as soon as possible. So, yes, we’re working at two speeds right now, our regular speed and then crash shows.

Unfortunately, when Twitter user posted John Oliver a typical leftist AC with severe TDS who randomly has to bring up more lies on a Sunday afternoon on the Mets broadcast, two stories that I lightly mentioned yesterday and my voice was giving out, and I promised you i’d talk about them. Otsco at Cotska. We’ll have a special on Hulu on June thirteenth. The Specialist part of their super secretive Hilarious Comedy initiative that the publicists don’t want to tell comedy podcasts about, but we find out anyway. You cannot keep the truth from Daily Comedy News at Cotska will explore themes of adulthood, marriage, and the absurdity of everyday life in Father.

In Father, she deals with the reality is being an adult who’s still struggles with life’s basics, from skipping laundry for seven years to discovering that weddings require marriage licenses. I also had mentioned Tina Fay commented on the possibility of Tina Fey replacing Lauren Michaels as the head of SNL in twenty twenty four. Lauren said Tina could easily do the job herself. Tina Fey till the Hollywood Reporter. I was very nice of him to say, and I love him very much.

He’s irreplaceable. His set of gifts and skills are entirely unique. His eye for talent, He’s one of the last three people in show business who actually understand everything. I’ll leave it at that. Bo and Yang jumped in on the whole Amy lou Wood SNL controversy.

Remember Amy didn’t like Sarah Sherman’s portrayal of her. Yang told Extra, however, she reacted to the sketch is completely valid. With parody, you kind of forget the sort of human emotional cost that it sort of extols on someone. You need these reminders every now and then that parody can go too far sometimes and that we as comedians can take accountability for that instead of banging our foot and saying we should be allowed to say whatever we want. Everyone at SNL is just a fan of the show, obviously a fan of her.

We just think that she should be so proud of the work she put into this season. Brett Goldstein is comparing ted Lasso’s season four renewal to a dead cat. He told a story to NPR. I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot. He had a cat that died.

He loved his cat. The cat was run over and they buried the cat. He was a child. They buried the cat in the garden and he lay in the bed so sad, upset and crying, and he prayed and prayed, and he wished that the cat would come back.

And then the cat did come back.

It turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat, And I think about that all the time. Brett added, and so I’m like, no, wonder this guy’ left in the head because he thinks death isn’t real. So of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy because he thinks he could bring things back from the dead. Aaron posted in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us and participate.

I particularly welcomed this comment, as I wrote in the group, I woke up at one thirty in the morning. I had a nightmare, and like you know, when you have a nightmare, your system’s like racing and I needed to just play on my phone to calm the heck down. Aaron wrote more on the Abu Dhabi comedy season, it’s not a festival because it’s spread across several months and they’re all arena shows. Good point, she pointed out. You can also go see Toto the Band, not the Dog.

Aaron right, Chappelle isn’t on sale yet, but his best tickets are going for twelve hundred and fifty dirhams I think, and for reference, one hundred durhams is about twenty seven US dollars, so I’d have to multiply there. I’m too lazy to do that. I have Google. Let’s see. Right now, as I record this, Google is telling me that’s about three hundred and forty dollars to go see Dave Chappelle.

Wow. Aaron Wright’s I also know Joe Coy is using gadget free pouches, probably so no one can record any of his lame jokes and then beat them to death for two years. I particularly like that comment, but Aaron points out that, yeah, yonder pouches are annoying, But having intended a couple shows at the arena without pouches, I can confirm that audiences here are rude and shameless with their devices to the point of almost ruining shows. Aaron’s planning on grabbing our last minute tickets for Trevor Noah very cool. Thank you for checking in with that.

It is festival season. The Sydney Comedy Fest is underway. I’ll dive in on that a little bit more tomorrow. Being honest, here, I’m wiped out. I woke up on Monday and I saw the Pope had passed away.

And here at the company, we have a podcast series called White Smoke about the papal succession. So my morning I got up, it was about six twenty in the morning. Check my PHONEO saw that happen. But I was half out of it, and I’m like, let me make sure that actually happened. It wasn’t just a tweet.

You know, that’s not a mistake you want to make. So went on the New York Times website and they had it in like thirty six point font. Read the story when on Washington Post you want to confirm things in two sources, and they also had it in thirty six point font. So I’m like, okay, this is real. So I spent the morning.

We had some episodes scheduled. For example, they were going to canonize the Millennial Saint on this upcoming weekend, so I had to park that episode to make sure that doesn’t automatically run. Write a script for a new episode I scheduled. We already had in the can the Pope oh bit, So I turned that loose, wrote a new episode, wrote some promos, and trying to build a company, so I got to hit the trades tell him we’re up to all this. So that’s been an exhausting morning.

So Sydney Comedy Festival can wait. I’m trying to get back to Ireland. Maybe I can hit up the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. It is Ireland’s longest running and best loved comedy festival. May twenty third to the twenty fifth Cat Laughs is coming to Belfast for the first time.

The Guardian calls it the best little comedy festival in the world. Your lineup Friday, May twenty third, Colin Murphy, Patty Raft, Mark McCarney, deetro Ocane, David o’derty. Some good solid Irish names there. Oh, then there’s an interval and then Gerald Faarley, Emma Duran, Alison Spidtele and Neil Delamere. On Saturday, Carl Spain, William Thompson, Susie McKay, Mike Rice, Colin Gettis, Sean Walsh, Deonna Doherty, flat Illitch.

That doesn’t sound like an Irish name at all, Vittorio Angeloni. What’s going on here? Sunday Andrew Ryan, Chris Kent, Kyla Cobbler, Ray Broadshaw and Scott Bennett. Not Scott Beckett, the guy that doesn’t like to Joe Cooy joke. This is a totally different person.

This is comedian Scott Bennett, who probably appreciates the humor behind the Joe Coy joke. Christopher MacArthur, Boyd, Shane Todd, Rich Hall and Patty MacDonell. John why did you do that story? Because I want to go back to Ireland. I felt like reading a bunch of Irish names.

I also would love to hit the Arctic Comedy Festival. This one is coming to Yellowknife on May seventeenth, Dawson City on May twenty first, and Whitehorse on May twenty third. You can go see Mary Walsh, one of Canada’s most memorable comedians. The festival tells us Walsh delivers in a unique and memori way that will leave you in tears. And one more story.

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The series features two friends on opposite sides of the chip debate across four scripted, increasingly dramatic episodes. It’s not just a series, it’s your new favorite Internet debate, one that invites consumers to pick aside, take it way too seriously, and make their snack options known. That’s right, it’s pretzilized. Good job a copywriter. They invite us to join the pre solution.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you’re on YouTube, whatever you YouTube guys do. Look, I’m an old man in the basement. I’m trying to figure this out, so you know, like subscribe, bring to bell. I know it’s a slideshow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed yesterday’s podcast, it was a pretty good one. It was not Sunday filler. I had some good meat in there yesterday and including story about Shinge Gillis hitting up the Masters.

If you listened yesterday, you heard me kind of lose my voice a third of the way through the podcast. I don’t know what’s going on. I feel fine, but I am recording Sunday and Monday back to back. So what I’m doing here is I’m dialing it down a little. It reminds me of when I run.

You know, sometimes you get a little tight and you have to slow up a little. So I’m going to keep my energy a little more, even more even keeled than usual. Nate Berghatzy is stebbing up in class. He has been touted touted. Why did I say touted?

I could take that out. Nobody actually says that, right, He’s been touted. CBS has chosen, CBS has hired. CBS has picked Nate Bergetzy to host the seventy seventh ME Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on September fourteenth, Peacock Theater, CBS, That’s going to be awkward. Television Academy chair Chris Abrago sent a statement, Nate with one of the hottest comics in the business, with a remarkable and hilarious brand of comedy that deeply resonates with multi generational audiences around the globe.

We are thrilled to be able to leverage his one of a kind perspective to entertain TV fans watching this year’s Emmy telecast. In a statement, Nate said, it’s a huge honour to be asked to host such an iconic awards show, and I’m beyond excited to work with CBS to create a night that can be enjoyed by families around the world. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July fifteenth. The National Comedy Center announced who’s coming to the Comedy Festival this year in August. I got to get up there.

I’ve been talking about it for a few years, and I need an excuse for a long drive, and that’s a pretty part of the country. I think I might go up this year. John Stewart, Bill Murray, Mikey Day, Streeter Sidell, and Moore set to appear at the National Comedy Center’s Comedy Festival August seventh through the tenth, an evening with John Stewart’s Saturday August ninth on Sunday, a stand up showcase to be followed by a rock and blues concert featuring Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers. It’s an evening of comedy and music, a live blues and classic rock performance along with stand up by some of today’s top talent from around the country. Former guest on this podcast, Journey Gunderson said, John Stewart is one of the most influential comedic voices of our time.

That is true, providing his signature a social commentary at a pace responsive to the news cycle, while deeply thoughtful about our shared humanity. All that is true. That is a good quote. John Stewart said. I’ve said comedy is an iterative business and a grind, and the best amongst us just keep at it.

I’m glad there’s a museum, a national archive that drives on or that, and I look forward to seeing how the National Comedy Center tells the story of this great art form that survives every moment.

Also, the festival mighty day, SNL head writer Streeter Sidell, they will joi…

Their visit also commemorates the Washington’s dream Sketch Q cards being added to the museum. That’s fun. We found out a little bit more about that Office spin off. Oscar Nuniez has confirmed that he will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez on Office spin off. This is called The Paper I Believe, which will follow the same documentary crew that captured dunder Mifflin’s antics as they turned their focus to a Midwestern newspaper.

Ricky Gervasa’s wallet probably says thank you. Nunia says, they’re still editing and stuff. It’s very, very exciting. Oscar was talking with Angela Kinsey, who asked him, isn’t the understanding that you’re following the documentary crew to a new location and you happen to be there. Oscar Nuniaz said, that’s right.

More will be revealed, as my wife likes to say. Kinsey said she visited this set of the new show, and alongside Jenna Fisher, who you know as Pam. Jenna and I stopped by the set. Greg Daniels, the creator had invited us, and we showed up and not only was Oscar there, but our crew somebody in these wonderful peop Because the crew was our extended family. We’re still really close with them.

That was really moving to see. Steve Carell was asked about this show last year by The Holloway Reporter. He said, we’ll be watching, but I will not be showing up. It’s just a new thing and there’s really no reason for my character to show up in something like that. But I’m excited about it.

Sounds like a great conceit. I love the idea. I guess it’s set in a newspaper company. And I’ve worked with Domal Gleeson, who’s the star of this one. I did The Patient with him and he’s an excellent actor and a super nice guy.

So I think it’ll be great. Good quote from Steve Carell. There handled that properly. Season seventeen of its Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on FXX July ninth and on Hulu the next day. The premiere will be the second half of the crossover with Abbott Elementary, there’s a clip teasing the new season.

We see the Gang volunteering at the elementary school, stealing kids brownies and auditioning them for a potential boy band. This is season seventeen, but it celebrates the show’s twentieth anniversary. We’re told season seventeen is dubbed The Gang Embraces the Arp and tells the story of how greed and the New American Dream have consumed Patty’s Pub. They’ll exploit cross network promotion to increase market share. They’ll scape goat one of their own to avoid a pr backlash.

They’ll risk everything for a handshake with the Saudi’s. They’ll bend the laws with side housles to pad their pockets, and they’ll change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience. According to the log line, and sure, like any corporate goon, the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That’s been playing since two thousand and five, But they’re also human beings that crave love, respect, conditional freedom, constant adulation, histrionic amounts of attention, NonStop gratification, and unfiltered slap happy eroticism. There’s a pres lease for you.

I had to pause there and take a sip of my large iced coffee with pistachio. I don’t know what is going on with my voice. Maybe it’s the pollen is coming out. I feel fine. Tim Dillon was on News Nation the subject Robert F.

Kennedy. Now this interview took place before mister Kennedy’s comments on autism. We’re not going to get into that. Yllan had said he was all for Kennedy’s attempts to get Americans to eat healthier. News Nation rights.

In fact, he’d love to see Kennedy close fast food restaurants with armed soldiers. Tim said, I think it should go in too fast food restaurants with the military and shut them down. I think it should take people off the line at Chick fil at gunpoint. If we’re going to go to Taco Bell, but I knew that Rfka’d be there with the military, I might think twice about it. Dylan also talked about the Kevin Spacey thing.

In case you missed it, Kevin Spacey reprised his role as Frank Underwood to promote Dylan’s comedy special. Dylan says people are just tired of banishing people. People are imperfect, they’re flawed, they make mistakes, and he hopes that the pendulum has swung away from cancel culture. Tom Green told Vulture the number one thing people say to me when they find out that I’m Canadian is sorry about what’s going on right now. This isn’t our choice.

Green said, I don’t do a lot of political comedy, but I do have a joke I tell because the situation when right now I live in Canada, the fifty first state, the only state in the Union where nobody in it wants to be American except for Jordan Peterson, Wing Gretzky and the guy from Shirt Tank. Got it confuse laugh. Half the audience actually understands the full depth of the joke, and the other half is realizing for the first time that not everybody from every other country in the world dreams to being an American after being told you the greatest country in the world your entire life. Well, it’s a completely shocking statement. I haven’t told the joke in Kennedy yet, but I guarantee you when I tell it, people will be laughing.

For different reason. Canadians have always been a little more understated. American comedy is much more aggressive and on the nose. But our comedy is a silliness that’s just woven naturally into it, because there’s something of an insecurity, there, a humbleness that is masked in absurdity. We never say we’re the greatest country in the world.

We’re not screaming it from the rafters because it’s impolite. All right, my voice is giving out. I’m going to bounce two stories to tomorrow and take the break, but I will tell you here. The short version is otsco at Costka has got a special on Hulu and Tina Fey dodge some questions about Lord Michael’s job, but we’ll talk about that tomorrow.

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The show’s free, you know. On Gossip Corner. Craig Ferguson bought a new place two bedrooms in the East eighties, a block from the Tripolitan Museum of Arn’t in New York City. Ferguson and wife Megan have sold their castle in Scotland and picked up a classic co op for one point seventy nine million dollars. Now, I’ve never lived in a castle in Scotland, and I don’t know a condo in Manhattan.

Even if you’re overlooking Central Park, I don’t know. I think you traded down there. Craig Craig said, we’re very happy to be back in New York. And there’s a new box set with the Richard Pryor albums. This is getting a lot of pickup.

The pr people did a good job here. I’m a little confused because there have been at least two boxet said the Richard Pryor comedy albums. There’s definitely one, And I remember because when I started at Sirius, my boss asked me how come we didn’t play Richard Pryor And the answer was the records at that time sounded like crap and when he played them on an actual radio, you couldn’t really understand what Richard was saying.

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And then they remastered them.

There was this red box set. I remember the box set. So I don’t know why we’re making a big deal out of this. Maybe because it’s been twenty years, John, I guess anyway. The new box set is called I Hope I’m funny.

The Warner Albums nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty three, out now via Rhino. The seven LP set features several albums. Now, I have a challenge. I’ll be honest here telling you in the story, mister Pryor titled his albums in a way that totally appropriated for mister Pryor to title his albums, but inappropriate for Johnny Mack to tell you the names of these albums here in twenty twenty five. So I’m gonna sub in the word Fella.

One of the albums, That Fella’s Crazy, was recently placed on Rolling Stone’s list of the seventy four best albums of nineteen seventy four. It was recorded at Don Cornelius’s Soul Trained nightclub in San Francisco. Chris Rock had once told Rolling Stone whenever they have a list of the one hundred greatest albums, Richard is never there. He’s not a musician, but Richard is one of the greatest recording artists ever. I’ll take that Fella’s Crazy over.

Frampton comes alive any day.

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Also in the set, Is It Something I Said nineteen seventy six is a bi centenni…

Not just his cadences or the vocal impressions. He does the outfit and I love Eddie Murphy. I’m fifty five years old. Do the math we loved, delirious and raw. But it’s a cover act.

Richard Pryor got there first and wore the same red outfit. We’re close enough. Opening today the Sydney Comedy Festival, I know you got a month of Melbourne and you got zero days in between. The Sydney Comedy Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, featuring over three hundred performers today through Bay eighteenth. Daniel Sloss stars on the debut of the festival’s One Night Stands series, a Sydney exclusive performance April twenty fourth at the Sydney Opera House.

I Like this too. The Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl attendees can explore the y C Cana I’ve been down there. I’m trying to remember what that’s stand for. I guess it doesn’t matter. The yck’s precinct bars in the CBD that Central Business District, each hosting unexpected lineups in various surprise venues.

The festival will also features a pioneering mentorship initiative hosting four up and coming comedians. They are Alan Fang, Frankie rous Thorne to be Barone, and Stella Wu to develop their acts with seasoned industry professionals. Locals include star of RuPaul’s Drag Race down Under Rhys Nicholson. International stars include Brazilian’s Fabio Rabine. He’ll be performing in Portuguese.

Malaysia’s comedy Elites Cavin Jay, Roisel Van Gazel and Poppy Zach. They are the Malaysian Comedy All Stars. The Theater Sports All Stars blend improvisers with new talents, miniature for the arts, jobs and tourism. John Graham said from Humble origins twenty years ago, the Sydney Comedy Festival has become a big highlight in our cities calendar, which is why we’re now backing it with event funding from Destination NSW New South Wales. Our government has been working hard to rebuild our nightlife after a decade of lockouts and lockdowns, which unfortunately were no joke.

I see what we had did their Minister Graham, Hey, minister Graham, why don’t you fly down like a world renowned podcaster. Hope you promote this thing. You know, if you’ve got funds, you should use them. All right, my voice is gone. Tomorrow show will be good.

I can tell you that because it’s already half written. Plus the five stories I didn’t do today. I try see tomorrow